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June 12, 2007
Today is the day and the time is now
Lew Wolff and business partner Ed Storm talk soccer before the San Jose City Council.
5:38 PM — The vote is in and the San Jose City Council has directed city staff to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding and an Exclusive Right to Negotiate with Lew Wolff. The final vote was 10-0! We'll have a complete update tomorrow.
5:15 PM — Still going. In the public comment stage now. Should have a vote within 15 minutes.
4:50 PM — Councilmember Pete Constant has finished and now Councilmember Nora Campos is up. And wow, we've missed the first half of US/El Salvador and my laptop battery is almost gone. I may have to go into energy conservation mode here and save some power for reporting the results of the vote.
4:20 PM — Councilmember Sam Liccardo gets a hand for mentioning games he went to in the 70's, with Krazy George beating on a drum. He's now asking questions about the iStar conversion, but Krutko has answers that seem to be satisfying him.
4:15 PM — We just want to mention again that the meeting is being streamed online here.
4:08 PM — Councilwoman Nguyen asks who is responsible for construction cost overruns. The answer, provided by Wolff: "Very simply, we are."
4:00 PM — Lew Wolff to speak.
3:58 PM — Krutko: "This deal isn't about jobs or housing. It's about jobs and housing and the Earthquakes."
3:54 PM — Krutko's presentation continues. We won't be able to post all the details but we think we may be able to get a photo later of the the stadium drawings. Stay tuned...
3:48 PM — Paul Krutko of the San Jose Economic Development Department is making his presentation on the proposal.
3:46 PM — Item 3.5 just ended and 3.7 and 3.8 were finished while I was typing this. Now on 4.1, that passes, and 4.2 is up... NOW!
3:25 PM — Current count is 140 from the SSV/Earthquakes contingent. Still on item 3.5 and it may be another 10 minutes before we move on.
3:10 PM — We've made it as far as item 3.5. I'm starting to get concerned that we may miss part of the US/El Salvador match which is due to start at 4:00. (Conveniently, the Britannia Arms is just blocks from here...)
2:55 PM — Looking at the agenda online and we've just discovered a second memo attached to item 4.2. The first was issued by Mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmember Nancy Pyle; this one is from Vice Mayor David Cortese and councilmembers Nora Campos and Forrest Williams. They, too, are recommending that the council pass today's items and are, in turn, providing additional direction to city staff.
By our count, that's five "yeas" already. This thing may be over before it starts!
Well, not quite "now" — 2:35 PM and we're on item 3.3 of the City Council's agenda, waiting for item 4.2. As you can see, there's an amazing group of Earthquakes fans here, with people dressed in blue everywhere.
We'll provide updates as often as possible. We'll announce the count on the vote both here and on the home page.
Posted by Jay at June 12, 2007 02:34 PM
Comments
I cant take the stress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dennis at June 12, 2007 03:59 PM
I cant take the stress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dennis at June 12, 2007 04:00 PM
Dennis can't take the stress!!!!!!!!!
Seriously: Shoot me if I ever have to go through one of those things again. I salute all who went there in person.
Posted by: Airblair at June 13, 2007 10:09 AM
We will have to go through one of those things again - in October (was originally supposed to be in September).
Posted by: Goodsport at June 13, 2007 10:26 AM
If you go to San Jose city council archives pages here, video for June 12 meeting is nowhere to be found.
http://sanjose.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=22
http://sanjose.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=23
http://sanjose.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=21
I can swear earlier on Wednesday June 13, I saw it one of the pages above, I just don't remember which page. It was over 9 hours long. I was in the middle of watching it, and suddenly media player gave an error and link for video disappeared from archive pages. I know by open governance law they're required to provide access to these videos.
SSV, would it be possible for you to pursue with San Jose city government to make this video available?
Posted by: Will at June 13, 2007 06:50 PM
The archive video has now reappeared. Here is direct link for it for Windows media player. It's a very long link.
http://sanjose.granicus.com/ASX.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1849&r=097b18916c6ea3cfc0fce327c94e2a3f&xp=y&intro=1&sn=sanjose.granicus.com&sn=sanjose.granicus.com
Posted by: Will at June 13, 2007 07:52 PM
I hope this time the quakes market to the WHOLE bay area,. yes, even in the north bay. there are some earthquakes fans up here :P
Posted by: Nick Gilbert at June 14, 2007 07:22 AM