Editing San Jose, California (section)

=== Local ===
San Jose is a [[charter city]] under California law, giving it the power to enact local ordinances that may conflict with state law, within the limits provided by the charter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/bol/1999/charter.html |title=List of California Charter Cities |work=The California Planners' Book of Lists |year=1999 |access-date=June 9, 2007 |publisher=California Governor's Office of Planning and Research |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208132759/http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/bol/1999/charter.html |archive-date=February 8, 2007}}</ref> The city has a [[council-manager government]] with a [[city manager]] nominated by the mayor and elected by the [[city council]].

The [[San Jose City Council]] is made up of ten council members elected by district, and a mayor elected by the entire city. During city council meetings, the mayor presides, and all eleven members can vote on any issue. The mayor has no veto powers. Council members and the mayor are elected to four-year terms; the even-numbered district council members beginning in 1994; the mayor and the odd-numbered district council members beginning in 1996.<ref name=Charter>{{cite web |url=http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Charter.htm |title=San Jose City Charter |publisher=Sanjoseca.gov |access-date=July 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112063906/http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Charter.htm |archive-date=January 12, 2010}}</ref> Each council member represents approximately 100,000 constituents.

Council members and the mayor are limited to two successive terms in office, although a council member that has reached the term limit can be elected mayor, and vice versa. The council elects a vice-mayor from the members of the council at the second meeting of the year following a council election. This council member acts as mayor during the temporary absence of the mayor, but does not succeed to the mayor's office upon a vacancy.<ref name="Charter"/>

[[File:Matt Mahan Web Summit 2015 3 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Matt Mahan]] is the current [[Mayor of San Jose, California|Mayor of San Jose]].]]

The city manager is the chief administrative officer of the city, and must present an annual [[budget]] for approval by the city council. When the office is vacant, the mayor proposes a candidate for City Manager, subject to council approval. The council appoints the manager for an indefinite term, and may at any time remove the manager, or the electorate may remove the manager through a [[recall election]]. Other city officers directly appointed by the council include the City Attorney, City Auditor, City Clerk, and Independent Police Auditor.<ref name=Charter/> Like all cities and counties in the state, San Jose has representation in the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]].

Like all California cities except San Francisco, both the levels and the boundaries of what the city government controls are determined by the [[Local Agency Formation Commission]] (LAFCO).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santaclara.lafco.ca.gov |title=Local Agency Formation Commission |publisher=Santaclara.lafco.ca.gov |access-date=July 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212043113/http://www.santaclara.lafco.ca.gov/ |archive-date=February 12, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The goal of a LAFCO is to try to avoid uncontrolled [[urban sprawl]]. The Santa Clara County LAFCO has set boundaries of San Jose's "Sphere of Influence" (indicated by the blue line in the map near the top of the page) as a superset of the actual city limits (the yellow area in the map), plus parts of the surrounding unincorporated county land, where San Jose can, for example, prevent development of fringe areas to concentrate city growth closer to the city's core. The LAFCO also defines a subset of the Sphere as an 'Urban Service Area' (indicated by the red line in the map), effectively limiting development to areas where urban infrastructure (sewers, electrical service, etc.) already exists.

San Jose is the [[county seat]] of [[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FSCC%20Public%20Portal%2Fattachments%2F628168County_Charter.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20071106045551/http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs/SCC%20Public%20Portal/attachments/628168County_Charter.pdf |archive-date=November 6, 2007 |title=Charter of the County of Santa Clara, Article 101 |publisher=Santa Clara County |access-date=February 16, 2008 }}</ref> Accordingly, many county government facilities are located in the city, including the office of the County Executive, the Board of Supervisors, the District Attorney's Office, eight courthouses of the Superior Court, the Sheriff's Office, and the County Clerk.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/Search.aspx?svtyp=Contacts |title=County of Santa Clara Contacts |access-date=February 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121184343/http://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/Search.aspx?svtyp=Contacts |archive-date=January 21, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

San Jose is protected by the [[San Jose Police Department]] and [[San Jose Fire Department]]. Drinking water is supplied by the San José Municipal Water System (Muni Water) along with the privately owned [[San Jose Water Company]] and Great Oaks Water Company. The [[San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility]] provides [[Tertiary treatment|advanced wastewater treatment]] and [[reclaimed water]].