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Petroleum industry targets assembly candidate BIG OIL FUND SENDS ATTACK MAILERS OUT ON FRACKING OPPONENT ROBERT RIVAS By Tom Gogola Pacific Sun
➝ 30th Assembly, 8
Robert Eliason
The state’s petroleum industry is spending $320,000 in the District 30 State Assembly race to defeat frontrunner Robert Rivas. The San Benito County supervisor hopes to succeed Anna Caballero, who is running for state senate this year and represents a district that stretches from Morgan Hill to King City and includes Watsonville and all of San Benito County. The San Rafael law firm Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, which counts BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Phillips and Valero Energy Corporation among its clients, created the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, Opposing Robert Rivas for Assembly 2018. It’s the first time the
ON YOUR MARK Thousands of spectators lined the opening stretch of the Amgen Tour of California’s May 16 time trial on Monterey Road,
cheering each competitor along as they rounded the first turn onto West Dunne Avenue at the beginning of the the 21.6-mile loop.
Tour takes over MAY 16 TIME TRIAL EVENT SHOWCASED MORGAN HILL WORLDWIDE Michael Moore Editor
“We would love to have you come back to Morgan Hill,” Mayor Steve Tate exclaimed to Amgen Tour of California organizers on
the finish line stage—at Fourth Street and Monterey Road in the city’s downtown—at the conclusion of the competition’s May 16 individual time trial. “Thank you!” The 21.6-mile time trial loop started and ended in downtown Morgan Hill, which was closed to vehicle traffic for about 24 hours while TOC organizers set up—and then tore down—the course
route and installed temporary fencing and other crowd control measures. By the morning of May 16, the downtown was buzzing with the arrival of race officials, last-minute preparations by professional cycling teams and spectators trying to find the best spots to watch 116 professional cyclists start and finish the time trial. The TOC is considered one of the world’s most
prestigious pro cycling races, and is broadcast on live television to millions of viewers. Athletes such as Peter Sagan and Mark Cavendish— household names among cycling fans—competed in the seven-stage TOC as it stopped in Morgan Hill. Amid the downtown Morgan Hill “lifestyle festival” that coincided with the six-hour (including opening and closing
pageantry) time trial May 16 were a number of giant screens showing the live coverage of the day. This coverage prominently depicted repeated shots of downtown Morgan Hill and its surroundings— including El Toro mountain and stretches of rural roadways, wineries, vineyards, hillsides and waterways that are well known ➝ Agmen, 13
School board shifts gears on parcel tax MEASURE TO INCLUDE DISTRICT, CHARTER SCHOOLS Scott Forstner Reporter
In a last-minute change, Morgan Hill Unified’s Board of Trustees on May 15 surprised its own staff to include two local charter schools in the funding mix of a proposed parcel tax.
Instead of voting on the final draft of a fiveyear, $75-per-parcel tax resolution, a board majority backed a change led by Trustee David Gerard that will give a small percentage of funds generated by the tax to Voices Academy and Charter School of Morgan Hill. The parcel tax, if approved by district voters in November, would allocate money to the charter schools based on their enrollment of students
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residing in Morgan Hill. Voters who reside within the MHUSD boundaries will vote on the parcel tax question on the Nov. 6 ballot. Gerard, along with Board President Tom Arnett, Vice President Mary Patterson and trustees Gino Borgioli and Teresa Murillo, responded to Voices families in attendance who earlier had pleaded with them to not exclude their school from parcel tax funding.
“There’s absolutely, in my mind, no way this board should go forward with a parcel tax that essentially splits the community,” Gerard said prior to the board’s vote. The district’s final draft, which was crafted by a special committee and consultants after months of planning that included a pair of community surveys, was exclusively for districtrun schools. It contained a clause that addressed
charter schools, promising their inclusion in future parcel taxes, but not the one headed to a Nov 6 vote. “This is for district schools. CSMH and Voices charter schools are not district schools,” said Superintendent Steve Betando, adding that all the work that had been done leading up to the final draft was based solely on district needs. ➝ Parcel Tax, 10
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