As your Supervisor, I will work with all levels governments, businesses, labors, developers, financial industries, researching institutes, health care professionals, law enforcements, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and publics in general to start addressing some Critically important issues in our community:
HousingDevelop a long term housing plan and provide short term solutions to address the housing shortage issue by
- Increase housing production
- Effective Government regulations
- Private and Business sectors
- Community based organizations
- Financial Institutions
- Skilled labors force
- Regional transportation
- Inventory of governments own lands
- Teachers, public safety personnel housing
- Equitable distribution of housing for working families, seniors and people with disability
- First time home buyers assistance
- Preserve the existing rental units to avoid displacement of renters and small businesses
- Prevent sudden homelessness
- Inventory of vacant units
- Short-term rent assistance
- Rapid rehousing to stop people from becoming chronically homeless
- Set priorities on homeless families with school age children, veterans, seniors, disabled, and chronically homeless members in our community
- Provide health and mental health, job training and human resources assistances
- Establish a Dental Board to improve dental services in Santa Clara.
- Increase funding for mental health services and drug dependency
- Implement School-based mental health services
- Improve the foster care system
- Enforce Laura's Law allowing for court-ordered assisted- outpatient-treatment for mental health consumers who were previously incarcerated
- Increase Child Care slots and improve quality of child care
- Eliminate hazardous odor from industrial sources and waste treatment processes
- Implement the recommendations of the recent Santa Clara County Grand Jury Report on the Valley Transportation Authority, starting out with improving its governance structure. I support a smaller Board with full time elected positions.
- Bring above ground connection of the long promised Light Rail train to Eastridge Transit Center from Alum Rock
- Improve local transportation services especially for seniors and students
- Increase funding for crime prevention
- Improve wrap around services to reduce recidivism
- Increase funding for emergency preparedness
- Protect seniors and minors from predators
- Establish Neighborhood Accountability Board (a model of Restorative Justice System)
- Improve recycling and waste reduction
- Replace County fleet with clean air vehicles
- Renovate County owned building to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating
- Preserve open spaces
- Improve County Parks services