San Mateo has hired Dave Culver to be the city’s new finance director. Culver is currently the city of Pleasanton’s finance director and formerly worked for the city of Santa Cruz. He is expected to start his new job July 6. His final day with Pleasanton will be June 26. Culver made his first visit to council chambers at Monday night’s City Council meeting where he was introduced to the public by City Manager Susan Loftus. He takes over for Hossein Golestan, who retired in May. He also steps into the city as it faces a $5 million shortfall next year. Welcome to San Mateo Dave and good luck.
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While San Mateo is set to finalize its budget in the next couple of weeks, Councilman David Lim requested at Monday night’s council meeting that all five councilmembers sit in a special study session June 14 to dig deeper into the budget. But Councilman Jack Matthews is out of town this week and said he would not have enough time to look at any one of the five thick binders filled with city department expenditures by this Monday. He is not returning from his trip until Sunday, he said. Councilman Robert Ross indicated he would be willing to sit down with Lim to look closer at the budget but Mayor John Lee and Councilman Brandt Grotte said such a study session was not necessary. The council is set to approve its budget June 21.
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The Burlingame Lions Club named Dan Andersen its citizen of the year for 2010. He is being honored for his two decades of serving the community and for his extensive volunteer work. The award has been given out since 1930. Congrats Dan!
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A Chinese television station will profile a San Mateo salon owner for a series called "American Women — Profiles in Diversity.” Magic Finger’s Hair Salon owner Blanch Domino-Bailey will be profiled by Guangxi TV. A television crew is set to document her story June 12 at the salon. The station has more than 600 million viewers in China.
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Congratulations to Jenny Carp, Larry Colman, Eric Shapira and Laurel Brinkman! The trio was selected for the Outstanding Seniors Awards which will be awarded 11 a.m. Tuesday June 15, Seniors’ Day.
Carp of South San Francisco is the recipient of the Philanthropic Champion Award for her dedication to keeping cancer patients heads warm with her knitted hats. She’s made over 25,000 hats for those in need nationwide. Colman, of South San Francisco, is the recipient of the Green Lifestyle Innovator Award for his efforts in greening at USO and home. Brinkman, of Foster City, has been awarded the Outstanding Community Super Hero Award for her dedication to children and the community for the past four decades. And lastly, Shapira of Montera is awarded the Silver Sneakers Star Award for his achievements in teaching communities hospice care and palliative medicine nationwide.
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A YouTube video parodying the iPhone 4 features Glee star Jane Lynch who mentions that she "was not lost in a bar in Redwood City.”
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The Port of Redwood City’s Manager of Development & Compliance, Eric Napralla, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves, is headed to the Gulf of Mexico as a pollution inspector. Napralla left Monday, June 7 for Houma, La, 45 miles northeast of New Orleans.
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