After 38 years Visalia has new a new sign ordinance. At the June 6 city council meeting, the vote was three to two in favor, with council members Amy Shuklian and Greg Collins voting no. While Shuklian and Collins voted no they were mostly satisfied with new sign ordinance. Updating Visalia’s sign ordinance has been […]
Measure K, the proposed public safety tax, suffered a tough loss during the June 7 primary while both incumbents retained their Kings County Supervisor seats. Measure K needed two-thirds of the vote to pass but just missed the mark by receiving 66.35%. The measure came within 40 or 50 votes of its goal. A few […]
All documents referenced in this story can be found at our TLHCD/HCCA Documents page. Tulare Regional Medical Center’s Board of Directors filed its response to the Tulare County Grand Jury on May 31, writing a full-throated critique of the Grand Jury’s report, which it characterized as a mix of inaccuracies and misplaced blame. The five-page […]
Final results for the 26th District State Assembly race showed only a 583 vote difference between second place Democrat Ruben Macareno and third place Republican Rudy Mendoza. Assemblyman Devon Mathis was the clear winner Tuesday night with 44.1% of the vote. Macareno had 28.7% and Mendoza had 27.3% of the vote. The top two vote […]
Tensions were high as all of the local candidates waited patiently for the election returns Tuesday night. Initial results came out at 8:15, with the absentee vote, and those results remained consistent throughout the night. Visalia City Council woman Amy Shuklian won over Tulare County Supervisor Phil Cox by ten points and was the winner […]
An email sent to the Valley Voice Friday, June 3 reported that fundraising activities took precedence over constituents in Assemblyman Devon Mathis’ Visalia and Sacramento offices. The email was sent from Mathis’ Chief of Staff, Sean Doherty, to a half a dozen staff and family in May of 2015. It states: “I just wanted to […]
As Tulare Local Healthcare District/Team HCCA (TLHCD) struggles with issues of transparency, the hospital district’s law firm refused to comply with a request for public information in violation of the California Public Records Act (PRA). TLHCD was the only public entity, out of five contacted by the Valley Voice, not to comply. TLHCD Board of […]
Mark Larsen, from the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, and water lawyer Aubrey Cairns Mauritson moderated a workshop on the controversial Sustainable Ground Water Management Act (SGMA). Passed in the fall of 2014, the new law affects everyone who pumps groundwater, from farmers to homeowners. The workshop took place May 23 at the Wyndham Hotel, […]
Exeter Public Schools Superintendent Tim Hall says the District will likely seek voter approval for a funding bond to appear on the ballot during the November 2016 election. “There was an initial discussion about that,” with the Exeter Unified School District Board, Hall said. “What we did was hire a consulting firm to determine how […]
The Enforcement Division of the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) launched an investigation in April into an alleged violation of the Political Reform Act by Assemblyman Devon Mathis. The assemblyman was investigated because he did not list a rental property on his 2015 annual Statement of Economic Interests (SEI). In May, the FPPC found that […]