government

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  Nov 03, 2023

Sculpture stolen from Vallejo City Hall amid increasing metal theft

The stolen sculpture was of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s wife Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo....

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  Oct 25, 2023

Vallejo dispatchers to move to new portable buildings outside police HQ

The City Council proceeded with a plan to install portable buildings instead of moving the dispatchers to the waterfront police building....

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  Oct 21, 2023

Vallejo honors E-40 with street renaming, key to city

The city added signs underneath existing signage for nearly a mile of Magazine Street, designating it E-40 Way....

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  Oct 20, 2023

Mike Malone to step down as Vallejo city manager

Malone wrote in a letter to city employees that his last day will be April 19....

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  Oct 18, 2023

Vallejo’s staffing trouble continues as new HR director seeks solutions

The number of  overall vacant positions changed little from the 28 percent citywide vacancy rate reported in June....

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  Oct 17, 2023

An Oakland cemetery’s ‘notorious’ Vallejo real estate

Evergreen Cemetery Association – operated by Vallejo businessman Buck Kamphausen – lost its nonprofit status and has been fined by the city and state....

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  Oct 11, 2023

Vallejo City Council bombarded with racist, antisemitic public comments

The apparently organized campaign included several speakers who used racial slurs and one who espoused Holocaust denial....

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  Oct 11, 2023

Sheriff, CHP withhold staffing support pending Vallejo police union contract

VPOA’s current contract expired in March 2022, and staffing has plummeted by more than 20 officers since then....

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  Oct 04, 2023

Under VPOA control, Vallejo police had no hiring guidelines

Newly released records show how the Vallejo Police Officers Association worked to maintain their grip on hiring, contributing to the department’s staffing crisis....

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  Sep 28, 2023

Council addresses outcry over proposed $18M sale of Vallejo golf course

The property was listed only eight months after the city sold it to a developer for $400,000 with an incomplete profit sharing agreement....

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  Sep 21, 2023

Vallejo ‘disqualified’ for multi-million dollar state law enforcement grant

The grant provided funding to establish or expand programs focusing on organized retail theft....

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  Sep 13, 2023

Community members demand action on Vallejo police violence as council copes with officer shortage

The family of Sean Monterrosa called for supporters to “pack the room.”...

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