San Jose, August 2014

A letter to San Jose City Candidates!

There are still many crucial issues in which San Jose have facing these challenges in the past years and the coming years. The number one matter is the city budget deficit each additional year. It is a severe obstacle that prevents the City from providing socially necessary services to the San Jose residents. It is a significant matter need to be resolved immediately to avoid San Jose City from bankruptcy. Resolving the city budget crisis is the first plan that San Jose residents would love to hear from the candidates. Budget balancing strategies proposal will help to rebuild the city's reserve and to keep its mandate for the city services, to stop cutting essential programs  for San Jose residents. Services' cutting is not a solution to solve the current problems. To do so, San Jose needs an executive wide open economic growth plan. The city needs to create the best environment for the businesses and national investors, not only for pubic but for private as well. The city must recruit big corporations such as energy, technology, banking industries. The city got to invest into the infrastructure such as transportation, roads, housing; schools…to create better jobs with a high-paying one for San Jose residents and neighbors. Have City has only one choice to change to grow for the best future or to come to a standstill to die?

To maintain a good public safety and to continue developing housing for low-income people. To invest more on education for children and to provide the best healthcare plan for people. To run City efficiently for helping the both small businesses and corporations and to invest more funds on roads, public transportation, and infrastructure. The City needs a revenue increasing plan as well as removing useless programs. The city will reform most unfitted regulations and make it more applicable for businesses. The city must also be engaged in the continuous process of change and reform all city government organizations and agencies to strengthen its ability to meet new demands and deliver its vital services in the most effective and efficient ways. San Jose is one of high-tech cities in the Bay Area, therefore, the innovation always to be a key for every area to be encouraged. San Jose must be the first city in the nation for everywhere else to count on it about the highest technology, best place to invest, to work and to live. A place, parents from everywhere to believe that their children will get the best education from here. A place that every inventor and new investors believe that their inventions to be recognized and to be put in the massive production in the first place, their investments will get the best incentive supports from city regulations. A place people all can trust to put their heart and their family into it for the best of all with great weather, environment, public safety and services, tax contribution, real estate, schools and jobs.

Budget balancing plan, increasing revenue, creating more good jobs, encouraging new investments with incentive supports, reform pension are critical issues for the City in the coming years. Besides The city has homeless, water, housing, education matters…as well.

Best Luck!