Comments on: Hire Power: Some City Hall Vets Shift to New Jobs, as Team Mahan Takes Shape

By: Work90

Work90 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:37:31 +0000

No wonder nothing changes and we continue down a dead end path……..

By: Rox

Rox — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 07:44:15 +0000

Fleming ran and lost in District 7, then moved to District 2 and ran & lost. I am very concerned that he really does not care about D7 or the issues we face. He seems to be another careerist.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 06:07:42 +0000

Where’s the D3 100-day plan for the residents need to know & Mayor. Let’s go team.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 06:04:01 +0000

So I’ve been trying to keep a positive spin on D3 but it’s already 1/6/23 so where’s the Council Member? Nothing written anywhere anywhere as far as I can tell. This is such a critical district with many outstanding issues so let’s get it together and show us your 100 day plan team. Go team!

By: Richard Ajluni

Richard Ajluni — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 01:03:22 +0000

Dev Davis is still the D6 council member, even numbered districts are up in 2024.

By: My_Opinion

My_Opinion — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:27:31 +0000

Mahan hired Jim Reed as his COS weeks ago.

Bien Doan couldn’t have picked a better person than Jonathan Fleming. **clapping**

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:17:11 +0000

But is that gem Michele Dexter staying in Mahan’s office? That’s what we really need to know.

By: LJW

LJW — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:17:03 +0000

I am just so happy to see Dev Davis gone. But Mahan is probably worse.

By: Opinions are OK

Opinions are OK — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:46:35 +0000

Carl G is the real City Manager in San Jose. Always has been.

And thanks Omar for bringing the entire low performing D5 team over to D3. What a joke! Can’t wait to hear all of the uninformed virtue signaling and identity politics, as major priorities continue to go unaddressed in downtown.

By: JAFO

JAFO — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:09:38 +0000

Just an Observation,

I have no problem with Carl helping, but I think he is already working on a big project he serves as the Executive Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy for Bloom Energy, who’s mission is to “make clean, reliable energy available to everyone in the world.”

That means he may not be able to help us. But I think this was not an actually serious idea given that Carl has supported Licardo in the past. But to address his support, gas heating and usage in homes is especially dangerous in a seismic unstable area like this. The cost of maintenance of this kind of equipment is high, and it is not very energy efficient, and is very dangerous regarding CO poisoning risk.

This comment was because the state is starting to ban natural gas heating and appliances in residential construction, and will likely expand it. Given that Electricity can be generated using renewable energy resources, solar and wind.

In the end we are confronted with an unheard of situation that history hasn’t seen in 100 years, a Covid KRAKEN strain as defined by the WHO, the increasing problems with inflation, the systemic drop in tech workers in the area, originally 740,000 in 2016 and 400,000 now and Salesforce just announced a major lay off.

Unfortunately, the old models of economics and all the formulas used to determine the status and trajectory are failing due to the situation we are in. Now we lost about 10 million workers from Covid, which was a 6.5% decrease in the labor inventory of the U.S. Add on the 1million dead. This is a drastic status change that will take 20 years to rectify.

Please understand that this shift is so big, it is very unlikely ANY City, County, State or National politics can do anything about it.