Mayor Gonzales is pictured above at the Sustainable Silicon Valley Press Conference on Monday, March 29, 2004.  Mayor Gonzales spoke to guests and media at the event, "Today's announcement is exciting. It is very appropriate that we are announcing it on a day like this, here in a city like San Jose.

"We pride ourselves on being a creative, livable city that works to improve the quality of life and opportunity for our residents...To protect our environment, to create jobs and prosperity and to ensure that our children and grandchildren will be able to receive a better world from us...that is what sustainability means."