Letters from the Public - 3 of 6 — San Jose City Council, March 21, 2023

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I support our mayor's directive as quote below:
“Many of the recommendations outlined above will help facilitate faster construction of much needed affordable housing.

Beyond making it easier to build affordable housing, we need to preserve our greatest existing stock of naturally-affordable housing: Mobile Home Parks. Residents of mobile homes are more likely to be lower income and older communities that have few other housing options. To protect these neighbors, the City Manager is directed to change the General Plan’s land use designation for the remaining mobile home parks not yet redesignated from multifamily residential to “mobile home” park, and begin allocating the funding needed.”
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support parks and housing.

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Rachel Wuerstlin
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From: Catherine Roy < onnetwork.org>
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San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber,
Please support the San José Budget for All asks — as put forth by many community organizations, including Silicon Valley Rising, the South Bay Labor Council, the Latina Coalition, the Asian Law Alliance, and Planned Parenthood (Mar Monte).

As a San José resident in District 4, I am writing to ask for your support in shaping a City Budget that prioritizes the needs of working families and upholds our values as a community. In order to properly address economic, racial, and social inequality, we need a budget that ensures we are building a City for every resident, family, and neighborhood.

I, like many others, was disappointed by Mayor Matt Mahan’s budget message released on March 13th which pays lip service to multiple priorities, while still excluding a large number of residents — in particular Black, Latino, and AAPI communities as well as other immigrant and low-income residents whose neighborhoods are historically underfunded.

Moreover, the focus on “cleaning up” and other short term solutions such as using a large chunk of resources on interim housing that merely hides and postpones our housing crisis, raises questions regarding whose priorities are reflected in this message — the people of San José or the real estate interests aligned with the Mayor? We cannot afford a San José budget that does not address the most urgent needs of our most vulnerable communities. I am joining together with my community to ask you to prioritize a City Budget that includes workers, parents and children, includes all neighborhoods, and our most vulnerable residents. A budget that goes beyond the surface, and addresses the root causes of inequality in our City.

Catherine Roy
San Jose, California 95131

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FW: Agenda Item 3.5
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From: Uma & Suresh Rangarajan <
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Please do not reduce the funding for libraries and if feasible, increase it. Coming from a country where libraries were few and far apart when I was growing up, I was ﬂabbergasted by the plethora of libraries in the U.S. and felt like a kid in a candy shop. I am convinced libraries are the backbone of a civilized society.

Best,
Suresh Rangarajan

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As someone who works in San José, I am writing to ask for your support in shaping a City Budget that prioritizes the needs of working families and upholds our values as a community. In order to properly address economic, racial, and social inequality, we need a budget that ensures we are building a City for every resident, family, and neighborhood.

Alison Frost
San Jose, California 95131

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FW: Agenda item 3.5
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From: Pat Flanigan <pat.ﬂ
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Please let the City Council know that I believe the San Jose Public Library services are vital to the health and well-being of our community. The libraries serve our most vulnerable residents and build a more equitable, educated, and engaged community. In the upcoming budget decisions I think there should be NO cuts to the library budget, and if at all possible, the budget should be increased to allow for pre-pandemic staﬃng levels and hours of service.

Thank you for considering this request.

Pat Flanigan
Almaden Avenue, San Jose

Ps. During the pandemic closures the City service I missed the MOST was the library.

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FW: public library service
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please fully fund this service in the upcoming budget decisions!

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FW: City Council Agenda Item 3.5
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From: Sandra Asher <
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 5:29 PM
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Subject: City Council Agenda Item 3.5

Dear City Council and Mayor Mahan,

My name is Sandra Asher. I’m a long time D10 resident, a member of the SJ RIPS committee and SCC ATI (Alternatives to Incarceration) Workgroup, and a member of SURJ at Sacred Heart.

I’m glad to see the Mayor supporting the RIPS and REAL Coalition recommendations on crime prevention and violence reduction solutions working with NextDoor Solutions and with a budget of $400,000 to ensure a robust community-centric approach. I also agree that we should be doubling down on the City’s investment in prevention and intervention of violence by adding $5 million to the San José Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together City-Wide Appropriation.

However, I cannot support continuing to criminalize those with mental illness by expanding the PERT crisis teams instead of working with the County to expand TRUST in San Jose as recommended by the RIPS committee. The TRUST program data so far shows that the program is successful at resolving over 99% of the calls without the need for law enforcement. Providing an extra TRUST team for San Jose is more in-line with the County’s efforts to provide community-based solutions and support.

