After years of attending conferences and seminars on top of working as the city’s full-time clerk, Ana Gonzalez has received a Master Municipal Clerk certificate making her one of less than 1,400 in the country to do so.
The loss of neighborhood character and the possibility of allowing fourplexes in certain Woodland zones were two of the most contentious issues discussed during the Woodland City Council’s Tuesday meeting.
After a summer of patiently waiting, the now fourth grade students at Beamer Park Elementary School, along with the outgoing city of Woodland Mayor Vicky Fernandez and Woodland Joint Unified School District Superintendent Elodia Ortega-Lampkin held a ribbon cutting for the school's newest feature, a friendship bench.
The city staff report noted that the current policy identifies a process for naming public parks and recreation facilities but recent projects have made it clear that the city needs to broaden its policy to include the naming of other facilities.
Population loss has hit most cities in California, and Woodland is no exception, according to latest estimates from the California Department of Finance.