The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority,more commonly known simply as the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA),is a special district responsible for public transit services,congestion management,specific highway improvement projects,and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County,California. It serves San Jose,California,and the surrounding Silicon Valley. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In 2023,the VTA's public transportation services had a combined ridership of 26,610,000,or about 87,500 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
Ronald R. Gonzales is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party,who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose,California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic to serve as Mayor of San Jose since 1845.
Reid–Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County is in the eastern part of San Jose,in Santa Clara County,California,United States. It is owned by Santa Clara County and is near the Evergreen district of San Jose where aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery experimented with gliders in 1911. Reid–Hillview Airport was also the official general aviation airport for the 2016 Super Bowl in Levi's Stadium.
The Santa Clara County Library District is a public library system for Santa Clara County headquartered in Campbell,California. The library serves the communities and cities of Campbell,Cupertino,Gilroy,Los Altos,Los Altos Hills,Milpitas,Monte Sereno,Morgan Hill,Saratoga,and all unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. Other cities in Santa Clara County run their own library systems. In addition to these libraries,the library provides mobile library service with a bookmobile which visits preschools,retirement communities,migrant farmworker camps,and rural communities without easy access to library services. In 2020,SCCLD also launched a new website featuring a 24/7 online library.
Cindy Chavez is an American politician who serves as the Santa Clara County supervisor representing district two,which is home to nearly 400,000 residents in Downtown,East,and South San Jose. Her public service career began in the 1990s as a policy analyst for health care,public health,human services and transportation for the Board of Supervisors. She served two terms on the San Jose City Council,where she was also Vice Mayor,and also served on the board leadership of public agencies such as the San Jose Redevelopment Agency,and executive director of Working Partnerships USA and the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. She has unsuccessfully run for Mayor of San Jose twice. She is a graduate of San Jose State University,is married and has a son in college.
California's 17th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California that is currently represented by Ro Khanna. It is located in the South Bay and East Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area.
David Dominic Cortese is an elected official from San Jose,California. He is currently serving in the California State Senate,representing District 15,which encompasses a majority of Santa Clara County. Before being elected to the California State Senate,Cortese served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for 12 years,as a Councilmember and Vice Mayor for the City of San Jose for eight years,and for eight years as a trustee for the East Side Union High School District in San Jose. Cortese ran for mayor of San Jose and won the primary,losing the general election to District 3 councilmember Sam Liccardo.
Sally J. Lieber is an American politician from the state of California who has served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization since 2023. She was previously a member of the Mountain View City Council and the California State Assembly. She represented the 22nd Assembly District that includes the cities of Mountain View,Sunnyvale,Cupertino and portions of Santa Clara and San Jose which are all located in Santa Clara County. In February 2022,Assemblywoman Lieber was endorsed by the California State Democratic Party for Board Member of the California State Board of Equalization,District 2. She won the seat in the California general election held on November 8,2022.
The Superior Court of California for and in the County of Santa Clara is the state trial court in and for Santa Clara County,California.
Kansen Chu is a Taiwanese-born American politician. A Democrat,Chu was a member of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2020,for the 25th District,which encompasses parts of the South and East Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Anna E. Song is a South Korean-born American politician who served on the Santa Clara County School Board for twenty years. She is California's first female South Korean-born elected official.
Dan McCorquodale is an American politician from Newton,Texas,a former California State Senator,and a member of the Democratic Party.
Santa Clara County,officially the County of Santa Clara,is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California,with a population of 1,936,259,as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together form the U.S. Census Bureau's San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area,which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California. The county seat and largest city is San Jose;with about 1,000,000 residents,it is the 10th-most populous city in the United States,California's third-most populous city and the most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The second- and third-largest cities are Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
Berryessa/North San Joséstation is an intermodal transit center located in the Berryessa district of San Jose,California. The station is served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) buses. The transit center opened for bus service on December 28,2019,and subsequently for BART service on June 13,2020. The station is the southern terminus of the Orange and Green lines.
The Silicon Valley BART extension is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County. Planned since at least 1981,the project has seven stations in three sequential phases.
The Bill Wilson Center (BWC) is a nonprofit organization in Santa Clara,California,that provides support to homeless and runaway children and young adults.
The Santa Clara County Fairgrounds is an event venue in San Jose,California. The 165-acre (67 ha) fairgrounds has been owned by the County of Santa Clara since 1940 and is operated by the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Management Corporation,a public-benefit nonprofit corporation.
Alex Tianming Lee is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Assembly since 2020,having represented the 24th district since 2022 and the 25th district from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Lee's district includes Fremont,Newark,Sunol,Milpitas,and parts of western San Jose.
The San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility is a wastewater treatment plant located in the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose,California. The facility treats 110 million U.S. gallons of wastewater per day,with a capacity of up to 167 million U.S. gal/d (630 ML/d),making it the largest tertiary treatment plant in the western United States. It serves 1.5 million residents and over 17,000 business facilities in eight cities. The 2,600-acre (1,100 ha) site is operated by the San Jose Environmental Services Department and jointly owned by the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara. It began operations in 1956 to address severe water pollution issues and played a key role in San Jose's aggressive annexation program during the 1950s and 1960s.
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