I grew up in San Jose and District 6. My heart is with the City and the District. In the past decade on the council, I have consistently voted the principles upon which the voters put me in office.
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Never shy about speaking his mind, Pierluigi Oliverio left an undeniable mark in District 6 after spending 10 years as the area’s representative on the San Jose City Council....
After a decade, the 47-year-old politician will turn over his office to Dev Davis It’s hard to tell that the clock is winding down for Pierluigi Oliverio,...
Pierluigi Oliverio’s spreadsheet: Seeking clarity in a council raceWhen he leaves office at the end of 2016, San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio will have spent nearly a...
Empty Homes Tax would create an invasive new bureaucracy collecting residents’ data with little promise of revenue By: Pierluigi Oliverio Published March 15, 2024 A city only exists with tax revenues — and the collection of those taxes should be simple, streamlined and fair. Candidates for San Jose City Council are calling for a complicated, dubious and unwieldy new tax. It’s called…
Non-compliant digital media offered by organizations intentionally or unintentionally discriminates against millions of people By: Pierluigi Oliverio Published May 17, 2023 There has been substantial public discussion around equity in society. Conversations frequently focus on gender, income, race or sexual orientation. But often missing is the disabled community, which overlaps with all identified groups. There are many disability categories, but people often…
The worst days of deepfakes are likely ahead of us, potentially impacting all levels of government By: Pierluigi Oliverio Published November 12, 2022 The internet is rife with videos of famous people seemingly saying and doing unorthodox things. It may look like them or sound like them, but is it really Joe Biden, Donald Trump or Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking? No one wants…
Voters should elect candidates who prioritize security, risk mitigation and buying American By: Pierluigi Oliverio Published September 15, 2022 The bipartisan $54 billion CHIPS Act was enacted to minimize risk to the United States, with an eye toward making us less reliant on foreign manufacturing. It was passed with enthusiasm, patriotism and a healthy dose of paranoia. Over the past decades,…
Spread of misinformation and disinformation is becoming a growing threat By PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO | PUBLISHED: March 26, 2022 at 5:15 a.m. | UPDATED: March 28, 2022 at 4:54 a.m. According to Pew research, 86% of Americans get their news “often or sometimes” via the internet, while 53% consume news from social media. This is problematic and a notable change because people are clearly being manipulated…
Cities and counties suffer from siloed data as each department manages ‘work’ their own way Pierluigi Oliverio – Dec 23, 2021 Based on first-hand experience, I have found that the private sector adopts technology faster than the government. The private sector is inherently motivated to be efficient, saving money and enabling positive customer experiences. When I first started working in municipal government in…
The only immediate, viable option to eliminate homeless encampments is to use county-owned land Pierluigi Oliverio – June 11, 2021 In November 2016, Santa Clara County voters passed Measure A, a $950 million property tax increase for housing. Campaign advertisements promised the tax increase would generate 4,800 housing units in 10 years, targeting vulnerable individuals such as the chronically homeless. A recent…
Mercury News – Mar. 3, 2021 An extreme proposal is headed to the San Jose City Council in June that would allow a single-family house on your block to be demolished, without a community meeting or public hearing, and replaced with up to six housing units. Proponents would have you think that eliminating your choice to live in a single-family…
Mercury News – Dec. 4, 2020 With property tax season upon us once again, it is worth noting that many Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Cruz) willingly disclose each monetary line item on the annual property tax statements, while Santa Clara County continues to omit data, thus perpetuating the annual charade to…
Mercury News – Sept. 30, 2020 The San Jose General Plan 2040 (GP2040) is the blueprint of how San Jose will grow in the future. One of the ambitious goals of GP2040 is to achieve financial solvency for the city by balancing job growth with housing growth. For decades, San Jose has done the heavy lifting by building the majority…
Letter to the Editor, June 17th, Mercury News: The California Department of Finance is proposing civil penalties against Santa Clara County for improperly reporting student enrollment, and misallocating property tax revenues that should have gone to K-12 schools. The County was notified of the accounting error in January, and the State has requested $145 million to correct the error. But the…
Mercury News – Nov. 7, 2019 Every fall, property owners in Santa Clara County receive their annual property tax statement. The arrival of this document is highly anticipated by some (myself), and overwhelmingly dreaded by others. These statements list out various taxes and fees assessed on properties as separate line items, and then provide a grand total. My own bill…
On Aug. 13, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to initiate the process for placing yet another tax increase on the 2020 ballot. This would entail a 5/8-cent increase in the sales tax rate. For businesses and residents in San Jose, this means increasing the sales tax rate to 9.875%. Voters should recall that the county passed six…
