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This website is the work of a group of Santa Clara residents who are opposed to the City's proposed subsidy of a stadium for the San Francisco 49ers.
Our concerns include:
What can you do?
There are many ways to get involved!
You can:
- Write a letter to the City Council: 1500 Warburton Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95050
- Call the City Council: (408) 615-2250
- Send an email to the City Council
- Attend a City Council meeting and speak out. Meetings are generally held at least two times per month on Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M. at City Hall in the Council Chambers, 1500 Warburton Avenue.
- Send an Letter to the Editor of the Mercury News
- Send an Letter to the Editor of the Santa Clara Weekly
- Spread the word!
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Citizens speak out
Here is a collection of papers and articles written by Santa Clara residents:
- "A Citizen's Perspective: Should the San Francisco 49ers and the City of Santa Clara Collaborate on the Building of a New Sports Stadium?" by Erlinda Anne Estrada, M.L.I.S., presentation to City Council, May 22, 2007. Read more.
- "NFL stadium a poor investment for Santa Clara," by Kate Grant, op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News, April 16, 2007. Read more.
Links
- Mary Emerson for City Council
- Santa Clara Plays Fair
- Field of Schemes
- League of Fans
- Sports Stadium Madness: Why It Started, How to Stop It
- Public subsidies of professional sports stadiums provide no tangible public good
- Public Funding of Sports Stadiums: Ballpark Boondoggle
- Stadium Subsidies Strike Out
- Finding the Bottom Line for Sports: Observations from an Academic
- 8 Reasons to reject publicly financed stadiums for professional sports teams
- US Congressional Testimony of Neil deMause on Taxpayer-financed Stadiums (pdf)
- Letter from 90 Economists: Public Subsidies for Stadiums Aren't Justified
- Good Jobs First - Case Study of Professional Sports
- Stadiums, Professional Sports, and Economic Development: Assessing the Reality
- Long-term Economic Impacts of Stadiums and Sports Teams
- The Effect of Professional Sports on the Earnings of Individuals, by Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys (PDF file)
- Sports, Jobs, and Taxes
- Public Financing for Construction and Operation of Sports Stadiums
- Loot, Loot, Loot for the Home Team (PDF file) from "The Great American Jobs Scam" by Greg LeRoy
- Testimony to Congress Regarding Detroit's Stadium Building Experience
- Put Pro Sports Blackmailers Out of Business
- Pro Sports on the Dole
- Stadium subsidies scalp the public
- Save Our Owners!
- Just Say No (another Santa Clara website)
- Not With My Money
City Government Links
- City Guidelines for Evaluating 49ers Stadium Proposal
- KMA's Evaluation of 49ers Proposal
- 49ers Proposal for a Football Stadium in Santa Clara
- City Council Adopted Goals For 2005-2007
- City Council Meetings
- City Council Meeting -- Current Agenda
- City Council Meeting -- Summary Minutes
- City of Santa Clara City -- Ethics & Values
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- The Santa Clara Way
- Thou shall be allowed to vote
- Priorities? Duh! What priorities?
- Letters, We get letters . . .
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- From the mind of Homer
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- Let 'em vote
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