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City of San José, California
City Council: Final Budget Hearing 2023-24 Proposed Budgets, Fees and Charges, June 12, 2023

Pre-meeting citizen input on Agenda via eComment at https://sanjose.granicusideas.com/meetings.
This public meeting will be held at San José City Hall and also accessible via Zoom Webinar. For information on public participation via Zoom, please refer to the linked meeting agenda below.

Agenda: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1097162&GUID=5FB8B4D1-8AE2-43EA-AE72-187A123F1530

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It's good evening, good evening welcome.

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Thank you all for being here appreciate all the great turnout and public participation. This is our second and final public hearing on the proposed operating Capital budgets for 23 24., looking forward to hearing feedback from our community, we have a lot of folks here in the chamber and many more online we're going to start with the role and then I'll share a few other thoughts about how we're going to manage things. This evening, Tony Jimenez.

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President Taurus Cohen.

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Ortiz present Davis here Joe present Foley here Bob kame here Mayhem here I wanted to note that councilmember bocher is out ill. However, he is watching as a member of the public online, so he will hear everybody's testimony, but he will be unable to participate.

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Great, thank you all right. Well, thank you all for being here for this public hearing. So this evening is just an opportunity for the council to do something we don't do as often, which is is listen. We won't be giving speeches tonight, we'll be hearing from you and I appreciate you all taking the time to be here. We are expecting a very high volume of comments, both in person and online likely a few hundred comments. So we're going to limit public comment to one minute per person.

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We will go back and forth between in person and online Tony I believe we're doing 15 and 15 back and forth. Roughly okay for those who are in person. If you wish to speak, please fill out a yellow comment card. You can find them down here at the the bottom of the seats. There's a a glass or plastic box, a clear box with yellow comment cards. Please fill those out and drop them in the box for those in person. Tony will call about the next five folks who are going to speak.

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Please come down and just wait in line for those online. You can participate by raising your hand and Tony will take your hand in the order in which it is raised. I also just want to remind folks that, as is our practice during public comment, we will cut people off and ask them to leave the chamber if they are disrespectful or threatening. We will cut folks off. Please speak to what you are for or against in the budget. Do not direct your comments to any individual member of the body.

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You address it to the council as a whole and if you brought signs, that's great, but please be respectful of your neighbor and don't hold your sign up so high that the person behind you can't see, and let's just try to keep in mind that while we may not all agree on different proposals in the budget, we are all part of the same community and we should be here in the spirit of respect and tolerance and hearing from one another. So thank you all again for being here to participate.

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Tony I think I'm going to turn it back to you unless I'm missing anything Tony go ahead. Okay,.

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So when I call your name, please come down to.

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Them I missed one thing: I.

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Knew I was missing, something.

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It is also extremely helpful for us to get through this before we all turn into a pumpkin tonight. If you want to just do jazz hands or something, please don't cheer. When you cheer people can't hear Tony call the next speaker, it slows everything down and adds a lot of confusion just make a quiet motion if you're in support, please do not share or clap for the speakers or, and it's certainly no booing. Thank you.

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So I'm going to call the names when you hear your name go ahead and come down first person to the microphone.

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Phone speaker so again as soon as you hear a name go ahead and make your way down and line up. We would appreciate it if you said your first name when you get to the microphone, so we can mark your card that you spoke so I'm going to start with Joseph W Alex, studinski, Maya, Harris, Stan, vakovich and Joshua mellender go ahead.

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Mayor and Council, what we're actually discussing here today is the best way to save lives. 246 human beings died last year. None of them are eligible for housing. The council is going to allocate funds. The best moral allocation of funds is the one that's going to save lives, a thousand shelters now or a thousand shelters. In five years, more humans are going to die this year. Many due to exposure the question being debated today is how many people can we save next year, while dressing for the unhoused memorial next year?

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I wonder how many of the people here and how many of you here tonight are going to look yourselves in the mirror and say: I could have saved lives if I just voted. Yes, thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Honorable mayor and members of city council, my name is Alex sachinski CEO of the San Jose downtown Association I'm speaking on behalf of the organization and it's over 2 000 business members. Today we strongly support the community's efforts to build affordable permanent housing, which is so very needed to create a sustainable housing ecosystem.

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We also support an immediate emergency housing solution to address the current conditions on the ground. The original intent of measure e still holds true, but we must be flexible enough and not be dogmatic about the issue to be spot on with improving the current emergency in homelessness.

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Therefore, please pass the proposed compromise presented by mayor Mahan and council member folly. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Thank you mayor and council members, I'm Maya Harris, director of special projects and community relations with Jay Paul company I'm here this evening, to encourage you to support mayor mayhem's budget and getting back to basics. Jay Paul is deeply invested in San Jose and we want to see a clean, safe and vibrant downtown for all become a reality.

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Urgent, shelter and housing is needed for our unhoused neighbors. The cleanup of blight and graffiti and helping our small businesses Thrive are all critical to the success of downtown and San Jose. Let's prioritize essential services and proactive measures, please vote for Change and the future of San Jose tomorrow. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker I'd also like to call down Aaron Mound, Gumby, Marquez and Mike Oye.

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Hi I'm Stan vukovich I'm, the CEO of kbm Hogue headquarter just up the street. We have about 70 employees in San, Jose that we're trying to get to come back to the office and what we're hearing from them is. They have concerns around safety and homelessness and we're really having a tough time. The mayor's plan provide transitional housing quickly and affordably is critically important.

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um You know that to increase the budget also to add police and alternative staff will help. Our downtown has taken a pretty big hit since the pandemic. This is a way to get some of that momentum back. So, let's please support the mayor's plan.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Mayor Mahan and Council and Joshua milander president with Little Italy, San Jose, and also representing the San Jose downtown Association board I'm. Just in support of this Little Italy is next to the Guadalupe Park. We see these issues on a day-to-day basis. We know that there's a need for Change and we definitely applaud the effort of Mayor Mayhem and we hope that Council will be supportive.

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I think our city is in a time where we need to be collaborative and creative in our approach to tackle these serious issues and I think this is a great idea and we definitely have the full support. So thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Mayor council members, my name is Aaron monn I'm, representing West Bank on the development side and I'm here to support the mayor's approach to solving this homelessness issue in the budget and I think when we oftentimes, we call this a crisis and we don't treat it as such I think we need a well-rounded approach to these issues, one that supports you, know everyone experiencing homelessness and all of the issues that go with that and we need to build affordable housing to support that thanks a lot.

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Thank you next speaker before you go I'd like to call um and I think it's Antonia or Antonia for D3 Gene, hunt, Carmen, Johnson and Hong. It looks like CAO, but it could be Lao go ahead.

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Hi I'm Gumby I'm, a resident small business owner and current president of the San Jose downtown Association I'm here to voice my support from the mayor's budget proposal, including the allocation of measure e-funds for the two-pronged approach of emergency. Temporary housing, in addition to affordable housing, I do not believe a status quo approach has worked in solving our major issue of homelessness, which we are in crisis of I.

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Do think that as San Jose, we deserve a bounce budget addressing all of our needs and a government willing to lead by example and work together, find common ground and do what is right by all of San Jose. Thank you to this Council and thank you to everyone present for taking an interest in our community.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Hello, my name is Mike oy and I urge you to support the budget for you. The Provost budget includes the continuation of the community program.

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Nearly two decades ago, the city of San Jose co-founded communiversity to work in collaboration with community members to improve the quality of life in low-income, downtown neighborhoods, and the city has continued to support the university annually. Ever since then, outcome University is a unique Community. University City partnership that engages local residents by leveraging the people power of faculty and students at sjsu to address San Jose's Community identified needs through approximately 20 projects annually.

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In recent years, university has invested 30 000 hours annually into the local community, valued at nearly a million dollars each year, thus generating a 10x return on the city of San Jose's investment. So I ask you to vote to approve a community's continued funding in the proposed budget. Great. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Good evening, mayor and Council, thank you for your hard work. My name is antonina and I live in Hyde Park, District, 3., I, support mayor mayhem's back to basic budget and the reallocation of measure e money for fiscal year. 2020 324.

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I want to see our unhoused citizen have the opportunity to become part of our community, starting with housing.

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There are a number of emergency interim and Supportive Housing sites within a quarter mile of my home, one of the Supportive Housing projects that just opened took more than five years to build and another one that started around the same time still hasn't finished during the past two years. One emergency interim housing site has been up and running and a second one has opened.

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We are locating one year of funds will assist our unhoused now. Thank you. So much.

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I, don't have a translator, did you want to translate for him.

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Yeah I can that's a little long speech to translate, but uh his name is Hong Kao. He lived in San Jose for a very long time. He's uh talked about the supporting the budget and solving the unhoused resident right here in San Jose, and he asked that for our support on the mayor budget, and um so that way we can again solve the unhoused resident.

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And Thomas Penney go ahead. Thank.

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Mayor and council members, my name is Gene, hunt and I'm a long time resident and realtor I'm here to support Matt mahan's budget proposal and urge all of you to do the same additionally I'm here in response to the violent action taken by goons from the corporate non-profits who invaded our association's office and terrorized our staff, one of whom lives in District 3 and who sent all of you letters detailing her experience during that act of intimidation.

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Unlike one well-known corporate non-profit leader featured by NBC News, who just happened to be there? We care about people and the mayor's budget proposal provides the needed support for an immediate problem. No one wants to hide the problem. We as Realtors want to provide an opportunity for them to stabilize and encourage them to become eligible for those affordable homes. We all believe should be built and are the long-term resistance and.

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I hope that a council person and you make sure that you take notice of that, because I believe that, as an older person in San Jose, we have to have the Dignity of living in a clean city. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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I took The Road, Less Traveled, and that made it has made all the difference. These are the final words of a poem by Robert, Frost and I. Think it pertains very clearly to what's happening in San Jose.

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When you look around I have not seen the homeless population decrease I've seen it increase, have a look at Willow Glenn, where I happen to live. The Creeks, the rivers, the Cyclone fences that have been cut down, take a walk down: Willow Street, the encampment that I helped clear just a short time ago, is being taken over again and the trail next to it that the city has put up is full of homeless people.

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Is that good I? Don't think so? We need to change. Ladies and gentlemen, now you might think, is she heartless? Is she cruel? Does she really care? Yes, I really care because we need a program that addresses drug dealers who are utilizing other people, people who have alcoholic problems, people who are suffering from mental illness, people who really want to get out of homelessness and have a place to live and a place that they can call home any job. We need to address that and currently I don't see that happening.

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I really don't I still see people at the same people living under the.

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Bridges so I say, ladies.

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And Gentlemen, please accept Mr mahan's.

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Good evening, mayor, Mayhem and Council, my name is Tom. Pinney I've been a resident of San Jose for now 43 years, um I can tell you looking at the proposed budget. I 100 percent agree with it and back it, I'm, hoping you all will support mayor, mayhand I believe under his leadership that we can actually make some great progress, Public, Safety homelessness and cleaning up our communities. So please please support this budget. Thank you.

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Thank you, Nick speaker.

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Good evening Mark Lewis as a community of downtown core residents, we see firsthand and every day the Suffering The unhoused are going through as they try to live in ramshackle tents and structures. Derelict cars RVs even cardboard boxes are sometimes nothing at all. They are struggling to survive in alcoves alleys, along river, underpasses and Banks, and while not the same in terms of individual suffering, there is the impact to the community at large to consider. Neighborhoods Emergency, Services businesses and parks are impacted.

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Yes, permanent, structured housing is an ideal solution, but it's long-term and execution. There are far too many people that need Solutions today, please, let's appropriate an impactful portion of funding, an amount that will prove out to be truly effective to solutions that get people out of their inhumane living situations sooner rather than later. Thank you.

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Hi, my name is Mitch method and I'm born and raised in San Jose teacher on the east side for 35 years, and you know in the last 10 years, I've seen the homeless Crisis get worse every year and I know a lot of people have done a lot of really good things and we've tried to put our money, but it's not getting better and I. Think we have a mayor who's, trying something new something different I think we need to support that and try something that might work.

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I rode my bike to the temporary shelter I talked to the people there. You know it's not perfect, but it is I. Tell you what, if I had a loved one on the street, that's where I'd want them to be not on the street. I'd want them in that temporary shelter, so I think yeah. We have to start somewhere and that's it. Thank you.

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Okay, we're going to call some members from Zoom I have Jeffrey Buchanan, followed by Charles Howard.

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Hi uh Jeffrey Buchanan with the working Partnerships USA, um you know, I think there's been a lot of a lot of myth spread in these last a couple weeks around this uh there's, not a single proposal before this Council. That does not include massive investment in interim shelter, I'd like to support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres that you know I think strikes the best balance of ensuring for all of the interim housing that we could possibly build this year.

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We have dollars for operations, we have dollars to move those projects forward, but at the same time we're not missing the opportunity to invest in permanent, affordable housing, which is the only strategy we have that you know could have delivered 98 of individuals that enter into that housing, ensuring that they have a home. uh This is, after all, an affordability crisis. It's not just the homelessness crisis and if we are going to go to defund, affordable housing that that's really what the status quo used to be.

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Looking back at the era of of redlining of real estate practices that kept working, poor people, uh people of color out of.

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Charles Howard, followed by calling user one.

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uh I, the current plan seems to be a severe compromise and an effort to unite the council to me. I voted for uh housing, affordable housing and measure e and Matt's plan provides more housing faster than the What's called the affordable housing which I did not vote for so clearly, the budget of that Matt's proposing is better for the people, and the savings can be used to support more people.

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I would like you to vote for the proposal and I do not believe the voters or you call.

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In user, one followed by Pam Flournoy foreign.

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O'connell speaking in strong support of Mayor mayhem's budget Governor, Newsom announced today that California quote has not made progress on the homeless crisis city of San Diego mayor has announced. We are not a giant toilet and they are looking at Banning, homeless, encampments. Folks, somebody has to to speak the truth and the truth is, if you are in Private Industry, you would all be fired. That is the truth. You keep doing the same things over and over they are not working. I am asking you to think outside of the box and support mayor mayhem's budget.

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Pam Flournoy, followed by caller 1541.

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This is Pam florino. Can you hear me? Yes, um I am also urging the council to support and vote for mayor Matt, mayhem's budget I'm, a lifelong third generation resident of Santa Clara Valley, a resident of San Jose for the past 31 years.

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The past 14 years been a resident of District nine I'm here tonight as a long time resident small business owner taxpayer as a business owner and individual who actually votes for many of the propositions which raise my taxes, it's okay do the right thing as a financial, planner I know that families and business businesses are only sustainable when they spend less than they may when they bring in, and they make the hard decisions on their priorities around spending. This is what it takes.

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I want San, Jose to be clean and safe, and for the homeless issues to be mitigated. They can be solved just go visit. Other cities.

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Caller 1541, followed by John Doherty.

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Mayor and Council I support the mayor's plan. 100 percent. Far too long, the city of San Jose has paid for housing to be built that cost too much and rendered minimal results. Mayor mayhem's plan is fiscally sound. It's sensible, timely and compassionate. Please stop wasting the taxpayers money and vote this budget in. Thank you so much for hearing me.

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John Doherty, followed by Michelle Chung.

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Young Council, my name, is John Doherty I'm, a resident of the St Leo's neighborhood I came up to San Jose in 98. I followed this Brown Eyed Girl from San Diego, State and I thought it was crazy for leaving San Diego, but I watched, San Jose grow for the 20 plus years when the pandemic hit I watched crime, trash homelessness, cars, things that are always a problem in cities, but skyrocketed and I haven't seen anything to prove to me that it's going to be better for anyone.

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Getting Back to Basics is exactly what this city needs. Thank you. I'm in support.

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Michelle Chung, followed by Debbie.

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Hi, my name is Michelle Chung I'm from the Almaden neighborhood and I do support the mayor's budget goals to address Public, Safety homelessness and clean neighborhoods. However, I don't think there's enough funds allocated to safety and crime prevention, five million dollars has been set aside for homeless prevention, but nothing for crime or vandalism. Vandalism, prevention. Why not? My house was recently vandalized three times and two weekends and the police would do nothing about it.

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They said that we need to have cameras and to catch these vandals ourselves, and if we do, then what the only recourse private citizens have is to take pictures and post a video to Nextdoor. But that's not enough. I was told by San Jose police officer that the D.A does not prosecute vandalism. So, what's the point of me having a camera or even identifying the Vandals I implore you to create a vandalism unit, investigate, prosecute and hold criminals accountable to protect San, Jose neighborhoods. Thank you.

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Debbie followed by Kevin zwick foreign.

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Council members, my name, is Debbie Blackwell and I have lived in Willow Glen for the past 12 years, I'm speaking tonight, to support mayor mayhem's budget to hire more police officers.

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In the past six years we have had eight different incidences at our home to include a stolen truck and two home burglaries one as recent as April of this year, I was born and raised in Santa Clara and have lived in San Jose, my entire adult life for a total of 54 years, I'm speaking tonight, to tell you that for the first time in my entire life, I do not feel safe in my home or in my neighborhood I host a neighborhood watch party last Tuesday night with over 60 Neighbors in attendance and three officers.

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As this meeting was wrapping up. One of my neighbors just around the corner from our house was being broken into. You may have read the article on the San Jose Mercury News this past weekend. If not I urge you to look it up. All the facts are right there and have been verified by several neighbors and police. These thieves have gotten so brave and Nothing is Stopping them, because there are no consequences. We need change. We need change now. Please back mayor Mayhem,.

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Kevin zwick, followed by Mike Krauss.

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Hi, my name is Kevin zwick I'm, the CEO of United Way, Bay, Area and I'm, also a resident of San Jose and Willow Glen from District Six, I'm really happy to be from District Six today. So I can ask you to support the memo from my council member Deb Davis, along with council members, Ortiz and council member Torres, because this gives San Jose the best chance to make long-term impact on the Urge and affordable housing needs of those most vulnerable in our community.

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This maintains measure e for permanent, affordable housing, while also finding other funds necessary for non-housing Solutions, like individual interim shelter. These interim shelter units have their place in getting people out of tents and into more sturdy structures, but they only work if they're a permanent, affordable homes to move into when their short stays are over. So taking funds from affordable housing isn't just going against the will. It's not going to help make interim shelter strategies successful. Thank you.

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Mike Krauss, followed by Gabriella gabrian.

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Can you hear me yes, good evening, mayor and Council? My name is Michael Krauss and I'm, a resident of the penitencia neighborhood located in North San Jose I'm here tonight to Advocate and support for mayor mayhem's back to basic budget reallocation approach. I've lived in San Jose for 38 years and over the years, I've seen homelessness in the trash associated with that moments. This increased unacceptable levels. The Baseline approach is not uh is not working. The rate of homelessness increases continue to outpace.

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The ability to build, affordable housing for homeless change is required in reallocation of budget is necessary. As my Representatives, with control of my tax dollars, I request that you vote for a change in the budget allocation to address the homeless. Thank you.

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Gabriella gabrian, followed by Thomas k.

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Erry Mayhem council members implementing interim housing is urgently needed and I support this initiative. However, the value of these short-term solution is diminished if we neglect the viral aspect of permanent Supportive Housing bridging a bridge that leads to Nowhere only re-traumatizes, our fellow citizens, creating a painful cycle of homelessness. Interim housing must be paired with a solid, reliable fat towards stability. For this reason, I lend my support to the plan proposed by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres, which prioritize a balance in sustainable approach to tackling homelessness.

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Thank you for your urgent attention to this critical matter.

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The last speaker, I'm, calling for now on Zoom, is Thomas. K Thomas K will be followed by in person, so listen up for in person. I have Lori Rodriguez, Anna, Maria, Russo and Larry Whittaker. Okay go ahead. Thomas.

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Mayor Mayhem and esteemed members of the city council, as someone with lived experience of homelessness, I applaud your efforts to tackle this pressing issue in our city. Your ambitious plans for quick, build a housing community safe parking spaces in the San Jose bridge program are commendable, however, I believe there is the need to address the root causes of homelessness more directly in your proposed budget. We must ensure adequate funds are allocated to permanent supportive policy and sustainable living wage employment initiatives.

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The two key elements in Breaking the cycle of homelessness in line with this I urge you to adopt the plan provided by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres. Their proposal offers a balance and comprehensive strategy that acknowledges the multi-layered nature of homelessness. By adopting this plan, we can offer our most vulnerable citizens a chance at a stable, secure and self-sufficient future. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Thank you next week.

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Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Lori Rodriguez I've lived in the Cambrian Park area for 42 years. I urge you to support major mayor mahan's budget I work in a free food, pantry I am the greeter and during my shift, 35 low income and unhoused clients go through our pantry. Most of my clients are nice considerate. Folks, I do have one mom who has been living in her car with two teenagers. For over a year she Parks her car behind a 24-hour fitness.

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So she and her kids can shower and stay warm her car broke down and she does not have the money to fix it. She has a chance to go to a shelter but could not get there. A policeman told her if she did not sleep in her car that night he would tow her car. This should not happen. I'm also an active member of monster man. Action for gun sense in America guns are now the number one killer of children under 18..

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I use you to increase your budget in this area so that our children can safely attend school and the residents of San Jose can feel safe, leaving their homes. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker also I'd like to call down towel no last name: Nan nanary and Trin Wong, hello,.

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Mayor and Council, my name is Anna Maria Russo I have been a resident of San Jose and The Willow Glen neighborhood. My whole life I'm here tonight, because I want to urge you to support Matt mahan's back to basic budget. I, have observed the decline of in San Jose for many years and have seen the problems only get worse and worse. I've seen homelessness rise, crime increase trash and tractable I have witnessed the same Solutions proposed with no results.

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We have to stop beating our heads against the wall. We need new Solutions. We if we continue to fund the same approaches, we will get the same results as my Representatives I am asking you to be bold and represent my voice and the voices reflected here tonight and vote for his back to basic budget.

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I support mayor mahan's proposed budget for the following reasons. My name is Larry Whitaker and I have lived in San Jose for over 27 years and Santa Clara County for 48 years. I live in District 10.. The city of San Jose is currently in a State of Emergency due to too many homeless. People without proper shelter, increasing crime rates and terrible road conditions filled with garbage. In my opinion, homelessness is the root cause of these issues, so I believe homelessness should be addressed urgently and promptly.

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I support mayor Matt mahan's proposal because he has put forward practical and useful solutions to urgently and promptly address homelessness, which is our entire city is facing. Thank you.

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Her name is Doug and she's here to support the mayor budget to address the unhoused residents.

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District one and there's a lot of unhoused residents around for house and she's feel very unsafe when walking with her daughter.

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Good evening my name is nanary: I am a real estate broker and a resident of District Four I have worked in the city of San Jose for over 30 years. I am also a member of sjvrc San Jose via running club. For the past few years, our club has been providing hot meals for the unhoused residents at the Tali Community Library. Every Sunday I have seen firsthand of the unsaved living conditions of the unhoused residents as we visit and distribute meals to the nearby encampments on a regular basis.

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I urge the the council members to vote to support mayor Mayhem on the quick, build community project and Back to Basics budget proposal to quickly and urgently provide the safe and sanitary environment for in John Davis.

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Hello, my name is Jun Wong I am the President of venoc Vietnamese National Association of real estate professionals I'm here to represent our organization.

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This is the homelessness, is the source of many other problems. So please support his budget plan, because this can help solve it quickly and.

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San Jose, so we agree and support with his plan and please vote for that. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Greg Peralta I am a resident of District Six, the garden Alameda neighborhood and I'm here to urge you to support mayor mahan's Back to Basics budget I've lived in San Jose, since 1968. I've seen encampments crime and trash rise to embarrassingly horrific levels.

