Tonight (Thursday, May 22) at 7:00 the Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education will discuss the school district’s plan to relocate the Alma Pre-School from its current location on Seven Hills Road to a new location on the Marshall Elementary campus, next to the baseball fields on Omega Avenue. Marshall …
The Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) made its decision to move and expand the Alma Pre-School to the lower Marshall baseball field without adequate prior notice to Alma or Marshall School parents, or to the impacted community around the Marshall campus. Given the impact to the schools and surrounding …
It’s not too late to be part of the EALI Process Check out the agenda for the Eden Area Livability Initiative (EALI) governance meeting tonight (Thursday, May 8, 2014) at 6:30 PM at the Castro Valley Library, and join me and others from Castro Valley Matters in participating in this meeting. It was …
California Senate Bill 1129, which would reduce the hurdles in transferring former redevelopment properties for a public use, will be back in the spotlight on May 5, 2014, when the Senate Appropriations Committee holds a hearing at 1:00 PM in Sacramento to discuss the bill’s fiscal impact. This legislation could make …
The Eden Area Livability Initiative (EALI) Environment/Agriculture working group held their second meeting of 2014 on April 17 at the Castro Valley Library. During this meeting, we discussed the progress made during the March meeting, and continued with the editing and fleshing out of the specific projects for the unincorporated …
In a letter to the editor (above) published in the April 23, 2014 edition of The Castro Valley Forum, Marc Crawford, Chair of the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC), accused Castro Valley Matters volunteers of vandalism and anonymous online attacks against him and Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley. When …
On April 9th, the CVUSD LCAP (Local Control Accountability Plan) Steering Committee met for the first time. This 30+ member committee is comprised of parents, teachers, administrators, classified staff, community members and students. The main focus of the LCAP Steering Committee is to review the 3-year LCAP, to be written …
California Senate Bill 1129, co-authored by Castro Valley’s State Senator Ellen Corbett, would reduce the hurdles in transferring former redevelopment properties, like the Daughtrey’s Building site, for a public use, such as a town square. The Senate Governance and Finance Committee starts is holding a hearing about SB 1129 at 9:30 this morning. At some point …
On April 9, the California Senate Governance and Finance Committee will have a hearing on California Senate Bill 1129. We’ve mentioned this bill before, but its passage could be hugely beneficial to Castro Valley, and to the town square proposal. The 2012 dissolution of the California redevelopment agencies has been …
Since the idea of a Castro Valley town square was born I have been talking town squares, researching town squares, and generally extolling the benefits that a town square could add to our community. However, in that time I have been so busy reading and talking that I haven’t paused …