Holly Rusch

California

News Reporter at San Mateo Daily Journal

previously @dailynexus @streetsenseDC @SBIndyNews / she/her / [email protected]

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Articles

New no-camping ordinance a step closer in Millbrae

1 week ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

Millbrae is now the first city in San Mateo County to move forward with a no-camping ordinance intended to prevent unsheltered homelessness and remove encampments. The city looked at anti-camping ordinances across the state — including an ordinance from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, which criminalizes camping on public property in unincorporated areas — when creating legislation that would work for Millbrae, City Manager Tom Williams said.
Harbor District moves forward with Surfers Beach dredging

1 week ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

The construction contract for a long-awaited harbor dredging project — designed to stem erosion at Surfers Beach — has been approved by the San Mateo County Harbor District Board, and work on the project will begin in June. Vortex Marine Construction will oversee and complete the dredging and relocation of around 100,000 cubic yards of sand along the inside of the Pillar Point Harbor to the Surfers Beach area.
Capital investments drag on Burlingame budget

1 week ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

Burlingame’s baseline expenses, plus transfers to its capital improvement fund, will once again outweigh its revenue for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year, Finance Director Helen Yu-Scott said during a study session May 21. The city’s revenue will increase over a projected $3 million from the last fiscal year, Yu-Scott said, and will likely sit at $93.4 million.
Burlingame moves forward with Broadway rail line redesign

1 week ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

The Burlingame City Council unanimously voted to move forward with putting $3.8 million in city funds toward a redesign of a project to raise the rail line above the road without a Broadway train station. In March, councilmembers were dismayed to learn that the city’s original plans for the grade separation at the dangerous Broadway intersection with a rebuilt train station — were likely to cost $889 million total.
Seawall loses federal funding

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

The federal government’s April cancelation of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program — which helped communities with disaster preparedness funding — could have serious impacts in Pacifica, U.S. Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, warned during a press conference with other local leaders.
Street racer in fatal crash died of overdose

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

A 25-year-old man who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a fatal street race that took the lives of two died in jail of an accidental drug overdose, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Kyle Harrison was found unresponsive on March 15 and pronounced dead at the Maple Street Correctional Facility.
Half Moon Bay to cut some funding for nonprofit grant program

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

Half Moon Bay is moving forward with cutting some funding for its community nonprofit grant program, providing $227,000 for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year rather than the $300,000 the program received last year.
Half Moon Bay annual goat-grazing program to continue

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

Half Moon Bay’s goat-grazing program, designed to abate fire fuel loads and manage invasive weeds, will be continuing for the next five years with monitoring to ensure the area is fire safe and not over-eroded. The grazing program takes place annually on either side of Highway 1 near Kehoe Avenue. Both goats and sheep are released into approved areas — owned by the city and the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside, respectively — and blocked from environmentally sensitive land.
Single mothers getting supplemental income

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

Five months in, a nonprofit, supplemental income pilot program for single mothers run by poverty nonprofit Samaritan House has assisted its client, Lourdes Millan, in successfully attending cosmetology school while raising her 8-year-old twins. “The program has been kind of like a heaven sent,” she said.
Millbrae may bring back social equity committee after hiatus

2 weeks ago | smdailyjournal.com | Holly Rusch

After over a year on hiatus, Millbrae is considering bringing back its social equity committee — though the group might look markedly different than its previous iteration, formerly led by consulting group E/J Solutions. Mayor Anders Fung is leading the effort to bring the committee back without the trappings of the 2023 group and will serve as one member of an ad-hoc committee made up of city councilmembers to more concretely decide on a future plan for the committee.