Dec 4, 2015
Today marks end of former-Mayor Chuck Reed’s pension reform fiasco. The City of San Jose has now agreed to a settlement of the dispute surrounding Reed’s Measure B with City workers. The agreement covers all but one of the nine non-public safety unions, which represent 3,000 City employees. The terms of the settlement are similar to deal made with the…
May 13, 2014
The Mayor and his friends have played a cruel joke on San Jose citizens. By co-opting the concepts of “open government”, “transparency”, “sunshine” and similar expressions, they have created the San Jose Way that in reality has the opposite effect. We are at the high point of the city budget season. There are budget meetings throughout this month in every…
Jan 31, 2014
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is drawing the ire of the San Jose Mayor. The title and summary of Reed’s proposed statewide pension initiative explains to voters how the measure would “eliminate constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree health benefits for current public employees.” Mayor Chuck Reed plans to sue the Attorney General over the wording. Tweet