00:00:04 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO THE
00:00:10 CITY OF SANTA CLARA JOINT MEETING OF
00:00:11 THE COUNCIL AND AUTHORITIES
00:00:12 CONCURRENT I'M CALLING THIS MEETING
00:00:13 TO ORDER. ROLL CALL PLEASE ASSISTANT
00:00:15 CITY CLERK?
00:00:18 >> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:00:21 >> HERE.
00:00:22 >> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
00:00:25 >> PRESENT.
00:00:26 >> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
00:00:28 >> PRESENT.
00:00:30 >> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
00:00:31 >> HERE.
00:00:32 >> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
00:00:33 >> HERE.
00:00:34 >> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
00:00:36 >> HERE.
00:00:37 >> MAYOR GILLMOR, CHAIR.
00:00:41 >> HERE.
00:00:42 >> THANK YOU.
00:00:43 >> THANK YOU. SO, PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:00:45 DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON
00:00:47 ANY ITEMS ON THE CLOSED SESSION
00:00:49 AGENDA? IF SO, PLEASE RAISE YOUR
00:00:51 HAND. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, DO YOU
00:00:57 SEE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT
00:00:59 WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ANY CLOSED
00:01:01 SESSION ITEMS.
00:01:02 >> I DO NOT SEE ANY HANDS MAYOR
00:01:04 AND I DO NOT HAVE ECOMMENTS OR
00:01:06 PUBLIC COMMENT EMAILS AS WELL SO
00:01:08 NOTHING HERE.
00:01:09 >> OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE
00:01:11 WILL NOW BE ADJOURNING TO CLOSED
00:01:13 SESSION, WE WILL BE BACK ON OPEN
00:01:16 SESSION AT 6:00 P.M. FOR THE OPEN
00:01:22 COUNCIL MEETING AND STADIUM
00:01:26 AUTHORITY MEETING. THANK YOU. WE
00:01:28 WILL SEE YOU THEN.
00:01:30 (MEETING IN CLOSED SESSION)
00:02:58 >> ORDER OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE
00:03:02 COUNCIL AND AUTHORITIES CONCURRENT
00:03:03 MEETING. CAN YOU STAND FOR THE
00:03:05 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND REMAIN
00:03:07 STANDING FOR THE STATEMENT OF
00:03:08 VALUES.
00:03:09 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE
00:03:10 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE
00:03:11 REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION,
00:03:12 UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND
00:03:13 JUSTICE FOR ALL.
00:03:23 >> AS WE GATHER, WE HUMBLY SEEK
00:03:28 BLESSINGS, UPON THIS MEETING MAY
00:03:29 WE ACT WITH STRENGTH. COURAGE AND
00:03:32 WILL TO PERFORM OUR OBLIGATIONS AND
00:03:34 DUTYTY TO PEOPLE WITH JUSTICE TO ALL.
00:03:38 MAY WE SEEK WISDOM TO ACT WITH OUR
00:03:42 NEIGHBORS PEOPLE AND COUNTRY. WE
00:03:44 MAY SERVE OUR COMMUNITY WITH
00:03:45 FAIRNESS AND RESPECTED PUTTING THEIR
00:03:47 NEEDS BEFORE ALL.
00:03:48 >> THANK YOU. PLEASE BE SEATED.
00:03:51 >> MAY I READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
00:03:54 >> READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
00:03:56 >> AB23 ANNOUNCEMENT. [READING].
00:04:10 TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST
00:04:12 LEVELS OF CONDUCT THIS INCLUDES
00:04:15 MUTUAL RESPECT, DISCUSSION AND
00:04:19 MATTER TO BE DONE IN CONSISTENT
00:04:22 MATTER THE MAYOR AND CHAIR'S
00:04:25 DIRECTION AND PROCESS OF DEQUORUM
00:04:27 SHOULD BE FOLLOWED AND GAVEL
00:04:29 CONVERSATIONS MUST CONCLUDE AND
00:04:32 EVERYONE SHOULD COME TO ORDER AND
00:04:33 ATTENDANCE WELCOME THANK YOU FOR
00:04:36 YOUR ARCITIES PACING.
00:04:37 >> THANK YOU ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
00:04:39 GOOD AFTERNOON WELCOME EVERYONE
00:04:41 THE CITY CONTINUE TOSS USE A ZOOM
00:04:44 FEATURE TO ALLOW PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
00:04:46 FROM THE SAFETY OF YOUR HOME OR
00:04:48 OFFICE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC YOU
00:04:49 CAN JOIN US VIA THE LINK OR THE ZOOM
00:04:53 MEETING DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN
00:04:55 NOW. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON
00:04:57 AN AGENDA ITEM OR DURING PUBLIC
00:04:59 PRESENTATIONS RAISE YOUR HAND ON
00:05:00 THE ZOOM PUBLICATION OR PRESS STAR
00:05:03 NINE ON YOUR PHONE PLEASE ONLY
00:05:05 RAISE YOUR HAND WHILE THE ITEM YOU
00:05:07 ARE SEEKING TO SPEAK ON IS BEING
00:05:09 PRESENTED STAFF WILL ENTER YOUR NAME
00:05:11 OR LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE
00:05:14 NUMBER AND I WILL CALL YOU TO SPEAK
00:05:15 AS A FRIENDLY REMINDER MEMBERS OF
00:05:17 THE PUBLIC HAVE TWO MINUTES TO
00:05:19 SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS, AND PUBLIC
00:05:21 PRESENTATIONS ON TOPICS NOT ON THE
00:05:24 AGENDA STAR WILL LOWER EACH HAND TO
00:05:27 MAKE SURE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
00:05:29 REQUESTING TO SPEAK UNDER THE
00:05:31 APPROPRIATE ITEMS YOU MUST ALSO
00:05:33 SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS ON THE
00:05:34 ECOMMENT FEATURE AVAILABLE ON THE
00:05:39 SANTA CLARA STAR BEIGE OR SANTA
00:05:42 CLARA DOT ca.gov AND COMMENTS
00:05:45 WILL BE READ INTO THE RECORD NOW LET'S
00:05:47 MOVE TO THE COUNCIL SECTION. ACTIONS
00:05:50 TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION CITY
00:05:53 ATTORNEY.
00:05:54 >> THANK YOU MAYOR. COUNCIL TOOK
00:05:56 NO ACTION IN CLOSEDED SESSION.
00:05:58 >> THANK YOU CONTINUES AND
00:06:00 EXCEPTION ANYONE HAVE A
00:06:02 CONTINUANCE OR EXCEPTION ON THE CITY
00:06:05 COUNCIL THEN WE WILL MOVE TO THE
00:06:06 PUBLIC. ANYONE?
00:06:07 >> MAYOR.
00:06:08 >> YES.
00:06:09 >> I HAVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS TO
00:06:10 MENTION.
00:06:11 >> GO AHEAD.
00:06:12 >> UNDER THIS SECTION OUR LAST
00:06:14 MEETING I STATED I WOULD PROVIDE
00:06:17 SUMMARY OF THE ITEMS TIME SENSITIVE
00:06:21 FOR THE COUNCIL TO HEAR THIS EVENING
00:06:22 IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THERE IS
00:06:24 CONTINUE NEWTY OF CITY SERVICES AND
00:06:26 OPERATIONS I FIRST WANT TO START WITH
00:06:29 ITEM NUMBER 8. THAT ITEM BE
00:06:32 CONTINUED TO JUNE 22ND. WE HAVE
00:06:34 HEARD FROM THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IF THE
00:06:37 ITEM CANNOT BE HEARD EARLY THEY DO
00:06:40 REQUEST THAT THE ITEM BE SCHEDULED
00:06:41 EARLIER ON THE AGENDA ON JUNE 22ND
00:06:44 SO I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT ITEM
00:06:46 BE DEFERRED AND WE WILL NOTE IT
00:06:49 PROPERLY.
00:06:50 >> CAN WE DO THAT RIGHT NOW?
00:06:53 >> SURE.
00:06:54 >> SO THAT ITEM IS ITEM 8. I THINK
00:06:57 THAT'S ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
00:06:59 >> IT IS. SO, IT WOULD BE CONTINUED
00:07:00 BY ACTION. AND THAT'S THE RESOLUTION
00:07:02 OF NECESSITY TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN REAL
00:07:05 PROPERTY INTEREST AT 890 WALSH
00:07:09 AVENUE.
00:07:10 >> THANK YOU. A MOTION TO CONTINUE
00:07:11 THAT?
00:07:12 >> SO MOVED [MULTIPLE SPEAKERS].
00:07:14 >> THERE'S A MOTION. IS THERE A
00:07:15 SECOND.
00:07:16 >> SECOND.
00:07:17 >> MOTION, SECOND ON THAT. ANY
00:07:19 DISCUSSION ON THAT OR ANY DISCUSSION
00:07:21 FROM THE PUBLIC ON THAT.
00:07:23 >> MAYOR WE DO HAVE A HAND
00:07:24 RAISED.
00:07:25 >> OKAY. GO AHEAD. [MULTIPLE
00:07:32 SPEAKERS] WHO?
00:07:33 >> PHIL.
00:07:37 >> CAN YOU HEAR ME?
00:07:38 >> YES GO AHOED PHIL. I'M CPA I
00:07:42 REPRESENT THE INTEREST AND I'M IN
00:07:45 FAVOR OF IT AS WELL TO THE 22.
00:07:48 >> THANK YOU PHIL WE WILL MAKE
00:07:50 SURE THAT GETS ON THE AGENDA FOR
00:07:51 YOUR CLIENT. OKAY? ALL RIGHT. THANK
00:07:53 YOU WHERE SHE A MOTION AND
00:07:54 SECOND. NO OTHER DISCUSSION
00:07:56 ASSISTANT CITY CLERK ROLL CALL VOTE
00:07:59 PLEASE?
00:08:05 >> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:08:06 >> YES.
00:08:07 >> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
00:08:09 >> YES.
00:08:10 >> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
00:08:11 >> YES.
00:08:12 >> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
00:08:13 >> YES.
00:08:14 >> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
00:08:15 >> YES.
00:08:16 >> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
00:08:18 >> YES.
00:08:19 >> MAYOR GILLMOR.
00:08:20 >> YES.
00:08:21 >> THANK YOU THAT PASSES
00:08:23 UNANIMOUSLY GO AHEAD AND CITY
00:08:26 MANAGER.
00:08:27 >> WE HAVE SIX CONSENT CALENDAR
00:08:29 ITEMS TIME SENSITIVE I WILL STATE THEM
00:08:32 FOR THE COUNCIL ITEM 4F LIKE FRANK
00:08:36 4G LIKE GEORGE 4H, 4K, 4M AND 4R
00:08:43 THOSE EACH HAVE TIME SENSITIVE
00:08:45 DATES ON THE GENERAL BUSINESS SIDE
00:08:47 OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA I JUST WANT TO
00:08:49 NOTE THAT ITEMS 5, 6 AND [AUDIO
00:08:56 CUTTING OUT] TEN ARE TIME SENSITIVE
00:08:58 ITEM 7 IS ALSO RELATIVELY TIME
00:09:00 SENSITIVE ALTHOUGH IT CAN BE DEFERRED
00:09:02 TO JUNE 15TH IF NEEDED BUT THAT ITEM
00:09:06 HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DEFERRED LIKE
00:09:08 ITEMS 5 AND 6.
00:09:10 >> OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE?
00:09:11 >> THAT'S IT.
00:09:12 >> THANK YOU CITY MANAGER.
00:09:14 ANYBODY ELSE ON THE COUNCIL? OKAY.
00:09:18 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THEN--OR THE
00:09:20 PUBLIC--DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC
00:09:22 MEMBER?
00:09:23 >> MAYOR WE HAVE A HAND UP FROM--
00:09:26 >> YES GO AHEAD. ARE YOU CALLING
00:09:34 THEM?
00:09:35 >> HELLO?
00:09:36 >> GABRIELLA.
00:09:39 >> YES K YOU HEAR ME.
00:09:40 >> YES GO AHEAD.
00:09:41 >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE I'M
00:09:45 GABRIELLA WITH THE AGENT LAW LINES,
00:09:48 AND ITEM 12 ASKED IT BE MOVED UP
00:09:51 AND HANDLES FIRST SO THE PUBLIC
00:09:53 MEMBERS PLANNING ON JOINING DON'T
00:09:55 HAVE TO WAIT FOR LATE INTO THE NIGHT.
00:09:57 >> OKAY. THANK YOU GABRIELLA.
00:10:02 COUNCILMEMBERS ANYBODY LIKE TO
00:10:04 TAKE THAT ON.
00:10:05 >> I LIKE TO MOVE THAT UP TO BEFORE
00:10:08 ITEM 5. ITEM 12 BE MOVED TO BEFORE
00:10:14 ITEM 5 AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR PUBLIC
00:10:15 HEARING.
00:10:16 >> I WILL SECOND THAT.
00:10:20 >> OKAY WHERE SHE A MOTION AND
00:10:22 SECOND TO MOVE THAT ITEM UP.
00:10:25 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:10:26 >> THANK YOU MAYOR. YES. I WOULD
00:10:28 JUST LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THIS IS
00:10:30 NOT CITY BUSINESS. WE HAVE RECEIVED
00:10:33 A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT POLITICAL
00:10:38 MATTERS BEING PUT BEFORE CITY
00:10:41 BUSINESS WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT
00:10:43 TONIGHT ON OUR CALENDAR A LOT OF
00:10:46 ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN CONTINUED
00:10:48 FROM MAY 4TH. AND MAY 25. I THINK
00:10:52 CITY BUSINESS SHOULD BE TAKEN
00:10:54 PRIORITY OVER POLITICAL POLITICS SO I WILL
00:10:57 NOT SUPPORT THE MOTION. THANK YOU.
00:10:59 >> THANK YOU. I'M SURE IT'S GOING TO
00:11:02 PASS I'M NOT GOING SUPPORT IT EITHER.
00:11:05 WE HAVE ITEMS TONIGHT. OBVIOUSLY,
00:11:08 PERSONAL POLITICAL ITEMS WILL GO FIRST.
00:11:11 ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO COMMENT ON
00:11:12 THIS? ALL RIGHT. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
00:11:16 VOTE TO MOVE THAT UP AHEAD OF ALL
00:11:19 OTHER CITY BUSINESS AND OTHER OTHER
00:11:23 BUSINESS.
00:11:24 >> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:11:25 >> NO.
00:11:26 >> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
00:11:27 >> YES.
00:11:28 >> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
00:11:29 >> YES.
00:11:30 >> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
00:11:31 >> YES AND YES.
00:11:32 >> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
00:11:33 >> YES.
00:11:34 >> COUNCIL MEMBER BECKER?
00:11:38 >> YES.
00:11:39 >> MAYOR GILLMOR.
00:11:40 >> NO. AND THAT PASSES 5 TO 2.
00:11:44 OKAY. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT. LET'S
00:11:51 TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS GENERAL.
00:11:53 BEFORE WE START OUR SPECIAL ORDER OF
00:11:55 BUSINESS I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT
00:11:57 TO TWO OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS HERE IN
00:12:00 SANTA CLARA. ONE IS THE SANTA CLARA
00:12:01 HIGH SCHOOLBOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL
00:12:05 TEAM IN THE PLAY OFFS THAT ONE THEIR
00:12:08 DM DIVISION, WE WILL BE RECOGNIZING
00:12:11 THEM LATER THIS MONTH THEY ARE
00:12:13 PLAYING PALO ALTO. AT 7 O'CLOCK I WANT
00:12:19 TO WISH THE COACH AND THE BOYS
00:12:22 BASKETBALL TEAM REPRESENTING OUR
00:12:24 CITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT. WISH THEM
00:12:26 GOOD LUCK. THEY MADE IT SO FAR GO
00:12:30 SANTA CLARA HIGH. ALSO WILCOX HIGH
00:12:33 SCHOOL WON THEIR FIRST PLAY OFF GAME
00:12:36 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND I
00:12:38 ATTENDED THEY WILL PLAY HILLSDALE
00:12:41 TONIGHT TO THE WILCOX TEAM AND
00:12:48 COACH MALOY GOOD LUCK TONIGHT. WE
00:12:51 HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING I TO BE AT
00:12:55 BOTH OF THOSE OR HALF AND HALF. GOOD
00:12:57 LUCK. WE WILL MOVE TO ITEMS OF
00:12:59 BUSINESS THE FIRST ITEM WE HAVE ON
00:13:02 THE YOUTH COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR
00:13:04 FISCAL YEAR 20 AND 21. AS A SPECIAL
00:13:07 ORDER OF BUSINESS THIS EVENING, THE
00:13:09 CITY COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE
00:13:11 SEVEN OUTGOING MEMBERS OF THE
00:13:13 YOUTH COMMISSION. SINCE IT'S
00:13:15 INCEPTION IN 1995, THE 15 MEMBER
00:13:19 YOUTH COMMISSION HAS PROVIDED A
00:13:21 YOUTH PERSPECTIVE AND VOICE AS WELL
00:13:23 AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIC
00:13:26 ENGAGEMENT SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
00:13:28 TRAINING THAT SUPPORT AND ACTIVE AND
00:13:30 HEALTHY YOUTH POPULATION SO YOUTH
00:13:33 COMMISSION STAFF LIAISON JOHN
00:13:37 KAWATA IS WITH US THIS EVENING. HE
00:13:38 WILL PRESENT THE SEVEN OUTGOING
00:13:41 MEMBERS JOHN I SAW YOU ON HERE A
00:13:43 LITTLE BIT AGO.
00:13:44 >> I AM HERE.
00:13:45 >> WELCOME JOHN.
00:13:46 >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING MAYOR
00:13:50 GILLMOR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CITY
00:13:53 STAFF WITH US TONIGHT AS MAYOR
00:13:54 GILLMOR SAID I'M STAFF LIAISON TO THE
00:13:57 YOUTH COMMISSION COMMISSION. IT'S
00:13:58 MY PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE SEVEN
00:14:00 OUTGOING YOUTH COMMISSIONERS THIS
00:14:02 EVENING, WE APPRECIATE THE SERVICE
00:14:06 THAT I HAVE TO THE COMMUNITY AND
00:14:08 WISH THEM THE BEST AS THEY CONTINUE
00:14:10 SERVICE AND EDUCATION FIRST IS
00:14:13 ADRIANNE KRIVOKAPIC-ZHOU WHO
00:14:14 GRADUATED FROM SANTA CLARA HIGH
00:14:16 SCHOOL AND HAS SERVED THREE TERMS
00:14:18 ADRIANNE WILL BE ATTENDING CAL
00:14:21 BERKELEY. COLIN LIM GRADUATED FROM
00:14:26 BASIS SILICON VALLEY WILL BE ATTENDING
00:14:29 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY KAYLA PHAN
00:14:34 GRADUATES FROM SANTA CLARA AND
00:14:36 SERVED FOUR TERMS WILL BE ATTENDING
00:14:39 FULLERTON. CONSIDER KAVYA SRIRAM
00:14:57 AND SMRITHI SURESH NA NA WILL BE
00:15:01 ATTENDING PITZER COLLEGE AMY ZUO
00:15:05 GRADUATED AND SERVED TWO TERMS
00:15:07 AMY WILL BE ATTENDING RICE UNIVERSITY
00:15:10 SO OUR OUTGOING COMMISSIONERS WE
00:15:14 WILL COORDINATE A TIME TO GET
00:15:16 CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION TO THEM AS
00:15:18 WELL AS WE HAVE HOPEFULLY YOU CAN
00:15:21 SEE THIS, WE HAVE LAWN SIGNS FOR
00:15:23 THEM.
00:15:24 >> WE CAN'T SEE THEM. WAIT TRY THAT
00:15:26 AGAIN JOHN. TRY THAT AGAIN. I WANT TO
00:15:28 SEE THOSE OH, WELL.
00:15:36 >> WE WILL TAKE PICTURES INTO THE
00:15:38 NEWSLETTER FOR EVERYBODY. AGAIN
00:15:40 THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE
00:15:42 CITY OF SANTA CLARA IT IS VERY MUCH
00:15:44 APPRECIATED THANK YOU MAYOR AND
00:15:46 COUNCILMEMBERS.
00:15:47 >> LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND OF
00:15:49 APPLAUSE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
00:15:51 SERVICE. TO HEAR ABOUT SOME OF
00:15:52 THOSE COLLEGES THAT IS IMPRESSIVE I'M
00:15:55 PROUD OF OUR YOUTH COMMISSIONERS
00:15:56 AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND WISH
00:15:58 THEM LUCK IN COLLEGE I THINK THEY'LL BE
00:16:03 WELL PREPARED THOSE THEY HAVE DONE
00:16:05 SUCH WONDERFUL WORK AND THANK YOU
00:16:07 FOR THE WONDERFUL WORK YOU HAVE
00:16:09 DONE FOR THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA ON
00:16:11 THE YOUTH COMMISSION, WE ALL VERY
00:16:13 MUCH APPRECIATE IT. SO, NEXT, WE
00:16:15 HAVE.
00:16:20 >> MADAME MAYOR?
00:16:22 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE HAS HER
00:16:23 HAND UP.
00:16:24 >> GO AHEAD.
00:16:25 >> THANK YOU JOHN FOR SHARING THAT
00:16:29 I KNOW THE YOUTH COMMISSION HAS
00:16:31 DEFINITELY HAD TO MAKE SOME
00:16:32 CHANGES THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVE I
00:16:36 HAVE SEEN POSTINGS ACTIVITIES THEY
00:16:39 ARE PARTICIPATING IN I NOTICED THE
00:16:41 PARKS AND RECK HAVE BEEN POSTING
00:16:44 PICTURES OF THE STUDENTS THAT WORK IN
00:16:45 THE DEPARTMENT UP ON THE CITY
00:16:47 WEBSITE. I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST
00:16:49 MAYBE TAKING PICTURES OF THE YOUTH
00:16:54 COMMISSIONERS WITH THE SIGNS UP
00:16:55 AND POSTING ON THE WEBSITE SINCE WE
00:16:57 COULDN'T SEE THE SIGNS AS WELL. LIKE
00:17:00 TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM WITH THE SIGN
00:17:02 AS WELL. THANKS FOR DOING THAT WITH
00:17:04 THE SIGN.
00:17:05 >> I DO, TOO. I THINK THAT IS A
00:17:08 WONDERFUL IDEA.
00:17:10 >> WE WILL CERTAINLY DO THAT.
00:17:12 >> NEXT IS SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS
00:17:14 THIS EVENING THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD
00:17:16 LIKE TO CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDED
00:17:17 REAPPOINTMENT OF EIGHT MEMBERS
00:17:19 AND SEVEN NEW MEMBER
00:17:20 APPOINTMENTS AND TWO ALTERNATE
00:17:23 APPOINTMENTS TO THE YOUTH
00:17:26 COMMISSION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021
00:17:32 AND 22. AND TURNOVER AGAIN TO JOHN.
00:17:34 AND SHARE THE CANDIDATES ELIGIBLE
00:17:37 FOR REAPPOINTMENT AND THE
00:17:38 RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES TO FILL
00:17:41 VACANCYS AND ALTERNATES JOHN TAKE
00:17:43 IT AWAY AGAIN.
00:17:45 >> THANK YOU ON MARCH 27TH AND
00:17:49 APRIL 3RD, '26 CANDIDATES INTERVIEWED
00:17:53 FOR THE YOUTH COMMISSION.
00:18:05 [INAUDIBLE] FISCAL YEAR 21-22 TERM.
00:18:09 YOUTH COMMISSIONERS CITY OF SANTA
00:18:12 CLARA RESIDENTS 12 TO 19 AND MAY
00:18:15 SEVEN UP TO 6, 1 YEAR TERMS FOR THE
00:18:19 COUNCIL I LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE
00:18:20 RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES AND
00:18:22 ELIGIBLE RETURNING MEMBERS FOR THE
00:18:25 UPCOMING TERM UPCOMING
00:18:30 CANDIDATES ARE MITCHELL BLANDA,
00:18:33 KAITLYN BUTCHER MATT CUPERTINO HIGH
00:18:38 SCHOOL. MALIA MARTIN, HIRANYA
00:18:51 PAREKH AND SAMARTH SURESH 8TH
00:18:56 GREAT. RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES
00:19:00 ARE FATIMAH ISMAIL WILCOX HIGH
00:19:02 SCHOOL AND KIRA LIANG CUPERTINO.
00:19:05 RETURNING YOUTH COMMISSIONERS
00:19:06 RECOMMENDED FOR REAPPOINTMENT
00:19:09 ARE AARVA GUPTA 10TH GRADE COLLEGE
00:19:14 PREP ENTERING THIRD TERM. AHMAD
00:19:20 ISMAIL WILCOX HIGH SCHOOL. THIRD
00:19:22 TERM. JASMINE KELLY-TANTI SANTA
00:19:24 CLARA HIGH SCHOOL. 4TH TERM.
00:19:25 KHADEEJAH KHAN 10TH GRADE SANTA
00:19:28 CLARA HIGH SCHOOL. SECOND TERM.
00:19:30 RAJVI KHANJAN SHROFF 11TH GRADE
00:19:32 CUPERTINO HIGH SCHOOL SECOND TERM.
00:19:37 RIYA MEHTA 12TH GRADE SECOND
00:19:40 TERM. PALAK PARIKH WILCOX HIGH
00:19:43 SCHOOL SECOND TERM. AND SARAH
00:19:46 ZUO. 10TH GRADE CUPERTINO HIGH
00:19:48 SCHOOL ENTERING SECOND TERM. THOSE
00:19:50 ARE THE CANDIDATES BRINGING FORTH TO
00:19:53 MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
00:19:54 >> THANK YOU JOHN. I LOVE TO SEE
00:19:56 THAT THE COMMISSIONERS ARE SERVING
00:19:57 MULTIPLE TERMS. THAT MEANS THEY'RE
00:20:00 ENJOYING THEIR TIME ON THE
00:20:01 COMMISSION AND WANT TO CONTINUE
00:20:03 SO, I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS A WONDERFUL
00:20:06 SIGN SO THANK YOU FOR REUPPING YOUR
00:20:09 COMMITMENT TO THE CITY WE REALLY
00:20:12 APPRECIATE IT. SO, I WOULD NEED NOW
00:20:14 FROM OUR CITY COUNCIL A MOTION TO
00:20:18 RECOMMEND REAPPOINTMENT OF EIGHT
00:20:20 COMMISSIONERS, AND THE
00:20:22 APPOINTMENT OF SEVEN NEW
00:20:24 COMMISSIONERS AND TWO ALTERNATIVE
00:20:26 APPOINTMENTS COUCILMEMBER
00:20:29 BECKER.
00:20:30 >> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THAT MOTION.
00:20:31 >> SECOND.
00:20:32 >> MOTION AND SECOND BY
00:20:33 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY. IS THERE
00:20:34 ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SAY
00:20:36 ANYTHING? I'M EXCITED FOR OUR NEW
00:20:39 COMMISSION. ALL RIGHT. ASSISTANT CITY
00:20:42 CLERK ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE?
00:20:47 >> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:20:48 >> YES.
00:20:49 >> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
00:20:53 >> YES.
00:20:54 >> COUNCIL MEMBER HARDY.
00:20:58 >> YES.
00:20:59 >> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
00:21:00 >> YES.
00:21:01 >> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
00:21:02 >> YES.
00:21:03 >> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
00:21:04 >> YES.
00:21:05 >> MAYOR GILLMOR.
00:21:07 >> THAT YES THAT PASSES
00:21:09 UNANIMOUSLY THANK YOU JAMES
00:21:15 TEIXEIRA WITH THE YOUTH
00:21:16 COMMISSIONERS WITH THE BRIGHT
00:21:17 MINDS AND ACTIVITIES WE HOPE THEY
00:21:20 WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE MORE IN
00:21:22 THE UPCOMING TERM.
00:21:43 >> THANK YOU THIS EVENING. I'M
00:21:46 PROUD TO ANNOUNCE. THIS IS LESBIAN,
00:21:47 GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND
00:21:50 QUEER LGBTQ + PRIDE MONTH.
00:21:52 PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO
00:21:54 RECOGNIZE THE IMPACT THAT LGBTQ +
00:21:58 INDIVIDUALS HAVE HAD ON OUR NATION'S
00:22:01 IDEALS OF EQUALITY AND FREEDOM AND
00:22:04 TO HONOR THE 1969 STONEWALL RIOTS ON
00:22:09 JUNE 28, 1969. PATRONS OF THE
00:22:12 STONEWALL INN IN NEW YORK CITY TOOK
00:22:15 A STAND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY
00:22:17 AND STAGED AND UPRISING TO RESIST
00:22:21 POLICE HARASSMENT AND PURSE
00:22:24 CUSHION TO WHICH LGBT INDIVIDUAL
00:22:28 WERE COMMONLY SUBJECTED TO AT THAT
00:22:30 TIME. THE STONEWALL RIOTS MARKED
00:22:32 THE BEGINNING OF THE LGBT CIVIL
00:22:35 RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO OUT LAW
00:22:37 DISCRIMINATORY LAWS AND PRACTICES
00:22:40 AND PAVE THE WAY FORWARD TOWARDS
00:22:43 LGBTQ + EQUALITY AND FOREVER
00:22:46 CHANGE THE COURSE OF SOCIAL MODERN
00:22:48 MOVEMENTS DURING PRIDE MONTH, WE
00:22:50 HONOR THE RESILIENT SPIRIT AND
00:22:53 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LGBTQ +
00:22:55 INDIVIDUALS WHOSE PERSONAL
00:22:57 SACRIFICES AND DETERMINATION WERE
00:23:01 INSTRUMENTAL IN THE STRUGGLE FOR
00:23:03 EQUALITY FOR ALL. LAST WEEK, WE RAISED
00:23:05 THE RAINBOW FLAG OVER SANTA CLARA
00:23:09 CITY HALL, THAT IS JUST LAST FRIDAY. I
00:23:11 KNOW ONLINE, YOU CAN SEE A VIDEO OF
00:23:14 THAT CEREMONY. THE RAINBOW FLAG WILL
00:23:19 FLY OVER SANTA CLARA THROUGH THE END
00:23:20 OF JUNE TO HONOR. LGBTQ + PRIDE
00:23:24 MONTH. I LIKE TO INTRODUCE I HOPE
00:23:26 SHE'S HERE WAITING, GABRIELLE
00:23:34 ANTOLAVICH AT THE PRIDE FLAG RAISING
00:23:39 CEREMONY FOR FIVE YEARS WE HAD OUR
00:23:42 FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY GABRIELLE. AND
00:23:51 [INAUDIBLE] THIS YEAR. I HEAR HER
00:23:53 LAUGHING GABRIELLE HAS BEEN A FIERCE
00:23:58 I SAY FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR ADVANCING
00:24:01 LGBTQ + AND HAS LED THE
00:24:04 IMPLEMENTATION OF A VARIETY OF
00:24:05 PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF
00:24:07 THE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY. I LIKE TO
00:24:10 INVITE. BILLY BOARD PRESIDENT AND
00:24:14 GABRIELLA PRESIDENT. THANK YOU VERY
00:24:20 MUCH.
00:24:21 >> THANK YOU. CAN YOU SEE ME?
00:24:22 >> YES, WE CAN SEE YOU.
00:24:24 >> AND I HAVE LAST YEAR'S
00:24:26 PROCLAMATION.
00:24:27 >> I HAVE THIS YEAR'S.
00:24:28 >> ISN'T THAT FUNNY.
00:24:29 >> AND I HAVE THE FLAGS YOU GAVE
00:24:31 ME. I HOPE YOU CAN SEE THEM. I SAW
00:24:40 THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PROCLAMATION
00:24:43 YOU HAVE GIVEN ME TO HAVE THIS
00:24:46 HORRIBLE DISTANCE TO PASS IT ON IT'S
00:24:49 GREAT THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER.
00:24:51 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
00:24:53 PROCLAMATION RAISING THE FLAG AND
00:24:55 INCLUDING THE BILLY DEFRANK CENTER.
00:24:59 WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 40TH
00:25:04 ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR. IT'S SO HARD.
00:25:06 WE HAVE TO HAVE WALKS AND PARTIES
00:25:08 A BIT LATER IN THE YEAR WHEN WE CAN
00:25:10 PARTY BETTER. YOU KNOW IT'S BEING A
00:25:14 HARD TIME. HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE?
00:25:17 AND ALSO, THE MIX OF MINORITIES THAT
00:25:23 HAVE HAD A LOT OF HATE THROWN AT
00:25:26 THEM, THE CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE
00:25:31 AND MINORITIES YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A
00:25:39 DIFFICULT TIME TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT
00:25:41 WHAT DO WE DO? AND MY FEELING IS
00:25:46 AS LEADERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND
00:25:52 YOU AS LEADERS OF THE CITY WHAT IS
00:25:57 IMPORTANT IS THAT WE WORK TOGETHER
00:25:59 TO BRING BETTER CONVERSATIONS TO THE
00:26:02 TABLE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH
00:26:07 THE CLASHES. I'M NOT VERY HAPPY WITH,
00:26:13 YOU KNOW, DEFUND THE POLICE OR
00:26:15 EVERYTHING IS FINE. YOU KNOW? IT'S
00:26:19 NOT THAT TOO SEPARATE PIECES. IT'S
00:26:23 MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT.
00:26:27 AND SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH
00:26:31 SAN JOSE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH
00:26:33 THE CADETS COME TO THE BILLY
00:26:38 DEFRANK CENTER WHEN WE'RE OPEN TO
00:26:41 WELCOME TO LGBTQS TALK ABOUT WHO
00:26:44 WE ARE AND IT'S A WAY OF DEVELOPING
00:26:46 THAT RELATIONSHIP. YOU KNOW? IT'S NOT
00:26:48 LIKE A QUICK FIX BUT IT CERTAINLY IS
00:26:52 HAVING AN IMPACT ON POLICING US AS
00:26:57 PEOPLE AND US SEEING THEM AS
00:27:00 PEOPLE. SO, YOU KNOW IT'S NOT AS IF
00:27:06 ALL POLICE ARE THE SAME IT'S NOT AS IF
00:27:08 ALL MINORITIES ARE THE SAME. YOU
00:27:11 KNOW? IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN IN A
00:27:17 ONE ON ONE RELATIONSHIP YOU KNOW
00:27:19 HOW COMPLICATED THAT IS. YOU CAN
00:27:21 IMAGINE COMMUNITIES TRYING TO HAVE
00:27:23 RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER, IT'S
00:27:25 VERY HARD AND I AM CONSTANTLY
00:27:27 LOOKING AT PLEASE, LET'S WORK
00:27:29 TOGETHER. LET'S LISTEN TO EACH OTHER,
00:27:32 WE HAVE ALL BEEN BETRAYED BY YOU
00:27:40 KNOW OUR COUNTRY, OUR EMPLOYERS
00:27:42 OUR PARENTS OUR BEST FRIENDS, OUR
00:27:44 PARTNERS AND LET'S NOT TAKE IT OUT ON
00:27:48 EACH OTHER. LET'S LISTEN TO EACH
00:27:50 OTHER'S PAIN AND HURT AND MOVE
00:27:56 FORWARD TOGETHER NOT THROW IT AWAY
00:27:58 BUT REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND REALLY
00:28:00 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON?
00:28:02 BECAUSE THE HEALING OF AMERICA IS
00:28:03 THE HEALING BETWEEN US ON THIS LEVEL.
00:28:11 YOU KNOW? WE HAVE TO YOU KNOW I
00:28:15 CITY CITY COUNCILS HAVE DONE A REALLY
00:28:19 GOOD JOB IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
00:28:22 DIFFERENT CITIES HAVE BEEN DOING
00:28:23 AMAZING JOBS. SO, I AM ALWAYS
00:28:27 REALLY HAPPY. ESPECIALLY WITH YOU IN
00:28:30 SANTA CLARA CITY, WORK WITH YOU, YOU
00:28:31 KNOW. YOU GOT A GREAT POLICE CHIEF,
00:28:32 YOU KNOW. YOU HAVE A BIG AND HARD
00:28:35 JOB SO I APPLAUD EVERY AFFECT YOU
00:28:39 MAKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVERY PIECE
00:28:41 OF THE COMMUNITY AND I AM SO
00:28:43 HAPPY THAT WITH ALL THE BIG ISSUES
00:28:45 THAT HAVE HAPPENED THE LAST YEAR,
00:28:47 YOU HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THE LGBTQ +
00:28:50 COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:28:52 IT'S SO EASY TO SAY, HEY, THIS YEAR,
00:28:55 WE GOT THIS ON OUR SHOULDERS, AND
00:28:58 YOU HAVEN'T DONE THAT SO I'M REALLY
00:29:03 HAPPY ABOUT THAT. IF YOU EVER WANT
00:29:06 TO HAVE A TOUR OF THE CENTER WE'RE
00:29:10 NOT THAT FAR AWAY WE'RE ON THE
00:29:16 ALAMEDA AND 11,000 SQUARE FEET.
00:29:19 WE HAVE A LOT OF GROUPS THAT COME
00:29:21 HERE, WE HAVE A LARGE SPACE WHERE
00:29:23 YOU CAN EVEN HAVE COMMUNITY
00:29:29 FORUMS IN OUR SPACE BECAUSE WE
00:29:31 WELCOME ALLIES WELL WE WELCOME THE
00:29:36 ALLIES LIKE US. I GUESS THAT IS
00:29:39 DEFINITION OF AN ALLEY. IT'S VERY
00:29:43 IMPORTANT WE KNOW WHO EACH OTHER
00:29:46 ARE AND HAVE EACH OTHER'S BACK. I
00:29:49 THINK THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. HAPPY
00:29:51 PRIDE HOWEVER EVERYONE IS
00:29:53 CELEBRATING IT. I'M REALLY HAPPY TO BE
00:29:57 HERE. MUAH! THANK YOU.
00:30:00 >> THANK YOU GABRIELLE AND THANK
00:30:02 YOU FOR BEING WITH US FROM THE
00:30:04 BEGINNING OF OUR FLAG RAISING AND
00:30:06 HONORING THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE
00:30:07 WOULD EVER FORGET WE'RE INCLUSIVE OF
00:30:10 A COMMUNITY AND THANK YOU. YOU
00:30:12 ARE PART OF OUR TRADITION NOW AS I TOLD
00:30:15 YOU AT THE FLAG RAISING YOU ARE NOW
00:30:17 EXPECTED HERE EVERY JUNE TO DO THIS
00:30:24 FOR US. MANY WILL TAKE YOU UP ON THE
00:30:28 OFFER OF THE TOUR OF THE BILLY DEFRANK
00:30:32 CENTER. I WANT TO PRESENT YOU WITH
00:30:34 THIS. THIS PROCLAMATION WE WILL MAKE
00:30:36 SURE YOU GET IT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL
00:30:38 HONORING PRIDE MONTH. BUT THANK
00:30:40 YOU FOR YOUR UP BEAT AND YOUR
00:30:41 WONDERFUL NICE AND HEALING WORDS
00:30:45 FOR US, THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO HEAR
00:30:47 RIGHT NOW. SO, THANK YOU FOR JOINING
00:30:49 US AND NEXT YEAR WILL BE IN PERSON.
00:30:54 WE APPRECIATE IT. ANTHONY DID YOU
00:30:56 WANT TO SAY SOMETHING?
00:30:59 >> YES. SURE. ABSOLUTELY. THANK
00:31:01 YOU MAYOR FIRST OFF, THANK YOU TO ALL
00:31:04 OF MY COLLEAGUES BEING THERE ON
00:31:06 FRIDAY. THANK YOU FOR MAYOR GILLMOR
00:31:09 FOR REACHING OUT AND STARTING THIS
00:31:10 PROCESS. THANK YOU FOR MAYOR
00:31:13 GILLMOR FOR STARTING THIS FIVE YEARS
00:31:14 AGO. GETTING THIS GOING. I KNOW SHE
00:31:18 WASN'T ALONE ON THIS, SHE WAS A
00:31:19 CHAMPION MANAGEMENT +
00:31:26 COMMUNITY AND I LOVE THE
00:31:27 BACKGROUND WITH THE THREE FLAGS THAT
00:31:29 IS GREAT. ADDS A LITTLE MORE COLOR. I
00:31:31 WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY
00:31:33 COLLEAGUES AGAIN. FOR BEING THERE.
00:31:36 ALL OF YOU AT THE SAME TIME PRIDE IS
00:31:38 NOT BORN TO CELEBRATE TO BE GAY,
00:31:44 QUEER IT EXISTS FOR THE RIGHT NOT
00:31:46 PROSECUTION THAT RIGHT IS FOR ME TO BE
00:31:54 ME AND YOU TO BE YOU AND US TO BE
00:31:57 US. THERE IS A LOT THAT PAVED THE WAY
00:32:00 HARVEY MILK AND KENN YAEGER THREE
00:32:06 AND SANTA CLARA COUNCILMEMBER
00:32:09 JAMIE MCCLOUD SHE'S THE REASON I
00:32:13 JUMPED INTO THE GAME HERE IN SANTA
00:32:15 CLARA. I KNEW THE PLAYERS LISA GILL
00:32:19 MOR I KNEW PATTY MAYHEM AND
00:32:23 MAKE LA MOORE THE PERSON I GOT TO
00:32:26 SHAKE HANDS WITH IS JAMIE MCCLOUD
00:32:29 AND GILLMOR THAT MONTH TO DO TODAY.
00:32:37 WHEN WE CELEBRATE AHEAD THE
00:32:44 LGBTQ + TO THE COMMUNITY. MENTAL
00:32:48 HEALTH AND DRUG ADDICTION THIS
00:32:50 RECENT WEEKEND COUNCILMEMBER
00:32:54 PARK AND I TOOK A TOUR OF THE SANTA
00:33:02 CLARA ENCAMPMENTS WHEN YOU SEE
00:33:05 THE REALITIES HOW GRATEFUL WE ARE TO
00:33:10 HAVE A SHOWER AND ROOF OVER OUR
00:33:12 HEAD THAT IS WHY I'M GLAD MY COUNCIL
00:33:15 COLLEAGUES AND I WERE THERE TO OPEN
00:33:17 UP THE COVENANT HOUSE WEEKS AGO
00:33:19 THE OLD WESTERN MOTEL SINCE THEN THE
00:33:22 COVENANT HOUSE IS FOR RUNAWAY
00:33:24 YOUTH A MAJORITY OF THEM ARE
00:33:27 LGBTQ + IDENTIFYING THAT'S A REALLY
00:33:29 GOOD THING TO SEE HERE IN OUR CITY
00:33:32 WE'RE STARTING TO REACH OUT AND THAT
00:33:35 WE'RE PROVIDING ACCESS TO SERVICES.
