The San Jose Police Department pays $55,000 a month to rent an evidence warehouse on Monterey Road. The owner: a San Jose official who votes on police spending.
District 6 Councilmember Michael Mulcahy is the managing partner of his private, family-owned real estate firm SDS NexGen Partners, which has leased the warehouse to the city since 2003, according to records obtained by San José Spotlight. The agreement was inked decades before Mulcahy took office this year, and he’s been upfront about it in state-required financial disclosures. But in his new role, Mulcahy is tasked with annually voting on police department budgets, which could impact the use of his property.
It’s raising questions about the fine lines of San Jose’s and California’s conflict of interest laws…