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State finds San Jose lacks accountability with homeless spending

San Jose has until September to formulate a succinct plan on how it will address homelessness and begin publicly reporting spending data, according to an audit requested by a local legislator. The California State Auditor has published its findings and recommendations after an audit of the city’s spending and coordination of its homeless support services. Auditors...

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Is San Jose one of the healthiest U.S. cities?

San Jose has made the top 25 in a nationwide healthiest city survey, but advocates say deep inequities still persist. San Jose ranks 22nd in a study compiled by personal finance outlet WalletHub, which pitted 182 of the nation’s most populous cities against each other on various health metrics, such as available health care, healthy...

Cupertino is a pickleball desert for players

Cupertino pickleballers are fed up with having to share city courts with tennis players — but a solution might be coming. The Cupertino City Council unanimously approved a plan this month that includes eight pickleball courts in Memorial Park’s conceptual design but there is no clear timeline when they will be available. The proposed courts...

Santa Clara County gives few contracts to minority-owned businesses

A study of Santa Clara County’s public contracts shows only a fraction goes to small, local businesses. The county launched a vendor disparity study in 2022 to examine the number of minority-owned businesses that won public contracts between July 2016 and June 2021. The study’s final draft was released last week, finding that local, minority-owned...

Cupertino hotels face more delays

Cupertino officials had hoped to see revenues funneling in from two hotels — instead they found themselves approving permit extensions. The Cupertino City Council on Wednesday unanimously extended the development timeline for two upscale hotels by three years, due to a dip in tourism, rising building costs and a slow recovery from the pandemic. The...