Ryland Pool-keep up the good work!

The response to the Ryland Pool call to action has been amazing across the various neighborhoods. We need to keep this response up in order to ensure that the message we send is strong, clear and concise.

Although this is an individually important issue, a successful resolution due to our efforts will set the stage and precedent for future issues. City government needs to recognize that they work for us: the residents of the City of San Jose. And although we understand that running the City of San Jose is very much a balancing act of many different priorities and demands from many different communities, the City needs to do a better job at providing for its tax-paying inhabitants when it is crystal clear what we demand. We have put our money where our mouth is and we need to continue this strong support to save Ryland Pool and cement our position as a significant force when it comes to future battles.

San Jose is a great City, but it has the potential to be much greater. These next four years represent an ideal opportunity to whip this city into shape. All the pieces are coming together but we must be a strong and unified voice if we are to have any hope in taking advantage of this new momentum. We need to choose areas in which we all can cooperate to keep things moving forward. I cannot stress this enough–we must all cooperate and think about how to help San Jose run more efficiently and more effectively. We must guarantee the maintenance of our current assists before building new ones and we must reduce waste spending. Taking these steps, we can then look forward to building a better, stronger San Jose. But we must not repeat past mistakes by taking funds from maintaining our current assets to build new ones. That is what got us into this position and, additionally, it is fiscally irresponsible.