00:33:36 AND I THINK WE COULD DO A LOT MORE
00:33:38 AND I THINK WE CAN DO A LOT BETTER
00:33:41 LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE IS STILL
00:33:43 SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES AHEAD. BUT
00:33:46 THIS IS NOTHING NEW. HATE IS NOTHING
00:33:48 NEW. WE HAVE BEEN CHAMPIONING
00:33:50 FOR DECADES BUT MOST OF US ARE
00:33:53 LIVING IN A PAST TIME PARADISE AS
00:33:57 DEDE WONDER SAID SPENDING MOST
00:34:01 OF THEIR LIVING LIVING IN A PAST TIME
00:34:05 PARADISE THEY HAVE BEEN WASTING
00:34:09 THEIR DAYS IN REMEMBERANCE OF
00:34:11 IGNORANCE AND OLD AS PRAISE LET'S
00:34:13 START LIVING OUR LIVES AND START LIVING
00:34:16 FOR THE FUTURE. THAT'S WHY I'M PROUD
00:34:19 CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZES PRIDE MONTH
00:34:20 WE DO HAVE THE DIVERSITY EQUITY TASK
00:34:24 FORCE THIS IS A CITY ABOUT THE CENTER
00:34:26 OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE. I REJOICE WITH MY
00:34:29 COMMUNITY, REJOICE WITH MY COUNCIL
00:34:32 AS WE ROSE THAT FLAG ON FRIDAY, LET US
00:34:36 NEVER STOP REACHING FOR THAT RAINBOW
00:34:39 THANK YOU TO MAYOR GILLMOR AND CITY
00:34:41 COUNCIL AND FIRE AND POLICE CHIEF FOR
00:34:44 ATTENDING, TOO.
00:34:45 >> THANK YOU ANTHONY THANK YOU
00:34:48 GABRIELLE. PLEASURE HAVING YOU AND
00:34:51 SEE YOU SOON. ARE YOU LUCKY ON THE
00:34:53 BEGINNING OF THE AGENDA. VERY
00:34:56 LUCKY. ENJOY YOUR NIGHT.
00:34:57 >> THANK YOU ANTHONY.
00:35:00 >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THE NEXT
00:35:03 ITEM REHAVE IS VERBAL REPORT FROM
00:35:05 THE CITY MANAGER REGARDING
00:35:07 COVID-19 PANDEMIC. DEANNA.
00:35:09 >> HI. I WAS INSPIRED BY GABRY EL'S
00:35:13 BACKGROUND SUN OF LIGHT, HEALING
00:35:16 NATURE SUR ENTY AND SPIRIT. CERTAINLY
00:35:19 BROUGHT GOOD ENERGY GOOD EVENING
00:35:21 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. BEFORE I GET
00:35:23 STARTED WITH THE COVID UPDATE I
00:35:24 WANT TO SHARE TONIGHT. THIS IS
00:35:28 SIMRAT'S COUNCIL MEETING WITH US AS
00:35:30 YOU KNOW SHE HAS CONTRIBUTED SO
00:35:33 MUCH TO THE ORGANIZATION AND BEEN
00:35:35 A PILLAR FOR THE CITY CLERK OFFICE AS
00:35:37 WELL AS THE CITY ITSELF. SIMRAT WORKED
00:35:41 OF COURSE, THE PA SYSTEM TO
00:35:42 STRENGTHEN IT AND OVERALL AGENDA FOR
00:35:45 PUBLIC MEETINGS SHE HAS WORKED
00:35:47 TIRELESSLY DURING COVID TO ENSURE
00:35:50 CONTINUED AS WE MOVED QUICKLY TO
00:35:52 CONDUCT THEM VIA ZOOM. WE ARE
00:35:54 GOING MISS SIMRAT AND
00:35:59 CONTRIBUTIONS, WE WISH HER THE BEST
00:36:00 ON THE NEXT CHAPTER I PERSONALLY
00:36:03 THANK YOU HER SO MUCH AND KNOW
00:36:04 YOU WILL BE INCREDIBLY MISSED AND
00:36:06 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE.
00:36:08 >> I WANT TO SAY THAT, TOO. I'M NOT
00:36:11 GOING TO LET HER OUT THE DOOR TONIGHT.
00:36:13 >> I'M OKAY WITH THAT.
00:36:14 >> I DON'T WANT TO SEE HER GO I'M
00:36:16 GOING TO CRY. SHE'S DONE INCREDIBLE
00:36:19 WORK FOR US I HAVE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND
00:36:21 WHAT YOU HAVE DONE AND WE REALLY
00:36:23 APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR
00:36:26 THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA SIMRAT AND
00:36:30 WILL BE VERY MUCH MISSED I KNOW I
00:36:32 WILL MISS YOU VERY MUCH THANK YOU
00:36:34 FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR US.
00:36:36 BEST WISHES FOR WHERE EVER YOU GO,
00:36:41 WE WILL BE WITH YOU IN SPIRIT. THANK
00:36:42 YOU. CITY MANAGER?
00:36:44 >> SURE TO THE STATUS UPDATE ON THE
00:36:46 COVID-19 PER GOVERNMENT CODE
00:36:50 SECTION 8630. REGARDING THE YELLOW
00:36:53 TIER COVID DATA CONTINUES TO TREND
00:36:56 FAVORABLY AND SANTA CLARA REMAINS
00:36:58 THE LEAST RESTRICTED YELLOW TIER OF THE
00:37:00 STATE'S BLUEPRINT FOR SAVER
00:37:03 COMMISSIONER IKEZI. COVID TEST
00:37:05 POSITIVITY RATES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS
00:37:08 REMAIN STABLE AND YESTERDAY THE
00:37:11 ROLLING AVERAGE OF NEW COVID
00:37:13 CASES IS 25 AND THE COVID TEST
00:37:15 POSITIVITY RATE IS .4% NEW DAILY
00:37:19 COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE BEEN
00:37:20 IN THE SINGLE DILIGENTS SINCE
00:37:24 MAY 13TH. WE ARE LOOKING FOR TO
00:37:26 JUNE 15TH. WHEN THE GOVERNOR'S
00:37:28 BLUEPRINT WILL GO AWAY AND WILL FULLY
00:37:32 REOPEN THE COMMISSIONER IKEZI
00:37:34 THROUGH CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA WILL
00:37:35 REMAIN THOUGH IN A STATE OF
00:37:36 EMERGENCY WITH STATEWIDE FOCUS ON
00:37:38 VACCINATIONS LAST WEEK THE
00:37:41 GOVERNOR'S OFFICE STATED THE
00:37:44 GOVERNOR WILL NOT RESCIND THE
00:37:47 PROVISION OF THE ACTED ORDER TORT
00:37:51 29-20 WHEN THE BLUEPRINT ENDS THIS
00:37:53 MEANS WE WILL CONTINUE HOLDING CITY
00:37:55 COUNCIL MEETINGS AND OTHER PUBLIC
00:37:56 MEETINGS IN THE SAME MANNER OF
00:37:58 ZOOM WITH THE SAME NOTICING
00:38:00 REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE BEEN
00:38:01 USING. THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE HAS
00:38:03 ASSURED US THEY WILL WORK TO PROVIDE
00:38:05 NOTICE TO AFFECTED STATE HOLDERS IN
00:38:10 ADVANCE OF PROVISION TO PROVIDE
00:38:12 STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES, AND
00:38:15 BOARDS THE NECESSARY TIME FOR
00:38:17 STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS, WE WILL
00:38:19 CONTINUE TO UPDATE THE PUBLIC AS WE
00:38:21 RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS
00:38:22 MATTER I'M IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH
00:38:24 COUNTY LEADERS AND OTHER CITY
00:38:26 MANAGERS AS WE ATTEMPT TO
00:38:28 NAVIGATE IN ALIGNMENT THE UPCOMING
00:38:31 CHANGES TOGETHER ALTHOUGH LEVEL OF
00:38:34 UNTY REMAINS OVER WHAT CHANGES WILL
00:38:37 INVOLVE. WHILE THE GOVERNOR
00:38:40 ANNOUNCED THE CDC GUIDELINES FOR
00:38:43 THOSE FULLY VAC NIECEED BY JUNE
00:38:46 515TH. THE CALIFORNIA OCCUPATION FOR
00:38:50 SAFETY AND HEALTH. RELEASED A
00:38:53 DIFFERENT STANDARD LAST WEEK THAT
00:38:55 REQUIRED FULLY VACCINATED EMPLOYEES
00:38:57 TO WEAR A MASK IF THEY ARE AROUND
00:39:01 UNVACCINATED PEOPLE IN THE
00:39:03 WORKPLACE THIS HAS BEEN
00:39:05 CONTROVERSIAL AND AN EXAMPLE OF
00:39:07 ISSUES WE ARE WORKING THROUGH. THE
00:39:09 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MET EARLIER
00:39:11 THIS AFTERNOON AND I WILL ASK LISA OUR
00:39:13 CHIEF EMERGENCY SERVICE OFFICER TO
00:39:15 PROVIDE ANY LATE BREAKING HIGHLIGHTS
00:39:18 FROM THAT MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE
00:39:20 EARLIER. IN TERMS OF VACCINATIONS
00:39:24 PROGRESS CONTINUES WITH
00:39:26 VACCINATEING OUR COMMUNITY THAT THE
00:39:27 SLIDESHOWS IF WE CAN JUST GET TO THAT
00:39:29 SLIDE. THE PERCENT OF RESIDENTS
00:39:31 COMPLETED AT LEAST ONE VACCINE
00:39:33 DOSE AS OF JUNE 7TH. ARE 12 AND
00:39:36 OLDER AT 77.6%. 51 AND OLDER 81.5%
00:39:43 AND THOSE RESIDENTS FULLY VACCINATED
00:39:45 AS OF JUNE 7TH. 12 AND OLDER IS 66.5
00:39:51 AND 50 AND OLDER 71.3. WE HAVE
00:39:55 MADE PROGRESS. NEXT SLIDE. THOSE
00:39:57 UNVACCINATED YOU CAN ATTEND DROP IN
00:40:00 APPOINTMENTS AND CONTINUE TO GO TO
00:40:02 SEC FREE vax.org OR CALL 211
00:40:08 RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR THOSE THAT
00:40:10 ARE SEEKING INFORMATION WITH RESPECT
00:40:12 TO VACCINES OR TESTING. IN TERMS OF
00:40:16 LIBRARY UPDATE HAVE SOME EXCITING
00:40:18 NEWS OVER THE PAST YEAR THE ACTIONS
00:40:20 OF ORDINARY PEOPLE TAKING ON
00:40:22 EXTRAORDINARY CHALLENGES HAS BEEN
00:40:24 INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US. IN RECOGNITION
00:40:27 OF EVERY DAY HEROES THE LIBRARY
00:40:30 CHOSE THE THEME HEROES READ HERE
00:40:33 FOR ANNUAL SUMMER READING
00:40:34 CHALLENGE THE PROGRAM WILL EXPLORE
00:40:36 AND INSPIRE THE KINDNESS EMPATHY
00:40:39 AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT SO MANY OF
00:40:41 OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE DISPLAYED THE
00:40:43 REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE NOW AND
00:40:45 PATRONS OF ALL AGES ARE ENCOURAGED
00:40:48 TO SIGN UP EXCITING ADDITION TO THE
00:40:51 SUMMER ACTIVITIES IS THE RESTORATION
00:40:53 OF BOOK MOBILE SERVICES ACROSS THE
00:40:56 CITY. WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH
00:40:58 PARKS AND REC. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
00:41:01 AND MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
00:41:03 COMMUNITIES THE BOOK MOBILE HAS
00:41:04 ESTABLISHED A FULL SCHEDULE OF STOPS
00:41:06 THIS SUMMER VISITING NUMEROUS
00:41:08 PARKS SCHOOLS MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
00:41:11 DEVELOPMENTS AND THE SENIOR
00:41:13 CENTER. NOT ONLY WILL PATRONS BE ABLE
00:41:15 TO SIGN UP FOR THE SUMMER READING
00:41:18 CHALLENGE AND NEW LIBRARY CARDS
00:41:19 DURING THESE VISITS THEY WILL BE ABLE
00:41:22 TO BOARD THE BOOK AND BROWSE FOR
00:41:28 MATERIALS AND CHALLENGE SINGING WITH
00:41:31 CODY IF THEY ARE UP FOR IT MAKING HIS
00:41:35 WAY AROUND TOWN. FOR MORE
00:41:36 INFORMATION TO VIEW OUR BOOK MOBILE
00:41:39 SCHEDULE YOU CAN VISIT THE LIBRARY
00:41:40 AND LIBRARIANS AT SANTA CLARA
00:41:45 ca.gov OR CALL US A CALL AT
00:41:54 408-609-2400. AND PASS IT.
00:41:56 [INAUDIBLE].
00:41:57 >> THANK YOU SANTANA AND
00:42:00 COUNCILMEMBERS UNDATE TO BOARD OF
00:42:05 SUPERVISORS FOR THE PANDEMIC WAS
00:42:06 THE SHORTEST PRESENTATION SO FAR AND
00:42:08 I WILL ALSO BE BRIEF. HEALTH OFFICER
00:42:12 SARAH CODY COUNTS ARE LOW THEY
00:42:16 MAY VARY UP AND DOWN SHE DOES NOT
00:42:18 EXPECT CASES TO SURGE UP BECAUSE
00:42:20 OF OUR VACCINATION RATES. THERE ARE
00:42:23 200 VACCINATION SITES IN THE COUNTY
00:42:25 RIGHT NOW INCLUDING RETAIL FORM SEAS
00:42:29 AND PRIVATE PHYSICIAN OFFICES AND
00:42:32 THESE SMALLER SITES WILL CONTINUE TO
00:42:33 INCREASE. FINALLY, SANTA CLARA HIGH
00:42:36 SCHOOL AT 3,000 BENTON STREET WILL
00:42:39 HOST VACCINATION CLINIC NEXT
00:42:44 JUNE 16TH. FROM 2 TO 7:00 P.M. THIS
00:42:49 CONCLUDES MY UPDATE.
00:42:51 >> THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER? ANY
00:42:55 ADDITIONAL.
00:42:56 >> WE'RE OPEN FOR QUESTIONS AND
00:42:58 TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH WE
00:43:00 WILL REVISIT WHETHER WE SHOULD
00:43:02 CONTINUE THE COVID UPDATES ON THE
00:43:05 COUNCIL MEETING.
00:43:06 >> THANK YOU. I THINK PEOPLE DO FIND
00:43:08 THEM HELPFUL EVEN IF THEY ARE SHORT
00:43:10 UPDATES BECAUSE OF WHAT IS
00:43:12 HAPPENING WITH THE STATE AND WITH
00:43:13 THE GOVERNOR WILL DO NEXT WEEK AND
00:43:16 EVERYTHING ELSE. VICE MAYOR
00:43:18 CHAHAL? I'M SORRY. COUNCILMEMBER
00:43:23 WATANABE. I HAVE A HARD TIME
00:43:24 SEEING THAT HAND. I OTHER APOLOGIZE
00:43:27 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
00:43:28 >> I TRIED TO MAKE IT A DIFFERENT COLOR
00:43:29 BUT THANK YOU CITY MANAGER AND
00:43:33 THANK YOU LISA. FOR THE UPDATES I
00:43:36 THINK THAT WAS THE SHORTEST REPORT WE
00:43:41 HAVE HAD IN OVER A YEAR THANK YOU
00:43:43 FOR THAT CITY MANAGER I DID NOTICE
00:43:45 DURING THE WEEK THAT THERE WAS
00:43:48 POSTING ON THE CITY WEBSITE ABOUT
00:43:50 THE SENIOR CENTER. GOING TO OPEN
00:43:54 WITH LIMITED SERVICE ON JUNE 14TH.
00:43:57 AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS I HAVE HAD
00:43:59 FOLKS ASKING SINCE YOU BROUGHT
00:44:01 ABOUT THE HEROES READ HEAR.
00:44:04 SUMMER READING PROGRAM I THINK
00:44:06 THAT'S A GREAT THEME. DO WE HAVE
00:44:08 ANY PLANS FOR OPENING UP OUR OWN
00:44:11 CITY LIBRARIES OR WAITING FOR THE
00:44:13 GOVERNOR'S ORDER?
00:44:14 >> OUR LIBRARIES RIGHT NOW ARE OPEN
00:44:17 FOR PICK UP SERVICES. I WILL ASK
00:44:20 CYNTHIA AS OF RIGHT NOW, I WILL DEFER
00:44:23 TO CYNTHIA IF THERE IS ANYTHING IN THE
00:44:28 LIBRARY PROFESSION AS THEY TALK
00:44:30 AMONG THEMSELVES AS THEY COME TO
00:44:33 A FULLER OPENING CYNTHIA?
00:44:35 >> GOOD EVENING, WE HAVE BEEN
00:44:37 MEETING WITH STAFF THE LAST TWO
00:44:39 WEEKS RESTORING SERVICES AND HOW TO
00:44:41 DO THAT SAFELY. WE HAD TWO STAFF
00:44:44 MEETINGS OUR GOAL IS TO OPEN
00:44:46 ANYONE A PHASED APPROACH TO MAKE
00:44:47 SURE WE ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH
00:44:51 WHATEVER ORDER COMES OUT. WE ARE
00:44:53 LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT COMES OUT
00:44:55 ON JUNE 14TH. PATRON SAFETY
00:44:58 PROTOCOLS AND MAINTAIN A SAFE
00:45:02 PROTOCOL FOR EVERYONE AND LOOK FOR
00:45:04 OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THE BOOK MOBILE TO
00:45:06 PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY
00:45:08 SO THEY FEEL THEY STILL HAVE ACCESS TO
00:45:10 LIBRARY SERVICES SO THE ACCESS TO THE
00:45:12 COMPUTERS, WE HAVE SOME BROWSING
00:45:14 OVER AT NORTH SIDE. WE ARE LOOKING
00:45:19 TO RESTORE SERVICES THE FIRST PHASE OF
00:45:25 RESTORATION IN JULY TO RETROFIT THE
00:45:30 LIBRARIES WE DID RECONFIGURING TO GET
00:45:33 READY FOR LOBBY SERVICE WE WILL HAVE
00:45:35 TO PUT EVERYTHING BACK BEFORE WE
00:45:37 CAN REOPEN. WE ARE WORKING VERY
00:45:39 HARD ON IT AND HOPE TO HAVE A PLAN
00:45:41 NOT TOO SOON AFTER JUNE 15TH.
00:45:44 >> GREAT. THANK YOU CYNTHIA.
00:45:46 >> THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
00:45:49 >> THANK YOU MAYOR THANK YOU LISA
00:45:55 FOR THE REPORT. IT'S A GOOD SIGN CASES
00:45:58 ARE VERY LOW. GOOD SIGN PEOPLE ARE
00:46:01 GETTING THEIR LIFE BACK ESPECIALLY THE
00:46:04 SOCIAL LIFE IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING
00:46:12 THANKS TO THE HEALTH WORKERS
00:46:14 EMERGENCY WORKERS WHO PLAYED AN
00:46:16 IMPORTANT ROLL TO WHERE WE ARE NOW.
00:46:18 THE VACCINATION RATE IS VERY HIGH.
00:46:23 THANK YOU TOWARDS THAT. AND THANK
00:46:28 CYNTHIA DUDLY FOR HER SERVICES FOR
00:46:30 THE CITY AND THE COUNCIL SHE HAS
00:46:32 BEEN A VERY DEDICATED WORKER AND
00:46:35 ALWAYS THERE TO HELP WHENEVER
00:46:36 NEEDED AND HANDS ON. AND I WISH
00:46:40 HER THE BEST OF LUCK AND OF COURSE,
00:46:43 WE WILL MISS HER. THANK YOU.
00:46:45 >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER
00:46:47 PARK?
00:46:48 >> YES. THANK YOU. I'D ALSO LIKE TO
00:46:52 SEND A HAND CONGRATULATIONS TO
00:46:55 SIMRAT IT'S SAD TO SEE PEOPLE LEAVE
00:46:58 IT'S NICE AND JOYFUL TO SEE THEM
00:47:00 MOVING FORWARD. THAT SAID, I WOULD
00:47:02 ALSO LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT EVEN
00:47:05 IF YOU ARE VACCINATED IT IS STILL
00:47:07 POSSIBLE TO CONTRACT THE VIRUS
00:47:10 BECAUSE YOU ARE VACCINATED YOU
00:47:12 MAY NOT GET ANY OF THE SYMPTOMS
00:47:14 AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANY ON OF THE
00:47:16 PROBLEMS THAT COME WITH
00:47:18 CORONAVIRUS BUT YOU ARE STILL
00:47:23 CONTAGIOUS AND ABLE TO TRANSMIT THE
00:47:25 VIRUS TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT
00:47:28 BE VACCINATED AS A FATHER WITH A
00:47:30 DAUGHTER IN AN EDUCATIONAL POD WITH
00:47:32 MANY OF THE MEMBERS ARE NOT
00:47:34 ELIGIBLE FOR VACCINATIONS IT'S BEEN
00:47:36 MADE VERY CLEAR TO ME WHEN OUR
00:47:38 SCHOOL HAD AN OUTBREAK HAD A
00:47:40 CORONAVIRUS OUT BREAK AND WE HAD
00:47:42 TO CLOSE DOWN FOR A COUPLE OF
00:47:46 WEEKS, EVEN THOUGH SOME PEOPLE
00:47:48 WERE VACCINATED SO AGAIN I DO
00:47:51 UNDERSTAND THE NEED THE DESIRE, THE
00:47:54 WANT TO GO BACK TO NORMAL. BE
00:47:58 AWARE THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE OUT
00:48:00 THERE, ELDERLY, PEOPLE WHO HAVE
00:48:02 COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEM AND
00:48:05 THE YOUNG WHO CAN CONTRACT THE
00:48:08 VIRUS FROM YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU
00:48:10 MAY NOT SHOW SYMPTOMS AND YOU
00:48:12 HAVE BEEN VACCINATED JUST REMINDER
00:48:14 THANK YOU.
00:48:15 >> THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER
00:48:17 ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT?
00:48:18 >> THAT IS IT. THANK YOU.
00:48:19 >> THANK YOU THAT WILL BRING US TO
00:48:21 OUR STUDY SESSION. ITEM 3. JOINT
00:48:24 STUDY SESSION REVIEW PROPOSED
00:48:27 2021 AND 22 AND 22-23. BY ENIAL
00:48:32 OPERATING FISCAL BUDGET AND 2021-22
00:48:37 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AND
00:48:39 PROPOSED 2021-22 MUNICIPAL FEE
00:48:42 SCHEDULE. CITY MANAGER.
00:48:43 >> THAT'S A MOUTHFUL.
00:48:44 >> I KNOW.
00:48:45 >> WE HAVE ABBREVIATED
00:48:48 POWERPOINT THAT SUMMARIZES THE BY
00:48:50 ENIAL BUDGET PROPOSALS AS WELL AS
00:48:52 BEGIN TO RESPOND TO COUNCILMEMBER
00:48:57 QUESTION I WILL PASS IT OVER TO KEN
00:48:59 AND HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AT
00:49:00 THE END. KENN?
00:49:01 >> THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER
00:49:03 SANTANA GOOD EVENING MAYOR CITY
00:49:08 KENN LEE OF FINANCE I APPRECIATE THE
00:49:11 OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO YOU THE
00:49:12 TWO-YEAR BUDGET AGAIN THIS EVENING.
00:49:14 THIS IS THE SECOND OUT OF THREE
00:49:15 CHECK INS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND
00:49:19 PROVIDES THE RESIDENTS AND PUBLIC
00:49:20 AND CITY COUNCIL INPUT ON THE BUDGET
00:49:23 AND FEEDBACK AS WE BRING FORWARD
00:49:26 RECOMMENDATIONS TOWARDS THE
00:49:27 JUNE 22ND ADOPTION. BEFORE I GET
00:49:29 STARTED, I DID WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
00:49:31 AGAIN THE WORK OAF BOTH THE BUDGET
00:49:34 TEAM AS WELL AS ALL OF THE CITY
00:49:35 DEPARTMENTS THE BUDGET IS A
00:49:37 COMBINE EFFORT AND THOUGHTS FROM ALL
00:49:40 OF THE CITY DEPARTMENTS REGARDING
00:49:43 RECOMMENDATIONS TO HELP SOLVE OUR
00:49:45 COVID INDUCED GAP SO HAVE MUCH
00:49:48 WANTED TO APPRECIATE WORK THAT'S
00:49:53 GONE INTO THE PROCESS. AS YOU ALL
00:49:55 KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN FACING
00:49:57 CHALLENGES AS A RESULT OF COVID
00:50:01 WITH THE VACCINATIONS, IN SUMMARY
00:50:04 THE BUDGET BEFORE YOU IS WHAT WE
00:50:06 CONSTITUTE RECOVERY BUDGET. THE
00:50:09 AGENDA HERE SHOWS THE FISCAL
00:50:11 UPDATE I WILL PROVIDE. SOME DETAILS
00:50:13 ON THE TWO-YEAR BUDGET. I WILL SPEND
00:50:15 SOME TIME RESPONDING TO BOTH THE
00:50:18 CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS THAT WERE
00:50:20 BROUGHT UP AT THE MAY 25TH BUDGET
00:50:23 STUDY SESSION. WITH OUR STRUCTURAL
00:50:26 DEFICIT SOME CONVERSATION AROUND
00:50:29 POTENTIAL REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES BOTH
00:50:30 IN THE SHORT TERM AND MEDIUM TERM
00:50:32 AS IT RELATES TO BALLOTS THEN REVIEW OF
00:50:36 OUR TIMELINE AND NEXT STEPS TO GET TO
00:50:39 A BUDGET FOR JULY 1ST.
00:50:44 WITH REGARDS TO FISCAL OUTLOOK COVID
00:50:47 SPURRED ABRUPT END TO ALMOST A 12-YEAR
00:50:50 EXPANSION THE LONGEST ECONOMIC
00:50:52 EXPANSION IN U.S. HISTORY THE PANDEMIC
00:50:55 LED TO RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN
00:50:58 UNEMPLOYMENT AND DECLINES IN ECONOMIC
00:51:00 ACTIVITY THAT IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE
00:51:03 UNEMPLOYMENT IS THE MAIN DRIVER WITH
00:51:06 REGARDS TO A LOT OF OUR ECONOMICALLY
00:51:08 SENSITIVE REVENUES THAT SUPPORT CITY
00:51:11 SERVICES THE IMPACTS ACROSS THE SECTORS
00:51:16 WERE UNEVEN WE HAVE SEEN THAT
00:51:17 BUSINESS TO BUSINESS TRAVEL AND TOURISM
00:51:21 HAS BEEN IMPACTED SIGNIFICANTLY. WE
00:51:24 KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN HARD IMPACTS ON
00:51:26 OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES RESTAURANTS AND
00:51:28 SERVICES AND SO AS THE VACCINE IN
00:51:31 RECOVERY OCCUR, WE LOOK FORWARD TO
00:51:35 IMPROVING ACROSS ALL SECTORS THIS
00:51:42 RESPONSE IN RECOVERY WILL REQUIRE A WELL
00:51:45 PACED AND STRATEGIC APPROACH SOLVING
00:51:50 BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS IS PART TWO OF
00:51:53 MULTIPHASE STRATEGY TO RESOLVE THE DEFICIT
00:51:57 WE ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE
00:51:59 STIMULUS DOLLARS THROUGH THE FEDERAL
00:52:03 GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT LOCAL
00:52:04 GOVERNMENTS THROUGH COVID-19. WITH
00:52:06 REGUARDS TO GROWTH AND RECOVERY
00:52:09 FORECAST DOES ASSUME RECOVERY AND
00:52:12 WE'RE EXPECTING THAT STARTING THE LATTER
00:52:13 HALF OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. THIS
00:52:18 SLIDESHOWS TEN-YEAR FORECAST MAY BE
00:52:21 FAMILIAR TO THE PUBLIC NOW. THIS IS A
00:52:23 MODEL WE HAVE SHOWN AT LEAST THE LAST
00:52:26 SEVERAL YEARS IN THE FIRST COLUMN THERE,
00:52:28 THAT BAR CHART SHOWS DEFICIT UP
00:52:34 $42 MILLION AS I PRESENTED EARLIER THIS
00:52:37 YEAR WITH PHASE I REDUCTIONS IN MARCH
00:52:39 THAT WERE APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL THAT
00:52:42 HAD SHRUNK THAT DEFICIT TO $29 MILLION.
00:52:45 SO, WITH THE BUDGET BEFORE YOU WE DO
00:52:50 PRESENT TWO-YEAR BALANCED BUDGET WITH A
00:52:53 COMBINATION OF APPROACHES I WILL TALK
00:52:57 ABOUT. AS WE LOOK AHEAD TO YEAR THREE
00:53:01 WE ARE FACING $14.6 MILLION DEFICIT IN THE
00:53:05 OUT YEARS SOME ADDITIONAL WORK THAT WILL
00:53:07 CONTINUE THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS.
00:53:21 WITH REGARDS TO TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX
00:53:24 THIS IS THE THIRD LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE.
00:53:27 SO, AS I HAVE SPOKE ANYONE THE PAST
00:53:30 CURRENTLY TRACKING DOWN ALMOST 90% AND
00:53:33 SO, FOR ANY ORGANIZATION WHEN YOU HAVE
00:53:35 YOUR THIRD LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE DROP
00:53:38 90% THAT IS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON OUR
00:53:41 ABILITY TO CONTINUE THE CAPACITY WE HAVE
00:53:46 HAD IN THE PAST. WE HAVE LISTENED TO
00:53:49 ECONOMISTS THROUGHOUT THE REGION AND
00:53:52 WHILE MANY EXPECT A STRONG RECOVERY
00:53:54 STARTING IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR,
00:53:56 WITH ARE GUARDS TO OUR HOTELS AND
00:53:59 TOURISM ON A NATIONAL LEVEL THE FORECAST
00:54:03 FROM CBRE WE RETURN TO PRECOVID
00:54:08 LEVELS IN 2024. THOSE GAINS ARE
00:54:12 EXPECTED TO VARY FROM CITY TO CITY BASED
00:54:14 ON THE TYPE OF TOURISM AND DRAW WITH
00:54:20 REGARDS TO TRAVEL WITH SANTA CLARA OUR
00:54:23 PROJECTIONS IS REACH PRECOVID LEVELS BY
00:54:28 2026 AND THE LOSS AND CAPACITY
00:54:31 THROUGHOUT THE TEN YEARS OF THE FORECAST.
00:54:32 AS A RESULT, SOME OF THE DISCUSSION
00:54:36 AROUND OUR TOT, TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY
00:54:40 TAX THE VOTERS DID PASS A BALLOT IN
00:54:43 NOVEMBER 2020 MEASURE E WITH 74%
00:54:47 APPROVAL RATING TO HELP MAINTAIN AND
00:54:49 PROTECT OUR CITY SERVICES ALLOWING FOR UP
00:54:51 TO 4% RATE CHANGE IN THE TOT IF WE
00:54:59 FOCUS ON THE NUMBERS IN THE UPPER LEFT
00:55:02 ORANGE CHART HERE. WE HAVE HAD
00:55:04 CONVERSATION WITH REGARD TOSS
00:55:06 RECOMMENDING 2% OF THAT 4% AND
00:55:10 PRECOVID THAT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT
00:55:12 FORWARD 3-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF
00:55:14 ADDITIONAL REVENUE TO THE GENERAL FUND
00:55:16 RIGHT NOW, WITH CURRENT PROJECTIONS FOR
00:55:18 NEXT YEAR, THAT'S ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THE
00:55:20 NUMBERS WOULD BE PRECOVID AND SO,
00:55:23 OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR COUNCIL'S
00:55:29 CONSIDERATION IS FOR STAFF TO BRING FORWARD
00:55:31 THE ORDINANCES IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE
00:55:36 JANUARY 1ST, 2022, IMPLEMENTATION OF
00:55:38 THIS TAX. INTO SOME OF THE SPECIFIC
00:55:45 NUMBERS AND TWO-YEAR DETAILS FOR THE
00:55:48 BUDGET AS I MENTIONED BALANCES SHORTFALL
00:55:52 OF $29 MILLION COMBINES NEW REVENUES I
00:55:56 MENTIONED THE STIMULUS RECOMMENDS
00:55:58 ADDITIONAL FEES. INCLUDES EXPENDITURE
00:56:03 REDUCTIONS I WILL TALK ABOUT IN DETAIL AND
00:56:05 SIGNIFICANT USE OF OUR ONE TIME RESERVES
00:56:08 WE HAVE BUILT UP OVER THE LAST SEVERAL
00:56:10 YEARS DURING THE GOOD TIMES IT BALANCES
00:56:14 COMPETING GOALS OF ALIGNING BOTH THE
00:56:16 REVENUES AND EXPENSES AND PROTECTING
00:56:19 KEY SERVICE CENTERS CORE CITY SERVICES
00:56:23 WILL REMAIN HIGH WITH BUDGET INCLUDES
00:56:26 INVESTMENT IN MANY OF THE KEY STRATEGIC
00:56:29 PILLARS OF THE CITY COUNCIL THIS BALANCING
00:56:31 EFFORT IS PART OF A MULTIPHASED APPROACH
00:56:35 TOWARD THE BUDGET AS WE'VE MONITORED
00:56:38 ACTUAL DATA WITH REGARDS TO OUR REVENUES
00:56:41 AND RECOVERY, WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT
00:56:43 THE DATA AND ALLOW THAT TO INFORM OUR
00:56:47 RECOMMENDATIONS AS WE GO FORWARD. ON
00:56:54 THIS SLIDE I WANTED TO SHOW THE SPECIFIC
00:56:56 LANGUAGE IN OUR FEDERAL STIMULUS BILL THAT
00:56:59 DOES ALLOW FOR AND SUGGEST THAT DOLLARS
00:57:02 BE USED TO HELP OFFSET REVENUES LOST
00:57:04 DURING COVID. SO, THIS BUDGET
00:57:06 RECOMMENDS $26 MILLION OF STIMULUS
00:57:09 FUNDS ARE USED TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
00:57:14 THAT WOULD GIVE US TIME TO MONITOR THE
00:57:16 RATE OF OUR ECONOMIC RECOVERY AS ACTIVITY
00:57:21 VACCINE ALLOWED INCREASES IT ALSO ALLOWS
00:57:24 US TO ADDRESS THE GENERAL FUND SHORTFALL
00:57:27 WITHOUT MAKING ADDITIONAL CUTS THAT
00:57:29 WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN REQUIRED.
00:57:32 SO, WHEN I BROUGHT FORWARD THE PHASE I
00:57:35 STRATEGY IN MARCH IT HAD MORE SIGNIFICANT
00:57:39 CUTS THAN WHAT'S IN THE BUDGET TODAY AND
00:57:42 THE LAST BULLET HERE WITH REGARDS TO ONE
00:57:45 TIME FUNDS RECOMMEND THE USE OF
00:57:48 17-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF THE
00:57:49 BUDGET STABILIZATION RESERVE AS WELL AS
00:57:52 3.2 MILLION OF OUR LANDS RESERVE. ON THIS
00:57:56 SLIDE I WANTED TO REMIND JUST THE MAKEUP
00:57:59 OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET. YOU WILL SEE
00:58:01 ON THE RIGHT THE CHART SHOWS THAT OUR
00:58:03 NON-DISCRETIONARY DOLLARS THESE ARE
00:58:06 EXPENDITURES WHERE WE HAVE NO CONTROL
00:58:08 OVER THEM AS A CITY. REPRESENT ALMOST
00:58:11 ONE-THIRD OF OUR GENERAL FUND PIE THE
00:58:18 REMAINING 2/3 IN THE DARK AND LIGHT BLUE
00:58:22 IS WHAT IS AVAILABLE OR OPEN ANYONE
00:58:24 TERMS OF SOLVING OUR STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.
00:58:26 SO, PHASE II, THIS PROPOSED BUDGET
00:58:28 INCLUDES ELIMINATION OF 17 ADDITIONAL
00:58:32 VACANT POSITIONS AS A RESULT OF STIMULUS
00:58:35 AND THE BALANCED APPROACH, THERE ARE NO
00:58:38 LAY OFFS OR BUMPING OF POSITIONS INCLUDED
00:58:41 IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET NO SWORN
00:58:44 POSITIONS PROPOSED FOR ELIMINATION FOR
00:58:48 THIS BUDGET AND GENERATING ON GOING
00:58:50 SAVINGS OF $5 MILLION, WHEN YOU COMBINE
00:58:52 THAT WITH THE PROPOSALS INCLUDE IN PHASE
00:58:55 I, OVER 60%, $18 MILLION IN SAVINGS,
00:58:59 ABOUT 43% OF OUR BUDGET OR 10% OF THE
00:59:03 DEPARTMENT'S DISCRETIONARY BUDGET WHEN
00:59:06 YOU LOOK AT THAT 2/3 OF THE PIE THAT IS ON
00:59:10 THE RIGHT. ON THIS SLIDE, AS FAR AS THE
00:59:14 APPROACH TO SOME OF THE PROPOSALS, THIS
00:59:16 IS IN REFERENCE TO A LOT OF OUR PARKS AND
00:59:19 RECREATION PROGRAMS. WE DID CONSULTANT
00:59:25 WITH THE MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE
00:59:28 CONSULTANT EARLY IN THE YEAR PART OF OUR
00:59:32 APPROACH HERE IS TO FOCUS ON AREAS OF
00:59:34 SERVICES AND PROGRAMS WHERE THE
00:59:36 COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS THE LARGEST AND SO
00:59:39 THOSE WITH LIMITED DOLLARS, ARE FOCUSED ON
00:59:43 THAT AND THOSE AREAS WHERE THE
00:59:46 INDIVIDUAL RECEIVES THE BENEFIT, WE ARE
00:59:49 RECOMMENDING ADJUSTMENT TOSS THOSE
00:59:50 PROGRAMS AND FEES OVER THIS BUDGET
00:59:53 PERIOD AND WILL PLAN TO BRING FORWARD
00:59:57 MUCH MORE DETAILED DISCUSSION WITH
00:59:59 REGARDS TO PARKS FEES AND COST RECOVERY
01:00:03 LATER IN THIS FISCAL YEAR. THE BUDGET ALSO
01:00:13 WITH PARK FEES CLOSE SUBSIDIES IDENTIFIED
01:00:17 IN THE PAST TO THE TUNE OF 500,000 IN YEAR
01:00:20 TWO OF THE BUDGET BALANCING STRATEGY AND
01:00:22 OTHER REVENUE IDEAS AND OPTIONS I WILL
01:00:25 TALK AROUND TEXT MEASURES AS WELL AS
01:00:28 COST REDUCTIONS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR
01:00:30 FUTURE BUDGET BALANCING APPROACHES
01:00:33 SOME OF THE NUMBERS I WON'T READ OFF
01:00:41 EVERY NUMBER ON THE SCREEN I WANTED TO
01:00:44 FOCUS ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET OVER A
01:00:46 BILLION DOLLARS ACTIVITIES PROGRAMS
01:00:49 INCLUDING SUPPORT UTILITY THAT MAKEUP 2/3
01:00:53 OF THAT PIE THE GENERAL FUND FOR PUBLIC
01:00:59 SAFETY PARKS AND SERVICES THAT THE PUBLIC
01:01:02 IS USED TO AND SEEING IN A VERY HIGH LEVEL
01:01:05 SO THE BUDGET DOES INCLUDE BOTH
01:01:08 STIMULUS DOLLARS AS WELL AS SHIFTING OVER
01:01:13 DEDICATED FUND DOLLARS TO A NEW FUND
01:01:16 THEN ON JUNE 22ND, WE WILL INCLUDE
01:01:19 ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING
01:01:21 OUR CAPITAL FUNDS AS THOSE PROJECTS
01:01:24 CONTINUE FROM FISCAL YEAR TO FISCAL YEAR
01:01:28 SO THOSE APPROPRIATIONS WOULD BE
01:01:29 AVAILABLE JULY 1ST WITH THOSE ACTIONS I
01:01:32 ANTICIPATE THE BUDGET TO BE $1.2 BILLION
01:01:39 ACTIVITY. FROM POSITION LEVEL FTE FUNDED
01:01:43 POSITION COUNTS IS DOWN 5% BETWEEN THE
01:01:46 CURRENT FISCAL YEAR AND PROPOSED BUDGET
01:01:49 YEAR. SO, OVER THE TWO PHASES, PHASE I
01:01:52 AND PHASE II, THE 60 POSITIONS OFFICE SET
01:01:56 BY FIVE POSITIONS THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE
01:01:59 ADDED THROUGH NON-GENERAL FUND SOURCES
01:02:01 AROUND THE BUILDING AND SVP PROGRAMS.
01:02:08 I WANT TO SPEND SOME TIME ON THIS SLIDE
01:02:11 THAT REPRESENTS OUR BUDGET BALANCING
01:02:14 OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS WITH REGARD
01:02:15 TOSS OUR FOE CAST AS I MENTIONED EARLIER
01:02:18 PROJECTED DEFICIT GOING INTO PROPOSED
01:02:21 BUDGET DEFICIT $29 MILLION ACTIONS INCLUDE
01:02:24 IN THE BUDGET OFFSET THAT SHORTFALL TO THE
01:02:27 TUNE OF $6.3 MILLION ON ONGOING OBESE
01:02:31 SIS THROUGH EXPENDITURE REDUCTIONS AND
01:02:35 ADDITIONAL REVENUE IT CLOSES REMAINING
01:02:37 GAP USING FEDERAL STIMULUS DOLLARS
01:02:42 BUDGET STABILIZATION RESERVE OFFICE SET BY
01:02:46 TRANSFER OF SPECIAL LIABILITY FUND THAT GETS
01:02:48 US TO A BALANCE BUDGET THE FIRST YEAR.
01:02:50 WHEN YOU START THAT $22.7 MILLION OF THAT
01:02:53 ON GOING DEFICIT WAS SOLVED WITH ONE TIME
01:02:56 ACTIONS, THAT NUMBER CARRIES OVER TO THE
01:02:59 NEXT YEAR USING A SIMILAR APPROACH WITH
01:03:01 REGARDS TO NEW REVENUES, USE OF
01:03:04 RESERVES, WE GET TO A TWO-YEAR BALANCE
01:03:08 BUDGET LEADING INTO A THIRD YEAR WITH A
01:03:12 $14.6 MILLION DEFICIT. SO, CONTINUED WORK
01:03:16 OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS WITH REGARD
01:03:19 TO REVENUES, AND/OR EXPENDITURE CONTROLS
01:03:22 WILL BE NEEDED. FROM DEPARTMENT BY
01:03:28 DEPARTMENT LOOK AT IT AGAIN A LOT OF
01:03:29 NUMBERS HERE I WANT TO FOCUS US TO THE
01:03:32 BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER ON AVERAGE
01:03:36 10.2% OF GENERAL FUND DISCRETIONARY
01:03:41 BUDGET IS REDUCED THROUGH BOTH PHASE I
01:03:43 AND PHASE II. THE FOCUS HERE IS WITH THE
01:03:46 HIGH EMPHASIS TOWARDS OUR PUBLIC SAFETY.
