Last year’s initial budget projection featured an estimated $53 million shortfall. The new budget projection unveiled by Maguire this week showed a projected $46 million shortfall, the equivalent of about 3% of the city’s $1.6 billion spending plan.

Salas is a 50-year resident of San Jose, and built a solid reputation for his work promoting civic projects, leading the downtown Rotary Club.

The San Jose police union accused City Manager Jennifer Maguire of attempting to divert police resources from the investigation of Omar Torres to instead go after media for leaking an affidavit that was on file with the court.

The challenge we face now is how to make sure our voices are still being heard.

The Plaza Conservancy foresees an expanded park with fewer surrounding traffic lanes, a new stage and renovation of the more than century-old greenspace where the majestic old City Hall once stood.

The unions are seeking a 7% pay increase, and complain that many city departments are understaffed. The city in June said its final pay offer was 5% the first year of the contract, 4% the second, and 3% the third.

According to the tenants, people have had to live with mold and in cockroach-infested apartments. Their maintenance requests are ignored and rent has drastically risen.

One day after the police union announced it would hire an independent investigator, San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said on Twitter there would be no internal departmental investigation of possible police officer involvement in illegal activities at the 1,100-member union.

How to spend approximately $1.5 billion in 2023-24 will be the first big test of political power for the mayor.

A sure bet for Team Mahan is Matthew Quevedo, the new mayor’s campaign manager and former council office chief of staff, whose online profile says he’s deputy chief of staff. And Rachel Davis already posted her new job as Mahan’s communications chief, just in time for floods and rains.

The vacancies were created by the November election, when District 8 Councilmember Sylvia Arenas was elected as the District 1 representative on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and District 10 Councilmember Matt Mahan was elected mayor.

The new 28-story mixed-use residential project will eventually have an estimated 1,000 residents in 630 units, one of a number of new buildings praised by the San Jose Downtown Association at its annual meeting as contributing to a new “really distinct skyline” for San Jose.

This video, which has been edited from several hours to just two, documents the hours from afternoon to midnight on May 30.

San Jose Inside requested video from the security cameras installed on the Santa Clara Street side of City Hall. Here’s the first batch.

Piecemeal policies and fragmented oversight has led to concerning transactions by San Jose’s credit card-holding employees.

Is a teenage Kiwi—who hasn’t even spent a decade in San Jose—the right musical icon to capture the city in a remotely authentic way?