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The City of Pleasanton is accepting pre-applications for one-bedroom below-market-rate units at Kensington Apartments from October 16 through November 6, 2026.
The Oct. 19 private session lists the city manager appointment; the council discussed it behind closed doors in July and September with nothing to report, and Joe Calabrigo has served as interim manager since June.
The council holds a Nov. 17 hearing on four years of sewer increases; only written protests count, and a majority of parcels protesting would block the new rates.
The contract that has the joint fire department protecting the Veterans Affairs medical center in Livermore expires Oct. 31; the City Council is asked Tuesday to extend it through April 30, 2027, while the VA drafts a longer deal.
A consent item Oct. 20 would hire Sanbell-Bay Area to design resurfacing of two Vineyard Avenue stretches, with bids expected in spring 2027 and construction that summer.
The City Council is asked Oct. 20 to approve three applications to Caltrans' Highway Safety Improvement Program, due Nov. 2. Pleasanton would put up $714,870 of the $6.57 million total if all three are funded.
The Oct. 6 vote awarded Telstar Instruments the work and set aside up to $412,152 for contract changes.
Council members heard Oct. 6 that about 1% of the city's assets are in poor or failed condition; staff will rank repairs for a 2027-2032 capital plan due for a vote next May.
Mayor Jack Balch raised $11,300 to Councilmember Julie Testa's roughly $3,000 over the summer; a council candidate gave his own campaign $25,000, and no one has reported money against the Measure HH hotel tax.
Pleasanton's October newsletter points residents to leaf pickup, free sandbags and stormwater help, plus the tree giveaway, election information and preparedness events.
Pleasanton’s October community newsletter includes rainy-season resources, election information, emergency preparedness events and updates on local activities and businesses.
A resident's petition seeks guardrails on what the Daxbots surveying sidewalks for the city's ADA plan can collect; Daxbot says its robots gather only slope, uplift and path-width data.
At a Sept. 29 forum, Reena Gupta pitched Pleasanton as a destination for global firms and events, while Jamie Yee said the deficit 'doesn't add up' and called for a long-term business plan.
Livermore's exit from the East County Animal Shelter partnership raises Dublin's share to $471,347, and a proposed one-year deal with Alameda County and Pleasanton would keep the sheriff's office running the shelter.
Former council member Kathy Narum points to her years in office while entrepreneur Vin Kruttiventi pitches himself as the fresh-ideas candidate for the northwest Pleasanton seat Jeff Nibert is leaving.
After a year when staff chose grant recipients, the commission meets Oct. 7 to set priorities for 2027-29 funding; a new report says last year's grants served more than 4,500 people.
After a 4-0 council vote returned the proposal, Pleasanton's parks commission meets Oct. 8 to weigh forming a subcommittee to gather data and survey players on reserving three of Muirwood's six courts.
Supervisor David Haubert says the deal would require building permits and public board meetings; the fair's CEO says talks are still under way.
Pleasanton has catalogued more than 200,000 city assets worth about $4.8 billion to replace; staff will brief the council Oct. 6 on how that data will rank projects for the 2027-2032 capital plan.
Mayor Jack Balch and Councilmember Julie Testa, the two candidates for mayor on Nov. 3, laid out differences on the budget, housing and downtown at a Pleasanton Weekly forum.
The state's highest court ruled unanimously that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated election laws by seizing over 650,000 ballots and ignoring directives from the attorney general.
