Dec 17, 2018
Santa Clara County Public hearing to consider approval of purchase of Saint Louise Regional Hospital On November 6, 2018, the Board approved the acquisition of Saint Louise Regional Hospital, currently owned by Verity Health System of California—a nonprofit public benefit corporation that has declared bankruptcy. Adhering to standard due diligence and public notification procedures for a purchase of this size…
Dec 13, 2018
The San Jose City Council voted to draft a source of income discrimination ordinance that would make it unlawful for landlords to discrimination against tenants solely because they use vouchers to help pay the rent. The ordinance, if passed, would not force landlords to accept tenants using vouchers, such as those issued by US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s…
Dec 10, 2018
City of San Jose Approving amendments & Implementation Framework for 4 Urban Villages City Council may approve amendments, including an Implementation Framework, for the following Urban Village Plans: Roosevelt Park Little Portugal Five Wounds 24th & William. The Implementation Framework would apply to new development projects that are subject to a rezoning application which converts employment lands to allow residential…
Dec 5, 2018
After a 10-hour City Council meeting filled with protests and impassioned testimony, the San Jose Council voted to sell public land in downtown to Google for its mega-campus. Hundreds of San Jose residents raised concerns that the deal, which had been marred by a lack of transparency and community engagement, could displace families, worsen the housing crisis and fail to…
Dec 4, 2018
Today, the City Council will vote on selling some of San Jose’s most valuable public land in the Downtown-Diridon area to Google for their proposed mega campus. The City and Mayor claim the land is being sold at fair market value, yet that is a misrepresentation. Google is, in fact, getting nothing short of a sweetheart deal. The fair market…
Nov 28, 2018
Next week, December 4th, the City of San Jose will vote to sell Google public land for a 30,000 people campus in downtown San Jose. The City has been negotiating behind closed doors with Google regarding the mega campus, causing major concern among residents, non-profits, and neighborhood activists. The secretive nature of the negotiation has been said to violate the…
Nov 13, 2018
Today, a community organization and government transparency advocates sued the City of San Jose over its handling of a deal to sell valuable public land to Google. Working Partnerships USA, a San Jose based community organization, and the First Amendment Coalition, a nonpartisan, non-profit dedicated to free speech and government transparency, filed suit at Santa Clara County Courthouse this morning.…
Oct 3, 2018
City of San Jose Vice Mayor Carrasco, and Councilmembers Jones, Jimenez and Rocha memo for a charter amendment to move Mayor elections to presidential election years Memo from Councilmembers Carrasco, Jones, Jimenez, and Rocha asks the Rules Committee to agendize for the Oct. 16th City Council a resolution to change Mayoral elections to presidential election years, in order to increase…
Sep 24, 2018
County of Santa Clara Approve County offer to partner with State and San Jose in support of San Jose Hope Village homeless encampment Staff recommend that the Board approve the County to offer partnerships with the State of California and the City of San Jose in support of San Jose Hope Village, an organized tent village for up to 30…
Sep 12, 2018
A new Institute for Policy Studies report exposes the huge gaps between CEO and worker pay at companies that rely on taxpayer dollars. This report, the first to analyze CEO-worker pay ratios at top federal contractors and subsidy recipients, shows that corporations raking in the most lucrative federal contracts and subsidies have gaps between CEO and worker pay that are vastly…