City council
candidates
won’t spend more than $10k
All six candidates seeking three open seats on the Sonoma City Council have pledged to spend less than $10,000 on their campaigns. Under city ordinance, making such a pledge allows candidates to receive a maximum donation of $200 per donor. If candidates don’t sign the pledge, they can accept a maximum of $100 per donor.
Hospital parcel tax postponed
Will the Sonoma Valley Hospital put a proposal on the ballot to build a new facility?
Stay tuned until early December, when a new board is seated for the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, which governs the hospital. Two health care district seats are up for grabs in the Nov. 7 election.
On Oct. 25, the health care board decided to postpone voting on resolution to ask voters in March to approve a 5-year, $195 per parcel tax that would have generated $3 million, annually. It would replace a current parcel tax of $130 that generates $2 million, annually, for the hospital but expires in June, 2007.
“What they did is postpone it … until the new board is seated,” said hospital spokesman Scott Gregerson.
