Katy Miessner

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Katy Miessner was first elected to the Vallejo City Council in 2013. A local artist, Miessner served on the Vallejo Waterfront Coalition, and was also opposed to a 2003 proposal to build a liquefied natural gas plant on Mare Island. During the same 2013 election, voters approved moving council elections to even-years. Miessner was re-elected to the council with 18,093 votes in 2018. She is termed out of office in 2022. Miessner ran unsuccessfully for Solano County supervisor in 2012.

  Jan 13, 2022

Vallejo City Council approves housing vouchers for people in Project RoomKey, addresses deaths in program

All three people had been dead for days before being found....

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  Jan 06, 2022

Vallejo might purchase land from school district for navigation center

The city is considering purchasing four unused Little League fields on Rollingwood Drive as well as former schools on Grant Street and Farragut Avenue....

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  Dec 29, 2021

Vallejo City Council ends meeting without plan for end of Project RoomKey

The council gave general direction to city staff, to work on providing hotel vouchers to about 50 remaining persons....

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  Dec 21, 2021

Vallejo City Council rejects tent city proposal

Neighbors along the proposed site voiced strong opposition to the tent city, claiming it would attract blight and destabilize the middle-class neighborhood....

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  Dec 14, 2021

Vallejo homeless navigation center project delayed again as proposed site is contaminated

City officials said an environmental report done on the site at 5 Midway St. discovered a restriction on the property due to ground contamination from prior industrial uses....

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  Dec 03, 2021

Commission to consider demanding Vallejo City Council evict homeless encampment near downtown library

Commissioners are recommending that a black iron fence be installed at a staircase that leads down to the plaza....

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  Nov 18, 2021

Hakeem Brown says he won’t seek reelection to council next year

Just two years into his first term on the council, Brown ran for mayor, losing to then fellow councilmember Robert McConnell after allegations of past domestic violence surfaced a month before election day....

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  Nov 11, 2021

With little explanation, Vallejo closer to buying $710k ‘buffer’ house near water treatment plant

“Nobody is alleging that there is a conspiracy or any terrorist threats associated with the water department,” said city attorney Veronica Nebb....

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  Oct 28, 2021

Turnout low during Vallejo’s latest Participatory Budgeting cycle

Only 1,909 votes were tallied this year following a month-long voting period between September and October....

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  Feb 09, 2021

Stratton drops commission application; city staff condemns her post

She stated that both Brown and former Mayor Osby Davis displayed “the Old Uppity Kneegrow (sic) syndrome.”...

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  Feb 01, 2021

Councilmember Brown confronts commission applicant who posted racial slur about him

Brown pressed Julie Stratton, who is white, to explain herself after she wrote in a Facebook post last May that both Brown and former Mayor Osby Davis displayed “the Old Uppity Kneegrow (sic) syndrome…”...

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  Nov 19, 2020

Council approves amended development agreement for permanent supportive housing project

VALLEJO– Attempting to make headway in addressing the number of homeless persons in...

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