As mentioned in the County’s ATI workgroup report, “The decriminalization of homelessness, poverty and disability is literally one of the county’s top priorities identified in its Alternatives to Incarceration process.” So, while we desperately need more mental health beds and substance use treatment, the Mayor’s proposal to spend affordable housing money to help the county build a new mental health jail heads in the exact opposite direction of the preventative and innovative approaches the County wants to invest in. Where is the common sense in that? If the city wants to cooperate with the county, it should work with the county on implementing innovative and preventative up tream olution , including alternative cri i re pon e uch a TRUST, affordable hou ing, and community based noncarceral treatment options for people struggling with mental illness, disability or addiction.

Thank you,
Sandra

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Sandra Asher
Director, Governing Board
Community Solutions

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FW: Prioritize Library, Agenda item 305
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From: Alan Nobler <
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Subject: Priorize Library, Agenda item 305

Signiﬁcant cuts to Library services in the previous years should now be fully restored to pre- pandemic levels and library hours expanded to include Sunday hours at all library branches.

Alan Nobler
District 10

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FW: Agenda Item 3.5
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From: Ryan Pham <
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Dear San Jose City Clerk,

Please priorize library hours in the budget.

Library hours allow for increased literacy, especially for poorer families who lack the resources to pay for academic materials. Generally speaking, these poorer families tend to be the most vulnerable families and contain a lot of immigrants and their kids who will go on to be ﬁrst-generaon college students. Giving these kids access to literacy resources early on in life will allow for them to contribute more meaningfully to the economy of America and San Jose later on in life. It truly makes a diﬀerence.

Thank you for reading.

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Ryan Pham

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FW: Item 3.5
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From: Carmel Forte <
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Good evening,

The public library is important to the community of San Jose. Please prioritize the Library in the Mayor's budget.

There is nothing more basic than the public's right to free access to knowledge, resources, and educational supports to level the playing field. It is important to basic democracy which ensures that all residents have access to literacy, citizenship, and workforce development support.

Please restore all open hours to Pre-Pandemic levels, maintain Sunday open hours and pay for critical staff positions

I know there are many problems to address, but let us not lose sight of what works well already.

Thank you!

Carmel Forte

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Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
I believe there is no city service that has a greater impact on quality of life for all residents than our San Jose Public Library. With branches in all neighborhoods supported by our Marn Luther King Library, there are educaonal and recreaonal materials as well as programs and services for all age groups (from babies to seniors and everything in between), and in the many diverse languages prevalent in our city. Libraries are especially important for our low income and minority communies who don't have the same access to and/or the ability to take advantage of educaonal opportunies and trainings, extra curricular acvies, tutoring,cultural programs, etc. that oen require signiﬁcant ﬁnancial resources. I also believe that public safety is enhanced not only by more police, but by programs that mentor our youth and give them alternaves and support.

Please do everything you can to ensure that the library is fully funded!

Thank you,
Lisa Feldberg
District 3 resident

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From: Celia Alvarez < onnetwork.org>
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As a San José resident, I am writing to ask for your support in shaping a City Budget that prioritizes the needs of working families and upholds our values as a community. In order to properly address economic, racial, and social inequality, we need a budget that ensures we are building a City for every resident, family, and neighborhood.

Celia Alvarez
San Jose, California 95136

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I am writing to encourage the City to prioritize full library hours and services in the budget. Libraries provide so much for our community, including safe places to study and learn for children, literacy programs, and access to reliable information.

Not to mention books and media! Community rooms allow groups to convene for meetings and classes.

The budget should support libraries as a basic City service. We are finally getting back to regular hours after the pandemic.

It is not the time to cut hours and services to our citizens.

Sincerely,
Janet Darrow 95136
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Subject: Public Comment for San Jose City Council Agenda Item #3.5 March 21, 2023

Hello,
My name is Sarah Hollingsworth, and I am a member of Showing Up for Racial Jusce Sacred Heart. I am also a local teacher and acve voter in District 4 I know people personally who have experienced homelessness and who also live in RV's or encampments It is appalling to consider the implicaons of criminalizing homelessness by criminalizing encampments. That is not a soluon, that is cruelty on top of systemic oppression. It's naive to think that this will "deter" encampments. Most people have limited choices of locaons that are safe or accessible to live when they are living on the streets. You can't make a "beer" choice if you aren't given one to begin with.

Do not move forward language in the Mayor’s Message that seeks to criminalize homelessness by creang no encampment zones or that seeks to give Measure E or other City funds to develop an addional locked psychiatric facility in San Jose. Instead, I ask that you work with the County to understand its inpaent and outpaent capacies, and focus on soluons that are less restricve alternaves.

I ask that you DO fund and move forward with a planning process to implement a community-based interpersonal violence prevenon and response pilot, and work with community members to design a plan, with a budget of $400,000 to ensure a robust community- centric approach. I also ask that you double down on the City’s investment in prevenon and intervenon of violence by adding $5 million to the San José Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together City-Wide Appropriaon.

