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Budget Priorities - Community Budget Meetings
Carolyn Robinson < >
Sat 5/7/2022 1:37 PM
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Dear Mayor and City Councilmembers,
My name is Carolyn Robinson and I am a a resident of San Jose District 8. I am writing to urge you to equitably prioritize the needs of San José children, families, and neighborhoods in the upcoming 2022-2023 Budget Cycle.
It is essential that the City continues to prioritize allocating resources towards:
-Investing in children and youth city services and programs to uplift San José families -Reestablishing a sense of community safety for residents, neighborhoods, and small businesses -Focusing City services and COVID-19 pandemic recovery to support the communities most impacted and highest need with an equity lens and framework
-Dealing with homelessness. Many of these individuals are struggling with mental health and addiction issues and it is impacting our neighbors negatively. On Aborn and While a homeless individual had taken over a section where individuals catch the bus. Trash is all around where she is camped out. We the resident need you to do some. Get them off our streets and help them get the help they need and help us feel safer in our neighborhoods.
-Instead of spending 3 million on planned parenthood to provide abortions and providing a sanctuary city for abortions, use that money to provide support for the homeless population. This is a problem that needs attention now.
-Remove the vaccine mandate so individuals can get back to work. Everyone should be free to choose what goes into their body. Many individuals have been impacted negatively by those vaccines and no one is there to help them during those challenging times. Vaccine mandates are wrong. We want to give women the right to decide if they want to abort a life but restrict the right of others who decide not to be vaccinated. That's wrong.
Without an allocation that has residents’ needs in mind, thousands of families will be left behind – which is why I am urging you to support our children, families, and neighborhood with an equity lens and framework to ensure that the City of San José is place where all families can thrive.
Sincerely,
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Charlotte Quinn <
Sat 5/14/2022 3:12 PM
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Quinn
San Jose, California 95126
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Sat 5/14/2022 3:26 PM
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
,
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THOMAS FERRITO <
Sat 5/14/2022 4:27 PM
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
THOMAS FERRITO
Los Gatos, California 95030
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Alicia Prieto <
Sat 5/14/2022 6:16 PM
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Alicia Prieto
San Jose, California 95117
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Perla Arellano <
Sun 5/15/2022 8:35 AM
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Perla M. Arellano
District 5 Resident
Perla Arellano
San Jose, California 95116
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Fwd: Library Funding!
Esparza, Maya <
Mon 5/16/2022 9:00 AM
To: City Clerk
FYI- we all received this email re the budget
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Subject: Library Funding!
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Dear Mayor and City Councilmembers,
I LOVE libraries and I hope you do too!
Libraries have played a significant role in mine and my family’s life as well as the lives of the students and families I have worked with in my career as a social worker and teacher.
Libraries play a crucial role in building vibrant, equitable, innova ve, and informed communi es. Libraries are one of the few ins tu ons that bring people of all ages, genders, races, ethnici es, and socio-economic backgrounds together under the same roof to engage in lifelong learning and development.
The City of San José libraries are uniquely posi oned to play a key role in providing resources that will support the community well as we con nue to recover from the pandemic.
It would be wonderful if a well-funded stellar library system became one of the things San José is known for! Please restore the City of San José libraries to their full pre-pandemic opera ng budget and beyond!
Thank you for your work and service to this great city!
Sharon LaChappelle
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Donna Thurmon <
Mon 5/16/2022 2:03 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Donna M. Thurmon
Donna Thurmon
San Jose, California 95112
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Florin Lapustea <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:26 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
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Brian Lee <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:27 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Brian
Brian Lee
California 94536
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Linden Skjeie <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
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carlos murillo <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Carlos
carlos murillo
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Huy Vuong <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Huy Vuong
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Richard Bandy <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Richard Bandy
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Amy Morton <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Amy Morton
Sr. Analyst, HR
Amy Morton
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Tara Kurmel <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:45 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Tara Kurmel
Tara Kurmel
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Dirk Chubbic <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:46 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
The City needs to do better for its employees, in particular by paying them enough to live a comfortable life. You need to support pay that, at a minimum, keeps up with Bay Area inflation.
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Dirk Chubbic
Dirk Chubbic
San Jose, California 95125
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Kia Goudarzi <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:46 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Kia Goudarzi
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Elisha St Laurent <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:48 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Elisha St Laurent
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Austin Carrell <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:50 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Austin Carrell
Austin Carrell
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
Ed Walker <
Mon 5/16/2022 12:55 PM
To: City Clerk <
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Ed Walker
Concerned City of San José Employee
Ed Walker
Sunnyvale, California 94085
[External Email]
Support a Workers' Recovery Budget
johnphiliptucke < >
Tue 5/17/2022 9:29 AM
To: City Clerk <[email protected]>
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Dear Mayor and City Council,
As you shape the City’s $5.3 billion budget for the next year, you have an unprecedented opportunity to build a budget that reflects San José’s core values: supporting working families, uplifting their rights, and centering the voices of the hardest-hit, excluded workers and neighborhoods.
I support the Essential Workers Council’s call for a Workers Recovery Budget, and urge you to pass a City budget that invests in wage theft prevention and workers rights outreach for workers in the private sector, to protect our most vulnerable residents from wage theft; and starts working toward real solutions supporting the public sector workforce, to address the decade-long recruitment and retention crisis at City Hall, so that all our neighborhoods can get the services they need to thrive.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to staff up wage theft enforcement in the Office of Equality Assurance, and add two strategies:
-To empower workers to collect on unpaid wage theft, move forward the stalled Responsible Construction Ordinance from the City Roadmap; and
-Partner with the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and its grassroots network for workers rights outreach - so we can prevent wage theft before it happens.
We also urgently need a comprehensive, equity-centered recruitment and retention strategy for the City’s 700+ persistent vacancies. Over a decade of disinvestment in our City workforce and attacks on City workers has left essential neighborhood services severely understaffed. That means that many of our San Jose neighborhoods - especially working- class neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants - do not get the core services they need.
Please vote to:
-Fully support the City Manager’s funding to restore recruitment & retention staff in Human Resources, and
-Commit to a more comprehensive strategy: working with City unions and communities to expand the number and diversity of applicants, improve hiring from under-represented
This message is from outside the City email system Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources communities, and improve working conditions so the City can retain employees and support career advancement of its diverse workforce.
With an historic budget surplus, but also with working people facing dire needs, now is your moment to invest not just in the status quo, but in building back better - a recovery that strengthens our communities, starts to correct long-standing inequalities, and includes all of us.
Sincerely,
,