San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan takes the oath of office during his official inauguration at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)
One could call the new mayor of San Jose’s job akin to rolling a boulder up a hill for eternity.
And in his debut inaugural address on Wednesday night as the city’s 66th mayor, Matt Mahan gave a nod to Greek mythology that sums up the task in a single word: Sisyphean.
The reference is likely not hyperbole.
Mahan, a business-backed former school teacher and technology entrepreneur