The council will debate the idea at Tuesday night's meeting.
Since 1983 WCCUSD has put nine parcel taxes on the ballot. Three have passed.
Pinole and Hercules have the right to ban or allow medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits, the California State Supreme Court rules.
State officials have released figures on every zip code in the state showing which communities are most at risk from pollution. See how each Patch town ranks using the interactive map below.
A company owned by Safeway is in talks to purchase about 12 acres of land in Hercules.
Recommendations are being proposed to avoid a future catastrophe.
"We don't believe that we should be in the utility business," Hercules City Manager Steve Duran said Thursday.
The Hercules City Council on Tuesday will consider whether to support a state bill that would ban the ownership of magazines capable of holding more than 10 bullets.
“Passing legislation that enhances school safety is not an acceptable alternative to passing other gun violence prevention measures such as background checks," according to Thompson.
The Pinole City Council on Tuesday will discuss setting aside money for a Pinole Valley Road landscaping and lighting fund.
Voters in June will decide whether to increase the city's utility users tax from 6 percent to 8 percent, and add cable to the utilities covered.
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Dense breast tissue makes cancer more difficult to detect on a mammogram, and it increases a woman's risk of cancer, according to cancer specialists.
Certain one-time funds may not be available to balance the 2014 budget and avoid sever cost-cutting measures, city council officials explained.
It would include a train station, regional bus service and the potential for future ferry service.
The Hercules Health Center is “temporarily closed," according to its website.
Federal agencies will have fewer funds beginning Friday if Republicans and Democrats can’t avoid the sequester deadline.
The increase would raise Hercules' utility users tax from 6 percent to 8 percent, and include cable in the utilities taxed, for five years.
Wilson Van Ault, a retired special agent for the California Department of Justice, was assigned to examine evidence from computers belonging to Raymond Edward Wong, who is charged with murder for the 1999 killing of his pregnant live-in girlfriend and i
"Skateboarding is about freedom, personal expression and inner creativity," Max Glanz told he Contra Costa Times.
Check out the map to compare income levels in neighborhoods throughout the Pinole and Hercules area, and the rest of the country.
The declaration will allow a tax increase ballot measure to pass with fewer votes.
The city council will consider another declaration of a state of fiscal emergency this week.
The communities are two of many cities whose dispensary ban on medical marijuana facilities will be affected by the ruling.
The Hercules City Council may also declare a fiscal emergency for the second year in a row.
The two groups will discuss school construction and safety.
The Hercules City Council will meet Tuesday, Jan. 29.
City staff are proposing a rate increase of about 10 percent.
The state of California also received failing grades from the American Lung Association.