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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is the board of supervisors governing Santa Clara County, California. It is made of elected representatives from each of the county's five districts. [ 1 ] As a result of the 2022 elections , members of the Democratic Party hold all seats on the board though it is officially nonpartisan.
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Santa Clara (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ k l ær ə / SAN-tə KLARR-ə; Spanish for "Saint Clare") [8] is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census , making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area .
After Santa Clara County was formed on April 25, 1851, a contest was held to select a design for a new building worthy of being a state capitol in 1860. The winning entry, designed by Levi Goodrich, was constructed from 1866 to 1868 at a cost of US$173,737.96 (equivalent to $3,980,000 in 2023). [2] The courthouse was destroyed by fire in May 1931.
It serves as one of the large meeting and convention facilities in Silicon Valley, with 262,000 square feet (24,300 m 2) of meeting space. It was built in 1986 and expanded in 2009. The convention center is located in the same complex as the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and the Santa Clara TechMart conference center.
The Bay Area consists of nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county .
The Coyote Grange Chapter was founded in 1925 and for many years rented the hall for its meetings. On May 5, 1949 the organization bought the building and surrounding gardens and still uses them today for its activities which include monthly dances, expeditions, potluck dinners, and a group for 13- to 17-year-olds, many of whom are home schoolers .
A member of the Democratic Party, he was the State Senator representing California's 11th State Senate district, which encompasses all or part of 13 cities in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties, from 2004 to 2012. [2] Approaching his term limit at the end of 2012, he ran for and was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of ...