Kevin Park
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18,295 appearances
71 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 1 Sep
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city or county agencies and regional agencies, those meetings don't occur after hours, they occur in the middle of the day.
I have had a lot of meetings that occur, whether they're update meetings, whether they're VTA meetings, whether they're other meetings, they occur at one o'clock in the afternoon, at three o'clock in the afternoon.
This is very difficult for people who have a job.
I know that I've complained about this quite a bit, but we start a lot of our closed sessions at 5 o'clock, and even when I was working, I was working in Fremont, and I got out at 5, and it took me not even 30 minutes to get down here.
It took me sometimes 40, 45 minutes to get down here.
Unfortunately, the way that this council works is it works on majority.
So if one person or two people or a minority of people are put out because they're the only ones that are working class, then it turns out that we'll have the meetings at five o'clock or whenever we deem that the meetings are necessary.
And if those meetings don't require the full time, well, that's just too bad.
the majority of council has spoken.
I think that at some point, the salary setting committee and the commission or whatever it is, they need to have a better understanding of what this job entails.
They need to have a better understanding of what it means for people in the working class to not be able to run for council because of the pay and because of the time it takes.
At some point, we are getting an aristocracy
Council members who are retired or independently wealthy or have have jobs which are
you know that are somewhat compatible and it's funny because i know that in other cities we have people that work for housing agencies and and they think well that's a good thing because their job is related to their office in the short answer is no that's a terrible thing that means that a lot of cases you get people that you know what they're going to vote for because of the work that they're doing and nobody calls that as a conflict of interest but it absolutely is at some point i feel that the only people that should be on council are not people that have real estate interest uh... people that are
you know working for state agencies or working for other council members or other other politicians i think that they need to be independent and at some point i think that the only thing that gives us independence is a salary that allows people to to be on council focus on council without having to do other work so
People always say, well, what should we do?
I don't want to be in this for the money.
A lot of people say, well, we shouldn't be in this for the money.
We should be doing this for the love of the city of Santa Clara.
And the short answer is, in this economy,
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