By Measure A proposes higher hotel tax

Los Altos voters will have the opportunity to decide this November if the city should collect higher hotel taxes.

Measure A, if passed, would allow the Los Altos City Council to increase the city’s transient occupancy tax from 8 percent to an amount not to exceed 11 percent.

The proposed increase comes at a time when the council recently approved three new hotels.

Santa Clara County

Board decides new district boundaries

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors was scheduled to deliver its final decision on the proposed supervisorial district boundaries Tuesday night, after the Town Crier’s press deadline.

The board must adopt final boundaries for the five Santa Clara County Supervisorial Districts by Sept. 28 in preparation for the March 2002 primary elections.

The board was to consider boundary changes based on current population trends. The new boundaries are intended to minimize fragmentation of ethnic populations and other communities of interest.

For more information about the redistricting, go to www.secredistricting.org

Mountain View

Moffett cleanup plan topic of meeting

Los Altos

The U.S. Department of the Navy is scheduled to hold a meeting from 6:30 - 9 p.m., Thursday at the Mountain View City Council Chambers, 600 Castro St., to discuss the proposed cleanup plan for Moffett Federal Air Field.

The plan includes the removal and off-site disposal of the top foot of sediment located at Site 25.

The Navy will take public comment through Aug. 22.

For more information, call (619) 532-0911.

- Town Crier Staff Report