City Council to Discuss Pension Reform, Redevelopment Money
The two biggest issues facing San Jose so far this year—pension reform, the future of redevelopment—will be discussed at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, and the public forum concluding the session is...
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Mayor and Council Fight for Their Own Salaries
Jerry Brown’s plan to dismantle the state’s redevelopment agencies would make things a lot worse for San Jose’s staggering deficit—and eliminate the funding source for the salaries of Mayor Chuck Reed...
View ArticleMore on the Battle for San Jose’s Redevelopment Dollars
As San Jose city officials scramble to convince Governor Brown to not shut down its redevelopment agency, more and more information is coming to the public’s attention that speak to the value and...
View Article$1 Million in RDA Money
In my opinion, the Council made two great investments two weeks ago for our tax base and jobs. The Council provided $500,000 of Redevelopment Agency (RDA) funds each to Sunpower and Maxim, totaling a...
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San Jose Considers New Tax to Pay for Affordable Housing
Business groups worry that San Jose could scare away developers if it imposes a fee on new home construction to pay for more affordable housing, an effort to recoup a fraction of the money lost when...
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City Looks to Spend $2 Million to House the Homeless
San Jose may spend $2 million to find jobs and homes for 100 people now living in the city’s sizeable homeless encampments. The City Council on Tuesday will consider a one-year, $650,000 contract with...
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Remembering Janet Gray Hayes, San Jose’s First Female Mayor
Janet Gray Hayes, San Jose’s first female mayor and the first woman to lead a major U.S. city, died Monday in the Saratoga home she shared with her daughter. The former mayor was healing from pneumonia...
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Redevelopment 2.0: State Sens. Jim Beall, Mike McGuire Push New Affordable...
Silicon Valley’s state Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) has teamed up with North Bay counterpart Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) in the first big affordable-housing legislative foray of the 2018–19...
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Cambrian Park Plaza Proposal ‘Not Just Another Iteration’
Cambrian Park Plaza’s massive redevelopment plans have been one of the most contentious issues on San Jose’s West Side for the past four years, but a new proposal this week may finally put the issue to...
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