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Why is City Manager Deanna Santana still employed by Santa Clara? Residents need to ask their City Council Members this question. Santana’s nepotism, displayed by hiring former associates to replace long term knowledgeable Santa Clara employees, is outrageous. For 25 years former City Manager Jennifer Sparacino operated Santa Clara with commendable success. She was a … Read more
Santa Clara residents have been scammed. The $30 million deficit facing the city is the doing of Mayor Gillmor and her overpaid and underperforming City Manager, Deanna Santana. Santa Clara has a partnership with one of the most successful NFL franchises in America, the San Francisco 49ers. Gillmor realized 40% of voters were not in … Read more
It is difficult to believe that there are residents in Santa Clara who have different and divided opinions on virtually everything and every issue. It is for this reason primarily that Santa Clara has delegated decisions determining the City’s destiny to delegates known as City Council Members. If you are not an enthusiastic supporter of … Read more
Congratulations to the Santa Clara City Council Members who have taken the first major action to set the City right and restore sanity. We no longer need to ask: Why is Brian Doyle still employed by Santa Clara? The Council realized it was not just his salary that was a drain. Doyle’s spurious legal advice, corrupt … Read more
As you may have noticed during the past few years, Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor has recruited a cluster of followers who speak her mind as if it were their own. These poor souls have drunk from the Gillmor Kool-Aid cup, writing letters to City Hall and speaking out at public meetings, especially City Council … Read more
Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and City Attorney Brian Doyle continue their raiding of the public treasury in the name of City business. The amount of city money spent by these two (with the approval of City Manager Deanna Santana) would make Jeff Bezos blush! Thanks to the coverage by The Weekly and Silicon Valley … Read more
While it is still preseason, football will soon garner the attention of half the country and the SF 49ers will be in the spotlight. Kyle Shanahan and crew have put together an impressive collection of talent, and their win Sunday night was an impressive outing for both offense and defense. Building Levi’s Stadium was fortuitous … Read more
For decades the motto of The Santa Clara Weekly has been, “Protecting your right to know.” The Weekly expanded in recent years to include The Silicon Valley Voice, our online publication. SvVoice can be accessed 24/7 without charge at www.SvVoice.com Our Weekly is independent, locally owned and dedicated to our resident readers. We are supported … Read more
Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and City Attorney Brian Doyle have come up with another scheme to fool residents. This one, which is like the last one, is another attempt to cover their unclean hands. Attorney Doyle has pronounced that City money paid to outside attorneys will no longer be publicly disclosed. His interpretation of … Read more
When Santa Clara residents voted to change the make up of their City Council last November, they were expecting more. The addition of three new Council Members possessing common sense could return sanity to the city. Residents voted to install Council Members who possessed that marvelous ingredient of objectivity and had hope they would most … Read more