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I live on the Alameda that we lost our CVS. It's now boarded up it's an eyesore for for a better example or lack of a better description. The theft that was I've witnessed out of that store was a major cause for it. Closing I'm now witnessing that theft at the Whole Foods nearby, as well as the Target on Coleman. Are we going to lose those stores? Next, who knows? We must change our approach. What we've been always doing is not working.

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We don't have time to wait as my as my as my Representatives I'm asking you to be bold I'm asking you to vote tomorrow for change. Thank you.

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Council Mayor John Davis district, three I am 710 Margaret I've been there for 50 years. Most of you've been to my house. I live on the creek I have about 100 yards of Creek for the last eight years, I've experienced every month, building going on tearing uh putting platforms on the along the creek building, fires, police cars, trash removal over and over and over and over and over again and every time I said over. It's millions of dollars.

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Take that money and re reposition. It format's proposal. Can you imagine what we could do we could wrote this transitional Houser proposal is off the chart for us to use our common sense to back his measure and use the money that we're what we take today for the trash removal and the police in the fire department and repurpose it for his proposal. Thank you.

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Good evening, Mr mayor council members I'm a resident of District Six CEO of Loaves and Fishes family Kitchen in San Jose, where we've provided meals that the city has asked us to provide during the pandemic and all I'm asking is for reconsideration. The funding has gone to zero in this budget, and all I'm asking the city council to consider is to set aside seven million dollars to help us to provide the support that we need to to your constituents so that they do not go hungry.

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I appreciate all the hard effort that you've put into this budget. Mr, Mayor and I know that you had to make some tough choices and decisions. So all I am asking is to take pause before you announce that this is passed. Please consider that meager amount that we're asking for to help our organization and other food providers provide meals to those in need in your city. Compassionate leadership is what we need. Please take a moment to pause and consider that message. Thank you. So much for your time.

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Thank you. Next Expo would like to call Scott Weber Luke Zari.

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And Fred Brew go ahead.

AU

Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Alex and I'm, a resident of District Five I'm here tonight to urge you to support mayor mahan's Back to Basics budget I've lived in San Jose and in District Five. All my life I have witnessed the problems in our city only get worse, I've seen homelessness rise, crime increase and trash triple, specifically in my neighborhood, the quality of Hillview Park and the surrounding area has significantly diminished in large part to all of these problems.

AU

The public restrooms are constantly vandalized, but with graffiti homeless and cabinets that discourage the public from going to the park and the litter Left Behind the by the homeless, has reduced the curb appeal of my neighborhood. It is sad to see what was once a family-friendly venue turned into a hotbed of homelessness and illegal gambling. We need Solutions, and the status quo is not one of them. If we continue to fund the the same approaches, we will get the same results.

AU

I can speak for my neighbors when I say that I am challenging the city council to be bold and vote tomorrow for change. Thank you for your time.

C

Thank you next speaker.

C

AV

I would like to uh greeting to Maya, McMahan and also the city councils regarding for the physical budgets, I strongly support mayor McMahon the plans about the quick building for the shelter for Homeland, because the Homelink crisis is very important and we need to to solve that. Every day we see humbly around I feel very heartless for me, and then we make make great concerns so much about that and we have to find out a way to help them. So please support me and Mark my hand.

AV

The plan for the quick, build the shelter for the homeless, I'm appreciated for the city council and then major McMahon and all other auditions here attending their listen to me. That's my very, very urgent. Thank you support then. Thank you.

C

I'd also like to call Stephanie Lucas and that's the last of this.

AW

Good evening my name is Fred brew and I've been a resident of San Jose for over 30 years, I currently reside in District 10. I'm, asking the city council to support the Mayors Back to Basics budget San. Jose cannot afford to continue on a a spending path that goes in all directions. Pension costs currently account for 18 percent of the city's general fund budget, a problem likely to get worse because the city has only funded 5.9 billion of its 9.5 billion in accrued pension liabilities.

AW

A very poor 62 percent funded ratio far worse than most California cities.

AW

The city also has the lowest jobs to housing ratio of any major city in the nation, severely limiting tax revenues. The focus the budget proposal addresses the three key areas that residents of San Jose voted for last November. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

AX

I'm mayor Mann, council members, thank you very much for this time and this opportunity, and as a resident of District Six who lives on the Alameda and rides his bike to work every day or runs through Guadalupe Park. This is a really insurmountable problem and I I this first Speaker today, who's speaking about that this is about life, couldn't be more true, but it's not just about living. It's about life I saw today on the ride to my office.

AX

Seven police cars arresting somebody in the park and all I could think was not about the person who's being arrested, but the people who were impacted by that that lived down there, whose shoes may have been stolen to prevent them from going to a job interview who may have lost what little they had because of the conditions that they are being forced to live in. How can you build a life when you have that kind of condition?

AX

I, don't know this I, don't know the answers, but I do know that new thinking is required and what I've heard about the budget and what is there I just urge you to support it. We need to do something now, rather than Kick the Can down for the future, while continuing to maintain the pressure for permanent housing. But let's stop kicking the can. Thank.

C

AX

Community. Thank you next.

C

AY

Mayor vice mayor council members, Gina Zari, Santa, Clara, County Association of Realtors, unfortunately I'm here to speak slightly different about what I want to talk about, that I would have otherwise on Wednesday, some non-profit housing providers, leadership from those organizations invaded our office and terrorized our staff. It was an act of cowardice and it was done to silence us.

AY

It was done so that we wouldn't come here and speak in support of Mayor mahan's proposal on measure e and it was not appropriate and it's not acceptable and we will not tolerate it and we will not be silenced. Please don't think for one second, that rhetoric that was used in this council chambers on that dice a couple of months ago to those people that invaded our office, who were sitting here during the Copa hearings, didn't have an impact. Please take responsibility for your words. They mean something people get harmed, Thank.

AZ

You by that rhetoric.

AY

C

The speaker on Zoom that will come up next is Marcus. Go ahead.

BA

Hi I'm Stephanie and I'm a proud resident of District Seven, um like all of you, I love, San Jose I made my permanent home here a couple of years ago: I, quick and I'm. It's in the spring book community near Kelly, Park, the disc golf disc, golf course, or just of course whatever, um but I've quickly learned my neighbors or close-knit group. We all look for look out for each other. There we are surrounded by multiple encampments, um as I became. A familiar I realized that well.

BA

First of all, there were multiple fires around the property, one of which I had to actually hustle down. My stairs of my household fire extinguisher and I also saw and I saw my uh the skepticism and my neighbors grow. um I saw one neighbor confront a gentleman with a baseball bat.

BA

That's where I knew things had to stop, um but mostly the story I want to tell you is something that my neighbor relayed to me during this cold months of, like 30 degree nights, she saw in her ring camera a young man in a t-shirt only in the standing there on her porch, and she told me the story out of a sense of fear and when I was picturing that you get the picture. So yes, please support.

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Marcus, followed by Dominic.

BB

Dear mayor Mann and council members, I'm Marcus Ashera a 19-year resident of Blossom Valley I'm here to urge your support for mayor mayhem's Back to Basics budget, especially in light of recent development in San Francisco businesses, including Westfield mall, are leaving due to escalating homelessness crisis. We must learn from their situation and act decisively to prevent a similar fake here. Mayor mahan's housed now plan focusing on low-cost quick-filled units has reduced our unsheltered population by 10.7 percent.

BB

This approach aligns with measure ease, promised to utilize, high-value property transfer tax funds to address homelessness and affordable housing shortages. The cost of inaction is high. Last year nearly 250 homeless individuals tragically died in North County streets and the cost of managing an unsheltered population is approximately 65 000 per person annually. We cannot wait the time to act as now. Thank you.

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Dominic Chao, followed by Nicole Wiltshire.

BC

Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Dominic Chao and I'm, a lifelong San, Jose resident and I'm finishing my first year at Santa, Clara University I am here to ask for your support in mayor mahan's budget I have seen firsthand our homelessness and trash problem continue to rise every other day, I hear about another robbery, vandalism or assault in the news. As a member of this community I am frustrated with what seems like no change.

BC

We are one of the biggest cities in America and I want to be proud to say that this is my home, the most looked to new Solutions. Thank you.

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Nicole followed by Dean Cuarta.

BD

Hello I'm, a resident of Japan Town in San, Jose I, moved here in 2019 from New, York, City and I love, Japan, town, but I have to say it has been pretty disappointing, seeing the amount of crime that goes. You know that pretty much just runs amok um and the homelessness in the city.

BD

um I've been discouraged from taking Trails locally the Guadalupe Trail, my boyfriend Was Bitten on his bike by a homeless person's dog um and yeah I, just I'm here to support Matt mahon's bill um for back to the basics. Budget.

BD

um I think it's time to change the course of our strategy, and um you know prioritize things that can really help us turn the leaf and make this a safer and better City. Thanks.

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Dean followed by Cindy Vinson.

BE

District Six all I have to say is Matt. You really inherited a big pile of worms here, uh there's a lot of money in homelessness and we can see it all around us now with uh Andrea deridan and Jennifer, loving, homeless, Advocates and all these other groups and uh all this money is going right down the brain.

BE

What we have to do is really get serious about this and it's a drug problem. Nothing else. That's all. It is we're, inheriting all the drug problems from across the country, because the weather is beautiful here and we provide good services.

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Cindy followed by Robin Quinn.

BF

I support Matt mahan's budget, especially as it pertains to construction of quick, build interim housing for the unhoused.

BF

Let's imagine the budget was passed between the interim houses built and occupied, and the RV and car lots located in several different locations. We will have turned the tide on this humanitarian crisis. I do believe. San Jose's best years are within our reach if we focus our attention and resources and align them to the intention of a better City for all I call on the council members to support the mayor's budget.

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Okay, Robin, followed by David Noel.

BG

Hi, my name is Robin and I'm, a resident of San Jose in downtown close to Japan, Town um and I. Ask you to support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres to protect measure e funds for permanent, affordable housing. The city needs affordable housing. We need it today. We need it yesterday. We need it for tomorrow.

BG

um You know I want my kids to be able to afford the house in this city um one day and at this moment like it's, not a possibility.

BG

um I live amongst a lot of unhoused neighbors here downtown who are surviving. You know they need. They need both shelters and affordable public housing, but measure e was put into place to protect, affordable, permanent housing and that's what it needs to do. Thank you so much.

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David followed by Andrew Bigelow foreign.

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BH

Noel District 9 resident and president of Erickson neighborhood association I urge you to support the mayor's proposed budget, including reallocation of partial measure, e funds to provide dignified housing with wraparound services to homeless individuals, five times faster and a rate 10 times lower costs than the status quo. We're in a crisis, 20 247 homeless people died in our streets last year way more than the number of people killed in traffic accidents and murders combined the quicker an unhoused individuals sheltered the better their chances of success.

BH

The wraparound Services they receive will lift some to self-sufficiency or reunite them with family. Reducing the number and eating permanent Supportive Housing in the spirit of Silicon Valley I urge you to try a new solution. This year measure the results and then make data driven course, Corrections again next year, it's time to move the needle much faster. Please give the mayor's plan a chance, you'll be on the right side of History. Thank you.

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Andrew, followed by Joe.

BI

How you doing my name is Andrew Bigelow I'm from the East side, I live in District Six, uh also part of Silicon Valley debug I would like to ask the question: why are we being made to choose between temporary and permanent housing? I think that that's a false Choice uh and if you care about houses, folks so much um and want to solve this immediate uh issue in this problem, um then why don't we? Why don't we take that money from anywhere else in an over five billion dollar budget?

BI

Why does doing that have to result in defunding permanent housing? Maybe we could start with the half a billion dollar police budget that we have to be able to start this plan? If that's what we want to do, it's a false choice and I I gotta say that I'm hearing a lot of I don't hear care I hear folks that don't want to see poor folks on the way to work or to get coffee.

BI

um This is not the solution. It's just removing folks like this.

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Joe, followed by Larry.

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C

Came to move on to Larry, followed by Mike foreign.

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C

Okay, I'm gonna, move on to Mike.

BJ

Thank you mayor and council members. My name is Mike angolia I've lived in San Jose, my entire life of 56 years and now live in the Santa Teresa neighborhood I've never seen an elected official work as hard and as quickly as this mayor to fulfill his campaign promises. The people voted him in based on his ideas and I urge you to support his budget plan and support for emergency housing.

BJ

I have had personal experience with the homeless, I've known people that were on the streets and helped them get off the streets. It all starts with them. Having a safe and secure place.

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BK

BJ

Only then can they focus on stability, getting and keeping a job and truly taking care of themselves. The mayor's plan is the best and Only Solution I've heard for really making a difference. We need to spend our money wisely, not just for us, but for these people who need a clean, safe place to.

BL

BJ

The current approach isn't working, it takes too long and is highly inefficient. They need Services guidance and they need it as soon as possible. The alternative is inhumane for them and unfair for the hard-working taxpayers of the city.

C

Okay, moving back to people in person, I have Victor Niemeyer, Carl Lee um looks like Deacon Poe, Michelle, Perry and Carl San Miguel and again you can come down in any order. That's Victor Niemeyer Carl, Lee Deacon, ho Michelle, Perry and Carl San Miguel go ahead. Hi.

BM

I'm here, as a 44 year resident I'm, Victor Niemeyer I've time, I've lived in San Jose things have not gotten better. I really do care about people who are not housed, I, think the things we've been doing haven't been working. We need to do more, but we need to do it faster now. The phrase is sort of slow and steady wins the race, but we're sort of dealing with what you might call a dumpster fire. This is not a time to foot around and I have understand that.

BM

There's other alternate proposals and I do for more long-term housing, I like more housing but I. Don't really trust the city to be able to do a dent in it. That will really make a difference so, as I say in Spanish my father used to tell me, though we need to do stuff now, thanks.

C

Thank you next speaker.

BN

Mayor council members, my name is Carl Lee I. Ask you to support the mayor's budget proposal because it does help get people off the streets this year, not in five years. I also want to address the folks in this room that thinks that Realtors, don't care.

BN

I was going to share some personal stories for myself and my colleagues but I think the email that you got from our staff member at score um about the incident that happened last week did a better job at that than I can articulate so I'm going to share with you as an immigrant product of Mayfair, Elementary School, which I believe is now Cesar Chavez Elementary in Shepherd, Middle School on Rough and Ready Road, that I learned the value of democracy and that's a weekend.

BN

That said, we can have a civil conversation and debate in settings like this in other venues.

BN

But if you're going to come and intimidate us to be silent and not show up, I will thank you because that only empowers me to be more vocal and amplify. My voice. I will continue to be here to speak on what I think is right. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker I'd also like to call Mary gloner um kulsaria, Henderson and Michelle peacock.

BO

Mayor vice mayor council members, my name is Michelle. What is Perry and I am a local realtor and the president-elect for the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors I'm born and raised in San, Jose, third generation and I'm sad to say most of my hometown is unrecognizable.

BO

We need real change, real solutions and we need it now. We need housing. Now we have a crisis and it's growing every day, it's inhumane to keep our neighbors unhoused.

BO

So I want to thank you, council, member Foley and vice mayor Kane for your support and I'm in favor of Mayor mahan's budget proposal for measure e. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

BP

Mayor and council members in the spirit of measure e-funds, was a promise to support housing in both the affordability of long-term housing and the interim housing. From the monies raised by measure e-transfer tax on real estate. We do not have enough to support the interim housing. We have over 6 000 people living on the Streets of San Jose. These people deserve an opportunity to lift themselves up and get off the streets. Interim housing is the first step in accomplishing that building and purchasing long-term housing does not move quickly enough interim housing does accomplish.

BP

Addressing the citizens living on the streets, homeless camps degrade the neighborhood caused damage to the environment, cause crime, to increase and produce more drug abuse. Without the tiny homes there is no hope of lifting people from the streets. So the problem, the problem will continue to grow and degrade. The neighborhoods I support the mayor's initiative. They increase the 35 percent, the monies for measure e to assist in the house. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

BQ

Good evening my name is Mary gloner I lead a non-profit dedicated to youth, mental health and suicide prevention, I'm.

BQ

Also, a member of the race Equity action leadership, Coalition I'm, also a homeowner and a resident of council member Dev, Davis's District native to the Bay Area San Jose, housed employed educated and served me for nearly three decades as a community health professional dedicated to advancing Health Equity I learned through well-published research globally and nationally that housing and safety are social determinants, help where housing and anti-violence policies, our Public Health policies that could significantly improve or obstruct the health and well-being of populations, especially the vulnerable groups.

BQ

That is why I applaud council members, Davis Taurus and Ortiz's measure e memo that maximize investing in affordable housing and addresses the need for additional temporary shelter. Thank you also for including a pilot program to establish a community-led and non-police response to interpersonal violence. Thank you.

C

I'd also like to call Mike sabila, Doug, Goss and Laura Sandoval.

BR

Good good evening, Mr Mayor members of the city council, I'm Michelle peacock I, am a 23-year resident of San Jose in District, Six and tonight I'm here on behalf of the San Jose Public Library Foundation. We wanted to thank you for your continued investment in our Public Library system by maintaining Sunday hours at 17 branches, funding, critical staff positions and investing in a late fee waiver for our seniors. In the latest budget proposal.

BR

Our community is safer and stronger when we invest in our libraries for all of the reasons that we've been listening to tonight, about building our communities and making them safer and stronger open libraries provide a safe place for many of our community school-aged children, youth and adults. A commitment to keeping our libraries open ensures more San Jose community members are able to access the critical resources they need through the library system.

BR

Our our unhoused brothers and sisters can search for housing in the library in using the technology that's available there and finally, the library finds and fear of accruing them have posed a significant barrier to our most vulnerable population, to our investment, investment and late fees. For seniors to go away is very much appreciated. Thank you. Thank.

C

You before the next speaker speaks I just want to. Let you guys know. We have 195 speaker cards, um you're, we're getting questions to say like am I in the pile or when am I coming up. We can't answer all of those questions because there's 195 cards we are calling everybody we're calling them basically in the order they were received. So if you could just be patient, we will get to you. Don't worry.

C

Thank you. Go ahead.

BS

Good evening, thank you so much. My name is kulzaria Henderson and I'm. The executive director at next door, solutions to domestic violence, I'm also a member of the of the real Coalition and I just wanted to say um and lend my support to the member from Council Members, Davis, Taurus and Ortiz um that protects the money in measure e.

BS

In addition, I wanted to express my appreciation for the inclusion of the support and support for the establishment of a non-police response to interpersonal violence, that this strategy trusts and invests in our community and our community's ability to address Public Safety. Now is the time for Public, Safety reform and I. Ask you to double down on your Investments as you prioritize prevention and prioritize prevention. Please use this lens and address this in this budget cycle as you look and review and make a decision tomorrow. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

BT

Hello, my name is Mike sibilia I'm, a resident of Willow Glen and I own, a business in Santa Teresa I'm here tonight to urge you to support the mayor's Back to Basics budget I'm, asking you to get behind utilizing funds to build interim housing immediately to help the unhoused and reduce the encampments that seem to be flourishing and growing every day, we're tired of the status quo with regard to housing.

BT

The only thing that seems to not be the status quo is the increase of crimes in our neighborhood, the trash on our streets and roadways, and the strain of emergency Health interventions, the housed and housed and unhoused deserve the interim housing. Please support this budget.

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Sonia Morrison and Jesse Gomez.

D

Good evening mayor vice mayor council members, my name is Doug Goss I'm, a resident of District 10. I'm, also a past president of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors, and are proud to be a realtor I'm here tonight to speak in favor of Mayor mayhem's budget proposal. We need housing now, measuring funds are for both affordable housing and our homelessness crisis.

D

I want to thank vice mayor, kamay, councilmember Foley for supporting mayor mayhem's Back to Basics budget I urge the rest of the council to also support mayor mahan's budget I also want to comment that our Santa Clara County Association realtor charitable Foundation, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars local organizations to fight homelessness and that over 29 million dollars of the misery funds generated were transacted by Realtors. Thank you.

BU

Good evening, mayor and council members I'm Laura Sandoval I'm, the regional director for path in Santa Clara County. Every day, hundreds of my colleagues in organizational partners are doing the hard and necessary work of ending homelessness. Our Outreach team respond to crises and provide field-based services. Our interim housing programs like Evans Lane and D6, provide a safe place for dozens of families to breathe easy. While we find more stable housing and critically our affordable housing development arm builds the only lasting solution to homelessness more homes.

BU

Since measure e was passed, the council has ensured that the allocations reflect a healthy mix of Investments. Interim shelter saves lives, but the successive interim shelters is wholly dependent on the availability of permanent housing at Evans Lane. For instance, more than half of our original residents graduated into other permanent housing programs, and this was only possible because of the investment made in long-term permanent Housing Solutions. That's why we support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker and Bob's I think it says. Zapatoski also come on down. Go ahead. My.

BV

Name is Heather St, Louis and I'm. The founder and CEO of the new nonprofit animal rescue.

BV

Ccrf I started this rescue because in just a two weeks time we picked up six displaced or abandoned dogs all who were turned away at the San Jose Animal Care Center, due to Max Capacity, one ended up being sick and needing emergency medical care, almost compromising her vision and one ended up being pregnant and birthing three puppies with a second needing emergency resuscitation, with the proper funding for more ability to assist with fostering adoptions, low-cost, Fame neutering, the outcome of all these dogs could have been different.

BV

We have had an all-time high of neglect and abandonment and is up to us to save them. My organization is dedicated fully to the aid of San Jose Animal, Care Center, but with resources being load is challenging. With more funding in place, we would have more hands on deck and to Aid less surrenders and Strays and be able to provide more medical resources when needed. Animals cannot control their fate. We do it takes a village and I urge you to step up and with us and be that change. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

BW

Good evening my name is Jesse Gomez and I'm. The associate director of Community Affairs philanthropy of Santa Clara County at path. We do everything it takes to bring someone from a tent on a sidewalk or a Parkway, into a safe and stable home from Street Outreach to enter housing and critically permanent, affordable housing development. We agree that status quo is not as unacceptable. We feel the pain of our unhoused neighbors acutely. They are not just clients, they are our friends and loved ones. 20 of our staff has experienced homelessness themselves.

BW

Interim shelter saves lives and we absolutely need more beds, but the success of interim shelters is wholly dependent on the availability of permanent housing, the balance of it. The balance investment of measure e in San Jose become the largest city California to actually decrease homelessness last year. That's why we support the mammal from council member Davis, Taurus and Ortiz maintaining measured e allocations and investing in general fund dollars in interim housing. We encourage the council to approve their memo of tomorrow's vote and look forward to working with each of you urgently to address this issue.

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BX

Good evening, mayor and council members, Bob zapatowski I'm a business owner in District Five I'm, here to speak in support of Mayor mahan's budget request and the Back to Basics budget in particular, as it relates to highlighting essential services and the reallocation between short-term and long-term Homeless Solutions. Thank you for making that proposal.

BX

I think that's critical in terms of getting people off the streets and getting them into shelters where they're disassociated from the groups that Foster and and perpetuate the problems that they have, that that result in the ongoing homelessness uh in a in large uh part. That will also help in terms of improving the living condition and the cleanliness within the city. So again, um thank you for that proposal and I urge Council to vote in support of Mayor mayhem's proposal. Thank you.

C

Okay, on zoom we're going to try Joe and Larry Burch again.

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Okay, Donna ing Donna, followed by Josh Sello.

BY

Can you hear me yes, yes, um mayor and Council I live in District 11 and in in favor of Mayor mayhem's budget I am a part of a faith community that hosted a safe park for 16 weeks. Every one of our guests was grateful to have a restful night's sleep without worrying about what would happen to them while out on the streets once their basic needs of food rest and safe shelter were met, they were able to expand their focus.

