San Mateo County has released the report on the third phase of its Midcoast groundwater study.

We will release an analysis of the report in the near future. You can read the conclusions and recommendations after the jump. Or you can download the report from Coastsider and draw your own conclusions.

The Phase II report released last year raised the alarm of risk of saltwater intrusion due to overpumping in some areas of the Midcoast.

KPDO 89.3 FM will host the KPDO Gong Show Contest to find new on-air community radio talent, on June 19th, at Sullivan’s Restaurant and Pub in La Honda.

The KPDO Gong Show is a competition between potential DJs and talk show hosts vying for their own radio program on KPDO 89.3 FM. Contestants will be given five minutes of air-time and a chance to impress a panel of judges made up of KPDO DJs and South Coast community members. The entry fee is $10.00, and participants must bring their own iPod, laptop, or CDs.

KPDO will announce the winners of the Gong Show contest the week of June 21st.

WHAT: KPDO’s Gong Show
WHEN: Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM
WHERE: Sullivan’s Restaurant and Pub, 8865 La Honda Road, La Honda, CA 94020
WHO: KPDO 89.3 FM Station Manager Daniel Roberts

ABOUT KPDO 89.3 FM: KPDO is a non-commercial, community radio station that broadcasts out of Pescadero, CA, and streams online 24-7 (www.kpdo.org/listenlive.php). The station provides the South Coast with variety of music, news, and educational programming, all hosted by local residents.

For more information, contact Daniel Roberts at (650) 646-5736 or visit www.kpdo.org.

Examiner public policy blogger Bruce Balshone has an analysis of this week’s county elections that provides some interesting insight into what’s coming in November. Here are some highlights of a much-longer piece.

On the District 3 Supervisor race, a bunch of conservative voters will be without a first choice candidate in the November election.

Third place candidate and Sequoia Healthcare District Director Jack Hickey may have seen his numbers diminished by the candidacy of fourth-place finisher and San Carlos Councilmember Matt Grocott. While Grocott spent next to nothing on his campaign, he nearly ran the table on local newspaper endorsements – a bounty of free media. Grocott, like Hickey, ran on a conservative platform of reducing government spending and going after public employee union pensions and salaries. With two like minded candidates, the conservative vote may have split among the two.

Meanwhile, in the County Treasurer-Tax collector race, Dave Mandelkern still has shot of beating quasi-incumbent top-vote-getter Sandie Arnott:

Current Deputy Treasurer Sandie Arnott, who has worked for current Treasurer Lee Buffington for the last 20 years of Buffington’s 25 year tenure, was the top vote-getter with 38.4 percent. Arnott’s top placement has surprised some due to the baggage she carried into the election. [...]

Arnott was outspent and did not garner the kind of endorsements of at least two of her opponents. Despite all of the publicity surrounding the Lehman losses, limited campaign cash, and endorsements, Arnott topped the list on June 8. The likely explanation: a ballot designation that mirrored the title of the office in a down-ticket election about which most voters know little about.

Coming in behind Arnott was San Mateo County Community College District Trustee Dave Mandelkern who garnered 27.8 percent of the vote.

Mandelkern kicked in a good deal of his own money to advertise his candidacy and enjoyed the backing of organized labor and the county’s Democratic Party committee – the combination of which may have helped him outpace the third-place candidate Joe Galligan, a CPA and former Burlingame mayor and city councilmember by 1800 votes.

Galligan also has deep family roots on the Peninsula and garnered many of the higher profile endorsements from local elected officials and has received the two of the major local newspaper endorsements including the Daily Post and the Daily Journal, both of which give Galligan high praise. [...]

Despite the second place finish, expect to see political and media endorsements flow to Mandelkern for the runoff as the legacy of Lehman Brothers will continue to dictate the terms of this election.

A nationwide solidarity event, Hands Across The Sands, will be taking place at local beaches Saturday, 6/26. The attached link provides the opportunities to both participate in local beach events 6/26 and to easily allow constituents to voice their opposition to offshore drilling to their appropriate political servants. Please check the website in coming days as other beaches may be added to the list soon.

http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/

See you on the beach!

Denny Marshall
Modesto

This is based on a county press release

Jim Eggemeyer, acting Director of Planning and Building for San Mateo County, has been appointed to the position permanently by San Mateo County Manager David Boesch. Eggemeyer succeeds Lisa Grote, who left San Mateo County employment to take a position with the City of San Mateo.

No candidate in the District 3 Supervisor race received the necessary 50% + 1 votes required to win the election, so there will be a runoff between Don Horsley and April Vargas in November.

The race is now an uphill climb for Vargas. Horsley has a 14.4 percentage point lead on Vargas, and the other candidates in the race are closer politically to Horsley than to Vargas. At the same time, hotly contested races for Governor and Senator mean that the turnout will be larger and more diverse in the general election than in the primary.

The results were similar in the race for Treasurer-Tax Collector, with Deputy Treasurer-Tax Collector Sandie Arnott going into the general election with a strong lead over runner-up Dave Mandelkern.

UPDATE: All 29 precincts have reported.

Measure E, which will assess a $150 per year tax on parcels for the Cabrillo Unified School District, has been passed with 70.7% of the vote with all precincts reporting.

The measure needed a two-thirds majority to pass. This victory will end a five-time losing streak for CUSD parcel taxes. The most recent effort—Measure S in 2006—lost with only 61% of the vote.

The passage of Measure E will assure the jobs of dozens of district employees, including middle and high school counselors, and elementary school teachers hired to enable class size reductions.

Northern California drummer Wally Schnalle is jazz-oriented, but he hasn’t played one style of jazz exclusively. "Schnalle can go from the acoustic straight-ahead realm to the funky electric realm without losing his jazz focus or forgetting that jazz should be—to borrow a term coined by the late jazz critic Whitney Balliett—the sound of surprise." Alex Henderson, AllMusic.com. Celebrating new CD, Out of the Pan, due out in July. Fierce modern jazz chops…Adam Budofsky, Modern Drummer

Wally Schnalle – Drums, Jeff Massanari – Guitar, Dann Zinn – Sax, Jason Muscat - Bass

Reservations: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111916

June 13, 2010 – 4:30, $30
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
650 726-4143
http://www.bachddsoc.org