Just a few days after taking his oath of office, new City Council member Pierluigi Oliverio is trying to get the City of San Jose to be more creative in solving its problems. In the first of many promised guest articles, he addresses park maintenance on SanJoseInside, specifically mentioning the decline in the Municipal Rose Garden in the northern portion of District 6:

Rose Garden Park is not alone. Newly-built Cahill Park off The Alameda and many other parks throughout San Jose are not receiving the care that they deserve. Budget cuts are only part of the problem. The bigger issue is that San Jose is not being creative in adopting new ideas to solve these problems. When I was campaigning—not that long ago—I proposed the idea of a pilot program to outsource maintenance for some of our neighborhood parks. The residents that I talked to—Democrats, Republicans, Independents and others—agreed that such a pilot program for some of San Jose’s parks was a good idea.

So far, his article has been met much more positively than his campaign stump speech from February.