This is part 2 of the District 6 candidate forum between Steve Tedesco and Pierluigi Oliverio. Moderated by San Jose Mercury News reporter Janice Rombeck the two candidates discussed topics ranging from the BAREC site, trees, development, and of course, “What would would you do with $10 Million dollars?”

The “San Jose District 6 Leaders Group” and the Preservation Action Council of San Jose hosted the forum, which was held on Wednesday, January 31 @ 7:00 pm, at the United Way (1922 The Alameda).

The next forums are:
The WGNA will be hosting its official Candidate Forum on February 13, 2007, at the Willow Glen Baptist Church.

And on February 27 another debate is scheduled at the Billy DeFrank Center at 7:30 – 9:00 pm (registration requested).

IMPORTANT: For those that are new to Citizen San Jose, these recordings are presented without editing (other than adding a small introduction at the beginning) and is an accurate representation of what took place. This blog and the blog is completely neutral and is not an endorsement of any candidate or issue.

This is a recording of that event.
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Date Recorded: 2007-01-31
Recorded by Joe C.
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email: Citizensj ‘AT’ gmail.com

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OK folks - we are getting back in the game. We present the January 31st debate, er - candidate forum - between for District 6 of San Jose between Steve Tedesco and Pierluigi Oliverio. Moderated by San Jose Mercury News reporter Janice Rombeck the two candidates discussed topics ranging from the BAREC site, trees, development, and of course, “What would would you do with $10 Million dollars?”

The “San Jose District 6 Leaders Group” and the Preservation Action Council of San Jose hosted the forum, which was held on Wednesday, January 31 @ 7:00 pm, at the United Way (1922 The Alameda).

The next forums are:
The WGNA will be hosting its official Candidate Forum on February 13, 2007, at the Willow Glen Baptist Church.

And on February 27 another debate is scheduled at the Billy DeFrank Center at 7:30 – 9:00 pm (registration requested).

IMPORTANT: For those that are new to Citizen San Jose, these recordings are presented without editing (other than adding a small introduction at the beginning) and is an accurate representation of what took place. This blog and the blog is completely neutral and is not an endorsement of any candidate or issue.

This is a recording of that event.
Audio recording provided by Citizen San Jose
Date Recorded: 2007-01-31
Recorded by Joe C.
Phone 1*206*339*JOSE (206-339-5673)
email: Citizensj ‘AT’ gmail.com

Keep up to date by subscribing to this podcast (for free). Just cut and paste the following into your favorite podcatcher (i.e. iTunes )

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In this special and historical moment in San Jose History, we present a recording of the June 28th ‘Special Meeting’ of the San Jose City Council. The purpose of this rare Special Meeting is to decide upon a course of action with respect to the recent indictment of current Mayor, Ron Gonzales. As always, the audio is being presented from a neutral point of view, and was recorded during the course of the City Council meeting.

A bit of background - A Santa Clara County grand jury recently indicted Mayor Ron Gonzales on 6 felony counts including bribery, conspiracy and misuse of public funds in connection with a supposely ’secret deal’ with garbage waste hauler Norcal Waste Systems to cover future payments not detailed in the original contract. This led to the Mayor to seek additional funds in the amount of ~$11Million a few years later.

Others that were indicted were both Norcal Waste Systems and Gonzales’ aide, Joe Guerra. At the arraignment hearing on Monday (06/26/06), all three did not enter a plea, but indicated they would ask the court to dismiss the charges.

The City Council is expected to ask the Mayor to resign, and if not, seek to explore ways to restrict his power as Mayor, including removal of his staff, reductin in salary, and removal of additional perks that the Mayor currently has.

As this is a long podcast, I have provided some markers:
00:00 - 42:50 Opening Statements and discussion
42:50 - ~1:10:00 Public Comments
1:10 - City Council Discussion

Final Count:
Motion to Resign by Cindy Chavez
Second by Chuck Reed

In Favor
Cindy Chavez
Linda Lezotte
Chuck Reed
Ken Yeager
Dave Cortese
Judy Chirco
Nora Campos
Nancy Pyle

Against
Madison Nguyen
Forest Williams
Ron Gonzales

Important links:
What is San Jose Charter Section 405?
City Council Agenda

Memos
Cindy Chavez
Cindy Chavez #2
Chuck Reed
Dave Cortese
San Jose City Attorney Rick Doyle
San Jose City Attorney Rick Doyle #2

What do YOU think of the Indictment of Ron Gonzales? Either call us and leave a voicemail, drop us an email, or talk about it in the forums at http://www.citizensanjose.com/forum/

Lastly, if you have material that you would like to have carried on this podcast, please contact us and we’d love to talk to you.

Audio recording provided by Citizen San Jose
Date Recorded: 2006-06-28
Recorded by Joe C
Phone 1*206*666*JOSE
email: Citizensj ‘AT’ gmail.com

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NOTE: There are occassional audio dropouts that were noticable and this was on the part of the City Hall systems (not us!) Sorry ’bout that!

For those that are following the Podcasting phenom, Podcast Academy 3 is being held Thurs/Fri at the Yahoo campus in Santa Clara. If you are interested, you should check it out as you will definitely learn something about Podcasting, and perhaps even meet a few people just like you. I’ll be attending for 1-economy, and will provide some updates throughout the conference, as I (attempt) to blog real time. Enjoy.

(If you can’t attend, you can listen to - can you guess?- the podcast from Podcast 2 that was held in April 2006 in Boston. And yes Virginia, these sessions will be made available as a podcast in a couple of weeks)

Link to Podcast Academy 2 (Boston) podcasts HERE

-Joe

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