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Contract negotiations officially hit an impasse with the Gilroy Teachers Association last week, and Gilroy Unified School District officials immediately went on the offensive, blaming teachers for the stalled talks. A flashing, multi-colored “Negotiations Update” link on the Gilroy Unified School District’s website outlines the district’s position on the situation that has forced Gilroy teachers to work without a contract since the previous three-year pact expired June 30, 2017. “The parties have reached many agreements on language. The parties have not moved, however, from their respective positions on salaries and benefits,” according to a district-generated document titled, “Frequently Asked Questions-Labor Negotiations,” posted to gusd.org. Gilroy Teachers Association president Jonathan Bass said union negotiators have tried to work out a compromise, but said the district is unwilling to budge on its stance of a 2 percent pay raise and no increase in health benefit contributions.
MAYOR ROBERTA HUGHAN Former Gilroy Mayor Robert Hughan, at left, stands with
a 2007 portrait painted by Gilroy artist Carol Peters.
Ex-mayor gets portrait COUNCIL GIVES PAINTING TO CITY’S FIRST FEMALE MAYOR By Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor
The Gilroy City Council this week agreed to give former Mayor Roberta Hughan an oil portrait, in connection with a house cleaning effort at the Wiley Cultural Center. The painting had been done by local Gilroy artist Carol Peters in 2007. Hughan asked the city if she could have the painting, at the same time that the council was
looking at disposing of a number of paintings and old furniture that had accumulated at the Gilroy Museum over the years. “I’m going to give it one of my sons, in San Francisco,” a smiling and grateful Hughan said outside of the Council chambers on Monday. The former mayor was the city’s first elected female council member, in 1977, and served as Gilroy’s first and only female mayor from 1983 to 1991. A professional architect, now retired, she said she is concerned about the threats to the environment by President Trump’s policies and actions.
The council also voted to “deaccession” another seven paintings, 17 pieces of furniture and an antique radio, which never fit the mission of the Gilroy Museum. It has not been decided whether these pieces would be donated or auctioned off. The furniture, donated to the museum in 1997, includes mostly 19th-century pieces, but none with any local Gilroy historical value. The paintings had been donated to the city in 1981 by the late W. Robert Morgan, a Gilroy lawyer, and some were hanging at the Wiley Center and others
stored in the museum basement. Morgan’s family agreed to the city’s new plan to sell or donate the paintings. The 55-year-old museum adopted its first donations policy in 2000, to ensure that future gifts would related to documentation of the city’s history. The museum is staffed by a team of 26 volunteers, and is open Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am to 5pm and the first Saturday of the month, 10am to 2pm. Admission is free. For more information, visit cityofgilroy.org/386/Museum.
Chinese tariffs target local farm products PRODUCERS FEAR BIG IMPACT IF TARIFFS OCCUR By Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor
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The announcement this week from China that it intends to impose retaliatory tariffs on 128 U.S. products sent shock waves across U.S. agriculture, especially in California. Among the Chinese targets are some of the biggest money crops in San Benito County and
southern Santa Clara County— fruit, nuts and wine. The Chinese announcement— not unexpected—followed the Trump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on some $50 billion worth of Chinese goods.. In its statement, China did not indicate when the tariffs would go into effect but said it would implement them in two parts. The first part would affect 120 U.S. products valued at $977 million, including fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts and wine, with a 15 percent tariff. The second part
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would cover eight U.S. products worth nearly $2 billion, including pork, with a 25 percent tariff. China said if it fails to reach an agreement with the United States, then it would place tariffs on the first part of the list. The list of Chinese tariff targets includes: • Dried coconut, Coconut without inner shell, Other coconut • Unhulled and shelled Brazilian nuts, chestnuts, pistachio nuts and shelled • Unshelled cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds
• Unhulled and roasted macademia nuts • Betel nuts, pine nuts • Other fresh or dried nuts • Fresh or dried bananas, plantains, dates, figs, pineapple, avocado • Fresh or dried guava, mango, mangosteen, orange, all other citrus, including clementines, virgin and other hybrid oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes • Raisins ➝ Tariffs, 12
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