01:03:50 FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENT REFLECT LOWER
01:03:53 THAN OUR AVERAGE CUT AND THE SUPPORT
01:03:58 DEPARTMENT CITY MANAGER IT AND HR
01:04:01 REPRESENTING THE HIGHER CUTS THE
01:04:04 REDUCTIONS REFLECT THE HIGH PRIORITY WITH
01:04:08 REGARD TOSS OUR SERVICES AND ESSENTIAL
01:04:10 SERVICES THE BUDGET INCHEWEDS CAPITAL
01:04:16 BUDGET AMENDMENTS THIS IS TWO-YEAR
01:04:18 OPERATING BUDGET WE DO BRING FORWARD
01:04:20 ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET AS PART
01:04:23 OF THESE ACTIONS AND SO ON THIS SLIDE,
01:04:25 SOME OF THE CHANGES RECOMMENDED
01:04:27 INCLUDE INVESTMENTS IN OUR FIRE
01:04:31 DEPARTMENT, EQUIPMENT AND ASSESSMENT
01:04:34 TOWARD THE TRAINING TOWER. PARKS PROJECTS
01:04:37 AROUND MAY WOOD PARK THERE WAS A
01:04:42 GRANT. AND SCHMID PLAYGROUND COVID
01:04:50 IMPROVEMENTS AS WE MOVE TO HYBRID
01:04:53 ENVIRONMENT ANTICIPATED NEEDS FOR SOME
01:04:55 DOLLARS CONUATION OF THE GROWTH PLAN FOR
01:04:58 SILICON VALLEY POWER ELECTRIC UTILITY. AS
01:05:01 WELL AS GRANT FUNDINGS AROUND STREETS
01:05:03 AND HIGHWAY FOR BIKE LANE PROJECT. THE
01:05:06 GENERAL FUND ALSO INCLUDES SOME
01:05:08 REVENUE CHANGES THAT ARE LISTED HERE ON
01:05:11 THIS SLIDE. I WON'T GO OVER EVERY ONE I
01:05:14 WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THEY WILL.
01:05:16 ONE IT DOES INCLUDE A TRANSFER OF FUNDS
01:05:19 FROM SILICON VALLEY POWER GREENHOUSE
01:05:23 GAS DOLLARS TO COVER FLEET REPLACEMENT
01:05:26 OVER THE NEXT 2-AND-A-HALF YEARS THIS IS A
01:05:28 WIN/WIN WITH REGARDS TO GENERAL FUND
01:05:30 SAVINGS AND ADVANCING OUR
01:05:33 SUSTAINABILITY. THE BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES
01:05:34 FEE ADJUSTMENTS ACROSS ALL THE MUNICIPAL
01:05:38 FEES AND LIMITED NUMBER OF NEW FEES
01:05:43 WITH REGARDS TO AREA WHERE COST RECOVERY
01:05:45 HAS NOT YET BEEN ACHIEVED. WITH REGARD
01:05:51 TO BUDGET STABILIZATION RESERVE DROPPED
01:05:54 TO 15% OF THE BUDGET APPROXIMATELY
01:05:57 SEVEN WEEKS OR SO OF OPERATIONS SO
01:06:01 THAT'S $40 MILLION. THIS IS DIRECTED AND
01:06:05 ALLOWED FOR BY THE CITY COUNCIL AS PART OF
01:06:10 THE PRIORITY RETREAT IN FEBRUARY. LAND SALE
01:06:13 RESERVE. USE OF $3.2 MILLION AND THE
01:06:18 CAPITAL PROJECTS ON THE LAST SLIDE TO FUND
01:06:22 THOSE SPECIFIC PROJECTS 4.2 MILLION
01:06:25 REMAINING A VERY MODEST AMOUNT
01:06:28 REMAINING AS WE CENTER INTO THE TWO-YEAR
01:06:30 CAPITAL BUDGET NEXT YEAR. I WANT TO SPEND
01:06:34 SOME TIME ON FOLLOW UP FROM OUR LAST
01:06:37 STUDY SESSION. SO, THIS SLIDE INCLUDES A
01:06:39 SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE FEEDBACK NOT A
01:06:42 FULL DETAIL, BUT STRONG FEED BACK WAS
01:06:48 GIVEN WITH REDUCTION TO THE ROBERTA
01:06:52 JONES THEATER HAPPY TO REPORT WITH THE
01:06:56 SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF PROVIDED FUNDING
01:06:59 OPTION TO RESTORE THAT PROGRAM. WE CAN
01:07:02 TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN THE PRESENTATION,
01:07:04 BUT WE DID WORK CLOSELY WITH THE PARKS
01:07:07 DEPARTMENT. WE LOOKED AT OUR FEES
01:07:10 CONSIDERED A PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE
01:07:13 ORGANIZATIONS AS AS WELL AS USE OF
01:07:20 RESERVES FOR THE COUNCIL TO RESTORE.
01:07:23 FUNDING NEEDS THE TRAFFIC RELATED
01:07:26 IMPACTS TDM THE TRAIN HORN NEWS
01:07:32 PROVIDE OPTIONS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO
01:07:35 CONSIDER. THERE WERE CONCERNS REDUCTION
01:07:37 TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY RELATED TO
01:07:39 SILICON VALLEY POWER THERE ARE QUESTIONS
01:07:43 AROUND THE MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE AS
01:07:45 WELL AS RESOURCES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
01:07:47 AND SOME FEEDBACK ON ADDITIONAL
01:07:50 REVENUES INCLUDING POTENTIAL BALLOT
01:07:53 INITIATIVE. THERE WAS A BROAD FEEDBACK
01:07:58 PROVIDED. IN RESPONSE TO THAT FEEDBACK IN
01:08:01 ATTACHMENT 3 TO THE DOCUMENT BEFORE
01:08:02 YOU, AS I MENTIONED FUNDING STRATEGY TO
01:08:03 RESTORE THEATER PROGRAM. FUNDING
01:08:05 SOURCES. RESPONSES AS WELL AS SOME
01:08:07 INFORMATION BASED ON QUESTIONS THAT
01:08:09 WERE ASKED. SO, HAPPY TO WALK THROUGH
01:08:16 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON THOSE QUESTIONS
01:08:18 STAFF ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT. WITH
01:08:24 REGARDS TO REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES THE FEE
01:08:26 SCHEDULE BEFORE YOU A QUICK SUMMARY
01:08:30 INCLUDES REVIEW OF THE FEES THAT ARE DONE
01:08:37 EVERY TWO YEARS WITH THE GOAL OF
01:08:39 MAINTAINING COST RECOVERY WHERE THE
01:08:43 COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS THE LARGEST THE
01:08:46 TRIANGLE I SHOWED EARLIER. SO, IN THESE IN
01:08:49 BETWEEN YEARS, WE ARE RECOMMENDING A
01:08:52 CPI INFLATIONARY FACTOR OF O1.72 FOR MOST
01:08:56 FEES. OTHER FEES DO HAVE OTHER EITHER
01:09:00 ENACTED LEGISLATION OR ADOPTED PHASING
01:09:02 APPROACHES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED IN
01:09:05 THE FEE SCHEDULE. THE FEES SCHEDULE DID
01:09:08 INCLUDE A HANDFUL OF NEW FEES WHERE
01:09:12 PREVIOUSLY THESE ACTIVITY OCCURRED
01:09:15 WITHOUT COST RECOVERY. LISTED HERE WITH
01:09:17 THE FOCUS AROUND STORM AND SOLID WASTE
01:09:21 PROGRAMS LATE FEES THEN SOME OF THE
01:09:24 OTHER FEES IN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
01:09:32 SINCE THE MAY 25 STUDY SESSION, WE
01:09:35 HAVE HAD AROUND A COUPLE OF FEE AREA I
01:09:37 WANT TO HIGHLIGHT. THE DOCUMENT BEFORE
01:09:39 YOU DOES INCLUDE TENNIS COURT FEES
01:09:43 BASED ON VENDOR RECOMMENDATIONS AND
01:09:46 PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT THOSE
01:09:48 FEES ARE REPRESENTED HERE A TWEAK
01:09:54 INCLUDING RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT FEES
01:09:56 FOR NON-PRIME AND PRIME TIME TENNIS
01:09:59 COURSE USE WORKING WITH OUR POLICE
01:10:00 DEPARTMENT AND UPDATE TO THE RATE FOR
01:10:03 THE TAXICAB AND PETTY CAB RENEWAL.
01:10:08 INITIALLY THAT WAS FIVE-YEAR FEE, WE
01:10:10 REVISED THAT LOWERED IT AND REFLECTED
01:10:13 ANNUAL AMOUNT. THAT IS BASED ON BOTH
01:10:18 RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR CONSULTANT AS
01:10:21 WELL AS POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE
01:10:22 COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE TO THE FEE STUDY
01:10:26 THAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS EVERY TWO YEARS,
01:10:29 THIS IS CURRENTLY IN PROCESS, WE WILL BRING
01:10:30 FORWARD ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
01:10:32 FOCUSED AROUND PARKS AND RECREATION
01:10:35 COST RECOVERY FEES AFTER ENGAGEMENT
01:10:38 WITH OUR COMMITTEES, OUR STAKEHOLDERS
01:10:41 AND AS WELL AS INPUT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL
01:10:44 AS PART OF THESE STUDY SESSIONS. WITH
01:10:48 REGARDS TO OUR BALLOT MEASURES AND
01:10:51 BUSINESS TAX THE COUNCIL EXPRESSED
01:10:54 INTEREST IN REVIEWING AND UPDATING
01:10:56 MODERNIZING BUSINESS LICENSE TAX AS
01:11:00 POTENTIAL REVENUE SOURCE FOR THE
01:11:02 NOVEMBER 22ND ELECTION. SO, WE DID
01:11:04 INCLUDE SOME INFORMATION WITH REGARDS TO
01:11:06 THE BALLOT MEASURE THE STRUCTURE OF THE
01:11:10 TAX. THE TAX BASIS. WHETHER THE FOCUS
01:11:13 SHOULD BE A GENERAL TAX OR SPECIAL
01:11:18 PURPOSE TAX AND INFORMATION. SOME
01:11:21 BACKGROUND INFORMATION ALL BUSINESS
01:11:23 INCLUDING THOSE LOCATED INSIDE THE CITY AS
01:11:25 WELL AS THOSE OPERATING WITHIN THE CITY
01:11:28 MUST HAVE A BUSINESS LICENSE AND THAT
01:11:30 TAX IS OUTDATED. IT WAS LAST UPDATED IN
01:11:33 1992. RANGES FROM $15 TO $500 VERY LOW
01:11:38 COMPARED TO OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES
01:11:41 AROUND US. IT DOESN'T INCLUDE COST
01:11:44 ESCALATEER. AS TIME CONTINUES, WE ARE
01:11:47 LOSING CAPACITY AND VALUES FROM THOSE
01:11:50 TAX COLLECTIONS. CURRENTLY ABOUT 900,000
01:11:53 COLLECTED EVERY YEAR. SO, TO PLACE A
01:11:58 MEASURE ON THE NOVEMBER 22ND BALLOT
01:12:00 MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS WILL BE NEEDED
01:12:04 AROUND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS VOTER EDUCATION
01:12:08 POLLING AND BUSINESS OUT REACH AND SO
01:12:10 THE WORK PLAN DOES CONSIDER BRINGING
01:12:12 BACK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE COUNCIL
01:12:14 FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE FALL TIME FRAME OF
01:12:18 THIS YEAR. SO, WITH REGARDS TO THAT
01:12:22 TIMELINE HERE THE WORK PLAN INCLUDES
01:12:25 MULTIPLE STUDY SESSION WITH THE CITY
01:12:27 COUNCIL. TOWARDS THE END OF THIS YEAR,
01:12:29 BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR AND THEN IF THE
01:12:33 COUNCIL CHOOSES TO MOVE IN THAT
01:12:35 DIRECTION, THEN WE WOULD START WITH SOME
01:12:37 OF THE MORE DETAILED OUT REACH AND
01:12:42 DETERMINATIONS WITH THAT TARGET IN MIND.
01:12:45 SO, OUR RECOMMENDATION AS PART OF
01:12:47 COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION WITH THE BUDGET IS
01:12:50 TO DIRECT STAFF TO BEGIN WORK ON POTENTIAL
01:12:53 BALLOT MEASURES FOR NOVEMBER 22ND AND
01:12:57 AGENDISE STUDY SESSION LATER THIS YEAR
01:13:06 FOR A MEASURE FOR BUSINESS TAX LISTED THIS
01:13:10 YEAR THERE ARE OTHER MEASURES LISTED THAT
01:13:12 COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR NOVEMBER 2ND
01:13:13 TWOSOME OF THOSE INCLUDE EITHER UTILITY
01:13:17 USER TAX CHARTER LANGUAGE CLARIFICATION TO
01:13:22 SUPPORT. GIVEING SVP TRANSFER DOCUMENT
01:13:28 REAL ESTATE TAX. THIS IS A TAX APPLIED TO
01:13:31 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS AND TAXES AT THE
01:13:33 MINIMUM. CURRENTLY COULD BE CHARGED
01:13:35 AND WAY BELOW OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES.
01:13:38 AND THEN TO ADDRESS OUR OUR CAPITAL
01:13:42 INFRASTRUCTURE NEED POTENTIAL FOR GENERAL
01:13:46 OBLIGATION BOND OR PARCEL TAX. SO, THE
01:13:50 CITY COUNCIL WILL NEED TO CONSIDER OR
01:13:51 PRIORITIZE THE BALLOT MEASURES AS WE LOOK
01:13:55 AHEAD. THERE IS A LOT OF OPTIONS AND
01:13:59 PROBABLY LIMITED BANDWIDTH WITH TAX
01:14:04 MEASURES.
01:14:05 NEXT STEP HERE THIS IS THE SECOND CHECK
01:14:07 IN ON THE BUDGET STUDY SESSION FOR
01:14:09 FEEDBACK AND INPUT TO STAFF FROM THE CITY
01:14:14 COUNCIL AND OUR RESIDENTS. WE WILL
01:14:15 INCORPORATE ANY DIRECTION EITHER FEEDBACK
01:14:18 GIVEN TODAY AND/OR FORMAL DIRECTION INTO
01:14:23 THE ACTION ON JUNE 22ND THAT WILL INCLUDE
01:14:26 A PUBLIC HEARING AND SOME OF THE
01:14:29 TECHNICAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AGAIN LIMIT
01:14:32 REQUIRED TO HAVE A BUDGET ESTABLISHED
01:14:34 FOR JULY 1ST. WE WILL CHECK IN AGAIN ON
01:14:38 OUR PRIORITIES IN AUGUST BUT HERE BEFORE
01:14:41 YOU THE SECOND OF THREE CHECK INS. AND
01:14:44 SO, LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK HERE. WITH
01:14:48 REGARDS TO THE BUDGET THE TOT TAX
01:14:51 INCREASE THE FEE SCHEDULE, COST
01:14:54 RECOVERY, POLICY AS WELL AS POTENTIAL TAX
01:14:58 MEASURES. WITH THAT, I WILL PAUSE AND
01:15:01 STAFF IS AVAILABLE AS WELL AS MYSELF FOR
01:15:04 ANY QUESTIONS AND THANK YOU FOR
01:15:06 APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO TALK
01:15:08 ABOUT THE BUDGET
01:15:19 >> THANK YOU TO KENN AND STAFF TO
01:15:21 PUT THESE BUDGETS TOGETHER. IN THE
01:15:23 PAST, WE HAD BUDGETS THAT NOT
01:15:25 NEARLY LOOK AS UNDERSTANDABLE AS
01:15:27 THIS ONE DOES. THANK YOU FOR
01:15:29 CHANGING IT UP AND HELPING US REALLY
01:15:31 UNDERSTAND AND COMPREHEND WHAT
01:15:34 THE VERY COMPLEX--ISSUES OF THE CITY
01:15:42 BEFORE ANYBODY SAYS ANYTHING
01:15:47 NEGATIVE ABOUT THE BUDGET IT'S NOT
01:15:49 PERSONAL TO YOU. COUNCILMEMBER?
01:15:58 >> WE ARE IN A NEGATIVE WE ARE IN A
01:16:01 DEFICIT. THAT DIDN'T GO OVER VERY WELL.
01:16:05 KENN CAN YOU GO TO SLIDE 15
01:16:06 PLEASE? I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND JUST
01:16:17 TO CLARIFY THERE IS CONCEPT OF ON
01:16:20 GOING EXPENSES AND ONE TIME
01:16:22 ACTIONS. RIGHT? AND WE HAVE
01:16:43 TRANSFER TO LIABILITY FUNDS FOR
01:16:45 EXPENSES IT SEEMS LIKE THAT FUND GOT
01:16:48 DEPLETED WHAT I WANT TO KNOW ARE
01:16:50 OUR LEGAL EXPENSES HIGHER THAN
01:16:52 NORMAL OR IS THIS JUST KIND OF A 1-TIME
01:16:56 THING DUE TO CVRA? JUST KIND OF
01:16:59 WANTED TO UNDERSTAND.
01:17:00 >> YEAH. SO THANK YOU FOR THE
01:17:02 QUESTION COUNCILMEMBER JAIN. ON
01:17:05 THIS CHART: IT DOES REFLECT THE
01:17:09 CONCEPT OF ON GOING DEFICIT IN THE
01:17:13 PAST IN REGARDS TO THE SPECIAL LIABILITY
01:17:16 FUND THIS 5.2 REPRESENTS DOLLARS THAT
01:17:19 ARE BY PRACTICE, ALLOCATED IN THAT
01:17:22 FUND FOR POTENTIAL CLAIMS AND
01:17:25 JUDGMENTS AS WELL AS INSURANCE
01:17:27 COSTS THAT ARE EXPENDED OUT OF THAT
01:17:30 FUND THIS. IS ONE TIME TRANSFER TO
01:17:32 RESTORE FUNDING BASED ON PAYMENTS
01:17:36 THAT HAVE OCCURRED THIS YEAR.
01:17:40 >> I DON'T THINK WE'RE ABLE TO ANSWER
01:17:41 THE QUESTION IN TERMS OF IS IT HIGH OR
01:17:45 LOW? I SEE BRIAN HAS HIS HAND UP.
01:17:50 THAT WOULD TAKE RESEARCH AND
01:17:51 LOOKING AT COMPARABLE. OTHER
01:17:54 AGENCIES UNDERSTANDING LIABILITY. OF
01:17:56 COURSE, THERE IS A LOT OF
01:17:57 CIRCUMSTANCES THAT COULD HAVE
01:17:58 PEAKS AS WELL AS LOWS.
01:18:04 >> MAYOR IF I MIGHT.
01:18:05 >> YEAH. GO AHEAD.
01:18:06 >> THEY ARE NOT FOR LEGAL EXPENSES
01:18:08 THE EXPENDITURES OUT OF THIS FUND ARE
01:18:12 FOR COUNCIL APPROVED SETTLEMENTS
01:18:14 AND JUDGMENTS THAT COURTS HAVE
01:18:18 RENDERED. SO, THIS YEAR THIS IS
01:18:22 REPLENISHMENT TO THE FUND BASED
01:18:24 UPON THE FACT WE HAVE HAD
01:18:26 APPROVED SETTLEMENTS OUT OF THIS
01:18:28 THAT WERE PAID OUT OF THIS FUND. AND
01:18:31 KENN ARE SOME OF THESE FUNDS ALSO
01:18:34 AVAILABLE FOR THE INSURANCE
01:18:36 PREMIUMS?
01:18:37 >> THAT IS RIGHT. SO, THE ACTIVITY IN
01:18:38 THE FUND INCLUDES CLAIMS OUR
01:18:41 JUDGMENTS, SETTLEMENTS AS WELL AS
01:18:43 INSURANCE COSTS THAT THE CITY HAS.
01:18:47 FOR EXAMPLE, OUR PROPERTY
01:18:48 INSURANCE FOR CITY FACILITIES, THOSE
01:18:51 ARE EXPENDED OUT OF THE FUND AS
01:18:53 WELL.
01:18:54 >> SO I JUST DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE
01:18:55 PUBLIC THE IMPRESSION WE HAVE
01:18:57 SPENT $5.2 MILLION ON OUTSIDE
01:19:00 ATTORNEY'S IT'S THE LARGEST PART OF THE
01:19:04 PAYMENTS OUT OF THE FUND HAVE BEEN
01:19:06 COUNCIL APPROVED PAYMENTS FOR
01:19:09 SETTLEMENTS MOSTLY AS WELL AS THE
01:19:11 INSURANCE PREMIUMS.
01:19:13 >> I UNDERSTAND. IT'S A COMBINATION
01:19:16 OF I IMAGINE OUR OUTSIDE ATTORNEY FOR
01:19:20 CVRA WAS PAID OUT OF THIS.
01:19:26 >> AND THAT DID NOT OCCUR IN THIS
01:19:28 PAST YEAR SO VERY LITTLE OCCURRED OUT
01:19:30 OF THAT THIS PAST YEAR MOSTLY THE
01:19:36 SETTLEMENT AND JUDGMENT PAID TO THE
01:19:39 PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY'S AS WELL AS OTHER
01:19:40 SETTLEMENT APPROVED BY COUNCIL.
01:19:43 >> OKAY. SO I KNOW THAT WE--THERE
01:19:54 WERE SOME 1-TIME FUNDS I WAS
01:19:57 INTERESTED IN. PARTICULARLY AS WE ARE
01:20:01 OPENING UP FROM COVID WE ARE
01:20:03 SEEING TRAFFIC INCREASING, WE ARE
01:20:06 BUILDING 30,000 MORE HOUSING UNITS
01:20:08 IN THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA WHICH WILL
01:20:11 BRING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
01:20:13 TRAFFIC. I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT WE
01:20:19 HIRE A TDM CONSULTANT ONE TIME
01:20:22 FUND TO DO A STUDY OF HOW TO SET UP
01:20:26 TDM PLANS ESPECIALLY SINCE COUNCIL
01:20:32 AS PART OF IT'S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
01:20:35 DIRECTIVE GAVE DIRECTION TO REDUCE
01:20:42 VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED BY 20% GOING
01:20:44 FORWARD. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT
01:20:48 FOR US TO SPEND THE 1-TIME
01:20:50 CONSULTING MONEY TO GET THAT
01:20:52 CONSULTANT IN TO SET UP THE PLANS
01:20:55 THEN TO HOLD DEVELOPERS AND
01:20:57 PROJECTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE TRAFFIC
01:20:59 THAT THEY POUR ONTO OUR STREETS. SO,
01:21:06 I'M SUPPORTING THAT AND THAT WOULD
01:21:08 BE A ONE TIME EXPENDITURE. WE
01:21:10 COULD USE THINGS LIKE THE
01:21:12 STABILIZATION RESERVES OR SOME OF THE
01:21:14 RESERVES FOR ONE TIME EXPENDITURES.
01:21:19 THERE IS ALSO THE ISSUE OF TRAIN NOISE
01:21:21 WHICH I BROUGHT UP WHICH IS THAT WE
01:21:23 COULD ACTUALLY CREATE SOME QUIET
01:21:25 ZONES IN THE CITY SO WE WON'T HAVE
01:21:29 TRAIN HORNS BLOWING AT 1:30 IN THE
01:21:32 MORNING WE HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN A
01:21:34 NUMBER OF RESIDENTS COMPLAINING
01:21:36 ABOUT NOISE IN THE CITY. AND ONE
01:21:44 THING THAT I--ANOTHER ITEM THAT WAS
01:21:50 ON YOUR LIST WAS MONEY SPENT TO
01:21:53 START STUDYING CENTRAL PARK NORTH.
01:21:59 WE HAVE THIS 30 ACRES OF LAND WE
01:22:01 NEED TO START LOOKING AT AS WE'RE
01:22:04 ADDING MORE PEOPLE TO CREATE MORE
01:22:07 PARKS SO IT SEEMS WE SHOULD GET
01:22:08 STARTED ON THAT. THAT IS AGAIN ONE
01:22:11 TIME EXPENSE AND I BELIEVE THAT
01:22:12 MONEY WILL BE REPAID FROM THE
01:22:17 DEVELOPER. SO, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT
01:22:21 I'M PUSHING FOR AND THEN IN TERMS OF
01:22:23 THE MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE. WE'RE
01:22:27 IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS MAJOR DROUGHT
01:22:31 RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG
01:22:32 THIS IS GOING TO CONTINUE AND IT
01:22:36 SEEMS LIKE MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE
01:22:38 WE DON'T CHARGE DEVELOPERS FOR
01:22:41 RECYCLED WATER INFRASTRUCTURE. WE DO
01:22:43 CHARGE THEM FOR POTABLE WATER
01:22:45 INFRASTRUCTURE AND SEWER
01:22:48 INFRASTRUCTURE WITH YOU IT SEEMS TO
01:22:50 ME THAT RECYCLED WATER IS GOING TO
01:22:52 BE MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT GOING
01:22:55 FORWARD. SO, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
01:22:58 I'M INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT. THEN I
01:23:01 BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT NO SWORN
01:23:04 POSITIONS ARE CUT IN THIS BUDGET AND I
01:23:11 AM CONCERNED THOUGH ABOUT WITH
01:23:13 THIS DROUGHT, THE WILDFIRE HAZARDS
01:23:17 AND THE FACT THAT OUR FIREFIGHTERS MAY
01:23:20 BE CALLED TO FIGHT SOME WILDFIRES. I
01:23:24 DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A QUESTION FOR
01:23:26 YOU KENN OR FOR CHIEF RUBIN.
01:23:38 >> I CAN RESPOND TO THAT WITH
01:23:41 REGARDS TO WELL AND FIRES TYPICALLY
01:23:43 ARE EXPENSES THAT OCCURS AND
01:23:46 REIMBURSED THROUGH THE STATE OR
01:23:48 FEMA DEPENDING ON THE DISASTER
01:23:51 TYPICALLY THOSE DOLLARS REIMBURSED
01:23:53 WE BRING FORWARD TO THE COUNCIL TO
01:23:55 MAKE SURE THOSE ARE APPROPRIATED
01:23:56 AND FUNDED APPROPRIATELY. SO, THE
01:24:00 FIRE CHIEF DOES HAVE DISCRETION TO THE
01:24:02 EXTENT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE FOR
01:24:06 WILD LAND AND MUTUAL AID ACTIVITIES I
01:24:12 WILL START WITH THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF
01:24:13 CHIEF TORRES WAND WANTS TO ADD TO
01:24:18 THAT. OR WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE.
01:24:20 >> I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WE HAVE
01:24:24 RAY HERE JEREMY IF YOU WANT TO ADD
01:24:27 ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS.
01:24:29 >> SURE. THANK YOU
01:24:30 COUNCILMEMBER JAIN FOR THE
01:24:31 QUESTION. DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF. JEREMY
01:24:37 RAY, WE ARE ANTICIPATING ANOTHER
01:24:40 DIFFICULT SUMMER. WE WILL CONTINUE TO
01:24:42 RESPOND AND SEND MUTUAL AID
01:24:45 RESOURCES OUT TO FIGHT FIRES WHERE
01:24:47 EVER THEY OCCUR IN THE STATE OF
01:24:49 CALIFORNIA. AS KENN HAS SAID THOSE
01:24:51 ARE 100% REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES
01:24:57 PORTAL TO PORTAL WHICH BASICALLY
01:24:59 MEANS DOOR TO DEAR. WHEN WE
01:25:01 RETURN. THERE DOES START TO BE
01:25:03 IMPACT ON PERSONNEL AS WE HAVE
01:25:05 LOWER NUMBERS OF FULL TIME
01:25:07 FIREFIGHTERS THAN THERE ARE FEWER TO
01:25:09 WORK THE BACKFILL OVER TIME WHICH IS
01:25:11 ALSO REIMBURSED BUT TAKES A TOLL ON
01:25:16 OUR EMPLOYEES TO BE OUT. WE ARE
01:25:19 READY TO RESPOND AND DON'T SEE
01:25:22 ANYTHING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET
01:25:23 THAT WOULD PREVENT US FROM BEING
01:25:27 ABLE TO COME TO THE AID OF CALIFORNIA
01:25:28 IN ANY WAY I KNOW LAST YEAR ALONE,
01:25:31 WE HAD 714 WHAT WE WOULD CALL
01:25:35 DEPLOYMENT DAYS WHICH IS TOTAL
01:25:37 PERSONAL DAYS THAT WERE ON
01:25:39 DEPLOYMENT AS KENN SAID THAT IS
01:25:43 FULLY REIMBURSABLE.
01:25:45 >> THANK YOU. THAT IS ALL I HAD.
01:25:47 >> ALL RIGHT. VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
01:25:51 >> THANK YOU MAYOR. THANK YOU
01:25:54 KENN FOR THE REPORT. AGAIN EXCELLENT
01:25:56 JOB. I HAVE I HAVE A COUPLE OF
01:26:00 QUESTIONS THEN SOME COMMENTS
01:26:01 FIRST IS A QUESTION ON REACHING TOT
01:26:08 REVENUE TO PRECOVID LEVELS. I KNOW
01:26:11 YOU MENTIONED CVRA'S WILL REACH TO
01:26:15 THAT LEVEL IN 2024. THE CITY OF SANTA
01:26:19 CLARA WILL REACH THAT LEVEL IN 2026. IS
01:26:21 THERE A PARTICULAR REASON? BECAUSE
01:26:23 WE ARE IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION
01:26:25 WHERE SHE RECOLLECTS A CONVENTION
01:26:26 CENTER. WE HAVE A--STADIUM IS THERE
01:26:32 A REASON THAT GAP IS PROTECTING.
01:26:35 >> THANK YOU VICE MAYOR.
01:26:36 APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. SO, THE
01:26:38 CVRE PROJECTION IS A NATIONAL
01:26:42 PROJECTION ACROSS ALL TYPES OF
01:26:44 SECTORS WITH REGARDS TO TOURISM AND
01:26:46 HOTELS WITH REGARDS TO SANTA CLARA
01:26:49 WE'RE UNIQUE IN THE WAY OUR TOT IS
01:26:53 PREDOMINANTLY DRIVEN BY BUSINESS
01:26:58 TRAVEL SO AS WE HAVE SEEN ZOOM
01:27:02 OCCUR AND BECOME A NORMAL
01:27:03 PRACTICE IN BUSINESSES AS WE LOOK AT
01:27:07 THE ACTIVITIES IN OUR CITY COMPARED TO
01:27:09 OTHER CITIES WHERE THERE IS TOURISM
01:27:11 AND/OR INTERNATIONAL TYPE MARKET FOR
01:27:16 HOTELS, THOSE ARE AREAS WITH REGARDS
01:27:21 TO THE RECOVERY CBRE DOES STATE IT'S
01:27:26 NOT GOING TO BE EVEN ACROSS THE
01:27:29 DIFFERENT SECTORS WITH REGARDS TO
01:27:31 BUSINESS TRAVEL AND THE NATURE OF
01:27:34 TOT PROJECTIONS ARE THAT RECOVERY
01:27:36 WOULD TAKE SOME TIME AND JUST
01:27:40 SOME OF THE STATISTICS PRECOVID
01:27:42 WITH REGARDS TO OCCUPANCY, WE ARE
01:27:44 CLOSE TO 90% OCCUPANCY WITH
01:27:48 AVERAGE RUN RATE OF $300 A NIGHT.
01:27:52 THOSE ARE DRIVEN BY WEEKDAY
01:27:54 RENTALS BY BUSINESS BOTH
01:27:56 CONVENTIONS AND TRAVEL THE HOPE
01:27:58 HERE IS IT DOES RECOVER. PROJECTIONS
01:28:03 SHOW IN ALMOST 200 TO 250% FROM
01:28:06 CURRENT NUMBERS TO NEXT YEAR SO A
01:28:10 LOT OF THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN WITH
01:28:11 REGARDS TO DOORS OPENING
01:28:14 CONVENTION ACTIVITIES AS WELL AS
01:28:16 BUSINESS TRAVEL WE WILL CONTINUE TO
01:28:17 MONITOR THAT. WE DO THINK THERE IS
01:28:19 GOING TO BE SOME IMPACT FROM THE
01:28:21 ZOOM MEETINGS AND THE WAY
01:28:23 BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED AND RIGHT
01:28:25 NOW, IT'S A WAIT AND SEE APPROACH AS
01:28:28 WE LOOK AHEAD TO THAT ACTIVITY.
01:28:30 >> THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER.
01:28:31 BASICALLY IF I UNDERSTAND IT RIGHT THE
01:28:34 CBRE BEING NATIONAL IT TAKES INTO
01:28:36 ACCOUNT THAT TOURIST PLACES WHICH WE
01:28:39 ARE NOT BASICALLY. SO, ARE WE IN LINE
01:28:42 I'M NOT SURE YOU HAVE THAT
01:28:45 ANSWER--ARE WE IN LINE WITH OUR
01:28:46 NEIGHBORING CITY IN THE SAME
01:28:48 GEOGRAPHICAL AREA BASICALLY THEY ARE
01:28:51 PROJECTING IT TO REACH THE SAME LEVEL
01:28:53 BY 2026?
01:28:55 >> I DID TALK TO A COUPLE OF
01:28:57 NEIGHBORS MILPITAS PALO ALTO THOSE
01:29:04 NUMBERS ARE CONSISTENT WITH OUR
01:29:07 UNIQUE ABOUT PALO ALTO THEY HAVE
01:29:09 THE UNIVERSITY WHILE WE DO AS WELL, A
01:29:11 CERTAIN CLIENTELE TOT NUMBERS
01:29:15 ACROSS THE BOARD ARE FLAT AND
01:29:18 REMAIN VERY LOW, SO THE FINANCE
01:29:22 COMMUNITY IS VERY WELL KNIT HERE.
01:29:26 WE ARE TALKING TO EACH OTHER AS FAR
01:29:27 AS WHAT SEGMENTS OF REVENUES ARE
01:29:29 MOVING. NOT JUST TOT BUT SALES TAX
01:29:32 PROPERTY TAX AND SOME OF THE OTHER
01:29:34 SENSITIVE AREAS WITH REGARDS TO THE
01:29:37 RECOVERY SO PROJECTIONS ARE ROUGH
01:29:40 LIKE THAT.
01:29:41 >> OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT. ONE
01:29:45 REASON FOR ME ASKING THAT QUESTION
01:29:47 IF WE CAN DO ANYTHING FOR DMO TO
01:29:53 MOVE THAT YEAR TO 2025 THAT WOULD
01:29:56 HELP. THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER. I
01:30:00 HAVE SEVERAL COMMENTS TO MAKE.
01:30:02 I'M GLAD WE'RE NOT HAVING LAYOFFS
01:30:04 THAT IS PRETTY GOOD AND NO SHORN
01:30:06 POSITIONS ARE BEING LAID OFF THAT IS
01:30:08 ANOTHER GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AS
01:30:10 WELL AS OUR SAFETY DEPARTMENT AND
01:30:13 I'M TOUCHING BASE WITH
01:30:16 COUNCILMEMBER JAIN'S COMMENT
01:30:18 ABOUT FIRE DEPLOYMENT FOR FOR STATE
01:30:25 OR FEMA OR STATE REQUIREMENTS
01:30:27 BASICALLY. SO, WHEN WE GET THOSE
01:30:29 FUNDS, THEY ARE 100% DEDICATED TO
01:30:32 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. IT'S NOT THAT WE
01:30:34 CAN TAKE THOSE FUNDS AND REALLOCATE
01:30:38 TO OTHER DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ANY
01:30:41 WHERE ELSE OTHER THAN THE FIRE.
01:30:43 RIGHT?
01:30:44 >> CORRECT. WHEN WE DO SEND THE
01:30:45 FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL ON OVER
01:30:47 TIME OR WITH REGUARDS TO DEPLOYMENT
01:30:50 WE EXTEND THOSE COSTS THOSE ARE
01:30:52 INVOICED THROUGH THE STATE THROUGH
01:30:54 FEMA REIMBURSEMENT FIRE
01:30:56 DEPARTMENT IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH
01:30:59 REGARDS TO THE ROLES REGULATIONS THE
01:31:01 BACK UP THAT IS NEEDED IN ORDER TO
01:31:02 RECEIVE THOSE DOLLARS. THOSE DOLLARS
01:31:04 ARE ENTIRELY DEDICATED TO FIRE ON
01:31:09 REIMBURSEMENT BASIS THAT OCCUR FOR
01:31:12 MUTUAL AID. SO, NO, IN RESPONSE TO
01:31:17 WHETHER FEMA COLORS CAN BE USED
01:31:19 FOR OTHER PURPOSES THOSE ARE ENTIRELY
01:31:21 USED FOR FIRE REIMBURSEMENTS.
01:31:23 >> OKAY. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TODAY
01:31:24 MAKE SURE. THEY ARE 100% USED FOR
01:31:28 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU FOR
01:31:30 THAT ANSWER. OTHER QUESTION IS WE
01:31:36 HAVE IT CUTS TO LEVELS OF 4%. I KNOW
01:31:41 WE HAVE OUR FTE [INAUDIBLE] IS NOT
01:31:45 THAT GOOD AND I HAVE BEEN RAISING
01:31:47 THIS ISSUE A YEAR OR TWO, IF WE DO NOT
01:31:50 HAVE A MANPOWER FTE'S ARE NOT AS
01:31:55 [INAUDIBLE] WAS NEEDED I THINK WE
01:31:59 NEED TO INVEST IN THE ID SO WE CAN
01:32:02 MAKE THE PROCESSES AND REPORTS
01:32:04 MORE EFFICIENT. I WOULD CERTAINLY LOOK
01:32:05 AT THAT, OUT OF THAT 3.4% WHAT ARE WE
01:32:10 SACRIFICING IF WE CAN SAVE SOME OF
01:32:12 THOSE ID FUNDS TO MAKE OTHER
01:32:14 DEPARTMENT MORE EFFICIENT THAT
01:32:16 WOULD BE MY POINT. WHAT LOOKING AT
01:32:20 INTO IT. DISCUSS WITH THE IT
01:32:24 DEPARTMENT: MY NEXT ONE IS I'M SO
01:32:31 HAPPY ABOUT BUSINESS TAX BEING
01:32:33 CONSIDERED FOR BALLOT MEASURE. I
01:32:36 HAVE BEEN TRYING THIS THING A COUPLE
01:32:38 OF YEARS NOW. IT WILL BE A GOOD
01:32:41 REVENUE SOURCE FOR THE CITY OF SANTA
01:32:43 CLARA BECAUSE SINCE 92 WE HAVE NOT
01:32:46 DONE ANY CHANGES TO IT. AND MAX
01:32:55 THE MAXIMUM REVENUE WE'RE GETTING
01:32:58 IS $500 FROM $5 BILLION COMPANIES,
01:33:02 THAT IS NOT GOOD EQUITY DISTRIBUTION
01:33:05 FOR THAT I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF IT. AND
01:33:07 WISH WE COULD HAVE DONE IT A YEAR
01:33:09 OR SO SOONER WOULD BE A MUCH
01:33:11 BETTER POSITION FROM OUR GENERAL
01:33:13 FUND REVENUES. BUT BETTER LATE THAN
01:33:17 NEVER SO I'M REALLY HAPPY ABOUT IT. I
01:33:18 DO COMMEND COUNCILMEMBER JAIN
01:33:21 FOR BRINGING UP THE TDM PART OF IT.
01:33:25 TRAFFIC HAS BEEN ONE OF THE
01:33:27 TOPMOSTISH USE WITH OUR COMMUNITY
01:33:29 WITH OUR RESIDENTS AND WHATEVER WAY
01:33:30 WE CAN HANDLE THAT THING HOW WE
01:33:32 FUND THAT THING TO MAKE SURE WE HIRE
01:33:33 TDM CONCERTMENT TO MAKE THAT
01:33:37 PROCESS SMOOTH WHATEVER WE CAN
01:33:38 DO TO MITIGATE TRAFFIC AND HOLD OUR
01:33:41 DEVELOPERS OR WHOEVER CAUSING
01:33:43 THOSE TRAFFIC RESPONSIBLE FOR
01:33:45 MITIGATING THOSE THAT WOULD BE
01:33:48 WONDERFUL FOR THE TIME BEING THOSE
01:33:54 ARE MY COMMENTS THANK YOU FOR
01:33:56 PRESENTING THE BUDGET.
01:33:57 >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER
01:33:59 HARDY?
01:34:00 >> THANK YOU KENN FIRST OFF, THIS IS
01:34:03 ALWAYS A TOUGH JOB SO THANK YOU.
01:34:05 CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE
01:34:06 RECOMMENDATION SLIDE? I APOLOGIZE I
01:34:08 FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN THE NUMBER.
01:34:11 ARE YOU LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR
01:34:12 RECOMMENDATIONS FROM US OR JUST
01:34:14 COMMENTS? BECAUSE WE HAD TALKED
01:34:15 ABOUT WHEN THE MEASURE WAS
01:34:20 PASSED WE HAD THE ABILITY TO GO UP
01:34:23 4% BUT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT ONLY
01:34:25 2% ON THE TO T. ARE YOU LOOKING
01:34:29 JUST FOR COMMENTS ON THESE?
01:34:30 BECAUSE OTHER THAN THAT, THANK YOU
01:34:34 FOR LOOKING ROBERTA JONES THEATER
01:34:39 SITUATION. I APPRECIATE THAT.
01:34:41 >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER
01:34:42 HARDY FOR THE QUESTION. SO, WHAT
01:34:43 WE'RE LOOKING FOR HERE IS BOTH
01:34:45 INFORMAL COMMENTS AROUND THE
01:34:47 BUDGET AS OR IF THE COUNCIL CHOOSES
01:34:49 TO MAKE FORMAL DIRECTION TO STAFF WITH
01:34:53 REGARDS TO WHAT WE BRING FORWARD ON
01:34:55 JUNE 22ND THAT IS AN OPTION. WHAT
01:34:58 WE'RE BASICALLY LOOKING FOR IS
01:35:02 FEEDBACK AROUND FIVE YEARS IF THAT IS
01:35:04 THE IN THE FORM OF FORMAL DIRECTION
01:35:06 THAT IS SOMETHING WE'RE OPEN TO.
01:35:08 >> THANK YOU. LIKE I SAID THE 2%
01:35:10 LOOKING AT THE BUSINESS TAX AND
01:35:12 REVAMPING THAT, THANK YOU FOR GIVING
01:35:14 US SOME REALLY GOOD OPTIONS LOOKING
01:35:16 AT WHAT OTHER CITIES NEAR US ARE
01:35:18 DOING AND OBVIOUSLY, WE WILL BE
01:35:21 LOOKING STRONGLY AT THE MUNICIPAL FEE
01:35:23 SCHEDULE AND OUR COST RECOVERY FOR
01:35:26 PARKS AND RECK. THANK YOU SO
01:35:28 MUCH.
01:35:29 >> THANK YOU.
