Manager Otto Lee: 2022 Year In Evaluation

January 21, 2023

Precious Neighbors:

Introductions as well as wanting you as well as your liked ones the most effective in 2023. The brand-new year is a time for hope, as well as a time for representation. 2022 was a large year as we collected at occasions as well as parties for the very first time because the pandemic’s episode. By prioritizing our health and wellness, we radiated in your area as well as accomplished several huge successes for our households. Reviewing exactly how our area tipped up to assist each other swells a currently complete heart. Your spirit pushes the honor I need to offer as well as stand for individuals of Area 3 as well as Santa Clara Region. We did a great deal to look after each other, particularly on real estate as well as security, as well as I desire these extra highlights from 2022 with you.

We took care of our health and wellness, particularly our psychological as well as behavior health and wellness.
Our trademark plan of the year, in collaboration with Manager Ellenberg, was to proclaim psychological health and wellness as well as chemical abuse a public health and wellness situation. Our affirmation required an all-hands extensive strategy to attend to psychological health and wellness as well as material usage. We are swiftly functioning to carry out several approaches to increase gain access to, therapy, as well as the labor force. This consists of enhancing the variety of beds for psychological health and wellness therapy as well as material detoxing. We are additionally enhancing understanding of offered sources as well as decreasing preconceptions to looking for aid, due to the fact that most of us experience bumpy rides. We are so happy to our healthcare employees, however we have to employ a lot more psychological health and wellness specialists as well as increase our centers if we’re mosting likely to completely tackle this situation. That’s why we are delighted that building for the teenage behavior health and wellness center at Valley Medical Facility has actually lastly begun.

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We stated sufficient sufficed.
Weapon physical violence has actually come to be the leading reason of fatality for America’s kids as well as costs our neighborhood area greater than $1.2 billion every year. While Congress still discussions this problem, we’re acting in your area to conserve lives. We partnered with our Region Area Lawyer’s Workplace as well as Constable’s Workplace; as well as neighborhood police, consisting of Cops Departments from Milpitas, Morgan Hillside, as well as Gilroy, to hold 2 weapon buyback occasions in 2022 that gathered over 700 guns that were willingly kipped down (as well as that included 26 assault-style tools as well as 7 ghost weapons). By all passing propositions to punish ghost weapons as well as enhancing self-destruction avoidance solutions, we are acting strongly to spend sources to lower weapon physical violence in Santa Clara Region.

We acted to conserve our setting.
Environment activity was a large motif in 2022 as we began the year with a resolution on behalf of the Bay Adapt Strategy to attend to water level increase as well as shut the year preparing for producing our brand-new Region Sustainability Payment. Our ingenious Silicon Valley have to completely involve as well as bait this immediate issue to take on wildfires, air contamination, as well as severe weather condition occasions. Fostering of lasting methods, such as mounting a lot more electrical lorry billing terminals or substitute of timber burning fire places will certainly assist boost our air top quality. I’m eagerly anticipating hiring commissioners so we can solve to work with these amazing suggestions.

We linked areas as well as encouraged voices.
The 2021 redistricting rejoined Sunnyvale to be stood for in Area 3. A really informative, involved, as well as detailed procedure attracted the brand-new supervisorial area lines that reassigned Evergreen right into Area 1 as well as Los Gatos right into Area 5. It’s an honor to offer our varied as well as vivid area, that includes Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Alviso, Berryesssa, as well as North San José.

We withstood battle.
Our last representation is exactly how international events influence the day-to-days live of households throughout Santa Clara Region, particularly as a lot of are attached to immigrants as well as evacuees. In feedback to the Russian intrusion of Ukraine we formally finished our Sis Payment’s connections with the Moscow federal government. Quickly after the episode of the battle, I took a trip to Poland to witness the predicament of the Ukrainian senior, ladies, as well as kids at an evacuee food warehouse. They endure the mental injury of battle as well as will certainly require our aid to transplant momentarily. As an immigrant myself, I am so grateful to Santa Clara Region as well as my associates for withstanding this battle as well as remaining to be an inviting house for those looking for as well as deserving to be totally free as well as live without physical violence.

This is a short summary of our job, please go to SupervisorLee.org to learn more regarding the job we carried out in 2022, as well as the job in advance for 2023.

I additionally intend to thank our incredible Area 3 Personnel for making whatever we do feasible. Many thanks for being my great next-door neighbor, as well as once more finest dreams as well as health to done in 2023.

Manager Otto Lee, Region of Santa Clara– Area 3