Chuck Reed Quotes

San Jose city government needs to be honest, fiscally responsible and open and accessible to all people. And I was the first council person to call for the resignation of the mayor for those same reasons.

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I don't think it's appropriate to give a bonus to the city manager who's already left the city. Beyond that, it's the amount of it.

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If he's successful, it would address some of those (financing and market) concerns. But there are other concerns that you're working for somebody else and you're not your own boss.

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I didn't even know he was on that policy advisory board. The council's action was to remove him from those boards. Whether that one was mentioned by name or not, I think that was our intention.

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We need those officers. We pay them well in order to keep them, and that's why they got raises.

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