BY

We connected them with resources that were beneficial for them. Most of them accepted this help with enthusiasm. We witnessed many Transformations during these few weeks, some of which led to eventual permanent housing for some of them, it meant getting to a place that they felt they could reconnect with family or friends, either here or in other parts of the state or country and begin a new life. Obviously, the quick build in this budget would reach so many more people than we were able to in our little community and assist them achieve goals.

BY

They may never have felt possible otherwise and to prepare them on the path.

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Josh followed by James mccaskill.

BZ

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Evening, mayor.

BZ

Vice mayor and City Council Members, this is Josh Sello CEO of Bill Wilson.

CA

BZ

And I'm coming to you with actually two requests tonight. The first is to add 5 million to the best appropriation for the next fiscal year, and the second is to move forward with the recommendations from Council, Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz relating to measure e in terms of best funding. Bill Wilson Center strongly encourages the city council to invest more funds to empower our young people to be resilient and engage members of our communities in terms of measure.

BZ

E I want to see us support a yes and approach, a plan that both provides interim and permanent housing, which gives us a Continuum of options that still places priority on permanent, affordable housing, but it's a reflections of our belief and values and they require tough choices and trade-offs, but I hope you'll continue to invest in ways and support long-term self-sufficiency, Independence and success for all San Jose residents. Thank you.

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James, followed by Mike.

CB

Good evening, mayor and Council, this is James mccaskill, representing Catholic Charities to Santa Clara County, like Josh. We also are concerned about funding for the best program and the success of San Jose youth. We appreciate the inclusion of the city manager's budget amendment number 23 of 4 4 increase in best funding. However, the manager's budget amendments number 24 and 25 are missing to double the best funding by 5 million and to include youth mental health services at 926 thousand dollars as a committed Community partner with the city and supporting the needs of Youth Empowerment.

CB

Reducing Community violence. Catholic Charities strongly encourages the city council to invest more, to empower our youth to be resilient, engage members of our communities. Thank you.

C

Mike Mike, followed by Buford.

CC

Hi, can you hear us yes.

CD

Good evening my name is didio Moore and my husband is Mike. Carter we've been residents in the community for well over 30 years, we're calling in tonight to express our wholehearted support for mayor mayhem's, budget and Back to Basics approach. Frankly, last election, we all joined together to work very hard to look at a new approach to look to get to results for our community.

CD

So I can't urge this Council enough to discard the old way because, after all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, not accusing the council being insane on a lighter note, but really truly want a different result. Thank you all for your dedication, your time and your evening, and for letting us come to you with our voice. We appreciate it wholeheartedly.

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Buford followed by Peter Allen.

CE

Hello, can you hear me yes? Yes, this is a Beaufort bar I'm, a 38 year resident of San Jose and I, strongly support mayor, mahan's budget and uh and his plans to get back to the basics and I urge the council to approve it tomorrow.

CE

Let's take San Jose back to being the true capital of Silicon Valley and not the capital of Holiness crime and crumbling infrastructure, and also that's the city council consider uh and uh the importance and priority of all citizens in San Jose. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Council members.

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Peter, followed by Kiyomi.

CA

The mayor and city council, my name is Peter Allen and I'm. An Arts Advocate I want to thank the mayor and the administration for including one-time resources for Arts and Cultural programs in the proposed City budget for FY 2324. These one-time resources will help sustain the creative industry during a period of severely diminished transient occupancy tax revenues.

CA

However, the one-time nature of this investment only underscores that the time has come for our city leaders to identify and prioritize Pathways to sustainable Arts funding and, with that in mind, I stand with San Jose, Arts Advocates and calling on the council to pursue a percent for art allocation for private development and to support recommendation number four in the memo from Council Members, Torres, Davis, Ortiz, batra and Doan related to the tot allocation. Thank you very much for your service and your consideration and have a great evening.

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Kim Kiyomi Yamamoto, followed by Roma Dawson.

CF

I'm, the director of housing at Silicon, Valley, Community, Foundation I'm, also a San Jose voter from District 10 and voted for measure e and I'm here tonight to support the memo by council, member David, Ortiz and Taurus I'm deeply concerned about the many attempts at page Missouri, which undermines voter trust. It's not smart. Proponents of the changes through the measure. E allocations can only help to reduce visible homelessness, no long-term Solutions and that's not progress. Approximately 12 000 neighbors are experiencing homelessness, which is directly tied to our failure to provide permanent, affordable housing.

CF

The wall, in-home housing, plays an important role. Interim housing without measure ease, support for permanent, affordable housing is a bridge to nowhere and that's what major eats precisely working to do since voters passed it and we need Leaders with the courage and focus to make affordable housing a reality. Thank you.

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CG

uh Yes, I'm here now and apologies uh I, want to speak in strong support of the uh budget mess the budget message issued by council members, Davis Taurus and Ortiz. It's a very sensible approach where we're able to have both options and I do hope. All those people, speaking in support of the mayor's budget proposal, actually read their message. There is no choice that has to be made here and I. Just thank the three of them. Profoundly I also want to speak in favor of the addiction Help Center. Thank you very much.

C

Okay, um Todd Langton is the last speaker. I'm calling on Zoom so um followed by Todd is Alfred, I can't read the last name, but it's Alfred V Cecilio, villafania, Veronica, Duarte and Bertha Mendoza go ahead. Todd.

CH

Hi, my name is Todd Langton with Agape Silicon Valley. Our teams are out there regularly weekly a visiting the unhoused in San Jose I just want to say that uh well, first of all, I strongly support mayor mayhem's proposal in, in all honesty, it's not big enough. We are so far behind this dragon that we're trying to slay. For years and years behind, we kicked the cat down the road, the road so far, and so long it's going to take a lot to get caught up.

CH

We are in a crisis, yet we don't act like we're in a crisis if they're, if your houses were being burned down or earthquakes, you would expect our city council's members to step up and provide interim emergency Supportive Housing, with the emphasis on the letter e emergency. Let's step up and do the right thing, we've got to go big and we got to go quick. Our friends, neighbors and families who are unhoused are dying needlessly out there way too soon.

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CJ

Good afternoon my name is Cecilio. Villafana I have lived I'm a resident for 23 years here in San, Jose and I'm here to support measure e, affordable housing for the residents of San Jose I've, been here for 23 years and for the past 20 years the rents have gone up, and that is through my experience that I have from what I have noticed through my experience and because it's just not possible to pay the rent any longer and we're here requesting for you to vote for measure.

CJ

E A lot of people have found themselves obligated to leave San Jose because they are looking for better rent and affordable rent because they cannot pay the rent here and that's about all I am here for I am just asking for you to vote for measure e. Thank you.

CI

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CJ

Okay, hello good afternoon, my name is Bertha Mendez and I am a resident of San Jose for the past 40 years. I am a community leader with Luna and I'm here to support the memorandum on behalf of council members, Davis, Ortiz and Taurus. It is related with measure e, and this is because the focus the maximum focus is on affordable housing uh temporary, as well as permanent. Aside from that, they also address the temporary housing addition that is needed.

CJ

In addition, also, the the city needs to specifically prioritize equality for the recouper for the in evaluating the recuperate, sorry to recuperate the financial and prioritize the financial things that are key to the group of work, the recovering workers, so that they can address the necessary things that need to continue to help continue the community that is being affected by the pandemic.

CJ

Many of the families have been affected by the pandemic and they have not been able to recover and is very sad to see these to see these people that have been displaced from San Jose due to the high cost of rents. Thank you for your time, sir and council. Members. I, thank you.

CN

Good afternoon my name is Alfredo Villa, Senor and I live in District, Five, councilman, Ortiz and I'm here very simple um here to ask you to approve the mayor's proposed budget that includes assistance and addressing uh uh unhoused residents in our area at Temple. If all of you will vote for it, that will happen. Thank.

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CJ

Good afternoon my name is Veronica Duarte I'm, a community leader with Luna I'm here to support the memorandum on behalf of council members, David, Torres and Ortiz in which is related to measure e, because the focus is in creating housing, affordable housing as well as permanent housing. We are grateful of that. It also includes a pilot program in which it establishes responses that are not police that are not going to be violent, interpersonal, violent police responses and as well.

CJ

We request that you uh add additional priorities in the process of the pre before the budget that is in. That is right now in due course, for example, specifically prioritizing the equality of the recovery uh and to evaluate and to provide financial help to to the key priorities of the group of worker, of the recovery group of workers, so that it they may address what is necessary in the communities currently that are being most affected by the pandemic.

CJ

I live in Valley, Palms, Apartments and, unfortunately, many of the people have been forced to uh just to move because of. There is a lack of affordable housing as well as permanent housing. That many of these families are at risk for ending up without a home. Thank you for considering my request.

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Thank you next speaker.

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My name is Gabriel manrique, a restaurant District 3, also a tenant organized with Luna and also part of the non-profit, racial Equity, actual leadership position.

CP

We support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz relating to measure e, because it makes the most sense to invest in affordable and permanent housing and addresses a need for additional temporary shelter. Also I appreciate the inclusion of pilot program to establish now police responses to interpersonal violence, and we are also asking that additional priorities. Pierre and ongoing buyer processes like prioritizing racial Equity work in the city of San Jose by ensuring full Staffing as a tenant. Organizer I have seen so many code enforcement violations.

CP

However, because the department is not fully staffed and are at capacity, many tenants are living in suitable conditions and that cannot be happening in San Jose, the heart of the Silicon Valley. Thank you for your resurrection and please support Torres, Ortiz and Davis memo.

C

Thank you next speaker.

AA

Good evening, mayor and city council, my name is Lucille I'm here with Silicon Valley rising, and you know I'm here, because I want to support. We support the The Memo from Council Members, Davis tourists and Ortiz. We believe that we must do both um permanent solutions to and and um sorry interim Solutions. You know more than half of our thousands of residents spend more than half of their rent of their income on rent, and so they are at risk of losing their homes and interim housing. Interim shelter is not going to solve that problem.

AA

We have to build more affordable housing of just options to ensure that folks have a path for permanent home in the future. um Interim shelters may be cheaper with quick to build, but, as pointed out by a spotlight article today, there will be a drain of the city's resources for the foreseeable future. So I hope that you will approve the memo from council member Davis, um Torres and Ortiz and um I feel like every chance. I come here.

AA

I get the you know the opportunity to see the need for interpretation in the city and so we're looking forward to the pilot program that the clerk is launching in August to have Vietnamese and Spanish interpretation, which is highly needed, as you can see today. Thank you.

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CR

Good evening Council, my name is Tao I'm, a resident of District 4. I, also work for the South Bay Community Land Trust as an organizer and a property manager. I have a question how many homeless or formerly homeless, people did y'all consult for this proposed budget. Soon after me, you're going to hear from someone who's been homeless, but now stays in permanently affordable housing thanks to the land, trust acquisition of the Reese Street home, which, by the way, was purchased for the market price of 1.6 million dollars for four doors.

CR

So not a million dollars a door and it's not about the doors. It's about the six lives that live behind those doors, all of whom are people of color who have been homeless, who are veterans who are formally incarcerated. The mayor's proposal, which reduces the acquisition and Rehab portion of measure E from 26 million to zero dollars, is a direct threat to the success of Reed Street, the potential purchase of the Virginia Avenue apartments and any similar preservation efforts that permanently transforms people's lives in their neighborhoods.

CR

This Council voted no on Coppa, saying that y'all understood what preservation means, and here we have thank you proposal to cut preservation, vote Yes on the David. Thank you as an Ortiz memo.

C

I have Safari Franklin Safari Franklin Jeremy Bruce Giovanni, forcina, Anthony tordios.

CS

Good evening Council, my name is Giovanni and I'm, a resident in the South University neighborhood I'm, here, to express my strong opposition to the reallocation of measure e-funds and to support the proposal by council members Torres, Ortiz and Davis since at least 2007 San Jose has failed to meet its affordable housing goals.

CS

Even now, if a hundred percent of measure e-funds were used to subsidize affordable projects, the city will still be on track for a shortfall of tens of thousands of units, and so it strikes me as unconscionable that the city would divert even a single Cent from measure e mayor. Mayhem's proposal comes at a time when San Jose is actively losing residence and recently it spot as the 10th largest city in part because of the high cost of housing.

CS

I support the need for more shelters and resources for the unhoused and hope that the council does so. However, it is nonsensical to do this by taking away funds from the only long-term solution to the affordable to the housing affordability crisis, which is to actually build ample, affordable, housing. I hope Council considers a long-term future of our wonderful City Beyond this next election and I hope that this I hope that you will help the city Thrive and be an accessible place for everyone to live. Please do not reallocate measure e-funds. Thank you.

CK

Good evening, Council and staff, my name is Anthony tordios and I'm here to speak against the reallocation of major e funds. This is a crisis that's decades in the making, with the city facing a shortfall of more than 30 000, affordable units since 2007. the fact that the mayor would seek to defund, affordable housing. Amidst this historic crisis is unconscionable, and it's not just The Advocates before you today, who oppose the mayor's plan, Council previously appointed hcdc. As the oversight committee for measure e spending, that body recently unanimously voted against the mayor's plan.

CK

The city's housing director likewise highlighted that the mayor's plan fails to consider the investment required to operate and not just construct. These interim shelters in the San Jose Spotlight showed that a single interim shelter requires more City investment over its lifetime than a unit of permanent, affordable housing. Not less. Finally, I'd like to speak in opposition to the mayor's proposal to sidestep the super majority requirement for changing measure. E allocations.

CK

When voters passed measure a the council intentionally put the super majority threshold in place specifically to protect the funding from the whims of the future political actors. Please.

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Support the Davis Ortiz.

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And Taurus spending memo.

CT

Good evening, mayor and council members, my name is Bruce and I'm, asking you to support Matt mahan's and your budget 2023-2024 budget um I believe it's the Practical approach to homelessness. You know and addressing the homelessness issue and as I've read the measure uh Eve allocation, we're not disregarding affordable housing and long-term housing, but we are addressing the emergent. The immediate emergent crisis and prerequisite to affordable housing with emergency housing and the um the other aspects of the budget are critical for me as well.

CT

The uh police and safety recruiting and and making San Jose safe, is, is personal and important to me today, my 70 year old babysitter for my 12 year old daughter, thank.

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I just want to note that um after these three speakers we're going to go back to zoom speakers, I think there was some confusion when I said we're we're stopping Zoom. So we are going back to you. Go ahead.

CU

um My name is Layla and I've been supporting Matt Mayhem and his campaign for a long time and I support his um his budgeting for hiring more police officers to protect our cities and um and to house homeless, and to make San Jose beautiful again. Thank you all for listening.

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Thank you next speaker.

CV

Council members, my name, is Sahari: I live at the Reed Street property, the first one I'm from the CEO of South Bay, Community, Land, Trust, um I'm an example that this does work about putting people into a permanent housing. Okay.

CV

um But it was a short joy that you know uh that this happened. You know it was a short Droid that I that was lived, um but um because we all remember what we what happened with Copa, yet uh we are all here again beating the same dead horse. Okay, uh my point: we have not moved forward. We have not done no progression to a problem, a big problem. Okay, um you know putting people into side into makeshift communities.

CV

This is not that's not going to work, because would you move there to a place like that? Okay, so please tell me, though, that I did not go, and so many others have gone overseas to fight and to have to come home to fight here for a decent for a place to live.

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CW

Good afternoon, Jeremy Bruce with Amigos de Guadalupe Center for justice and empowerment and I urged the council to support the memo from Council Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres that preserves measure e funds for responsible Investments, Emergency Shelters and the construction of affordable housing as an organization that operates three interim housing and five safe Park sites. Amigos de Guadalupe supports the investment in more interim shelter programs, but not at the expense of permanent housing programs.

CW

As interim housing operators, we have seen firsthand the the impact on families when they're able to move into their permanent and forever homes. With very few other sources available.

CW

We need to preserve all affordable housing funds to intentionally address our housing crisis and, as a member of the sisa puede collective I also urge the council to adopt recommendations from the kovid recovery task force and the children and families master plan to support East San Jose families. Thank you.

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Clawson, followed by Rhys.

CX

Foreign house crisis we face with permanent, affordable housing as a fallacy. When we all know it takes years to build and house just a small number of people. There are far too many living in inhumane conditions. We pay millions for non-profit organizations with little to no accountability and there are very the very ones today, I hear pushing for housing first over a plan that provides better living conditions for our most vulnerable unhoused residents. Housing first has been a failure over the last 10 years.

CX

Let's try something new that will provide interim housing for many people and, in the end, will increase the quality of life for those suffering, as well as a taxpayer whose quality advice is life is diminished. Due to this crisis. The Davis memo keeps interim housing at the status quo and we need bold new ideas like the mayor's plan. Let's get our street Sparks and waterways safe again for all residents.

CX

I can't imagine anyone on the council who would not be in support of mariam's housing now plan when we need quick, build housing for a large number of unhoused.

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Greece, followed by David.

CY

Hi, my name is Rhys enghart, a local community member with Serge speaking in solidarity with survivors of the street at Sacred Heart, I, support council member Davis, Torres and Ortiz's plan for measure e funds to prioritize, affordable housing and to fight money for emergency interim housing elsewhere in the budget. I also support the asks from the letter from Silicon Valley debug tonight. I've heard many people say we need to provide housing for people are currently unhoused totally agree to do that. We need affordable housing too.

CY

People need a place to land, it can't be all temporary. So interim housing is not a is a temporary solution and more people will become unhoused in the future. Given our housing prices are increasing, so we need more affordable housing. So I urge the city council to vote for a plan created by the council member Steph, Davis, Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz. Thank you.

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Robert Brownstein.

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Good evening, mayor and members of the city council, my name is David beanie and I am a resident of San Jose and a member of the mayoral transition committee, as the executive director for the Santa Clara and San Benito County's, building and construction trades Council I also represent thousands of construction workers in this area who are experiencing the housing crisis, like many others of our residents I'm speaking tonight, in support of the Davis Torres and Ortiz memo.

CZ

The main argument against measure e was that the city could subvert the will of the voters and use most or all of the measure e-funds for purposes other than the construction of affordable housing. To do so would be an abuse of the public trust and undermines future efforts to solve the housing housing crisis again. I urge your support for the Davis, Ortiz and Torres memo. Thank you.

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Robert followed by Adolfo Gomez foreign.

DA

A 45-year resident of San Jose many members of the city council deserve to be commended for their efforts to improve the budget for homelessness and housing. They took the mayor's original, infeasible and divisive proposal and struggled to transform it into a plan that could work in the public interest. The Davis Torres Ortiz memos, particularly impressive. It is most likely to actually do what the mayor claims he wants to do. Move people from encampments into temporary housing. It can do that by providing those people with a place to live when their tenure and temporary housing ends.

DA

The mayor's new approach returns those people to the streets, council, members, Cohen and Jimenez a right to point out that Davis memo lacks funding for certain important City personnel. They should amend the Davis Memo by directing staff to locate the needed funding. Thank you.

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Adolfo, followed by Lewis.

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DB

Yes, hello. Can you hear me? Yes, hi? My name is Adolfo Gomez um mayor council members, I've been resident of San Jose for over 23 years, I've been part of the small business Community for over 15.. When we talk about people who need the permanent housing uh in reality, what they pay for rent is is very pricey for what they make.

DB

One of the reasons I'm supporting major proposal is because helping the business to create more Revenue, helping the business to keep our employees employed because, right now at least half of my group is already losing hours or losing hours so that translate less money on the table every day, so having a solution for a small business, not just in downtown, but overall everywhere we see we have this problem and we got to make a solution. Thank.

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Louis moranti, followed by Kelsey.

CC

Good evening, mayor Mayhem and council members, my name is Louis morante I am vice president of public policy with the Bay Area Council, we're here to support the mayor's proposal tonight and urge your support for it as well. uh Does everyone here well, where we're in a immense housing crisis in this region? That's threatening our long-term economic liability and the ability of our Region's employers to retain and recruit employees from around the country.

CC

We need an all hands on deck approach, to bring folks back downtown, to make housing more affordable and and to get folks into shelter and off. The street California has the nation's highest rate of unsheltered homelessness, about 75 percent of homeless. People in this state are unsheltered versus about 90 in the state of New York being sheltered. That's a huge difference on those people's lives on their outcomes. They face. Lower rates of domestic abuse and and and in general, are able to find housing in a faster, more secure way.

CC

Urge your support for the mayor's thoughtful proposal tonight.

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Kelsey fall by Jeff.

DC

My name is Kelsey and I'm in D9 and I support the budget collaboratively proposed by council member Foley vice mayor kame and mayor Mayhem. Sometimes we have to say no to something good to say yes to something better for many of you on the council. That may be what the budget vote feels like you'll have to say no to many good things. In order to truly prioritize the most critical issue homelessness, we must start with the most critical issue. First, if we want to rebuild San Jose homelessness is a humanitarian and environmental crisis.

DC

It is causing businesses, residents and conventions to look for other places to spend their time and money, and we need these things in order to be able to give more yeses in future budget sessions. The memo proposed by council member Davis says we are okay. Allowing the status quo to continue voting in favor of the mayor's proposed budget says we are ready to get San Jose back to being vibrant I believe it is time to do something different. It is time to challenge the status quo and get back to.

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Jeff, followed by Tamara.

DD

Hello good evening, mayor and Council, my name is Jeff Schuler and I live in District 10.. um First I want to thank the mayor for explaining his proposal at the recent Community meetings and I also want to thank those who opposed his proposed changes for speaking up and articulating their concerns. I learned a lot talking to them.

DD

I agree that the need for quick, builds and RV parking spaces are definitely the most things that are most urgently needed, but I also see the need for larger scale, affordable housing, both in progress as well as new projects, I read, Davis, Torres and Ortiz's proposal and I think it's very interesting I think they found a way to make both things happen, and if my reading is correct, then I encourage Council to adopt that or a similar proposal.

DD

If I've misunderstood, then I support and back the Back to Basics approach, prioritizing the quick builds and RV lots, and the last point I want to make is I. Don't want you to think this is only the government's problem I as a citizen want to help with quick builds too.

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Tomorrow, haul followed by in person, Tobias MacLeod, Ally, victorine and Mary Helen Doherty, hello,.

DE

Everyone, my name, is Tamara Hall and I'm, a resident of District 3 in Downtown, San Jose for nearly a decade I'm a black and Mexican woman, who is a teacher and I oppose the investment of sjpd I, just want to say that, because I notice, a lot of people are talking about fear of the unhoused neighbors or population and I do not think it's safe for the police.

DE

um Our community needs Investments for our unhoused neighbors um and we need permanent, supportive and affordable housing years of failing to invest in affordable housing, while adding thousands of Highways jobs in San, Jose has driven rents up, pushed more and more people into homelessness, and, unfortunately, people who already face discrimination in housing, employment, education or the criminal justice system are more likely to be forced into homelessness.

DE

um Additionally, interim shelter is a temporary solution that only works if there are permanent, affordable homes available to move into the vast majority. 86 percent of people who moved into permanent housing moved into subsidized housing housing, which would be defunded under the current proposal. Please support the prior iteration of measure e. Thank you.

C

I'm going to recall the names that I just called These are in person: Tobias MacLeod, Ally, victorine, Mary, Helen, Doherty and in case they're gone. um Let's call Chris Lujan Greg Koopman, Nancy, R and Wade Hall.

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And those of you on Zoom I have 75 hands up and we will get back to you um again after we call a few people in person go ahead.

