San Jose youth, mentors crowd City Hall as $100M in county cuts loom
San Jose Neighborhood Services and Education Committee: A dozen youth and alumni asked the city to keep funding Clean Slate, Safe Schools, and San Jose Works as nearly $100M in county safety-net cuts loom.
San Jose
Neighborhood Services and Education Committee Meeting
April 9, 2026
TL;DR
- A dozen youth and program alumni asked the committee to keep funding Clean Slate, Safe Schools, the female intervention team, and San Jose Works. The committee accepted the annual report 5-0.
- The Youth Empowerment Alliance served more than 13,000 youth and families last year, delivered over 460,000 hours of services, and saw juvenile arrests in San Jose drop 5%.
- A deputy city manager warned that proposed county safety-net cuts could approach nearly $100 million, on top of San Jose's $56 million projected deficit.
- The Children and Youth Services Master Plan pilot is heading into year two. The Mayor's March budget message proposed $500,000, subject to a management budget addendum.
- The committee referred the Library Department's facilities plan to the full council for adoption on May 5. Twenty of 24 branches fall short of the city's own square-foot-per-capita goal.
- Code Enforcement is sitting on roughly 4,300 active cases against a goal of about 2,800. The division is closing 61% of cases within target timelines.