The San Jose City Council held its final public hearing on Monday, June 9, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers to receive community input on the proposed 2025-2026 Operating Budget, 2025-2027 Biennial Capital Budget, and the 2025-2026 Fees & Charges Report, including a revision of Measure E Real Property Transfer Tax revenue allocations. The Council will vote on the budget and related policies on June 10. Over 260 speaker cards were submitted, with each speaker allotted one minute. The hearing focused overwhelmingly on homelessness policy, accountability measures, and immigration services.
Everyone. Good evening. Welcome to the public hearing for the 25-26 proposed operating budget, the 25 through 27 proposed biannual capital budget and the 2526 proposed fees and charges. We are going to call this uh public hearing to order. Tony, would you please call the roll? Yes, Kamei. Here. Campos. Present. Salis. Cohen. Here. Ortiz. Present. Here. Duan. Here. Candellas? Here. Casey? Here. Fully? Here. Mayhem. Here. You have a quorum. Great. Thank you. Welcome to your city hall. We're very happy to have you all here. This is our annual hearing on the budget. The council will vote on the budget itself and many related policy components tomorrow. Tonight, the council will not be discussing any of the items or voting. We are here to hear from you. And I've had that opportunity going out now and doing over a dozen community town halls, at least one in every district in the city. Having heard from hundreds, probably well over a thousand residents at this point, not to mention all the email you've sent us. But we really appreciate your engagement. This is your opportunity to express your priorities, your values, what you hope the council thinks about as we vote on the budget tomorrow and continue doing policy work well beyond that. For large meetings like this, a few housekeeping items that I always like to reiterate. Number one, we have over 200 comment cards. By the time the night is over, it may be over 300. So we're going to have public comment be one minute, 60 seconds per person. We have a few other ground rules. It is very important that people do not disrupt the meeting. This is each individual's opportunity to exercise your first amendment rights. No cheering, no booing. I know folks have signs. You're allowed to have signs, but do not hold them up and block the person behind you because that negatively impacts their ability to pay it to watch the screen and to participate. We ask everyone to be respectful. If you want to show your support for someone, uh the easiest, most efficient way to do it so the next person can hear our clerk call their name for their one minute of public comment is to just use your jazz hands to show them as they're walking back up that you like what they had to say.