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FW: Support a San Jose budget for All!
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Tue 3/21/2023 4:44 PM
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Subject: Support a San Jose budget for All!
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, 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 only interim housing, rather than both interim and permanent housing, 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.
Omar Suarez
San Jose, California 95122
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Ivette Deltoro
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FW: Support a San Jose budget for All!
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Wed 3/22/2023 7:56 AM
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 11:59 PM
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Subject: Support a San Jose budget for All!
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, 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 only interim housing, rather than both interim and permanent housing, 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.
Mitchell Austin
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FW: Support for the Arts - City Council Item 3.5 - March 21, 2023 City Clerk <
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Subject: Support for the Arts - City Council Item 3.5 - March 21, 2023
Honorable Mayor and City Council, My name is David Eisbach, and I am an Arts Advocate. I am writing to you today regarding Item 3.5 on your agenda for Tuesday, March 21, Approval of the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Mayor's March Budget Message. As an Arts Advocate, I believe that arts and culture are essential to the economic, social, and civic wellbeing of our city. I appreciate the Mayor’s intention in his March Budget Message to explore additional funding to support our arts community and other initiatives to improve the vibrancy and quality of life in San José (p. 25). In order to achieve the Mayor’s goals and create a more sustainable arts and cultural community in San José, I call on you to take the following actions: 1. Direct the City Manager, beginning in Fiscal Year 2023-2024, to reapportion the current General Fund allocation from the City’s Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) equally across the remainder recipients of TOT funding: the Office of Cultural Affairs — including Cultural Grants Programs — the Convention and Visitors Bureau (Team San José), and Convention and Cultural Facilities; 2. Direct the City Manager to work with local stakeholders including SJAA to identify budget policy strategies to guide the long-term investment of the TOT to better serve the arts, culture, entertainment, and hospitality industries — which play a large role in generating the TOT — and return to Council within the next fiscal year with strategies for consideration and implementation; 3. Direct staff from the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs to develop a framework for a Private Percent for Art policy, common in other Bay Area cities, which has been on the City Council’s priority list for more than three years; and 4. Direct staff to explore a pilot program to employ Artists in Residence within City departments to apply a creative, problem-solving lens to some of the City’s intractable challenges and help build deeper civic engagement in the policy making process. I am proud to stand with San José Arts Advocates to support these priorities for preserving, protecting, and promoting our creative community, which collectively generates hundreds of millions of dollars of economic impact for our city, creates thousands of jobs, inspires us to engage, and improves the quality of life for all of our residents. Thank you for your service and for your consideration. Regards, YOUR NAME YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR COUNCIL DISTRICT (Optional)
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FW: Agenda Item 3.5
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Wed 3/22/2023 7:55 AM
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From: Sigrid Jacobsen <
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 5:27 PM
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Subject: Agenda Item 3.5
Dear San Jose City Council Members,
I am writing in response to the proposed budget to make clear that it does not reflect the values of those of us who center the marginalized of our community.
As a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ @ Sacred Heart Community Services, I emphatically oppose and ask the council NOT to move forward with:
· language in the Mayor’s Message that seeks to criminalize homelessness by creating no encampment zones. · language in the Mayor’s Message that seeks to give Measure E or other City funds to develop an additional locked psychiatric facility in San Jose.
The Mayor's proposals such as no encampment zones or spending affordable housing money on a mental health jail head in the opposite direction of the innovative approaches the County is taking to make sure all of us are safe. The county's Alternatives to Incarceration process is recommending moving AWAY from criminalizing our unhoused neighbors and towards non-carceral community based mental health and addiction recovery services. Our money is better spent on implementing solutions–on prevention. It is common sense that prevention isn't just cheaper, it's also effective and more humane for all of us. Prevention means spending Measure E affordable housing money on ACTUAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING as well as on keeping people in their homes. Prevention means dedicating $400,000 to fund a pilot for the alternative crisis response program for intimate partner violence. We need to implement upstream solutions. To that end, we are pushing for two items in the Mayor's message that were recommended by community members in the Re-Imagining Public Safety process:
· As described in the Mayor’s message, fund and move forward with a planning process to implement a community- based interpersonal violence prevention 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 prevention and intervention of violence by adding $5 million to the San José Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together City-Wide Appropriation.
The Re-Imagining Public Safety recommendation to develop alternative community-based response programs for intimate partner violence, directly in line with our ongoing county-wide campaign for non-police crisis response (such as the TRUST program), shows up in the Mayor's budget message but without the specific allocation it will need to succeed. And violence prevention efforts, like the effective program in Richmond CA, can also be successful without giving more money to SJPD. Another world is possible.
PLEASE do the right thing and ensure that the city budget reflects the inherent value and dignity of all people! Sigrid Jacobsen
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