The City's Fiscal Challenge
The City of Campbell has struggled with budget issues for several years and has already made significant cuts – about $4 million in adjustments over the past five years, including approximately 10% fewer employees. Unfortunately, the State’s recurring takeaways, the slowing economy, and other financial pressures have had a renewed impact on our local budget. Due to projected ongoing budget shortfalls of about $2 million, the City initiated an outreach effort this Spring to hear from residents. A dozen presentations were made; more than 330 people filled out feedback surveys.

The City Council discussed options this summer on how to move forward and voted unanimously to place a revenue measure on the ballot. Campbell voters approved Measure O by a 70% margin on November 4. The new tax rate, which will enable the City to maintain vital services, will take effect April 1, 2009.

- For more information and background on this issue, visit our Budget Information page.

Green Building Requirements
In December 2007, the City Council adopted the Tier 1 Green Building Recommendations of the Santa Clara County Cities Association. These recommendations included: adopt Build It Green and LEED as the green building standards of measure, require submittal of a green building checklist for all residential and commercial additions over 500 square feet and require all new municipal facilities over 5,000 to be LEED Silver. Beginning July 1, 2008, submittal of the green building checklists will be required.

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RSS on the City of Campbell's Website
City of Campbell RSS (Real Simple Syndication) News Feeds are a new way for us to distribute information and automatically notify interested individuals via our Website. Using RSS News Feeds, we can inform subscribers that new information has been posted on our Website and provide them a summary of the article. RSS feeds contain headlines and hyperlinks to longer articles or Web pages. You can currently subscribe to What’s New, Budget Information and Job Opportunities. We will be adding more topics, such as Agendas and Minutes, over time.

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Community Notification System
The City of Campbell successfully tested the CodeRed Emergency Notification System last week. CodeRED® is a telephone notification system that can dial tens of thousands of telephone numbers in an hour and deliver a recorded message. The City of Campbell is encouraging residents to update their information and also provide an alternative telephone number via our CodeRed Residential Update page.

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Public Notice Section on Website
The City’s website now includes a new section for Public Notices! Clicking the blue “Public Notices” button on the right hand side of the page will display current and future notices to the community. These are notices for public hearings that are typically mailed to neighbors of a project or notices of community meetings.

Downtown S. First Street Parking Garage - Partial Closure - Update!
Site clean up and preparation has been completed. Structural repair to the top floor of the garage will follow. During this portion of the repair, the garage first floor will remain open for public use. However, intermittent closure of isolated areas on the first floor may occur. Please take caution when entering into, traversing through, and exiting from the garage. Additionally, please observe traffic control along S. First Street. The repair is expected to complete in Fall of '08.