Menlo Park Mayor Peter Ohtaki will welcome and join San Mateo County Supervisor Warren Slocum at the Supervisor’s ‘Office Hours’ in Menlo Park on September 4, 2013 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Cafe Zoё, 1929 Menalto Avenue.
When a six-alarm fire broke out in Redwood City early Sunday morning, the emergency response was fast and thorough. With nearly 100 people left homeless, that response soon transformed into an ongoing support system that gathered resources from multiple sources...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Controller Bob Adler today released for public review the San Mateo County Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. The CAFR contains the County’s complete financial statements and other financial information. All of the statements are audited by an independent certified public accountant and provide the public with the confidence that all financial reporting is accurate, open and transparent.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Controller Bob Adler provides details of the financial health of San Mateo County in a report released today. The Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) summarizes the essential information contained in the County’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, which was released in October. The PAFR examines the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2013, and provides a look to future challenges and opportunities. The PAFR provides the following key information:
Imagine how you would feel if you and your family lost everything in a fire and you couldn’t find a new place to live? Now imagine your home was one of the very few affordable places to live in one of the most expensive areas of the country...We are now asking San Mateo County apartment building owners for help. We ask that you consider offering one vacant unit in your building to a fire victim. We realize this is a unique request; these people have lost their housing because of a fire and not through any fault of their own. For those people with vacant in-law units, motels with living units and home-share opportunities: • We’re not asking that the unit be free — we’re asking that it be affordable; • We’re not asking that it be forever — we’re asking that it be for as long as the tenant wants to call it home; • We’re not asking for multiple units — we’re asking for a single unit. If enough housing rental units aren’t found in the next couple of weeks for these people, the 80 fire victims will be forced to look for housing in places like Modesto, Fresno or Galt — communities that are not known, not “home.” Can’t we do better as a community? Can’t we find a way to accommodate the victims of this tragedy?