Thank you for your me,
Sarah Hollingsworth
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FW: Fully Fund the Library
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From: Gwendolyn S. <
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To Whom It May Concern:

The San Jose Public Library services so many in our community and is essenal. It has been three years since the start of the pandemic, and yet the funding of the library is not back to pre-pandemic levels. Funding the library gives access to knowledge and crical services that help close the digital divide and provide ongoing support and educaon for our community. The idea of not fully funding our public libraries in the 10th largest city in the United States would not only be embarrassing but is simply despicable. The public library is a vital resource for those living in poverty, for children, and for those seeking skills to improve their lives. San Jose doesn’t provide many public amenies; especially those with free programming for children. To not fully fund the library back to pre-pandemic levels, is to take opportunity and enrichment away from our most vulnerable populaons. This lack of funding hurts all of us in San Jose, but especially hurts children. Fully funding the library- it’s common sense for the public good.

Gwendolyn Schimpke

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Subject: Supporng the Mayor's Budget Message - City Council Item 3.5 (3/21/23)

Honorable Mayor and City Council,

I am writing in support of Mayor Mahan's budget message. I agree that we should focus on doing the basics well this year. That will pay dividends that enable us to do more in future years.

When faced with emergencies such as the 2017 flood, COVID-19, and recent atmospheric river events, our city has demonstrated that we can truly move the needle on pressing issues when we focus on them. This year, we need to treat public safety, homelessness and blight as the emergencies they truly are. This will mean making tough choices, but doing so will turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral that lifts all boats.

Regarding sheltering the unhoused, one of our toughest challenges is gaining neighborhood support for EIH and safe parking sites.

Meanwhile, environmental destruction of our waterways is bad and getting worse. As we build new shelter capacity, it's time to extend current "no encampment zones" to include environmentally sensitive areas and neighborhoods that host housing solutions. This does not mean "criminalizing homelessness", it simply means managing it better while providing real shelter solutions.

I'm sure everyone reading this has had the experience of hosting an out-of-town guest and feeling embarrassed for what they saw. My vision is that, a year from now, I can host an out of town guest and be proud of San Jose's "curb appeal". We'll be a city with increased community pride and economic investment, with sustaining momentum to get even better. To that end, I ask that you approve the mayor's budget message.

Thanks for your consideration!

David Noel
District 9 Resident and President of Erikson Neighborhood Association

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Subject: Agenda Item 3.5

Dear Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and Council Members:

I am a resident of District 3 in Downtown San José at Donner Los, and a registered voter and small business owner. I am also a member of SURJ, SHHAC, Catalyze SV, and a tenant union that hasn't voted on a name yet.

Prevenon is common sense. Why allow people to lose their housing and suﬀer the trauma of evicon, then make them wait for years in traumac and dangerous unhoused situaons before they reach the top of a waing list, instead of just helping them stay housed? Even those who lack compassion for people who face evicon should agree that prevenon is less expensive than what it costs to "manage" the unhoused populaon.
· Cies with Tenant Right to Counsel found that they saved $3 for every $1 spent on tenant defense or mediaon so they could stay in their homes.
· Mental illness is more easily treatable on an outpaent basis if diagnosed and treated in the early stages rather than aer someone has decompensated to the point of being unable to stay housed. · Diversion programs that provide alternaves to a criminal lifestyle save the cost to society of crime and the carceral system, and prevent people from falling into homelessness because they can't get jobs or housing with a criminal record. · Intervenon programs for low-level domesc or gender-based violence prevent these behaviors from escalang to a destrucve level. This prevents vicms from becoming homeless and perpetrators from entering the carceral system and exing with barriers to jobs and housing.

We need to further public safety reform by advancing key achievable priories idenﬁed in the RiPS report and invesng in violence prevenon and intervenon, instead of incarceraon.
· As described in the Mayor's Budget Message, fund and move forward with a planning process to implement a community- based interpersonal violence prevenon and response pilot, and work with community members to design a plan, with a budget of $400,000 to ensure a robust community-centric approach. · Double down on the City's investment in prevenon and intervenon of violence by adding $5 million to the San José Bringing Everyone's Strengths Together City-Wide Appropriaon.

We also need to fund homelessness prevenon, such as Tenant Right to Counsel and COPA.

Other ideas from the Mayor's Budget Message should not be advanced. · Do not criminalize homelessness by creang no-encampment zones. · Do not transfer Measure E aﬀordable housing funds (or other City funds) to develop an addional locked psychiatric facility in San José. The County voted on January 25, 2022 to develop a NON-CARCERAL mental health facility. Instead, work with the County to understand their inpaent and outpaent capacies and focus on the least restricve alternaves.

