NOTE: there are two ways to stream the Council meetings. First, go to the main page of Meetings and Agendas, find the date you want to watch, and click the play button under the Video section. Secondly, you can open the HTML version of the agenda and scroll down to find the link via the
Sometimes the best meetings are not recorded. So, listening to the discussion at the Yountville Town Council Workshop yesterday, more precisely, the item on Council Meeting Protocols has generated a few questions from me and should also be coming from our community as well. This item was scheduled for an hour and ran from 1:20
New Council, a new Mayor, and now a new Town Manager for 2023. Steven Rogers, Yountville’s Town Manager for the past 15 years, announced his plans to retire in early 2023, culminating a 37-year career in local government. The announcement was made following the Town Council’s meeting on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. I had the
The cemetery will join the more than 3,100 participating locations across the country to remember, honor, and teach on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, at 9 am. This is the FIRST year that the cemetery in Yountville will participate in this national program. With last year’s success of wreaths being laid at the Veterans Home Cemetery in
Last week the Yountville Sun’s title for the Town Council meeting that discussed how to distribute over $5.7M in Unassigned Fund Balance included the term “spending spree.” Unfortunate choice of words that the Editor chose to use; a brief period of extravagant spending. These words do a disservice to the time and effort spent by Town Staff and
Less than three weeks until the 2022 elections, and Joe Tagliaboschi has entered the Yountville Town Council race as a write-in candidate. As Joe shared with me, “After watching the forum and listening to the candidates, I made the difficult decision to conduct a write-in campaign for Council.” It is official now, as signatures have
Yountville Town staff held a Zoom candidate orientation for the candidates in this fall’s Mayoral and Town Council Member elections. All the Yountville candidates participated in the orientation. The orientation provided an overview of the Town’s governance structure with a focus on where to find information about the Town using the Town website and providing
Sharon Stensaas, owner and editor of the Yountville Sun, is retiring and looking for new owners. As I have stated from day one of The Yountvillian, I strongly support and know the value and importance of local news. If no viable offers are received, the Sun will cease publication by December 22, 2022. Here are the details of the sale: 1)
Democrats of Napa Valley Endorsement Meeting was a Zoom meeting held on August 15 for all candidates in Napa Valley. As I always say, “All politics is local,” so it would be great to watch the meeting to get a feel for what is happening in our Valley. For this reporting, I will focus on
California is in a severe drought, and the Town has implemented mandatory Phase 2 water restrictions to help conserve water. For the Town, conserving water is not a good thing to do but indeed a necessity to do. The Veterans Home/Rector Reservoir, which supplies water to the Town, has advised it will only provide 400