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Mountain View approves raising income limits for teacher housing project

2 days ago | mv-voice.com | Zoe Morgan

The Mountain View City Council has approved raising the income limit for the Mountain View Whisman School District’s employee housing project, in an attempt to increase the number of teachers and other school staff moving into the building. The City Council voted unanimously at a Tuesday, June 24, meeting to raise the income eligibility cap for the moderate income units within subsidized housing project from 120% of the area median income to 150%.
Former Mountain View superintendent gets top job in Pleasanton

3 days ago | mv-voice.com | Christian Trujano

The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees has named Interim Superintendent Maurice Ghysels as the top choice for the district’s new permanent leader, following two months of candidate interviews and nearly a full year since former superintendent David Haglund left his post. Ghysels had previously served as superintendent for the Mountain View Whisman School District from 2005 to 2010. He had resigned as top administrator following a relationship with a school principal.
Mountain View plans to step up police enforcement to curb drunk driving

4 days ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

Mountain View is looking to reduce the number of traffic collisions involving alcohol and drug impaired drivers after receiving a $315,000 grant from the state to increase police enforcement efforts. The award comes from the state’s Cannabis Tax Fund Grant program, which was established in 2016 with the passage of Proposition 64 that legalized the recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 years and older.
Santa Clara County budgets $8M for immigration support services

4 days ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

As the federal government ramps up immigration enforcement, Santa Clara County has announced that it has earmarked more than $8 million in immigration support services as part of next year’s fiscal budget. The funding will go towards immigration legal services, outreach and rapid response activities, making it the largest investment for these kinds of services in the county’s history, according to a June 20 press release.
Mountain View Whisman reaches $1.6M settlement in sexual assault lawsuit

6 days ago | mv-voice.com | Zoe Morgan

The Mountain View Whisman School District agreed last month to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct by a former Crittenden Middle School teacher and administrator who worked at the school in the 1970s. The school board agreed in closed session at a May 29 meeting to settle sexual molestation claims brought by two former students, board President Bill Lambert announced.
Mountain View plans for major road upgrades on Rengstorff

1 week ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

Mountain View is looking to roll out major street and safety improvements on Rengstorff Avenue, a busy thoroughfare with a history of fatal and severe injury crashes. Earlier this year, Caltrans awarded Mountain View $352,000 to analyze bicycle, pedestrian and green street improvements along a 1.7-mile stretch of Rengstorff Avenue, between Leghorn Street and El Camino Real. The city tapped consulting firm Kimley-Horn and Associates to carry out the study.
Mountain View’s Oktoberfest likely headed to Castro Street this year

1 week ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

Earlier this year, Mountain View’s Oktoberfest faced an uncertain future as Stein’s Beer Garden was in jeopardy of closing. A new owner has since taken over the establishment, but is not planning to co-host Oktoberfest as in years past. Instead, the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce is stepping up as the sole organizer of Oktoberfest and continuing the annual tradition, with hopes of relocating the popular event from its usual spot by Stein’s to just around the corner.
Mountain View receives accolades for sustainability, greenhouse gas emission reductions

1 week ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

For the second year in a row, Mountain View has been recognized for its sustainability efforts and received a top score from the Carbon Disclosure Project, a global nonprofit that monitors environmental impacts. Last year, nearly 1,000 cities participated in a program offered by the Carbon Disclosure Project that helps cities and other entities measure and manage risks on issues related to climate change, water security and deforestation.
MVLA teachers get raises, highest paid will now earn over $200K

1 week ago | mv-voice.com | Zoe Morgan

For the first time, the highest paid teachers in the Mountain View Los Altos High School District will make a base salary of more than $200,000 annually, under the terms of a union agreement that the school board approved this month. MVLA’s school board voted unanimously at a June 4 meeting to give teachers a 4% raise, retroactive to the start of the calendar year. At a meeting last night, the board voted 4-0 to approve matching raises for other district staff.
Waymo expands self-driving taxi service to parts of Palo Alto, Menlo Park

1 week ago | mv-voice.com | Emily Margaretten

Waymo announced on Tuesday that it is continuing to scale up its self-driving taxi service in the Peninsula to parts of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Los Altos Hills. The Mountain View-based company, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, says it is expanding its California service by over 80 square miles, marking its third rollout in the Peninsula in less than a year.