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63 years, Naomi; his daughter Gail and son Brian; his brothers, James Jay Galbreath, George and Allan; and a Mountain View resione granddaughter. dent, died Feb. 27 after a Funeral serviclong illness. He was 87. es were held March 7 He was born in Live at Cusimano Family Oak in 1924 and lived in Colonial Mortuary in Mountain View for 56 James Jay Galbreath Mountain View with years. He served in the burial at the family plot U.S. Air Force for three at Live Oak. Donations in memory years during World War II and was of James can be made to the Boy a Federal Records Center employee Scouts of America or Blackberry in San Bruno for many years. He REACT. was a Boy Scout Master for 43 years The guest book for James Galand loved the outdoors, backpack- breath can be found at cusimanoing and camping, his family said. colonial.com He is survived by his wife of
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non-white population, accompanied by the falling number of whites living in the city, appeared to Vice Mayor Mike Kasperzak to be “entirely consistent with California demographics.� Kasperzak did not see the shrinking white population as a deliberate movement. He speculated that it was just a matter of certain residents moving out of Mountain View and being replaced by Hispanics, Latinos and Asians who are moving to the area in larger numbers seeking jobs. “We continue to be a diverse community with a lot of different races and ethnicities represented,� Duggan said. “Folks come from all over the world to live in this area.� Matching the city’s “moderate growth,� 1,449 new housing units were built in Mountain View over the past 10 years. And while the number
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better interest than most financial investments. Council member Tom Means noted that an affordable housing project planned in Palo Alto will cost $588,000 per unit. “We’re a little cheaper at $450,000.� In June the council approved the project with a 65-year lease of the city property it would sit on. In competing for the tax credit last year, the project ranked lower than two other projects in San Mateo County and Santa Clara County because its 36-percent city subsidy was not high enough, a city staff report says. This year the project is up against another from Palo Alto that is 57-percent city subsidized, but there may be enough funding for two winners, the report says. The project’s units will be divided
of homes in the city grew, so did the number of vacant living spaces. In 2000 there were 1,190 vacant living units in the city. That number grew by 61 percent, reaching 1,924 when census data was collected last spring. “I think there could be any number of factors for that,� Kasperzak said, noting that the recession has likely played a role. He pointed out that those numbers may have improved since the time the census was taken, though he couldn’t be sure. “I think the economy has picked up, I think hiring has picked up in the valley since almost a year ago.� Duggan said that the city is only beginning to parse the census data. In the weeks and months to come, as more data becomes available and the city has more time to interpret the numbers, Duggan said, the city will be able to “better understand the composition of our community and do a better job in meeting community needs.� V
equally among three groups, those who make 30 percent, 40 percent and 50 percent of the area median income, which is $96,000 a year for a family of four. Applicants who qualify are chosen in a lottery. Depending on a family’s income level and the size of apartment needed, rents will range from $563 to $1,600 for one-, two- or three-bedroom apartments, saving residents from $215 to $1,157 compared to a market-rate apartment of the same size. The money is to come from $25.6 million in housing funds that the city has accumulated, from fees on housing and redevelopment authority tax revenue. Council members have complained over the years that the city has not been able to effectively spend that money for affordable housing, which has led the city to make $12 million of it available in a new “Notice of Funding Availability� process to encourage affordable housing developers to come forward and make use of it.
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