Three priorities,
honestly stated
Each priority below includes what the council can actually control — and what it can't. Suresh Vuyyuru is running on the half he'd own.
High School Infrastructure
Our high school is over capacity. The piece I'd own is land: working with LUSD and the county to get a site secured and zoned, and pushing developer agreements to line up with where the next campus has to go.
Mountain House High School is over capacity, and that hits every home in this town whether or not you have kids in it.
I've put the cost of a second campus at around eighty million dollars, with a real case for partial state funding. That takes years of steady pressure from a council that keeps asking — not one letter and a photograph.
Specifically, I would:
Work with LUSD and San Joaquin County to identify, secure, and zone land for the second campus before developer agreements make the right parcels unavailable.
Ensure that every new development agreement accounts for school capacity — fees, land dedication, and phasing tied to where enrollment growth will land.
Build and maintain a documented case for Proposition 2 and Proposition 13 (2020) state school bond funding — roughly $40M of an estimated $80M campus cost.
Fields, courts, and tournament time are city decisions. Recreation infrastructure for Mountain House kids stays on the council agenda.
Traffic & Road Safety
Some residents are losing up to ninety minutes a day on Grant Line. I won't claim one councilmember can fix a regional corridor. What a councilmember can do is refuse to let it drop.
Grant Line Road is a regional corridor. The city of Mountain House does not own it — San Joaquin County does — and the I-580 interchange is a Caltrans project. Neither is a city council decision.
What the council can do is refuse to let the issue fall off the agenda, convene the right people in the same room, and submit one coordinated funding request instead of five separate ones that cancel each other out.
Specifically, I would:
Joint town halls with San Joaquin County, Caltrans, and our state and federal representatives — on a published schedule, not whenever the calendar allows.
A single, unified funding request from Mountain House to STIP, ATP, and federal surface transportation programs — not individual letters that compete with each other.
Crosswalk improvements, speed management, and school-hour traffic patterns inside Mountain House are fully within council authority. Those decisions get made.
Ensure every General Plan update and capital improvement budget accounts for population growth and the corridor improvements that must follow.
Transparency & Inclusiveness
A Planning Commission, a Recreation Commission, and a Public Safety and Transportation Committee — residents in the room before a rezoning decision reaches the dais, not after.
I've sat through these meetings from the public side for two years. The gap between what residents know and when they find out is the single most fixable thing on this list.
Mountain House became a city on July 1, 2024. It has no standing commissions yet. Every decision goes straight to the five-member council with no intermediate body where residents can shape it first.
Specifically, I would:
A standing body with residents on it, meeting on a published schedule, reviewing land use and zoning decisions before they reach the dais.
Parks, fields, courts, and community programming decisions made with resident input — not handed down after the contract is signed.
Traffic safety, emergency services, and infrastructure priorities reviewed by an advisory body with residents from every village.
I live in College Park — roughly thirty percent of Mountain House, and nobody on the council currently lives here. That isn't a grievance. It's a gap I'd close.
Questions about the platform?
Suresh is at the council meetings — almost all of them. Come say hello, or reach out directly.