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Livermore to Layoff Staff; Cut Services VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 48 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009 Livermore to Layoff Staff; Cut Services Faced with the need to cut In the city manager’s office, two The proposed reduction in the state in calculating sales tax continue to decline. We have $3.2 million in spending from its jobs will be gone. Economic de- branch library hours drew pleas payment has resulted in the cur- reached the point where expendi- budget, the City of Livermore, velopment will reduce marketing to the Livermore City Council to rent need for additional cuts. tures outpace income. We have to for the first time, will layoff staff. and travel, expenditures for Poet find a way to keep them open. The city uses a two year bud- reduce services. That also means Services will be reduced. Laureate and the arts commission The libraries in Springtown get cycle. It is now in the second a reduction in employees.” The city will eliminate 43.1 programs, and remove the job of and on Rincon Avenue have been year. When the budget was first Assistant City Manager Troy full time equivalent (FTE) em- a retail consultant. Citywide less open 6 days, 53 hours a week. approved, it was assumed there Brown told the council that all ployees. Currently 31.6 FTE money will be spent on cleaning They will now be open every would be $28.6 million in prop- departments have “trimmed the positions are vacant. The vacant up litter and maintenance. other day, 23 hours a week. The erty taxes and $19.8 million in fat,” eliminating travel, training positions will be eliminated. In the area of public safety, civic center library hours will sales tax coming to the city. As and purchase of supplies. Capital Find Out What's There will be a reduction in there will be a reduction in animal remain the same. of Monday, property taxes were outlay has been deferred, which Happening library hours at branch libraries. control, information technology, Since 2008, Livermore has at $24 million, sales tax at $14.2 means the city will not be replac- The city attorney’s office will re- property and records services. had to cut over $10 million in million ing vehicles. Employee incentive Check out the duce the use of outside legal ser- There would be no reduction in programs and services from its City Manager Linda Barton programs have been removed. second section vices and use of temporary staff. priority level one service calls. budget. A $3.2 million error by stated, “Sales and property taxes (See LIVERMORE, page 4) Section II is filled with in- formation about arts, entertain- ment and special events. There are education stories, a variety of features, and the arts and BART EIR entertainment and bulletin board listings. Looks at Options for Health Care Talks Slated for Extension Lab Retirees Alignments Can Be Lawrence Livermore National Mixed and Matched Laboratory Retirees Association There has been confusion over announced it has scheduled two exactly what the BART program- sets of health care presentations matic environmental impact for retirees on Friday, December report portrays. 4. The presentations will be The EIR looks at nine poten- made by Kaiser and by Extend tial alignments to bring BART Health. Attendance will be free to Livermore and five potential and open to any Lab retiree, in- station sites. According to Marc cluding those who do not belong to the Retirees Association. Roberts, City of Livermore Di- The presentations will be rector of Community develop- made in the Cresta Blanca Room ment, “The EIR looks at worst at Robert Livermore Commu- case scenarios, providing enough nity Center, Livermore. Kaiser information to enable interested representatives are scheduled to parties to evaluate each option. discuss their health programs at The ultimate goal is to select an 8:30 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. alignment. At that time, a project Extend Health representatives environmental review would look are scheduled to present their at the specific impacts of the programs at 10:30 a.m. and again Photo - Doug Jorgensen alignment.” at 3 p.m. Cottage Preschool in Livermore held its annual pre-Thanksgiving celebration. Preschoolers were dressed in headbands and Indian It is possible that the BART The presentations are in- necklaces that they made. In the photo, students entertained visitors with a song about the holiday. board could select a portion of tended to help explain how to one alignment and combine it use the health care plans that are with the portion of another. “The scheduled to start on January study allows you to mix and 1, according to Chuck Meier, match,” according to Roberts. chairmanof the Retirees As- BART Told to Keep Extension on the Freeway As envisioned now, there sociation. That’s particularly The majority of those who loss of property values, increase vide greater access to public About 100 people were on