Last September, the Milpitas City Council voted to rename the Milpitas Library after former Mayor Jose Esteves.
This past weekend, on July 19, hundreds of people gathered for the City of Milpitas’ celebration to recognize the official renaming of the Milpitas Jose Esteves Library.
“Today we celebrate not just a building but a legacy,” said Mayor Carmen Montano, as she welcomed the event’s lively crowd.
Esteves served one term as a member of the Milpitas City Council (from 1998-2002) and served six mayoral terms (from 2022-2008 and 2010-2016).
“During his time in office, he was a tireless advocate for education, civic engagement, and community building,” Mayor Montano said.
The library is among Esteves’ accomplishments. In 2000, Esteves championed both Measures H and I, two hotel tax increases passed by Milpitas voters. The new measures helped to raise funds for public facilities, among them the city’s brand new library.
While he served as mayor, Esteves was also the project lead of the Library Project Subcommittee, overseeing the building’s design and construction.
“Just the completion alone of this library is a dream come true for me,” said Esteves in a speech.
Esteves also expressed his gratitude to the Council for making the naming a reality.
State Senator Aisha Wahab – who represents the 10th State Senate District, which includes Milpitas, Fremont, Hayward, San Jose, and Sunnyvale – was on hand to present Esteves with a certificate of recognition.
“I want to say congratulations to the City of Milpitas and to the Esteves family on this well-deserved honor and for his legacy to continue,” said Wahab.
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Well, Congratulations a job well done. Now the questions for the current mayor:
1. When is the Milpitas waterfountain signature located at City hall will be working again. Look like no one care about this issue.
2. Same at the waterfountain nearby Peet’s Coffee shop.
This reminds me of The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, an effort to name a public facility – building, airport, statue, park, or road – after Reagan in all 3,140 counties in the United States. It’s part of the Republican propaganda campaign to distract from the actual damage to our country cause by their policies and programs. The Reagan revolution kicked off the redistribution of $50T of wealth to the billionaire class from the rest of us. The Republican’s Project 2025 is now turning our country into a fascist regime where none of us are safe to speak our minds without fear of revenge by those opposed to the truth — truths like Global Warming, Republican corruption and cruelty, and what is in the Epstein files.
Where did the funds come from to pay for not only the new sign but also the elaborate dedication plaque about former Mayor Esteves? Last I heard several months ago, due to our city budget deficit, there wasn’t money to even the new sign. Now somehow, somewhere, money was found for the sign and the plaque???
So please share where did the money come from?