By Robert Haugh
Santa Clara is calling a “Special Meeting of the Santa Clara Stadium Authority Board” for today. The agenda was sent out publicly yesterday.
The meeting starts with a 6 p.m. closed session, followed by a 7 p.m. public study session on the proposed FY 2026/27 Stadium Authority operating, debt service, and capital budgets, plus budget compliance and management policies and the stadium marketing plan. The discussion is continued from Feb. 24.
That Feb. 24 meeting is when the public first learned the 49ers are again seeking public money for their new offices. This year, it’s $1.7 million, up from last year’s unsuccessful push for $650,000.
Calling a major budget discussion with just a day’s notice is not transparent. It makes it harder for residents participate. It limits meaningful public participation in decisions about public money.
The agenda also includes a closed-session item labeled “Conference with Legal Counsel — Anticipated Litigation,” citing state law for both initiation of litigation (one potential case) and exposure to litigation.
The case is also undisclosed and not transparent. It says “facts and circumstances not disclosed on agenda.”
Who voted to hire city manager?
Jain
Actually it was jed york, with his dollars for votes. He bought 5 seats, including suds’, so he voted to fire the city mgr and city atty. What a sh*t show, dumpster fire our Santa Clara has become since they stole the Prop J election. Along with many of my No on J signs.
CM hired on a 4-1 vote. 49er 5 wasted a vote cause they had majority. Don’t know what happened to other 2 votes.
Once again, week after week, month after month, and year after year, the city council meeting agenda is dominated by 49ers related issues which will drag on and on. It’s really horrible.
What exactly happened at the Downtown Task Force Meeting last night? (March 4). It was a very frank discussion, with all sides expressing their opinions. It seems to me that the City staff, including the City Manager have been putting up road blocks. The group that was hired to study options for downtown encouraged that we build townhomes there? What kind of downtown is that? So many people have put in a lot of energy so that we can get a downtown back. They must be so frustrated, as all residents should be. It was clear to me that the committee does not trust the City Manager. There is a definite lack of leadership by the City Manager and City Council for a new downtown. I liked Jonathan’s suggestion that if we want a downtown, the city should build it, and not have a developer involved, which seems is making it more complicated. I also would like Adam Thompson to move back to Santa Clara and run for city office. Let’s get some of these bozos out of there. At least this meeting was more exciting to watch than the NURC meeting was on Monday—they spent 45 minutes or more covering the Brown Act. Why couldn’t that have been done separately from the meeting—by email or video for the committee only? This is why people don’t go to these meetings, if they have to sit through this kind of stuff.
How about HELL NO!!! Why should I, a senior citizen on SS help fund a billionaires office space?
The 49ers are worth over $6 Billion. Why should I and other residents need to pay $1.7M for office space for Jed York and the 49ers?
We can use that money to add baseball/softball fields, fix potholes, add hours and services to the senior center, medical for homeless, and there are probably at least six more items that can benefit from $1.7M.
Every Council member needs to vote no on this. We should not give them $1 for office space.
I also sure hope our City Manager is also against spending $1.7M to help a Billionaire.
The crazy spending needs to stop.