TONIGHT! Community Meet & Greet | |
It's your chance to discuss your concerns with your Councilmember and meet your neighbors! My staff and I look forward to seeing you. RSVP is recommended but not required. | |
Berryessa Art Festival Seeking Volunteers | |
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Berryessa Art Festival Needs You! We're looking for volunteers to help make this 46th annual neighborhood event run smoothly! Click here to get started.
Showcasing local artists, crafters, artisans, musicians, and more, the Berryessa Art Festival is back! The community’s favorite tradition returns with food, drinks, entertainment, and shopping in the beautiful Penitencia Creek Park meadows at the Berryessa Community Center.
Local artists and merchants can sign up for a vendor booth, volunteers can get on the roster, and businesses looking to sponsor the festival can do it all at BerryessaArtFestival.com
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Highlighting Environmental Stewardship throughout the Month of April | |
This week's spotlighted organization is San Jose's Trash Punx. | |
Founded in 2017 by Justin Imamura, Trash Punx began in response to blight and pollution along the creeks and waterways, parks, and sidewalks in and around San José. | |
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Consistently drawing large crowds of volunteers to clean-up events, this scrappy group of "punks" is actually a well run 501c3 non-profit organization working closely with the City, other environmental orgs, and San Jose Parks & Rec, to beautify our public spaces.
Earlier this year, Imamura took his Trash Punx mission all the way to Kenya, providing local villages with the tools and techniques they need to keep their environment clean. Trash Punx clean up events happen regularly, visit their site to get involved!
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Commendations April 4th City Council Meeting | |
This Tuesday's meeting started with recognition of Alviso's South Bay Yacht Club and the amazing work of San Jose's 2023 Climate Champions for their tireless efforts to care for our environment. | |
Climate Smart San José, adopted by the City Council in 2018, helps guide our city to do our part to address climate change. It’s a community-wide initiative to reduce carbon emissions and air pollution, save water, and improve quality of life. Climate Smart San José is one of the first detailed city plans for reaching the targets of the international Paris Agreement. To get there, Climate Smart sets ambitious goals for energy, water, transportation and local jobs. In November 2021, City Council set an aspirational goal of communitywide carbon neutrality by 2030, thereby accelerating Climate Smart. In June 2022, we approved the City's Pathway to Carbon Neutrality by 2030. | |
South Bay Yacht Club in Alviso is one of the oldest yacht clubs in the area. South Bay Yacht Club (S.B.Y.C.) was founded in 1888 as the South Bay Yachting Association by a group of 35 influential businessmen with a love of sailing. Through continued stewardship of the marina and marshes, SBYC is vital to the health of our waterways and coastline. | |
A Visit To George Mayne Elementary | |
This morning my staff and I had a great time planting trees and talking about the environment with the students and faculty of George Mayne Elementary School. The kids made signs expressing their love for nature and they sang us a song about trees! | |
Tree Planting on Arbor Day | |
We're planting trees at Cataldi Park on April 29th! Join Our City Forest in recognizing Arbor Day by planting about 30 trees at Cataldi Park in District 4. There will be a small ceremony featuring to kick of the festivities and then dozens of volunteers will get to work sprucing up the park and helping us achieve our goal of planting 1000 trees in the district. | |
Happening At The Alviso Library | |
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Join us for this fun and musical family-friendly workshop! Eric Hayslett (2022 Creative Ambassador, San José Office of Cultural Affairs) will teach children and families how to turn recycled containers into musical percussion instruments!
SATURDAY, APRIL 15
1:00 p.m – 2:00 p.m.
Alviso Branch Library
5050 N. 1st Street
San José, CA 95002
(408) 808-3052
Recommended for children ages 3+ and their caregivers. FREE. No registration required.
A limited number of tickets will be distributed at the Information Desk 30 minutes before the start of the event.
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What's New With Animal Care & Services? | |
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Kitten Season is Here: It’s raining kittens! It is officially kitten season and ACS is expecting a lot of new arrivals in the upcoming weeks. The ACS Foster Team needs items to support all the incoming kittens. If you are interested in providing gifts and donations, please shop ACS’s Wish List.
San José Animal Care Center New Hours of Operation:
Effective April 1, the San José Animal Care Center (ACS) has new hours of operation.
Lobby and Adoption Hours
- Monday noon to 4 p.m.
- Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Surrender hours for found/stray pets, owner surrenders and owner-requested euthanasia will continue daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please visit ACS’s webpage.
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FREE Eye Care Clinic - April 23rd
- Seeing clients, mostly having no medical insurance
- Provide Spot Vision prescription reading
- Test Vision Acuity (eye charts)
- Test Glaucoma where necessary
- Provide detailed eye examinations by professionals
- Dispense recycled eyeglasses where necessary and when available
- Order new eyeglasses where necessary and recycled unavailable
- Connect client to Lions Eye Foundation for further treatment if required
To Sign Up: Choose a time from 9, 10, 11 AM, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4 PM • Send a text containing
First Name, number of patients, hour of the day to (408) 596-33692
For more information, or to volunteer, please email Mara in my office
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We post everything from emergency notifications and district specific updates to council meeting breakdowns and inside looks at life at City Hall. Got recommendations for businesses, schools, or local heroes we might want to highlight? Send us a DM!
We welcome all your feedback as comments on our posts, direct messages in our inbox, phone calls to the office. Click the links above or the icons below to connect with us.
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RTSV is excited to host our National Rebuilding Day on Saturday, April 29th, and volunteer sign-ups are open! Sign up to volunteer with us to help local neighbors in need in your community and meet new friends in the process!
All skill levels are welcome and it’s a great opportunity to gather your friends and family who might also be interested. Our next volunteer could be someone you know! Volunteer Sign-Ups are open until April 10th. We have limited volunteer spots available so act fast and sign up to volunteer before it's too late.
Sign up to volunteer!
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Register Your Camera Today | |
Roughly 70% of US households have some form of security camera on their porch or integrated into their doorbell. What if all those cameras could help the police solve crimes in our neighborhoods? San Jose Police Department has created a new program to do just that. Introducing CAM (Camera Archive & Mapping)
Participating is easy, taking just moments and couple clicks to register your camera. Knowing a camera is in the area where a crime was committed or along a route a suspect may have taken to get away, the Police Department can then contact you and request footage from your camera to see if it captured any useful evidence.
Follow this link to register your camera now.
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Who's making a big difference in our community? A great teacher, business owner, a police officer who goes beyond the call of duty. Maybe there's someone spending their free time organizing creek clean-ups or blanket drives for the unhoused... If you've got someone special in your neighborhood, let us know by nominating them to be a District Hero! | |
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Local businesses have a new opportunity to reinvigorate their business, save money, and support community-wide energy conservation efforts through a new program from San José Clean Energy, the local clean electricity provider operated by the City of San José.
The San José Energy Efficient Business Program has unlocked several rebates to San José business owners for qualifying HVAC, refrigeration, or water heating projects. These rebates, totaling up to 80–90% off the project cost, will make renovations to your small business more affordable and kickstarting these upgrades so much easier! All business customers with an active San José Clean Energy account are invited to participate.
Want to see if your project qualifies for the rebates above? Learn more or find a participating contractor at SanJoseCleanEnergy.org/Business.
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Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 4:00 pm at Berryessa Union School District, 1376 Piedmont Road. For more information email support@campusclini.org or call 855-286-2577.
Booster shots are available for everyone who has had the two initial vaccinations. Reservations can be found at sccfreevax.org.
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Office of Councilmember David Cohen
200 E. Santa Clara St
San José, CA 95113
(408) 535-4904
district4@sanjoseca.gov
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