01:35:39 >> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
01:35:40 >> THANK YOU I ECHO THE OTHER
01:35:42 REMARKS THANK YOU TO KENN AND
01:35:46 STAFF FOR THIS ON GOING PRESENTATION. I
01:35:48 HAVE GOT A COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND
01:35:50 CONCERNS. I APPRECIATE THE UPDATE
01:35:57 ROBERTA JONES. WE RECEIVED EMAILS
01:36:00 AND CONCERNS I APPRECIATE STAFF
01:36:02 TAKING A LOOK AT OPTIONS AND LOOK
01:36:04 FORWARD TO YOU COMING BACK WITH AN
01:36:09 UPDATE WITH HOW WE CAN APPROACH A
01:36:12 RESOLUTION TO THOSE CONCERNS
01:36:14 BECAUSE IT IS AN IMPORTANT PROGRAM
01:36:16 AND ESSENTIALLY DURING THESE TIMES
01:36:18 THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS
01:36:20 BEEN EXPRESSED IS JUST HOW YOU
01:36:22 KNOW USED NEEDS AND OUT LET. THIS
01:36:25 IS A GREAT TIME FOR THEM TO STILL HAVE
01:36:28 THAT PROGRAM AVAILABLE TO THEM. I
01:36:32 WANT TO ADDRESS PUBLIC SAFETY. WE
01:36:34 RECEIVED A LOT A LOT A LOT OF EMAILS
01:36:38 REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY AND ONE OF
01:36:42 THE EMAILS THAT WE RECEIVED
01:36:47 REGARDING THE BUDGET CUTS I KNOW
01:36:49 THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION BUT JUST
01:36:51 TO JUST READ FROM THE EMAIL WE
01:36:55 RECEIVED IT STATES THAT THE LAST CUTS
01:36:57 IN THE MARCH BROUGHT STAFFING DOWN
01:36:59 TO 36 FIREFIGHTERS A DAY DOWN FROM
01:37:02 THE NORMAL STAFFING OF 40 THE NEW
01:37:05 BUDGET CUT PROPOSALS REDUCE
01:37:07 STAFFING TO 34 FIREFIGHTERS A DAY. AND
01:37:11 SO AS WE--MY CONCERN AND WHAT I'M
01:37:15 CONCERNING OUR READING FROM OTHERS
01:37:17 IS JUST THAT AS WE APPROACH. WILDFIRE
01:37:20 SEASON AND HERE, THE EMAIL ALSO
01:37:24 STATES THAT WILDFIRES YOU KNOW
01:37:27 ALREADY JUST IN JUNE, HAVE BURNT
01:37:29 ABOUT 14,000 ACRES IN CALIFORNIA
01:37:33 WHICH IS FIVE TIMES MORE THAN THIS
01:37:36 TIMES LAST YEAR. AND WE ARE LOOKING
01:37:46 AT A DROUGHT SEASON. THIS PAST
01:37:49 WINTER HAS BEEN THE DRIEST THAN IT
01:37:53 HAS BEEN IN QUITE A WHILE. AND WE
01:37:55 KNOW HOW I MEAN SANTA CLARA IS
01:37:59 FORTUNATE TO I HAVE A WONDERFUL FIRE
01:38:02 DEPARTMENT AND WE HAVE ALWAYS
01:38:04 BEEN I KNOW THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
01:38:05 PRIDES ITSELF BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE
01:38:08 MUTUAL AID BUT WHEN WE'RE LOSING
01:38:11 ANOTHER TWO FIREFIGHTERS A DAY, THAT
01:38:15 WILL GREATLY IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO BE
01:38:18 ABLE TO PROVIDE MUTUAL AID AND THE
01:38:20 OTHER THING IS THAT EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT
01:38:25 OVER TIME, I MEAN, THAT IS JUST
01:38:27 PUTTING AN AWFUL LOT OF BURDEN ON OUR
01:38:31 FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I REALLY YOU
01:38:36 KNOW I'M HEARING YOU KNOW TALKS
01:38:38 ABOUT CONSULTANT STUDIES. UNTIL WE
01:38:45 ARE IN A POSITION AS A CITY TO KNOW
01:38:48 THAT WE HAVE YOU KNOW REVENUE
01:38:50 STREAMS ARE UP AND A LOT BETTER THAN
01:38:53 THEY ARE RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE NEED
01:38:57 TO FOCUS PUT CONSULTANTS AND STUDIES
01:39:01 OUT TO A PRIOR TOE SESSION NEXT
01:39:03 FEBRUARY AND LET'S TALK ABOUT IT THEN
01:39:05 WHEN WE HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF HOW
01:39:08 OUR FINANCIALS ARE LOOKING AS A CITY
01:39:10 RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE NEED TO BE
01:39:12 CONCERNED ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND
01:39:16 YOU'RE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AS WE
01:39:18 APPROACH THIS WILDFIRE SEASON I
01:39:21 MEAN I ATTEND THE N CPA MEETINGS
01:39:24 AND CONSTANTLY THE TALK IS ABOUT
01:39:29 WILDFIRE SEASON AND WHAT EVERYBODY
01:39:31 IS GOING TO DO OR WOULD LIKE TO DO TO
01:39:34 IMPROVE THE FOREST TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:39:43 THESE WILD FIRES ARE NOT TAKING OUT
01:39:45 CITIES LIKE THEY HAVE IN THE LAST
01:39:48 COUPLE OF YEARS SO I KNOW THERE'S A
01:39:50 LOT OF FOCUS ON THAT AND I'M GLAD
01:39:53 BECAUSE IT'S DEFINITELY IT SHOULD BE A
01:39:56 PRIORITY HOWEVER, WHEN WE'RE LOOK AT
01:39:59 THE BUDGET AND LOOKING AT CUTS OUR
01:40:04 ADDITIONS, AND KNOWING WHERE WE
01:40:10 ARE IN CALIFORNIA I DON'T THINK THIS IS
01:40:15 THE TIME TO BE CUTTING ADDITIONAL FIRE
01:40:19 TIGHTERS HAZ MAT TRUCKS, WE TALKED
01:40:29 ABOUT THIS TAKING A FIREFIGHTER AWAY
01:40:31 FROM THE TRUCK THAT COULD BE
01:40:32 OPERATED WITH THREE PEOPLE INSTEAD
01:40:34 OF FOUR PEOPLE BUT IT STILL REQUIRES
01:40:37 OVER TIME WITH A LACK OF AND CUT TO
01:40:40 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF OFFICERS BEING
01:40:44 AVAILABLE ON DAILY BASIS THAT IMPACTS
01:40:47 THE OTHER OFFICERS AND I DON'T WANT TO
01:40:50 SEE US OVER WITH YOURENING OUR FIRE
01:40:58 DEPARTMENT AND SO WOULD LIKE TO
01:41:02 LOOK AT A WAY TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN
01:41:06 THAT BUDGET SO WE DON'T HAVE TO CUT
01:41:11 FIRE FIGHTERS RIGHT NOW. I KNOW WE
01:41:14 HAVE AGENDIZED FOR AUGUST AN
01:41:18 UPDATE ON THE BUDGET AND OUR
01:41:20 PRIORITIES AND SEE WHERE WE ARE AND
01:41:26 LEAD STATUS QUO FOR NOW UNTIL WE CAN
01:41:31 TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AGAIN AND SEE
01:41:34 HOW THE CITY'S BEING IMPACTED HOW
01:41:38 OUR REVENUES ARE MOVING ALONG AND
01:41:43 HOW WE ARE RECOVERING AND
01:41:45 RECOOPERATING AS A CITY. WE ARE
01:41:48 BLESSED WITH A PHENOMENAL BUDGET
01:41:53 STABILIZATION RESERVE I KNOW WE HAVE
01:41:58 AGREED TO USE X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS
01:42:00 BUT WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF MONEY IN
01:42:02 THOSE RESERVES. CAN WE LOOK AT
01:42:04 SOMETHING TO JUST COVER US FOR THE
01:42:06 NEXT SIX MONTHS UNTIL WE SEE WHERE
01:42:09 WE ARE AND HOW WE'RE MOVING
01:42:11 FORWARD? I THINK PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD
01:42:15 BE FIRST AND FOREMOST RIGHT NOW. WE
01:42:18 HAVE HAD HORRENDOUS INCIDENTS IN
01:42:21 THE CITY JUST THIS PAST WEEK AND RIGHT
01:42:24 HERE AT CITY HALL I'M RIGHT HERE AT CITY
01:42:27 HALL RIGHT NOW WE HAD A HORRENDOUS
01:42:29 INCIDENT. WE NEED OUR PUBLIC SAFETY
01:42:31 NOW MORE THAN EVER SO I THINK OUR
01:42:38 FOCUS REALLY I UNDERSTAND
01:42:40 CONSULTANTS I UNDERSTAND STUDIES I
01:42:42 THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THEM AT
01:42:44 ANOTHER TIME WHEN WE CAN TALK
01:42:46 ABOUT IT AS A WHOLE AS A COUNCIL AND
01:42:50 NOT BEING TAKEN FROM THE BUDGET
01:42:53 RIGHT NOW FOR THOSE KINDS OF THINGS
01:42:55 OUR PUBLIC NEEDS TO BE ON PUBLIC
01:42:57 SAFETY AND THINGS THAT KEEP OUR
01:42:58 COMMUNITIES SAFE SO I'M JUST GOING
01:43:02 TO LEAVE IT AT THAT FOR NOW. THOSE ARE
01:43:04 MY THOUGHTS TEN AND I APPRECIATE
01:43:07 YOU LISTENING.
01:43:09 >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER
01:43:12 WATANABE. COUCILMEMBER BECKER
01:43:13 I'M SORRY COUNCILMEMBER PARK AND
01:43:15 THEN BECKER.
01:43:22 >> THANK YOU. WHEN I THINK OF
01:43:23 SANTA CLARA I CAN'T HELP THINK OF OUR
01:43:26 MOTTO THE FROM OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
01:43:28 AND CAN'T HELP THINK OF WE COULD IF
01:43:31 WE HAVE BUSINESS TAXES THAT KEPT UP
01:43:35 WITH COST, WE LOST 30 YEARS OF COST
01:43:39 ESCALATEER REVENUE THE SAME GOES
01:43:41 FOR PARK TEA FEES AND TRASH
01:43:44 MITIGATION FEES THOSE ARE DECADES
01:43:46 OF FEES LOST EVEN IF WE TRY TO CATCH
01:43:48 UP ON THEM IN THE LAST COUPLE OF
01:43:50 YEARS WHAT IF WE NOT THOUGHT THE
01:43:52 LAWSUIT PROACTIVELY PUT IN PLACE TO
01:43:55 MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR WHAT IF WE HADN'T
01:43:59 SPENT A SINGLE DOLLAR ON LITIGATION
01:44:03 THINGS LIKE THAT INSTEAD OF MILLIONS OF
01:44:05 DOLLARS IF WE NOT SPENT MONEY
01:44:09 PUTTING POTS ON STREETS AND WATERING
01:44:12 AND STREET POET POSTS AGAIN THAT IS
01:44:15 ALL IN THE PAST. TODAY WE NEED TO
01:44:17 LOOK ANOTHER THINGS LIKE THE ROBERTA
01:44:20 JONES JUNIOR THEATER PROGRAM WE'RE
01:44:23 GOING TO BE UNANIMOUS IN TRYING TO
01:44:26 SAVE AND TRYING TO PROMOTE BUT ALSO
01:44:29 PUBLIC SAFETY. I MEAN WHEN IT COMES
01:44:31 TO PUBLIC SAFETY, SAVING POSITIONS IS
01:44:34 NOT ENOUGH. I UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT
01:44:36 GOING TO HAVE ANY CUT TOSS
01:44:37 PERSONNEL. BUT WE HAVE SOMETHING
01:44:39 THAT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS OBVIOUS WHICH
01:44:41 IS WE HAVE CUTS TO OVER TIME.S TO
01:44:48 OVER TIME ARE ESSENTIALLY CUTS TO
01:44:51 PERSONNEL. THAT IS HOW UNDER
01:44:53 STAFFED FIRE FIGHTER GROUP FORCE IN
01:44:58 SANTA CLARA MAKES UP NOT HAVING
01:44:59 ENOUGH PEOPLE. YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY
01:45:01 LEAVING THE CITY EXPOSED BY CUTTING
01:45:03 OVER TIME YOU GOT FEWER PEOPLE
01:45:05 TAKING THE PLACE WITH OVER TIME WITH
01:45:06 PEOPLE THAT WE JUST DON'T HAVE.
01:45:09 RIGHT? THE OVER TIME HOURS IS WHAT
01:45:10 IS USED TO MAKEUP FOR A LACK OF FIRE
01:45:13 FIGHTERS. FOR EVERY FOUR-PERSON DAYS
01:45:17 OF OVER TIME, WE SHOULD HIRE NEW
01:45:20 PEOPLE. WE HIRE PEOPLE AT
01:45:23 TIME-AND-A-HALF. IT TURNS OUT THE COST
01:45:24 MORE THAN EVEN OUT BY HIRING THREE
01:45:28 PEOPLE REAL PEOPLE FOR EVERY
01:45:30 FOUR-PERSON DAYS OF OVER TIME AND
01:45:31 THE QUESTION THAT WE HAVE IS WHY
01:45:34 WOULD WE PICK THREE PEOPLE OVER
01:45:36 FOUR-PERSON DAYS OF OVER TIME THE
01:45:39 SHORT ANSWER IS WE NEED MORE
01:45:41 PEOPLE I WOULD HAVE FEWER NUMBERS
01:45:43 OF PEOPLE EARNING OVER TIME YOU GET
01:45:46 BETTER RESTED PEOPLE YOU HAVE
01:45:48 SCALABLE FORCE AND HAVE MORE JOB
01:45:50 ONE PERSON WORKING OVER TIME
01:45:52 CANNOT HANDLE TWO HOESS, WE CAN
01:45:54 CERTAINLY DO THAT IF WE HAVE REAL
01:45:56 PEOPLE. DURING A TEAM WE ARE
01:45:58 APPROVING NEW POSITIONS FOR HIGH
01:46:01 LEVEL MANAGEMENT FOR CITY STAFF, WE
01:46:04 REASONABLE TO ASK, WE BALANCE
01:46:06 THESE POST, THESE POSITIONS WITH NEW
01:46:08 FRONT LINE WORKERS ESPECIALLY THOSE
01:46:11 THAT PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY I WOULD
01:46:13 LIKE TO LOOK AT HOW WE NOT JUST
01:46:15 PREVENT CUTS TO POSITIONS BUT ALSO
01:46:19 CUTS TO OVERTIME. UNDERSTANDING THAT
01:46:22 CUTS TO OVERTIME DO AFFECT OUR FIRE
01:46:26 FORCE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK
01:46:33 YOU. COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
01:46:34 >> MAYOR. I AGREE WITH
01:46:36 COUNCILMEMBER JAIN ON HIS TDM
01:46:38 MEASURES AT THE SAME TIME I ALSO
01:46:41 AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER
01:46:42 WATANABE ABOUT POLICE AND FIRE AND
01:46:43 PUBLIC SAFETY I HAVE BEEN HAVING
01:46:44 MEETINGS WITH MAYOR GILLMOR AND
01:46:46 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY
01:46:47 MEETINGS CRIME HAS BEEN GOING UP.
01:46:50 I JUST RECENTLY HAD A MEETING WITH A
01:46:53 NEIGHBORHOOD FIRST I HAD A TOWN HALL
01:46:55 WHICH IS ROUGHLY ABOUT 25 PEOPLE
01:46:57 THAT SHOWED UP WHICH I WAS
01:46:59 SURPRISED ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT
01:47:00 SHOWED UP CONCERN IS PUBLIC SAFETY.
01:47:04 FIRE, POLICE, THEN YOU KNOW YOU GO
01:47:09 TOO THE MEETING I WENT TO ON
01:47:11 SATURDAY WHICH IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
01:47:13 OF SANTA CLARA MARITSIA THEY WERE
01:47:17 COMPLAINING ABOUT THE HOMELESS IN
01:47:19 THE CREEK AND THE FIRES BEING STARTED
01:47:21 BACK THERE AND ONE OF THE FIRES
01:47:23 ACTUALLY ALMOST TOOK OUT ONE OF THEIR
01:47:25 HOUSES IF IT WASN'T FOR THE QUICK
01:47:27 RESPONSE OF THE SANTA CLARA FIRE
01:47:29 DEPARTMENT IT COULD HAVE BEEN
01:47:30 WORSE. SEEING THOSE KIND OF
01:47:32 CONCERNS, THAT REALLY MAKES ME
01:47:33 HESITANT ABOUT CUTTING FIRE ABOUT ANY
01:47:36 CUTS TO PUBLIC SAFETY. THE FIRE BY THE
01:47:40 BUCKET THE FIRE ON EL CAMINO REAL
01:47:43 THOSE WERE BIG FIRES. AND I JUST CAN'T
01:47:46 SEE CUTTING BACK ON ANY OF THE
01:47:48 PUBLIC SAFETY WHATSOEVER ROBERTA
01:47:54 JONES I REALLY HOPE WE CAN KEEP
01:47:56 SAVING THAT: OTHER THAN THAT, GOOD
01:47:59 BUDGET REPORT I APPRECIATE ALL THE
01:48:00 WORK YOU GUYS HAVE DONE THAT IS JUST
01:48:04 BASICALLY MY INPUT IS JUST WORKING ON
01:48:07 PUBLIC SAFETY.
01:48:08 >> THANK YOU COUCILMEMBER
01:48:11 BECKER. VICE MAYOR CHAHAL?
01:48:15 >> THANK YOU MAYOR. I DO HAVE A
01:48:17 QUICK COMMENT ON PUBLIC SAFETY I
01:48:20 KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALL AND EACH
01:48:23 ONE OF US OVER HERE ABOUT THAT
01:48:27 DEPLOYMENT FOR EMERGENCY USE OF
01:48:31 ESTATE DURING THE FIVE SEASON AND
01:48:34 THAT FUNDING IS BEING FUNDED BY
01:48:35 FEMA AND STATE RECENTLY. DO WE
01:48:39 HAVE A POOL OF FIREFIGHTERS LIKE
01:48:45 STANDBY FIREFIGHTER OFFICIALS WHO ARE
01:48:47 AVAILABLE LET'S SAY 3 OR 5 FIREFIGHTERS
01:48:50 TO THE STATE THEN WE FILL UP THE FIVE
01:48:54 POSITION FOR THE CITY SO THAT OUR
01:48:56 BALANCE FIREFIGHTERS THEY ARE NOT
01:49:05 OVER WORKED THEY ARE NOT OVER
01:49:07 BURDENED AND WE USE THIS POOL
01:49:10 DURING THAT TIME. IS THAT QUESTION FOR
01:49:11 DEPUTY CHIEF JEREMY. OR DO WE
01:49:18 HAVE THAT FACILITY.
01:49:19 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN REGARDS
01:49:22 TO WILD LAND DEPLOYMENTS A LOT OF
01:49:25 THAT IS OVERTIME WITH REGARDS TO
01:49:27 SPECIFIC OF STAFFING AND OPERATIONS I
01:49:30 WANT TO TURN IT OVER TO DEPUTY CHIEF
01:49:33 RAY. TO SEE IF HE HAS ADDITIONAL
01:49:36 THOUGHTS OR COMMENTS ON THAT.
01:49:38 >> SURE. THANK YOU. THAT'S A GREAT
01:49:40 QUESTION. THAT VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
01:49:46 DEPUTY CHIEF RAY. AGAIN. LOCAL
01:49:50 GOVERNMENT FIRE DEPARTMENTS WORK
01:49:51 AS THAT RELIEF POOL FOR THE UNITED
01:49:55 STATES FOREST IT WORKS THE REVERSE OF
01:49:59 THE QUESTION YOU ARE ASKING THESE
01:50:00 ARE THE RESOURCES CALLED UPON TO
01:50:02 FIGHT THOSE FIRES TO AUGMENT THE
01:50:04 STATE AND THE FEDERAL FIRE FIGHTING
01:50:09 FORCES THAT IS WHY THEY PAY THE
01:50:12 BACKFILL FOR US I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY
01:50:15 JURISDICTIONS THAT USE QUITE THAT
01:50:17 MECHANISM THERE CERTAINLY HAVE
01:50:19 LOCAL JURISDICTIONS WHAT ARE CALLED
01:50:21 PAID CALL FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE
01:50:24 FIREFIGHTERS THAT WORK JUST ON A DAILY
01:50:26 BASIS OR OCCASIONAL OBESE SIS OR
01:50:28 RESPONDING ON CALLS BUT THOSE TEND
01:50:30 TO BE MORE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS
01:50:34 IT'S NOT SOMETHING COMMONLY DONE
01:50:38 BECAUSE OF THE OVERALL COST OF
01:50:39 TRAINING AND EMPLOYING OUR
01:50:43 PERSONNEL IT'S MADE MORE SENSE FOR
01:50:45 US TO REMAIN A FULL TIME FIRE
01:50:49 DEPARTMENT SOME AUGMENTATION BY
01:50:51 VOLUNTEER RESERVES TO HELP WITH
01:50:53 LARGER INCIDENTS AND ALL THE WORK THAT
01:50:57 GOES ON AT THE FIRE SEEN AFTER THE
01:51:00 INITIAL DANGER IS OVER AND THE FIRE IS
01:51:01 OUT. I'M NOT AWARE OF MANY
01:51:08 INSTANCES YOU ARE REFERRING TO I HOPE
01:51:11 THAT DID ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
01:51:13 >> YOU DID ANSWER. BUT MY QUESTION
01:51:15 IS DO WE DEPLOY THOSE RESERVES LET'S
01:51:18 SAY WHATEVER RESERVE FIRE FIGHTERS
01:51:21 WE HAVE WHO CAN BE DEPLOYED
01:51:24 TEMPORARILY WHILE MAIN FIREFIGHTERS
01:51:29 ON STATE DUTY DO WE HAVE THAT
01:51:32 RESERVE BASICALLY.
01:51:33 >> NO. WE REALLY DON'T. VOLUNTEER
01:51:36 FIRE FIGHTERS ARE NOT SOMETHING WE
01:51:38 CAN DEPLOY IN THAT INSTANCE WHAT THE
01:51:41 STATE OF CALIFORNIA OR THE FEDERAL
01:51:42 GOVERNMENT IS REQUESTING ARE FULLY
01:51:44 TRAINED FULL TIME PAID PROFESSIONAL
01:51:47 FIRE FIGHTERS AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE
01:51:49 PAYING BACKFILL FOR. SO, IT'S REALLY OUR
01:51:51 FRONT LINE PERCENT NEE WHO ARE THE
01:51:53 ONES QUALIFIED AND CERTIFICATE FIDE
01:51:55 AND ABLE TO RESPOND TO THOSE FIRES
01:51:57 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA REQUIRES THAT
01:51:59 WILD LAND FIREFIGHTERS HAVE A VARIETY
01:52:02 OF VERTICALLYIFICATIONS WHICH ARE
01:52:03 VOLUNTEER RESERVES DON'T HAVE. AND
01:52:06 DON'T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE THAT IS
01:52:08 NEEDED IN THOSE EXTREMELY
01:52:10 DANGEROUS SITUATIONS.
01:52:11 >> SO MY QUESTION IS, OUR FULLY
01:52:16 TRAINED THEY AREING GO FOR THE FAIR
01:52:19 MIND STATE DUTIES WHAT ABOUT THE
01:52:22 OTHERS WE CAN USE IN THE CITIES IN
01:52:24 THEIR REPLACEMENT LET'S SAY WE SEND
01:52:27 FIVE FOR THE STATE DUTIES, WE ARE
01:52:30 SHORT IN THE FIRE STATION BY FIVE
01:52:32 PEOPLE. FIVE FIREFIGHTERS. CAN WE FILL
01:52:36 UP THOSE POSITIONS IN THE CITY ITSELF
01:52:39 WHICH ARE VOLUNTEER OR WHOEVER SO
01:52:41 WE DON'T PUT A BURDEN ON THE REST OF
01:52:43 THE FORCE WE JUST HAVE BECAUSE
01:52:46 WE'RE SAVING THAT MONEY WITH FIVE
01:52:49 DEPLOYMENT AND WE CAN PUT THIS
01:52:51 MONEY TOWARDS VOLUNTARY FIRE
01:52:54 FIGHTERS WHO CAN FILL WITHIN THE CITY
01:52:56 BASICALLY THAT IS MY QUESTION I'M NOT
01:52:58 TRYING TO SEND THE VOLUNTEER FORCE TO
01:52:59 THE STAY BUT WITHIN THE CITY
01:53:01 DEPLOYMENT SO IT HELPS AUGMENT,
01:53:04 HELPS THE LOCAL FIRE FIGHTERS WHO ARE
01:53:07 LEFT OVER HERE.
01:53:08 >> YEAH. TO A CERTAIN EXTENT WE TRY
01:53:10 TO DO THAT WITH THE VOLUNTEER
01:53:11 DIVISION, BUT IT'S BECOME MORE AND
01:53:14 MORE DIFFICULT OVER THE YEARS HAVE
01:53:16 PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO BECOME FULLY
01:53:19 VERIFIED VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS THE
01:53:22 COST IS HIGH SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF
01:53:25 PEOPLE INTERESTED GOING INTO THE FIRE
01:53:27 SERVICE AS A CAREER LATER ON THAT IS
01:53:29 ONE OF THE PRIMARY MOTE VARYERS
01:53:33 PEOPLE FIGHTERS INTERESTED AS A
01:53:35 CAREER SECONDARY, THERE IS A NUMBER
01:53:38 OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT
01:53:39 WANT TO GET INVOLVED AND VOLUNTEER
01:53:41 WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THOSE
01:53:42 NUMBERS HAVE WANED OVER THE
01:53:44 YEARS AS THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
01:53:46 AND THE THINGS REQUIRED VOLUNTEER
01:53:48 ESSENTIALLY IS TREATED BY OSHA AND
01:53:56 STATE IN TERMS OF THE TRAINING THEY
01:53:57 HAVE TO HAVE THE ANNUAL MEDICAL
01:53:59 EXAMS THEY HAVE TO HAVE SO IT HAS
01:54:01 BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT FOR
01:54:04 SOMEONE TO TRULY BE A COMMUNITY
01:54:06 VOLUNTEER AND BE A FULLY CERTIFIED
01:54:08 FUNCTIONAL FIRE FIGHTER TO BE ABLE TO
01:54:10 PROVIDE BACK UP TO PAID CAREER FIRE
01:54:13 FIGHTER LIKE WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING
01:54:14 AS THE YEARS AND DECADES HAVE
01:54:17 GONE ON, WE HAVE STEVEN A NUMBER
01:54:20 OF FULLY CERTIFIED VOLUNTEER FIRE
01:54:23 FIGHTERS INCREASE OVER THE YEAR FOR
01:54:26 THOSE REASONS, WE HAVE TRY TODAY
01:54:27 AUGMENT WITH RESERVE OR VOLUNTEER
01:54:29 DIVISION THAT BRINGS IN PEOPLE WHO
01:54:31 MIGHT HAVE GOT INVOLVED INITIALLY
01:54:33 THROUGH CERT COMMUNITY EMERGENCY
01:54:37 RESERVE RESPONSE PROGRAM TRYING TO
01:54:40 INCREASES THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
01:54:41 THOSE KINDS OF VOLUNTEERS TO HELP
01:54:43 OUT. IN TERMS OF BEING FULLY TRAINED
01:54:45 AND CERTIFIED AS A FIRE FIGHTER TO BE
01:54:47 ABLE TO TAKE THE PLACE OF ONE OR OUR
01:54:50 FIRE FIGHTERS THAT IS OUT ON
01:54:51 DEPLOYMENT THAT WOULD PROVE VERY
01:54:54 DIFFICULT AND HAS ONLY BECOME
01:54:56 INCREASINGLY MORE DIFFICULT AS THE
01:54:58 DECADES HAVE GONE ON FOR A VARIETY
01:55:01 OF REASONS.
01:55:03 >> THANK YOU JEREMY. I STILL FOR THE
01:55:15 BUDGET FOR RESERVE FIREFIGHTERS TO FILL
01:55:19 IN THE POSITION AT THE CITY LEVEL WE
01:55:20 SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THAT. AT LEAST IF
01:55:22 THERE IS SOMEBODY AVAILABLE WE
01:55:25 SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THAT WITHIN OUR
01:55:29 BUDGET THAT IS MY POINT BASICALLY.
01:55:36 >> OKAY. SORRY.
01:55:37 >> SECONDLY ABOUT ROBERTA JONES
01:55:41 I'M GLAD WE ARE MAKING CHANGES
01:55:43 AND ADJUSTMENTS TO ACCOMMODATE
01:55:46 ROBERTA JONES. THANK YOU.
01:55:49 >> THANK YOU VICE MAYOR. I WANT
01:55:51 WANT TO MAKE COMMENTS BEFORE WE
01:55:52 GO TO THE PUBLIC. FIRST OF ALL THANK
01:55:55 YOU FOR THE ROBERTA JONES TOO. PART
01:56:00 OF OUR HISTORY IT'S DONE SO MUCH
01:56:02 GOOD. I'M HAPPY DIRECTOR LEE AND
01:56:05 CITY MANAGER I THINK YOU SAID YOU
01:56:07 ARE FINDING MONEY SOMEWHERE SO
01:56:09 WE CAN CONTINUE THAT PROGRAM I
01:56:11 THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID DIRECTOR
01:56:13 LEE. AM I CORRECT.
01:56:14 >> THAT IS CORRECT. IN ATTACHMENT 3.
01:56:16 WE DO PRESENT AN OPTION FOR
01:56:19 RESTORING THE ROBERTA JONES THEATER.
01:56:22 A COMBINATION OF PRIVATE
01:56:24 SPONSORSHIPS USING RESERVES AS WELL
01:56:26 AS INCREASING THE REGISTRATION FEE TO
01:56:27 ONE WE THINK THE MARKET CAN BARE
01:56:30 SO WORKING VERY CLOSE WITH THE PARKS
01:56:33 AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT. ON A
01:56:36 PLAN TO RESTORE THAT THAT IS PRESENTED
01:56:38 IN THE ATTACHMENT 3 FOR THE
01:56:40 JUNE 22ND WE WILL INCLUDE AS A
01:56:41 POLICY OPTION FOR THE COUNCIL TO
01:56:44 CONSIDER.
01:56:45 >> WE WILL HAVE TOKE A CLOSE LOOK AT
01:56:48 THAT PRIVATE DONATIONS PART OF THE
01:56:53 BEAUTY OF THE PROGRAM IS THE FEES
01:56:55 ARE LOW AGAIN THERE ARE CERTAIN
01:56:57 THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE
01:56:58 RETURN ON INVESTMENT THEY ARE IN
01:57:01 OTHER WAYS THAT IS ONE OF THOSE
01:57:03 PROGRAMS, WE WILL TAKE A CLOSE LOOK
01:57:05 AT THAT. SECONDLY, I REALLY WANT TO
01:57:10 TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND I KNOW
01:57:13 EVERY ONE OF US HAS DIFFERENT AREAS
01:57:15 THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN, BUT I HAVE TO
01:57:18 TELL YOU THAT SANTA CLARA HAS ALWAYS
01:57:20 HAD THE REPRESENTATION FOR HAVING
01:57:23 YOU KNOW THE BEST PUBLIC SAFETY
01:57:25 POLICE AND FIRE OF ANY WHERE, WE
01:57:28 HAVE BEEN THE ENVY OF OTHER
01:57:30 COMMUNITIES BECAUSE OF OUR
01:57:31 RESPONSE TIMES AND THE QUALITY OF
01:57:34 OUR FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS
01:57:37 AND THE DIRECT ASSOCIATION WITH OUR
01:57:44 RESIDENTS I HAVE TO SAY I KNOW EARN
01:57:47 IS INTERESTED IN CONSULTANT AND TRAIN
01:57:49 NOISE AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS I
01:57:52 HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SO MANY OF
01:57:54 THE PUBLIC OUT REACH FROM THE POLICE
01:57:56 DEPARTMENT I KNOW COUCILMEMBER
01:57:58 BECKER YOU AND I HAVE BEEN THE
01:57:59 MOST I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS SO
01:58:01 MANY AT DISTRICT SIX THAT I HAVE GONE
01:58:04 TO THERE HAS BEEN ALL OVER TOWN.
01:58:06 THERE IS ONE THING THAT IS VERY, VERY
01:58:08 APPARENT TO ME THAT PEOPLE ARE
01:58:09 BEING AFFECTED BY THE CRIME AND THE
01:58:12 ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE
01:58:13 COMMUNITY TODAY. AND THERE IS A
01:58:15 LEVEL OF FEAR IT'S NOT JUST OUR CITY. I
01:58:18 DON'T WANT TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE
01:58:20 SUCCESS. A DANGEROUS PLACE BUT IT'S
01:58:25 BECOMING MORE DANGEROUS BECAUSE
01:58:29 OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD. AND
01:58:31 I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, AFTER
01:58:33 LISTENING TO YOU KNOW MULTIPLE
01:58:35 MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS
01:58:37 AND DIFFERENT GROUPS THROUGHOUT
01:58:41 SANTA CLARA I CAN TELL YOU MOST OF
01:58:42 THE CRIMES HAPPENING ARE GOING
01:58:44 UNREPORTED A LOT OF OUR CRIME
01:58:46 STATISTICS ARE SO LOW AND WE GO
01:58:48 AROUND AND TELL PEOPLE PLEASE
01:58:50 REPORT, PLEASE REPORT SO WE KNOW
01:58:53 YOU KNOW GO ON MY SANTA CLARA GO
01:58:56 ON THE CITY OR POLICE DEPARTMENT
01:58:59 WEBSITE IF YOUR CAR IS BROKEN INTO OR
01:59:02 MAIL IS STOLEN WHATEVER MAKE SURE
01:59:04 YOU ARE REPORTING SO WE KNOW WHAT
01:59:06 THOSE ISSUES ARE. JUST WHAT IS
01:59:07 HAPPENING AROUND THE COMMUNITY I
01:59:09 WILL CALL A MOST IMMEDIATE ISSUE FOR
01:59:12 ME THE MOST IMMEDIATE ISSUE AND
01:59:13 THE THING THAT MAKES OUR CITY SO
01:59:15 GREAT IS THE SECURITY AND SAFETY OF
01:59:17 OUR RESIDENTS. AND I KNOW THAT THE
01:59:21 FIRE FIGHTERS SURE THEY HAVE TO GO
01:59:23 FIGHT WILDFIRE THEY DO ALL SORTS OF
01:59:25 THINGS THEY DON'T JUST FIGHT WILDFIRES
01:59:29 THEY GO TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THE 911
01:59:31 CALLS. THEY ARE DOING SO MANY
01:59:34 THINGS AND THEIR STAFFING, WE HAD A
01:59:37 PREVIOUS STUDY THAT SAID THEY SHOULD
01:59:40 BE AT 40 THAT IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
01:59:42 I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT BOTH
01:59:44 POLICE AND FIRE NOT JUST WHERE WE ARE
01:59:46 TODAY BUT WHERE WE'RE GOING AND IN
01:59:47 TERMS OF I THINK COUNCILMEMBER
01:59:49 JAIN SAID WE'RE ADDING 30,000 UNITS
01:59:52 IN THE CITY. WELL WHEN THERE IS CALLS
01:59:54 FOR.
02:00:06 MY POINT IS WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE
02:00:09 FUTURE. NOT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
02:00:14 [SWITCHING CAPTIONERS]
02:01:12 >>IT'S AFFECTING EVERYBODY. THIS CRIME
02:01:13 IS AFFECTING EVERYONE. I AM SURE WE ALL
02:01:18 GET THE NOTICES OF NUNCHUCKS AND
02:01:23 HORRENDOUS TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND FIGHTS
02:01:25 AND OTHER THINGS, PEOPLE ARE, THERE IS
02:01:28 SOMETHING GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND I
02:01:30 THINK IT'S ALSO A SYMPTOM OF COVID AND
02:01:34 WHAT'S HAPPENING, BUT THIS IS NOT THE
02:01:37 TIMETO CUT. OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT.. WE
02:01:44 HAVE TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE.. IT'S NOT
02:01:47 THE TIME, IT WASN'T THE TIME IN MARCH.
02:01:52 IT'S A WORSE TIME NOW.THE COUNCIL VOTED
02:01:58 AGAINST, THEY VOTED FOR THE CUTS OF THE
02:02:01 POLICE DEPARTMENT. GUESS WHAT IT IS
02:02:02 GOING TO AFFECT? OUR DARE PROGRAM.
02:02:06 THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED PROGRAMS
02:02:14 WE HAVE PEER TO EDUCATE OUR
02:02:15 FIFTH-GRADERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, WE
02:02:16 DON'T HAVE THE OFFICERS FOR THAT
02:02:17 BECAUSE OF COUNCIL ACTION. SPECIAL
02:02:20 EVENTS, ALL OF OUR SPECIAL EVENTS ARE
02:02:24 CAL PROGRAM. OUR OFFICE ARE NOW IN CAL
02:02:28 IS ONLY PART-TIME BECAUSE HE HAS TO GO
02:02:29 BACK ON PATROL. HE IS ON PATROL AND
02:02:32 YOU'LL PROBABLY TAKEFULL-TIME NOW ON
02:02:37 PATROL. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS, WHAT
02:02:38 ISTHE RESPONSE TIME? WHAT IS THE
02:02:44 COMMUNITY GOING TO ASK US? CALL 911,
02:02:45 YOU EXPECT, THE AMBULANCE, THE POLICE.
02:02:53 YOU CAN SAY IT DOESN'T MATTER, IT DOES,
02:02:54 WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOU OR YOUR
02:02:55 FAMILY, IT MATTERS.AND I DON'T WANT TO
02:02:59 BE LIKE OTHER SURROUNDINGCITIES WHERE
02:03:02 RESPONSETIMES ARE RIDICULOUS.WE ARE
02:03:07 SANTA CLARA ANDWE SHOULD DEMAND THE BEST
02:03:17 AND INVEST IN OUR PUBLIC SAFETY. ANY OF
02:03:18 YOU WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE POLICE
02:03:19 DEPARTMENT, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH
02:03:20 IS WITH ME, WE SHOULD KNOW THAT. BY
02:03:29 TALKING TO OUR RESIDENTS, WE THEY LOVE
02:03:30 OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY WANT TO
02:03:31 FEEL SAFE.WE CAN GO OUT ON ALL DIFFERENT
02:03:35 TANGENTS BUT WE HAVE TO LOOKWHAT'S
02:03:39 IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY, WHAT'S
02:03:40 IMPORTANT AND WHERE OUR VALUES AND
02:03:44 KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE? WE ARE
02:03:45 GOING TO ADDSO MANY PEOPLE, WE ARE
02:03:51 ALREADY LOW ON OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND
02:03:52 POLICE OFFICERS. I KNOWPEOPLE ARE GOING
02:03:56 TO THROW UP THEIR HANDS AND TELL ME I
02:03:57 AM WRONG, BUT I AM NOT. IN THIS ISSUEI
02:04:00 AM NOT WRONG. OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS
02:04:01 QUALITY PUBLIC SAFETY, OUR COMMUNITY
02:04:02 NEEDS ENOUGH OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS
02:04:09 LIKE THEY HAVE IN THE PASTANDWE NEED TO
02:04:15 SHOW OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE RESPECT THEM
02:04:16 ENOUGHTO PROTECT THEM, FULLY PROTECT THE
02:04:21 I KNOW IT'S A DRAIN ON OUR BUDGET, BUT
02:04:24 YOU CAN SAY POLICE AND FIRE, THEY
02:04:33 DIDN'T TAKE AS BIG A PERCENTAGE CUT AS
02:04:34 OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT.
02:04:41 IT'S LIKE PARKS AND RECREATION. WE
02:04:42 DON'T EXPECT OUR CHILDREN TO PAY TO
02:04:43 PLAY ON OUR PARTS. THERE'S NOT GOING TO
02:04:44 BE A RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAT YOU CAN
02:04:45 QUANTIFY, BUT THAT'S PART OF WHO WE ARE
02:04:49 IS PROVIDING PARKS AND RECREATION FOR
02:04:50 OUR COMMUNITY. WE HAVE TO PROVIDE
02:04:51 PUBLIC SAFETY. I AM SORRY I AM ON A
02:04:54 SOAPBOX, BUT I THINK IT'S THAT
02:04:55 IMPORTANT. I AM SICK AND TIREDOF
02:04:59 HEARING ABOUT THE CRIME IN OUR CITY,
02:05:00 EVERY TIME SOMEONE TELLS ME SOMETHING,
02:05:03 OUR NEIGHBORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, ABOUT
02:05:04 HOW THEY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED,IT TEARS ME
02:05:05 UP. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NO MATTER
02:05:08 WHATI AM ADVOCATING FOR PROTECTING OUR
02:05:12 COMMUNITY.
02:05:20 SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS I AM INTERESTED
02:05:21 IN. ALSO, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT BUSINESS
02:05:22 TAXES AND OTHER THINGS. SANTA CLARA HAS
02:05:23 BEEN SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN A
02:05:24 BUSINESS FRIENDLY COMMUNITY, AND I
02:05:27 UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A
02:05:28 NEED FOR INCREASES IN THAT OTHER
02:05:32 THINGS, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
02:05:33 ARE WORKING HAND-IN-HAND WITH OUR
02:05:35 BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND WE ARE JUST NOT
02:05:38 RUNNING OFF WITHOUT GETTING THE
02:05:39 APPROPRIATE INPUTFROM THE PEOPLE THAT
02:05:46 THIS IS GOING TO DIRECTLY AFFECT AS
02:05:47 WELL. I AM HOPING WE WORK WITH OUR
02:05:48 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HELP US DO
02:05:49 OUTREACH WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING
02:05:51 THINGS ON THE BALLOT WE WANT TO MAKE
02:05:52 SURE THAT THEKNOWS ABOUT IT AND HAS
02:05:54 INPUT IN WHATEVER WE DO. AND WE TALKED
02:05:58 ABOUT THE TRANSIENT OCCUPANCYAN
02:06:00 INCREASINGTHAT AT A SLOWER RATE UNTIL
02:06:03 WE CAN FULLY RECOVERSINCE THE PANDEMIC.
02:06:08 SO THOSE ARE JUST MY COMMENTSABOUT THE
02:06:10 BUDGET AND I SEE THERE'S A BUNCH MORE
02:06:15 HANDS UP NOW. COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE?
02:06:18 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. A COUPLE OF THINGS
02:06:22 THAT I JUST WANT TO ADD TO SOME
02:06:23 COMMENTS I MADE BEFORE,THERE WAS JUST
02:06:29 AN ARTICLERECENTLY I WAS TALKING ABOUT
02:06:33 HOW SANTA CLARA GREWMORE THAN ANY CITY
02:06:38 IN CALIFORNIA. I WANT TO SAY LIKE 27%.
02:06:40 IN TERMS OF HOUSING INPOPULATION, SANTA
02:06:44 CLARA GROUP. SO WE NEED TO KNOWTHAT WE
02:06:49 ARE ALREADY DOWN IN TERMS OF NUMBERS IN
02:06:53 OUR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS, BUT
02:06:54 ALL THE REASON, WE ARE GROWING. THOSE
02:07:00 NUMBERS SHOW THAT. I THINK THAT'S
02:07:01 PHENOMENAL.EVERYBODY'S NUMBERS WENT
02:07:04 DOWN, HOURS WENT OUT HOURS WENT UP.
