From the Sacramento Bee, Feb. 19, 2009:
Amador County reported 13 sales in January and saw median prices dip to $190,000. That is down 24.5 percent from the same month in 2008. Prices peaked at $425,000 in the county in 2006.
Entries from February 2009
February 20, 2009
Median home price off more than 50% since 2006 peak
February 15, 2009
School Superintendent Glock determined to lead district down illegal path
At their Jan. 28 meeting, trustees discussed creation of new positions that could bring some workers back at reduced pay rates. Wednesday night, Superintendent Dick Glock addressed that possibility. “Just because someone gets a layoff doesn’t mean that position is gone,” he said. [Ledger-Dispatch, 02/13/09]
According to the California Education Code, there are only two legal [...]
February 13, 2009
Maintaining schools not a priority for trustees
by Randy Bayne
Amador trustees are clearly not interested in the maintenance of the schools and other facilities under their care. They are also not interested in questioning their chief employee, Superintendent Dick Glock. Supporting the superintendent’s wishes, trustees voted 6-1 to layoff all eleven maintenance employees, leaving no one to maintain Amador’s schools. The lone [...]
February 13, 2009
Governor’s proposal makes deep cuts in schools
“As part of his proposal to close the 2008-09 and 2009-10 budget gaps, Governor Schwarzenegger would cut funding for California’s public schools, which serve 5.9 million students, by a total of $5.2 billion – a reduction of $875 per student’” says a new analysis by the California Budget Project. The analysis examines local impacts of [...]
