General News

MCE has approved a $36,000 raise for its chief executive officer, bringing her annual salary to $568,828.

The salary increase for Dawn Weisz includes a 4% merit raise. Separately, Weisz also receives the annual Bay Area labor cost-of-living increase, which was 3.3% as of June, and benefits provided to all staff.

The executive committee of the company, formerly known as Marin Clean Energy, approved the hike in a 7-2 vote on Monday.

Ross Valley School District Measure E failed in a May 6 special election in the face of an opposition campaign led by the Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers. This is an important development with future implications for Marin more broadly.

This article, written by Richard Halstead, was published by the Marin Independent Journal on February 17, 2025

An effort to build housing for educators and county workers in Marin has a $17.4 million budget shortfall.

A plan has been floated to close the gap by having the county and school districts guarantee the rental income of the apartments in order to lower the interest rates on bonds to finance the project.

Former Mill Valley Mayor John McCauley is leading an effort to convince state legislators to modify California laws that currently mandate housing development in fire hazard zones.

The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers is among seven transportation and taxpayer advocacy organizations who signed the joint letter linked below regarding the proposed Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) bridge toll increase. Click Here to View the Joint Letter to BATA ➾

In response to the Marin Independent Journal Editorial Board’s endorsement of Kentfield, TUHSD, and Fairfax’s November 2024 bond measures, CST President Mimi Willard penned a letter to the editor calling out the disconnect between those endorsements and the condemnation of local bond measures by the editorial board of the Bay Area News Group, the IJ’s parent.  Willard’s letter explains the details of these measures, the deceptive wording of their ballot language, toothless oversight, and other reasons why CST is leery of local bond measures.  Read Willard’s letter to the editor in full by clicking below.

CST continues concerned about the Tax Tsunami now unfolding that will be greatly exacerbated if voters approve Proposition 5 — opposed both by the Bay Area News Group and CST— making it far easier to pass local bond tax measures.  The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers urges being selective in voting Yes on additional bond measures given the great likelihood you’ll soon be paying many, new, multiple-decade taxes for bond measures passed in the current and upcoming elections.