{"id":206351,"date":"2026-03-05T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206351\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:44:07","slug":"letter-moore-and-ristow-demand-higher-travel-and-entertainment-budgets-to-attend-conferences-los-gatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206351\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Moore and Ristow demand higher travel and entertainment budgets to attend conferences | Los Gatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/losgatan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/03\/Typewriter-image-by-ha11ok-from-Pixabay.jpg\" data-caption=\"Typewriter image by ha11ok from Pixabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Typewriter-image-by-ha11ok-from-Pixabay-696x464.jpg\"  data- alt=\"Typewriter image by ha11ok from Pixabay\" title=\"Typewriter image by ha11ok from Pixabay\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/464;\"\/><\/a>Typewriter image by ha11ok from Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcapp4\">At Los Gatos\u2019 annual priority-setting session, Mayor Moore and Vice Mayor Ristow demanded higher travel and entertainment budgets to fund boondoggle conferences while the Town Manager forecasts upcoming multimillion-dollar operating deficits with no relief in sight.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another example of failed Council fiscal leadership, which could cause painful service and staff reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Moore and Ristow are willing to tax residents more, or slash headcount, so they can attend these junkets. This is the epitome of bad judgment\u2014while the other three Council members wisely refused to support it. It\u2019s a blatant \u201cmore for me\u201d choice of unceasingly spending someone else\u2019s money, not their own. They claim they \u201cdon\u2019t make very much,\u201d so these lavish perks are compensation they are entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>Voters must remember this in November. We need to elect thoughtful leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Jak VanNada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losgatan.com\/tag\/los-gatos-community-alliance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Gatos Community Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Letters are edited for length and clarity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Typewriter image by ha11ok from Pixabay At Los Gatos\u2019 annual priority-setting session, Mayor Moore and Vice Mayor Ristow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2076,2323,72556,1838,72557,88,90,89,2422],"class_list":{"0":"post-206351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-council","10":"tag-jak-van-nada","11":"tag-letter","12":"tag-los-gatos-community-alliance","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}