Corporations made the largest contributions to the campaign supporting Measure L, which would increase the sales tax in the city of Santa Cruz by a half percent.
Campaign finance disclosure statements for measures and offices on the city of Santa Cruz’s March ballot were recently published, and showed that real estate developers and contractors made the largest contributors to the campaign opposing Measure M while the group supporting Measure M received the majority of its donations from Santa Cruz residents.
I think it’s time you retire Stephen Kessler from your Saturday Opinion page. Last Saturday, in his umpteenth column on this topic, he told us that the Santa Cruz City Council imposed the library/affordable housing/parking garage project on an unwilling populace ignoring the fact that a solid majority voted in favor of the project […]
Stephen Kessler neglected to mention one important detail in his commentary on Oct. 14. Measure O, which would have derailed the downtown library project, was defeated by 60% of Santa Cruz voters. Stephen, get a clue, it’s time to move on. Please don’t subject us to another 40 essays about why the project should not […]
"Perhaps you were wondering what had happened to the flagship branch of the county library system since the overwhelming passage in 2016 of Measure S, funding renovation or reconstruction of all eight branches except Watsonville, whose library is incorporated into its Civic Plaza building," writes Stephen Kessler. "Since then, every other branch but downtown has been renovated or rebuilt with the $67 million bestowed by Measure S $27 million of which was designated for downtown, of which roughly $24.5 million remains after diversion of some of those monies to other branches and to assorted studies, reports and plans."