Last fiscal year, the city of San Jose completed 101 construction projects valued at $110 million, according to a capital improvement review. Completed projects include the San Jose McEnery Convention Center expansion, a $130 million effort that wrapped up in September.
The current-year capital improvement budget totals $864 million and includes funding for public art, libraries, public safety, community centers, sanitation and transportation, amongst other projects. The 53-page report goes before the City Council on Tuesday.
More from the San Jose City Council agenda for October 29, 2013:
• A concession agreement with a tenant at Mineta San Jose International Airport will bring in $1.46 million a year if the city agrees to continue the contract. As airport passenger traffic continues to increase, the city will look at attracting new vendors. September marked the ninth month in a row that the airport saw an increase in passengers—a 6.7 percent jump compared to the same time last year.
• Councilman Xavier Campos wants to attend an emergency preparedness summit put on by NALEO, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. The association will sponsor the November trip, with some money coming from the councilman’s District 5 funds. NALEO usually holds its events at Disneyworld.
• A property owner wants to rezone a gas station site at Bascom Avenue and Woodard Road to remodel the place to include a drive-through carwash. The place, surrounded by apartments and other businesses, is owned by Antoine Andary of Andary Enterprises, Inc.
• Legal services to help defend San Jose’s embattled pension reform plan—Measure B—will cost another $650,000, according to a contract amendment going before the council. That brings the total agreement with the law firm to $2.75 million.
• The city completed five construction projects worth $12 million at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility between January and June, according to a report going before the council. It awarded six new contracts worth $6 million during that same time and five new consultant service orders totaling $2 million.
• The San Jose Police Department needs to update its complaint form to give residents a clearer idea of what information is needed, according to a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report. SJPD agrees with the report’s finding, and another suggestion to make multilingual literature more readily available online. The only recommendation police took issue with is one that asks the department to make hard copies available in all lobbies. The PD says it would be redundant to make brochures explaining the complaint process when the Independent Police Auditor already has information like that available.
WHAT: City Council meets
WHEN: 1:30am Tuesday
WHERE: City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose
INFO: City Clerk, 408-535-1260
2.75 million on a case the city will never win. Good job Chuck, how much more money will you waste. But you do not care because the case will go on for years, long after you are gone.
Hey folks …some of the numbers are coming in and look at what th mayor and city council are spending money on. Does not look like public safety, libraries or pot holes to me. Nearly a quarter of a BILLION DOLLARS spent on the convention center and other construction projects with another BILLION DOLLARS in the works for this coming year. Not to mention the 2.75 MILLlON DOLLARS spent to defend Measure B. Its. Ot the pension system bringing the city finances down its the politicians OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING. The worst part this does not even touch the RDA debt or airport expansion the city still needs to pay for. Those two items alone are more than 2 BILLION DOLLARS.
Amen MR but this never gets out to the pubic via Mercury News.
How do you go from $100,000 in the original agreement to $2.75 MILLION??? That’s insane. Someone needs to reign Reed in. Council members need to stand up to him and his reckless spending. Now is the time to vote NO and stop the blank check. The original contract was not a free for all to spend taxpayer money. Someone needs to be responsible. I’d like to think Council would have never voted for an original contract for $2.75 million. Why would they vote for it now??? Because too many of them are puppets and can’t make their own decisions. Maybe tomorrow they will.
$2.75million dollars and thats just the beginning, Because you know when Measure B is overturned ,Mayor Burns will appeal and keep the fight going even though its a loser. Guess who’s on the hook for those fee’s and those of the opposing side ? YUP the residents of San Jose! go ahead and add the airport debt and RDA debt( both of which Reed was instrumental in amassing) and that just a portion of what Reed has done to this city.
But the Airport debt *is* being paid down! They are bringing in another $1.5M, so that $2.5B will be paid in full about 1,000 years from now- what are the chances if will need another remodel this millennium? Be sensible man!
It would seem that since Reed is the face on the proposed State-wide ballot measure on his version of pension reform, then this contract increase to Meyers Nave is for work they will perform on that ballot measure.
Not exactly work solely benefitting the City, and one should argue that if this were the case, then it is an illegal use of City taxpayer money.