02:07:07 WHEN IT COMES TO, SOMETHING I'VE NOTICED
02:07:18 AS WE ARE OPENING UP AGAIN, I LIVE NEAR
02:07:19 STATION SIX,I HEAR THAT FIRE TRUCK ALL
02:07:24 OVER THE PLACE. FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
02:07:25 AND SOI KNOW THERE'S BEEN AN UPTAKE IN
02:07:28 RESPONSES WHETHER IT BE FIRES OR
02:07:30 ACCIDENTSOR WHATEVER THEY ARE BEING
02:07:33 CALLED OUT FOR THEIRDEFINITELY BEING
02:07:35 CALLED OUTMORE SO THAN THEY HAVE IN THE
02:07:38 LAST YEAR. SO I HAVE A QUESTION, I
02:07:41 DON'T KNOW IF IT CAN BE ANSWERED NOWBUT
02:07:49 THERE HAS BEEN SOME COMMENTS MADE ABOUT
02:07:50 HOW THE CITY DOES GET REIMBURSEDFOR OUR
02:07:52 MUTUAL AID AND I WAS WONDERING IF
02:07:55 SOMEBODY COULD TELL USHOW MUCH THE CITY
02:07:58 DOES RECEIVE FROM THAT REIMBURSEMENTAND
02:08:03 ESPECIALLY THE OVERTIME, BECAUSE I
02:08:04 WOULD IMAGINE THE OVERTIME WOULD BE
02:08:05 SOMETHING ABOVE AND BEYOND THAT THE
02:08:08 CITY WOULD BE ACTUALLY MAKING MONEY AS
02:08:09 A RESULTOF OUR FIREFIGHTERS BEING OUT
02:08:12 ON DEPLOYMENTMUTUAL AID, SO I WAS
02:08:14 WONDERINGIS SOMEBODYMIGHT HAVE THOSE
02:08:22 NUMBERS JUNE 22 WHEN WE COME BACK.
02:08:23 THAT'S ALL I HAVE, THANK YOU.
02:08:25 >>THANK YOU. ARE WE ABLE TO GET THOSE
02:08:28 NUMBERS OR IS THAT JUST NOTED BY OUR
02:08:29 STAFF?
02:08:32 >>WE WILL SEE WE CAN DO AND BRING THAT
02:08:33 BACK AS PART OF A REPORT FOR JUNE 22.
02:08:34 >>THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER.
02:08:37 COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
02:08:38 >>THANK YOU.EARLIER ABOUT THE RESULTS
02:08:47 ROBERTA JONES I THINK A LITTLE MORE
02:08:48 NEEDS TO BE DONE, AT THE SAME TIME WITH
02:08:49 PUBLIC SAFETY AS WELL,COUNCILMEMBER
02:08:55 WATANABE REALLY KIND OF HIT ON THAT
02:08:56 POINT, I WAS GOING TO GO AT WHICH WAS
02:09:02 YES, COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE, YOU'RE
02:09:03 RIGHT, IT'S A 2.7% INCREASE, NOW WE ARE
02:09:05 AT 130,000, NOW WE ARE AT 130,800
02:09:06 RESIDENTS, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS
02:09:14 OVERALL SHRINK POPULATION FOR THE FIRST
02:09:15 TIME SINCE 1900, SANTA CLARA, WE HAVE
02:09:17 GROWN. WE HAVE ADDED 2066 NEW HOUSING
02:09:20 UNITS. THAT'S A 4.2 INCREASE, 4.2%
02:09:24 INCREASE. SOSEEING ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT
02:09:29 WITH THE HIGH DENSITY IN EVERYTHING,WE
02:09:33 NEED THE FORCES GOING TO BE ABLE TO
02:09:34 BATTLE THE EVENTS OF THE FUTURE.AND I
02:09:38 THINK THAT'S WHAT WE ARE PUTTING IN
02:09:39 PLACE RIGHT NOW. SO I'M REALLY GLAD
02:09:41 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE BROUGHT THAT UP
02:09:42 AND I'M GLAD MAYOR GILMORE MENTIONED
02:09:44 THAT AS WELL. WE ALSOTHE SAME THING
02:09:52 MAYOR GILMORE BROUGHT UP WAS REPORTING
02:09:53 TIME. THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT A LOT
02:09:54 OF PEOPLE DON'T REPORT THESE CRIMES AND
02:09:55 THE MORE YOU REPORT ITMORE OF THE
02:09:56 STATISTICS WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. I
02:09:57 WAS IN A MEETINGIN THE SILICON VALLEY
02:10:01 STONEWALL DEMOCRATS AND ASK ME
02:10:02 QUESTIONS ABOUTREPORTING HATE CRIMES I
02:10:07 SAID IF YOU DON'T REPORT THE CRIME WE
02:10:08 DON'T KNOW THE CRIME HAPPENED.AND THEY
02:10:10 ARE AFRAID TO MAKE A REPORT, BUT I SAID
02:10:13 IS A STATISTIC. AS FOR US TO KNOW, FOR
02:10:16 US AS LEADERS TO BRING PEOPLE'S
02:10:17 AWARENESS. SO SEEING HOWWHAT HAPPENED
02:10:23 AT CITY HALL RECENTLY, SEEING THE GUN
02:10:24 CRIMES THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING, IT'S
02:10:25 THE WRONG TIME, WRONG PLACE.ALEX LEE,
02:10:27 THEASSEMBLY MEMBER WROTE TO ME AND
02:10:31 ASKED ME NOT TO CUT THEFIRE DEPARTMENT,
02:10:36 HE SAID THERE IS A NEED FOR THE FIRE
02:10:37 DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW. SOTHAT IN A
02:10:42 NUTSHELL I THINK THOSE ARE THE THINGS
02:10:43 THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF FIRST
02:10:47 JUST LIKE MAYOR GILMORE SAID, PUBLIC
02:10:48 SAFETY IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE. I AGREE
02:10:49 WITH HER ALSOAND I AGREE WITH I THINK
02:10:50 IT WAS COUNCILMEMBERJANE BROUGHT IT UP
02:10:53 OR COUNCILMEMBER HARDY ABOUT THE
02:10:55 BUSINESS TAX, YES, WE DO NEED MORE
02:10:59 BUSINESS TAX, BUT AT THE SAME TIME
02:11:00 MAYOR GILMOREHAS A PART WHERE WE NEED
02:11:03 TO HAVE INPUT INTO THE OUTREACH. THANK
02:11:06 YOU, MAYOR.
02:11:09 >>THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER JANE.
02:11:13 >>I THINK EVERY COUNCILMEMBER HERE
02:11:14 REALLY VALUES PUBLIC SAFETY. WE ALL
02:11:15 WANT TO FEEL SAFE WHEN WE WALK UP THE
02:11:17 STREETS IN OUR HOMES. THERE IS NO DOUBT
02:11:23 THAT WE VALUE PUBLIC SAFETY. WE VALUE
02:11:26 OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT IN OUR POLICE
02:11:27 DEPARTMENT.I HAVE TAKEN, I HAVE DONE
02:11:30 THIS PROGRAM. I'VE DONE CITIZENS POLICE
02:11:34 ACADEMY, I WAS ON THEADVISORY
02:11:38 COMMITTEE. I FULLY UNDERSTAND NEED FOR
02:11:40 PUBLIC SAFETY.THE ISSUE IS THAT WE ARE
02:11:45 EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN CUTQUITE
02:11:48 SUBSTANTIALLY AND OUR VACANCY RATES IN
02:11:52 ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS ARE VERY HIGH AND
02:11:55 WE ARE GROWING. AND AS WE ADD HOUSING
02:12:02 UNITS WE ARE GOING TO ADD PROPERTY TAX,
02:12:03 AND THAT WILL PAY FOR MORE OFFICERS. SO
02:12:04 THAT WILL HAPPEN. RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST
02:12:07 IN THIS UNUSUAL PANDEMIC. WE ARE JUST
02:12:11 IN KIND OF AN EMERGENCY, AND AS I
02:12:12 MENTIONED, AS WE HAVE THOSE HOUSING
02:12:15 UNITS, UNLESS WE AREPUTTING MONEY INTO
02:12:19 MITIGATING THE TRAFFIC THAT IS GOING TO
02:12:23 CREATE A NIGHTMARE FOR EVERY RESIDENT
02:12:25 OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA. WE ARE NOT
02:12:27 WIDENING IN THE STREETS. SOFOR US TO AS
02:12:30 MAYOR GILMORE SAIDWHERE WE GOING IN THE
02:12:32 FUTURE, WE NEED TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE,
02:12:35 WE NEED TO DO THOSE STUDIES NOWBEFORE
02:12:38 WE GET THOSE HOUSING UNITS SO THAT WE
02:12:40 WON'T JUST END UP IN A BIND FOR NOT
02:12:43 HAVING PLAN PROPERLY.WE NEED TO AS WE
02:12:46 ARE BUILDINGDURING THIS PANDEMICI HAVE
02:12:52 BEEN SITTING OUTSIDE MORE, I NOTICED
02:12:53 MORE NOISE, THE GARBAGE TRUCKS, ALL OF
02:12:58 THAT. NOISE HAS BECOME A BIG PROBLEM,
02:13:03 AND A LOT OF RESIDENTS IN MY DISTRICT
02:13:04 COMPLAIN ABOUT NOISE FROM SANTA CLARA
02:13:05 UNIVERSITYAND FROM DATA CENTERSAND SO
02:13:10 BEING PROACTIVEAND DOING THE STUDIES
02:13:15 WILL ALLOW US TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
02:13:18 THAT MAYOR GILMORE IS TALKING ABOUT.AND
02:13:22 SO THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, ISTHERE IS A
02:13:24 DISTINCTION BETWEENONE TIME FUNDS AND
02:13:27 ONGOING FUNDS.WHEN YOU HAVE TO ADD
02:13:31 STAFF, THAT'S AN ONGOING EXPENSE. YOU
02:13:35 NEED TO BUDGET FOR THAT. THAT WILL CALM
02:13:36 FROM THE PROPERTY TAXESFROMTHE
02:13:39 ADDITIONAL UNITS. BUT FOR ONE TIME
02:13:43 ACTIVITIESYOU NEED TO BUDGET FOR THOSE
02:13:48 FROM ONE TIME FUNDS. THAT'S ALL I HAVE
02:13:50 TO SAY.
02:13:52 >>I DON'T SEE ANYMORE HANDS, I'M GOING
02:13:54 TO GO NOW TO THE PUBLIC, ANY MEMBER OF
02:13:58 THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAKON
02:14:00 THE BUDGET ISSUESO LET ME SEE HERE,
02:14:05 HOLD ON.FIRST-PERSON WE HAVE ISMIKE A.
02:14:11 GO AHEAD, MIKE.
02:14:18 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. CAN YOU HEAR ME?
02:14:19 >>WE CAN HEAR YOU, GO AHEAD.
02:14:20 >>PERFECT. SEVERAL TIMESIN THE
02:14:22 PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGETWE CONSULTED
02:14:25 THE DATA ACCORDING TO THE DATA. NOW IF
02:14:29 THE STUDY WAS DONE FOR HEADCOUNT
02:14:30 REQUIREMENTS ON FIRE AND IT SAID40 FTES
02:14:36 , WHAT DATADID WE GENERATE TO SAY NO,
02:14:43 34 SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT, 36 IF WE DO
02:14:44 OVERTIME.WE PAID FOR A STUDY AND WE ARE
02:14:47 TALKING ABOUT PAYING FOR MORE STUDIES
02:14:50 BUT WHAT GOOD ARE THEY IF WE ARE NOT
02:14:51 FOLLOWING THEM?WE ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE
02:14:54 DATA. IF WE PROPOSE AN ADDITIONAL STUDY
02:14:55 TO METHAT'S A WASTE OF MONEY.THAT WAS
02:15:03 ALSO DONE BEFORE THE INCREASE IN
02:15:04 POPULATION.WELL ADVANCE IN THE 4K OF
02:15:08 WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.IF WE INTEND
02:15:10 TO DO MORESTUDIES, YOU GUYS ARE
02:15:15 SUGGESTING ARE WE GOING TO LISTEN TO
02:15:16 THE DATA OR IS IT GOING TO BE A STUDY
02:15:21 THAT IS GENERATED THAT WE TAKE WITH A
02:15:22 GRAIN OF SALT IF THE BUDGET ALLOWS FOR
02:15:23 WE'LL APPROVE? THAT SEEMS LIKE A WASTE
02:15:26 OF MONEY. ALSOI KNOW THAT THE STATE
02:15:29 RELIED HEAVILYON THE PRISON POPULATION
02:15:34 TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE FIRE EFFORTS. A
02:15:38 LOT OF PEOPLE GOT RELEASED DURING
02:15:39 KOVIC. THEY ARE INDEED GOING TO BE
02:15:40 RELYING ONCITIES TO CONTRIBUTE TO
02:15:42 FIGHTING FIRES.NOW I HEARD A SUGGESTION,
02:15:48 MAY BEVOLUNTEERS.DO WE REALLYWANT TO
02:15:54 VOLUNTEER SHOWING UP? THAT'S GREAT AND
02:15:57 ADMIRABLE AND I TAKE NOTHING AWAY BUT
02:15:59 MY COMFORT LEVEL WITH THAT ISARE WE
02:16:02 GOING TO HAVE OUR FIREFIGHTERS WATCHING
02:16:06 OVER THEIR SHOULDERS MORE AND NOT
02:16:07 PAYING ATTENTION TO THE FIREORTS
02:16:08 EMERGENCY AND THEY ARE TO WATCHING OUT
02:16:11 FOR THE VOLUNTEERS, SO THAT'S A CONCERN
02:16:13 FOR ME. IN TERMSOF THE ROIOUR
02:16:19 INVESTMENT IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY, OUR
02:16:20 ROIS, THE ROI IS THE SENSE OF SAFETY
02:16:25 THAT IF SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN TO MYSELF
02:16:27 , TO A MEMBER OF MY COMMUNITYTHAT THERE
02:16:29 WILL BE A FAST RESPONSE. SO THAT'S THE
02:16:35 ROI. AND THEN JUST HAVING A BEAUTIFUL
02:16:36 CITY AND HAVING FIRE AND POLICE
02:16:40 DEPARTMENT THAT WE CAN READILY RELY
02:16:41 UPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
02:16:43 >>THANK YOU, MIKE. ANTHONY, GO AHEAD,
02:16:45 ANTHONY.
02:16:52 >>CAN YOU HEAR ME?
02:16:53 >>YES, WE CAN. GO AHEAD.
02:16:55 >>HELLO, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE
02:16:56 COUNSELING. I AMAND THE POST PAUL, I AM
02:17:02 (INAUDIBLE) AND A SANTA CLARA CITIZEN.
02:17:03 THANKS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK TONIGHTAND
02:17:07 YOU MIGHT BE TIRED OF HEARING ME SPEAK
02:17:08 ON THE BUDGET ITEMS AS THEY RELATE TO
02:17:09 PUBLIC SAFETY. I SPOKE TO YOU A FEW
02:17:11 MONTHS BACK REGARDING THE BUDGET
02:17:12 REDUCTIONS THE FIRE DEPARTMENTANDA FEW
02:17:17 MONTHS AGOTHE COUNCIL VOTED TO FREEZE
02:17:20 12 POSITIONSAND THAT RESULTED IN A
02:17:25 REDUCTION IN DAILY STAFFING FROM 40
02:17:26 FIREFIGHTERS TO 36 AND TODAY WAS BEFORE
02:17:27 YOU IS ANOTHER REDUCTION IN OVERTIME
02:17:31 AND IT'S JUST NOT THAT SIMPLEBECAUSE WE
02:17:36 ARE SHORT STAFFED AND SO WHAT THAT DOES
02:17:37 IS LEAVES US WITH VACANCIES EVERY
02:17:38 SINGLE DAYWITH OVER TIME. WHEN YOU
02:17:44 REDUCE THAT OVER TIME OUR STAFFING IS
02:17:45 GOING TO DROP TO 34. WE WENT FROM 40 TO
02:17:46 36AND NOW THE PROPOSAL IS TO 34.WHILE
02:17:49 THIS MAY NOT SEEM LIKE THAT MUCH, EVERY
02:17:50 SINGLE BODY TAKEN AWAY FROM THE LINE
02:17:53 MAKES IT THAT MUCH HARDER TO ACCOMPLISH
02:17:54 THE MISSION ON A DAILY BASIS ON
02:17:58 EMERGENCY CALLS. IT HAD SOME ADDITIONAL
02:17:59 LOAD TO THE EXISTING STAFF ANDWAS
02:18:02 PROPOSED TONIGHT ON THE RESCUEIN THE
02:18:05 HAZMAT UNITS IN PARTICULAR, THERESPONSE
02:18:07 FOR THOSE CALLS IS INCREDIBLY LARGE AS
02:18:10 IT IS WITH FIRES. THIS IS TWO LESS
02:18:13 PEOPLE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO ACCOMPLISH
02:18:14 THOSE TASKS AND IS TWO LESS PEOPLE
02:18:15 THAT'S AVAILABLE TO DRIVE THAT
02:18:17 APPARATUS,TO DO REGULAR MAINTENANCE,
02:18:20 ALL THOSE DUTIES STILL HAVE TO BE TAKEN
02:18:21 ON AND NOT JUST ADDITIONAL LOAD THAT
02:18:25 DOESN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN RIGHT NOW. THIS
02:18:29 IS ALSO LESS PERSONAL AVAILABLE TO
02:18:30 MUTUAL AID ON A DAILY BASIS. YOUR
02:18:33 HAZMAT AND TEAMS FOR THE SEARCH AND
02:18:34 RESCUE TEAMS ARE ALSO RESOURCES, THEIR
02:18:35 TYPE BY THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY
02:18:39 SERVICES, THEY CAN BE PULLED INTO OUR
02:18:40 SURROUNDING AREAS. IT'S NOT JUST THE
02:18:41 WILDFIRES. WE HAVE TO BE READY TO
02:18:43 RESPOND IF WE HAVE LESS STAFFING FOR
02:18:45 THOSE UNITSIT DOES AFFECT WHAT HAPPENS
02:18:48 NOT JUST IN SANTA CLARA BUT ALSO
02:18:53 OUTSIDE OF ACCOUNTING. SO WHAT I'M
02:18:54 ASKING TONIGHT IS FOR THREE THINGS. THE
02:18:55 FIRST IS TO NOT REDUCE THE OVER
02:19:03 (INAUDIBLE) BONDS THE SECOND IS TO
02:19:04 UNFREEZE THE HIRING SO WE CAN HIRE SO
02:19:05 WE DON'T HAVE TO YOU SO MUCH OVERTIME,
02:19:06 TEAM UNFREEZE THE PROMOTIONAL HIRING
02:19:08 AND TO UNDO THE LAST ROUND OF BUDGET
02:19:09 CUTS. WE COULD USE THE HELP TO GET US
02:19:12 BACK TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE AS WE START
02:19:13 TO REOPEN AND WE START TO SEETHE CITY
02:19:15 COME BACK TO LIFE. THANKS FOR YOUR
02:19:16 CONSIDERATION.
02:19:17 >>THANK YOU, ANTHONY.AL, GO AHEAD.
02:19:29 >>HI, I AM CALLING IN TODAY IN
02:19:30 OPPOSITION OF THE BUDGET CUTS TO PUBLIC
02:19:31 SAFETY. SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE ALREADY
02:19:32 MENTIONEDPORTIONS OF MY LETTER BUT I
02:19:36 WANT TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC. OUR
02:19:37 BUDGET WAS ALREADY CUT THIS MARGIN. THE
02:19:38 PROPOSED CUTS TODAYWITH DRAWDOWN OUR
02:19:41 SERVICES TO AN UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL. THE
02:19:43 CITIZENS OF SANTA CLARAEXPECT AND DEMAND
02:19:48 THE WELL STAFF FIRE AND POLICE
02:19:49 DEPARTMENT. THESE CUTS IMPACT THE FIRE
02:19:50 DEPARTMENT'S ABILITYTO PROVIDE THAT
02:19:53 HIGH-QUALITY SERVICE I ENCOURAGE YOU TO
02:19:56 READ THE $300,000 STAFFING STUDY DONE
02:19:58 BY THE CITY A FEW YEARS AGO. THE
02:20:00 DOCUMENT STATES THAT THE STAFFING FOR
02:20:03 THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA SHOULD BE 45PER
02:20:07 DAY, NOT 34. OUR CITY'S POPULATION IS
02:20:10 ONLY INCREASED SINCE THEN AND IS ONE OF
02:20:11 THE FASTEST GROWING IN THE STATE. NORA
02:20:13 MOREOVER THE ADDITIONAL CUTSHAPPENED AS
02:20:19 WE ARE FACING DROUGHT AND AND OR A
02:20:20 DANGEROUSLY DRY WILDFIRE SEASON.
02:20:22 COUNCILMEMBER JANE MADE MENTION OF HIS
02:20:23 CONCERN OVER THESE CONDITIONS. IT IS
02:20:29 ONLY JUNE YET WILDFIRES HAVE ALREADY
02:20:30 BURNED ABOUT 14,000 ACRES IN CALIFORNIA
02:20:31 THIS YEAR. THIS IS FIVE TIMES MOREIN
02:20:32 THIS TIME LAST YEAR. YOU MAY NOT HAVE
02:20:33 BEEN AWAREBUT WHEN CHIEF SPOKE TONIGHT
02:20:36 BUT FOR EVERY FIREFIGHTERTHAT IS PULLED
02:20:44 FOR WILDFIRES THAT GREATLY BENEFITS ARE
02:20:45 SITTING FINANCIALLY. NOT ONLY DOES THE
02:20:46 STATE READ AND FIRST THE CITY FOR THE
02:20:47 EMPLOYEE FIREFIGHTERS, THE STATE ALSO
02:20:49 PAYS THE OVERTIME FOR THE PERSONTHAT
02:20:54 HAS TO BACKFILL THEIR SPOT.
02:20:55 ADDITIONALLY THE STATE PAYS THE CITY A
02:20:56 GENEROUS PERCENTAGE FOR EVERY
02:20:57 FIREFIGHTERSENT. A COSTSTHE CITY
02:21:01 NOTHING BUT IT DOES MAKE THE CITY MONEY.
02:21:03 A BIT MORE STAFFING WITH MORE
02:21:07 FIREFIGHTERS AVAILABLE FOR DEPLOYMENT
02:21:08 TO GENERATE REVENUE FOR THE CITY.IF WE
02:21:12 ARE WORRIED ABOUT REVENUE, HERE'S A
02:21:13 REVENUE SOURCE. BRING IN VOLUNTEERS IS
02:21:15 NOT A VIABLE OPTION. THE SUGGESTION IS
02:21:16 LUDICROUSBECAUSE THEY ARE NOT TRYING
02:21:21 TRAINED TO DO THE JOB. WITH INCREASES
02:21:22 IN POPULATION WE ALSO SEE AN INCREASE
02:21:23 IN CRIME RATES.THEY ARE UP FOR ALL
02:21:24 TYPES OF CRIME IN OUR CITYAND IT
02:21:26 SHOULDN'T BE THIS WAY. BUT IT IS BECAUSE
02:21:28 REDUCE CONTROL OFFICERS PATROL
02:21:32 OFFICERS DO THE BIGGEST BUDGET CUTS. I
02:21:37 KNOW THE CRIME WAVE THAT HAPPENED RIGHT
02:21:38 ON CITY HALL STEP. YOU WANT THAT KIND
02:21:39 OF BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS? WHAT IF THAT
02:21:42 WAS ONE OF YOU COMING OUT OF ONE OF
02:21:43 YOUR LATE-NIGHT COUNCIL MEETINGS? WE
02:21:46 ARE PUTTING CITIZENS LIVES AT RISK BY
02:21:47 AGREEING TO THESE DECISIONS.
02:21:50 [CROSSTALK] PUBLIC SAFETY.
02:21:56 >>THANK YOU. WE HAVE YOUR LETTER, IT
02:21:57 WAS AN AWESOME LETTER, THANK YOU. LEE,
02:21:58 GLAD.
02:22:02 >>I REALLY APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION
02:22:06 TONIGHT.I HAVE NEVER CALLED IN BEFORE.
02:22:11 AND I REALLY APPRECIATECOUNCIL SAYING
02:22:15 WE SHOULD LITERALLY LOOK AT TRAFFIC. I
02:22:18 HEAR COUNCILMEMBER TERESA O'NEILL,
02:22:22 TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC.WASN'T THAT
02:22:26 AN AMAZING THING? ALL OF A SUDDEN WE
02:22:27 WANT TO DO ANOTHER REVIEW. WE HAVE A
02:22:32 SERIOUS BUDGET DEFICIT, HEARD WE HAVE
02:22:33 SEVEN MONTHSOF MONEY TO RUN THE CITY.
02:22:37 LET'S FACE THAT.I THINK LET'S WAIT TILL
02:22:41 WE GOT INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY
02:22:43 BEFORE WE START LOOKING AT TRAFFIC THAT
02:22:47 IS AFFECTED BY EVERY CITY AROUND US. IF
02:22:49 WE DO SOMETHING WE CAN'T REALLY CONTROL
02:22:50 IT. THANK YOU.
02:22:55 >>THANK YOU, LEE. IS THERE ANY OTHER
02:22:57 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO
02:22:59 COMMENT, BOB, GO AHEAD, BOB.
02:23:08 >>YES, THANK YOU, MAYOR, GOOD EVENING.
02:23:10 BOB O'KEEFE.I AM HOPEFUL WHAT I'VE
02:23:16 HEARD TONIGHT FROM SEVERAL
02:23:17 COUNCILMEMBERS, WE ALL KNOW THE PUBLIC
02:23:18 SERVICE IS PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE
02:23:19 PRIORITY FOR MOST OF THE CITIZENS OF
02:23:20 SANTA CLARA, WHERE WE LIVE WORK AND
02:23:22 RAISE OUR FAMILIES.THE CITY LITERATURE
02:23:33 (INAUDIBLE) HAS A TOUGH JOB. THEY HAVE
02:23:34 TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND I APPRECIATE
02:23:35 THE HARD WORK THEY DID PUTTING INTO
02:23:36 THAT. IT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL TO REALLY
02:23:39 PICKED THE FINE TUNING ON THE BUDGET. I
02:23:42 WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR COUNCILMEMBER
02:23:45 PARKING COUNCILMEMBER BECKERALONG WITH
02:23:49 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND THE MAYOR
02:23:53 SUPPORT OUR POLICE AND FIRE
02:23:54 DEPARTMENTS. WE NEED THE SERVICES, WE
02:23:55 NEED THEM BAD.FOR COUNCILMEMBER CHAHAL,
02:23:57 IT'S A GOOD IDEAVOLUNTEERS FROM THE
02:24:05 FIRE DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY WERE THERE TO
02:24:06 AUGMENT THE SERVICES, NOT TO REPLACE
02:24:07 THEM. THE LATEST STUDY THAT I SAW WAS 45
02:24:10 PERSONNEL FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENTDOWN
02:24:14 TO 40, DOWN TO 36AND NOW DOWN TO 34.THE
02:24:20 BURDEN THAT YOU PUT ON THE MEN AND WOMEN
02:24:26 BEHIND THE SHIELD FIGHTING THOSE FIRES
02:24:27 IS HORRENDOUS. IT'S NOT JUST A NUMBERS
02:24:28 GAME. YES, MONEY CAN BE PAID BACK, YES,
02:24:30 OVERTIME CAN BE PAID BACK, BUT WITH THE
02:24:33 LOWERED NUMBERS OF PERSONNEL OUT THERE,
02:24:37 REMEMBER, LIFE IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO
02:24:38 THESE PEOPLE, THERE'S GOING TO BE
02:24:43 FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT, THERE'S GOING
02:24:44 TO BE SICKNESS AND THESE PEOPLE WILL
02:24:45 NOT BE ABLE TO BE FULLY STAFFEVEN AT
02:24:46 34. SO PLEASE READ LOOK AT ALL PUBLIC
02:24:48 SAFETY EMPLOYEES IN THE FIRE AND USE
02:24:53 THESE BUDGET STABILIZATION'S, I BELIEVE
02:24:56 IT WAS KATHY YEAR COUNCILMEMBER
02:24:57 WATANABE SAIDLET'S LOOK AT IT AGAIN IN
02:24:58 SIX MONTHSBUT USE THAT MONEY NOWFOR THE
02:25:03 BUDGET RESERVES AND PAY IT BACK LATER.
02:25:08 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:25:09 >>THANK YOU. CONCERNING WHAT ELSE ON
02:25:10 THE PUBLIC WE
02:25:11 >>I HAVE AN ECONOMIC HERE.
02:25:12 >>GO AHEAD, PLEASE.
02:25:15 >>ANY COMMENT FROM SALLY SC THAT READS
02:25:22 NO CUTS TO PUBLIC SAFETY. IF OUR CITY
02:25:23 WAS IN SUCH A BAD WAY WE WOULD STILL BE
02:25:24 TRYING TO HIRE MORE POSITIONSIN THE
02:25:25 CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. HOW DO YOU
02:25:26 JUSTIFYHIRING THERE YET NOT ANOTHER
02:25:35 DEPARTMENTS? GIVE THE RESIDENTS A LEVEL
02:25:36 OF SERVICE THEY DESERVE A FULLY STAFFED
02:25:37 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND FIRE DEPARTMENT.
02:25:38 END OF COMMENT.
02:25:39 >>DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?
02:25:41 >>I WAS THE ONLY ONE.I HAD, MAYOR.
02:25:42 >>I DON'T SEE ANY MORE PUBLIC MEMBERS,
02:25:50 I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO COUNCIL COMMENTS
02:25:51 , COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE?
02:25:58 >>I APOLOGIZE, MAYOR, I THINK THAT'S UP
02:25:59 FROM BEFORE.
02:26:00 >>VICE MAYOR?
02:26:04 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO I HEARD THAT
02:26:08 CITY IS MAKING MONEY OUT OF THE
02:26:10 DEPLOYMENT(INAUDIBLE).WHATEVER MONEYIS
02:26:18 PROJECTEDTHAT THE CITY IS MAKINGTHAT
02:26:24 SHOULD BE PUT INTO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
02:26:25 BUDGET, AND WHATEVER REVENUEOR WHATEVER
02:26:29 AMOUNT WE HAVEWE CAN UNFREEZE FROM
02:26:35 THAT. LET'S UNFREEZE BOTHAT LEASTAS THE
02:26:41 PROJECTED BUDGET SO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT
02:26:44 HAS SOME CUSHION TO HAVEMORE THAN 34
02:26:50 (INAUDIBLE). I AM NOT SURE IF ANYBODY
02:26:51 HAS AN IDEA LIKE HOW MUCH MONEY THE
02:26:52 CITY MADE LAST YEAR, TAKING THE EXAMPLE
02:26:56 LAST YEAR. CITY MANAGER?
02:26:58 >>WE ASK THAT EARLIER AND SHE WAS GOING
02:27:01 TO BRING IT BACK.
02:27:05 >>I THINK THE QUESTIONS AND THE
02:27:06 COMMENTS THAT HAVE COME UP TODAY,I
02:27:09 WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH
02:27:10 THE FINANCE DIRECTOR AND PROVIDE
02:27:11 INFORMATION FOR JUNE 22.
02:27:14 >>OKAY, YES.WHATEVER MONEY WE ANTICIPATE
02:27:21 , WE CAN CORRESPONDINGLY UNFREEZE SO
02:27:26 THAT WE HAVE(INAUDIBLE) IN THE FIRE
02:27:30 DEPARTMENT.THIS GOES TO A COUPLE OF
02:27:34 COMMENTSI MADE, IT'S NOT THE BEST
02:27:38 SOLUTION, I AM TRYING TO HELP OUTIN
02:27:41 THIS CURRENT SCENARIOWHERE LEFTOVER
02:27:44 FIREFIGHTERS AREMORE BURDENED IN TRYING
02:27:49 REDUCE THE LOAD IN THE BEST CASE
02:27:50 SCENARIO, HOW WE CAN DO THAT.IT'S A
02:27:55 TEMPORARY SOLUTION,WHATEVER WE CAN DO
02:27:58 TO HELP ALLEVIATETHE REST OF THE
02:28:02 FIREFIGHTERS, THAT WOULD HELP. THANK
02:28:05 YOU.
02:28:10 >>OKAY. IS THERE ANY OTHER
02:28:11 COUNCILMEMBERS THAT WANT TO MAKEA
02:28:12 COMMENT?COUNCILMEMBER.
02:28:17 >>YES, THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK
02:28:18 THE GENTLEMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT
02:28:19 ACCORDING TO THE DATA, THE DATA SAYS
02:28:24 AND WHAT DATA DID WE USED TO GET DOWN
02:28:25 TO 34? I HEAR EVEN IN THIS COUNCIL
02:28:26 MEETING THAT DATA IS KING. DATA MEANS
02:28:29 EVERYTHING.I AM GOING TO SAY DATA ARE
02:28:35 JUST DATA MEANING DATA HAVE NO LOYALTY
02:28:37 AND DATA DOESN'T ACTUALLY SET THE POLICY
02:28:42 , THAT'S THE PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT THE
02:28:43 DATA, UNDERSTAND IT OR INTERPRET ITIN
02:28:45 WHATEVER WAYS THAT THEY CAN TO JUSTIFY
02:28:46 THEIR ACTIONSAND POLICIES AND I THINK
02:28:48 WE NEED TO START USING OURTHINKING
02:28:51 PROCESSES INSTEAD OF JUST LOOKING AT
02:28:53 THE NUMBERS.I WOULD LIKE TO NOT JUST
02:28:56 LOOK AT NOT JUST PRESERVING THE
02:28:59 OVERTIME BUT ADDING BUDGETS TO INCREASE
02:29:02 STAFFING. AFTER SOME HIRING, MAYBE WE
02:29:06 CAN LOOK AT CUTTING BACK ON OVERTIME
02:29:07 BUT REDUCING OVERTIMEWHILE WE ARE
02:29:11 ALREADY UNDERSTAFFED IS NOT THE RIGHT
02:29:12 DECISION, EVEN MAINTAIN, NOT
02:29:17 INCREASING, JUST MAINTAINING SAFETY IS
02:29:18 OUR GOAL. SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN MAKE MONEY
02:29:19 IF WE INCREASE STAFFING I WOULD LIKE
02:29:20 STAFFTO TAKE A DEEPER LOOK INTO THESE
02:29:25 OPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. I KNOW THAT
02:29:26 WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY IT'S NOT JUST
02:29:28 THE CRIMES WHERE PEOPLE GET HURT BUT
02:29:33 THERE BEEN A FLURRY OF ROBBERIES, BOTH
02:29:34 RESTAURANTS AND CARDS AT THE MANY MALLS
02:29:37 OFF OF EL CAMINO. WE HAD TO BUSINESSES
02:29:38 IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, I HAD
02:29:41 WINDOWS BROKEN AND PROPERTY SOLD PEER
02:29:42 COMINGONE ROBBERY TO A BUSINESS DURING
02:29:44 THE RECOVERYCOULD KILL A BUSINESS,
02:29:48 THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS BECAUSE THAT'S
02:29:51 RIGHT OFF OF MY DISTRICT. CUSTOMERS WHO
02:29:54 HAVE HAD CARS BROKEN INTONO LONGER FEEL
02:29:59 SAFE SHOPPING THERE. THEIR FRIENDS ARE
02:30:00 THE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE BUSINESS
02:30:01 OWNERS CAN'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT SAY WE
02:30:02 ARE SO SAPPY SORRY THIS HAPPENED TO
02:30:05 YOU. THAT'S NOT GOING TO BRING BUSINESS
02:30:06 BACK TO SANTA CLARA.I WOULD LIKE STAFF
02:30:14 TO CLARIFY THE CUTS TO POLICE POSITIONS
02:30:15 AT THE MAYOR SAIDCOUNCIL (INAUDIBLE)
02:30:19 EARLIER THIS YEAR. IF MY RECOLLECTIONS
02:30:20 ARE CORRECTI WE ACTUALLY VOTED TO
02:30:22 ACCEPT THE POLICE CHIEFS BUDGETS AND WE
02:30:25 ADDITIONALLY FROZE THE POSITIONS THAT
02:30:28 WERE SUPPOSED TO BE CUTBUT WHEN WE TALK
02:30:33 ABOUT BUT DEFUNDING THE POLICE AND
02:30:34 CUTTINGCSO'S AND REMOVINGPOSITIONS
02:30:38 GETTING RID OF PEOPLE,EVERYBODY WANTS
02:30:44 TO KNOW WHERE THAT COMES FROM THE, IT'S
02:30:48 THAT IS NOT MY UNDERSTANDING OR
02:30:49 REMEMBERED. LASTLYI AM NOT SURE THAT
02:30:53 INCREASINGTAXES ON VISITORS IS THE BEST
02:30:57 POLICYTO AFFECT BUSINESS GROWTH AT THIS
02:31:02 TIME. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW WE'VE
02:31:03 BEEN CUT BACK ON OTHER POSITIONS. I
02:31:07 WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF
02:31:09 PROGRAMSTHAT WE CONTRIBUTE TOTHAT ARE
02:31:14 NICE TO HAVE, I THINK THAT IF GIVEN A
02:31:18 CHOICE BETWEEN THE SAFETYIN DEALING
02:31:21 WITH NOISE OR SAFETY IN DEALING WITH
02:31:22 TRAFFICI THINK I WOULD RATHER DEAL WITH
02:31:27 A LITTLE BIT OF NOISE UNDERSTANDING THAT
02:31:31 WHEN WE ARE SAFE WE WILL FEEL MUCH
02:31:32 MORE COMFORTABLE MAKING THE DECISIONS.
02:31:33 ANDDEAL WITH A LITTLE BIT OF TRAFFIC,
02:31:38 UNDERSTANDING THAT, IF ANYTHING
02:31:39 HAPPENS, WE'VE GOT THEPOLICE FORCEAND
02:31:43 THE FIRE FORCE TO DEAL WITH THAT. THANK
02:31:44 YOU VERY MUCH.
02:31:48 >>CITY MANAGER, DID SOMEONE WANT TOWERE
02:31:51 DIRECTOR LEE REMIND COUNCILMEMBER PARK
02:31:55 OF CUTS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY
02:31:56 COUNCIL MADEIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN
02:31:57 MARCH?
02:32:01 >>I CAN MAKE SOME COMMENTS TO THAT,
02:32:02 THIS IS, APPRECIATE ACCOUNTS QUESTION,
02:32:07 COUNCILMEMBER PARK, AND AS A REMINDER,
02:32:08 PHASE 1BUDGET PROPOSALS IN RESPONSE TO
02:32:10 HER COVID19TH DEFICIT WAS WE WENT
02:32:14 THROUGH SOME LENGTHY DISCUSSION IN MARCH
02:32:18 THAT WAS APPROVED, THAT INCLUDED THE
02:32:21 FREEZING OF POSITIONS, NOTBUT IT DID
02:32:23 INCLUDEI BELIEVE IT WAS A SWORN OFFICERS
02:32:28 , SOME CSO'SAS PART OF THAT ACTION.I DO
02:32:35 WANT TO MENTION THAT WITH OUR BUDGET
02:32:36 DEFICITS NONE OF THE PROPOSALS WERE
02:32:38 SUBMITTED LIGHTLY, THIS IS AN
02:32:41 UNPRECEDENTEDTIME ANDWITH KNOWING THAT
02:32:49 OUR PRIORITIES ARE ON OUR ESSENTIAL
02:32:50 SERVICESTHIS PROPOSED BUDGET REFLECTS
02:32:55 SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WAS RECEIVED
02:32:56 IN THAT PHASE 1 ACTION.
02:32:57 >>THANK YOU, DIRECTOR.
02:33:01 >>ARE YOU SAYING THAT
02:33:03 >>ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, GO AHEAD.
02:33:09 >>FOR CLARIFICATION, I BELIEVE THATTHE
02:33:13 FROZEN POSITIONS INCLUDED CSO'S BUT WE
02:33:14 DID NOT REMOVE ANY POSITIONS THAT WERE
02:33:18 FILLED, IS THAT CORRECT?
02:33:19 >>CORRECT, THERE WERE NO FILLED
02:33:21 POSITION CUTS. THESE WERE ALL VACANT
02:33:22 POSITIONS. AND THEN THE NEW ONES OF
02:33:26 FREEZING THEM, KEEPING THE FTE, BUT
02:33:29 REMOVING THE DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO
02:33:30 BALANCE THE BUDGET DUE TO COVID-19.
02:33:31 >>UNDERSTOOD. SO INSTEAD OF ELIMINATING
02:33:34 POSITIONS WHICH WOULD'VE MADE THOSE
02:33:36 POSITIONS UNAVAILABLEFOR HIRING, WE DID
02:33:40 CHOOSE TO FREEZE THOSE POSITIONS AND
02:33:45 MAINTAIN THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE
02:33:46 ALREADY HAD, FREEZING THE POSITIONS
02:33:47 THAT WERE NOT FILLED SO WE COULD
02:33:48 POTENTIALLYIN THE FUTURE. IS THAT
02:33:49 CORRECT?
02:33:50 >>WE DID FREEZE THE FTES BUT TO BALANCE
02:33:59 OUR COVID DEFICIT, WE DID REMOVE THE
02:34:00 DOLLARS ASSOCIATEDWITH THOSE FTES FROM
02:34:05 THE BUDGET.
02:34:06 >>OKAY, BUT THEY'RE FROZEN SO CONSULT
02:34:08 HIGHER AGAINST IN THE FUTURE AND BUDGET
02:34:09 THEM ACCORDINGLY.
02:34:14 >>IF THERE BUDGETED, YES.
02:34:15 >>OKAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:34:16 >>LET ME FOLLOW UP ON THAT.ARE WE AT
02:34:18 THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE FROM BEFORE
02:34:21 THE BUDGET CUTS IN MARCHTO AFTER THE
02:34:24 BUDGET CUTS IN MARCH?THEN WHY ARE WE
02:34:32 HAVING ISSUES WITH ALL OF OUR CSO'S IN
02:34:36 OUR DARE PROGRAMS AND OTHER THINGS? ARE
02:34:38 WE AT THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE AND
02:34:39 WHAT WAS THE AMOUNTOF THE CUTS FROM
02:34:41 MARCH FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN
02:34:44 DOLLARS? DO YOU REMEMBER,CAN'T? I DON'T
02:34:48 WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT.
02:34:51 >>WE HAVE THE SLIDE ABOUT THE
02:34:52 PERCENTAGE CUTSBY DEPARTMENT IN THE
02:34:54 PUBLIC SAFETYAS WELL AS THE AVERAGE.
02:34:55 >>FROM PHASE 1?
02:34:56 >>YES, LET ME SHARE MY SCREEN.SO THIS
02:35:11 IS SLIDE 16AND SO THIS SUMMARIZES THE
02:35:14 DOLLARS BY DEPARTMENTFOR BOTH PHASE I
02:35:17 AND PHASE II. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE IN
02:35:22 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS 3.65MILLION
02:35:25 DOLLARS, THAT'S A COMBINATION OF
02:35:27 MULTIPLE PROPOSALS AND THEN WHEN YOU
02:35:31 COMBINE IT WITH THOSE PHASE I AND PHASE
02:35:32 II THE COLUMN ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE
02:35:35 PERCENTAGE OF THE DISCRETIONARY BUDGET
02:35:38 THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THE BUDGET AND
02:35:39 AGAIN, THESE ARETHE DOLLARS AND NOT THE
02:35:41 FTESTHAT WERE IN THE BUDGET.
