Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Election Day is next Tuesday, November 3rd. Three of five council seats are up, and since we don't have districts, you get to vote on all three. If you haven't decided yet, start with Seven Candidates, in Their Own Words. Check your
Happy Wednesday Daly Citizens! Bins stolen from a Daly City post office last Wednesday may have held San Mateo County mail-in ballots. The county elections office put out a release about it, and our friends at the Peninsula Buzz and the San Mateo Daily Journal both covered it. The extent
On November 3rd, we all get to vote to fill three seats on the City Council. There are seven people running for those seats. I don't know about you, but I find it really hard to find meaningful information about local politicians, so I decided to do my
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Jefferson Elementary is deciding which schools, if any, to close Taking a look at another local government this week: the Jefferson Elementary School District recently formed a committee to decide which schools, if any, should close or merge. Jefferson runs most of the elementary and middle
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Last week was my first time at a Daly City, City Council meeting. It was a marathon. I must say I have a new found respect for the endurance and stamana of the city employees to be doing business for nearly 5 hours, past 1am. They
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! The Olympic Club has officially pulled out of the Westlake Park deal. On Friday the city posted a notice on its website: "The City is in receipt of a notification from The Olympic Club respectfully withdrawing from the MOU for the Proposed Westlake Park Field
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! In two weeks our City Council meets. In June they approved an agreement with the Olympic Club over Westlake Park on the calendar, without discussing it. September 14th is the night we ask them to undo it, and we need to be there. Westlake Park September
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Housing is always on the mind of Bay Area residents, and two zoning hearings on the topic are on the agenda for the next city council meeting on September 14th. The first amends the "inclusionary housing ordinance" to give preference to individuals who live
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! The Westlake Park town hall did not happen. But about 50 of us were there anyway. The night before the meeting, a notice went up on the city's website: "Following receipt of a request from The Olympic Club, the Town Hall Meeting for
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Our neighbors in South San Francisco bought a house last month. On July 20 their council voted unanimously to spend $1.4 million on a three-bedroom at 1229 Crestwood Drive, right next door to Sunshine Gardens Elementary. They are going to take the house down and
Happy Tuesday Daly Citizens! Top of mind today is the Westlake Park deal. It is just such a bad, poorly negotiated deal. We can do so much better. The most recent status update on the Westlake Park kerfuffle came from the town hall last week on July 29th. Packed room.
Five years ago I moved to Westlake. I fell in love with the neighborhood, the Doelger houses, the sleepy streets and the fog. I love the fog. The fog (for which I happily embrace the name Karl) is our cold, cozy blanket that welcomes us home whenever we are away.