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Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022

Volume 159 No. 5 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934

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City council discusses flea market Economic studies get approved, community members express time concerns By Bryanna Bartlett PRODUCTION EDITOR

San Jose City Councilmembers passed a resolution Tuesday that increases efforts to solidify a new location for Berryessa Flea Market vendors, as the city has a year left before the owners issue a one-year notice of closure. The three-part resolution approval made during the city council meeting paves way for the negotiation and execution of market operations and site assessment consultation by Estolano Advisors, an urban planning and public affairs firm. “I just want to point out that there’s a tremendous amount of work that we’ve been doing with the vendors and this action today is in line with previous council direction to ensure certain consultant studies are accomplished and that the funding for them is appropriately allocated,” said Nanci Klein, office of economic development and cultural affairs director. The Bumb family, which claimed ownership of the Berryessa space after founder and owner George Bumb Sr. died in 2000, received approval with an 11-0 vote in a July 29, 2021 city council meeting to begin planning for the 2024 project of residential and commercial buildings on the current 65-acre terrain of the Berryessa Flea Market. Klein, who led Tuesday’s resolution regarding the flea market or “La Pulga” (the flea) to Spanish speakers, said the office of economic development and cultural affairs has implemented multiple work streams in the past year since the flea market’s rezoning was approved by city council. “[The Bumb Family] agreed to contribute $5 million toward a vendor transition fund and the city has set aside an additional $2.5 million for this purpose,” she said

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San Jose City Council leaders listen to a community member in public forum during the city council meeting Tuesday at city hall.

Resolution approval Two out of three of the economic studies discussed on Tuesday were approved, which includes public market operations and models and an alternative site assessment. The other proposal, an economic and cultural impact study, would have taken up half of the total $350,000 budget cost allocated to economic studies, which San Jose Mayor Liccardo and other councilmembers including David Cohen said is an unnecessary expenditure. “I’m concerned that I’ll be off this council and several of us will be and this money will be spent and one thing I’m certain of, we will wish we had more money to help vendors who are struggling with this relocation and help support these families,” Liccardo said during the city council meeting. “I’m not certain we’re gonna wish we had more studies.” Liccardo said he thinks the alternative

The things that the city council speciﬁed as conditions of approval a year and two months ago, I think it was in May of 2021, have had zero effect. Creating the committee, creating the vendor fund, putting [the office of economic development] on this, all of that is going well, but we only have nine and a half months left until [the Bumb family] is able to issue the closure notice.

and cultural impact study, which would comprise more than half of the money that we’re spending here, is going to slow us down, be consuming dollars that could otherwise be going to vendors and their families or otherwise helping with this transition.” Vendors have been renting spaces on a month-to-month basis or through six-month licensing agreements since July 2021 at the Berryessa Flea Market, which Liccardo said has already displaced many families because of costs. Apart from economic studies, the resolution will carry over unspent funds in the flea market appropriation from last fiscal year to this one, which will help fund the consultant agreement for the approved studies, according to the resolution document. Additionally, it will allocate $100,000 from the $2.5 million reserved for the vendor transition fund for outreach and language access services as many vendors are non-English speaking and primarily speak Spanish or Vietnamese, according to the same document.

Community concerns

Many community members supported the resolution during the public forum section of the meeting, but expressed concerns about the lack of time. Kelly Snider, San Jose State Urban and Regional Planning director and local real estate developer, asked the council to take a moment and actually look at her halfway through her allotted time to speak publicly. “The things that the city council specified Kelly Snider San Jose State Urban and Regional Planning director, as conditions of approval a year and two local real estate developer months ago, I think it was in May of 2021, have had zero effect,” Snider said. “Creating the regarding the total $7.5 million reserved for site analysis is critical and the public committee, creating the vendor fund, putting vendors’ transition in relocation. market operations will be very important to [the office of economic development] on Klein said the rezoning project includes understand, but the economic and cultural this, all of that is going well, but we only have five acres for an urban market. The impact study is merely “performative” and will nine and a half months left until [the Bumb advisory group, which is composed of be wasteful. family] is able to issue the closure notice.” supermajority vendors, Bumb family The Bumb family can issue a written After many back and forth motions representatives and city officials, will provide regarding the study, the council voted notice of planned closure or suspension of recommendations on how to spend the to reallocate the $150,000 budget cost of operations of the market beginning on July vendor transition fund and help with the the economic and cultural impact study 1, 2023, leaving the Berryessa Flea Market design and operation. elsewhere in the economic studies budget. advisory group a year to find a new location. She said congruent with council direction, The office of economic development and Alex Shoor, Catalyze SV executive director the office of economic development cultural affairs will work with the consultant and cofounder, said the closure notice and cultural affairs utilized the $500,000 group, Estolano Advisors, to internally will displace vendors. Catalyze SV is an allocated to it in January to create the flea reallocate the funds. organization that says it promotes equitable market advisory group and initiate the “I’m hearing very much the sense of and sustainable living, according to its two economic studies, which came out of urgency coming from several members of the website. Tuesday’s resolution. “Catalyze SV has been supporting the community,” Liccardo said. “The economic

Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association as part of a coalition to ensure that these vendors and these businesses and this economic revenue doesn’t leave our city,” Shoor said. “We also just want to re-emphasize . . . time continues to be of the essence.” The Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association is an organization focused on highlighting vendors’ voices and creating awareness about the displacement of vendor families for new construction projects, according to its website. Roberto Gonzales, Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association president, said he supports the economic studies that will be done through the consultant, but has some reservations about any money leaving the vendor transition fund when at the same time, it isn’t expanding. “But this can be an important moment in adding funds to the vendor transition fund and opening it to uses that can directly help vendors now and not wait till we do get that one year notice,” Gonzales said. “We do have that doom clock, counting down and with no confirmation or reassurance otherwise from the landowners.” Local community member Blair Beekman said while he isn’t as informed on the negotiation process between vendors, the owners and city officials, he is concerned the discrepancy in acreage isn’t on the forefront of priorities. Beekman said relocating from the 65-acre terrain of Berryessa to a five-acre location will displace many vendors and their families, and while the vendor transition fund is in part intended to help with that, increasing acreage needs to be within the scope of the alternate site assessment, which came out of Tuesday’s resolution. “If bargaining can also in the future include ideas where the vendors can have a part in designing the future of the complex, that can maybe allow them a few additional acres for their shops,” Beekman said. “I think it’s a nice approach that I’m sure all sides are scared to do, but on paper, I think it’s a really nice idea.” Nanci Klein said the priority next steps are completing the economic studies to gather information on decisions and opportunities while continuing to support vendor outreach, engagement and assistance. Follow Bryanna on Twitter @brybartlett

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Pride festival returns to San Jose By Alexia Frederickson PHOTOGRAPHER

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San Jose community members parade on top of a moving float in downtown during the Silicon Valley Pride Festival on Sunday.

When I was younger going to Pride, it meant seeing all these diﬀerent types of folks that existed and are able to exist in our society, and that was really important for me. Bonnie Sugiyama director of SJSU PRIDE Center

“The pandemic forced many queer students who were living on campus to move back home, as in-person classes and events were canceled.” That created a challenging situation for SJSU students who felt safer on campus than with their families. For some students, it was their first time at Silicon Valley Pride. “Today was my first time being in the parade, it was amazing seeing all the faces and all the support,” said

Meg Ross, forensic science junior and member of the PRIDE Center. Ross believes that Pride is an event for all people, not just the LGBTQ+ community. “People can learn. It’s 100% important for everyone to be educated on LGBT issues and be educated on our concerns and also our identities” she said. “Even queer people can learn new things.” As events including Pride became possible again, many members of

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the LGBTQ+ community finally had an opportunity to be themselves in an incredibly welcoming environment. “In some ways, it was good for some people,” Sugiyama said. “A lot of people were coming out because they had time to sit with their feelings and find out who they were. A lot of people emerged and came out in recent years because of the pandemic.” “I’ve known I was gay since I was like 10 [years old] and I’ve worked at San Jose State for 25 years, I come out every single year,” said Sonja Lilienthal, adjunct faculty member of the College of Science. Lilienthal attended in the PRIDE Center parade float. Ross, Lilienthal and Sugiyama all participated in the parade and helped support the SJSU PRIDE booth, which served as both a showcase for the center as well as a gathering

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place for SJSU students. The booth handed out free Pride flags, buttons and t-shirts as promotions for the campus organization. Plaza de Cesar Chavez was transformed into a small festival center following the end of the parade. Tents lined the sidewalks of the park, full of small businesses and large corporations. Queer-owned businesses sold handmade jewelry, handed out zines and held live art demonstrations. The main stage became a showcase for a wide variety of traditional music and performance art. “Events like [Silicon Valley Pride] are essential because you get to see all this support in the community that exists,” Sugiyama said.

