After years of careful planning and community engagement, this vote marked the beginning of Corte Madera's journey toward a new Town Hall! I voted to award a contract for construction of the new Town Hall, based on the plans and specifications we approved unanimously at our January 18th meeting, to Alten Construction. Alten was the lowest responsible bidder on the project, and their bid of $10,820,000 came in nearly a million dollars below our engineer's estimate of what the

Ask any resident who's recently done a remodel or construction project, and you're likely to hear that as wonderful as the Town of Corte Madera may be, Planning and Building is the one department where we've consistently struggled to hit our customer service goals. We're now in the midst of a multi-year process of overhauling the department, introducing both personnel and policy changes to make it easier for residents to get their projects done. Part of this process has invol