The Fresno Documenters are a group of local residents who are trained and paid to attend and take notes at local public meetings where officials decide how to spend public money and make important decisions about your community. Each week we publish their full notes and create short, easy-to-read briefs analyzing the decisions that were made.
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Fresno County supervisors remain divided on transportation tax future
With elected leaders and transportation experts now placing their hopes for Measure C renewal in the rearview mirror, two competing measures have begun a race to take the 40-year-old policy’s place ahead of its summer 2027 expiration. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors held a presentation for one of those plans at their Tuesday meeting,…
Southwest Fresno fights to defend its landmark plan
For more than three years, the owners of roughly $47 million worth of industrial property in southwest Fresno – including a minority owner of the Sacramento Kings – have been trying to rezone 55 acres of one of California’s most polluted neighborhoods back to industrial. The state’s air regulator, the city’s planning commission, city planning…
City Hall’s plans for passing out Fresno arts money begin to take shape
A Fresno city parks and arts commission on Monday enshrined the open-doored, public status of its subcommittee meetings going forward, in a break from what city officials had previously advised for the subcommittee amid community backlash over transparency. The Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission’s Cultural Arts Subcommittee — which plays a key role in shaping…
Mike Karbassi announces resignation from role as Fresno City Council president
Northwest Fresno Councilmember Mike Karbassi is stepping down from his role as City Council President, city officials confirmed Friday. Karbassi did not respond to Fresnoland’s request for comment. First reported by GV Wire, Karbassi announced his resignation as president through an email to the other six councilmembers. Karbassi added that he endorses Council Vice President…
The finalized list of candidates on Fresno’s June 2026 primary election ballot
If the slow, but steadily increasing amount of political ads hitting your TV screens, mailboxes and smartphones didn’t give it away, the country is rapidly approaching the thick of election season. The final extension deadline for local races on the June 2 primary election passed on Wednesday. That means Fresno voters can finally start to…
Fresno County sheriffs will continue to provide law enforcement services to City of Huron
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office will continue providing law enforcement services to the City of Huron through June, amid the city’s police staffing shortage. About five months ago in October, the sheriff’s office began filling in for Huron’s law enforcement needs, according to county documents. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a new $1.68…
‘They don’t have a lot of options left.’ Fresno projects $23.3 million budget deficit
The City of Fresno expects another tough budget year where they’ll have to plug at least a $23.3 million hole — higher than the shortfall the city projected around this time last year. The estimated deficit for the upcoming fiscal year was shared in an annual mid-year budget presentation during Thursday’s Fresno City Council meeting.…
Fresno weighs another deadline extension for a decade-old downtown housing project still stuck in limbo
The Fresno City Council will consider another financial lifeline for a downtown housing development that has already been stuck in limbo for more than a decade. The project, known as The Park At South Stadium Apartments, is a proposed eight-story apartment building just south of Chukchansi Park on a parking lot at Fulton and Inyo…
Fresnoland event sparks discussion, question about dark money in local elections
Over pints at a downtown brewery on Thursday night, a political science professor, a city council member and the county’s top elections official described for a standing-room-only crowd how money from powerful interests flows into Fresno’s local races to shape political outcomes — often without leaving a trace. The question that kept coming up for…
Fresno City Hall pledges to pay art groups affected by theft scandal but timing remains unclear
New details of an ex-Fresno Arts Council employee’s reported embezzlement of at least $1.5 million in public arts grants — and the future of that grant program — were revealed in a joint statement from the Fresno City Council and Mayor’s Office on Tuesday afternoon. Those details covered timeline clarifications, including that the embezzlement of…
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