Congratulations to the city’s incumbent elected leadership team, resounding endorsed by voters on Election Day. Steve Tate, running unopposed, will remain as mayor for the next two years and City Council incumbents, Larry Carr and Marilyn Librers, will be back in the saddle for four-year terms.
Voters made a good decision for the future of Morgan Hill. Keeping the city’s leadership team intact at the present time is wise. City Manager Ed Tewes, after nearly a decade, is leaving and that puts the present Council members in the position of being the “institutional memory” for the city.
Managing the transition as the Redevelopment Agency-dominated  Tewes’ era comes to an end is key. The leadership within City Hall has been stable for a long while. And, while there have been projects such as the Third Street promenade which have run amok, Morgan Hill as a whole has made significant progressive strides in public facilities, in downtown improvements, in traffic circulation, in maintaining public safety services despite tight budgets.
Residents should be pleased. All in all, it’s been a good run for Morgan Hill. Despite the Great Recession, the city has held up well and even, in fact, improved its position in the important retail tax sales arena. The city has attracted the wildly successful Ford Store, the voluminous Hobby Lobby and the Honda dealership. Downtown has become a hub for excellent restaurants and, with a few more key additions, should round into a place where there are more diverse retail offerings. It’s a destination destined to flourish and become the heart of a thriving city.  
The next decade should be exciting for our city as its leaders figure out how best to maintain the current facilities, improve downtown and re-structure both the General Plan and the ordinance that governs residential development.
In the backdrop, the RDA, outlawed by the money-hungry state of California,  will continue to be dismantled. If managed properly, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Lastly,  we encourage Matthew Wendt, the newcomer to the city’s political stage who attempted to vault into a City Council seat, to gear up his civic involvement. He can be an effective representative for the city’s future.
Meanwhile, to coin a popular rhetorical question from the sports world, “Who’s got it better than Morgan Hill?”
Not many, if any.

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