DF

um Hello, I'm Mary Helen, Doherty I'm, a resident of District, three and I'm speaking in support of the survivors of the street at Sacred Heart, with a strong endorsement of the Davis Torres Ortiz plan for measure e funds.

DF

Their plan identifies other city funding sources in the budget for needed interim housing and homeless services and keeps our promise to voters for measure e to maximize the building of affordable homes.

DF

Your vote in support of their plan is a testimony to your commitment to improve the well-being of the most vulnerable members of our community permanent, affordable homes. Are the secure solution required to end homelessness? Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

DG

Mayor council members, thank you for your time. My name is Greg. Hoopman I was born and raised in San, Jose and I support mayor mahan's budget, because I was homeless. When I was young, I just needed a simple, safe place with an address to help me move forward.

DG

I did not need a million dollar Place, causing many other needing people to be left behind to continue suffering.

DG

We will never catch up with our current policies. Look outside it's not working.

DG

We need to help the masses now, please choose to help them all now. Thanks.

DH

Thank you, hello. My name is Chris Logan, organizing manager at Sacred, Heart and I Rise to speak in support of the memo supportive submitted by Davis, Ortiz and Torres when I hear the words and ending to the era of encampments. I can't help, but also hear do you believe in magic, not because it's a bad aspiration, not because it's an awful idea, but because it's like we are saying we are so sick of seeing homeless people on our streets that we go poof be gone.

DH

Don't you worry about if they have a place to go after they've received an emergency shelter, never mind about their long-term stability. Just poof be gone. I believe that we can be a city that treats people like people and not like things that individuals and families who find themselves on the streets won't just be swept underneath the rug won't be stuffed in the closet, won't be covered up by mandates, but will indeed find a place called home. Please support the memo by Davis, Ortiz and Torres.

DI

My name is: Nancy I live in District three I'm asking that you allocate measure e dollars to provide interim housing to get homeless people off the streets this at home. Again recently last week when I was in Target and a young woman was in the bathroom raising her arm and putting on deodorant when I came out, she was washing her hands with a fingers with a brush, so I bet. If you asked her if she would accept interim housing, she would have said yes, so I ask that you support her.

DI

Her need to be housed in a quick, build housing which would be safe, private, clean and I bet. She would say yes because it was because it would be better and safer than living in the dirt. I recently saw an interview with Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. She had been to a site where 20 people were offered intro housing thinking, it unlikely unlikely. 20 people would sign up. 30 people showed up. It is a myth that homeless people are not interested in interim housing.

DI

We are seeing a humanitarian crisis that needs to be addressed now.

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Celeste m: please come on down. Nancy D um looks like Jonathan Diaz, Donna, Wallick and Santiago Gonzalez.

DJ

Hello, my name is Wade Hall I'm, a lifetime San Jose resident I'm here to urge you all to vote in support of Mayor mahan's plan, I'm perplexed by all the speakers tonight pushing to maintain status quo. The Davis Ortiz tourist plan is just that status quo.

DJ

I'm reminded of my dad. He used to complain that people in third world country who were using done fires to heat themselves and cook their food, don't need nuclear power plants as a solution. There needs to be an incremental and more incremental and effective steps between where they were when we came in to help and where they needed to be mayor. Mayhem's plan is just that incremental, appropriate and effective. Incrementally improving the quality of life for the Street Homeless is what we need today. The status quo has us on a 5 10 15-year timeline.

DJ

Before we see any real Improvement.

C

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker.

DK

Good evening my name is Celeste. Munoz I am speaking in support of survivors of the streets at Sacred, Heart I'm speaking in favor of the Davis Torres and Ortiz plan for measure e funds. Their plan keeps the promise made to voters for measure e funds to maximize the building of affordable housing. We can support and build in our city. We all know the reason why so many people are leaving San, Jose and leaving on the streets is because there is not enough affordable housing. The opportunity for affordable housing should not be left to chance.

DK

It needs to be secured now so that residents from all of San Jose can sustainably live, no matter what we look like how much we earn or where we lay our heads at night. We all need a permanent, safe place to call home. We urge the city council to vote for the plan created by council members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

DL

Good evening my name is Jonathan Diaz and I'm, a lifelong resident of San Jose I'm, a current resident of District Six I'm, a pedestrian and Transit user and I've become more familiar with the extent of our crisis. Every day, measure e-funds should continue to go towards supporting the permanent, affordable housing. Our city desperately needs to address our long-term issues.

DL

Short-Term Solutions, like interim housing alone, will not cut it as far as I understand, shelters may be fast, but they are not cheap and we can expect shelter and interim housing maintenance to drain measure e-funds for years to come. A lack of affordable and permanent housing feeds homelessness and instability and must be addressed. Please support the memo from Council Members Davis Torres Ortiz to keep measure e as a tool for affordable housing construction and enable long-term Solutions. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker, Maricela Perez, please come on down and Maria Ramirez.

DM

Hello good evening, hello, good evening, my name is Santiago I'm with Latina's conduct cancer. Part of the royal Coalition I'm here to endorse Davis tortoise an Ortiz plan for allocating, as refunds aiming to providing transitional housing, preserving original funds, San Jose, affordable housing, crisis exaggerated by inadequate Investments of high income job growth and has escalated homelessness. Those facing the flu Nation Housing and employment, Health Care, like the communities we serve or higher risk, or at heightened risk an unexpected medical issue, canister distribute disrupt a family.

DM

The plan will help medical disadvantaged communities avoid losing their homes. We strongly urge the council to support this plan. Thank you. So much.

DN

My name is Donna Wallick, please vote against mayor mayhem's proposal. We, the people of San Jose, desperately need permanent, affordable housing. Realtors, don't care about us all they care about is market rate. Market rate will never provide affordable housing for very low income, low-income and even middle-income people. It is our human right to live in a good, affordable home, which the current measure e will help provide for interim temporary housing on its own is not the answer. Please vote against mayor man's proposal. Please vote for the plan by Ortiz, Torres and Davis I'm.

DN

Currently looking for an affordable room to rent in San Jose rents are Sky. High I need an affordable place to live.

C

um Also come on go ahead into the microphone I'm Sandy Perry Louise, our Hahn Nicole B and Andre s. Ucks go ahead. Yeah.

DO

I'm Nancy I've lived in D3, my entire life and I would like to know why those who oppose Matt's plan want to allow so many people experiencing homelessness living in severe conditions. Many with drug and mental illness problems continue living on our streets in our parks and our riverways.

DO

The current, affordable housing plan will house very few and they will have waited a very long time. This plan obviously hasn't been working. Why are you fighting for Davis's plan which is status quo? We treat our pets better than our Street Homeless. Where is our compassion? These are our neighbors I know many of them I support Matt's budget plan, which is the only plan that offers housing and shelter now, and we need our police budget by the way for our Police Department. That is extremely understaffed. Thank you. So much.

C

Thank you next speaker.

DP

Good afternoon my name is Marisela Perez and I'm, a community organizer with Latinas Contra Cancer and a member of a real Coalition on behalf of Latinas Contra cancer, I'm speaking in favor of Davis Torres and Ortiz's memo for measure e funds. This plan finds funding in a city's budget for interim housing and homelessness.

DP

Support Services, while maintaining previous major e-funds allocated scarce resources for affordable housing, drive people to reallocate out of San, Jose or end up homeless years of failing to invest in affordable housing, while adding thousands of high-wage jobs in San, Jose have driven a brand and push more people into homelessness. Therefore, people who already face discrimination and housing, employment, education and the medical system are more likely to be forced into homelessness, Latinas, Contra cancer. We know the devastating realities of what can unpredictable medical diagnosis can create in a household.

DP

This plan will continue to support medically underserved communities who are at risk of losing their home. Lcc urges the city council to vote for the plan created by council members. Davis start thank.

C

You next speaker.

DQ

Good evening, mayor council members, I'm Louise arahan live in District, 3, downtown, 20-year resident of San, Jose and I'm here to ask you to please support the both and Memo from Council, Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres on measure e. We know why we have a homelessness crisis and growing displacement in San Jose. We don't have enough homes, especially homes that are affordable to everyone.

DQ

Interim shelters have an important role and we should continue to support them, but they are not housing. Transitional housing only works if there's somewhere to transition to and to prevent more families from falling into homelessness due to lack of affordable homes. I was around when shelters were our primary approach to homelessness. It wasn't that long ago, and you know what that approach failed and we're. Seeing now the results of the Decades of that shelters.

DQ

Only approach where we thought we don't need to build housing, we'll just make big shelters we're only now starting to try to Pivot towards real solutions involving real housing, and we need to continue next time. Thank you.

DR

uh Good evening, mayor and council members, my name is Sandy Perry I'm from affordable housing, Network, which, contrary to what some people said, it's a mom-and-pop non-profit. We, the mayor, has called measure a actually a failed policy. This is the county measure a but the measure, a Is On Target to build 5, 000 permanently affordable units for unhoused people, and it's actually halfway there. The mayor calls it failed policy when Santa Clara County has placed 9645 unhoused people in permanent, affordable housing between 2020 and 2022..

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The mayor calls it failed policy when he himself voted for the present measure. E-Allocation policy in 2022. The mayor's solution could lead to the end of the era of creating affordable housing in San Jose and that result will create more homelessness, more displacement and more Misery. The real solution is to scale up things like measure a if necessary, by taxing corporate real estate developers and landlords. Thank you and better yet make them lower the rents so that people don't become.

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Hello, uh my name is Nicole I'm, a member of a surge at Sacred, Heart and I'm speaking tonight, in solidarity with survivors of the streets at Sacred, Heart and Silicon Valley debug I've lived in Downtown San Jose for 12 years, and the only reason I can still afford to live here is because I was lucky enough to rent a rent-controlled apartment a decade ago.

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I would not be here otherwise, but not everyone is that lucky and if I'm ever struggling to make rent I'd want to have assistance available to help keep me in a permanent home not only in an interim shelter and I want that, for my neighbors too, especially for my neighbors, who face discrimination in housing, employment or the criminal justice system, who are even more likely to be forced into homelessness, so don't make the vulnerable in our community choose between temporary and permanent housing.

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Please support the plan from Council Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz for measure e funds. Thank you.

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Okay yeah, uh my name is Forrest Nixon I've been a resident of District three for more than 50 years. The basic problem with homelessness is not enough. Affordable housing, I love measure e because it directly provides affordable, housing and directly works on the basic problem.

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I, don't understand how providing transitional housing if there isn't permanent housing for people to go to I. Just don't understand that.

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We need to continue the basic groundwork of providing permanent, affordable housing do whatever we can to find additional housing additional funding for transition, but we need to keep the measure e-funding.

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Evelyn, followed by Sue.

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Hi good evening my name is Evelyn and I'm a 31 year resident of the lake house, historic district in District Six I strongly support the memo put forth by council members. Davis Ortiz and Taurus um I've lived here that long I've seen this neighborhood. It's a beautiful neighborhood recently I feel like it looks like a set of Night of the Walking Dead I've. Had my door kicked in and been robbed.

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I have now a four tent encampment across the street and while I am angry beyond angry and frustrated, I have empathy because it's the systems and policies and using homelessness as a political football to promote personal agendas. That is part of the problem. Y'all need to team up with Tough Shed repurpose, some of those tiny homes and shout out to the non-profits doing the work. Thank you so much Sue.

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Followed by Susan.

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Hi um I am wanting to speak about the increases in the budget for Animal Care and services.

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um I am in favor of that and I'm a long-term resident of San Jose in District 10. I'd also like to encourage starting up the spay neuter and vaccination Services. The vet shortage and cost of these Services has contributed to the increase of homeless pet numbers, and this would also put dollars to good use, as it would decrease the number of pets entering the shelter. Also, the Trap neuter and return TNR was reduced in 2019 and then stopped a year ago.

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It's now being done on a limited basis, but is not sufficient to keep up with demand.

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Susan, followed by Jamie.

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I'm, a normal person in District three I was invited to be a part of the homeless task force. During that time, I got to see the PowerHouse that the non-profit is I support, Matt's plan, but I do not support the memo from my console person. Omar Torres I have biked on the Guadalupe every day for the last four years and in those four years I've seen the same faces that I see today.

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uh It's to the point where many of these are my friends and they are my neighbors and I would like to help them become unhoused. In the last four years, we've only added 19 beds to short-term housing. We have 6 000 homeless today, I want to help as many of those as possible. I think Matt's plan will do this best. Thank you.

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Cn, followed by Nancy after Nancy we're going to go to people in person and I have Jody Souza and Dave Walsh as the first two go ahead. Svcn.

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Good evening mayor and City Council Members, my name is Yvonne Jimenez, with the Silicon Valley Council of nonprofits, urging me to allocate additional monies for best programs. Best providers have proven track records of supporting at-risk Youth and reducing violence through restorative and Community centered programs. Additional funding is critical to meet the need and we ask that the council double down on the city's investment in prevention and intervention of Violence by adding 5 million to the best appropriation.

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The Mayors acknowledged the importance of prevention and intervention in the budget message, and we ask that the stated value be expressed through adequate prioritization of funds. Thank you.

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Ty I'm, a member of search at Sacred, Heart and I, am a local voter, even as a person with significant privilege. My family lives, paycheck to paycheck in a housing situation is vulnerable. Housing is a human right. I am calling in today to ask that you support the Davis Ortiz tour as memos so that we can preserve the measure e allocation for permanent, affordable housing and fun new emergency interim housing. This plan continues to invest in homeless prevention.

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The cost of living continues to increase faster than the regions people own, by providing assistance to those who are struggling to pay rent. We help keep families and individuals deeply housed, but also slow the flow of people to our streets. Thank you.

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Okay in person, I have Jody Souza, Dave Walsh, Lisa, Faria, Dawn, Jessup, Therese Ferreira, Laura Welch, and there may be more in your group, but I have them all in order. So go ahead.

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I'm speaking tonight, because an attempt to silence me about measure e occurred last week, my name is Jody Souza and I am a proud Santa Clara, County, Association of realtor, employee and I deserve to have my voice heard as a victim of what happened at my office last week, I was taunted, demoralized terrorized traumatized gas-lit laughed at mocked and lied to all, because the organization that I have loved working at for five years was make it a target of flat out hate.

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Once those people entered our building, it became very personal and their message no longer had meaning to me. No cause measure or political policy is ever worth. Making someone feel unsafe on Wednesday I was called racist. A liar greedy and told I was part of the murder, killing and loss of life to the homeless.

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That I did not care about I've been a San Jose resident for 11 years living in little Portugal I'll go, although I grew up in Fremont, I have loved living on the outskirts of East, San, Jose I struggle with mental health, and that his this has sent me into a downroad spiral of reliving and thinking about what happened. Thank you.

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Good evening, mayor Mayhem and city council I'm continuing to speak for Jody Souza.

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I am always donated I've, always donated clothing, food household items and more when the ask was made two weeks ago to help a man with a young son in a homeless, shelter I immediately gathered anything I could for a little boy and packed them in a brand new Mickey duffel bag, because it is what I could do to help. Are we rich far from it? But I am fortunate enough to be able to give to those in need and for the record I always give and never take.

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My husband, a lifelong San, Jose resident has lived in the same home off Alum Rock his whole life. He grew up on the streets and streets building and hopping cars known as mechanic Mike barley graduated from San Jose High, because he is so dyslexic and borderline on the Spectrum was in special ed classes, and a teacher came to the house was dragged him out of bed and to Auto class worked his way from a janitor at 18 to a one of the auto class.

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Thank you next speaker.

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I'm Elizabeth Manley and I'm continuing for Jody Souza. He worked his way from a janitor at 18 to one of the most talented maintenance mechanics on site for over 25 years at the same company. He only left that job because I encouraged him to. He was bullied because of his disability: we're a single income household, struggling small business owners, rebuilding classic cars and low riders parents and hard workers.

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My husband is an active member of the Low Rider and classic car community and was excited his past time of cruising has made legal again before you judge me know what I stand for and support about. The amazing organization I work for Santa Clara, County Association of Realtors score one.

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We have a charitable foundation for over 30 years. That gives grants to many organizations.

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Heart in Santa Clara County, including money.

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Rick Smith continuing to speak for Jody Souza, including money, canned food and turkeys at Thanksgiving. Among other things, we've adopted classroom, given tens of thousands of dollars to undeserved, underserved schools and more. You may be surprised that helping the homeless and underserved communities are on that list. Score includes everyone. We have a strong Dei committee working to educate our members on Fair, Housing and riding the wrongs of the past, and don't worry, we're well aware of our past and are consciously moving forward, Eyes Wide Open to ensure that everyone has a fair chance.

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At a home we have a down payment assistance program, helping first-time buyers with free money. We host down payment and other educational events in partnership with our diversity, real estate, Partners vnarp, faripa, Nora and Arya Silicon, Valley Alliance and many other groups to educate agents and the public to help them get into homes.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Craig Constantino continuing for Jody Souza, we host our annual member holiday event where our members donate thousands of gifts and thousands of dollars to kafa from the Foster families in Santa, Clara County, our South County members have a scholarship fund to help South County High, School seniors with college tuition. Our members are active in the community volunteering at Food, Pantry, shelters, soup kitchens and many other places far from greedy.

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If you ask me, most real estate agencies also have foundations donating their time, money to go to organizations in the community as well again far from greedy score staff and its member have become my family before you judge them know them. I am the strong, more confident woman I am today because of the amazing group of people. I guess none, none of them. None of this matters. When it comes to politics, people are fed up our fed information.

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According to the agenda that will cause their groups to win, sounds like a win at any cost and screw the collateral damage right. I am the damage me.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Sandra Weber continuing for Jody all because, instead of having conversations making, people feel less than is the goal, a few things that haunt me still today hearing the woman on the bullhorn laughing saying now.

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This is just fun seriously: fun nice hearing the chant score, doesn't care over and over and over I was cornered and filmed by the girl in blue, carrying a sign with a photo of homeless people under a freeway that isn't in San Jose by the way in my office, while I was calling 9-1-1, because the protest was no longer peaceful and they refused to leave, then she continued to film and interrogate me about why I called the police when I left my office I hearing the man named Sandy say this is our new Target.

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This is where we will come from now on to protest. This is our spot, a flat out threat. Will they be back? Do I need to worry, am.

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I safe next speaker.

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Laura Welch continuing for Jody Souza am I safe. Is this all just chest? Puffing I don't know because I don't know any of these people and clearly they have no problem crossing the lines. But did you get hurt? A protester asked me physically, no mentally 100 percent 30 people came into my safe place at work. Shouting at me. Calling me names. Taunting me, no I am not. Okay, one woman stood in her office and screamed at the top of her lungs.

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Help me help me I'm homeless, don't put me in a box to die and continue to scream help me at the top of her lungs, the woman in light pink, telling me that I was generalizing about all of the homeless people, because I cited a very specific situation with a man from a nearby homeless Camp who brought in a machete to the Empire Elementary School lady, you generalized about me because of where I work you and your protesters genderized about all of us associated with my place next speaker.

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Terese speaking on behalf of Jody am I safe. Is this all as greedy Liars, racist and more you don't get it both ways? The lady in the maroon shirt with black Capri leggings, when the one officer stood to talk to you and you freaked out, because another police officer stood behind and to the side of you, you were afraid and uncomfortable. He was too close for your comfort. What about me? How do you think I felt when you and 30 of your protesters entered my safe place of work?

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You don't get to have it both ways? Your protest started off. Fine two staff members came to me as the Director in the building, letting me know there were people Gathering outside I walked out, introduced myself and asked who they are. I was told by the woman in the maroon shirt and black capris. It was a coalition of different groups. There were grandparents there who told me they were going to be peaceful and they had their grandson with them. Fine, no problem protest outside our government. Affairs director arrived and stood outside for 40 minutes.

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While they protested. She tried to had conversations with them next speaker.

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Good evening, Kevin Barrett continuing for Jody Souza try to have a conversation with them, but they attacked her and called her names. A woman with a megaphone screamed in her face repeatedly: that's not peaceful, that's violence. They stormed pass and took over the office and to those who may be laughing under their breath and think I am dramatic. Shame on you for not treating every human being with dignity and respect, just as you demand I do to the city.

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Council members, your words matter, I, remember at a recent council meeting where a council member said that those opposing Copa were committing acts of violence. What you say to your special interest groups matter empowering or inciting those do you think they also have the power and the right to do what it takes at any cost is wrong what you insinuate matters, I matter the people who came to my safe place matter and are allowed a voice they're not to terrorize people. Next.

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My name is Don Jessup I speak for Jody as well. I've been in this, uh our family's been in San Jose for since 1938 and we've seen a lot of things. Come I've been a realtor for 40 years.

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I have for the record, requested a meeting with my council members three times, but he has not responded to my request. As a citizen in his community and yes, I've shared my name where I work and what I am here to debate policy or agendas.

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I want my voice to be heard about what happened that day and asked him to help me feel safe in a community too.

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Is that why he won't speak to me because of where I work I leave you with a quote from my Council member's website every day my staff and I will work to ensure that the regardless of what neighborhood or area you live in you and your family can achieve feelings of safety, prosperity and pride. I would urge you next.

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Speaker I might also like to call Kelly Hunt Colombian Bosch, Pancho, glovera and Charisse go ahead.

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Hello, mayor and council members, my name is Kelly Hunt I'm, a resident of district 10 and I lived in San Jose for 53 years, I've been a realtor for over 25 years, and the vast majority of my buyers are first-time homebuyers as such I'm intimately aware of the need and I strongly support, affordable housing. That being said, I also recognize the urgent need to house our homeless, I, say our homeless, because it's our responsibility to help provide immediate and clean shelter, as well as long-term, affordable housing. We cannot solve these problems with one solution alone.

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The growing number of homeless is proof of the old ways are not working. We need to build an affordable housing, but that solution alone doesn't get people off the street for several years to come. You can't continue to throw our money at ineffective methods that are too little too late, I'm here tonight to urge you to support the mayor to the back the basics budget. As you as my Representatives I'm, asking that you vote tomorrow to.

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Make a positive change.

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Good evening, my name is I work at Sacred, Heart, Community, Service and I'm a proud member of the real coalition. What are we doing here? What the hell are we doing here? What is this conversation, because there is so much Good Will in this room to actually do something about this crisis, but to pit groups against each other? By saying we have to do this thing versus this thing is just garbage, and the idea that we're saying that everything that we've done in the past is useless is wrong. We've actually made progress in addressing homelessness.

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We are preventing people from entering into homelessness. We are actually creating real solutions of permanent housing and instead of actually asking for real Sacrifice from all of us to do something more to actually solve this crisis requires more of us to build things quicker to make more interim and especially permanent housing possible. But by having this kind of garbage like erupt, politically is demeaning to all of us.

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Thank you next week, speak Liz, Gonzalez, Regina, Jack, Pollock and Hoffman.

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Hi, my name is colombash as a tax, paying resident of District Six I support unsupport of measure e. I support the memo of Davis, Torres and Ortiz. I must also say that in the most Innovative place in the world, we must find solution to solve problems that affect all of us. For example, since 2020 San Jose lost over 40 000 residents. Additionally, we have 4 400 empty homes. These are existing homes, ready to be occupied with some creativity at virtually zero costs. My wife and I be hosted a gentleman for two summers.

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There are up I'm no longer eating out here. There are opportunities that can be solved with with just creativity and without the politics that we are having here um and unhouse. People are not all bad people, they're members of lgbtq, community, they're veterans and and they're formerly incarcerated. We got to do better. Thank.

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Domingo switch to zoom um hi everyone. My name is Liz Gonzalez I'm, a district, five resident I'm part of debug and the South Bay Community Land Trust, and it's worth repeating that San Jose has a 5 billion dollar budget.

