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The Housing Element Part 1: What is It?
The post discusses San Benito County's housing policy and its impact, highlighting the Housing Element's role as a state-mandated blueprint for local housing needs. Currently, all local jurisdicti...
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Peter Hernandez and his wife run the popular Ohana Shave Ice in downtown Hollister. Hernandez started his political career as a volunteer for the probabtion department, which led to a position as a Hollister School District trustee. Hernandez teamed up with two other probation officers to start the Juvenile Review Board. “I found myself being really engaged,” he said. “We had some awesome results, and it inspired me.” According to SanBenito.com, the District 3 supervisor states, “Many say small businesses are the livelihood of our economy. I would say businesses are made up of people, the heart of a community. Small businesses are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They are the idea makers, the entrepreneurs.”
First elected: November 2018
Day job: Business owner, Ohana Shave Ice
Other offices held: Hollister School District Trustee (2014-2018)
Notable quote: “We want to grow in a way that we protect our community and we enhance the family identity and the uniqueness of who we are and even the uniqueness of our backyard, which I consider Pinnacles National Par) and Hollister Hills and the wine trail.” (Source: San Benito Live)
From Benito Link...
At a Jan. 14 meeting, the San Benito County Board of Supervisors discussed the future of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital. By a unanimous vote, they decided to approach the San Benito Health Care District in an effort to stymie the potential lease-sale of the hospital to the Michigan-based Insight Health.
Construction of Riverview Regional Park, the 46-acre recreation zone planned for the area between the Hollister High School campus and the San Benito River, will begin this fall, a year later than originally expected.
For the second time, San Benito County has canceled a town hall meeting to discuss the future of the county’s fire protection services. The meeting—which was supposed to take place in December but was then rescheduled for Jan. 9—has been indefinitely postponed.
On Jan. 6 the San Benito County Board of Supervisors unanimously chose Kollin Kosmicki to be its chair for 2025. Among his duties, he will preside over board meetings, rule on questions of procedure and appoint committees to study issues.
In many elections, voters will cast a ballot selecting candidates at the top of the ticket but skip voting on “down-ballot” races—resulting in what election officials call “undervotes.” In the Nov. 5 election, a number of San Benito County races had more undervotes tallied than the margin between the top two choices, which means the undervotes may have determined the outcomes of those races.
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