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San Leandro managers, confidential employees enjoy at-home perks, health club benefits

city's nine confidential employees, who deal with issues such as labor negotiations and personnel, each are entitled to $500 a year for technology equipment to do city work at home. Purchases have been for computers or computer equipment only, Caire ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  18 Jul 2009

New flood maps could mean new insurance requirements

HAYWARD — Got some extra money lying around? Property owners in communities surrounding the San Lorenzo Creek Watershed may need extra cash when new flood insurance rate maps become effective Aug. 3. Properties in Castro Valley, Cherryland, north ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Federal Emergency Management Agency

San Leandro considers instant-runoff voting for municipal elections

misery for us as candidates?" he asked. SAN LEANDRO — Ranked-choice voting — also known as the instant runoff system — is risky and confusing, maintains City Councilwoman Joyce Starosciak. Councilman Michael Gregory disagrees. Switching to this option, ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Gregory,  Santos, Ltd.

Man in good condition after Hayward electrical fire

HAYWARD — A worker installing new PG&E meters was burned Wednesday when a blast from an electric panel engulfed the utility room where he was working. The man, whom neither fire nor hospital officials would identify, was listed in good condition ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: PG&E

Former county health care director blames San Leandro for hospital problems

another option that San Leandro hasn't explored, Kears said. OAKLAND — Now that he's no longer on Alameda County's payroll, former Health Care Services Agency Director Dave Kears dropped the diplomacy Tuesday and criticized every agency that he said ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  14 Jul 2009

County supervisors to discuss San Leandro Hospital on Tuesday

concerns and recommendations, along with state-mandated seismic safety requirements for the Fairmont rehab unit that prompted the negotiated proposal. OAKLAND — Shawn Wilson has a pithy opinion of a 2-year-old agreement that could result in San Leandro ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  12 Jul 2009

S.L. police plan to arrest Oakland woman in elderly scam

Parrino's 1991 black Ford Saturn and the pair drove through the neighborhood to wait for a locksmith who never came. The resident, who said Parrino never pointed out her home, gave the woman a jacket and $40, then wrote down the Saturn's license plate ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  11 Jul 2009

San Leandro council committee chooses developer for key downtown sites

Albertsons store, on East 14th Street between Dolores and Juana avenues, and the building now is being demolished. The parcel will be used as surface-level public parking for a couple of years while the city's downtown garage at East 14th and Estudillo ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  10 Jul 2009

Bill to keep San Leandro Hospital's ER open advances

purchase option for the hospital, at East 14th Street and 138th Avenue, and open rehabilitation and urgent-care centers there. SAN LEANDRO — Efforts to keep San Leandro Hospital's emergency room open have, for the moment, united the area's two top ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Ellen Corbett

Hayward resident held in San Leandro gunfire

witness intimidation charge, McManus said, when he was arrested without incident Saturday. He is believed to have fired the guns seven or eight times, McManus said. SAN LEANDRO — A Hayward man, scheduled to be tried this week on a charge of ...

From KAREN HOLZMEISTER, Inside Bay Area,  8 Jul 2009

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