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It is pretentious it is delusional to refer to the mayor's proposal as challenging the status quo when you repeat the historical pattern of neglecting to build, affordable housing and increase policing, especially when crime is actually down. Knowing that the folks that are most impacted, look like me are people of color are marginalized marginalized communities, the loudest money, those who own homes, those who profit when we ignore affordable housing should not dictate housing policy. We urge you to cut from the inflated police budget to create temporary housing.

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An amended version of the memo proposed by Council people, Ortiz, Taurus and Davis could change this.

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Ed lobert Lauber, Claudia, Uribe, Neil, Collins um I can't read the handwriting on this one, but the last name is fan p-h-a-n. It looks like the first name: either starts with the T or an n, and then long yo go ahead.

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Hi, my name is Regina Cardenas I am a lifelong resident of District Six and I oppose putting more money to the police they're, not what's keeping our city safe. What we need to do is take that money, put it in housing and get rid of the corrupt police and make them accountable. I want to remind everyone. These people are talking about drug problems but who's, bringing it in bringing it in Segovia from the head of the police. Union just got caught, bringing in tons of fentanyl.

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Do you think none of sapd is on her payroll for all these years of having that come in, we need to look into these things.

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Good evening Council, my name is Jack Pollock I live in District, Six and I'm here to speak in support of the Davis Ortiz Torres memo I work as a doctor in San Jose, in both our County hospitals and as a primary care doctor in our clinics for our patients without housing. I know that a house of their own could have a more positive impact on their health than whatever prescriptions I might write to change that reality.

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We need more long-term, affordable housing in San Jose, of course, emergency in term housing is important too, but it should not come at the expense of permanent, affordable housing. This does not have to be either or we can invest in both essential long-term Solutions and the Humane emergency measures. I urge you to support the Davis Ortiz Torres memo. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Good evening Mr Mayor vice mayor and council members, my name is hafan. I am Senior advisory. Commissioner of City me Peters, but tonight I'm here to support Mr Mayor budget message. It's about time. It is time that safety should be our number one concern. It's not about me. It's not about you, it's all about for people who live in San, Jose and me Peters. Please support and approve Mr Mayor budget plan. Thank you very much.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Hi, my name is Claudia I'm, a community housing Advocate with the law Foundation of Silicon Valley. Today, my comment is on behalf of the law. Foundation I. Ask you to support the memo from the council members, Davis, Ortiz and Taurus in support of permanent, affordable housing. It's essential to prioritize the long-term well-being of our community's low-income individuals and families who are currently living in substandard conditions. Due to a lack of affordable housing options. Low-Income families often find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty struggling to make ends, meet and living in the natural housing.

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These families are forced to allocate a significant portion of their income towards housing, often having to settle for substandard living conditions, because that's all they can afford. As a result, children grow up in environments, lacking safety, stability and basic amenities, which can negatively affect their well-being and development.

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We need affordable housing and we ask you to oppose the proposed modifications. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

EU

Good evening my name is Neil Collins and I'm. The CEO of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors last Wednesday over 30 organized protesters from several non-profits, some of which are here today entered our office illegally, trespassed simply to harass, intimidate and terrorize our employees as the mob grew more aggressive and emboldened Sandy Perry, the vice president of South Bay Community, Land Trust, said this makes a really good Target for all of our housing issues. This is the place to come.

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Our employees are absolutely shocked, as you heard today, they deserve a safe work. Environment is this: what are political discourse is deteriorated to it's, not okay, and just as outrageous as their behavior last week. So is the demands that we continue with the same old approach rather than accelerate the production of quick, build communities to provide housing. Now for our own house, please support the mayor's Back to Basics budget I also want to thank council member Foley. Vice mayor camay,.

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Good evening mayor vice mayor and council members, my name is Fern I'm, a resident in San Jose for over 30 years, I'm here to support Mr Mayor budget message, especially it's going to be a big big help to resolve the homelessness issue right now. It is a heartfelt feeling that you go everywhere and you see all the tents on the highways on the side of the highways. Please approve Mr Mayor budget plan. Thank you very much.

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Karen Kinzel, followed by Karen nimsick.

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It's okay, Karen, keensel. Sorry, we had a little difficulty on muting. You.

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Sorry about that uh good evening, my name is Karen Kinsel I am a San Jose resident and an Arts Advocate and I'm here not only to share my support for Arts funding, but ultimately to make an economic argument about the value of art support. As you know, the creative industry generates hundreds of millions of dollars of economic impact for the city of San. Jose I want to thank the mayor and administration for including one-time resources for Arts and Cultural programs in the proposed budget.

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However, the sector needs more sustainable funding to thrive, I stand with San Jose Arts Advocates and calling on the city council to direct the administration to pursue a percentage for art allocation from private development and support the recommendations to direct staff to explore additional Revenue options and a budget policy strategy to reinvest two percent of the general fund portion of tot incrementally, starting with an increase of 0.5 percent in fiscal year. 2025.. Thank you for your service and your consideration.

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Karen nemsick, followed by Thunder parley.

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Parley District 4 Resident and vice president of Kingston Village Association next to the Berryessa bark gate, jumping training facility. First on measure, E I, read it it's a general tax. We've tried to put rules around it, but in the end we just created a political morass that we should have never created to appease, not taking the same failed policies with Coppa as San Francisco.

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We have a homeless and Mental Health crisis and not just on the streets. I can hear it in voices tonight housed residents in San Jose have worsening mental health because of what they're exposed to on the daily basis.

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We need to stop trying to do so many things, because then nothing gets better. We're spread too thin and we need accountability for housing. Allocate as much to the mayor. Get people off the street, we'll do affordable, wins, feasible, we're lucky to have a mayor willing to stick out his neck and risk. His reputation give him the best chance of success. As we like to say. Let him cook.

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Deborah St Julian, followed by Raj jayadev.

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My name is Deborah St Julian and I'm um I've lived in District 2 for 38 years I'm, a member of surgeon, Sacred Heart I'm support, speaking in support of Silicon Valley, dew bug and survivors of the street um I see the Davis memo as a both end memo. They people are talking about it, not being static being status quo. This memo finds funds elsewhere in the budget to fund interim housing without letting them steal money from major e for permanent, affordable housing. It is not status quo. It funds.

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Both people speak of homelessness as a problem, but the real problem. It's really the symptom. The problem is not enough: affordable housing. We have to address both and that's what the Davis Ortiz um Taurus memo does, and so I hope you vote for this memo that has balance.

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Raj, followed by Rachel k.

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My name is Raj David, with Silicon Valley debug I oppose mayor mahan's budget proposal, for which those of us who believe in Fair and Equitable San Jose makes no sense giving millions of dollars to an out or outsized police budget which already cannibalizes almost a third of our general budget, makes headlines every week of its abuse and has no accountability is not common sense, taking away funds for building permanent, affordable housing and assuming that people would just vanish after the short-term housing expires, makes no sense, despite the tremendous amount of time and resources attempting to Brand himself as an outsider and of the people.

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He has referred to this agenda as a quote-unquote revolution without any sense of irony. This budget is only for the Insiders, the politically and financially powerful of San Jose at the expense of everyone else. He says back to the basics, but you know what's basic housing, permanent housing for all safety, for all, that's not based on skin color and zip codes, that an out of control police department is not working.

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Rachel K, followed by Aaron Stanton.

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Hello, my name is Rachel Kranz I'm, a small business owner in district one and a member of surge at Sacred Heart I'm speaking in support of survivors of the streets and Silicon Valley debug as a therapist working in San Jose for the past 12 years, I have seen the devastating effects of houselessness on my clients and their loved ones. Being houseless makes it incredibly difficult to keep a job go to school or take care of a family. We need both interim housing and permanent, affordable housing.

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I support, Silicon Valley debug in opposing any reallocation of measure e-funds. We urge you to vote for the plan created by council members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz, so that we can preserve the measure e allocation for permanent, affordable housing and on new emergency interim housing. Thank you.

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Aaron Stanton, followed by Janiece.

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Good evening my name is Aaron and I'm. Speaking in favor of the Davis Torres and Ortiz plan for measure, e-funds I work for the Santa Clara County homelessness, prevention system and I have seen firsthand the positive impact of investing measure e-funds in Prevention Services I've also seen the limitations of temporary assistance programs when safe, permanent, affordable housing cannot be found. We all know that interim housing is needed, but it's not the final answer.

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Like other temporary programs, it is only effective in the long run if people can move to permanent, affordable housing, permanent, affordable housing and homelessness. I urge you to vote for the plan created by council members, Dev Davis, Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz. Thank you.

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Janiece, followed by in person ha true Catherine, Hedges and Jessica Jenkins go ahead. Janiece.

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Good evening, mayor and Council members I support the proposed back to basic budgets. 100 percent. We all need a safer, cleaner City in which to live. I have seven adult children, four that no longer live in San Jose. It breaks their heart when they come home to visit, because they filled that over a few short years, San Jose has turned into a third world country. I've had the opportunity to help with some of the cleanups that the mayor's office has been organizing.

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However, until we provide housing for our most vulnerable population, I fear that the city cleanup events will never end and I actually have several other events. I'd like to volunteer for Let's help our unhealth brothers and sisters and families by giving them a safe place to live, give them a fishing pole and teach them how to fish so to speak, which will help move them towards self-reliance. This can only happen if we work together to support the proposed budget and support quick, build communities.

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Good evening, I'm Catherine Hedges from surge on behalf of survivors of the street and SVD bug, I live and work downtown, affordable housing, our coalitions of Percy, both and Memo, by Davis, Taurus and Ortiz, because they did the work to find one-time source of funding for interim housing without diverting funds from affordable housing.

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We agree with the debug recommendations to use funds. The mayor proposed to increase the police budget towards the interim housing police costs will nationally drop as we use alternative crisis response and move people into housing, because the Davis Taurus Ortiz memo came out the 11th hour last. There was heavily most of the speakers. Here are unaware of this alternative. We can provide quick, build housing and permit housing to end the housing crisis.

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Many have fallen for the false dichotomy of the mayor's claims, but the council can spend more time actually analyzing the issues and the funding streams I urge everyone to vote for the Davis Taurus 19 model. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Also Kim guptill Inez, Ortega, Deborah, tanley and Raylene Hernandez.

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The Emir Weimer and own council member I worry about cut that the one minute so I said I support report. First.

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My name is zahat Hill, which is another former Vietnamese Regional and popular Foundation are interact with Heritage Garden for flag raising everyone and freedom speech. Recently in San Jose from 1987.

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in digit number, five working for Intel work cooperation more than 30 years. As a designer engineer, we have two items right now: here's a measures e and back to the basic budget. Our city had a lot of homeless people. We need to solve this problem as soon as possible. Put it in the first priority to do. The problem is create more crime and trust and government everywhere in some City next.

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Good evening I'm, a resident of District 3 and also a member of surge asking you to please support the Davis, Ortiz and Taurus memo so that we can both Fund emergency housing and preserve the measure. E allocation for permanent, affordable housing. I was born in San Jose and for over a decade I've been living and working downtown.

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In my work as an attorney, I have represented survivors of domestic violence who have bounced for years from shelter to motel, to couch to car to street due to the lack of permanent, affordable housing options in our community. The extraordinarily High Cost of Living makes life here. Precarious I myself have struggled to secure market rate housing and, like I, said I'm an attorney. If it's that hard for me, how hard is it for everyone else? Many of us are only a Health crisis.

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Family, emergency or layoff away from homelessness, and our housing crisis cannot be swept conveniently out of sight, Thank You by emergency, shelter alone. Thank you.

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And I would like to say hello to Mayor and all council members.

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We are here to speak for the Vietnamese community that we support mayor Matt, Mahan.

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We support mayor Matt mahans budget proposal to immediately resolve the homelessness issue that we're having in our city.

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Crisis that was caused by homelessness. That is our concern on in our city.

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Please resolve it as quickly as you can.

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Do something else.

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Once more, we support mayor mayhem's budget proposal and we would request that all council members please support mayor mayhem's budget proposal.

FG

Thank you mayor and all council members.

FH

Good evening Mr, Mayor, Mayha and all council members, my name is Maria Ines Ortega and the promoter for Community University. My passion is helping the communities in San Jose, especially those who are no aware on the various resource or local government offering than to drive I will leave. The work that we are doing will have long-term benefits for San Jose residents.

FH

Currently promoters are par or pilot program founded. One time via the American Rescue plan is my hope. The inspected now, which you can consider it a version of customer service for the most in need. We know God the grace for funding. There is no resource and programs, but they can only happen if the hours of them and those who are need and most need help. My community and all communities and be rich, be team promoters. Again. I respectfully request that you can consider making the Promontory speaker.

FH

Thank you all communities.

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FI

My name is Kim guptill and I'm, a member of surge supporting survivors of the street in their request to vote for the Davis Taurus Ortiz memo.

FI

Have you noticed that the directly affected folks and all the local housing non-profits, which the mayor kaloli portrays as rapacious developers, are against his plan to sweep up people like so much garbage and put them in interim housing, while not continuing to fund more permanent, affordable housing? Where will those people go in their six months or in interim housing is up back to the streets, literally everyone who studies how to house. The unhoused agrees on this. Why are you not listening? The mayor is pandering to the people who have the privilege of being housed.

FI

Sometimes he remembers to say it's about people having a right to be housed. He also says he has a mandate. He has plenty of people in the vaunted 12 000 homes, good for him. He visited said that they want to change two questions. How many homeless, um let me see tents. Did you knock on and have you no conscience.

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Thank you, Oscar Castro, Rebecca, Lazo, Javier,.

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Something Javier Sigrid Jacobson go ahead.

FJ

Honorable mayor and council members, my name is Deborah Townley I spent five years homeless living in my car, with my son due to disability and my son's disability.

FJ

I live in affordable housing now, and thank you very much for making that happen for me and my son um I am supporting the plan sent by council members, Dev Davis, Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz. It achieves several things. It uses measure e-funds to maximize the support we provide for affordable housing, finds funding in the general budget for interim housing and homeless support services and maintains investments in homeless prevention.

FJ

In spite of there's zero experience in addressing homelessness issues. The Santa Clara County Association of Realtors is aggressively mobilizing at this hearing to promote the mayor's misguided plan to defund, affordable housing and round up unhoused people on June 7th dozens of us picketed the score office, chanting, hey Realtors, You, Can't Hide. We can see your greedy side and they were intimidated by this next.

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FK

Hi everyone, my name, is Raylene Hernandez with the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, the non-profit, racial Equity action, leadership, Coalition and I am the third generation of my family to be raised in San Jose. One of the items we are here to discuss is our Latino economic advancement program as we discuss the critical work of lcsv in San Jose, it's crucial to address the specific needs and opportunities within our city. San Jose, known as the best city for employment of recent College grads, is a vibrant Hub. With a multitude of job vacancies.

FK

However, there exists a gap between the available Talent and the open positions which we must bridge to foster a thriving and inclusive City over 90 over 79 of our Elite participants are children of immigrants representing a generation that carries the hopes and aspirations of their families on their shoulders. With our assistance, these individuals are breaking barriers and forging a path towards success, not only for themselves but future Generations.

FK

We also encourage them to stay in San Jose, but if we're continuing to encourage our community to stay in San Jose, we must invest in permanent, affordable housing.

FL

Hi um good evening my name is Jasmine.

FL

Your man on my face I come here all the time Dear honorable mayor and council members, my name is Jasmine and I'm a residence of a Berryessa neighborhood I'm here tonight, I told Urdu to support a mirror my hands back to basic project, every Institution for more than nine years, so I can see all the crime goes up when having went up and the homelessness increased and the trash over place, and because of the assorted of appraisers of us, we cannot hire more peace officers and some people want to defend.

FL

Please I want to say if you want to support different, please if I have a problem, I have simply issue, call yourself, don't call the police. Okay, I am more budget for the police department. We need a solution. If you continue to find out the same approaches, we will get the same results. As my representative, I'm asking to vote, be bold. I'm asked you to vote tomorrow for change. In addition, we have for budget for the energy speaker on the street. They need to be as as next.

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Speaker I'd also like to call William Che Nevada, Merriman and Matthew Reed.

FM

Thank you hi. My name is Rebecca and I work in different organizations trying to find a solution for for this housing crisis and I do not support major budget goal. I every day meet families that are struggling, fighting permanent for the housing and becoming homeless. When I read this proposal, it immediately raised concerning questions like how those temporarilies small shelters will be a option for a permanent Solutions. Those shelters are good for a transition from temporary place to a permanent housing for affordable housing.

FM

If you are going to spend all the budget for a temporarily housing, what budget are you going to use for permanent, affordable housing and all permanent Solutions? We want to support the memo from council member Davis, Ortiz and Torres. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

FN

Good evening Council, my name is Oscar Castro working, Partnerships USA, and we urge Council to support the memo put forth by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres in order to genuinely and effectively tackle our housing and homelessness crisis. We commend these three council members for putting forth a proposal with a North star of providing permanent sources of affordable homes, while also providing resources for Immediate Solutions. We have heard from numerous residents tonight. Their rents are too high, which has led to displacement and increased homelessness without more safe, stable, accessible and affordable homes.

FN

We are not genuinely addressing this crisis. Interim shelter works best with ample access to permanent housing sources. Every year we hear various reports discussing funding gaps. The last thing we need to do as a city is to divert funds, so many worked so hard to secure away from affordable housing. Please support the memo put forth by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres. Thank you very much.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Okay, good evening, my name is Javier de los Santos and I am requesting. I am here to request for you to support the memorandum on behalf of council members, David Davis, Ortiz and Taurus for measure e in which it is to for um permanent housing of permanent, affordable housing. Sorry, the plan keeps the promise that was made for the voters to of the funds of measure e to maximize the construction of affordable housing that so that we can support and construct a new city.

CJ

Everybody knows that the reason that so many people are leaving San Jose and that live in this on the streets is because there are not enough affordable, there's, not enough, affordable housing. This plan is fine. It finds funds within the budget of the city for the temporary housing and services that will sub that will be supporting uh people without homes. In the meantime, also allocating funds uh to previous funds of measure e.

CJ

We are all noticing that it is necessary to give temporary shelter for the people who are looking for for housing, and this plan helps satisfy this. This need and.

CJ

It invests a solution for permanent housing as well as affordable housing in which we can go ahead and look for I demand. We are demanding that the council members vote for the plan created by council members, Davis Dev, Davis, Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz. Thank you very much. Also I come here out of my own. Will I am not a realtor.

CJ

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Thank you next speaker.

FO

Mayor Mayhem vice mayor kamay and members of the council, my name is William Che and I'm. A proud resident of District 8. I'm. Also, the president of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors I, absolutely support the mayor's back to basic budget and I'd like to express my gratitude to vice mayor kamay and council member Foley for their unwavering support of this budget. The Ortiz Davis Torres memo is the status quo.

FO

It is no change to what we currently have as a member as a reminder, measure e-funds are replenished every day during the week Monday through Friday, however I'd like to discuss a seismic shift in political discourse in our Fair City. Last week, as you heard, our offices were invaded by Representatives, who seem to not even care that they intimidated our staff score will not be intimidated and we will not be silenced. I urge this Council to speak in a United voice and condemn those actions.

FO

Last week those actions were supported by people at this Deus I urge you to condemn those.

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Actions, thank you. I also have Mercedes carbajal loyena Cortez, Roberto, Gill and Anna Koski go ahead.

FP

Good evening Matthew Reed Silicon Valley at home. We know there is a broad consensus here and across the city that housing and homelessness crisis is our most urgent challenge. We also know there is a consensus here and we believe across the city that we can continue to expand both temporary interim shelters and permanent, affordable housing. In fact, nothing up to this point has slowed or delayed or stopped.

FP

The development of interim housing in this city actual stable housing that people can afford is the solution to homelessness, and that is why we are in support of the Davis, Ortiz and Torres proposal. Today, 170 000 people in this city pay over half of their income for their housing. This is where the instability is that leads to displacement and pushes people into homeless.

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FR

Good evening my name is Lorena Cortes and I'm, asking that you support the memorandum by the by council members, Davis or Ortiz and Taurus to measure AE for um affordable housing, permanent, affordable housing. This plan continues investing in the prevention for homeless people. The foreign lives continue increasing faster than salaries that people are earning. When we give assistance to those who have difficulties to pay housing, we are helping to keep families and people with a stable housing, but also we are minimizing the flow people towards the street.

FR

When we were together, we can um take good measurements so that um that will convert San Jose in a in a place where everybody could have a roof over their heads and of all of our families could Prosper so that older neighborhoods could be safe, diverse and strong. We urge the um city council to vote for the plan created for Council Members, the Davis Omar Torres and Peter Ortiz. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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Good evening my name is Olivia Ortiz I'm, a small business owner and I'm. Also a homeowner I'm here to ask you to support the memo from council member Davis, Ortiz and Torres, and measure e for permanent, affordable housing. This plan keeps the promise made to borders for missionary funds. Military funds should be should be used to create and preserve, affordable housing. We need to invest in permanent Solutions again. We need to invest in permanent Solutions.

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The plan finds funding in the city's budget for indirect interim and homeless Support Services, while maintaining previous measuring funds allocation. We urge the city council to vote for the plan created by council member Deb, Davis Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz. Thank you.

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Thank you next.

FS

Week, hello, my name is Mercedes Carvajal and I'm I'm here supporting survivors of the streets from Sacred Heart, Community, Service I'm speaking in favor of the Davis tours and Ortiz plan for measure e funds. This is the right plan continues to invest in homelessness prevention, while also addressing the homelessness crisis. Someone already mentioned earlier today. Why do we have to pick between these two essential Services? What about the Surplus in our budget this year, Mr ease shouldn't be the only dollars that could be split to address these crisis.

FS

Intermediate housing is important and needs to come with more services than just a roof and a bed we must also have long-term Solutions in keeping funding in long-term housing is key to all actually breaking this ongoing cycle. Please I urge you to vote in support of the memo from Davis Ortiz Centaurus. Thank you.

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Thank you before Santa mayoral, Todd, Sue and Matt Canty. After these three those three names I'll go back to zoom, go ahead.

FT

Hello, my name is Roberto Hill I'm, a member of the real coalition and I'm a resident of District, 9. and I'm. Here in support of of the The Memo from Davis Torres and Ortiz I grew up in affordable housing. I am a graduate of San Jose State and I have a master's degree from Santa. Clara University I have worked for 17 years at Sacred, Heart, Community, Service I. Do this work because I'm directly impacted by the things we do at Sacred Heart every day my daughter was born in San Jose.

FT

My daughter will be going to Lincoln High School next year right. My parents were immigrants from Mexico, and their story is of many people's story here. So I want you to support people living in affordable housing. I know directly how it feels my story is a success. Thank.

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You because I had a speaker home.

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Interim housing is important, but.

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FR

Good evening my name is Vicenta mayoral um mayor Mayhem: do you think that by building um temporary housing, you are solving the problem? I think you are not because the only thing that you are doing is fooling your community If, the previous Council.

FR

The only thing that they did was to leave more people in the streets and they did not provide any solution. Why isn't it better to build more housing for all the families or very low income and to medium income so that they could have a stable housing and so that we cannot live with fear? We urge the council to support the memorandum of council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres to measure e for affordable housing.

FR

I I am just asking that you consider it because we all need to have better opportunities and a better future for our children. When you ran for office, you made a lot of promises now, please fulfill them. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker after this speaker, we'll go to zoom with Chao win and Dan Ross.