02:35:49 >>SO THAT MEANS WE CAN HAVE OUR DARE
02:35:50 PROGRAMSAND IF THERE IS NO CHANGE IN
02:35:52 LEVEL OF SERVICE? I WOULD LIKE A
02:35:57 CLARIFICATION OF THAT FOR THE NEXT
02:35:59 MEETING.
02:36:03 >>AND YOU RESTATE YOUR QUESTION, MAYOR?
02:36:08 >>THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AFTER PHASE 1
02:36:09 CUTS, THERE WAS A REDUCTIONIN POSITIONS
02:36:12 AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. AND IN
02:36:17 PHASE 2 THERE WILL BE FURTHER REDUCTION
02:36:18 SERVICES AND POSITIONS TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:36:24 >>WOULD YOU LIKE US TO COLLABORATE IN
02:36:27 RESPONSE FOR JUNE 22 ON THE IMPACT?
02:36:30 >>WE NEED TO CLARIFY THAT.BECAUSE THEN
02:36:33 WHY ARE WE CUTTING ALL THESE PROGRAMS
02:36:36 IF THERE WAS AN REDUCTION IN SERVICE TO
02:36:37 THE COMMUNITY? I HAVE BEEN IN SO MANY
02:36:42 MEETINGS WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND
02:36:43 THE COMMUNITY, I KNOW ABOUT THE
02:36:45 REDUCTIONS, SO I KNOW WHAT THE COUNCIL
02:36:48 VOTED ON, WHAT THEY DID,THE
02:36:54 COUNCILMEMBERS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY
02:36:55 VOTED ON, BUT YES, THERE WAS A
02:36:56 REDUCTION IN SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:37:01 ANYWAYS, OKAY.
02:37:05 >>RESTATE THE PROPOSALS FOR THE JUNE 22
02:37:09 ? COUNCIL MEETING?
02:37:10 >>THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER.DO WE HAVE
02:37:16 ANY OTHER COMMENTSFROM COUNCIL? LET'S
02:37:20 SEE, WE HAVECOUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
02:37:21 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. JUST ADD ON TO WHAT
02:37:27 YOU ARE JUST SAYING, MY RECOLLECTION IS
02:37:30 THERE WERE 15CUTS, SIX OF WHOM, EXCUSE
02:37:33 ME, EIGHT OF WHOM WERE OFFICERS. THE
02:37:39 REST I BELIEVE THERE WERE CSO AND THERE
02:37:41 WAS SOME ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AS WELL.
02:37:44 WHAT WE WERE ASKING FOR, I THINK IT WAS
02:37:48 YOU AND COUNCILMEMBER BECKER AND MYSELF
02:37:50 , WERE TRYING TO SAVE THOSE POSITIONS.
02:37:53 IT WAS GOING TO COST LIKE EITHER 1.1
02:37:56 $1.6 MILLION FOR SIX MONTHS TO HOLD
02:37:58 THOSE POSITIONSIN PLACE AND WE COULDN'T
02:38:00 GETA CONSENSUS TO SAVE THOSE POSITIONS.
02:38:05 BUT I APPRECIATEHAVING THE
02:38:09 CLARIFICATION COME BACK AT THE NEXT
02:38:10 MEETING.
02:38:12 >>THANK YOU. I SMEARED ALL?
02:38:15 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR.FROM EQUITY POINT OF
02:38:18 VIEW I KNOW THERE ARE DIFFERENT GROUPS
02:38:22 WHO HAVE COME TO THE TABLETO RECEIVE
02:38:24 SOME DOLLARS, AND WE ARE ASFAMILY, LIKE
02:38:31 A STERRETT SANTA CLARA FAMILY OF
02:38:32 EMPLOYEES, ANDI THINK EMPLOYEE UNIONS
02:38:37 AND GROUPS ARE STILL WORKING ON IT.I
02:38:39 WOULD HUMBLY REQUESTTHAT FOR THE SAKE
02:38:41 OF EQUITYLET'S SACRIFICE WHATEVER WE CAN
02:38:48 SO THAT WE CAN FULFILLTHE REQUIREMENTS
02:38:51 OF THE CITYAND IF WE CAN PUT OUR
02:38:58 (INAUDIBLE) THAT WOULD REALLY HELP US
02:38:59 TO TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THESE ISSUES. SO
02:39:03 SOME OF THAT, WE ARE STILLGOING ON
02:39:06 NEGOTIATIONS THAT CAN BE EXPEDITED GET
02:39:11 A CLEAR PICTURE, THAT WOULD REALLY
02:39:12 HELP. THAT'S MY VIEW. THANK YOU.
02:39:15 >>OKAY. CITY CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY
02:39:17 OTHER COMMENTS? OTHERWISE WE ARE GOING
02:39:20 TO MOVE ON.SORRY, COUNCILMEMBERCLARK,
02:39:28 I'M SORRY, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK. DID WE
02:39:29 HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
02:39:32 >>NOT ON THE ATTENDEE SIDE.
02:39:33 >>OKAY, THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER PARK?
02:39:38 >>YES, SO JUST OF NOTE, I THINK I DO
02:39:39 KNOW WHAT I VOTED ON AND I THINK THAT
02:39:43 AGAIN, WHEN YOU START TREATING THE DATA
02:39:44 MORE SERIOUSLY. I THINK THAT IN THE PAST
02:39:49 WE'VE ASKED DEPARTMENTS, WE NEED SOME
02:39:51 PERCENTAGEOF CUTS TO BALANCE THE
02:39:56 NUMBERS, AND I THINK THAT ASKING FOR A
02:39:59 PERCENTAGE OF CUTSWITHOUT UNDERSTANDING
02:40:02 WHAT THOSE CUTS MEAN, THAT IS ONE OF
02:40:06 THE PROBLEMS WITH HOW WE DO BUDGETS
02:40:08 ANYWHERE. MEANINGAS CODE AND
02:40:09 DEVELOPMENT, WE SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA OF
02:40:10 THE LEVEL OF SERVICE WE WANT FROM EACH
02:40:11 OF OURSERVICES, WHETHER AS POLICE,
02:40:14 FIRE, OR CITY STAFF. IN THE FUNDTO THAT
02:40:18 MINIMUM LEVEL. AND IF WE CAN'T DO IT,
02:40:19 THAT WILL TELL US WHERE OUR REAL BUDGET
02:40:21 SHORTFALLS ARE. BUT BYSIMPLY SAYING,
02:40:25 WELL, WE NEED TO MAKE THESE CUTS, WE
02:40:28 ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT ENGINEERSAND
02:40:35 (INAUDIBLE) DO NOT LIKE. WE ARE SAYING
02:40:36 WE ARE NOT LOOKING AND ENGINEERING,
02:40:37 WERE NOT LOOKING AT PRODUCT
02:40:38 REQUIREMENTS, WE ARE SIMPLYLOOKING AT
02:40:39 WHAT THE BUDGET SAYS IN THE BUDGET
02:40:40 NEVER TELLS USTHAT WE SHOULD HAVE THE
02:40:41 BEST PRODUCT. IT NEVER TELLS USWE
02:40:44 SHOULD HAVE THE BEST SERVICES. I THINK
02:40:45 WE NEED TO DOAS THE GENTLEMAN SAID,
02:40:48 LOOK AT WHAT THE DATA TELLS US IN AND
02:40:52 LISTEN TO THE DATA. WHAT'S THE POINT OF
02:40:53 HAVING PRINCIPLES IF WE CHOOSE NOT TO
02:40:55 LIVE BY THEM? I THINK THESEARE THE WAYS
02:40:58 THAT WE SHOULD LOOK ATOUR BUDGETS AND
02:41:02 OUR FISCAL POLICY BECAUSE SIMPLY
02:41:06 CUTTING BECAUSE WE NEED TO GET TO A
02:41:07 CERTAIN BUDGET NUMBER OR WE NEED TO GET
02:41:08 BALANCE, THAT DOESN'T TELL THE REAL
02:41:10 PICTURE OF HOW THE CITYIS BEING RUN OR
02:41:13 SHOULD BE RUN. THANK YOU.
02:41:17 >>THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE
02:41:18 WE MOVE ON?CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVEALL
02:41:25 THE COMMENTS FOR TONIGHT TO ADD ON TO
02:41:26 THE ONES WE HAD LAST TIME?
02:41:27 >>WE DO.THANK YOU.
02:41:28 >>THANK YOU, DIRECTLY IN THANK YOU,
02:41:35 EVERYONE, FOR THAT. I AM GOING TO ASK
02:41:40 THAT WE GO TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR AND
02:41:41 TAKE A 15 MINUTE BREAK. I WOULD LIKE TO
02:41:42 GET THE PEOPLE DOWN HERE AT LEAST A
02:41:45 LITTLE TIME OFF BEFORE WE VENTURE ONTO
02:41:46 THE RESTOF THE HOURS THAT WE HAVE FOR
02:41:48 THIS EVENING. SOI WOULD LIKE TO GET
02:41:51 THROUGH AT LEAST GET THE CONSENT
02:41:52 CALENDARAND THEN LET'S DO CONSENT
02:41:55 CALENDAR PUBLIC PRESENTATION FOR THOSE
02:41:59 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING. IS THERE
02:42:00 A MOTION ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, ALL
02:42:01 ITEMS ARE APPROVED WITH ONE MOTION?
02:42:07 UNLESS AN ITEM IS PULLED FOR DISCUSSION
02:42:11 ON CONSENT CALENDAR. ANY ITEMS ON THE
02:42:12 CALENDAR PULL FOR DISCUSSION?NONE? IS
02:42:16 THERE ANY ITEM FOR THE PUBLIC THAT IS
02:42:17 PULLED FOR DISCUSSIONFROM THE CONSENT
02:42:19 CALENDAR?
02:42:25 >>MADAM CHAIR? WE HAVE A HAND UP.
02:42:26 >>OKAY, YOU HAVE AN ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE
02:42:27 PULLED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR?FOR
02:42:29 DISCUSSION?YOUR MUTED.
02:42:36 >>CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
02:42:37 >>YES, GO AHEAD.
02:42:39 >>GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, IREPRESENT
02:42:44 (INAUDIBLE) AND WE WANTED TO REGISTER
02:42:45 COMMENT (INAUDIBLE)40.
02:42:46 >>40? HOLD ON, PLEASE.SO YOU DON'T WANT
02:42:54 TO PULL IT, YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE A
02:42:56 COMMENT ON THAT?WAY, WE ARE NOT ON
02:43:00 THAT, THAT'S ACTUALLY PULLED LAST WEEK
02:43:03 OR THE WEEK BEFORE FOR DISCUSSION, THAT
02:43:06 ITEM IS ON FOR DISCUSSION.
02:43:08 >>OKAY, I WAS UNDER, I WASN'T SURE, WAS
02:43:11 UNDER ITEM 4 WHICH I UNDERSTOOD TO BE
02:43:16 THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
02:43:17 >>YOU WILL SEE IT ONLY GOES TO N AND
02:43:19 THEN THERE'S PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND
02:43:20 THAT HAPPENED ON MAY 25, THAT CONSENT
02:43:22 ITEM WAS PULLED FOR DISCUSSION. SO I'M
02:43:23 SORRY, IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT LATER.
02:43:28 >>THAT'S FINE.I WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU
02:43:31 CALLEDINDIVIDUALLY. THANK YOU.
02:43:38 >>IS OR ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC
02:43:39 THAT WOULD LIKE TO PULL AN ITEM FROM
02:43:42 THE CONSENT CALENDAR? IF NOT ME I HAVE
02:43:43 A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT
02:43:44 CALENDAR?
02:43:45 >>MOTION TO APPROVE.
02:43:46 >>SECOND.
02:43:49 >>DID I HEAR A SECOND?
02:43:50 >>SECOND.
02:43:53 >>THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER J. ROLL
02:43:54 CALL, PLEASE?
02:43:55 >>
02:43:56 [CALLING ROLL]
02:44:26 >>THAT PASSES YOU NOW IT UNANIMOUSLY.
02:44:27 WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE ITEMS THAT NEEDED
02:44:28 TO GO TONIGHT. NEXT ITEM WE HAVE BEFORE
02:44:29 WE TAKE OUR LITTLE BREAK ISPUBLIC
02:44:30 PRESENTATIONS. CONCERNING MEMBER OF THE
02:44:31 PUBLICTHAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A
02:44:33 PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCILON AN
02:44:35 ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA?OKAY. BOB, GO
02:44:41 AHEAD, BOB.
02:44:49 >>HI, THANK YOU, MAYOR, BOB O'KEEFE
02:44:50 AGAIN, GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL. I KIND OF
02:44:51 JUMPED IN A LITTLE BIT LATE, RIGHT WHEN
02:44:52 THE COUNCILOR YOU, MAYOR,I THINK THE
02:44:57 CITY MANAGER ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT UP,
02:44:58 WAS TO THANK ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES THAT
02:44:59 WAS IN THE CITYCLERK'S OFFICE, SURRATT
02:45:01 COPLEY.THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE HAS BEEN
02:45:05 THE POINT OF CONTACT FOR MANY CITIZENS
02:45:06 OVER THE YEARSFOR MANY ISSUES AND
02:45:09 PERSONALLY I RAN INTO ELECTIONS MACHEN
02:45:14 NOT SPEAK HIGHLY ENOUGH OF THE
02:45:15 PERSONNEL IN THAT OFFICEBETWEEN THE
02:45:16 ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, LAURA PIMENTEL,
02:45:20 AND ESPECIALLY SURAT GODLY. HELPED ME
02:45:24 OUT AND MANY OF THE OTHER SUCCESSFUL
02:45:28 AND UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES OVER THE
02:45:29 YEARS. WHAT A GREAT EMPLOYEE SHE WAS,
02:45:32 WAS VERY SORRY TO HEAR HER LEAVEI THINK
02:45:35 THE CITY HAS LOST A GREAT EMPLOYEE.I
02:45:38 JUST WANTED TO PASS THAT ON, MY
02:45:39 PERSONAL THANKSAND THANKS TO THE
02:45:40 COMMUNITYFOR HER HARD WORK. THANK YOU.
02:45:45 >>THANK YOU FOR THOSENO COMMENTS ABOUT
02:45:52 SEMI, AS WE KNOW HER. ANYONE ELSE? GO
02:45:53 AHEAD, LEE.YOUR MUTED.UNMUTED.
02:46:03 >>I JUST WANT TO REINFORCE THAT YOU
02:46:05 HAVE BEEN THE BEST.THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO
02:46:10 SAY. GOOD LUCK.
02:46:15 >>THANK YOU, LEE. ALL RIGHT, IS THERE
02:46:16 ANY OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS? OKAY,
02:46:19 SCENE NINE, I'M GOING TO ASK THE
02:46:24 COUNCIL, WHAT TIME IS IT? 8:47, LET'S
02:46:25 SAY 9 O'CLOCK, BACK AT 9 O'CLOCK AFTER
02:46:27 A SHORT BREAK. THANK YOU.
02:46:43 >>WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON WITH CONSENT
02:46:49 AGENDA,THE FIRST ONE ISREQUESTING THE
02:47:03 CITY COUNCIL HEAR APPEALS REGARDING
02:47:04 PERMANENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS
02:47:05 DETERMINATIONS REGARDING FREE PERMIT
02:47:06 USE APPLICATIONS FOR BLOOMFUEL CELL
02:47:09 POWER SYSTEM PROJECTS FOLLOWED FOR 2960
02:47:14 (INAUDIBLE) DRIVE, 2970 TO 3000 DRIVE
02:47:17 AND 2200 MISSION COLLEGE BOULEVARD.I
02:47:20 DON'T KNOW WHO PULLED THIS ITEM, I
02:47:22 CAN'T REMEMBER, BUTCITY MANAGER, DO YOU
02:47:27 KNOW WHO PULLED THIS ITEM ORIGINALLY?
02:47:30 >>I DON'T.
02:47:37 >>I MAY HAVE PULLED IT.
02:47:38 >>OKAY, GO AHEAD.MOSTLY I WANTED TO SAY
02:47:40 I HAVE SPOKEN TOCARL GUARDINO AND
02:47:43 STEPHEN LAND. I JUST WANTED TO SAYTHAT
02:47:49 I HAD HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM.
02:47:52 >>IS THAT WHY YOU PULLED IT?
02:47:55 >>I THOUGHT THERE WAS GOING TO BEMORE
02:48:01 DISCUSSION ON THIS, I DON'T HAVE ANY
02:48:02 MORE TO SAY.
02:48:04 >>OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
02:48:12 >>I DID MEET WITH THEM AS WELL.
02:48:13 >>OKAY. LET'S GO TO SHIRAZ, BECAUSE YOU
02:48:14 ACTUALLY WANTED TO SPEAK EARLIER ON
02:48:15 THIS ITEM, SOI AM GOING TO GO TO YOU
02:48:18 NOW.THERE YOU GO, GO AHEAD.
02:48:25 >>THANK YOU, HONORABLE MAYOR,
02:48:26 COUNCILMEMBER. AS MENTIONED BEFORE,
02:48:27 TERRACE(INAUDIBLE) WE REPRESENTBLUE
02:48:32 ENERGY AND ON THE HALF (INAUDIBLE)
02:48:34 APPEALS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA HERE,
02:48:37 THE APPEALS RELATE TO THE CITY'S REFUSAL
02:48:39 TO ISSUE MINISTERIAL PERMITS FOR BLUE
02:48:44 ENERGY INSTALLATIONS IN THE CITY.LOSE
02:48:47 APPEALS ARE TIMELY (INAUDIBLE)COUNCIL
02:48:50 IMMEDIATELY AS A PRELIMINARY MATTERTHE
02:48:53 AGENDA OF THIS MEETING DID NOT INCLUDE
02:48:55 THE ATTACHMENTS TO OUR APRIL 272021
02:48:58 LETTER, THE LETTERSCOULD NOT BE
02:49:02 ATTACHMENTS, THEY WERE SUBMITTED IN THE
02:49:05 ARE CRITICAL PART OF THE RECORD. BLOOM
02:49:07 APPLIED FOR THESEBUILDINGS BACK IN 2019
02:49:12 AND FOLLOWED THE EXACT SAME APPLICATION
02:49:13 PROCEDURE THAT WAS REQUIRED FOR ALL
02:49:14 FOUR OF THE EXISTINGBLOOM FUEL CELL
02:49:20 INSTALLATIONS IN THE CITY. THESE ARE
02:49:21 MINISTERIAL BUILDING PERMITSIN THE CITY
02:49:24 IS REQUIRED TO ISSUE THEM AS A MATTER
02:49:25 OF LAW.CITY (INAUDIBLE) ARGUED THAT
02:49:30 FUEL CELLS ACTUALLY ELECTRIC POWER
02:49:31 PLANTS AND THEREFORE REQUIRED
02:49:32 CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS.THE REASONS
02:49:36 THAT ARE SET OUT IN OUR APRIL 27 LETTER
02:49:37 THAT ACCOMPANIEDAPPEALS THAT ARGUMENT
02:49:44 IS BOTH FACTUALLY AND LEGALLY BASELESS.
02:49:45 FOR MANY REASONS INCLUDING BECAUSE
02:49:46 BLOOM ENERGY SERVICERSDO NOT USE ENERGY
02:49:47 TO GENERATE ELECTRICITYAND THEREFORE
02:49:52 THEY DO NOT MEET THE DEFINITION
02:49:53 POWERPLANTS TO THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL
02:49:54 CODE.WE ASKED OF THE COUNCIL CORRECT
02:50:02 THAT ERROR AND REJECT THE REQUIREMENT.
02:50:03 IN ADDITION THE SINGAPORE IS REQUIRED
02:50:05 HERE BECAUSE FUEL-CELL RELATION TO NOT
02:50:06 REQUIRING DISCRETIONARY APPROVALS AND
02:50:07 WOULD NOT RESULT IN ANY SIGNIFICANT
02:50:12 (INAUDIBLE). THE COUNCIL SHOULD NOTE
02:50:13 THE CITY NEVER REQUIRED CONDITIONAL USE
02:50:14 PERMIT OR SQL REVIEW FOR ANY OF THE
02:50:16 EXISTING FUEL-CELL PROJECTS THAT WERE
02:50:19 INSTALLED IN THE CITY PRIOR TO 2019.NOW
02:50:23 STAFF IS DEMAND FEES OF OVER $120,000
02:50:26 FOR SQL REVIEW OF THESE THREE
02:50:27 MINISTERIAL PROJECTS.WE RESPECTFULLY
02:50:30 REQUEST THE CITY COUNCIL GRANT THE
02:50:31 APPEALS AND DIRECT STAFF TO ISSUE THE
02:50:33 PERMITS FOR ALL THREE APPLICATIONS
02:50:37 WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. THANK YOU FOR
02:50:38 YOUR CONSIDERATION.
02:50:39 >>THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER?
02:50:47 >>THIS IS A REPETITION FROM BLOOM ENERGY
02:50:50 WITH RESPECT TO COUNCIL POLICIES, THERE
02:50:51 WERE 30
02:50:55 >>PUT IT ON THE AGENDA.
02:50:56 >>I DO WANT TO NOTE, THOUGH, THATTHE
02:50:57 PERSON WHO WOULD SPEAK ON THIS ITEMIS
02:50:59 EITHER BRIAN DOYLE OR XANDER.
02:51:06 >>YES, SURE, I AM HERE. FIRST OF ALL,
02:51:12 THE ATTACHMENT EIGHT DOES INCLUDE THE
02:51:13 ATTACHMENTSTHAT MR. SHIRAZ WAS
02:51:15 REFERRING TO.AND WE HAVE HAD EXTENSIVE,
02:51:22 EXTENSIVE CORRESPONDENCE WITH BLOOM
02:51:24 FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICEAND WE
02:51:28 BELIEVE THAT THEIR ATTORNEYS ARE
02:51:29 INCORRECT IN CHARACTERIZING THE ISSUE
02:51:33 TONIGHT. THE ISSUE TONIGHT IS NOT UP
02:51:37 PROPER OR TIMELY APPEAL, THERE IS NO
02:51:38 ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL AT THIS POINT FOR
02:51:39 THE COUNCILANDTHE USE OF THIS PROCEDURE
02:51:48 IS MEANT TO BE SOME KIND OF SHORTCUT
02:51:49 DIRECTLY TO THE COUNCIL WHICH WE DON'T
02:51:50 BELIEVE IS A PROPER ADMINISTRATIVE
02:51:52 PROCEDURE AT THIS POINT.LOOMIS FIELD
02:51:59 FREE TO PURSUE OTHER REMEDIES IF THEY
02:52:00 WOULD LIKETHE PROPER REMEDY IS NOTTHE
02:52:05 CITY COUNCIL AT THIS POINTAND WE ARE
02:52:11 NOT RECOMMENDING THE COUNCIL AGENDA IS
02:52:12 THIS.
02:52:13 >>OKAY, THANK YOU.SO WHAT KIND OF
02:52:14 ACTION ISTHIS A NOTE AND FILE?
02:52:19 >>YOU COULD NOTE IN FILE OR DO NOTHING.
02:52:23 IT'S A REQUEST TO PLAY SOMETHING ON THE
02:52:24 AGENDA, SO IT'S EITHER OR.
02:52:27 >>OKAY, COUNCIL AND COUNCILMEMBER
02:52:28 BECKER?
02:52:29 >>MAKE A MOTION FORNOTE IN FILE.
02:52:30 >>NOTE IN FILE IS PROBABLY THE BETTER
02:52:35 WAY TO GO AT THIS POINT.
02:52:40 >>PROMOTION SECONDED TO NOTE IN FILE?
02:52:43 ROLL CALL VOTE?
02:52:51 >>
02:52:52 [CALLING ROLL]PASSES SIX YES AND ONE
02:53:12 NOTE. ALL RIGHT.SORRY, SHIRAZ, FOR THAT.
02:53:22 NEXT IS ITEM 4P, A REPORT FROM THE CITY
02:53:23 ATTORNEY ON CALIFORNIA WROTE VOTER
02:53:28 RIGHTS ACT LITIGATION. SOMEBODY FROM
02:53:29 THE COUNCIL PULLED THIS. YOU PULLED
02:53:30 THIS?
02:53:32 >>I DID. FROM A COUNCILMEMBER JANE, GO
02:53:33 AHEAD.
02:53:34 >>YES, I JUST WANTED TOMAKE SOME
02:53:41 COMMENTS ON THE STAFF REPORT. I BELIEVE
02:53:44 THAT THE TIMELINE THAT IT WAS WRITTEN
02:53:47 WAS DONE BY OUR CITY ATTORNEY, AND I
02:53:50 BELIEVE THAT IT'SWAS PROBABLY SOLELY
02:53:55 HIS PRODUCTAND IT REPRESENTS SORT OF
02:54:00 WHAT I CONSIDER HIS SIDE OF THE STORY,
02:54:02 ONE GLARING OMISSION IN THE TIMELINEWAS
02:54:06 A SETTLEMENT OFFER LETTERTHAT WAS SENT
02:54:09 FROM THE PLAINTIFFON DECEMBER 10, AND
02:54:14 THAT WAS MISSING HERE. I ALSO BELIEVE
02:54:19 THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE NON-ATTACHMENT
02:54:22 ON THE TIMELINE OF THE LETTER FROM
02:54:25 RICHARD KAUNDA TO THE 49ERS, AND THIS
02:54:31 IS BASICALLY A NONPROFITTHAT HAS NO
02:54:34 MONEY, NO RESOURCES AND IS TRYING TO,
02:54:42 WELL, EFFECTIVELY DEFEAT MEASURES A AND
02:54:45 CWHICH I THOUGHT WERE NOT IN THE VEIN
02:54:54 OF CVRM. SAFE HARBOR, I WILL READ THIS
02:54:57 FROM THE CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF CITIES,
02:55:02 SORRY, SO NO CITYHAS EVER SUCCESSFULLY
02:55:11 FOUGHTA CVR A LAWSUIT, AND THIS IS FROM
02:55:17 A DOCUMENT ON THE LEAGUE OF CITIES
02:55:18 WEBSITE, IT SAYS THAT ONCE THE SINGLE
02:55:21 NUMBER DISTRICTS ARE IN PLACE THE CITY
02:55:30 PROCESS SPECIAL DISTRICT IS IN THE CVR
02:55:31 A SAFE HARBOR EVEN IF THE DISTRICTS ARE
02:55:32 NOT EXACTLY THOSE THAT THE PLAINTIFFS
02:55:33 WOULD HAVE PREFERRED.AND THE CITY
02:55:34 ATTORNEY, HE STATES THATMEASURESC AND A
02:55:47 AND ANDWERE BASICALLYTO RESOLVE THE
02:55:52 ISSUETHE CVR A LAWSUIT. SAFE HARBOR
02:56:02 WHICH IS DEFINED AS SINGLE-MEMBER
02:56:03 DISTRICTSWOULD RESULT THAT ISSUE.AND
02:56:08 THEN I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE
02:56:09 PAYMENTSTHAT WERE PAID(INAUDIBLE) AN
02:56:50 ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF WHAT THE STAFF'S
02:56:51 REPORT IS, AND I DID SERVE ON THE LAST
02:56:52 REVIEWAND I DID OPPOSE THE THREE
02:56:55 DISTRICTS THAT BECAME MEASURE C. AND
02:57:00 THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I WANTED TOSTATE
02:57:02 TO THE PUBLICWAS THATSUNNYVALE WENT TO
02:57:08 SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTSAND IT COST THEM
02:57:11 $30,000.THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
02:57:18 >>OKAY.VICE MAYOR CALL? CHAHAL?
02:57:29 >>THANK YOU.I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT
02:57:44 SITTING (INAUDIBLE) MEETING ITSELF. I
02:57:45 REMEMBER I'VE BEEN ASKING(INAUDIBLE)
02:57:47 WHICH WAS NOT AGREED(INAUDIBLE)AND
02:57:57 (INAUDIBLE) WAS THE ONLY OPTION FOR
02:57:58 SAFE HARBORSO WE HAVE THE SAVE THE CITY
02:58:03 MORE THAN $6 MILLIONMEASURE C AND E. SO
02:58:09 THIS WAS A VERY COSTLYUNNECESSARY LOSS
02:58:20 AND (INAUDIBLE) WE COULD'VE HAD RIGHT
02:58:21 NOWCOULD HAVE BEEN USED FORSMALL
02:58:26 BUSINESS GRANTSOF SO MANY OTHER OPTIONS
02:58:31 . I JUST WANT TO BRING THATOPINION THAT
02:58:38 THERE ARE CONFLICTING OPINIONS ON THIS
02:58:39 THINGAND WE DID LEARN FROM OTHER
02:58:43 CITIES, SO MANY OTHER CITIES(INAUDIBLE)
02:58:46 AND I DID REQUESTTHAT WE SHOULD DO IT
02:58:52 BY AUDIENCE, WE COULD'VE SAVED ALL THIS
02:58:53 MONEY. THANK YOU.
02:58:55 >>THANK YOU. I ALSO WANT TO ADD THAT
02:58:56 PART OF THE REPORT DID INCLUDE THE 2011
02:59:00 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE, AND I JUST
02:59:01 GOT REPORTFROM ONE OF THE MEMBERS ON
02:59:03 THE COMMITTEE BACK IN 2011 WHEN THERE
02:59:07 WASAT-LARGE DISTRICTS RECOMMENDED AND
02:59:12 IT'S INTERESTING WE HAVE A COUPLE OF
02:59:15 MEMBERS ON OUR CITY COUNCIL ON THAT
02:59:16 COMMITTEEI VICE MAYOR CHAHAL AND
02:59:19 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY WERE ON THE
02:59:20 COMMITTEEBACK IN 2011 WITH A HOST OF
02:59:24 COMMUNITY LEADERS, GUZMAN, STEVE SILVA,
02:59:30 RALPH CYNTHIA, DOCTOR NADEEM, IT WAS
02:59:34 INTERESTING. I THINK THAT THE FULL
02:59:35 REPORT SHOULD INCLUDETHE TOTAL PICTURE
02:59:42 FROM ALL THE WAY BACK. BECAUSE I KNOW
02:59:43 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED
02:59:44 ITUP UNTIL AFTER WE APPEALED, BUT THERE
02:59:50 WAS A HOST OF PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED
02:59:51 IN THE PROCESS THAT DIDN'T ALWAYS FEEL
02:59:52 THAT WAY FROM WAY BACK WHEN, SO I THINK
02:59:56 ONE OF THE FUTURE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
02:59:59 IS TO PLACEI THINK HANK ANTHONY BECKER
03:00:02 HASAN ITEM ON THE AGENDA TO HAVEAN
03:00:06 APOLOGY LETTERTHAT WE WILL END UP
03:00:11 TALKING ABOUT, BUT I THINK THAT YOU
03:00:12 HAVE TO LOOK AT, YOU HAVE TO GO ALL THE
03:00:15 WAY BACK AND BE INCLUSIVE OF WHO WAS
03:00:17 INVOLVED FROM THE BEGINNING, AND YOU
03:00:21 HAVE TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE STORY, NOT
03:00:22 JUST WHO CAME AT THE ENDANDWAS
03:00:28 GROUNDING ONTO WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END
03:00:29 BUT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNINGAND
03:00:30 WHO WAS SUPPORTING WHAT, BECAUSE IT WAS
03:00:32 A WHOLE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLETHAT TOOK
03:00:36 THIS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. SO IT'S
03:00:37 EASYTO BEA FAN NOW OF WHAT HAPPENEDBUT
03:00:43 THERE IS A WHOLE STORY, I APPRECIATE
03:00:44 THE CITY ATTORNEY PUTTING THE WHOLE
03:00:46 PICTURE TOGETHER, IT'S AN INTERESTING
03:00:47 STORY ABOUT HOW THIS ALL TRANSPIRED,
03:00:50 BUT I THINK A LOT OF USWERE INVOLVED IN
03:00:56 DIFFERENT WAYS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE
03:00:57 PROCESS. COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
03:01:00 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR.SO ONE OF THE THINGS
03:01:04 I HAD WAS THE CPRACHRONOLOGY. 2011WHERE
03:01:09 HE STATEDTHE FIRST LETTERFROM ROBERT
03:01:12 RIBBON YOUR UNABLE TO LOCATE THE COFFEE
03:01:17 ACTUALLY WAS DOING SOME RESEARCH AND I
03:01:18 FOUND IT, SO I'M GOING TO SEND IT OVER
03:01:20 TO YOU RIGHT NOWSEE YOU CAN FIX IT ON
03:01:25 THE REPORT.
03:01:26 >>I HAVE A STAFF REPORT TO MAC. ANYBODY
03:01:27 WHO HASJUST LISTEN TO THE CITY
03:01:31 ATTORNEY, THANK YOU. CITY CLERK WE
03:01:33 >>JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS. I
03:01:35 BELIEVE(INAUDIBLE)CHARTER REVIEW
03:01:40 COMMITTEE.
03:01:41 >>YES, (INAUDIBLE) WAS ON THE CHARTER
03:01:48 REVIEW APPOINTED BYMAYOR JENNY MATTHEWS
03:01:52 AT THE TIME AND THEN HE RESIGNED FROM
03:01:53 THE COMMITTEE. THAT'S ALL IN THIS
03:01:54 DOCUMENT HERE.
03:01:56 >>ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO(INAUDIBLE)
03:02:00 MENTIONED THAT THE CHRONOLOGY
03:02:04 (INAUDIBLE) TO THE 49ERS(INAUDIBLE)
03:02:09 MAYBE I MISHEARD YOU.
03:02:10 >>THE SETTLEMENT LETTER.
03:02:15 >>I THOUGHT YOU WERE REFERRING TO THE
03:02:16 LETTER.
03:02:17 >>NO, THERE'S ONLY ONE LETTER THAT WAS
03:02:18 ATTACHED, THAT WAS RICHARD KAUNDA'S
03:02:19 LETTER.
03:02:22 [CROSSTALK]
03:02:23 >>MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT
03:02:24 THAT SETTLEMENT. I'M SORRY, LET ME ASK
03:02:27 (INAUDIBLE). I CAN HARDLY HEAR YOU.
03:02:32 >>I'M NOT GOING TO SAY
03:02:38 >>NOW WE CAN HEAR YOU.
03:02:39 >>OKAY, THANK YOU.I WANTED TO MENTION
03:02:44 ABOUT THAT LETTER, THE ONE FROMRICHARD
03:02:47 KAUNDA TO THE 49ERS ORGANIZATION. IT IS
03:02:50 JUST ADDING SOME COLOR COMMENTARY. I
03:02:53 WANT TO REMIND THE COUNCIL AND THE
03:02:54 PUBLICTHAT THIS WAS AT THE TIME WHEN
03:02:57 MEASURE C WAS PLANNED TO BE PUT ON THE
03:02:59 BALLOTAND THERE WAS A LOT OF INVOLVEMENT
03:03:04 FROM UNDISCLOSED SOURCESTRYING TO
03:03:07 INFLUENCE THE COMMUNITY WITHAVAILABLE
03:03:11 OF SIR PHASE, PUBLIC SURVEYS, SEEKING
03:03:15 THE OPINION OF THE PUBLIC ON MEASURE C
03:03:18 WITHOUT NECESSARILYFILING A CAMPAIGN
03:03:22 COMMITTEE WITHOUT NECESSARILY REPORTING
03:03:23 WHO THEY WERE, THE DAY BEFORE THE SUPER
03:03:29 BOWL, WHICH WAS ON JANUARY 31 AND 2020,
03:03:31 I SENT A WARNING LETTERTO SEVERAL
03:03:35 EXECUTIVES FROM THE 49ERS AFTER I HAD
03:03:37 RECEIVED INFORMATIONTHAT THEY WERE THE
03:03:39 ONES BEHIND THISINFORMING THEM OF THE
03:03:46 REQUIREMENT TO FILE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
03:03:47 THEY CAME IN THE NEXT MONDAY, FILE THAT
03:03:48 CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, AND THEN ON
03:03:51 TUESDAY, THAT'S WHEN THEY PROVIDED THIS
03:03:52 LETTER TO THE PUBLIC, WHICH IS VERY
03:03:54 SUSPECT THAT IT WAS DATEDBACK FROM THAT
03:03:58 SATURDAY.WITHOUT BEING ON ANY LETTERHEAD
03:04:05 FROM THE LONG ALLIANCE WITH THE LETTER
03:04:08 FROM RICHARD CONDIT TO THE 49'S ASKING
03:04:14 FOR THEIR HELP. I WANTED TO PROVIDE
03:04:15 THAT ADDITIONAL COLOR COMMENTARY
03:04:16 BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S CAPTURED HERE
03:04:19 .
03:04:20 >>THANK YOU. CITY ATTORNEY?
03:04:21 >>YES, JUST WANTED TO POINT OUTI DID
03:04:23 NOT INCLUDE ANY CONFIDENTIAL
03:04:24 INFORMATION IN THE REPORT, I WAS A
03:04:28 PUBLIC REPORT SO THERE WERE LOTS AND
03:04:29 LOTS OF DEVELOPMENTSAND ACTIVITIES WITH
03:04:32 REGARD TO DISCUSSIONS OF SETTLEMENT
03:04:34 WITH THE PLAINTIFF THROUGHOUT THE
03:04:35 LITIGATIONAND I DID NOT INCLUDE ANY OF
03:04:38 THAT. I DID INCLUDE THE DATES OF CLOSED
03:04:40 SESSION'S THAT WE HADTO TRY TO GET THE
03:04:42 PUBLICAN UNDERSTANDING OF THE FACT THAT
03:04:46 THE COUNCIL WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGEDWITH
03:04:50 THE PLAINTIFFS THROUGHOUT THE LITIGATION
03:04:54 IN ATTEMPTING TO SETTLE THE CASE, BUT
03:04:55 BECAUSE THE COUNCIL HAS NOT WAIVED
03:04:59 CONFIDENTIALITY I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO
03:05:00 DISCUSS ANY OF THOSEDISCUSSIONS, BUT I
03:05:05 JUST THINK IT WOULD BE FAIR TO TELL THE
03:05:06 PUBLICTHAT THERE WAS AS I EXPLAINED AT
03:05:10 THE BEGINNING OF THE REPORT THERE WAS
03:05:11 NEVERA POINT AT WHICH THE PLAINTIFFS
03:05:14 AGREED TO DISMISS THE LAWSUITIN
03:05:17 EXCHANGE FOR SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL
03:05:21 FOUND TO BE A REASONABLE SOLUTION. WE
03:05:22 WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
03:05:25 >>OKAY, THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR CHAHAL?
03:05:26 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR.I AM KNOW WHERE YOU
03:05:29 MENTIONED THAT SEVERALOF US ON THE
03:05:33 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE, SOWE DO LEAVE
03:05:38 AT THAT AND (INAUDIBLE) ARE ONLY AN
03:05:40 ADVISING BODY. IN COUNCIL AS SUCH HAS
03:05:43 THE FULL HANDLEON CLOSED-DOOR MEETINGS
03:05:46 SINCE WHAT IS BEINGPRESENTED, COUNCIL
03:05:49 ONLY IS RESPONSIBLEFOR GOING IN FOR A
03:05:51 LAWSUITOR DEFENDING THE LAWSUITTO MAYBE
03:05:57 DO IT. SO A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY. I
03:06:01 AGREE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SAYWITH
03:06:05 DIFFERENT MEMBERS, BUT AT THE END OF
03:06:06 THE DAY THE BUCK STOPS WITH THE COUNCIL.
03:06:10 AND COUNCIL DECIDED TO FIGHT THIS
03:06:11 LAWSUIT, WHICH WAS DETRIMENTAL TO THE
03:06:14 FISCAL HEALTH OF THE CITYAND AS
03:06:18 COUNCILMEMBER JANE MENTIONED, NO CITY
03:06:20 HAS EVERONE MAC LAWSUIT LIKE THISANDWE
03:06:29 ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO WIN THIS
03:06:30 LAWSUIT.I HAVE BEEN RAISING THIS POINT
03:06:33 SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL, WE
03:06:35 COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT BETTER. THAT'S MY
03:06:37 POINT.THE COUNCIL RESPONSIBILITY CANNOT
03:06:42 BE DELEGATED TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
03:06:43 >>THANK YOU, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THE
03:06:47 COUNCIL ALWAYS TOOK THE ADVICE OF THE
03:06:49 ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THAT'S WHY WE
03:06:53 APPOINT CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEES SO
03:06:57 THAT WE LISTEN TO THE CITIZENS. I JUST
03:06:58 WANT TO POINT OUT TOO, AND I WON'T
03:07:00 REPEAT THAT. COUNCILMEMBER JANE
03:07:01 FOLLOWED BY BECKER.
03:07:04 >>SO I WAS CHAIROF THE LATEST CHARTER
03:07:07 REVIEW COMMITTEE, AND THE BOAT THAT
03:07:11 CAME OUT OF THERE WAS SPLIT, AND THE
03:07:14 COMMITTEE DID VOTE FOR THREE DISTRICTS.
03:07:18 I DID NOT AGREE WITH THAT, BUT I JUST
03:07:19 WANT TO SAY THAT CHARTER REVIEW
03:07:20 COMMITTEESWERE GIVEN A LOT OFDIRECTION
03:07:27 AT THE BEGINNING. AT THE BEGINNING OF
03:07:28 THIS REVIEW COMMITTEE I WANTED TO TALK
03:07:29 ABOUTVOTING IN REDISTRICTING AND OTHER
03:07:33 THINGS AND I WAS BASICALLY TOLD THAT I
03:07:34 COULD ONLY TALK ABOUTTHE NUMBER OF
03:07:35 DISTRICTS.SO CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEES
03:07:39 ARE OFTENPRETTY CONSTRAINEDFROM THE
03:07:45 OUTSET. FORTUNATELY, WE DID END UP
03:07:47 PADDING THE REDISTRICTING AT THE END
03:07:51 BUT ORIGINALLY I WAS TOLDBUT THAT WAS
03:07:55 NOT UNDER DISCUSSION.
03:07:56 >>COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
03:08:01 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. FOR THE RECORD, I
03:08:02 REMEMBER BACK IN 2011 I WAS, I KNEW
03:08:04 ABOUT THE (INAUDIBLE), IS A MAJOR
03:08:06 ADVOCATETWO DISTRICTS BACK THEN, I KNOW
03:08:13 BACK AT THAT COMMITTEE THEY WERE
03:08:14 LOOKING AT RECOMMENDINGELIMINATING THE
03:08:18 NUMBER OF SEATS BUT THEN IT WAS
03:08:19 CONTINUED I THINK UNTIL 2013. BUT I
03:08:21 THINKIT WASN'T ENDORSED AT LARGE BUT
03:08:27 TERESA O'NEILL, IN FACT, WAS IN FAVOROF
03:08:31 THE SIX DISTRICTS. SO I JUST WANTED THE
03:08:32 RECORDS REFLECT THAT.
03:08:34 >>THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE DISTRICT
03:08:35 FROM THE COMMITTEE CAME BACK AT-LARGE
03:08:36 ELECTIONS WITHOUT SEAT NUMBERS. IF IT
03:08:42 WAS JUST AN AT-LARGE WITH NO SEAT
03:08:43 NUMBERS. THAT'S WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT.
