Mayor Tom Bates

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates’ recently appointed chief of staff, Judith Iglehart, has joined the panel at the Berkeleyside Local Business Forum: Startup Berkeley, which is taking place at the Freight & Salvage in downtown Berkeley on March 5th ...  

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said his city’s discussion about ending its banking contract with Wells Fargo was not a criticism of the San Francisco bank, which employs 91 people in town. “The discussion was not a criticism of Wells Fargo,” said Bates about the Tuesday night city council meeting where a number of people did criticize Wells Fargo and other big banks as contributors to the current mortgage crisis. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo...  

Judith Iglehart, whose experience embraces both the Bay Area start-up world and the University of California, started her post as new chief of staff to Mayor Tom Bates this week. Iglehart was briefly chief research development officer at the ...  

BERKELEY, Calif. -- About seven tents remain at the Occupy Berkeley encampment in Civic Center Park this evening, according to a spokesman for Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates. The encampment had grown to more than 100 tents in recent weeks but had declined to ...  

(These figures come from the San Jose Mercury’s Public Employees Salaries Database ... I can testify that adding one more bureaucrat to the Mayor’s office staff won’t make a dime’s worth of difference to location decisions of nascent ...