Monthly Archives : November 2017

City of San Jose Approving five-year airport concession agreement with PRI-San Jose LLC On April 19, 2017, the City released an RFP for a prime operator to develop, design, fund, construct, operate, and manage a Retail Merchandising Unit (“RMU”) Concession Program at the Airport. Nine companies expressed interest, but only one, PRI, submitted a proposal. On August 25, 2017, the…

Yesterday, after more than 6 hours of public comment, the San Jose City Council voted to prioritize landlord profits over the needs of San Jose’s most vulnerable tenants.  Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilmembers Johnny Khamis, Lan Diep, Dev Davis, Chappie Jones and Tam Nguyen voted to keep annual rent increases at a rate of 5%, opposing a proposal to instead…

SJUSD Trustee Paymon Zarghami has recently become embroiled in a controversy regarding his treatment of a district parent who questioned his apparent lack of transparency and possible conflict of interest on the Perseverance Charter School petition vote. The Trustee’s conduct resulted in a complaint filed by the district parent. The parent alleged that on both May 4 during the Board meeting…

County of Santa Clara Developing Business License program for unincorporated areas of SCC; may be used to help enforce against wage theft Board will consider directing staff to develop a proposed business license program for the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. The county is working to adopt a business license program because it would offer numerous benefits to the…