FV

Mayor and council members, Matt Conte, representing Bayview Development Group we're a local developer, who has delivered quite a few units to the downtown area. I come tonight in support of the mayor's proposed budget.

FV

um We've seen conditions, particularly in downtown deteriorate, with downtown suffering more than most than other pockets of San Jose throughout the past few years. A departure from the status quo with fresh ideas is in order.

FV

We appreciate the Back to Basics nature of the proposed budget and expect getting this budget right should have significant upside for our city, as it relates to measure e. We are supportive of anything that will reduce the unsheltered population and we are supportive of the mayor's approach to measure e. Thank you for your time.

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On Zoom Chow win followed by Dan Ross.

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Ciao you briefly unmuted and then you re-muted yourself.

FW

Okay, hello, go ahead and hear me now: yes, yeah hi yeah good evening. My name is, and I am a resident of District 8.

FW

I support mayor mayhem's approach to solve the homelessness issue and I would like to raise a question to all of the people who had uh you know raised their voice to support measure e. Is that if it is working, then why homelessness is still right? It's actually Rising, so I do support mayor mayhem's proposal. Homelessness must end so I trust that he would do the the right thing for all of us. So thank you. So much for consideration.

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Dan Ross, followed by Carmen Tira.

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Mayor and Council uh measure e allows for both we need both now I've lived, worked in and been involved in Downtown San Jose, since graduating from San Jose State. Her opponents to the mayor's plan, I would ask you live downtown, is our unhoused living in dirt, while waiting for long-term housing, okay or Smash and grabs okay? Is it okay that our San Jose State students walk in fear from their downtown apartments to class? Just today, our locked mailbox was pried open items stolen.

FX

We can be compassionate. We need to consider the needs of all our citizens. People are leaving San Jose because they aren't being heard they see no Pride or Improvement. It's inhumane, that we have people living under freeways at the gateways to San, Jose State and our downtown. Please consider fairness for all our residents. Let's rebuild pride in our city, I'm asking the downtown council member and other account.

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I'm Carmen Tira, followed by Ray Brampton.

FY

Hello, my name is Carmen Tyra Gaines I'm, a lifetime resident of San Jose 29 years old I'm, currently a D3 resident and also the associate director of local color and artist 501c3 based in Downtown, San Jose I. Think today proves that common sense in this definition is clearly debated, debatable. As noted by mayor Mahan during the d10 budget address community service officers who do not carry weapons cost significantly less than sjpd, which still needs reform. I cannot support in full.

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The mayor's budget message I do support the memo on measure e By, Davis, Ortiz and Torres I also support the item. 3.6 memo, which supports paramedics and firefighters that are essential. Services could de-arming the police, be a step that could free up much needed funding being debated today. Protecting measure e and immediate interim housing, as recommended by Silicon Valley debug. Additionally I've submitted my support of the advocacy message put forth by the San Jose Arts Advocates. Thank you.

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Ray Brampton, followed by Vicki Mueller Olvera.

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Good evening mayor vice mayor council members, Ray Brampton Chief, Operating Officer, with destination home I realize this has been a long and contentious budget process over the last month, probably the worst I've seen in a decade. So I want to thank council members and staff for working throughout this entire month to evolve a plan that preserves both affordable housing interim options and desperately needed homelessness prevention services, in particular the proposals out there.

FZ

We want to support the memorandum by council members Davis, Ortiz and Taurus, as it does offer both the preservation of the desperately needed, affordable housing funds to continue our robust pipeline, while also looking towards the future and making sure we're making Investments across the Spectrum. Thank you and continue the good work.

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By Leslie's.

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Vicky, can you hear me yes, okay, hi um good evening, my name is Vicki Miller Olvera um good evening mail. Thanks mayor and council members, I live in DT and I'm respectfully, asking her to support council members, Davis, Ortiz and Taurus memos for um measure in your fines.

GA

We need to invest in permanent, affordable housing and we need to build in terms Auto Sound housing and we need to find homelessness, homeless, Prevention, Services, um so I think we can do all these things if we work together and just roll off our sleeves and get this done again.

GA

I am fully support and help the two principle.

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Leslie Z, followed by Rosa Rojas.

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Hello, I'm Leslie, zeiger I'm, a local voter and homeowner and I'm. Also a member of Serge at Sacred, Heart I wish for all my neighbors to have permanent housing. That's why I support the Davis Ortiz tourist memo, which provides a both and approach. It keeps measure e funds for permanent housing and it allocates interim funds from the general fund. I do want to highlight the point, a point made by Silicon Valley debug, that funds for interim housing can be taken from the bloated sjpd budget.

GB

Don't let nearly half a billion dollars go to sjpd, while robbing 50 million for measure e away from permanent housing. Thank you.

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Rosa Rojas, followed by Natalie osario Elizondo.

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Okay, moving on to Natalia.

GC

Good evening Council, my name is Natalia sorio lizondo and I'm, a law clerk at the law, Foundation of silicon Valley's health program, which serves Santa Clara County residents with mental health disabilities. The law Foundation of Silicon Valley is opposed to the proposed 2023-24 budget allocations for measure e, because it will eliminate crucial, affordable housing funding for our clients. Clients in our health program are often unhoused or facing housing insecurity by eliminating funding for affordable housing, San Jose will force more residents into housing and security and exasperate their mental health symptoms.

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Many of our clients depend on public benefits and they'll have to make difficult choices between paying rent or sacrificing medications and medical appointments. In conclusion, the law Foundation opposes the allocation due to its negative effect on public health. The solution to the housing crisis is more affordable housing, not less. We urge the city council to vote for the plan created by council members, Davis, Taurus and Ortiz.

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Ilsa, followed by Longley.

GD

uh Good evening, city, council and mayor I am speaking in favor of the David Davis Taurus and Ortiz plans for measure e funds in support of survivors of the streets at Sacred, Heart and also a resident of District Five.

GD

um Tonight we have heard from so many folks in the community we've heard from attorneys doctors, houseless individuals, folks working in the non-profits directly with houseless communities. I, don't know what other evidence you need to support this memo.

GD

um If you are voting against it, there have been a lot of ignorant comments today around what houselessness looks like and also a misunderstanding of who are these folks that are will benefit from permanent and interim housing. You can't just have one it's a.

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Longley, followed by Mia veal.

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Hi, my name is Long Lee, hello, my and council member, and vice vice mayor I'm resident from District 4 Alum Rock area.

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I am very um I, was here last time from the meeting at SI, um come again to support mayor Mayhem proposal, I believe it's back to basic budget will help and move the homeless to the unhoused community to a new temporary housing which help them to um to live there. They continue to rehab and also have a place to stay.

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um um Just you know what I'm saying is: come back Mia.

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Veal um after me, a veal we're going to go back to in person. I have vadavi um cavouri Yi Wang um gilney and David Flanders Flandres um for the first people coming up after Mia Mia go ahead.

GH

Good evening, council members, my name is Mia Bill and I'm here on behalf of the African-American community service agency and I, wanted to support the memo written by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Taurus regarding measure e um I really think it's very important to keep a measure e was intended for, along with acknowledging that we do need interim housing as well or our houseless residents here in San Jose, especially because and keeping permanent, affordable housing developments being done as well, especially because the city is one of the most expensive in the country and possibly even beyond that and knowing how much it impacts.

GH

Everyone I think we should have both um facets be addressed. Thank you.

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Okay, um next speaker.

EK

Also, my name is iwa I'm here to support your budget is, is the best approach so far, but I think maybe next budget can be better. Here is my suggestions. Financial decisions might be able to mate as District level and should benefit all parties and neighborhood might take responsibility for their own homeless population.

EK

The second one is homeless. Individuals who are able to take taking care of themselves should provide probe of residency in San Jose to get benefit benefit. The last one is homeless. Individuals who are not able to take care of themselves should be provided with care in medical facilities rather than in private homes, but I. Thank you.

GI

Mayor Matt Mayhem, council members, my name is hilni Desales tosco, a pack San Jose leader people acting in community together and a resident of District Five for over 40 years, irgh of our city council, member that we focus on brain Solutions. Our most urgent issues of homelessness, sanitation and crime budget is a statement of priorities, values and moral conscience of this community and its people. We are San Jose. We should be open to try alternative ways of solving our pressing issues, support the back to basic plans of Mayor Matt. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

GJ

Hello, my name is Veda vikavori and I come from a multi-generational immigrant family that came here on a chance for change. We came here on the risk of our citizenship, our education, our jobs, our lives for the beautiful and vibrant city that is San Jose and the Bay Area Community. However, like many other immigrant families, we were swept up in the tidal wave, that is, the epidemic of homelessness and crimes in our community and for many of us we're not private and privileged enough to say that we came out of it unscathed.

GJ

That's why it's imperative that we support mayor mayhan's budget plan, because it provides us the resources that we need to change this dominant narrative in our community. We as Citizens we as immigrants, took a chance. We took a risk on San Jose and it's about time that San Jose took a risk and chance for change on us too. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

GK

My name is Kimmy I'm, a San Jose resident in District 10, first generation immigrant, our own house residents, do not have the luxury to wait for years or even decades, for permanent housing to be built. They need the housing now, there's no other resources of dollars. Major e was designed to end homelessness and create affordable housing. That is exactly what the mayor's budget is asking.

GK

It is not defunding, affordable, housing, interim Housing Works if it keeps people from dying on our streets, I support, handmaids, I support enemies, Cohen KMI um came a 40 and mayor May has effort to spend more major events on interim housing. I hope. All of you do the same. Thank you.

C

Thank you before the next speaker speaks I'd like to call Michelle C keshi George, Elizabeth, AJ, Tamara, Sanchez and John Betts go ahead. Thank you.

GL

Mayor Mahan I remember an ad he used during your election, stating you believe San Jose could be a city that is Affordable as a father that you wish your kids could be able to afford, as well as all other kids taking away 20 away from measure e could equal a 20 percent increase of people on the street unable to afford housing. Where would be five to ten years from now, building more temporary housing for the increase of homelessness?

GL

I think you see the domino effect here, not against temporary, immediate housing, but against taking funding away from measure e find funding for temporary housing by using the proposed budget increase for policing, because one out of three police officers have a complaint filed against them. Calls have went down, 24 and crime is down by 8.3 percent compared to last year, taken away from permanent housing for use of temporary solutions like putting tape or stickers on the leak in time the leak will pop up again in a different location.

GL

Temporary solutions can be useful, but permanent Solutions are absolutely needed. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

GM

My name is Raymond Goins I present District Seven I'm, a community organizer with Silicon Valley debug in regards to measure e and the manipulation of the facts which the mayor has used as evidence to further increase incarceration through the continuing tightening of the city's Elite news around the marginalized High populations. Next I strongly disagree with your position and creating the building blocks towards gentrifying San Jose.

GM

This proposal is similar to a wolf's dress in sheep clothing and only the only reason for this proposal is to repay the Santa Clara County of realtailers, with which has endorsed you. Let's be honest, the marriage plan doesn't include affordable housing because to create gentrification of an entire community that Community must not have access to permanent, affordable housing.

GN

Very late good evening to everyone, mayor, Mahan, council members, my name is Koshi George and I'm resident of District 10.

GN

I believe in mayor mahan's proposal for a Back to Basics budget, primarily because, as a resident of San Jose for the last 24 years, I have seen a continuous deterioration in the conditions. As far as homelessness is concerned, crime increase of trash all these things.

GN

If, over the period of time, nothing has worked well. What Back to Basics as a budget proposal and on one of the premises on which Matt uh mayor Mahan has won, calls for re-examination of all that's been going on and that's not been going well, so it's good to examine it. It's it's a proprietary thing to do at a very basic level to re-examine what are our budgets being allocated to and see.

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What a change can be.

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Pamela Campos Dimitri, Marita, zaveletta and Fernanda Morales Soto go ahead.

GO

My name is Michelle Coleman I'm, a member of Serge at Sacred, Heart I live both and own a home in District Six people have been talking about the emergency, housing or interim housing. Let's be clear, this is not housing. This is just shelter and the people who live there are still homeless.

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Furthermore, the temporary interim shelter succeeds only when there are long-term, affordable housing for people to transition into the Davis Ortiz tourist member proposal preserves measuri funding for housing, while also finding funds in the budget for interim housing or interim shelter and Emergency Services.

GO

This proposal includes funds for emergency shelter without cannibalizing measure e.

GO

We are scrabbling over scraps when, as Silicon Valley debug points out, the police are getting around half a billion dollars. I stand with Depot speaker.

GP

Hi everyone, my name, is Elizabeth and I live in D3 and I support the Torres, Ortiz and Davis memo along with SOS and SV debug I support the both and approach um I work in an emergency interim housing, but here's why we still have a crisis due to the lack of low and very low income housing, and my question is: has San Jose Everest history met Arena goals for very low income? Housing. That's really important.

GP

Rents are extremely high and the majority of people live paycheck to paycheck, so they have no money. They can use to save in case an emergency happens and here's why emerge permit Supportive Housing Works is because people are only able to pay 30 of their income while they can save the rest for emergencies and other basic necessities. So when an emergency happens, they are not displaced, they're, not evicted and they're, not unhoused.

GP

So this is more reasons why we need permit Supportive Housing, which we have not done in our whole history as a city, and so we need to change that. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

GQ

Good evening my name is Tamara Sanchez and I live in District Five I am here in support of the Davis uh Ortiz tourist memo. uh I have worked in I've worked in affordable housing. Just a few weeks shy of uh 15 years I have dealt with waiting lists as uh we had a direct contract with HUD I have lived in, affordable housing for in different variations for about 20 years and I myself wouldn't have been able to get out of the domestic violence situation if it wasn't because of affordable housing.

GQ

I have been I have had the pleasure of helping people. I have moved people in that were living in their cars. You become more like a worker, and you help people out, I have seen children move on to going to college and universities. I have I, have helped so many people, and sometimes the waiting lists can take 11 to 17 years. If they're even open, we need to have more affordable housing. Thank you next speaker. Thank you.

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Omar valetti and Ashley valletti.

GR

Mayor and council members, my name is Dimitri krugliac I'm, a real estate broker, a property rights Advocate and a resident of District 3. I'm here to strongly support the mayor's proposal to end homelessness in San Jose through the quick build communities program. But my main message is something else. Last week the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors was terrorized by a mob of people who call themselves housing advocates I believe that terrorists must never be allowed to win. Therefore, a vote against the mayor's plan is a vote for political Terror tactics.

GR

I asked the council to pass a resolution condemning this assault on Realtors. The public deserves to know who condemns and who condones political terrorism. Rest assured, we will not forget thanks for your attention.

GS

Mayor Mrs vice mayor and members of the council, my name is Elisa goatee I'm, a San Jose resident since 1978.

GS

I have seen this city change from a small town to the 10th largest city in the country. With growth come challenges right now. As a city, we have to address the homeless situation.

GS

How do we explain to the world that in Silicon Valley, where ideas become realities, we can find we can find a solution for our residents that live in our streets?

GS

These matches offers emergency and long-term housing for our homeless, better security for all residents and also house to clean industry. The CD all of this contributes to a better life for all. Thank you. We are council members. Next.

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Hello good evening, mayor Mahan and honorable City Council Members, my name is Pamela Campos I'm, a resident of San Jose in District 2 and today, I'm speaking on behalf of parent voices, Santa Clara County and with the non-profit, racial Equity action leadership Coalition. We support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz relating to measure e, because it makes the maximum investment in affordable housing and addresses the need for additional temporary shelter. As a parent, organizer I have listened to the stories of our neighbors, who are personally affected by our lack of affordable housing.

GT

Parents who fled domestic violence situations only to be met with temporary shelter options which were not ideal for raising a family and forced this parent back in a disastrous situation. Just last night, another parent informed me that she is moving to Texas where housing is more accessible because she is unable to thrive in her current situation as one of eight adults with five children living Under, One Roof and a three-bedroom home permanent housing is the solution to homelessness and.

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E is our tool. Thank you, speaker,.

GU

Okay, hello, mayor and Council, my name is Fernanda Morales Soto and today I am going to be talking on behalf of the local community group that I am part of and a leader of DNC, which stands for the world I'm here to speak on an experience that I've had regarding the homeless that live in my community and of a crime that was committed in my workplace when I used to work near the area.

GU

I live in currently I called the cops on a homeless who was spitting and throwing chairs at me, and it took them 30 minutes to come, even though there was almost a daily a police who would come in for ice cream. That's why I am on here to support the mayor on his budget, because I think that it's going to not only just help the community specifically that I live in, but help the safety and the community members that are around it.

GU

When I say that I'm talking about the homeless that live there, there's a lot of homeless that you could see that need housing, but aren't able to get it. Thank you so much and I hope you have an open mind with the statement. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

GV

Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Ashley I'm resident of the District 5 community and former intern of District 5 council member Magdalena, Carrasco I'm. Also a member of the local community group, DNC and I am here to support the mayor's Back to Basics budget when I walk my dog at Reinhardt. Drive homelessness is an ongoing risk issue in the community. In my family, I am the one in charge and what used to be a responsibility has now alone become an everyday safety concern.

GV

The balance I'm going to encampment situated alongside Reinhardt Drive, affects past our neighborhood, even with illegal dumping and garbage nudity Hungarian displayed up front and gone as far as drug intake living with this serious day-to-day Menace for three years now and the incumbents have no intention of leaving our area, they keep on filling up the streets and rarely any neighbors walk their dogs. Now, as the oldest of Four Sisters, it affects me and countless other neighbors and families I've met budget with police officers.

GV

I believe my own Community can be more secure with it because my community hasn't been secured enough and I am thank you. Thank.

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You next speaker.

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FR

Evening, Mr, Mayor and members of the council, my name is villega from District number: five I'm, a resident of San Jose for 23 years I'm here to support the the budget proposed by the mayor. We have been invaded in our own neighborhood, some of the problems that we have had.

FR

um Last year, my husband, my husband's car, was stolen from or from our driveway. We are parents of fourth girls before we used to go around the neighborhood and bikes, but nowadays we are not able to do so because um we feel unsafe in our own neighborhood, due to the homeless, Camp encampment that have come to our neighborhood. They do drugs and vandalize and they have a lot of trash everywhere.

FR

The school is right around the corner and we have to take our children to and from school, because they cannot come home walking due to the uh in because then they because it's not safe as a neighborhood. We are asking for a urgent solution to this problem. Please give us our community back. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

C

Okay, so I'm going to move on to zoom of orlana Mejia, followed by Gustavo Flores foreign.

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Okay, I'm going to move on to Gustavo Flores.

GY

Hello, my name is Gustavo Flores I'm, a 35 years, San Jose resident and I'm a community leader from Vecinos activos with somos Mayfair. Two years ago the ex-mayor brought the same temporary house project. Until today, no more than 500 temporary houses have been built and no more than 1500 people homeless. People have been benefits. It's not working. Also, two years ago, they made sure e begins. Until today, 4481 new low-income apartments have been built in 684 have been renovated, reducing the number of homeless people on 27 percent. So it's working mayor we need permanent Solutions.

GY

We need to keep the measure e budget I'm here to support uh consoles member Ortiz, Davis and Torres memo. Thank you.

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Allison singalani, followed by Sandeep.

GZ

Good evening, Allison singalani with Silicon Valley at home and a D5 resident I, ask that you support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres to fund interim shelters and protect measure e for permanent, affordable housing. The budget office memo shows that the city already has the money it needs to meet its thousand bedroom interim shelter goals without taking a dollar of measure, ease funds for permanent, affordable housing, the Davis Ortiz Torres memo and the city.

GZ

Manager's analysis acknowledged that the ongoing operating costs for interim shelters have a long-term structural deficit of tens of millions of dollars. A year, the Davis Ortiz Torres memo direct City staff to develop a plan for funding the ongoing long-term operating costs of the city's current and planned interim shelter sites. People living in interim shelters are still homeless. Permanent housing is the only solution to homelessness, taking funds from permanent, affordable housing is a short-sighted and costly mistake.

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Sandeep followed by Araceli foreign.

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I'm, a 15-year resident of District 10. I support mayor mayhem's budget of Back to Basics I am frustrated at this slow speed of change in the lack of results of past several years related to blight homelessness and crime, especially street racing robbery and drug abuse. It's time to support new approaches and not be led astray by vested interests, we pay significantly with taxes and fees and expect basic services in return. I request the council to support our mayor.

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Araceli, followed by Colin user 2.

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Good evening my name is aracely Gutierrez and I am here in support of in solidarity in support of survivors of the streets, to urge you to support the Davis Taurus Northeast Quan, which maximizes investment in affordable housing and keeps measure e Promises to the voters. It builds emergency interim housing with City funds and Works towards a permanent solution that all the residents of sounds they need. Thank you.

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Colin user 2, followed by Melissa.

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Call in user two.

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You're unmuted, so please speak.

C

Okay, calling user two I'm going to come back to you. um We weren't unable to hear you, even though you were unmuted I'm, going to call two more names and then I'll get back to you. So I have Melissa, followed by Walter and it looks like College news or two put his hand down so Melissa, followed by Walter.

HC

Hello, this is Melissa Valdez I'm, calling today to say to protect the affordable housing oppose increase in funding to the police budget. Measure e was approved by voters in 2020. Funds for temporary housing should not be taken from funds reserved for permanent housing, I hear people concerned about drugs and homelessness. Well, let's not forget about the head of the sjpoa, who was part of the fentanyl drug ring here in San Jose. How much fentanyl is being circulated in San Jose because of her actions? How many overdoses, how many arrests the plot was well done?

HC

It would be Reckless to increase sjpd funding. What does Back to Basics even mean high-tech companies? Moving allowed to move here is the cause of the high cost of living here in San Jose, which is causing homelessness.

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Walter Wilson, followed by Elizabeth conlon.

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Good evening, mayor council, my name is Walter Wilson I'm, the on the board of directors of the African-American Cultural Center project and I and I am the project manager. This measure e dollars will directly impact the project that we're currently working on we're two years into the development, in fact, I'm the only developer speaking tonight that opposes your plan mayor for several reasons, one because it's going to cost over 60 million dollars a year to maintain.

HD

Excuse me and the fact that the uh Davis Ortiz Torres option maintains manager e as well as provides funding for the interim housing that you're proposing it. Does all that I. Don't understand why you won't support it and more and also since last year, homeless. Homelessness is down 4.7 percent in San Jose. Nobody said that tonight, but that's a fact: look it up. I urge the city council to support the Davis Ortiz storage uh options when you do that, you'll support the African-American Cultural Center project.

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Elizabeth conlon, followed by Sheila K.

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Hello, my name is Elizabeth Conlin I'm speaking on behalf of pro housing group, South Bay, yimby I am also a resident of D9, selfie and B supports maintaining council's approved allocations from 2022, as outlined in the memo from Council Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres.

HE

The original budget proposal is unfortunate that it pits desperately needed permanent Supportive Housing against much needed temporary shelter. We clearly need both homelessness and housing. Affordability are the big biggest issues facing San, Jose and Council should instead be focused on how we can fund more temporary shelter without sacrificing measuring funds for new homes. We agree that Supportive Housing is too expensive to build and takes too long to build and therefore urge reforms to lower costs and speed timelines. Please defend affordable housing and support using measure e-funds for new permanent homes. Thank you.

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HF

Good evening my name is Sheila K I've been a resident of Santa, Clara County for 48 years and I back mahan's basic back to basic, because if the measure e had been successful, we would not be talking about it today. We need to jump start what we're doing and I believe strongly quick building housing for the one-year attempt to see how successful it is and be compassionate and help these people in one year we may see great results simply by giving them shelter, food and the essentials they need to jump start and become more resilient.