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More than 20,000 people gathered in Downtown San Jose over the weekend to celebrate the end of Silicon Valley’s Pride Festival. Since 1976, the week-long festival has celebrated the LGBTQ+ community and their allies, with this year’s being the largest gathering prior to the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The week’s events culminated with the parade and day festival on Sunday. Floats from more than eighty organizations, businesses and coalitions passed down Market street, with the final stop at Plaza de Cesar Chavez. LGBTQ+ members and allies paraded down the street carrying signs, banners and flags, rallying support and cheer from onlookers. Members of the queer community came together to celebrate being “proudly authentic,” the theme of this year’s Pride. The week-long event included drag bingo, a cookoff and the annual Pride flag raising at San Jose City Hall. “Events like [Silicon Valley Pride] are essential because you get to see all this support in the community that exists,” said Bonnie Sugiyama, the director of SJSU’s PRIDE Center, which was a sponsor for the festival. “For me, when I was younger going to Pride, it meant seeing all these different types of folks that existed and are able to exist in our society, and that was really important for me.” For many, that was the first Pride celebration since the pandemic shut down the nation, putting a hold on the colorful vibrant voices of the LGBTQ+ community. “COVID, in many ways, was difficult for a lot of students who basically had to come back into the closet, and go home to unsupportive families,” Sugiyama said.

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Exhibit cruises into SJSU Library

Right: San Jose State Students observe photos of the “East Side Dreams” exhibit, a historical collection of East Side San Jose. It showcases the social forces, organizations and individuals that shaped the area from the 1950s to the present, according to the San Jose Public Library webpage. Below left: News clips are highlighted as an example of the cultural diversity in East Side San Jose. Below right: Memorabilia of “Lowrider Magazine” founded by San Jose State alumnus Sonny Madrid, who started publishing magazines when he attended SJSU in the 1970s, according to the SJPL webpage. Lowrider Magazine helped spread Chicano political activism by showcasing custom cars closely aligned to the Mexican American community, according to a July 15, 2015 New York Times article. He died on June 22, 2015, according to the same article.

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Above left: A lowrider is shown in a display as a pedal car, the exhibit runs until Sept. 24. Above right: Photos of the Latinx community are displayed as a part of the “Solidarity” exhibit. The exhibit showcases community members’ social, political and economic contributions. “I’m originally from Ecuador. And we honor our elders. So it came very naturally, to try to learn about all these older people in San Jose, who had made large contributions to the community,” said Mary Andrade, curator of the exhibit and co-founder of La Oferta Latino Bilingual Newspaper. Left: News clips showcase the history of community organization in East Side San Jose during the 1960s. BOJANA CVIJIC | SPARTAN DAILY

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31, 2022

MEN’S SOCCER PREVIEW

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Simon Tobin, San Jose State men’s soccer head coach, watches his team play against California State University Bakersfield on Thursday evening in the Spartan Soccer Complex.

Spartans antsy for WAC battle By Kyle Tran SPORTS EDITOR

Coming off a winning 10-7-3 record in 2021, San Jose State’s men’s soccer team is looking to avenge its devastating loss in the Western Athletic Conference tournament on Nov. 10 with a strong performance this fall. “Last year’s team was the first team I’ve had [that] I felt could play everybody straight up in the country. We beat a top 10 team,” head coach Simon Tobin said. “In the tournament, we had a virus where I couldn’t be there . . . I’m not making excuses, but it was just a sad way to end the season with a very, very good team. So yeah, does

that motivate us? I think so.” One player looking to have a pivotal role this season is fifth year midfielder Finlay Wood. The long-tenured Spartan totaled 1482 minutes of on-field action and scored eight goals in his 2021 campaign. “It’s a bit of a bitter feeling from last season and we definitely want to rectify that,” Wood said. “I know that I and the rest of the team are more than motivated to try and win this conference this season.” Kasper Poulsgaard, the lone preseason All-WAC selection, is looking to play a key role in the success of the Spartans with the conclusion of last year’s season being a driving

force for the team. Poulsgaard’s 2021 season consists of 18 starts, 1660 minutes of playing time and seven scores including a game-winner against #10 Grand Canyon University. The men’s soccer team hopes to extend its tournamentappearance streak starting in the 2017 season.

Having that brute mentality of this is the way we’re trying to gain that chemistry between each other. We’re all hungry and we’re ready to get to work this season. Finlay Wood senior midfielder

Wood said the team’s collective goal is to always win the WAC conference with desires for an National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament bid. Fans can expect to see many new faces on the Spartan Soccer Complex as a result of the many departures from last year’s team because of graduation and professional signings. Throughout the offseason, the team has been working on building its chemistry on the pitch. “We lost a lot of players last season, but I think so far the new players coming in are looking really good,” Poulsgaard said. “It’s going to take some time for them to get used to it and feel comfortable playing with us . . . But I think it’s going to be a great season with the new team.”

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Above: Senior midfielder Finlay Wood prepares to kick the ball during Thursday’s evening match against CSU Bakersfield. Left: Senior defender Kasper Poulsgaard runs with the ball.

A point of emphasis on the team is to maintain a strong mentality for the upcoming season. “Having that brute mentality of this is the way we’re trying to gain that chemistry between each other,” Wood said. “We’re all hungry and we’re ready to get to work this season.” The Spartans have a notable

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