When a divided San Jose City Council decided in December to appoint rather than hold an election to fill two vacant seats in 2023, they pledged the process would be 'transparent.' 

Liccardo, a former city councilman, led the Bay Area city through a pandemic, a mass shooting, a homelessness crisis, a horrific flood and more.

Mahan’s new committees including council members, staff and community representatives will center around key issues raised by his mayoral campaign.

Prior to her election to the city council in June, Kamei served as a Morgan Hill planning commissioner, a trustee of the Santa Clara Valley Water district and a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education.

In a Tuesday interview, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan discussed prioritizing public safety and accelerating housing construction to address the homelessness crisis.

Despite passionate and eloquent pleas from the City Hall audience, the Dec. 5 San Jose City Council decision wasn’t about taxpayers’ money, or voters’ rights. Cash, political power and private conversations not streamed on Zoom won the night.

The expansion of the quick-build communities increases the total number of units to reach the city’s goal of 1,000 units completed or under development by the end of 2022.

General election victories by Councillmembers Matt Mahan and Sylvia Arenas created two upcoming vacancies on the San Jose City Council., which will decide how to fill the vacated seats of Districts 8 and 10.

Chavez is the architect of many of our city and county’s key policies on crime, homelessness, housing and government accountability. The problem is those policies are failing. They don’t need to be defended; they need to be changed.

Dev Davis: A new era deserves a new type of leadership that can grab the opportunities of the moment and put the politics of division in our rear view mirror.

The San Jose City Council last month already voted to suspend enforcement of the new gun owner insurance law until three lawsuits have been resolved.

The city will donate more than $1 million in safety equipment to first responders in Ukraine, including breathing apparatus air packs, mask-mounted regulators, air cylinders and several hundred breathing apparatus masks.

The City Council voted Tuesday to build 400 more emergency interim housing units, buy Arena Hotel with state funds and finance 561 new affordable housing units.

Dev Davis has been a council member since 2016.

The approximately 25,000 ballots counted by the Registrar of Voters Elections Division June 9 didn’t change any trends or flip any projected outcomes, but did suggest the early, expected outcomes are more likely to hold.

The Election Division of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters continued to count ballots today, and reported that as of 5 pm, 54% of the approximately 314,000 ballots had been counted.