HF

Keeping them under the bridge will not make them more resilient. I strongly ask you, as a council, to condemn The Reckless Behavior of the pro uh Davis agenda.

C

Okay, I have in person Aurelia Sanchez Alicia, Chavez, Javier, Espana, Val, otazu and vivianti fan.

GX

Hello, my name is Aurelia Sanchez and I live in District three I'm here to support the mayor and I'm, going to tell you why I could not support Davis, because this is the council member that refused to have affordable teacher housing in her District, because quote it did not go into her neighborhood. You think I will support someone like that. Uh-Uh and.

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If you could direct your message to the whole Council, okay.

GX

And another thing I want to say is that you know people talk, that we have less crime. They don't live in. My neighborhood I wish Sacred Heart, which would help with the prostitution that is down the street from them on person. Floyd I wish sacred heart would stop with the gang band violence. In my neighborhood and my in in my grandson's School, we've had people uh children with guns in schools, crickets from a lot of the non-profits. We just had a mentally ill person, kill these people innocent people. Thank you your time.

GX

Thank you I'm as mad as hell, and you can tell okay.

C

So I have it looks like a lot of people have gone home, so I'm gonna continue to call cards. When you hear your name come down. Deanne horn, Chris, zazueta, Melissa, f, endi, Bautista,.

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Veronica Amador.

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I have one that just says myself, um which is you're right. You guys can be anonymous so, but whoever put myself you're you're up to go ahead and go to the microphone and then I'll also call a couple more Morris, Chubb and Nicholas Adams.

HG

My name is Deanne harn and I'm, a resident of San Jose I'm, also a business owner in San, Jose and I'm. Also the chairperson of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. You know I kind of had something written out, but after you know, sitting here for a few hours listening to it, I really want to just put my support behind Matt's proposal out there. There is so much that we can do and what I appreciate about what he's saying and what he's trying to do is look at something doing it differently than what we've done.

HG

There has been status quo, I'm a business person and I like disruption, I like to to find a way to get things done and get things accomplished. I haven't seen that I've lived in San Jose pretty much my whole life we've had a business second generation owner for 44 years and the amount of how difficult it is to bring customers to bring new employees.

HG

When you have a homeless issue near your, your place of employment is one of the things that we really need to to look at and finding a solution that can be quick and efficient would be great.

C

I'm going to call a few more names, it looks like eonas Cibrian paleo from Latino Coalition Emily, Ann, Ramos, Marjorie, Atkinson.

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Gonzalez and Angelica Herrera go ahead. Mayor.

HH

And Council I think I might have forgot to write my name down. I might be that myself person, sorry, my name's David pandori with council members, Foley and Cohen I, co-chaired the mayor's transition committee on homelessness to change the status quo. We recommended that the City built much more emergency housing and do it faster.

HH

The mayor's proposal meets this call. I expected his proposal would have your complete support to Mayor seeking social justice for the city's poorest people consistent with measure e, so I was disappointed to learn that wasn't the case. The Davis proposal blocks needed emergency housing. It will relegate the homeless to the only emergency, housing left, tents and Shacks in our parks and public places, costing the city Millions 16.6 last year alone. Please don't let the minority rule please rescind the council policy that allows minority of the council to block homeless funding. Thank you.

HH

It violates the city Charter section 1204 D. Thank you.

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HI

Good evening mayor vice mayor and honorable council members, my name is Morris. Chubb I came to San Jose when I was 17 years old back in 1968 and I've been around ever since I love the city I, don't envy your jobs, though, because you're playing the job of Solomon, it's a tough job.

HI

We need both permanent housing and emergency interim housing. Both now Supportive Housing has had 950 million for measure a and how much for measure e. So, um as one person said today, let's give this a chance mayor Mayhem. We should give you at least a year.

HI

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Thank you next speaker.

HJ

Good evening, mayor Matt good evening, council members I am Marjorie Atkinson and I'm a resident in the Cambrian District district 9. I've lived in San Jose for 60 years. I graduated from San Jose State raised two children and I'm. A retired teacher I've, never seen the things that are happening now today uh with the the homeless living in tents and RVs on the street.

HJ

um But um I want to thank you, mayor Matt, because you have a plan and it's a really good plan. It's very basic and simple and I came to one of your events and I've seen you working right along with everybody else in neighborhoods and getting out and meeting the people and I just really admire that um I think your plan, a pathway for the homeless, quick housing. Thank.

C

You next speaker, medical.

HJ

And addiction help increasing the police force.

C

Thank you next speaker.

HJ

Thank you, I really approve of it.

HK

My name is I: am the programs manager of Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley? We support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Torres and Ortiz relating to measure e, because it makes the maximum investment in affordable housing and addresses the need for additional temporary shelter as a civilian mother of two housing Advocate, former unhoused and homeless prevention case manager, I stand in protecting measure e and permanent, affordable housing. Thank you.

HL

Sad, some of you uh changed out of your beautiful barongs from this afternoon.

HL

Well, you're still on it so um hi uh my phone died because we were it's been a long meeting, so my talking points are gone, but my boss said I could speak my truth, so yay, um my name is Emily Ann Ramos I am with Silicon Valley at home and uh yes, like Silicon Valley at home, I do support the Davis, Torres and Ortiz memo mayor, Mahan I know a lot of people who want you to succeed, and there is no shame in leveraging the experience and Broad diverse experience of your fellow members of council I think that the the solution that was proposed by the Davis Taurus and Ortiz memo was something that leveraged your desire for more funding for interim housing.

HL

Without touching the measure, e funds and I think that is an elegant solution that that should be considered. I look forward to seeing what Cal Council will move forward with tomorrow. I'm sure it's going to be a delightful long meeting, but thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker.

HM

Good evening, mayor Mahan and council members, my name is Nicholas Adams I'm, a fourth generation San, Jose and proud to be. My family has been in San Jose for almost 100 years and I, don't think any of them would have ever believed what we see now the sad truth on our streets. It is a humanitarian crisis and we know that I'm here to support the mayor's budget, as proposed and I, realize that it's a challenge for many of the council members to get behind it for several reasons.

HM

But I want to publicly thank the vice mayor for her endorsement of the mayor's plan and also council member Foley for yours and I'm, encouraging other council members to get behind this thing. So we can get it passed as quickly as possible.

HM

I'm a property owner in San, Jose I'm, also a small business owner here in town and as about a week ago, our district 6 neighborhood was having a meeting with over 60 people in our community with the sjpd after several break-ins. As that meeting was happening, uh a home was broken into two two doors down. It's it's real! Thank you and we appreciate your support. Thank you. I.

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Have the Tran family, Tim, Ho, Kathleen, Trowbridge, Maria, Garcia, Miguel and Juan Orlando.

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Ahead good evening my name is Delta Gonzalez I am a resident District 5 and a community organizer with somos Mayfair I am here to urge you all to support the council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres memo this plan. This plan finds funding in the city budget for interim housing and homeless, Support Services, while maintaining previous measure Evans allocations. We all realize the need to provide temporary shelter for individuals seeking housing, and these plans helps to meet that need and invest in permanent and affordable housing. Solutions for them to go to.

HN

I have worked with many people that are right now on house and what they want. It's affordable, permanent housing, not bandages Solutions. So I am here to ask you to stand by the people that you all said to protect by the youth and children that run our own house and support the memo of council members.

HN

David, Ortiz and Taurus I am also a proud member of the assisted, Collective and I'm here to ask you for your support on the recovery Salesforce recommendation and that children use um Children and Youth master plan, because those are real solutions. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker, foreign.

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FR

Good evening my name is Maria Garcia and I'm and I live in District Five here in the Bay Area in a one of the renters of the 18 units, those apartments that are on sale, the land, trust um Community. Letters is working with us to see if they can acquire this building. We are here to request that you do not make changes to measure e and the land. The community land trust is just waiting to for the funds to be freed. Those funds that were originally intended for these projects to preserve housing and affordable rent.

FR

We know that there are needs aside, I said hours, but we do not want to be a burden for the city. Thank you.

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Thank you next speaker.

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FR

Hello, my name is Juan Orlando, my family and I have been living in the in the apartments um located in Virginia Avenue for more than three years. The.

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um South Bay Area, Community, Land Trust connective got in touch with the owner with the land owner about the the selling of those apartments in Virginia, Avenue or home. That happened in December 2022.. Recently, the the owner told us that she is considering selling the apartments, because the Community Land Trust has not um has not received access to the preservation funds from the city. We are sending a letter to the owner, signed that all the renters requesting for more time and she was she agreed to postpone selling the property until mid-june.

FR

Those funds from measure e are very important to us because they will guarantee the buy and the buying.

C

Thank you next speaker.

HO

Hello, my name is Miguel I've been a resident in Virginia, Avenue, District Five. uh What I want you to do is.

HO

I'm here to to urge you to protect measure e and I I'm in the education of Independence High School living in the apartments for 13 years, I vote I take my vote for Peter Ortiz, Omar, Torres and Bev Davis. Thank you.

HP

Hi, my name is Delma I'm I live in District, Five and I'm with the South Bay Community Land Trust I want to acknowledge all the work the community has done to pass measure e all the work the housing department has done to get to the get to it to a current balance expenditure plan that takes into account the housing needs of all residents. It's so easy to propose changes to our budget. When you don't know the real life consequences that these changes will have on people of color and low-income communities.

HP

We are currently working with tenants at Virginia Avenue, who you just met some of them. It's an 18 unit apartment complex in District, Five to purchase their home. The residents are Spanish speakers and most have been living with living there close to 20 years and have cultivated deep ties to their neighbors and their Community. As my co-worker earlier mentioned, the mayor's proposal takes current 26 million of perservation to zero dollars. The mayor's proposal puts these families at risk of displacement. I urge you to vote for.

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um Hi everyone, my name, is Jackie Rivera I'm, the operations co-director with the South Bay Community lunches, the first and only Land Trust here in San, Jose Incorporated in 2019 and I have an opportunity for all those residents that suddenly want to change the status quo. Decommodify, land and housing community Landress our transformative strategy to take land off the speculative Market to provide housing, Collective ownership opportunities, decrematic, Democratic, resident stewardship and stable communities that are permanently affordable by deed, restricting them in perpetuity I'm.

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Here in support of council member Davis, Torres and Ortiz memo, it is the only memo that supports all three PS along with Supportive Services and yes, all three p's, including the middle child preservation preservation strategies, are critical elements of anti-disbasement policy and produce limited equity and ownership, home ownership, opportunities for low and moderate income residents. Southeast CLT and tenants have been waiting and are ready for the ACT rehab RFP that is slated to be released in Fall of this year.

EP

If funding is maintained to be able to purchase the 18 unit, Virginian Apartments, we should be supporting innovative ideas of resident-led and owned properties that also preserve the familial historic, linguistic and cultural makeup of our neighborhoods. Thank you.

C

um Before you speak, I'd like to call Crystal fam, Wong, fam, Inez, Ortega, Cheryl, L and Roberta vit or wit, go.

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Ahead good evening, my name is Kathleen Trowbridge and I'm, a long-term homeowner in District 3. I'm, also a member of surge at Sacred Heart standing in solidarity with SOS at Sacred. Heart I support the Davis Ortiz Torres memo funding. Only interim Services is the status quo. San Jose's unhoused residence campaigned for permanent, low-income housing through measure E and has already built thousands of homes in just two years.

EQ

If we don't build a foreign build, affordable housing now we will never meet our housing needs and this crisis will never end the memo from Davis Torres and Ortiz moves our city forward to meeting the needs of our unhoused and nearly unhoused listen to our unhoused residents. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

HQ

How you doing my name is Alex Ortega I'm here representing 500 vendors at the Berryessa Flea Market and I would like to ask every single one of you. Why wasn't why weren't we on this agenda? Are you guys not aware that we are in need of a budget? Are you aware that the city of San Jose gave this 2.5 million and already spent 1 million, and nothing has been done? Do you know that we create jobs for hundreds and thousands of people in the city of San Jose?

HQ

Why weren't we invited here today it's the responsibility of each single one of you guys to protect the residents of the city of San, Jose I. Ask you mayor why weren't we invited here today we are the heart of the city of San Jose before Google. The city is the various of flea market. We are the heart before Google. Before Apple we are the Golden Gate Bridge to San Jose. We are Pier 39 to San Jose.

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You guys talk about, you, guys, talk about homelessness and you guys are creating the problem find the remote.

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Good evening, mayor and all's council member I'm here to support the mayor mayhem's budget for affordable housing, because that could be prevent homeless, preventing crime and also pre-writing and stop people moving out the Bay Area.

HR

So please make it stand. Jose is a nice place and leaving a bowl Tau, so I, urging all the City concerts United with the mayor Mayhem to support his budget become reality. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker, I just wanted to let people on Zoom know that we will be coming back to you, I'm, going to finish, calling those people in person and then I'll go back to zoom. Go ahead.

P

Good evening horrible mayor vice mayor and custom member.

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FG

My name is I'm a San Jose resident who lived in the city of San Jose for 35 years.

FG

When I arrived here, San Jose was the safest city to live in.

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When they're homeless, yeah.

FG

Now homeless has been an issue here, a crisis and therefore the city is dirty and crime.

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FG

If you remember, last year we have 246 homeless, people died out on the street.

FG

We think that the council members is always care for the city of San Jose.

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FG

As we all understand that mayor has proposed 50 million dollars for affordable housing and 50 million dollars for the homeless crisis resolutions.

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um Cheryl. Before you go I'm going to call surrender dollywall, you can actually go up to the mic. Cheryl I'm just going to call a few names: um surrender, dollywall, um Jacqueline, Maura, Carlos, Amaya, Enrique, Navarro, Amelia, Rios and Sean.

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Go ahead, okay, go.

HS

Hi, yes, I'd like to thank Foley, Kamai, Sergio and Cohen for the hard work and supporting more measure. E-Money for interim housing and I support the mayor's plan that allocates 50 percent to interim housing and 50 to Affordable, as opposed to the Davis memo. Every day, people on our streets are being raped, robbed, abused and they're dying.

HS

You can keep giving out all the tents you want, but nothing replaces having a place to sleep with four walls, a locked door heat and a clean bed to sleep in knowing that you are safe when you close your eyes at night, and nothing replaces knowing that you have a private shower and breakfast in the morning to give you hope and having your pets living with you. That's what interim housing is interim housing gives people hope and safety.

HS

People like Single Moms living in a car with a toddler need housing now, not in five years, have a heart. Do the right thing and spend more measure refunds on interim housing and by the way responsible oversight would require a two-third vote to keep measuring, as is not only to change it. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker, I'm also Alex Shore, and it looks like Ann Webb bow, trook and Christopher Lee go.

HT

Ahead, hello, mayor.

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HT

Vice mayor I'm, Roberta I'm from district one I support the mayor's plan to increase the funding for interim housing over the Davis memo, which would only maintain the status quo. 50 million for interim and 50 million for affordable housing is more than reasonable. When we have thousands of people literally living on our streets right now, I recently became involved with the 10 dweller along the creek. In my neighborhood I witnessed her assault. Thankfully police and supportive people put her in a hotel for one week.

HT

During that time, she was able to get her paperwork in order. Today, I took her to the County Office of Supportive Housing to be her witness that she had been unhoused for over a year. I was her witness. I was told by the people there that they are increasingly seen. People like her who have their paperwork in order and are ready to come off the street, but they do not have interim housing.

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AZ

Hire me mayor, Mayhem and council members, um my name is Guru surendrikar taliwal I'm, a resident of San Jose since 1986.

AZ

throughout all of this I've been hearing the word Sacred Heart for many of the supporters of the Davis Torres and Ortiz memo. The words Jesus Christ is repeatedly left out when mentioning Sacred Heart, there seems to be religious influence and then therefore bias in this memo.

AZ

The people who created this housing and Mental Health crisis cannot honestly know how to fix it, give guilt and shame to others and then be their Savers. This has been on repeat for too long.

AZ

I just spent the last four days in the hills of Southern California, with indigenous leaders from around the world gathered to bring awareness to the many issues plaguing humanity and together we prayed to raise the vibration to love and peace across this world.

AZ

It's important to keep religious bias out of your decision making, especially for the budget. Thank you. Next.

C

HU

My name is Enrique Navarro, one of the score employees who is working in our office last Wednesday the same day, some of our local housing, non-profit and activist organizations, including the South Bay Community Land Trust working Partnerships, USA and Luna trespassing. Our offices harassed and attempted to intimidate us into dropping her advocacy and, like a mafia, threatened to return every time housing issues appear on the city's Horizon. Even worse, they celebrate their actions openly on their social media. Why?

HU

To stop advocacy in support of Mayor, Matt, mahan's measure e spending plan and other issues where we have been on opposing sides. Unfortunately, for them we are here to communicate that they will never dictate to us and that our result to fight has since grown exponentially. The aforementioned groups received hugs from our housing director right up these stairs the day Coppa was voted on, so we re.

HU

We implore you to reconsider the value of input from those who use intrusion, disruption, harassment and intimidation is their form of advocacy and to re-evaluate the level of influence they are afforded in our city government. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

HV

uh Hi and good evening, my name is Carlos Maya good evening mayor vice mayor and council members, members of the community I am here to express my concern about uh mayor Matt, mahan's budget proposal. I believe that the original spending plan for measure e, which allocates most dollars to affordable housing development should be maintained. The crisis of homelessness in our city is significant and we need to act with urgency. However, I believe that investing in long-term Solutions, such as affordable housing development is the best way to address the issue.

HV

I urge the council to support the memo put forth by council members, Davis, Taurus and Ortiz. Thank you.

C

Thank you next speaker.

HW

Good evening, thank you, Mr Mayor Ms vice mayor and council members for giving me the opportunity to address you today. My name is Christopher Lee and I live in District 2. as a resident and taxpayer of San Jose. For the past four years, I have witnessed firsthand the issues that we Face here. Our homelessness situation has unfortunately, gotten worse over time. Crime rates have increased and the amount of trash in our city has tripled. It's evident that these are the Urgent problems that require immediate action.

HW

I stand before you today to lend my support to Mayor mayhem's Back to Basics budget. This budget represents a deviation from the status quo, which is exactly what we need right now. I believe that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This seems to be the case here and if we keep funding the same approaches to our problems, we are likely to keep getting the same results. Therefore, I impore you as my representatives to take bold thank.

C

You next speaker.

HX

Mayor Mann, council members, my name is Anne Webb and I'm a resident of District 2. and was a longtime resident of District. 3, spend a lot of time in Downtown, San Jose and can assure council member Torres that the my downtown friends want the homeless off the streets. Now I strongly support the mayor's budget proposal of Back to Basics.

HX

The status quo is not working. We need the homeless off the streets. Now, apart from the compassionate point of view, Studies have shown that it is more economical to get unhoused into a home with with what with police, calls emergencies and hospital visits. Please vote for the mayor's budget proposal and give us a safer, cleaner city. Thank you.

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Thanks for sticking it out tonight, council members, catalyze SV supports the manager's budget addendum number 54 from Rosalind huey on Civic engagement. It would create what I believe is the first city staffer dedicated exclusively to community engagement, something catalyze SV has been talking to the city about four years. Would you consider funding it in your budget council members on today's measure e debate some perspective? Perhaps for all of us it's actually great that in San Jose we all want to fund more money for helping those in need of housing.

HY

Our biggest debate tonight is between more money for temporary housing for homeless folks versus more permanent housing. That's progress. However. We have to push Beyond today's tenuous consensus to reach real, lasting change. That change comes from one simple thing: permanent housing, our members support continuing to fund, affordable housing. Next.

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Hello, mayor Matt, Meehan and council members.

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I live in the Vietnam town area.

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I support mayor Matt, mahans.

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I support Matt mayhem's budget for 50 million dollars for the interim housing for the homeless.

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Affordable housing.

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And 50 million dollars for affordable housing.

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Is a great way to resolve the crisis of homelessness in our city.

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So this is one Arrow shooting two birds. At the same time,.

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Thank you mayor vice mayor and council member Pam, Foley.

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Thank you next speaker.

HZ

Good evening, Council good evening, mayor God's blessing over all of us here in this room tonight substantially I commend you on a well done. I am your status quo, your achiever we're going to rock this world when we make that quick build because change has come. I was the first to go into these interims into these many homes to be the successor to tell every permanent housing that it has failed. We were wrong, but we will make our wrongs right. We will achieve.

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We will remove the 21 to 27 000 a bed and we will make these homes quick builds so that individuals can come out of the normal. What was given for 10 20 30 to 60 years are bad. Now it is our turn to be good to see the good of what you've done. I am again, like I, said your status quo, I'm a senior pastor over the church. I did it because I was sick, of seeing and feeding the homeless and seeing.

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Scores tonight supporting Davis Torres Ortiz memo score recognizing tiny homes and eih or middle schools. You need to build the high schools for people to graduate to score a 74 year old with three replace tips leads a protest with two Walkers one cane and one toddler nearly a week ago, and tonight it became the best telenovela we've seen in a long time.

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Richard Sanders, followed by Karen Nelson.

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Hi everybody- this is Rich Sanders I am a 40-year resident of Cambrian Park District 9 and the founding officer of the little Brandon rosswood neighborhood association. The number of unhoused people in our streets is unacceptable. I drive along Highway 87 and see the tents along the walk right next to the freeway I play golf at Los Lagos, a golf course as I play. I see people living in the creek that bisects the course.

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It breaks my heart to see them and I wonder why our officials aren't doing more to get these people into housing and services. We need to provide a way for these people to get shelter and services and a way out of subsistence living, and we need to do this sooner rather than later.

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The mayor's budget proposal does not.

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One of Juana villopondo, followed by Jose.

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Vicente I don't know which one is interpreting right now, but can you tell her to hold on? um We can hear you now so. Can you ask her to start over.

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The proposal by Davis Ortiz.

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Very important.

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Support for homeless people because they don't have a house.

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But it's also very important to keep measure e.

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For the creation of affordable housing.

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We're not able to enjoy the parks and the Arts.

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Could enjoy the other things that we have at ours that are available to us respect, measure e.

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And the council has the responsibility to find other funds for the other basic necessities.

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Okay, Jose, followed by George Wu.

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Jose, this was George Liu.

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Good evening, mayor and Council.

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Hold on just a minute John: are you switched back? Okay, go ahead, Jose.

ID

Yeah good evening, mayor and Council, my name is Jose lujano with the South Bay Community Land, Trust and I urge you to support uh council member Davis, Torres and Ortiz's memo I appreciate, particularly its balance, Focus, to achieving both interim and permanent Housing Solutions without diluting measure e. At the end of the day, you have everyone working in the field daily, telling you not to undo the work of measure e, which created an affordable housing development and preservation ecosystem, unlike any City in the state of California measure e and measure. A are the main reason.

ID

San Jose is the only big city making progress on reducing homelessness. You each have an awesome power and an even more awesome responsibility to do the right thing by low income and unhoused residents in San Jose. There's no reason to do a 180 other than to fulfill misguided campaign. Promises make no mistake. The only thing that is status quo here is the unfair burden being placed on renters and low-income residents being displaced every day to fight for themselves. Thank you.

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George, followed by Blair.

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Hello, can you hear me.

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Okay, uh I'm here uh first I'm here to support uh mayor Mahan, uh asymptomatically budget claim. Secondly, I want to say I support, Santa Clara County Association of readers. They are. They are victims.

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Members, please enforce your power to protect all the residents in San Jose for sale. Please ensure everybody can have freedom of speech. Thank you.

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Player followed by Isela.

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All right play Beekman about measure e issues.

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The very least I'm learning we can maybe work as an entire Community process at this time and to possibly ask Governor, Newsom and state level lawmakers how they can better release.

