[11] Esteves unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in 2008, coming in last place (with about 27% of the vote) in the three-way primary.

[12] In 2008, he began work on getting a mural about the farm labor movement added to the Milpitas Library, it was installed in October 2012.

[15] While in office, Milpitas overtook Daly City as having the largest concentration of Filipino Americans in Northern California.

[16] That same year, to assist the city to remain solvent, elected Milpitas officials, including Esteves, reduced their salaries and ended their medical benefits.

[20] Later that same year in 2014, seeking his sixth term as mayor, Esteves received the endorsement of Kansen Chu, Ro Khanna, the North American Punjabi Association, the Greater San Jose Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and others.

[29] In 2016, he could not run for mayor, having served the maximum number of consecutive terms that Milpitas city law allows.

[30] In that same year, he opposed a tax increase proposed by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as he believed that "it doesn’t do anything for Milpitas.