The assessed value of property in Santa Clara County increased 7.46 percent this year and reached a record-high $619.9 billion, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone reported this morning.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed this week appointed Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu to the post of city administrator and selected Joaquin Torres, director of the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, to fill the assessor vacancy. The moves are part of a shakeup of city government prompted by a corruption scandal. Chu will replace Naomi Kelly, who is resigning effective February 1 in the wake of prosecutors charging her husband, former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly,…