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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-TECH INHIBITED BY LAGGING INTERNET Bryce Stoepfel Reporter
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If you happen to be reading this story online in Morgan Hill, you might be waiting for the rest of it to load. If so, you probably will not be surprised that Morgan Hill's internet received a "D" grade from the East Bay and Central Coast Broadband Consortia. The City of Morgan Hill recognized the problem, and is working to create a private/public partnership with local internet providers to pull the city into the modern age. The city earned a "D" because only Charter Spectrum met the California Public Utilities Commission’s benchmark of minimum standards of 6 megabits per second Mbps download and 1.5 Mbps upload speeds. While this may prove an annoyance for residents, it is a downright impediment to businesses who often require much faster upload
HEAVY HITTERS Three generations of fighters, Ruben, Robert Jr., and Robert ‘The Ghost’ Guerrero at Pound 4 Pound, their new boxing gym at 7648 Monterey Street. Robert Jr. under the tutelage of his champion father and grandfather Ruben is a fighter in training.
Guerreros open new gym GILROY BOXING MECCA HAILS THREE FAMILY GENERATIONS Bryce Stoepfel Reporter
One week after its grand opening, Pound 4 Pound Sports Fitness, the new boxing gym on Monterey Street in Gilroy was popping with the sounds of the sweet science. Whap, whap—swap—pap, pap, pap! “We’re here to build
champions,” said Ruben Guerrero before the day sparring sessions started at the new gym opened by him and his Maricela, parents of former multiple world boxing champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero. It was tough to tell that fighters Oscar Escandon and Pedro Cruz were sparing. Even with head and body padding, the shots each threw and absorbed appeared, and sounded, like both were fighting at full steam. “I’d say they’re at 90 percent speed and 50 percent power right
now,” Robert Guerrero said. Like the fighters, Pound 4 Pound looks and sounds like it’s on full power. With the boxing ring, dozens of heavy bags, speed bags, mats, mitts, the new gym at 7648 Monterey St is slick, slim and powerful, just like multiple former world champion Robert Guerrero. It took about seven months to get to opening day, but there’s more to come. “I’m turning this whole area back here into a full gym, with weights, cardio machines and a place for Crossfit,” Ruben
Guerrero said while touring the unfinished back half of the building which had been the Discount Surplus store. “We get kids from the streets, but we also take in kids from the YMCA and the Gilroy Youth Alliance,” Maricela said. “ We’ve also reached out to local high schools and the Gilroy Department of Parks and Recreation. We want to get kids off the street and keep them out of trouble.” What makes Pound 4 Pound ➝ Pound for Pound, 17
Busy trustees take advantage of tech LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD IS OK WITH REMOTE PARTICIPATION Scott Forstner Reporter
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How important is it for a trustee to physically be in the boardroom during proceedings, both private and public? If there are extenuating circumstances such as business travel or illness keeping them from being
in attendance, is it better The increased usage of for the impacted trustee such technology, where to remotely participate in trustees listen into board a meeting or just proceedings on let their colleagues their smartphones handle the business or laptop computwithout them? ers from a remote These questions location as well have arisen after as comment and two members of the vote on issues, Morgan Hill Uniprompted district fied School District leadership to bring Board of Trustees Mary Patterson in an attorney to have combined for lead a discussion 16 teleconference calls into on “Telephonic Participaboard meetings since June tion and the Brown Act” at 2017. a March 6 meeting.
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“It’s totally normal, and I think it’s probably healthy given the day and age we live in,” said Board Vice President Mary Patterson when asked about it. “I’ve met with other trustees with other districts and it’s really commonplace now.” Patterson, who has physically attended every meeting since being elected in 2016, explained that trustees must find ways to balance their demanding work schedules and/or family commitments with
their duties while serving on the school board. “I’m not sure board meeting attendance is a good marker (for being an effective trustee),” added Patterson, offering better indicators such as “getting out and talking with families and knowing the pulse of the community.” However, Nikki Moore, staff attorney and legislative advocate with the California Newspaper ➝ School Board, 14
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