03:08:44 ALL RIGHT. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT.
03:08:48 >>MAYOR, WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD ONE
03:08:49 MORE POINT WHICH SEEMS TO OF GOTTEN
03:08:50 MISSED. THAT IS THAT MEASURE A, WHICH
03:08:55 WAS THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION, WHICH WAS
03:08:58 UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATIONOF THE CHARTER
03:09:00 REVIEW COMMITTEE, WAS EXACTLY WHATTHE
03:09:06 SAME ATTORNEYS THAT SUIT US AGREED TO
03:09:10 IN PALM DESERT AS BASICALLYA VIABLE
03:09:13 SOLUTION UNDER THE CRA. SO AT ONE POINT
03:09:19 THEY DISAGREED WITH US AND AT ANOTHER
03:09:20 POINT THEY AGREED WITH ANOTHER CITYAS
03:09:23 THAT WOULD HAVE SATISFIEDTHE REMEDIES
03:09:27 UNDER THE CVRM. SOWE COULD TALK AD
03:09:30 NAUSEA ANDAND BEAT THIS HORSE TO DEATH,
03:09:34 I THINK WE ALL KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF
03:09:35 OTHER POLITICALCONSIDERATIONSTHAT WERE
03:09:39 HAPPENING ALONG WITH THIS LAWSUIT, AND
03:09:43 I JUST PROVIDED THE CHRONOLOGYOF COURSE
03:09:45 IT'S MY POINT OF VIEW, I WROTE THE
03:09:49 REPORT, WOULD EXPECT THAT ANYBODY IN
03:09:50 THE ADVISORY BOARDWOULD PROVIDE THEIR
03:09:51 POINT OF VIEW.AND I THINK IT'S A
03:09:55 FACTUAL REPORT, I BELIEVE IT PROVIDES
03:09:58 SOME LEVEL OF DISCLOSURE TO THE PUBLIC
03:10:00 ABOUT THE CRUCIAL FACTS THAT ARE NOT
03:10:01 CONFIDENTIALAND I REALIZE THAT THE
03:10:04 PREVIOUS COUNCIL IS SOMEWHAT HAMSTRUNG
03:10:06 BY THE FACT THAT WE HAVE
03:10:08 CONFIDENTIALITY STILLABOUT WHAT ALL THE
03:10:11 POSSIBILITIES WEREOF TERMINATING THE
03:10:14 LAWSUIT EARLIERAND WE JUST CAN'T TALK
03:10:17 ABOUT THOSEGIVEN THAT CONFIDENTIALITY.
03:10:21 I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO JUDGE THE
03:10:23 COUNCILWITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE COUNCIL
03:10:27 HAD BEFORE IT AT THE TIME. THANK YOU.
03:10:30 >>THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PARK?
03:10:33 >>YES, THANK YOU. IT SOUNDS LIKEWE
03:10:38 WOULD LIKE AN UPDATED REPORT WITH THE
03:10:39 OMISSIONS AND COMMENTS BROUGHT FORWARD
03:10:40 AT THIS MEETING WHETHER IT'S A FULL
03:10:41 HISTORY AS MAYOR GILMORESUGGESTS,
03:10:46 STARTING WITH THE CHARTER REVIEW
03:10:50 COMMITTEE INCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS AND
03:10:51 THE REASONS FOR NOT IMPLEMENTING THOSE
03:10:52 RECOMMENDATIONS. AS VICE MEMBER VICE
03:10:55 MAYOR CHAHAL NOTED, IT'SADVISORY. AND
03:10:59 THE CITY COUNCIL I THINK DOES BEAR
03:11:00 RESPONSIBILITYFOR TAKING ACTIONON THAT
03:11:04 ADVICE.AND THOUGH THE FIRST CONTACT
03:11:08 WITH THE LAWSUIT WAS IN 2011 THERE WERE
03:11:10 MANY OTHER CATCHES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
03:11:14 FOR MANY OF THE PEOPLE ON THE COUNCIL
03:11:15 WERE MEMBERS OF UNTIL THE LAWSUIT
03:11:17 JUDGMENT THEY ALSO VOTED TO APPEAL.THE
03:11:22 SETTLEMENT OFFER IS DEFINITELY PART OF
03:11:23 THE CHRONOLOGY THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED.
03:11:24 INCLUDING ALL OF THE DRAMA SURROUNDING
03:11:25 HOW THATSETTLEMENT WAS BROUGHT FORTHIN
03:11:31 THE PUBLIC MEETING AND ANY OF THE DRAMA
03:11:35 SURROUNDING THAT. I THINK THAT IS AN
03:11:39 INTERESTING PIECE OF HISTORY, AND I
03:11:40 THINK THAT WOULD MAKE A RATHER BLAND
03:11:44 REPORT THAT MUCH MORE INTERESTING TO
03:11:45 READ. THE PUBLIC WILL ALSO NOTE THAT
03:11:46 EVEN WITHKNOWLEDGE OF A SETTLEMENT
03:11:48 OFFER THERE WAS NO SETTLEMENTOUT OF
03:11:50 CLOSED SESSION. WITHOUT TELLING MY
03:11:53 ACTIONS AND CLOSING DISCUSSION, I AM
03:11:56 GOING TO SAY THIS. I HAVE LARGELY
03:11:57 STAYED BACK AT ALL MEETINGS REGARDING
03:11:59 CPRABECAUSE I BELIEVETHAT WE NEEDED THE
03:12:05 APPEAL TO COMPLETE. IT HAD TO COMPLETE
03:12:11 TO ALLOW THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE
03:12:12 INTERESTED IN MONEY TO HAVE THEIR
03:12:13 SATISFACTION. IRONICALLY I THINK IT
03:12:18 COST MORE MONEY, BUT THIS WAS ALSO
03:12:19 ACCEPTABLE TO ME BECAUSE I BELIEVED
03:12:22 THAT THE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR
03:12:23 REPRESENTATION WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY
03:12:24 ANY PRICEFOR FAIRNESS AND A CHANCE OF
03:12:28 BETTER GOVERNMENTS. THAT SAID I ALSO
03:12:31 KNOW THAT NO AMOUNT OF LAWSUITS IN
03:12:38 TIME, LOSSES, MONEY SPENT, WILL SATISFY
03:12:39 SOME PEOPLE, SOME PEOPLE'S NEED TO HAVE
03:12:40 THEIR DAY IN COURT AND SEE THE APPEAL
03:12:42 SUCCEED OR FAIL. AND IN THIS CASE THE
03:12:48 APPEAL FAILED. AND I THINK THAT WAS A
03:12:49 GOOD LESSON TO THESE PEOPLE, AND FOR
03:12:53 ME, I WOULD'VE PREFERRED TO SAVE THE
03:12:54 MONEY BUT I ALSO THINK THAT SAVING THE
03:12:56 MONEYAT THE COST OF PEOPLE GRUMBLING
03:13:01 AND NOT SEEING THE CONCLUSION OF THE
03:13:02 APPEALWOULD'VE BEEN A DIFFERENT
03:13:04 PROBLEM. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEEAN
03:13:09 UPDATED REPORT WITH OMISSIONS AND
03:13:10 COMMENTS BROUGHT FORWARD AT THIS MEETING
03:13:12 . THANK YOU.
03:13:13 >>THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE ON THE
03:13:14 COUNCIL?ALL RIGHT, FROM THE PUBLIC,
03:13:16 WESLEY, GO AHEAD.
03:13:23 >>AS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERSOF THE
03:13:27 PLANNING, I FOLLOW THIS STEP-BY-STEP.
03:13:33 THE CHARTER COMMITTEE TO ME WAS
03:13:37 (INAUDIBLE) BY BIASED PEOPLEIN THE
03:13:42 ENTIRE COMMITTEE WAS BIAS. IT WENT ALL
03:13:43 THE WAY THROUGHIN THE CITY COUNCIL
03:13:48 ATTORNEY, HE WAS BIASED AS WELL, ANDTHE
03:13:55 VERY FACT THAT HE DID NOT REPORTTHE
03:13:59 OFFER FROM THE LAWYERS, THAT HAPPEN,
03:14:07 AND I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING, TO ME WAS A
03:14:08 VIOLATION OF THE LAW. AND I DO THINK
03:14:10 THAT THESE WERE POWER PLAYSBY THE CITY
03:14:13 COUNCIL MEMBERS AT THAT TIMETO KEEP
03:14:17 THEIR OFFICES, BECAUSEAS A RESULT OF
03:14:20 THE DISTRICT VOTING, LOOK WHAT HAPPENED.
03:14:24 SO ALL I CAN SAY ISOUTCOMES SPEAK MORE
03:14:29 WORDS THAN ANYTHING ELSE.THAT'S IT FOR
03:14:34 ME.
03:14:35 >>THANK YOU, WESLEY. ANYONE ELSEWANT TO
03:14:36 SPEAK FROM THE PUBLIC? OKAY. SO THE
03:14:40 ACTION WOULD BE TO NOTE AND FILE THIS?
03:14:46 ANYBODY WANT TO MAKE A MOTION?
03:14:50 >>ACTUALLY I MAKE THE MOTION GET AN
03:14:51 UPDATED REPORT WITH OMISSIONS AND
03:14:53 COMMENTS AT THIS MEETING.
03:15:00 >>I SECOND THAT.
03:15:02 >>OKAY, MOTION AND SECOND.
03:15:03 >>I NEED TO SPEAK ON THAT.I DON'T KNOW
03:15:04 WHAT YOU MEAN BY AN UPDATED REPORT,I
03:15:06 CAN'T PUT CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL INTO A
03:15:09 PUBLIC REPORT UNLESS THE COUNCIL WAIVES
03:15:11 CONFIDENTIALITY.
03:15:14 >>I THINK THAT IF IT WERE AN UPDATED
03:15:15 REPORT FOR REVIEW YOU CAN PUT THE
03:15:17 INFORMATION THAT IS PUBLICLY KNOWN INTO
03:15:18 THEREPORT AND THEN WE CAN HAVE A
03:15:20 DISCUSSION ONWHAT COULD OR COULD NOT BE
03:15:25 MADE PUBLIC. BUT AS IT IS, IT SOUNDS
03:15:29 LIKE EVERYONE INCLUDING MAYOR GILLMOR
03:15:32 THINKS THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT COULD
03:15:33 BE INCLUDED IN THE STORYTHAT ARE NOT
03:15:38 FULLY (INAUDIBLE).
03:15:39 >>I INCLUDED EVERYTHING THAT I THOUGHT
03:15:40 WAS PUBLIC.
03:15:41 >>UNDERSTOOD
03:15:42 [CROSSTALK]
03:15:44 >>LIST OF THE MEMBERS FROM THE 2011
03:15:46 COMMITTEE. WE CANNOT ADD THAT IN HIS
03:15:51 POST MEETING MATERIAL. I CAN ADD THAT
03:15:53 IN.IS THAT ALL RIGHT?
03:15:59 [CROSSTALK]
03:16:02 >>IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF
03:16:03 OPINIONS, MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A MORE
03:16:09 THOROUGH REPORTAND NOT JUST BY ONE
03:16:14 PERSON.
03:16:15 >>WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT A MORE
03:16:16 THOROUGH REPORT NOT BY ONE PERSON? WHAT
03:16:19 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
03:16:20 >>AGAIN, WE HAVE OMISSIONSINCLUDING THE
03:16:22 COMMENTS ABOUT(INAUDIBLE) AND THINGS
03:16:30 LIKE THAT. I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
03:16:31 >>WHY DO WE DO THAT, WHY DON'T EACH OF
03:16:32 THE COUNCILMEMBERS SEND ME WHAT THEY
03:16:33 THINK NEEDS TO GO IN THE REPORTAND THEN
03:16:38 I WILL JUST SEND A CONFIDENTIAL VERSION
03:16:40 OF THE REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL, BUT
03:16:41 I CAN'TBRING A PUBLIC REPORT TO THE
03:16:44 COUNCILUNLESSWITH CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL
03:16:50 AND AT THIS POINT COUNCIL HAS NOT
03:16:55 WAIVED CONFIDENTIALITY, SO ANY
03:16:57 SETTLEMENT LETTERS OR DISCUSSIONS OF
03:16:58 SETTLEMENTARE STILL CONFIDENTIAL UNLESS
03:17:01 COUNCIL WAIVES IT.
03:17:04 >>I THINK THAT'S AN ODD WAY TO RUN THE
03:17:08 FORMAL PROCESS, BUT I THINK WE CAN
03:17:09 START WITH THAT AND SEE WHAT COMES UP.
03:17:10 >>WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT.
03:17:16 [CROSSTALK]
03:17:17 >>FILE ANYBODY THAT HAS ANY
03:17:18 DOCUMENTATION SENT IT TO THE CITY
03:17:19 ATTORNEY.
03:17:20 >>IS THERE A DUE DATE?
03:17:22 >>WHATEVER YOU FEEL LIKE SENDING ME IS
03:17:23 FINE.
03:17:25 >>IS THIS GOING TO COME UP AGAIN OR IS
03:17:26 THIS SOMETHING
03:17:28 >>IF IT'S CONFIDENTIAL I CAN'T PUT IT
03:17:29 IN THE PUBLIC REPORTBUT I COULD SEND IT
03:17:34 AS A PUBLIC REPORT AND IF YOU WANT TO
03:17:35 PUT IT ON THE AGENDA THAT WOULD BE FINE.
03:17:39 >>COULD WE CONTINUE THIS ITEM FOR 60
03:17:40 DAYS?
03:17:41 >>I DON'T CONTINUE THANKS. THAT'S OUR
03:17:42 PROBLEMTHESE MEETINGS, WE CONTINUE
03:17:46 EVERYTHING WE CAN'T GET ANYTHING DONE.
03:17:52 [CROSSTALK] THEN THE INFORMATION TO THE
03:17:53 CITY ATTORNEY, CITY ATTORNEY CAN REISSUE
03:17:54 WITH WHATEVER IF THERE IS MORE
03:17:56 INFORMATION THAT COMES IN AND WE MOVE
03:17:57 FORWARD. WE CAN'T KEEP CONTINUING THINGS
03:18:01 .
03:18:05 >>I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE THE
03:18:06 THINGS THAT CAN AND SHOULD BE CONTINUED
03:18:07 AND HAVE THE (INAUDIBLE) TO SAY THAT
03:18:11 SHOULD BE CONTINUED.
03:18:14 >>ALL RIGHT, WE'RE TYPE TALKING
03:18:15 HYPOTHETICAL NOW.
03:18:17 >>THIS IS VERY REAL.CAN WE MOVE ON? WE
03:18:22 HAVE, WE ARE GETTING TO 10 O'CLOCK, WE
03:18:25 HAVE ITEMS WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TONIGHT.
03:18:27 WE HAVE TO MOVE ON.SO LET'S NOT GET
03:18:31 STUCK ON THIS AND MAKE A DECISIONAND
03:18:36 MOVE FORWARD, BUT I DON'T THINK
03:18:37 CONTINUING SHOULD BE AN OPTION.
03:18:42 >>I WOULD SUGGEST THIS. I MEAN, I HAVE
03:18:43 A LOT OF THINGSTHAT I NEED TO WORK ON,
03:18:45 ANDI AM HAPPY TO RECEIVE THE MATERIAL
03:18:53 AND I WILL SUPPLEMENT THE REPORT WITH
03:18:54 THE MATERIAL THAT I RECEIVED, WILL SEND
03:18:55 IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL, CONTINUING IT
03:18:58 AND MAKING COME BACK TO COUNCIL WITH
03:18:59 ANOTHER REPORT THAT MAY OR MAY NOT WORK
03:19:06 , IT'S JUST SPENDING MORE MONEY ON THE
03:19:07 CRA ISSUE, AND I THOUGHT THAT'S NOT
03:19:09 WHAT COUNCIL WANTED TO DO, BUT I WILL
03:19:10 BE HAPPY TO DOWHATEVER YOU LIKE.BUT I
03:19:19 THINK IT WOULD BE A CLEANER AND MORE
03:19:20 EFFICIENT PROCESS, PERHAPS LESS COSTLY
03:19:23 IF YOU JUST SEND ME WHAT YOU WANT, I'LL
03:19:24 ADD IT TO THE REPORT, I WILL SEND IT
03:19:27 BACK TO COUNSELING SOMEONE WANTS TO
03:19:28 BRING IT BACK FOR DISCUSSION ON COUNCIL
03:19:30 AGENDA THEN COUNCILMEMBER CAN BRING IT
03:19:31 BACK.
03:19:33 >>I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE
03:19:34 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GETTING THE COUNCIL
03:19:35 INPUT AND UPDATING THE REPORT AND
03:19:38 SENDING IT BACK TO COUNCIL OR
03:19:42 CONTINUING THE ITEM, GETTING ADDITIONAL
03:19:43 INFORMATION UPDATING REPORT AND BRING
03:19:45 IT BACK TO COUNCIL. I GUESSI DON'T
03:19:47 UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE THERE.
03:19:50 >>HE JUST EXPLAINED IT.
03:19:54 >>IT DOES TAKE WORKTO PUT SOMETHING ON
03:19:56 THE AGENDA. I WON'T KNOWWHO WANTS TO
03:20:02 PUT WHAT IN THEIRAND AGAIN I WILL GET
03:20:05 ACCUSED OFEDITING THE REPORT.WE HAVE
03:20:13 SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THIS AND I AM
03:20:14 MORE THAN HAPPY TO DISCUSS THE REPORT
03:20:17 WITH ANY OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS, BUT
03:20:18 WHATEVER YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO IS FINE.
03:20:23 >>HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MOTION AND LET'S
03:20:24 MOVE ON, PLEASE.DOES SOMEBODY HAVE A
03:20:27 MOTION ON THE FLOOR?
03:20:30 >>I BELIEVE WE HAD A MOTION AND A
03:20:31 SECOND.
03:20:33 >>WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FOR
03:20:35 NOTE AND FILE AND I'M NOT SURE IF THERE
03:20:38 IS A SECOND PART OF THAT.I HAVE RAJ
03:20:43 CHAHAL IS THE SECOND OR.
03:20:52 >>IT WAS MY MOTION, IT WASN'T A NOTE IN
03:20:53 FILE, WAS AN UPDATE AND COME BACK.
03:20:54 >>IT WASN'T YOUR MOTION. IT WAS
03:20:55 SOMEBODY ELSE'S MOTION.AND IT WAS
03:20:57 SECONDED.
03:21:04 >>MADAM CHAIR, THAT WAS COUNCILMEMBER
03:21:05 PARKS MOTION, I SECONDED IT.
03:21:06 >>CORRECT, NOTE IN FILE.
03:21:14 >>WE STARTED WITH A NOTE FOUND IN THE
03:21:15 SWITCHGEAR. WHAT IS THE MOTION ON THE
03:21:16 FLOOR?
03:21:17 >>I DON'T KNOW.
03:21:18 >>I DON'T KNOW EITHER.
03:21:19 >>MY MOTION WAS TO GET AN UPDATED REPORT
03:21:21 AT THIS MEETING FOR REVIEW AT A FUTURE
03:21:25 MEETING. THAT WAS MY MOTION.
03:21:28 >>OKAY. IS THAT OKAY WITH THE SECOND?
03:21:31 >>YES.
03:21:32 >>WE HAVE A MOTION IN THE SECONDTO
03:21:34 UPDATE THE REPORT AND BRING IT TO A
03:21:35 FUTURE MEETING.OKAY.ASSISTANT CITY
03:21:40 CLERK, ROLL CALL.
03:21:42 >>
03:21:43 [CALLING ROLL]
03:22:04 >>OKAY, THAT PASSES SIX-ONE. THANK YOU,
03:22:05 WE CAN MOVE ON NOW. THE NEXT ITEM IS
03:22:06 INFORMATIONAL REPORTREGARDING BY YEARLY
03:22:07 PROJECT STATUS REPORT OF THE GIS
03:22:09 SERVICES PROGRAM, AND THIS IS CONTINUED
03:22:13 FROM MAY 2021. WHO PULLED THIS ITEM?
03:22:20 SOMEBODY? COME ON.
03:22:23 >>IT WAS PROBABLY ME.
03:22:28 >>I'M GOING TO PUT YOUR NAME TO ALL
03:22:29 THESE.YOU PULLED THEM FOR A REASON. DO
03:22:34 YOU REMEMBER WHAT THAT WAS?
03:22:35 >>I THINK THE GIS IS VERY IMPORTANTAND
03:22:38 THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING MORE WITH GIS.
03:22:41 ONE OF THE THINGS THATSTAFF SPENT A LOT
03:22:44 OF TIME ON WAS COUNTING PARCELSIN THE
03:22:48 DOWNTOWN AREA, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT
03:22:53 WE SHOULD MAKE THAT PROCESS EASY AND WE
03:22:55 SHOULD ALSO MAKE ITVERY EASY THAT ANY
03:22:59 PROJECT THAT IS IN, SAY, 1000 FEET OF
03:23:04 COUNCILMEMBERS OR BOARD MEMBERS WERE
03:23:05 COMMISSION MEMBERSHOME SHOULD BE
03:23:07 AUTOMATICALLY FLAGGEDBY THE SYSTEM
03:23:10 BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN MILLS ACT
03:23:13 REQUESTSTHAT I WAS NOT NOTIFIED WHEN I
03:23:14 WAS ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION, I WAS
03:23:15 NOTIFIED THAT THOSE WERE WITHIN 1000
03:23:16 FEET OF MY HOME, AND SO I WOULD HAVE TO
03:23:17 RECUSE. BUT SINCE I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL
03:23:20 I AM NOT NOTIFIED OF THOSE THINGS. SO I
03:23:23 AM REQUESTING THAT THE GIS SYSTEM BE
03:23:24 USED TO HELP THE ATTORNEY'S OFFICEAND
03:23:31 COUNCILMEMBERS UNDERSTAND WHEN THEY
03:23:32 NEED TO RECUSE.
03:23:34 >>CITY ATTORNEY, DON'T DO THAT ANYWAY?
03:23:41 CITY ATTORNEY?
03:23:42 >>YES, FOR ADDRESSES THAT
03:23:43 COUNCILMEMBERS PUT DOWN ON THEIRFORM
03:23:47 700S WE ARE ABLE TO DO A CHECK WHICH IS
03:23:51 A SIMPLE GEOGRAPHIC CHECKOF DISTANCE
03:23:56 FROM THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE OWNED BY
03:23:57 COUNCILMEMBERS, SO IF YOU PUT DOWN THE
03:24:00 PROPERTIES THAT YOU HAVE INTEREST INON
03:24:07 YOUR FORM 700, THEN WE WILL CHECK THE
03:24:08 DISTANCE OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY THAT
03:24:09 COMES UP. SOMETIMES THERE ARE GLITCHES
03:24:12 BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD ONE THAT
03:24:14 WASPREVIOUSLY HAD COME UP ON THE AGENDA
03:24:18 AS A PROPERTY ADDRESS, AND IT WAS
03:24:20 ACTUALLY AGENDA DIESAS AN EMINENT DOMAIN
03:24:27 TITLE FINE SO I THINK IT DIDN'T GET
03:24:29 CAUGHT IN THAT TIMEUNTIL A LITTLE BIT
03:24:31 LATER. BUT WE DO HAVE A PROCESS IN PLACE
03:24:35 PROJECTING THE DISTANCE. THIS IS A
03:24:37 SUBJECT THATI THINK DOES WARRANT SOME
03:24:41 DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNCIL ABOUT WHAT
03:24:44 THE ROLE OF CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS
03:24:46 THESE ARE THE CHECKING FOR CONFLICTS
03:24:51 VIS- -VIS CHECKING FOR CONFLICTS
03:24:52 BECAUSE PROPERTY ADDRESSES ONLY ONE
03:24:55 ASPECT OF IT, THERE ARE OTHER ASPECTS
03:24:57 IN TERMS OF CONFLICTTHAT WE DO NOT
03:25:01 REGULARLY CHECK. I DO THINK WE NEED TO
03:25:02 HAVE A BETTER DISCUSSIONTHAT'S NOT
03:25:05 RELATED TO GIS.
03:25:18 >>THERE WERE TWO MILLS ACT WHERE I WAS
03:25:19 NOT IDENTIFIED.
03:25:21 >>I THINK JULIE AND GENEVIEVEHAVE
03:25:26 (INAUDIBLE) APPLICATION, SO I'M NOT
03:25:27 SURE WHY THAT HAPPENED
03:25:31 >>IT SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE AUTOMATIC
03:25:32 THROUGH THE GIS SYSTEM.
03:25:33 >>YOU WOULD HAVE TO ASK IT. SOMEBODY
03:25:44 WOULD HAVE TO HAVE PLUG SOME
03:25:45 INFORMATION FROM THE AGENDA INTO THE
03:25:46 GIS TO GET THE ADDRESS, I DON'T KNOW
03:25:47 HOW WE CAN AUTOMATIC.
03:25:49 >>YES, OKAY.
03:25:52 [CROSSTALK]HAVING USED THE GIS FOR
03:25:56 ACCOUNTING PARCELSOR GENERALLY PUBLIC
03:26:02 ISSUESAND FOR REFUSALS.
03:26:12 >>I SEE YOUR HAND UP. ON THE ISSUE OF
03:26:15 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, PERHAPS WE CAN
03:26:20 ASSIGN THAT TO A MORE BROADER
03:26:21 CONVERSATIONFOR THE PRIORITY SETTING IN
03:26:23 AUGUSTAND JUSTSERVICE SOME ADDITIONAL
03:26:31 ISSUES THAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT WITH
03:26:32 RESPECT TO RESOURCES AS WELL AS THE
03:26:33 GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
03:26:36 >>I HAVE TO SAY ULTIMATELY THE
03:26:37 RESPONSIBILITYBALLS ON THE ELECTED
03:26:40 OFFICIAL.
03:26:41 >>CORRECT.
03:26:42 >>IT'S ULTIMATELY OURRESPONSIBILITY TO
03:26:51 ASK. I ASKED, I DON'T RELY ON WHAT
03:26:52 INFORMATION I AM GIVEN, I ALWAYS ASK IF
03:26:56 I THINK THAT THERE IS A QUESTION. VICE
03:26:57 MAYOR CHOL? CHAHAL?
03:26:58 >>THAT HAS HAPPENED.AT LEAST IN ONECASE
03:27:05 I RECUSE MYSELF BECAUSE I KNEW I WOULD
03:27:08 PROBABLY END UP (INAUDIBLE) AND I AGREE
03:27:11 WITH COUNCILMEMBERCHANGE REQUEST, HOW
03:27:17 WE CAN MAKE GIS SYSTEMWORK SO THAT
03:27:20 THESE MANUAL PROCESSESCOULD BE
03:27:23 ELIMINATED, I THINK WHAT COUNCILMEMBER
03:27:28 JANE IS ASKING IS HOW CAN WE MAKE THE
03:27:31 GIS SYSTEMMORE IN A WAY IT CAN HELP US
03:27:38 VERSUS SPENDING HOURS AND HOURS, AND
03:27:43 WHATEVER APPLICATIONS, WHATEVER USES WE
03:27:44 CAN DO FOR THAT THAT'S A REQUEST, AND
03:27:46 THAT'S MY REQUEST I THINK WE ARE GOOD
03:27:48 WITH THAT.(INAUDIBLE). AND IF IT
03:27:52 DIRECTOR CAN THROW SOME LIGHTON WHAT
03:27:57 OTHER OPTIONS WE HAD TO MAKE IT MORE
03:27:58 TACTICAL USESAS WELL AS THE
03:28:01 COUNCILMEMBERS, THAT WOULD BE
03:28:08 BENEFICIAL. THANK YOU.
03:28:09 >>THANK YOU. I WAS TRYING TO GET TO
03:28:10 YOU, SOARE YOU THERE? THERE YOU ARE.
03:28:14 HI.
03:28:15 >>IT EVEN, EVERYONE.COUNCIL AND STAFF.
03:28:21 THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER JANE AND
03:28:22 CHAHAL FOR YOUR QUESTION AND YOUR
03:28:23 COMMENTS. THE GIS DOESEXCEL AT
03:28:29 (INAUDIBLE) AND WANTS THE INTEREST IN
03:28:30 RADIUS IS KNOWN WE HAVE IT PRE-BUILT
03:28:31 INTO THE GISTHAT (INAUDIBLE) AND FOR
03:28:36 THE PROPERTIES IN THAT AREA. YOU CAN
03:28:37 PICKA BUTTON AND GET AN XL DOWNLOADER
03:28:41 ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION WITH
03:28:43 ADDRESSES, PARCEL NUMBERS OR INFORMATION
03:28:46 . AND COUNCILMEMBER JANE, THE REQUEST
03:28:49 THAT YOU DID, CDD STAFF DID CONTACT THE
03:28:54 GIS TEAMAND THEY IMMEDIATELY WERE ABLE
03:28:57 TO PRODUCE THE DATA. BUT IN COMMUNITY
03:29:03 DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ESTABLISH THERE
03:29:04 WAS MORE(INAUDIBLE) ANALYSIS. THE REPORT
03:29:10 JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA IN THE LAST
03:29:11 18 MONTHS I DID A CHECK, THIS REPORT
03:29:12 HAS BEEN RUN 900 TIMES BY STAFF.SO IS
03:29:17 BEING RUN AT LEAST 500 TIMES A MONTH,
03:29:21 AND THAT'S A MAJOR EFFICIENCY GAIN THAT
03:29:23 ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE USINGMANY TIMES A
03:29:28 WEEK OR MONTH AS YOU CAN TELL.THE
03:29:31 CONFLICT OF INTEREST, WE DO HAVE
03:29:37 (INAUDIBLE) GO TO THE GAAS FOR THIS
03:29:38 EXACT REQUIREMENT, THEN COUNCILMEMBERS
03:29:40 (INAUDIBLE) I REMEMBERDEANNA TELLING US
03:29:44 TO GET THE INFORMATION, WE PUT IT IN
03:29:49 THERE, FOR EVERY COUNCIL MEETING, MY
03:29:50 UNDERSTANDING IS THE COUNCIL OFFICE
03:29:51 STAFFFROM THE AGENDA AND PUTS IT INTO
03:29:55 THIS TOOL ALL SEVEN COUNCILMEMBERS,
03:29:59 INFORMATION ALREADY INCLUDES GISAND
03:30:01 KNOW WHEN THERE IS A CONFLICTAND FOR
03:30:04 THE PLANNING COMMISSION AS WELL THERE
03:30:06 IS A PROCESS IN THE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
03:30:10 DOES SOME CHECKS, SO THOSETOOLS ARE
03:30:12 ALREADY THERE, BUT IT'S A MATTER OF
03:30:16 PEOPLEUSING TECHNOLOGY, THE
03:30:25 TECHNOLOGIES THERE BUT CERTAINLY THE
03:30:26 POLICY PART (INAUDIBLE). THANK YOU.
03:30:27 >>IT'S OR ANYONE ELSE ON THIS? IF NOT,
03:30:28 COUNCILMEMBER JANE, DO YOU HAVE A
03:30:29 MOTION?
03:30:30 >>NOTE IN FILE.
03:30:31 >>WE HAVE A MOTION TO KNOW AND FILE. IS
03:30:35 THERE A SECOND?
03:30:37 >>SECOND.
03:30:38 >>NOTE IN FILE, SECOND.ANY MEMBER OF
03:30:40 THE PUBLIC WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE?
03:30:43 ALL RIGHT, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK?
03:30:48 >>
03:30:49 [CALLING ROLL]THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
03:31:07 ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON. THE NEXT ITEM WE
03:31:08 HAVE IS TO STADIUM AUTHORITY ITEMS, SO
03:31:14 WE ARE GOING TO BE MEETING NOW STADIUM
03:31:15 AUTHORITY NUMBERS WHICH WE ARE ANYWAY,
03:31:16 BUT ONE IS FOR RA, A REQUEST FOR
03:31:23 APPROVAL TO ADD STADIUM BUILDERS
03:31:24 LICENSE TO TEMPORARY SEATS IN THE NORTH
03:31:25 AND SOUTH END ZONESOF LEVI STADIUM AND
03:31:26 THIS WAS ALSO CONTINUED FROM MAY 25,
03:31:29 2021.STATING AUTHORITY DIRECTOR.
03:31:30 >>I DID NOT PULL THE ITEM.
03:31:41 >>AUTHORITY MEMBER JANE.
03:31:42 >>THAT WAS ME AGAIN.
03:31:49 >>GO AHEAD.
03:31:50 >>IT'S ACTUALLY NO SECRET THAT I AND
03:31:51 SOME OTHER COUNCILMEMBERSMEET FAIRLY
03:31:52 REGULARLY WITH THE 49ERS IN A COUPLE OF
03:31:55 WEEKS AGO WE DID DISCUSS THE 64 FIELD
03:31:57 SEATSAND WHAT I LEARNEDWAS THATIN
03:32:03 SUBSEQUENTTHE 49ERS DID SEND A LETTER
03:32:06 TO THE CITYAND EXPLAIN THEIR POSITION.
03:32:10 WHAT I DID LEARN FROM THESE MEETINGSIS
03:32:15 THAT THE 49ERS HAVE ALREADY HAD THE
03:32:16 SEATS FOR TWO YEARS, SO THEY HAVE HAD
03:32:18 THE SEATS IN PLACE AND THE 49ERS PAID
03:32:23 FOR THE COST OF THOSE SEATS, PURCHASING
03:32:25 THOSE SEATS. WERE THE SEEDS TO COME
03:32:30 UNDER AN SBL LICENSE, THEY WOULD
03:32:33 BASICALLY SELL FOR ABOUT $10,000,
03:32:37 THAT'S THE PRICE THAT THE 49ERS ARE
03:32:39 ASKING, SOAND THEY BELIEVE THAT THE
03:32:46 MARKET WOULD EVEN SUPPORT $11,000. SO
03:32:47 64 SEATS AT $11,000 WOULD BE $704,000
03:32:52 THAT WOULD HELP TO PAY OFF THE DEBT ON
03:32:53 THE STADIUM.AND THE 49ERS HAVE ALREADY
03:32:56 AGREED THATSBL'S HAVE DIFFERENT LEVELS
03:33:01 BASED ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE PAY, SOME
03:33:03 INCLUDE BUFFETS, SOME INCLUDE FOOD AND
03:33:05 BEVERAGE AND SO ON. IN THESE 64 SEATS,
03:33:11 ANY FOOD AND BEVERAGE COSTS, BUT FACE
03:33:14 WOULD BE COVERED BY THE 49ERS. SO, AND
03:33:22 THESE SEATS, THE CITY GETS10%OF THE NFL
03:33:29 TICKET SURCHARGE, BUT THESE SEATS,
03:33:35 WHILE THE TICKET IS ABOUT $1000,THE NFL
03:33:39 SETS THE PRICE AT $175, SO FOR EVERY
03:33:41 GAME THE CITY WOULD GET $17.50 PLUS A
03:33:45 $0.35PER TICKETREVENUE FORYOUTH
03:33:53 PROGRAMS. SO IF THE SEATS DON'T GETGO
03:33:56 IN, THEN WEMISS OUT ON THAT SBL AND WE
03:34:00 MISS OUT THE SP$17.50 PER SEAT.AND I
03:34:06 GUESS THE CITY HAD CLAIMED THATTHE
03:34:11 ADMIN COSTS TO MANAGE 64 SEATS IS
03:34:16 $39,000 A YEAR.WHICH IF YOU APPLY THAT
03:34:19 SAME NUMBERTO 61,000 SPL'S, THAT WOULD
03:34:25 BE$39 MILLIONOF ADMIN COST. BUT THE
03:34:33 ADMIN COSTS ARE ACTUALLY ONLY $800,000.
03:34:36 WHICH IS $13 PER SPL. SO I'M NOT
03:34:37 EXACTLY SUREABOUT THE CITY'S NUMBERS
03:34:40 BUT TO METHE 49ERSHAVE GOT TO PUT THE
03:34:48 SEATS IN ANY WAY, AND FOR THE CITY TO
03:34:49 MISS OUT ON THE SBL MONEYWHICH PAYS OFF
03:34:50 THE DEBT ON THE STADIUM, THIS DOESN'T
03:34:53 MAKE SENSE TO ME. AND THEN THE CITY
03:34:55 WILL GET THAT MONEYFOR NFL GAMES AND
03:35:00 NOT NFL EVENTS. SO I AM TRYING TO
03:35:02 UNDERSTANDTHIS SORT OF SEEMS LIKE A
03:35:06 NO-BRAINER FOR MEWHERE THE CITY GETS
03:35:08 SOME MONEY, BUT IN THE 49ERSOUR
03:35:15 COVERING THE COSTS INSTALLING THE SEATS
03:35:18 AND PAYING FOR THE BUFFET AND THE FOOD,
03:35:20 SO I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE CITY'S
03:35:22 POSITIONIN TERMS OFNOT WANTING TO DO
03:35:30 THIS.
03:35:37 >>WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MAKING
03:35:38 THE CASE FOR THE 49ERS.
03:35:40 >>HAPPY TO DO IT.
03:35:41 >>WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY WITH THE SEAS.
03:35:47 WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THEM TO PAY
03:35:48 FOR YEARS AND THEY HAVE REFUSED TO PAY
03:35:49 US ANYTHING FOR THE SEATS. SO WE
03:35:50 APPRECIATE THAT, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE
03:35:53 THAT FIVE OUT OF THE SEVEN STADIUM
03:35:54 AUTHORITY MEMBERSMEET WEEKLY WITH THEM
03:35:56 AND MAKE ALL KINDS OF ASKS OF YOUAND I
03:36:02 HOPE THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE WHERE
03:36:03 YOU'RE GOING END UP PUTTING WHAT YOU
03:36:04 ACTUALLY TALK ABOUTON YOUR CALENDAR,
03:36:05 BUT I THINK
03:36:07 >>I DO. IT'S ON MY CALENDAR.
03:36:09 >>WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE OUR STADIUM
03:36:11 AUTHORITY MEMBERSLET THE STADIUM
03:36:15 AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORAND LEGAL
03:36:21 TEAM NEGOTIATENOT OUR INDIVIDUAL
03:36:25 STADIUM AUTHORITY MEMBERS, AND THIS IS
03:36:29 A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT, BECAUSE
03:36:30 THERE IS A LONG HISTORY BEFORE YOU GO
03:36:32 ON THE COUNCIL, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT,
03:36:39 AUTHORITY MEMBER JANE, ABOUT THE SEAS.
03:36:40 WERE THEY TELLING YOU THE WHOLE STORY?
03:36:41 I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK IT'S
03:36:42 IMPORTANT THAT WE HEARFROM OUR
03:36:43 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN OUR LEGAL TEAM
03:36:44 ABOUT THE LONG-STANDING NEGOTIATIONS
03:36:45 ABOUT THE SEATSAND WHAT RESOLUTION WE
03:36:50 CAN COME TO. I AM HAPPY THAT NOW
03:36:51 THEY'RE GOING TO PAY SOMETHINGBECAUSE
03:36:53 THEY HAVE BEEN RESISTANT OVER THE YEARS
03:36:54 AND THEY JUST PUT THEM INWITHOUT
03:36:55 PERMISSION. SO LET'S HEAR FROM THE
03:36:58 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ON THE REPORT. BUT I
03:37:01 REALLY THINK THAT STADIUM AUTHORITY
03:37:05 MEMBERS SHOULD NOT BE NEGOTIATING
03:37:06 ANYTHING ON BEHALF OF THE CITY AND IF
03:37:09 THE STADIUM WANTS TO COME MAKE THEIR
03:37:10 CASE THEY SHOULD MAKE THEIR CASEINSTEAD
03:37:11 OF SENDING STADIUM AUTHORITYMEMBERS TO
03:37:16 MAKE THE CASE FOR THEM. EXECUTIVE
03:37:17 DIRECTOR, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT ON
03:37:19 THIS?
03:37:20 >>I PREPARED A COUPLE OF SLIDESKNOWING
03:37:23 THIS ITEM HAD BEEN PULLED, SO I'M GOING
03:37:24 TO ASK IF WE COULD JUST START, I
03:37:28 BELIEVE SHE IS GOING TO BE SHARING THE
03:37:29 SCREEN. SO I JUST WANT TO COMMENTAND I
03:37:35 WILL ADDRESS ON THE COMMENTS THAT
03:37:36 COUNCILMEMBER JANE MADE AS WE GO THROUGH
03:37:37 THE PRESENTATION.LET'S START WITHWHERE
03:37:42 THE REFERENCE LETTER THAT WAS SENT BY
03:37:43 THE 49ERS FOR THE MAY 25 AGENDA ITEM.
03:37:47 AS WELL AS WHERE WE LEFT OFF OF THE
03:37:48 BOARD. SO ON MAY 14, 2020, THE STADIUM
03:37:56 AUTHORITY BOARD TOOK NO ACTION ON THE
03:37:57 STADIUM MANAGER'S PROPOSALAND RATHER
03:38:00 DIRECTED THE STADIUM MANAGER TO DEVELOP
03:38:01 A SIMILAR INSTRUMENTBECAUSE OF THE
03:38:03 RISKS ASSOCIATED THAT WE HAVE TALKED
03:38:04 ABOUTWITH IN THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL
03:38:09 DISCUSSION WITH THE SPL SO WE BOTH WENT
03:38:11 THROUGH AGAIN TONIGHT. THE STADIUM
03:38:13 AUTHORITY BOARD DIRECTED THE STADIUM
03:38:15 MANAGERTO NOT PRESENT AN SPL PROPOSAL
03:38:20 BUT AS THE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT ALLOWS
03:38:22 TO CREATE A SIMILAR INSTRUMENTFOR THE
03:38:24 BOARD TO CONSIDER.THE MAJORITY OF THE
03:38:29 EXISTING BOARD MEMBERS THAT ARE SEATED
03:38:30 NOWCLEARLY REQUESTED AN ALTERNATIVE TO
03:38:33 THE SPL. THE STADIUM MANAGER ON MAY.
03:38:40 THE STADIUM MANAGER ON MAY 25 INSTEAD
03:38:41 WROTE A LETTER AND I WANTED TO JUST
03:38:42 COMMENT A LITTLE BITON HOW THIS BECOMES
03:38:46 TEED UP FOR THE BOARD. THE LETTER MAKES
03:38:47 A LOT OF ATTACKS ABOUTTHE ACTIONS THAT
03:38:50 I HAVE TAKEN IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
03:38:52 AND THINGS OF THAT SORT BUT WHAT THE
03:38:54 STADIUM MANAGERIS I GUESS COMING CLEAN
03:38:55 WITH IS THAT THEY HAVE NOT PAID
03:38:59 ATTENTION TO WHAT THE BOARD HAD ASKED
03:39:00 ASKED FOR, SIMILAR INSTRUMENT
03:39:01 RECOGNIZING THATTHEY IS INDUSTRY
03:39:05 EXPERTS COULD, IN FACT, COME UP WITH AN
03:39:06 ALTERNATE THAT ADDRESSES THE RISKAND
03:39:09 NOW BEEN TALKED ABOUT FOR MANY YEARS
03:39:13 AND BRING FORWARD THE OPPORTUNITY AS
03:39:14 THEY ARE REQUIRED FOR THEM TO MAXIMIZE
03:39:15 REVENUE FOR THE STADIUM AUTHORITY.I
03:39:20 ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT THIS IS
03:39:21 PROBLEMATICAND THAT THEY DO INDEED MEET
03:39:23 WITH COUNCILMEMBERS AND MAKE OFFERS OF
03:39:26 CHANGE PROPOSALSTHAT ARE NOT IN THEIR
03:39:32 WRITTEN PROPOSAL. UNLESS WE HAVE THEIR
03:39:33 PROPOSALS IN WRITING AS CHARACTERIZED
03:39:36 BY COUNCILMEMBER JANE, THAT'S NOT THE
03:39:37 ISSUES THAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US. AND
03:39:38 WE WILL GO THROUGH, IT'S IMPORTANT AS
03:39:44 WE GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS FOR THE
03:39:45 FINANCIAL PROPOSALS THAT ARE BEFORE US.
