Civic Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard at the Castro Valley MAC
The Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) advises the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on issues of land use, development, and planning in Castro Valley. Meeting Time and Place The Castro Valley MAC Land Use Meetings are generally the second and fourth Mondays of the month, and the Castro Valley …
Food truck organizers seek expansion, Village wants new location
Food Truck Mafia and the Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce want to add three more food trucks to the weekly Castro Valley food truck event, while Castro Village shopping center management asserts that long-term businesses and customers have been negatively impacted and the event should be moved to a different …
The Tale of Castro Valley’s Closed Schools
At Wednesday night’s Board meeting of the Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), the Board discussed a possible general obligation bond for school facilities. In October 1960, the area now covered by the CVUSD contained about 9,900 students, and was served by 13 elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school. …
How We Built the Old Castro Valley Library
One of the more popular conversation topics around town is “what the heck is going on with the old library building?” The Castro Valley MAC was asking the same thing of the County at the September 21st MAC meeting. Caroline Judy, the acting head of the Alameda County GSA (the …
An Affordable Way to Get an Elected MAC in 2016
Time and again, we have been told that having an elected Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) would be an expensive and pointless endeavor. Last year, I wrote an article deflating the arguments floated at the time of an election for MAC costing up to $500,000 every two years. Although completely without …
County Report Views MAC as “Political Voice of the Community”
The Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) is the first and only MAC in Alameda County. Created in 1981, our MAC is the fourth oldest MAC in California, where an estimated 1.4 million residents in unincorporated Californian communities are served by a MAC or a “MAC Equivalent.” Before creating a MAC …
The Castro Valley MAC Selection Process Has Failed Castro Valley
Supervisor Nate Miley rejected the two finalists for an open seat on the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) after a multi-month selection process that included 16 applicants, candidate questionnaires, and two rounds of interviews where the Castro Valley public was invited to “observe.” It’s time for Castro Valley residents to …
MAC Non-Selection Announcement
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015, Supervisor Miley announced that “with the consensus of the interview panel” he was not appointing any candidate to the remaining open Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) seat. The process started in February 2015 with 16 candidates applying for three open Castro Valley MAC seats. …
#MACmtg: Live-blogging the Castro Valley MAC interviews
“The public is invited to observe” interviews that are being held on August 6, 2015 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Castro Valley Library for the vacancy on the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC). Castro Valley Matters will be live-blogging the event here and broadcasting the audio of the …
The Norbridge Median Strip and the July 20, 2015 MAC Meeting
The 7/20/2015 Castro Valley MAC meeting included discussion of three options for relandscaping the Norbridge median. The representative from Questa Engineering explained their 3 options the cost differences, and the reasons behind this project. She mentioned that they had begun this project in the Fall, long before the new drought …