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I am not a lawyer, but if Measure E funds were approved on the basis that they would be spent on aﬀordable housing or directly prevenng homelessness, spending any part of those funds on a mental health jail would be fraud. And it's a bad idea in the ﬁrst place, so the City should not allocate other funding instead. System-impacted people all say that this approach would not have helped them.

Criminalizing homelessness when homes are not available is inhumane. It's also impraccal; if you want unhoused people to get housing, you shouldn't be creang more barriers such as a criminal record and trauma from jail. Some people argue that this provides a framework for mental health treatment; however, it would be cheaper, more humane, and more eﬀecve to provide adequate outpaent and non-carceral inpaent mental health resources.

Individuals who are not on a legal mental health hold (5150/arrest) lack a safe alternave to arrest or involuntary hold where they could receive treatment before progressing to the point of being a danger to themselves or others. With insuﬃcient capacity in the community for treatment and/or housing, how can we expect them to prevent the inevitable?

I am disappointed that the ﬁndings of the year-long, community-led RiPS program were disregarded in favor of creang a secret short- term commiee to brainstorm "soluons" created primarily by people far from the "pain" of the situaon they claim to solve.

Please support the community-based interpersonal violence prevenon pilot budget item for $400,000, the San José BEST City-Wide Appropriaon for $5 million, the pilot program for Tenant Right to Counsel, and COPA.

Please oppose the no-encampment zones and allocang funds to a locked psychiatric facility in San José.

Whether we're Black or white, Asian or Latine, Indigenous or newcomer, we want our families to be healthy and whole.

We know what keeps us safe: living in communities where people of every color and background have homes, good jobs with fair wages, great schools, and affordable healthcare, where we address problems with proven solutions like social supports and preventative services instead of more jails (whether mental health jails or regular jails). We recognize when politicians want to divide and distract us by scapegoating our most vulnerable neighbors. This moment calls on us to go all in for all of us. We know what keeps us safe. Together we will make a place where everyone one of us can live full and healthy lives, no exceptions. It's time to rework public safety so qualified experts, like mental health and social workers based in the community, can give people the help they need to keep us all safe. That’s why we need alternative crisis response. Also our whole community does better when everyone has good, safe housing options. That’s why Measure E affordable housing money should be spent on affordable housing, not a mental health jail. Our communities have the power to move our money and fund housing, healthcare and community based treatment. We make the future and we choose one where all of us have what we need to get by and have Care First. Let’s fund our futures.

Sincerely,

Kathryn Hedges
San Jose, CA 95112

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Shannon Knepper
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FW: Agenda item 3.5
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Fund the libraries enough to staﬀ them and keep them open on a full schedule, including Sundays.

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Very important we restore our City Libraries to 2019 levels.

I would rather have less Police if restoring libraries to 2019 levels I'll protect myself

Our children were the only "real" vicms of covid.

Cowardly adults put their "safety" over our children's welfare.

Ma, I believe in you, please restore our libraries to 2019 levels and cut Adult related programs, including Police....but not Fire.

Thank you
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Not sure if you saw this or want to support it, but I think it is importaon for our community not to loose library resources. There is a lot of good stuﬀ going on there that we have enjoyed through the years & connue to use.

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Put "Agenda Item 3.5" in the subject line. Emails must be in by 10am 3/21 to be on record for the meeng.

Liza
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Support Your Public Library

Call to Acon!

Mayor Mahan has released his inial budget priories (if you’d like to read the full budget message, you can ﬁnd it right here) calling for a focus on basic necessies.

We contend there is nothing more basic than the public’s right to free access to knowledge, resources, and educaonal supports to level the playing ﬁeld. Nothing more basic to democracy than ensuring that all residents have access to literacy, cizenship, and workforce development support. And while there are many problems to address, we shouldn’t lose sight of what works well already.

Join me this Tuesday, March 21st at 2pm to encourage the Council to fully fund the Library Department to restore all open hours to pre- pandemic levels, maintain Sunday open hours, and pay for crical staﬀ posions.

There are three ways to let your voice be heard:

#1 Send an Email

Email by 10:00 a.m. March 21st and let them know you want to priorize the Library in the Mayor's budget.

Please put “Agenda Item 3.5” in the subject line of your email. Helpful talking points can be found by clicking below.

Talking Points

#2 Make an E-comment

Use the talking points above to make a comment directly on the agenda.

Submit a Comment

#3 Aend the City Council Meeng

Please aend in person at the City Hall rotunda (200 East Santa Clara St) on March 21st or call in via zoom at 2 pm: link here.

Thank you for supporng the Library,

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