Departmental budgets for the city of Hollister are scheduled to undergo review by the city council on Wednesday and Thursday. The hearing on Wednesday is slated for 6 P.M. At Hollister City Hall, and the agenda includes budgets for the police department, fire department, and administration services. On Thursday, also at 6 P.M., city council members are scheduled to review other divisions within community services. City Council members are expecting a 12.5 percent cut for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
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Santa Cruz County is one of four California counties to take part in a new database program that will link domestic violence records throughout the state. Currently the database covers Santa Cruz, Marin, Santa Clara, and Orange counties and provides a searchable database of scanned restraining orders, elder abuse, and workplace violence. Administrators plan to include all 58 counties in California by 2013.
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Returns from last tuesday’s primary election were largely unchanged, after the tally of 52-hundred mail in ballots updated the results yesterday(mon). There was very slight movement of percentage-points, and no races were significantly altered. There are still about 11-thousand ballots yet to be counted, and elections officials have until july 6th to report official results.
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Some parents in the Alisal Union School District are objecting to the appointment of a state trustee to oversee the operations in the district. Parents formed the community group several years ago, and say they have been working to vote out failing school board members, as well as encourage better test scores. The state appointed a trustee earlier this year, after continued low-test-performance by students in the district. Some parents, however, say the move is too little, too late, and say the financial cost is too high.
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