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rents, or buy the $1.5 millionand-above homes. It is now time for all the high tech companies, city officials, developers and religious leaders in Santa Clara County and beyond to face and live up to their moral obligations to do and say what is needed. Something has to be done to provide social justice for the powerless who barely make the minimum salary but provide janitorial, landscape, cooking and other services for all. Job Lopez McCarty Ave
school districts. It’s true. Mountain View had on June 30, 2013 $360.2 million in cash and investments (per Maze and Associates) to give away. Low-income people and small businesses are being forced out of Mountain View by the hundreds. A case in point is 819 N. Rengstorff Ave. The 17 percent or so of owner-occupied housing gets nailed with outrageous parcel taxes and higher service fees. The City Council does not deserve a charter amendment to raise salaries. Donald Letcher N. Rengstorff Avenue
CITY COUNCIL IS MAKING COUNCIL WORKLOAD WRONG CHOICES NEEDS CUTTING The City of Mountain View (Googleville) is so proud that anticipated rent for a new luxury apartment will go as high as $8,000 a month. A $250,000 traffic study of the North Bayshore area showed that $391 million in highway improvements are needed for access and egress to the (Googleville) area. Council member John McAllister said he was pleased that the city could afford to give (free) $50 million to the two
I agree with Mayor Inks in his letter of Dec. 13 that the workload of city council members is truly onerous, and reducing that burden would encourage diversity in the council — but counting on voters such as myself to choose the candidates who say they don’t want to work so hard is not going to be a winning strategy for change. Perhaps a ballot initiative? Martha Cutcomb Ernestine Lane
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