Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
The Mill Valley City Council adopted an ordinance Monday, Oct. 5, banning all retail tobacco and e-cigarette sales within city limits, with the prohibition taking effect Feb. 1, 2027. Five local gas stations and convenience stores will lose the ability to sell nicotine products.
Local Government
The Mill Valley City Council adopted an ordinance Monday, Oct. 5, banning all retail tobacco and e-cigarette sales within city limits, with the prohibition taking effect Feb. 1, 2027. Five local gas stations and convenience stores will lose the ability to sell nicotine products.
The Mill Valley City Council adopted an ordinance Monday, Oct. 5, banning all retail tobacco and e-cigarette sales within city limits, with the prohibition taking effect Feb. 1, 2027. Five local gas stations and convenience stores will lose the ability to sell nicotine products.
Local Government
The Marin County Board of Supervisors will consider staff recommendations to keep, improve, restructure, combine or sunset 19 county advisory boards at its Aug. 25 meeting, though which specific bodies face elimination has not been publicly identified.
Local Government
Mill Valley will begin an eight-week road stabilization project on Ethel Avenue on Sept. 1, involving three retaining walls and periodic 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekday closures between addresses 389 and 416.
Local Government
The Marin Water Board of Directors appointed Shaun Horne, the district's director of watershed resources for seven years, as its next general manager effective Oct. 1, replacing retiring GM Ben Horenstein.
Local Government
The Tiburon Fire Protection District board voted 4-0 on Aug. 12 to reject the Marin County grand jury's consolidation deadlines, partially disagreeing with all seven findings and declining five of nine recommendations.
Local Government
Caltrans is launching a major rehabilitation of Tiburon Boulevard (SR-131) from Highway 101 to downtown, with pavement work, new bikeways, ADA upgrades and drainage fixes scheduled through winter 2027, with most disruptive work happening overnight.
Local Government
The Mill Valley City Council unanimously approved a $99,000 pilot program splitting sidewalk and tree repair costs 50/50 with property owners, though Mayor Perrey raised concerns that first-come, first-served funding may not reach residents most in need.
Local Government
The Golden Gate Bridge district will close two southbound lanes from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday starting Aug. 17, with additional closure windows scheduled through November for pothole and asphalt repairs.
Local Government
The Marin County Board of Supervisors will consider a no-parking fire lane near Sky Road in unincorporated Mill Valley, hear an El Niño preparedness briefing, and take up a hazardous materials oversight transfer at its Aug. 18 meeting.
Local Government
The Central Marin Fire Council meets Thursday, Aug. 13 in Larkspur to vote on raising ambulance transport fees roughly 12%, a change that would take effect Sept. 1 and generate an estimated $100,000 in additional annual revenue for the authority serving Corte Madera and Larkspur.
Local Government
Marin County's free, self-guided Green@Home Tour on Aug. 29 lets residents walk through electrified homes and talk to homeowners about costs and contractors, but registration closes Saturday, Aug. 15.
Local Government
The Marin County Registrar of Voters extended the candidate filing deadline to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, for Reed Union and Larkspur-Corte Madera school board races after incumbents in each district did not refile, giving non-incumbent candidates two more days to enter races that will oversee major bond spending.
Local Government
The Central Marin Fire Council meets Thursday, Aug. 13 in Larkspur to vote on ambulance fee changes and an administrative claims resolution, its first session since May.
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