| Date of Meeting | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| July 12, 2010 | Mr. Balagso, head of San Jose's Parks & Recs. | The impact of fiscal woes on his department's operations in general and for the Almaden parks specifically. |
| June 14, 2010 | Harry Mavrogenes, San Jose Redevelopment Agency | How the RDA works and copes during challenging financial times |
| May 10, 2010 | Kim Walesh, Chief Strategist, City of San Jose | Changing Forces, Changing City |
| Mar. 8, 2010 | Chief Rob Davis, Chief of Police, City of San Jose | Budget Cuts in the Police Department |
| Feb. 8, 2010 | Pat Sausedo, Vice President of the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce | Public Policy and Communications |
| Jan. 11, 2010 | Dolores Carr, Santa Clara County District Attorney | Interaction and Affect of the Office of the District Attorney on the Almaden Valley |
| Dec. 14, 2009 | Leslie Reynolds, San Jose Unified School District Board of Education President & Ann Jones, SJUSD Chief Business Officer | Schools in the Almaden Valley area: SJUSD, private, and charter schools, school funding, Questions & Answers |
| Nov. 9, 2009 | Thomas Ferguson (& Monica Delgado), San Jose Department of Transportation | Maintenance Manager of Landscape, Trees, and Sweeping Service |
| Oct. 5, 2009 | Don Gage, Santa Clara County Supervisor, representing Almaden Valley | Budget, Parks, Transportation, Questions & Answers |
| Sept. 14, 2009 | Nancy Pyle, District 10 City Councilmember, representing Almaden Valley | San Jose Economy, Budget, Transportation |
| Aug. 10, 2009 | Zoe Lofgren, Representative in US Congress, representing Almaden Valley | US Economy, Climate Change, Health Care Legislation, Immigration, Questions & Answers |
| July 13, 2009 | John Weiss, San Jose Assistant Development Director & Leland Wilcox, City Manager's office | Diridon Station & planned developments in the area: BART extension, High Speed Rail, and a possible "major league" ballpark |
| June 8, 2009 | Laurel Prevetti | City of San Jose's Lang Range Plans |
| May 11, 2009 | no guest speaker | |
| April 13, 2009 | Carol Lathrop, Sandy Mory, and Martha Beattie from League of Women Voters | Propositions 1A through 1F on the upcoming ballot |
| March 9, 2009 | no guest speaker | |
| Feb. 9, 2009 | Ira Ruskin, Member of the California State Assembly, representing Almaden Valley & Nancy Pyle, San Jose City Councilmember, representing Almaden Valley, & Emy Mendoza, Zero Waste Planner, San Jose Environmental Services Department |
California budget, cuts to education, Questions & Answers San Jose's Proposed Fees on Plastic and Paper Bags |
| Jan. 12, 2009 | Kitty Monahan, member of the Citizen's Advisory Committee of the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority & Bern Smith, South Bay Area Ridge Trails Council Staff Member | East Bay, Mid Peninsula, and Santa Clara County park and trails systems (Kitty) & Bay Area Ridge Trail (Bern) |
| May-Dec. 2008 | Minutes are missing on Web site | |
| April 14, 2008 | Nancy Pyle, San Jose City Councilmember & Don Gage, Santa Clara County Supervisor | SAVUR (South Almaden Valley Urban Reserve), Traffic on Graystone Lane, Boulder Ridge Event Tent request, Questions & Answers |
| March 10, 2008 | Stan Ketchum, San Jose City Planner & Bill Shoe, Santa Clara County Planner |
SAVUR (South Almaden Valley Urban Reserve), San Vicente Development County planning for homes in Almaden county area.. if San Jose informed, etc. Questions & Answers |
| Feb. 11, 2008 | Dave Fadness, engineer, volunteer in San Jose planning & Jerry Strangis, real estate agent, lobbyist, owner of a real estate company |
How to go about planning for a city's general plan, sustainable city SAVUR development, Questions & Answers |
| Jan. 14, 2008 | Beth Shafran-Nukai, Strong Neighborhoods Initiative Project | San Jose's proposed Neighborhood Commission: mission, how members to be chosen, timeline |
| Dec. 10, 2007 | no guest speaker | |
| May-Nov. 2007 | Minutes are missing on Web site | |
| April 9, 2007 | Don Gage, Santa Clara County Supervisor, representing Almaden Valley & Dan Collen, Santa Clara County, Deputy Director, County Roads |
Don: Questions & Answers & Dan: Monitoring of Expressways |
| March 12, 2007 | Rich Dressler, San Jose International Airport Public Information Officer & Joanne Sanfillippo, San Jose Airport Ombudsman |
San Jose Airport's Expansion Plans |
| Feb. 12, 2007 | Rene Cordero, Manager of Project Development, City of San Jose's Department of Transportation | How to address project ideas along Camden Ave. and Trinidad Drive/Crown Blvd. corner |
| Jan. 8, 2007 | Len Remilo, San Jose Department of Transportation, Traffic Management Division, Traffic Calming | Questions & Answers about several areas in Almaden Valley, traffic calming, possible stop signs and U-turn permissions |
| Dec. 11, 2006 | Don Gage, Santa Clara County Supervisor, responsible for Almaden Valley | Mt. Umunhum, Coyote Valley, Quicksilver Park entrance, etc., Questions & Answers |
| Nov. 13, 2006 | Michele Young, City of San Jose's Environmental Services Department | Garbage collection, street sweeping. New trash collection companies. |
| Oct. 16, 2006 | Judge Dolores Carr and Chief Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu | Santa Clara Valley District Attorney Forum |
| Sept. 11, 2006 | Sally Zarnowitz, San Jose Historic Preservation Officer | How City Landmarks are determined and who may apply for landmark status |
| Aug. 14, 2006 | Detective Robert Dillon, ICAC Task Force, Child Exploitation Detail | Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) |
| July 10, 2006 | speaker cancelled too late to schedule another speaker | |
| June 12, 2006 | Kim Bomar, Board Member of Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders (SCRL) | Santa Clara County Historical Preservation Ordinance |
| May 8, 2006 | no guest speaker |