are several at-grade alignments, important for Kaiser, which will transit. hand, with 25 of them speaking. one below and one aerial option. start a new system for Lab retir- commented during a public in crime, visual blight, and an hearing on a BART extension increase in noise that they believe The hearing was held in Liver- There will be another opportunity When it comes to noise, the aerial ees then. Extend Health has also more to take input on a draft made improvements and changes to Livermore were opposed to a would be the result of BART to make comments next Wed., would have the most impact. At environmental impact review that retirees need to understand, station in the downtown. coming into the city. Dec. 2. A hearing will be held grade, the impact would be less Meier said. Several became emotional as Those who supported a down- (DEIR). The DEIR studied nine starting at 6 p.m. at the Robert and could be mitigated with the Both organizations have made they talked about the potential town station, said it would pro- potential alignments. (See HEARING, page 4) use of soundwalls. An under- presentations at fully booked (See EIR, page 4) Retirees Association luncheons, but the many questions that were raised indicated the need for reaching out to larger retiree Portola a Possible Site audiences. Meier said that those who can’t attend may view a vid- For Charter High School eo of the luncheon presentations Livermore School Board Rejects Global Tides Petition at the Retirees Association’s website, http://www.llnlretirees. By Patricia Koning Corporation (LCLC) that over- org/home.html. The trustees of the Livermore sees LVCP and the Livermore Board of Education discussed Valley Charter School (LVCS), two pieces of charter school presented an update on LCLC’s business at the Nov. 17 meet- Proposition 39 request for facili- So. Livermore ing. One was the Proposition ties. He said that LCLC is delay- 39 request for facilities for the ing the submittal of the request to Property Sold to Livermore Valley Charter Pre- give the district and LCLC time paratory (LVCP) high school. to work out details. Ponderosa Homes The second was the Global Tides Proposition 39 stipulates that By Patricia Koning charter petition. local school districts must pro- Floyd Wilson, Executive Di- Bill Bachelor, president of vide charter schools that reside rector of Facilities for the Liver- the Livermore Charter Learning (See CHARTER, page 3) more Valley Joint Unified School District, did not take any chances at last week’s Board of Education meeting. He brought a notary to the meeting to ensure that ev- Zone 7 Votes to Stay erything would be finalized that night on the sale of the District’s South Livermore property. In Bay-Delta Plan “This is one of the best nights By Ron McNicoll Delta. BDCP seems to support I’ve had since I’ve been with Zone 7 Water Agency is re- the dual conveyance. It will give Photo - Doug Jorgensen the Livermore School District,” newing its membership in the us better water downstream,” Pictured at the BRT groundbreaking ceremony are (from left) Livermore Councilmember Marj said Wilson, who will retire in group that is developing the Bay he said. Leider, Pleasanton Councilmember Cindy McGovern, Livermore Mayor Marshall Kamena, Dublin June 2010. Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Some 80 percent of Zone 7’s Mayor Tim Sbranti, Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty, Pleasanton Councilmember Jerry After the Board of Education Zone 7 will also continue, for the water comes from the dam at Thorne, Congressman Jerry McNerney, and FTA represntative Ian Eidlin. unanimously approved the sale of the property to Ponderosa Homes next year, as administrator of the Lake Oroville, a part of the State II, Inc. for $6 million, Wilson and contract that supports the group. Water Project. The water goes Jeff Schroeder, the Senior Vice Directors unanimously ap- through the Delta, where it picks Work Begins on Bus Rapid Transit President of Land Acquisition proved extending membership up taste and odor elements and A groundbreaking ceremony Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) The route starts at the national and Development for Ponderosa in the BDCP for two years when salts, which Zone 7 has to treat. was held Monday for a transit would provide faster travel, laboratories in Livermore, stops Homes, signed the contract. they met Nov. 18. The dual conveyance, which program that is expected to re- fewer stops and a more frequent at a variety of locations including The District purchased the Board president Dick Quigley somewhat resembles the pro- duce travel time from Livermore schedule than current bus service. the transit center in downtown 13.55-acre South Livermore reminded the board why Zone 7 posed Peripheral Canal of the to BART in Dublin-Pleasanton It is expected to begin operations Livermore, both BART sta- property, which is located near is involved.
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