Our city and its residents won tonight. DuBois and Burt sound good together and their leadership promises to be be even better.

It's interesting to think about this being the biggest residentialist majority in council history. Now let's hope they can work well together. If Filseth continues his alliance with Cormack it sure won't work well, no matter how he tries to rationalize doing so. And Kou deserves and must get respect for her many postives and huge constiuency she represents.

Welcome on board Greer Stone. You seem to have a gift for words - the council can use that. And congratulations Tom and Pat. We are in such better shape now.

Congratulations to our new CC members, and to Pat and Tom. Best wishes to all in the new year!

YEAH - we are going to do good in 2021. Congratulations.

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New Palo Alto “leadership” is so out of touch: bring on the patriarchy and white male privilege. Embarrassing and sad. It’s actually what Palo Alto deserves.

Funny hearing Aram James call other people "arrogant"

Hey Downtown - Palo Alto deserves to determine it's path forward as opposed to being herded around by special interests advocacy groups. And legislative activists who are trying to disassemble existing city structures. They all sit in SF - what a picture of lost expectations. No one wants to go there. If that is what you are selling then you have failed.

The city of San Jose is busy tearing itself up to build a Google village, tearing out small business sections and lower cost housing. Meanwhile the San Jose city council now needs to focus on low-cost housing because it's existing areas have been torn out. So let "progress" proceed in San Jose going south to fresh ground yet to be built on. Then the "great visions' of you all can evolve. Meanwhile we have to resurrect a livable city scape on our downtown streets so the people want to come out and shop locally.

For the first time in a long time, I can be enthused and positive about our CC. Onward and upward with the best leadership we have had in years. Go Tom & Pat!

Congrats Tom! It's nice to have a major that represents the interest of the majority of Palo Altans and embodies the definition of public service. I was impressed Burt reached out meaningfully to so many Palo Altans in person. He brings a wealth of knowledge and capability to the council.

Congratulations to both! I would have liked to see Lydia Kou as vice mayor, but Pat Burt (with his wealth of experience) should be a good addition. I'm surprised to hear that Eric Filseth backed Allison Cormack. I hope that this new council can quickly resolve the terrible overcrowding problems in Foothills Park.

"Filseth also looked past the council's usual political alignment and supported Cormack, the top vote-getter in the 2018 election. He reminded the council of the 2020 vice mayoral contest, where Cormack and DuBois were deadlocked with three votes each. Cormack broke the stalemate by giving DuBois her vote, making him the vice mayor (and, as of this week, mayor).

"The willingness to put the good of the community first, no matter what our own personal goals and objective are, is just so fundamental to this service," Filseth said."

Rather strange reasoning, in my opinion, since in the past year we've learned a lot more about Ms. Cormack's positions on the issues.

Congrats to Mayor DuBois and Vice Mayor Burt. I strongly supported Pat Burt's candidacy and am delighted to see him in the Vice Mayor position. He has been a forward-thinking leader in the past, and I'm confident he will serve us well again.

I want to see a path laid toward the goals VM Burt laid out in his campaign that MayorDuBois supported.

Again, congrats.

I'm not sure that the new mayor, Mr. Dubois has thought through his priorities for the year. The most obvious non-starter is more housing. There is housing everywhere these days, for lease, for rent and for sale signs abound. We don't need to continue the past and overcrowd this city. What we do need to do is pass rezoning laws to thwart Sacramento's attempts to up-zone and allow developers to build high rises throughout the state.

I agree that we are far behind the curve in not having a business registry. It is time they started to pay for all the services that they use that taxpayers have been supporting.

After that we need to add to the parks and open space of the city and give back to residents. The ongoing pandemic shows the lack of open space and play space and the current overcrowded conditions show that we are underserved when it comes to park space. We need a revenue stream to buy park land that is cumulative and on going; with the goal to address the huge dearth of useable park space in the city.

It is time to help residents and provide for a better community for those that live here. Not overcrowd and overbuild and continue to destroy the environment.

Not gonna lie, I was pulling for Cormack for Vice Mayor :-/ I'm sure DuBois and Burt will do a lovely job, though

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It appears "A Voice of Palo Alto" might be more accurate than "The Voice of Palo Alto."

But maybe she or he has "Palo Alto Values."

What are Palo Alto Values? I think that we made it clear that we are not interested in being mowed down by external activist legislative and special interest groups. The state is a big place that is now under siege with people leaving in droves because they want a better quality of life. We should have the better quality of life right here.

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