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State funding for affordable housing I feel this can add to the current very well-intentioned, Memo by Tories, Ortiz and Davis, a very much of a thank you to everyone for the current negotiation mediation process and what should be an important goal of how to return to the initial measuring ideas of a 75-25 split towards more comprehensive, low-income housing, development and planning I think we can reach this goal. This is my understanding.

IE

There's an SDA private sector that wants to help Supply much additional funding to the quick shelter, housing ideas of Mayor Mayhem I feel these can be ways to develop ideas of well-reasoned, community consensus and work to lessen the overall periods of middle-income Housing Development and the flexibility it can offer in the next few years. A good luck to everyone to work with the openness and accountability ideas as well.

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As seller, followed by Liz Holtz.

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Hello, my name is Isela Reyes I'm, with Sacred Heart, Community Services and a member of the real Coalition I support the memo from Council Members, Davis and Doris and Ortiz relating to measure e, because it makes the maximum investment in affordable housing and addresses the need for additional temporary shelter in 2021, I was displaced to the Central Valley after losing my family member to covid, but my family struggled to acquire secure housing started along before then.

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Despite my mom being permanently disabled person and being a single parent, we never even made it onto a waiting list for affordable housing unit. The truth is as a family, we entered a lot of trauma to keep a roof, not a home over our head. I urge you again not to steer money away from measure e-fund.

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Liz, followed by Amy.

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Good evening my name is Amy Cody I'm, a neighborhood association, leader and resident of district. One I'm asking you to please vote for the Back to Basics budget supported by mayor Mahan, Vice, Merica, May and council member Foley I applaud the city's many affordable housing preservation and production efforts. I would like to see the percentage of affordable units in high density, residential projects increase from 15 to 20 percent I'm. An advocate for government Partnerships, leveraging resources and long-term planning I also strongly believe that government must provide certain basic services and prioritize resources to accomplish this.

IG

Recent years have shown. We need a budget that allows us to shelter and serve more of our unhoused residents more quickly. We need to reduce police response times, improve traffic safety and increase community policing. We need to focus on removing trash and blight from our city and invest in our.

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Todd followed by Justice at work, Law Group.

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Hello, this all seems to be a choice between the Davis memo, which basically sticking with the decade-long housing first plan that would provide apartments for a lucky few homeless in the next five to ten years or trying a new approach with housing. Now that provides basic shelter and service to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of unhoused quickly, I believe this situation needs to be treated like the crisis. I keep hearing it called the housing now plan would focus for a year on rapidly providing basic and shelter to many of our most vulnerable residents.

IH

Those currently in housed, please support the quick, build communities and the reallocation of measure. It is inhumane and a travesty for any council member to leave people living on the streets any longer and unfair to everyone else. Thank.

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You Justice at work, Law Group, followed by Steve Samuel.

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uh Good evening, council members, this is tweet Tran I serve as a member of the Housing Commission to speak in my own accord. Tonight you know the the narrative around this entire debate is just incredibly confusing because it sounds like we're either choosing to support a Ford or permanent, affordable housing or affordable housing instruction or interim housing, and that's just not what we do. San Jose has in all of the above approach that continues that provides multiple touch points to get people into services and housing.

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It's why we see for the first time a drop in the unhoused population. Why would we change strategies now?

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The only thing I can think of is that there's this is going to sweep the problem under the rug for short score political points, there's no point to change our strategies when we're actually doing what we're supposed to do so. I urge you all to support the Davis, 14 and Torres memo. uh It makes no sense to change when we actually are getting the results that we keep hearing. Everyone ask for, thank you and have a good night.

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Steve Samuel, followed by Paula.

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Good afternoon, mayor and city council, my name is Paola a resident of District 5.. The cesare collective has been working with City staff to develop out the Children and Youth master plan from mission and vision. We have been helping shape. How that plan has been can be successful when the city collaborates with organization like ours.

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We are asking the city fund to fund the master plan that aligns with many recovery task force, recommendations, including many of the strategies of the various recovery task force, committees, expanding access to Affordable and high quality programming in child care, early care and education and Youth Development.

IJ

Many of these will be addressed working with our Collective organizations on the Children and Youth master plan. We also have a list of our priority lists of recovery task force, recommendations that we want the city to prioritize and fund to ensure that our families are able to move forward from the devastating impacts of the pandemic and a historical under in investment in our community. Over decades address us.

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Charisse, followed by Doris.

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My name is Cherise Domingo with debug a resident of District Six I oppose the increase in the police budget, I support the Torres, Ortiz and Davis memo, and ask that you take the money from the already inflated police budget. Three years ago, some of you marched with us to protest the murders of George, Floyd and Brianna Taylor. Some of you marched with us before the world knew George Floyd's name, because you knew the San Jose loved ones who were killed by law enforcement.

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Here in our city, you've met those loved ones left behind three years later, sjpd remains: unaccountable. Complaints are up three years in a row, one out of three officers have a complaint lodged against them before the Antioch Police Department sjpd had their own racist texting scandal in 2020, and their budget continues to grow. City council should not reward an unaccountable and scandalous Police Department with more funds. Doing so means you co-sign their culture of unaccountability. We can leave measure e-funds alone and take money from the already bloated police budget. Thank you.

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Doris, followed by Hillary.

IL

Good evening Council and mayor I'm Doris lipsey of district one Murdoch neighborhood I'm. Here again, I sent my comments to the council today, thinking I couldn't be here tonight we have a lady living in the creek who would like an alternative place to stay in interim housing, while waiting for permanent housing. I have a question for all of those who are against spending measure e funds on interim housing would.

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Rather, the homeless stay in tents, without services and loss of dignity, I, don't understand it. Please support the mayor's plan and for the homeless policies the police bite Back to Basics. Let's stick together, try it for a year. I know you can do it. Thank you.

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Hillary, followed by Joe.

IM

Foreign Thorson, I'm library and education, commissioner for District Six, thank you for the funding you have given the library in this budget and your recognition that the library is an essential City service with 96 satisfaction from City residents in the latest survey. My concern is that seven libraries still not have their pre-pandemic level of funding restored and will only operate 43 hours a week. The Rose Garden library is one and is in the same block as my daughter's Elementary School 47 of the children who attend that school are from lower resource families.

IM

The library is the city's main education link and has supported my daughter and thousands of other children. Throughout the school year. We can borrow up to 100 books at a time from the library she can only get two books at her school library. I estimate that the books I borrow each year for her would probably cost me close to nine thousand dollars to buy outright. My daughter is in her school's bilingual program. The library, Spanish programming and books helped her to become a Spanish reader over the course of kindergarten.

IM

All the children in our city and their families deserve as much access to Library resources as possible. Education and literacy have the highest correlation with economic success throughout life, see.

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Joe Brown, followed by Jack.

IN

My name is Joe Brown from District 9. I'd like to thank everybody for hanging in there this late. This is my third attempt. I got booted off twice: I probably could have drove down there I'm four hours away, but at any rate I'm for the mayor's proposal and uh and I'm also a real estate broker and I also came to San Jose in 1959. uh The reason that uh I think that we ought to do this is because the we we need to get the homeless off the street.

IN

uh We had 247 people die last year if we go with the status quo, how many more are going to die this coming year and the year after that and the year after that? This is an emergency measure that needs to be done, and in order for these people to get into some type of a home, that's when we can find out whether they can get other services to deal with alcoholism, drugs and or mental health. Thank you.

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Bo, yes, I can hear. Can you hear me yes, good evening the mayor and City Council Members? My name is Jack bouldershire District One, a hundred percent support of Mayors uh housing now approach the Homeless Problem keeps getting worse.

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Let's try the jump, start approach and see what could be done now to test the lives of as many homeless people as possible. Thank you.

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Jingbo followed by vicinos activos.

IP

Hello, can you hear me yes, hi uh Mr major and the city council members? My name is Jim Bonnie, a resident of San Jose for over 15 years. I am here to urge your council members to vote for major mahan's budget plan.

IP

It's sad to say that Homeless crisis has been worsening and I'm frustrated by the public safety deterioration over the recent years. There are clear evidences that the older ways the ticket, all the stale measure e in particular, are not working. We must provide housing for homeless people with money spent effectively with accountability.

IP

We also need a stronger police force for Public Safety, which is basic and fundamental for the prosperity and the well-being of all San Jose citizens. I support the mayor. Mary has a plan to go back to basic and Common Sense.

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Vecinos followed by Norma foreign.

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Guerrero I'm from District, Six and I ask you to support the memo from Council, Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres on measure e for permanent, affordable housing. This plan continues to invest in homelessness prevention. The cost of living continues to increase faster than the wages people earn by providing assistance to those who are struggling to pay rent. We keep families and individuals stable, stably housed, but also slow the flow of people to our streets.

IQ

By working together, we can take bold actions that make San Jose a place where everyone has a roof over their head and all of our families can Thrive so that all our neighborhoods can be safe, diverse and strong. No matter what we look like how much we earn or where we lay our heads down to sleep, we all need a safe place to call home. Housing is a human right. We urge the city council to vote for the plan created by council members, Deb Davis, Omar, Torres and Peter Ortiz housing is a human right.

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Norma, followed by Tuan.

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Hello um hold on just a second John. Let me know when it's ready, Lisa, okay, um I'm, not sure if it's Vincent or Armando, but I, think you guys can go ahead.

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Good evening my name is and I'm here to request your support.

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Memorandum of Davis, Ortiz and Torres, so that we can get the assistance for this proposal, because this is the only way that we can get affordable housing and also for the homeless. People.

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Because the other memorandum doesn't really help the homeless people, because there are a lot of people that are young and they don't really want a place to live I think they have uh a bigger need for a drug addiction and I think that measure is going to help those type of people. So that's why we're asking that we support the measure e. Thank you.

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Tuan, followed by Tau.

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Good evening, uh I'm here tonight to express my strong support for mayor mayhem's proposal to improve the quality of life for homeless residents. We have an urgent and growing homeless situation that is worsening every day, homeless, tents everywhere, one that we need immediate action and attention on the mayor's proposal, prioritize this measure e-funding appropriately to change the status quo and make a positive impact which we need. We have limited Public Funding and need to help its many homeless residents as possible. Why waste money on inefficient housing approaches and questionable housing developers?

IS

Our priority is to immediately house homeless residents. So why are housing, land trust and the failed Copa housing developers eyeing millions of public funding for their questionable and inefficient housing approaches? We need to do the math and help more people and do it now. We need to provide immediate shelter with Support Services.

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Tell followed by Nevada.

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Came to move on to Nevada Merriman, followed by Benji.

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Good evening, mayor council members, I'm Nevada Merriman, the director of policy at Mid, Penn housing I'm here tonight, to request your support for the memo from Council Members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres.

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Interim shelter is just that best used in the intervening months between the streets and a permanent home where our unsheltered community members can rest and heal, and it only works long term if there's a pipeline, a permanently affordable homes. Measure e is our most powerful local tool to increase the availability of permanent Housing Solutions for those that need them most and make sure the mix of Investments results in homelessness.

IT

Indeed, being rare, brief and non-recurring I would like to appreciate this Council for the dedication to this matter and in closing request, the city's leadership maintain Integrity around the intent of voter approved measure e-funding. Thank you good night.

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Ng, followed by Iris.

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Can you hear me yes, hello, Mr, Mayor and honorable city council? My name is Eden and I live in District 2. I'm here to support mayor Matt, mahan's back to the basics budget, for many reasons, the main reason being that I think it's a budget, that's underlying messages filled with hope, which our city doesn't have a whole lot of right now. I think this budget is the perfect mix of a compassionate approach to homelessness, while making sure that we will see Improvement in that area sooner rather than later.

IU

I'm also encouraged to see the mayor's plan to help increase funding for Public Safety and First Responders, as that's desperately needed right now. Lastly, having clean streets and seeing walking, trails and Creeks cleared is not only something that's healthy for all of our citizens. It's great for increasing City morale. Our city faces many problems and by voting yes on this budget, the council has a great opportunity to chart a new course for our future, as my Representatives I trust that they'll make the right decision and vote Yes on the mayor's budget. Thank you.

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Iris, followed by Nancy.

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And good evening my name is Iris Lee I'm 30 years residential in Shanghai district, one I'm here to support my other my hands back to basic party. Our city has spent huge money on homeless in past years, but the problem only getting worse, the reals tell us that we need to try faster and cause the efficient way. Neither my husband's project is just the right thing. Instead of one million dollar per unit of years of waiting, we need to locate the people of the street right now.

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The internment housing is exactly the right solution to provide a safe place to provide a safer place for our home. For for the homeless per report.

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Nancy followed by Michael foreign.

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Good evening, mayor and Council, my name is Nancy Stevens and I am a resident in District. 9. I have only lived in San Jose for 10 years, but in that short time, I've seen a huge increase in homelessness, crime and filth on our streets and highways. We need change as soon as possible, as by Representatives. I am asking you to bring about that change. We can do better, let's restore this city to one where everyone can be housed and feel safe. Please vote Yes on mayor mayhem's, proposed budget.

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Michael, followed by matrim.

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Orlana, followed by Gustavo.

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Okay, Gustavo, followed by calling user three.

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Hi and uh thank you for taking my call at 11 21 PM, my name is Gustavo Gonzalez I was born in San Jose lived here for over 50 years and I've seen the changes and I just want to remind everybody that, a few months ago, all of these same non-profits that are speaking against this money to go to interim housing, we're speaking in favor of it.

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They were yelling and screaming about this crisis, about people dying on the streets and the need for more funding, more funding, more funding for interim housing, then, all of a sudden, a few weeks go by in Amnesia Boom for all these non-profits I am totally confused. How that could happen when they were begging for more funding? And here we go, we have the more funding and they're saying nope. We don't need it. After all, I'm sorry I was kidding what a joke stop, making this a political event start taking care of our homeless people.

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They deserve better, they need dignified home and they need it now interim housing for our folks. That's the least. We can do stop using this as a political event and support the mayor's budget.

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Colin user 3 called followed by South Bay.

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Is it my turn? Yes, my name is Danelle Fedor I am a San Jose native born in and from the east side of San Jose I currently live in Blossom Valley I voted for measure e, specifically to support funding for all housing options for the most vulnerable people here in San Jose, thus, I support mayor mayhand vice mayor kamay and council member Foley's, reallocation of funds and budget proposal. Their proposal is a step in the right direction.

IY

As our fellow human beings unhoused people are just like you and me, and should be treated with compassion and care and not be left to live along Highway, 85 and other unsafe locations. We need to simultaneously provide interim housing while building permanent, affordable housing options with measure e-fund. Thank you.

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South Bay, followed by Jeremy.

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Hi, can you hear me.

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uh Good evening my name is Wendy Greenfield and I've lived in San Jose, District 9 for almost 30 years, I'm here to support the memorandum by council members, Davis, Ortiz and Torres to provide both temporary interim housing as well as long-term, affordable housing. This is the only rational solution to this terrible humanitarian crisis. In our midst, people cannot be housed in the short term only to be thrown out onto the streets. This solves nothing for them or for the larger Community.

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They need to be housed temporarily and provided with wraparound services so that they can obtain the employment and stability they need to enter long-term housing that they can afford. Council members, you have the awesome, opportunity and responsibility to vote for a plan that truly serves the residents of this city. You have no responsibility greater than to vote to support this memorandum. Thank you.

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Jeremy, followed by Kian.

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Yeah uh all right, can you hear me? Yes, oh perfect, perfect, um hello, uh mayor and Council. My name is Kian kazai and I'm, a resident of Almaden Valley, so District 10. uh I'm here tonight to urge the council to support mayor mayhem's Back to Basics budget I've lived in San Jose since 2018 and I've seen our problems get worse throughout the last several years, uh specifically I've seen a rise in homelessness, an increase in crime time the amount of trash triple and our infrastructure deteriorate.

JA

We need Solutions and if we continue to fund the same old status quo approaches such as the Davis memo, we will get the same negative results. uh One solution being composed by our mayor. Matt Mahan is his 50 50 split between interim housing and affordable housing, which is a reasonable option as an immediate solution to our homelessness crisis. As my Representatives I'm asking you to be bold,.

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Hi, can you hear me? Yes, all right, perfect, hi everyone, I'm chamu! Thank you all. So much for your time today, I stand for you today to passionately advocate in support of Mayor mahan's Visionary Back to Basics budget I've witnessed firsthand the escalating challenges our city faces. Homelessness has reached alarming levels, crime rates have surged and our streets are overwhelmed overwhelmed with an unprecedented amount of litter. Time for transformative Solutions is now and, as persisting with the same approaches, will only yield predictable outcomes.

JB

The member proposed by Davis that the status quo and will change nothing in our crisis. Mayor's proposal to have 50, 50, split between interim housing and affordable housing is a reasonable solution to housing as many homeless residents as possible. I want to thank Vice, America, May and councilman Foley for their work in collaboration with the mayor and urge you all to listen to your residence. Thank you.

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Lisa followed by emmar amarnath.

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Hi good evening, can you hear me yes, hi? My name is Lisa Reeve I've been an advocate for the unhoused since I found myself on house after working 30 years in a good union job I was on house due to an injury. I campaigned for measure, E I did cold, calling for measure e um I I promised the citizens of San Jose when I made. Those calls that measure e would be a long-term solution to homelessness.

JC

I believed in that promise myself, although we do need interim housing for those that are still out those of us with lived experience who have been through the convoluted housing system and those with boots on the ground every day. No, not many will be eligible or even willing to utilize interim housing, and also it takes far too long to get it up and running. As we have seen with the last couple. It is not a long-term Solution by taking away the permanent solution of permanent housing.

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Amarnath followed by Karen Nelson.

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Yeah hi good evening, mayor and council member, my name is district for a residence for the last 25 years, or so um all through these years, I have seen our city a beautiful city just deteriorating, and uh you know, since we have the new mayor and we need to change the way we do things he's taking this initiative and I fully support them. On his back to basics proposal, uh I I really fear with the with the uh proposal for affordable housing.

JD

What percentage of our unhoused residents could even qualify or be available be be approved for even getting their affordable housing? That Gap is still growing and and just seeking to the good old plans that we had for the last decade or so is not helping the cat feet growing I think the deteriorating. We definitely need to change our approach and I strongly support mayor and his.

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Karen, followed by Paul.

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Hi there, honorable mayor council members, my name is Karen Formosa, Nelson and I am a third generation. I was born and raised in San, Jose and I'm. Also a proud board. Member of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors I've, been a member of the association for over 39 years. I, remember growing up in San, Jose I was proud to be a resident of San Jose, going to school there going to parks there, and things have really really changed. I'm here in support of Mayor mahan's proposed Back to Basics budget.

JE

It in no way takes away from the progress of the affordable housing it. What it does is it helps immediately the people who are actually in need of housing at this time temporarily, and if you asked any one of them, they would jump at the chance. It is fiscally responsible and addresses issues that he promised he would address when he was campaigning for mayor. The residents of San Jose wanted a new approach and a different outcome, one which I believe May or Mayhem has been working on tirelessly to fulfill. Please support him.

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Paul, followed by Andrew.

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Hello, mayor and Council, my name is Andrew Liu I serve as District 5 youth, commissioner, as a private citizen I support the mayor's budget proposal to challenge a status quo in affordable housing project that hasn't been working for a decade. That is measure e in the event that I or any of my peers in college or my family went homeless. For over a year we wouldn't be like we wouldn't likely be able to afford any housing in San Jose by getting off the street first.

JF

It gives us the opportunity to not worry about the basics of finding a safe place to sleep, let's not make homelessness a problem for the Next Generation. Thank you.

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Tau, followed by Mina.

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Good evening I'm, a resident of East, San, Jose and I'm an advocate for affordable housing I encourage everyone to support the memo for council member Davis, Torres and Ortiz. Many of us have supported measure e on the promise that would be used for affordable housing. But now the mayor wants to shift that when it came to the Lake Cunningham vote, the mayor preached about keeping the promises to voters but suddenly switch up when he pushed for his own memos. He wanted to get rid of the two-thirds majority votes since he does not have enough votes.

JG

Many of the Realtors here and setting people agreeing with the mayor do not care about the homeless, but only about themselves and their profit margins. These are also the same people who fight against emergency interim housing in their neighborhoods solutions that the mayor has proposed are only bandages and will not solve the homelessness long term. Supporting permanent, affordable and sustainable housing will support councilman support council member Davis, Torres and Ortiz.

JG

Let them cook because they will serve it up, eat it up and leave no crumbs and I fully expect council member Jimenez Foley to vote against waiving the two-thirds vote as they voted to support a super majority as a guardrail in the 2020 June budget message. Thank you.

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Mina, followed by Kian.

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Hi, my name is maina Young I fully support mayor Mayans budget proposal. We know that as parents we always want early intervention for to take care of our kids and I. Think it's the same for our residents and house or otherwise to improve the safety and sanitary conditions for everyone, and also um so not to to not burn the police to to do these things so offer the service to the in-house as soon as possible. Thank you.

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Followed by 9156 hi.

JI

um Good night, uh mayor and council members, my name is Chen. I live in South San Jose for over uh for about 20 years now, and it just break my heart to see people living on street I saw lots of homeless campsite, especially along Highway 87..

JI

um It's really sad to see it well. My question is: if major Yi is efficient, why we have not seen any Improvement in with a skyrocketing budget in the past um decade and I, strongly support mayor, mahan's budget plan and I urge you to do so too. Thank you.

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Caller 9156, followed by South Bay.

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You're unmuted, but I can't hear you hello there. I can hear you now.

CW

Hello mayor, yes,.

JJ

Council, member I'm Greg Tech seven years in San Jose since 1956.

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JJ

Been redistricted from District 2 and I'm, a neighborhood leader in South, San, Jose I, would a few others from my local neighborhoods are advisors who meet quarterly with home. First, the group that manages the Burnell Road and Ruth Ferrari interim housing sites, quarterly meetings in which we discuss status of the site and ongoing efforts to support homeless people.

JJ

I have seen successes at these sites. People eventually going to permanent housing. Yes, eih interim housing does work South.

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Bay, followed by my tram.

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JK

Hi good evening my name is maitram when I'm a rich president of San Jose for 35 years and I, live in District 7. I'm here tonight to support mayor Mayhem budget proposal for the interim housing for the shelter homeless, shelter and the mayor proposal already have 50 50 million budget for affordable housing. So this is for all the population, so I'm here to support um his budget proposal and thank you.

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Joseph, followed by Jeremy.

JL

Hi I'm Joseph I was born and raised in District One in San Jose I'm here to support the mayor's back to basic budgets. I think that the homeless crisis is currently at a level where we have people on the streets and it won't be possible to get them all into permanent housing and I support the mayor's efforts to get them into interim housing so that these people can be housed as soon as possible. Thank you.

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JM

Hello, mayor, I'm, American boy I've been living in San Jose for the past 14 years and in these 14 years I've, unfortunately only seen homelessness get worse. Matt mahan's measure e budget allocation of 50 to interim housing at 50 to affordable housing is the most reasonable and illogical solution to our homelessness crisis. Interim housing is a faster approach to reducing homelessness.

JM

We need a fast approach in solving this issue, and mayhem's plan recognizes that homelessness has been hindering the city for such a long time, and the time is time for changes now and for once in a while I'm hopeful that, with Matt mahan's plan, we can improve this issue. Thank you so much and have a good night.

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Back to the council.

B

Great, thank you all so much for offering public comment this evening. That was a very robust public hearing. We appreciate everybody's time and opinions and with that we and thank you to my colleagues for listening patiently with that we are adjourned. Thank you.