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The City Council formed the Budget Advisory and Financial Planning Committee (BAFPC) in response to 2011 Municipal Tax Review Committee recommendations.  The BAFPC will be providing advice to the Council on five-year financial projections and expenditures of more than $250,000.  The Committee is composed of Mary Geong, Steven Hollis, Bill Hosler (Chair), Tom Lehrkind, and Tim Rood.  The Members are taking their > Click to read more…

Twenty Tapped to Serve-

Following hours of interviews and deliberation on March 29, the City Council made the following appointments to City Commissions and Committees: > Click to read more…

City Council To Interview Applicants Thursday-

The City Council will interview applicants for committee and commission positions on Thursday, March 29, in City Hall.  The proceedings are open to the public and begin at 5:30 p.m.

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Council Interviews Commission and Committee Applicants-

A special City Council meeting will be held on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Conference Room, 120 Vista Avenue. > Click to read more…

Comment on Recommendations of Investigative Committees-

Piedmonters are invited by the City Council to comment on a list of 35 recommendations drawn from the reports of the City Council Audit Subcommittee, the Municipal Tax Review Committee, and League of Women Voters Task Force to investigate and report on the problematic Piedmont Hills Underground Utility District. > Click to read more…

Residents Rallied — Asked to Serve  Piedmont - 

The City is seeking volunteers to fill vacancies on five City committees and commissions and two potential new committees.   Interested residents may download the Applications for Appointive Vacancy and the Commission Descriptions of Duties from the City’s website  (see links below). > Click to read more…

The City of Piedmont has invited public comment on the recommendations of the Municipal Tax Review Committee, the League of Women Voters Task Force, and the City Council Audit Subcommittee.  The full reports, along with a matrix of the recommendations prepared by Vice Mayor John Chiang, are linked below.

The City Administrator’s response to the recommendations is provided in his Discussion of Reports and Recommendations . . . ,  The City Council has allowed time to implement the recommendations prior to a vote on the renewal of the City’s General Parcel Tax by delaying the measure until the June, 2012 ballot.

Did you miss the LWV forum on these issues?   Watch the video here.

Written comments should be directed to the City Council, c/o Piedmont City Clerk, 120 Vista Avenue, Piedmont, CA 94611 or by email to:jtulloch@ci.piedmont.ca.us.  Correspondence received by the City Clerk is considered part of the public record. > Click to read more…

EPA confirms No Deadline for Replacing Mainline Sewer and No Automatic Penalties -

Piedmont resident Rick Schiller received the following response to his inquiry to the EPA Compliance Officer.  Measure A on the Feb. 7 ballot would raise Piedmont resident sewer taxes 50 percent. > Click to read more…

Dear Editor:  As I read the January 11^th issue of the Piedmont Post, I was drawn to the Opinion piece by Cameron Wolfe, Jr.  I’m glad that it was called an “opinion” because it was long on opinion and virtually non-existent on fact on one of the candidates.  Daniel Patrick Moynihan is famous for having coined the expression:  “Everyone is entitled their own opinions, but not their own facts.”  He was contesting erroneous facts;  I am concerned with a lack of facts. > Click to read more…

The Piedmont Civic Association appreciates the efforts of Conna McCarthy to explain her candidate’s decision to decline to participate in the PCA forum, as well as her good wishes for future PCA forums which she points out “could be a beneficial part of Piedmont’s civic engagement”.   (November 23, 2011 “Viewpoint” in the POST) > Click to read more…