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SJ Council Embarks on Budget Transparency


Score one for democracy and transparency in government, thanks to freshman SJ council member Raul Peralez.  The City Council voted unanimously on April 14 to adopt recommendations in his memo asking that City staff be required to show all the money available for the City’s General Fund when Council and community are reviewing the proposed budget. The memo also calls for the…

A View From the Neighborhood: Do You Know the Way…In San Jose?


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…