As of Thursday, Oct. 28, a City of Mountain View ordinance for rent stabilization of mobile homes will be in effect. The ordinance applies to all mobile home parks in Mountain View and covers all mobile homeowners as well as mobile home tenants.

When adopting the ordinance in September, the City Council also directed additional protections for mobile homeowners and tenants including urgency eviction protections before the effective date of the ordinance, tenant relocation protections, and the right to return if a mobile home, after being taken off the market, is brought back to the rental market.

To learn more about the ordinance:

Visit the City of Mountain View website, MountainView.gov/MobileHomes.

Early this summer, the Governor called on all Californians to conserve water. Due to the ongoing drought, the Mountain View City Council is scheduled to consider declaring a Stage 1 water shortage emergency condition at the Council meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Updates will be provided regarding any new water demand reduction measures.

Please reduce landscape water use and turn off outdoor watering systems when it rains and during the winter season. Trees and plants create wonderful benefits to our community, and Mountain View encourages customers to keep mature trees and plants healthy by watering them as needed.

Additionally, the City recommends checking for water leaks, fixing broken or defective water systems, and taking advantage of Valley Water’s rebate programs and conservation resources. Rebates allow eligible customers to transform their lawn to water-wise landscaping, upgrade inefficient irrigation components such as outdated sprinkler timers to smart weather-based controllers, and install rain barrels, greywater systems and more.

As a reminder, the following water restrictions are in place at all times:

Stay up-to-date on the current drought situation at MountainView.gov/Drought.

The local minimum wage is going up in the new year. As of Jan. 1, 2022, the new minimum wage will be $17.10 per hour in Mountain View (up from $16.30 for 2021). That is an 80-cent hourly increase from 2021. The annual minimum wage rate adjustment is based on the Consumer Price Index in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area.

For more information and what this means for local businesses, visit MountainView.gov/MinWage.

On Tuesday night (Oct. 26), Dhruv Vijay (8th grade, Blach Intermediate School) read his winning essay at the City Council meeting as the middle school Mayor for a Day. He said, “If I were mayor for a day, it would be like any other day, but I would get a chance to highlight the resources that Mountain View has that promote this diversity.” In his essay, Vijay noted that he has benefited from being part of the city’s socioeconomic and cultural diversity.

Earlier this month, elementary school Mayor for a Day Aanya Raychaudhuri (3rd grade, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School) shared her winning essay at the Oct. 12 meeting. “If I were mayor for a day, I’d help the environment,” she shared from her essay. She also said she would start building houses near schools and businesses as well as near public transportation.

For more details about the Mayor for a Day contest, view the news release.