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Ping Li, Jeri Bromley and Bill Dalton held the top three spots for three open City Council seats in the first count, while Measure N, the $321 million Los Gatos-Saratoga high school bond, had about 54% in Santa Clara County.
Los Gatos' Town Council passed a 45-day urgency ordinance Monday blocking detention and custodial processing facilities, with four yes votes and one abstention. Saratoga's council has a similar ordinance on its Nov. 4 agenda.
The Saratoga Library celebrates Diwali on Saturday, Nov. 7, with henna designs and diya painting from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and a family Bollywood dance party from 3 to 4 p.m. Henna and painting are first-come.
The Nov. 12 ceremony on the Saratoga campus marks a 49,000-square-foot arts center replacing the 1970s music building and rebuilding the theater, with hard-hat tours beforehand. The college asks guests to reply by Nov. 6.
Ordinance 420 sits on the City Council's consent calendar Nov. 4. A proposal letting the community development director approve small subdivisions was pulled last month and will return later.
The Heritage Preservation Commission meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday on a staff recommendation that the City Council approve a preservation contract for the Spanish Eclectic home, a city landmark since 2025.
City staff recommend Bell Burnett & Atwater for a six-month organizational assessment of four departments, with early cost-saving ideas due in time for next year's budget. The council takes it up Wednesday.
A special meeting Nov. 2 takes up Planning Commission-backed changes that would require 30 to 40 homes per acre in the 44-acre district off Highways 85 and 17 and drop its 270-unit limit.
Caltrans will control traffic between Toll Gate Road and Highway 35 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Over on Highway 17, crews begin overnight lane closures the same week to paint permanent striping on newly repaved lanes.
Only people with business at the Milpitas jail may enter its lot and lobby, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said Friday, after a release-night chase in which an agent used a Taser on a man.
An urgency ordinance on Wednesday's agenda would bar the city from accepting or approving permits for detention or custodial processing facilities while staff writes permanent rules. It needs four of five council votes.
The library votes 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday through Monday and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 3. Voters may use any vote center in Santa Clara County.
The Census Bureau's first count of electric vehicles at home puts Santa Clara County at 24.1%, about 163,000 households. California leads the states at 13.8%, against 5.5% nationally.
County leaders called the Justice Department's demand to set aside those ballots unlawful. In Los Angeles, a judge who heard the broader case Tuesday said he would rule by Wednesday and appeared unlikely to grant it.
With one member absent, the council split Oct. 21 on starting a district to fund wildfire, flood and drought work. Two members said the next council should decide; the mayor, who is not running again, says there is still hope.
The $470 million Behavioral Health Pavilion at Valley Medical Center has 14 beds for children, 21 for teens and 42 for adults. County figures show most local kids needing acute care were sent out of the county.
Staff will tell the board Tuesday to stay the course on a $2.45 billion purification plant, the Delta tunnel and the Sisk Dam raise. A ban on watering decorative turf begins with schools and government sites Jan. 1.
A draft ordinance would let owners of hillside lots of an acre or larger use an underground electronic fence instead of a 6-foot fence that the town's wildlife rules forbid there.
Four new laws target e-motos sold as e-bikes, sidewalk speeds, safety gear and youth training. A Los Gatos-Monte Sereno safe-routes leader says age limits should come next.
Santa Clara County says Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue and Zika, has been found in several cities since 2024 and can stay active into winter when days reach about 60 degrees.
The Regional Transit Measure would raise sales taxes in five Bay Area counties for 14 years starting April 2027. Supporters warn of deep service cuts without it; taxpayer groups say agencies should cut costs first.
