Despite the city’s budget woes, San Jose is sending a delegation, including four city councilmembers, to Dublin, Ireland as part of a Sister City trip.
Dublin Lord Mayor Daithí de Róiste talks to San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan before a flag-raising ceremony hosted by the San Jose-Dublin Sister City Program at San Jose City Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. With San Jose facing a $50 million budget shortfall this year, the message coming from city hall this spring was clear — the council must make “difficult decisions” and get “back to the basics.
City policy allows five councilmembers to travel at the same time as long as it does not disrupt city business, meaning the council needed to approve a waiver for travel because it would have forced the cancellation of public meetings due to the lack of a quorum between Sept. 9-12.when former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo attempted to spur reform in 2018 after five members of the City Council traveled to Okayama, Japan for another sister city event.
Had all six councilmembers gone to Dublin, it would have forced the cancellation of four public meetings, including a City Council meeting, but that issue has since been averted because Ortiz and Torres have since dropped their travel requests. The sister city relationship between San Jose and Dublin spans 38 years with representatives from the Irish city visiting San Jose earlier this year. It is one of eight sister city affiliations San Jose maintains.
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