In an effort to save services while cutting budget costs, Salinas residents will now have to pay more for their garbage service. Salinas city council members will now join forces with BFI through a package program which is expected to allow the city to continue certain services which will be funded through and managed by BFI. The one dollar a week, $4 a month rate increase, will reportedly go towards paying for graffiti abatement, street sweeping, code enforcement and saving a number of jobs in the city.
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A Salinas non-profit, that provides fresh produce donations to area food banks, has received 2 grants totaling $21,000. The Monterey Peninsula Foundation awarded Ag Against Hunger a 20-thousand-5-hundred dollar grant and a $500 grant was issued from the B.G. Mayer Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County. The grants are expected to be used to cover the nonprofit’s operating expenses.
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No one was injured when a female pizza deliverer was robbed at knife-point Monday night on the Eastside of Santa Cruz. Police say the woman stopped her car at the intersection of Pilkington Avenue and Murray Street at around 7:20 p.m., when a man riding a B-M-X bike toward her, stopped at the driver’s side door of her car, brandished a knife, and demanded money. The robber fled after the delivery woman handed him a dollar bill. The woman returned to work at a downtown pizza place prior to calling 9-1-1.
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A new agreement was reached this week with the city of Santa Cruz and the Service Employees International Union. The agreement, which includes a 1.3 million dollars in savings, is awaiting final approval to close a projected 2 million dollar deficit. Service employees were asked by city officials to forgo a scheduled 5% cost-of-living increase next year and take a 2nd year of 10% pay cuts through furloughs. The union, whose contract is up in November, was hoping for at least part of it’s scheduled pay hike, but had already agreed to the furloughs. A final vote is slated for July 13th.
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