03:39:46 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THATBE VERY MINDFUL
03:39:53 OF THE TIMING OF THIS PROPOSAL, IT CAME
03:39:54 UP IN APRIL ALMOST A YEAR AFTER THE
03:39:56 BOARD DIRECTED ITIN MAY 14, 2020, WITH
03:39:59 PARTICULARLYCONCERNING ABOUT THAT IS IN
03:40:03 THE AGREEMENT THAT IF THE PROPOSALS, IF
03:40:08 THERE IS NO ACTION BY MAY 31 AND THE
03:40:11 49ERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO SELL THESE TICKETS
03:40:13 UNENCUMBERED. AND SO IT WAS THE
03:40:17 STADIUM AUTHORITY THAT HAD TO GET A
03:40:18 WRITTEN PROPOSAL FROM THEM IN MAY
03:40:20 BECAUSE IT WAS CLEAR THAT EVERYTHING
03:40:22 THAT THEY HAD PUT IN WRITING WAS JUST
03:40:23 VERBAL. LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO
03:40:27 INDEED, IT WAS CONCERNING ALSO THAT YOU
03:40:31 SHOULD BE AWARE OF IS THE LETTERBY THE
03:40:38 COMPLIANCE MANAGER SELLS THE SP ELSE'S
03:40:39 THE OPTION THAT SAYS THERE IS A
03:40:42 NO-BRAINER AND THAT THERE IS
03:40:43 OPPORTUNITY HERE, THE STADIUM MANAGERS
03:40:49 GENERAL MANAGER IS ON RECORD AS SAYING
03:40:50 THAT THE SCSA IN 2019, WE DO NOT THINK
03:40:55 IT IS PRUDENT TO REQUIRE SBL'SFOR THE
03:40:57 PARTICULAR SEAT BECAUSE THEY ARE
03:40:59 TEMPORARY SEATS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR
03:41:01 BEING ELIMINATEDFOR NFL GAMES IN THE
03:41:07 FUTURE. SO IT IS THE STADIUM MANAGERS
03:41:08 POSITION THEMSELVESTHAT THIS SPL AS THE
03:41:11 BOARD DIRECTED LAST YEAR, THAT IS NOT
03:41:15 THE RIGHT TOOL TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE,
03:41:20 WHICH IS ULTIMATELY WHAT THE BOARD
03:41:21 ASKED. THAT IS WHY YEAR AGO THE BOARD
03:41:22 ASKED FOR A SIMILAR INSTRUMENTSO THAT
03:41:24 WE MINIMIZE RISK AND MAXIMIZE REVENUE.
03:41:29 AN INDUSTRY EXPERT THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES
03:41:31 FOR THEM TO LOOK AT. THE LETTER ALSO
03:41:32 DISTORTS THE EVENTS IN THE STAFF'S
03:41:35 INTENTIONS. IT REALLY, THE WHOLE
03:41:39 CONUNDRUM THAT WE HAVE HEREJUST INSERTS
03:41:42 UNNECESSARY TENSION ABOUTWHO SAID WHAT
03:41:45 AND WHO SAID THAT IN NEW IDEAS THAT
03:41:47 SURFACE THAT AREN'T SUBMITTED IN WRITING
03:41:50 BASED ON DIRECT MEETINGS WITH
03:41:51 COUNCILMEMBERS. I JUST WANT TO RESTATE
03:41:58 WHAT COUNCILMEMBER JANE SAID, STADIUM
03:41:59 MANAGER HAS INDEED HAD THE OPPORTUNITYTO
03:42:04 IN ALL THE YEARS THEY HAVE CHOSEN.
03:42:05 CONNECT THE STADIUM AUTHORITY HAS NOR
03:42:07 THE CITY IS NOT RESTRICTED THEIR
03:42:08 ACTIVITY BUT WE HAVE ASKED FOR REVENUE
03:42:09 OPPORTUNITIES. LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
03:42:12 SLIDE.
03:42:18 SO THE KEY CONCERNS HERE ARE THAT THE
03:42:19 STADIUM MANAGER STILL PROPOSES THE SALE
03:42:20 OF A PRODUCT OF A TEMPORARY NATURE THAT
03:42:23 IS AMORTIZED OVER THE LIFE OF THE
03:42:24 STADIUMBUT CANNOT GUARANTEE ITS
03:42:26 AVAILABILITY EACH YEAR. THE BOARD DID
03:42:29 NOT DIRECTIN SBL IN MAY 2020, AND THAT
03:42:33 INCLUDESTHOSE COUNCILMEMBER'S ACTIONS
03:42:37 THAT ARE SEATED ON THE BOARD LAST YEAR
03:42:38 THAT WERE HERE IN MAY 2020. THE NFL HAS
03:42:42 THE DISCRETION FOR THE ANNUAL RENEWAL
03:42:46 OF THE TEMPORARY FIELD SEATS. THE
03:42:48 STADIUM AUTHORITY MUST GUARANTEE THE
03:42:49 REPLACEMENTOF A COMPARABLE SBL TO MAKE
03:42:52 THE SPO HOLDER WHOLE IF THE SEATS ARE
03:42:54 NOT APPROVED OR REFUND THE AMORTIZED
03:42:58 PORTION SO THERE'S ANOTHER RISK. I
03:43:00 THINK THE ADMINISTRATIVE COST IS AN
03:43:02 OVERBLOWN FACTOR TO TRY TO MAKE THIS
03:43:07 STAFFING RIDICULOUS BUT WE'LL TALK
03:43:08 ABOUT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS
03:43:09 AND THE PLAGUES THAT WERE NOT REVEALED
03:43:13 BY THE 49ERS IN THEIR PROPOSAL. THE
03:43:15 FLUCTUATING TICKET RESERVE FOR WHICH WE
03:43:18 BASE OUR 10% IS REALLY DIMINISHINGCOST
03:43:20 BENEFIT TO US IF WEIF THE AMOUNT IS
03:43:27 BASED ON THEIR AVERAGES OF WHAT THEIR
03:43:28 ACTUAL TICKET RESERVE PRICE IS WHEN
03:43:29 COMPARED TO $175.THE STADIUM MANAGER
03:43:32 HAS ONLY COMMITTEDFOR YEAR ONE FOR SEED
03:43:39 AMENITIES, NOT THE SBL TERM FOR BUFFET
03:43:40 FOOD AND BEVERAGESIN ANY SLACK AND AS
03:43:43 PART OF LAST YEAR'S REPORT THE COST OF
03:43:45 THE COMPLIMENTARY BUFFET COMPLIMENTARY
03:43:50 BUFFET WAS ESTIMATED AT 135% PER GAME.
03:43:52 THAT'S EQUIVALENT TO 8640 THE FOOD AND
03:43:55 BEVERAGESTHAT ARE REFERENCED. WE KNOW
03:43:58 THAT THEY HAVE COMMITTEDTWO YEAR ONE,
03:44:01 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE REST OF THE
03:44:02 YEARS ARE. IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH
03:44:04 COUNCILMEMBER JANETHEY HAVE IT
03:44:07 VERBALLY, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN
03:44:08 WRITING AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE
03:44:09 HEARD OF THATCOMMITMENT FROM THE 49ERS.
03:44:12 THAT SAID, IF WE DON'T GET THEM TO
03:44:17 COMMIT FOR ITFOR THE TERM OF THE SALE
03:44:23 OR THIS PROPOSAL, THEN IT REALLY BECOMES
03:44:29 A COST NEGATIVE PROPOSALAND THAT OUR
03:44:32 MAXIMUM REVENUE ASSUMING ALL THINGS
03:44:33 WORK OUTIN THE BEST CASE SCENARIO IS
03:44:37 39,000, $3900 PER GAME. SO FAR MAXIMUM
03:44:43 BEST CASE SCENARIO REVENUE PER GAMEIS
03:44:46 $3900 AND OUR FOOD IS $8640 BECAUSE
03:44:52 THEY HAVE ONLY COMMITTED TO YEAR ONE
03:44:54 AND ALREADY THERE IS A DISTORTION.
03:44:58 SO LET'S LOOK AT THE TICKET PRICE
03:44:59 VARIATION IS. SO THE TICKET PRICE
03:45:02 VARIATION, THEY HAVE OFFERED A HIGHER
03:45:05 THAN $75 AS THEIR RESERVE TICKET PRICE
03:45:09 FOR WHICH ARE 10% IS BASED OFF OF. BUT
03:45:11 THE ONLY TIME OUT OF THE LAST 20 GAMES
03:45:16 THEIR RESERVE TICKET PRICE HAS OCCURRED
03:45:18 IS THREE TIMES OUT OF 20. THAT MEANS
03:45:20 THE LIKELINESS ISMORE THATTICKET
03:45:26 RESERVE PRICE FOR WHICH ARE 10% IS
03:45:27 BASED OFFIS MORE LIKELY NOT TO HAPPEN
03:45:30 THEN IT IS TO HAPPEN. SO IF YOU LOOK AT
03:45:33 IT IN ANOTHER WAY, THE NUMBER THAT THEY
03:45:37 ARE STATING AS THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE
03:45:40 IS INFLATED AT $175 ASSUMPTION TO MAKE
03:45:43 A BEST CASE SCENARIO WORK. IF YOU LOOK
03:45:44 ATTHE MORE LIKELY SCENARIOIS THAT WE
03:45:51 WILL MAKE LESS THAN 3900 AND AGAIN OFF
03:45:53 THE 10% BECAUSE THEY VERY RARELY MAKE
03:45:58 OVER 175 TICKET RESERVE PRICING. SO
03:46:01 THAT SHOULD CAUSE FOR YOU WHEN YOU LOOK
03:46:02 AT THIS AGAINST THE PROPOSAL OF WHAT WE
03:46:03 WOULD EARN TO BE A LITTLE BIT SKEPTICAL
03:46:06 ABOUT WHAT THEIR PROPOSAL HAS WITH
03:46:09 RESPECT TO MAXIMUM REVENUE OR AVERAGE
03:46:11 REVENUES.I SAY THAT BECAUSEIF YOU LOOK
03:46:16 AT THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE THERE IS AN
03:46:18 OPPORTUNITY THERE WERE WE MAKE 10%, WE
03:46:20 SEE THAT THE RANGE CAN GO FROM
03:46:25 $111-$300 PER GAMEMEANING THAT IN SOME
03:46:28 CASES OUR 10% COULD BE VALUED AT $11
03:46:31 PER TICKET OR $30 PER TICKET. SO WE
03:46:36 THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE
03:46:40 REMOVING THE RISK OF SBL, WHICH THE
03:46:41 GENERAL MANAGEROF THE STADIUMMANAGER
03:46:45 HAS SAID, THAT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA, WE
03:46:52 DON'T RECOMMEND IT, IT'S NOT PRUDENT.
03:46:53 SO IF WE LOOK AT THE TICKET RESERVE
03:46:54 PRICES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GAIN
03:46:55 REVENUE, LET'S LOOK AT HOW THE NUMBERS
03:46:56 REPORT. SO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE,
03:46:59 CHRISTINE?
03:47:02 SO HERE'S A CURRENT PROPOSAL, LET'S
03:47:04 LOOK AT PHASES OF HOW THIS WORKSAND
03:47:07 LET'S GO THROUGH SOME DIFFERENT
03:47:08 OPTIONS. THE TICKET PRICES, 49ERS
03:47:12 REVENUE, THE TICKET PREMIUM WHERE THEY
03:47:13 ALSO MAKE ADDITIONAL REVENUEIS 825, SO
03:47:16 $1000 IS CORRECT. IT IS THE FIRST LINE
03:47:18 ITEM RESERVE TICKET PRICE WHICH WE MAKE
03:47:27 10% TICKET SURCHARGE. ARE $17.50 THAT
03:47:28 WE MAKE OFF THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE.
03:47:29 IN THIS CASE SCENARIO WHICH IS THEIR
03:47:32 PROPOSAL BASED ON THE SCENARIO RECEIVE
03:47:33 THE MAXIMUM OF $262,000THROUGH THE
03:47:39 REVENUE PROPOSAL OVER THE TERM.
03:47:44 HOWEVER, WE KNOW THAT THE LIKELINESS OF
03:47:45 $175 AS A RESERVE TICKET PRICE IS NOT
03:47:48 REALISTIC AND THAT IT ONLY OCCURREDAT
03:47:50 OR ABOVE$175.03 TIMES OUT OF 20 TIMES
03:47:56 OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. SO LET'S LOOK
03:47:59 AT OPTIONS. IF THE STADIUM MANAGER, SO
03:48:00 THIS IS A SIMILAR INSTRUMENTPAST THE
03:48:04 STADIUM MANAGER WERE TO AGREE TO RESERVE
03:48:06 INCREASE THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE,
03:48:10 THAT WOULD INCREASE THE BASE OF THE 10%
03:48:13 THAT WE CAN MAKE. THAT MEANS WE WOULD
03:48:14 MAKE $50 FROM THE TICKET INSTEAD OF
03:48:17 $17.50. AND WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE SBL
03:48:20 RISK THAT THE GENERAL MANAGER SAYSIS A
03:48:22 PROBLEM. IT'S NOT PRUDENTIS THERE
03:48:24 COMMENT.THAT WOULD YIELD OR MAXIMIZE
03:48:27 REVENUETO $749,262, SO CLEARLY THERE'S
03:48:34 AN INCREASE YEAR IF THE BASE OF OUR 10%
03:48:38 IS RELIED ON IS INCREASED. IF WE LOOK
03:48:42 AT ANOTHER OPTIONKNOWING THAT THE
03:48:45 RESERVE TICKET PRICEGOES ANYWHERE FROM
03:48:50 $111-$300, THEN HERE THE RESERVE TICKET
03:48:52 PRICE, SAY THE 49ERS WERE AMENABLE TO
03:48:56 RAISING IT TO 754 $750 AND A PREMIUMAT
03:49:04 $250, WE WOULD NOW BE MAKING $75 PER
03:49:05 TICKET, THE SBL DOESN'T HAVE TO BE
03:49:08 ADDRESSED BY EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT
03:49:12 THAT THAT WAS NOT PRUDENT AND LET'S
03:49:13 LOOK AT OTHER WAYS TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE.
03:49:14 HERE IN THIS CASE WE WOULD MAKE $1.2
03:49:18 MILLION WITHOUT THE RISK, WITHOUT THE
03:49:19 ADMINISTRATIVE COST.THE ISSUE HERE IS
03:49:22 HOW IS THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE SET?
03:49:24 WHO SETS IT?NOWWHENOBVIOUSLY IN THE
03:49:30 ORIGINAL PROPOSAL THE 49ERS WERE SAYING
03:49:33 IT WAS GOING TO BE SET AT $175 AND
03:49:37 STABLE FOR THE NEXT YEAR. WE KNOW THAT
03:49:39 PAST DATA DOESN'T SUPPORT THATAND THAT
03:49:42 THAT IS VERY UNLIKELY. ALTHOUGH WE DO
03:49:43 KNOW THATTHEIR PROPOSAL SUGGESTED THAT
03:49:48 THEY COULD SET IT AND KEEP IT STABLE AT
03:49:51 $175, WHICH MEANS THEY WOULD HAVE SOME
03:49:53 DISCRETION IN TERMS OF CONTROLLING THE
03:49:54 RESERVE TICKET PRICE. HOWEVER, WHEN WE
03:49:57 ASKED ABOUT THISCONCEPT OF REMOVING
03:50:03 RISK ARE RESPONDING TO THE BOARD, OR
03:50:04 RESPONSIBLY WITH THE NON-SPO AUCTION
03:50:05 BUT RATHERSIMILAR INSTRUMENT THEY
03:50:09 SUGGESTED THAT THE NFL CONTROLS THIS OR
03:50:13 THAT THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW NFL GUIDANCE
03:50:14 OR GUIDELINES. SO IF THAT IS THE CASE,
03:50:20 THEY CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. EITHER
03:50:21 CONTROL THE RESERVE TICKET PRICE AND
03:50:23 CAN CONFIRM THAT WOULD BE STABILIZED AT
03:50:24 $175 OR ABOVE OR ANY AMOUNTAND COMMIT A
03:50:28 PROPOSAL TO THE CITY FOR LONGER-TERMOR
03:50:31 THEY HAVE TO SAY IN THE EVENT THAT THEY
03:50:35 DON'T HAVE CONTROL THAT THEY FOLLOW THE
03:50:36 NFL GUIDELINES AND THEREFORE$175 WAS
03:50:38 NEVER A SOLID NUMBERTO BASE A DECISION.
03:50:42 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THATTHERE IS
03:50:47 A CONSISTENT MESSAGE THAT YOU HAVE
03:50:48 RECEIVED, I CAN ONLY FOLLOW THE GENERAL
03:50:50 MANAGER IS THE HIGHEST RANKING STADIUM
03:50:55 AS STANKO'S HIGHEST-RANKING OFFICIAL
03:50:56 WHERE HE CAN'SSAYS IT'S NOT PRUDENT, WE
03:51:00 DON'T RECOMMEND IT, THE NUMBERS DON'T
03:51:01 WORK OUT, THIS IS NOT THE PROPOSAL THAT
03:51:02 THE BOARD, YOU YOURSELVES THAT WERE ON
03:51:05 THE COUNCIL LAST YEAR ASKED FORAND WE
03:51:09 DID LOOK AT A SIMILAR INSTRUMENT BASED
03:51:10 ON THEIR NUMBERS AND INSTEAD THEY GAVE
03:51:11 US A RESPONSE THAT THEY FELT WAS THAT
03:51:17 SECURED THEIR INTERESTS RATHER THAN THE
03:51:18 STADIUM AUTHORITIES. IN ONE CASE THEY
03:51:20 COULD CONTROL THE RESERVE TICKET
03:51:21 PRICING KEEP IT STABLE EVEN THOUGH
03:51:22 THEIR DATA DOESN'T SHOW THAT AND IN THE
03:51:23 OTHER CASE THEY DON'T CONTROL THAT,
03:51:24 THAT IT'S GUIDED BY THE NFL GUIDELINES.
03:51:26 SO FOR THOSE REASONS, LET'S GO TO THE
03:51:28 NEXT SLIDE.THE STADIUM MANAGER PROPOSAL
03:51:33 DID NOT ADDRESS THE 2020 CONCERNS,
03:51:34 THAT'S NO DISRESPECT TO THE BOARD, THIS
03:51:38 IS NOT ABOUT ME AND WHAT THEY WRITE
03:51:40 ABOUT IN THOSE LETTERS, IT DOES NOT
03:51:42 MAXIMIZE REVENUE OR MINIMIZE RISK. THE
03:51:47 BOARD ABANDONED IN SBL OPTION IN 2020.
03:51:49 THE STADIUM MANAGER WAS DULY NOTICED,
03:51:52 THE BOARD REQUIRED A SIMILAR INSTRUMENT
03:51:54 AND THE GENERAL MANAGER HIMSELF IS
03:51:56 STATING THAT IT IS NOT A GOOD OPTION.
03:52:02 THE STADIUM MANAGER'S PROPOSAL MAXIMIZE
03:52:03 REVENUE OF $39,000 A YEAR IF ALL
03:52:04 ASSUMPTIONS HAPPEN IN THE BEST CASE
03:52:05 SCENARIOWHICH IS UNLIKELY OVER 30 YEARS.
03:52:10 THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF AN ANNUAL NFL
03:52:11 APPROVAL, THE COST OF PREMIUM SEATING
03:52:13 FOR YEAR ONEIS THE ONLY THING THAT'S IN
03:52:18 WRITING, THERE'S NOTHING UNLESS SOMEONE
03:52:19 HAS IT IN WRITING THAT HASN'T SHARED
03:52:21 WITH ME THAT IT WOULD EXTEND BEYOND THE
03:52:22 TERM. AND A SETTING RESERVE TICKET PRICE
03:52:26 ATHUNDRED AND $75 OR HIGHER IS A BIG
03:52:33 JUMP AND DEPARTURE FROM THEIR PAST
03:52:34 NUMBERS. THERE ARE OTHER ALTERNATIVES
03:52:36 THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PROPOSED THAT WERE
03:52:41 NOT ACTIVE. THE BOARDS CONCERNS. IT'S
03:52:42 UNKNOWN AT THISSTADIUM THE MANAGER
03:52:44 AGREES OR NOT. WE ACTUALLY HEARD FROM
03:52:47 THE STADIUM MANAGER THAT THEY ARE NOT
03:52:48 AGREEABLE TO CHANGING THE RESERVE
03:52:50 TICKET PRICE SO WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT
03:52:52 AGREEABLE TO THAT, BUT DON'T RECOMMEND
03:52:55 IN SBL AND THEY ALSO GIVETWO
03:53:00 INCONSISTENT ANSWERS WITH RESPECT TO
03:53:01 HOW TO RESERVE TICKET PRICES ARE
03:53:02 DEVELOPED AND SUSTAINED. SO WITH THATWE
03:53:05 JUST SAY THAT IT'S REALLYUNFORTUNATE
03:53:11 THAT THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP, IT'S
03:53:12 UNFORTUNATE THAT THEY DIDN'T RESPOND
03:53:13 RESPECTFULLY TO THE BOARD'S DIRECTION
03:53:15 OF LAST YEAR TO COME UP WITH A SIMILAR
03:53:16 INSTRUMENT AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT
03:53:18 THEY DID LOOK AT THE RESERVE TICKET
03:53:19 PRICEIN EARNEST AND WITH THE MOTIVATION
03:53:23 OF REALLY TRYING TO COLLABORATE ON AN
03:53:25 IDEA THAT PERHAPS WAS MORE MONTHS AND
03:53:30 MORE TIME WE COULD'VE GOTTEN THIS RIGHT
03:53:31 OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS INSTEAD
03:53:32 OF WAITING TO THE LAST MINUTEWHEN THE
03:53:34 MAY 31 TRIGGERS A LOSS FOR THEM TO SELL
03:53:38 TICKETS UNENCUMBERED. I WILL LEAVE IT
03:53:39 AT THAT. I STAND BY MY POSITION AND I
03:53:41 STAND BY THE NUMBERS.
03:53:45 >>OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT. CITY MANAGER
03:53:47 . YES, THOSE ARE ALL THE THINGS WE'VE
03:53:50 BEEN DEALING WITH FOR A WHILE.LET'S
03:53:55 SEE. I HAVE AUTHORITY MEMBERS BECKER, I
03:54:01 THINK, YOUR FIRST?
03:54:02 >>THANK YOU, CHAIR. I WANTED TO STAY
03:54:04 CLEARLY THATYES, IF WE DO, I DON'T
03:54:11 EVERY WEEK SOMETIMES I GO WEEKS WITHOUT
03:54:12 MEETING THEM, BUT WHEN WE MEET WITH THE
03:54:14 49ERSIT'S HEARING THEIR SIDE BUT ALSO
03:54:18 HEARING THE CITIES SIDE AND VICE VERSA.
03:54:22 I PREFER THEM TO BE HEREAND I CONTINUE
03:54:24 TO ASK THEM TO BE HERE.BUT IT'S ALSO
03:54:26 KIND OF LIKE ME SPEAKING WITH THE HEAD
03:54:29 OF THE FIREFIGHTERS UNION JUST TO HEAR
03:54:32 THAT AMOUNT. IT'S LIKE ME HEARINGWHAT
03:54:37 (INAUDIBLE) HAS TO SAY, LIKE ME HEARING
03:54:38 WHAT UNIONS HAVE THE SAME. I AM HEARING
03:54:41 WHAT THE MINERS HAVE TO SAY. MY CONCERN
03:54:42 IS BASED ON NUMBER FIVE ON THE SLIDE
03:54:45 WHICH WAS COMMITTED TOTHE FOOD AND
03:54:47 BEVERAGE, I KNOWFOR ONE THAT THE, WELL,
03:54:57 I BELIEVE THEY SAID THAT THEY ARE
03:54:58 COMMITTED TO ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE
03:54:59 BECAUSE BASED ON THE LETTERTHAT WAS
03:55:00 SENT BY, SORRY, I CAN'T SAY HIS NAME
03:55:04 RIGHT, MERCURIO ON MAY 10IS THAT
03:55:08 FURTHER AS WE DISCUSSEDTHE (INAUDIBLE)
03:55:15 HAVE COMMITTED TO COVERING ANY FOOD AND
03:55:16 BEVERAGE CREDITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
03:55:17 FPL, THUS THE SCSA WILL NOT BE
03:55:18 OBLIGATED TO FUND ANYSEATS. SO I JUST
03:55:22 WANTED TO SAVE THAT FOR THE RECORD.
03:55:27 >>EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WAS THAT THE
03:55:29 FIRST YEAR?
03:55:31 >>I'M SORRY,THAT'S THE INFORMATION AS
03:55:33 WE KNOW IT. I WOULD ASK EITHER
03:55:39 CHRISTINE OR RUTH WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING
03:55:40 WITH ME ON THIS PROPOSAL THAT WE, IT
03:55:42 WAS NOT REFLECTED AS THE FULL TERMBUT
03:55:45 RATHER THE ONE-YEAR. SO IF ANYONE HAS
03:55:47 THAT IN WRITINGTHAT CLARIFIES THAT
03:55:52 CONFUSION THAT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO
03:55:53 REVIEW IT.RUTH OR CHRISTINE, IF YOU
03:55:59 WANT TO ADD?
03:56:04 >>I WOULD AGREE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE
03:56:05 FULL CLARITY, THAT WE WERE TALKING
03:56:08 ABOUT THE ENTIRE TERM OF THE SPL AND
03:56:09 THAT FOR THE POINT LIKE THAT THAT IT'S
03:56:12 A CRITICAL POINT.
03:56:21 >>OKAY.
03:56:22 >>WE DO KNOW THAT WE PARTICIPATE IN
03:56:23 CONVERSATION WHATEVER REGULAR MEETINGS
03:56:24 WERE REFLECTED AS YEAR ONE.
03:56:29 >>OKAY, THANK YOU. I THINK IT WENT
03:56:30 BACKWARDS, WAS LOOKING AT A DIFFERENT
03:56:31 VIEW. AUTHORITY MEMBER WATANABEFOLLOWED
03:56:34 BY JANE.
03:56:35 >>OKAY, THANK YOU, MAYOR. AN EXECUTIVE
03:56:39 DIRECTOR FOR THE PRESENTATION.I RECALL
03:56:46 THIS COMING BEFORE US, AND ACTUALLY I
03:56:47 REMEMBERBEING AT THE FOOTBALL GAMES AND
03:56:52 FULL DISCLOSURE I SAID THIS BEFORE, MY
03:56:53 HUSBAND AND I, WE HAVE SEASON TICKETS
03:56:55 AND I NOTICED THE SEATSIN THE END OF
03:56:59 THE FIELDS ANDI WONDEREDWHO BELONGS TO
03:57:07 THESE SEEDS? WHY ARE THEY THERE? WHO IS
03:57:10 PAYING FOR THEM? WHO IS GETTING THE
03:57:11 REVENUE FROM THEM?AND IT BECAME A POINT
03:57:13 OF CONVERSATION, ANDSO WHEN THIS WHOLE
03:57:19 PROPOSAL CAME BEFORE USIN THE PREVIOUS
03:57:22 ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITYAND THERE
03:57:24 WERE DISCUSSIONSAND THERE WAS CONCERN
03:57:28 ABOUT THE NFLGIVING AUTHORITY FOR THE
03:57:32 SEEDS TO BE OCCUPIED AND WHETHER OR NOT
03:57:36 THEY WERE GOING TO APPROVE THEM, THAT
03:57:38 WAS A BIG CONCERN.AND SO WE ASKED, WE
03:57:42 DID ASK THE STADIUM MANAGEMENT TO COME
03:57:44 BACK WITH ANOTHER OFFERAND PROPOSALBY
03:57:52 NOW WE ARE HEARING ABOUT IT NOW. OKAY?
03:57:54 WHEN WE HAVE A NEW ADMINISTRATION. AND
03:58:01 THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO MEET WITH THE
03:58:02 49ERS ON A REGULAR BASIS AND ONE OF
03:58:04 THEM IS BRINGING THIS PROPOSAL TO US
03:58:06 DIRECTLY WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BETHE
03:58:10 STADIUM MANAGEMENT THAT IS BRINGING
03:58:11 THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL, NOT ONE
03:58:14 MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. IT'S WRONG
03:58:18 ANDI WOULD IMAGINE THAT THERE IS SOME
03:58:22 INTENT BEHIND IT, SOI HAVE A LOT OF
03:58:27 CONCERNS ABOUT THISJUST LIKE THE
03:58:30 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THEY HAVE BEEN
03:58:37 USING THE SEEDS FOR A LONG TIME
03:58:38 ALREADY, MAKE MONEY OFTEN, AND NOW ALL
03:58:39 OF A SUDDEN THEY WANT TO SHARE THE
03:58:40 WEALTH WITH THE STADIUM AUTHORITY.I
03:58:45 HAVE EXTREME RESERVATIONS ABOUT THIS.
03:58:46 SO THANK YOU.
03:58:52 >>STADIUM AUTHORITY ATTORNEY, DID YOU
03:58:56 HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?
03:58:59 >>YES, I DID. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN
03:59:00 OBJECTION ON THE EVIDENCE BEING
03:59:07 SUBMITTED IS ALL HEARSAY. THIS IS THE
03:59:08 CREATIVE PROCESS I HAVE EVER HEARD OF.
03:59:09 IF WE ENGAGE IN THIS PROCESSBUILDING NO
03:59:11 OTHER CONTRACTOR CITY OR THE STATE
03:59:15 AUTHORITY. HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
03:59:20 WHAT THE 49ERS SAID TO VARIOUS
03:59:21 DIFFERENT PEOPLE ANDPERSON WHO IS
03:59:24 TELLING US THIS IS A GREAT PROPOSALIS
03:59:30 NOT EVEN HERE TO EXPLAIN THE PROPOSAL
03:59:31 OR TO ANSWER ANYBODY'S QUESTIONS. AND
03:59:32 WE ARE ALL WONDERINGWHAT THEIR PROPOSAL
03:59:34 ACTUALLY IS.I RECOMMEND THAT WE JUST
03:59:38 SIMPLY CONTINUE THIS TILL THEY SHOW UP
03:59:42 EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT IT IS THEY'RE
03:59:46 COMMITTING TO DO. WE HAVE A VERY
03:59:47 SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE 49ERS ON
03:59:48 EXACTLY THIS KIND OF THING, ON THE BUT
03:59:49 THEY COST ON THE PREMIUM PRICINGTHAT
03:59:50 THEY PUT ON THE SCENE. WE ARE INVOLVED
03:59:52 IN ARBITRATION OVER THE BUFFET COST.
03:59:55 THEY ARE CURRENTLY SUING US FOR $1
03:59:56 MILLIONA YEAR FOR FOUR YEARSAN
03:59:59 ARBITRATION, $4 MILLIONIN BUFF A COST
04:00:03 THAT THEY SAID THAT THEY NEVER CHARGED
04:00:07 US, NEVER ACCOUNTED FOR AT ANY POINT
04:00:08 AND NOW THEY SUDDENLY SAY THEY DIDN'T
04:00:10 LIKE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE RENT RESET,
04:00:13 THEY SAID WAIT A MINUTE,YOU OWE US $4
04:00:19 MILLION IN BACK OF A COST. THEY HAVE
04:00:20 BEEN ALL ACROSS THE BOARD ONWHETHER
04:00:28 THEY HAD THE SPL REVENUE IS MET WITH A
04:00:32 WARRANT INCLUDES BOTH A COST. OR
04:00:33 WHETHER WE HAVE TO PAY THEM ON THE
04:00:34 OUTSIDE OR NOT. THESE ARE ALL ISSUES IN
04:00:35 ARBITRATION. IN THIS VERY ISSUEIS NOT
04:00:38 EVEN CLEAR TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLE WHO
04:00:41 THEY ARE TALKING TO. YET THEY DON'T
04:00:43 EVEN SHOW UP AT A PUBLIC MEETINGTO
04:00:50 DEFEND WHAT THEY SAY IS A GREAT DEAL.
04:00:51 IF THIS IS A GREAT DEAL OF THINKING
04:00:52 AUTHORITY AND WHY AREN'T THEY NEAR
04:00:53 DEFENDANT WITH A GREAT I SEE NO PURPOSE
04:00:56 IN US CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION,
04:00:58 THERE'S NO WAY I CAN WRITE AN AGREEMENT
04:01:01 WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IT IS THEY'RE
04:01:02 COMMITTING TO ANWE DID INVITE THEM TO
04:01:08 COME AND THEY DID NOT COME. I THINK
04:01:09 THAT'S MORE EVIDENCETHAT THEY ARE NOT
04:01:11 COMMITTED. ON THE ISSUE OFWHETHER THE
04:01:15 NFL SINCE THE TICKET PRICE FOR NOT I
04:01:20 CAN'T POSSIBLY BELIEVE THE NFL SINCE
04:01:21 THE TICKET PRICE. THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY
04:01:22 SAY. IF THEY TOLD YOU THAT, BOARD
04:01:27 MEMBER JANE, HAVE THEM EXPLAIN HOW THE
04:01:28 NFL SETS THE TICKET PRICE.THAT'S NOT
04:01:30 HOW IT WORKS. A SENTENCING THE PRICE
04:01:38 AND THEY SET THE PREMIUMS ON TOP OF THE
04:01:43 TICKET PRICE, AND THAT'S WITTICISM OF
04:01:44 THE. POLICE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT
04:01:47 NFL SETTING THE TICKET PRICE. SO WAY
04:01:49 TOO LITTLE CONSISTENT INFORMATION
04:01:50 AVAILABLE, WAY TOO LITTLE RELIABLE
04:01:52 INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR THE COUNCIL
04:01:56 TO MAKE ANY KIND OF DECISION ON THIS
04:01:57 OTHER THANTO GIVE SOME KIND OF
04:02:06 DIRECTIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
04:02:07 AND I WOULD URGE YOU NOT TO DISCUSS
04:02:08 THIS WITH THE 49ERS BECAUSE ALL IT DOES
04:02:09 IS CREATE A LOT OF CONFUSION AND A
04:02:10 WASTE OF TIME FOR THE PUBLIC WATCHING
04:02:11 THIS AT THIS HOUR OF THE NIGHT WHEN WE
04:02:12 HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO.
04:02:28 >>I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS IS WHY THE
04:02:29 YEAR ONE IS CHARACTERIZED US AT
04:02:30 MEETINGS AND THE UNCERTAINTY OF IT AS
04:02:31 REFLECTED IN THE PROPOSAL AND I JUST
04:02:34 WHY IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE PATTERN
04:02:35 IS THAT THEY HAD PAID FOR THE BUFFET IN
04:02:36 THE PAST. IF THIS COST IS SHIFTED OVER
04:02:37 BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF CLARITY IT'S A
04:02:41 MONEY LOSER. IT'S A MONEY LOSER PROPOSAL
04:02:44 AT THE RATE OF ABOUT $5000 A YEAR OVER
04:02:46 THE LONG-TERM. SOI AGREE WITH THE CITY
04:02:54 ATTORNEY IN TERMS OF THIS IS COMPLETELY
04:02:55 INCONSISTENT INFORMATION THAT IS BEING
04:02:56 SHARED VERBALLY. ALL WE HAVE IS THE
04:03:00 WRITTEN PROPOSAL, THE WRITTEN PROPOSAL
04:03:01 IS PROBLEMATIC, THE GENERAL MANAGER'S
04:03:04 STATEMENT IS CLEAR, THE COMPLIANCE
04:03:05 MANAGER IS INFORMATION IS JUST A LOT OF
04:03:06 FLUFF. FRANKLY, I HAVE TO PUT IT IN THE
04:03:10 PUBLIC RECORD, I REALLY HOPETHE STADIUM
04:03:13 AUTHORITY IS NOT BEING CHARGED FOR
04:03:14 REPORTS THAT AREBEING DEVELOPED AS A
04:03:18 RESULTOF MEETINGS WITH FOUR OR FIVE
04:03:23 COUNCILMEMBERS. I THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM
04:03:29 AN INTERNAL CONFLICT IN AND OF ITSELF,
04:03:30 BUT FRANKLY IT'S CAUSING SOME
04:03:31 UNNECESSARY TENSION THAT CREATES MORE
04:03:33 WORK AT A TIME WHEN STAFF IS ALREADY
04:03:34 VERY BUSY ON OTHER PROPOSALS AND ITEMS.
04:03:38 >>THANK YOU, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. I WILL
04:03:41 GO DOWN THE LINE NOW, HEARING ALL THAT,
04:03:42 AUTHORITY MEMBER JANE?
04:03:47 >>FIRST OFF, I DIDN'T PUT THIS ON THE
04:03:48 AGENDA. THIS WAS ON A CONSENT AND I
04:03:54 PULLED IT FOR DISCUSSION. I'M GLAD THAT
04:03:55 WE ARE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION. BECAUSE
04:03:59 IT IS OPENING UP SOME THINGS THAT I DID
04:04:00 KNOW ABOUT. CLEARLY I WOULD NOT LIKE TO
04:04:05 ENTER INTO ANY TYPE OF DEAL WHERE THEY
04:04:09 DIDN'T COVER ALL THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE
04:04:10 COSTS BECAUSE THE NUMBERS CLEARLY SHOW
04:04:14 THAT YOU WOULD END UP LOSING MONEY ON
04:04:15 THAT.BUT THE WAY I SAW ITWAS THAT FOR
04:04:19 TWO YEARS THEY HAD THE SEATS THERE IN
04:04:23 THE CITY IS NOT BENEFITING. IT'S KUDOS
04:04:26 TO OUR CITY MANAGERIN THE PREVIOUS
04:04:28 COUNCILTO START ASKING ABOUT GETTING
04:04:33 SBL LICENSES. SOI'M JUST TRYING TO
04:04:36 FIGURE OUT HOW THE SEEDS ARE GOING TO
04:04:38 BE THERE THIS YEARAND WE WOULD LIKE TO
04:04:44 MAXIMIZE THE MONEY FROM THEM.SO THEY'RE
04:04:47 GOING TO PUT THEM IN AND, I DON'T KNOW,
04:04:53 I ASSUME THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THEM IN,
04:04:56 BECAUSE OF COURSE THE NFL HAS TO AGREE
04:04:59 TO LET THEM PUT THEM IN, AND EVERY YEAR
04:05:01 THE NFL HAS TO RENEW THAT.BUT THEY HAVE
04:05:05 DONE IT FOR TWO YEARS, I DON'T SEE ANY
04:05:06 REASON WHY THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO DO IT.
04:05:09 >>I THINK THE BEST WAY IF THE BOARD IS
04:05:14 OPEN IS DIRECT THEM TO EXPLAIN HOW THE
04:05:18 RESERVE TICKET PRICES ARE SET, WHAT ARE
04:05:19 THE NFL GUIDELINES, THAT SEE THE NFL
04:05:21 GUIDELINES IN WRITING BEFORE USSO THAT
04:05:23 WE CAN CONFIRM AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
04:05:27 PROPOSAL IS AROUND THE TICKET RESERVE
04:05:28 PRICE WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO
04:05:30 MAXIMIZE REVENUE AND REDUCE THE RISK.
04:05:36 THAT TAKES THE BUFFET COST OR ANY FOOD
04:05:37 AND BEVERAGES OFF THE TABLE, THE RISK
04:05:38 ASSOCIATED WITH THETEMPORARY NATURE OF
04:05:40 THE SEATS AND ALLOWS FOR US TO LOOK AND
04:05:42 EXPLORE ADDITIONAL REVENUEIF THAT'S HOW
04:05:46 THE 49ERS WOULD LIKE TO PROCEED AS WELL.
04:05:51 >>THANK YOU, VICE CHAIR.
04:05:52 >>THANK YOU, CHAIR.I HEARD MULTIPLE
04:05:58 TIMES THATFIVE COUNCILMEMBERS OUR
04:06:02 MEETING 49ERS. NOT THE FIRST TIME I
04:06:05 HEARD IT, I HEARD ITWHENEVER GIVEN THE
04:06:09 CHANCEFROM COUNCILMEMBER WOTTON AND
04:06:14 BEEF, FROM THE MAYOR, AND WE FORGET IN
04:06:16 THE PAST ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS HAD MET
04:06:20 DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT LOCALS, SO
04:06:26 THERE IS NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THAT
04:06:27 MEETING IN THIS MEETING.AND THAT'S THE
04:06:30 FIRST POINT I WANT TO MAKE.AND THERE IS
04:06:34 A BIG DISCONNECTBETWEEN SITTING AND 49ER
04:06:41 , NOBODY CAN DENY THAT, AND IF FIVE
04:06:45 COUNCILMEMBERS(INAUDIBLE) MAYOR AND
04:06:50 COUNCIL MEMBER WATANABE, YOU'RE MOST
04:06:54 WELCOME TO MEET THEM.BUT THE ULTIMATE
04:06:58 AIM IS TO MAKE MORE MONEY OUT OF THE
04:07:00 STADIUM. THERE IS A REASON FOR IT. BUT
04:07:04 AS COUNCILMEMBER JANE MENTIONED, THESE
04:07:07 SCENES HAVE BEEN GOING IN THE STADIUM
04:07:08 FOR THE LAST FEW YEARSAND WHAT DID WE
04:07:11 MAKE? NOTHING. AND I DIDN'T PERSONALLY
04:07:14 TALK TO THE CITY MANAGER ABOUTAND SHE
04:07:18 IS OF THE OPINION IF WE MAKE MONEY WE
04:07:19 ARE OKAY WITH IT.
04:07:22 >>WE DO MAKE MONEY OFF OF THEM.WE DO.WE
04:07:28 HAVE NEVER SAID WE DON'T MAKE MONEY OFF
04:07:29 OF THE TICKETS.
04:07:32 >>YOU WANTED TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
04:07:33 >>THAT'S RIGHT.
04:07:35 >>THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. MAKE MORE
04:07:39 MONEY. CURRENT YOUR PREVIOUS, HE STATED
04:07:40 THAT WE DON'T MAKE ANY MONEY.
04:07:43 >>NONE OF YOUR
04:07:44 >>YOU DID.
04:07:45 >>I MISSTATEDBUT YOU SAID IT IS
04:07:49 BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY MAKING MORE
04:07:50 MONEY, WE ARE OKAY WITH IT.
04:07:51 >>YES.
04:07:55 >>IS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY, WHATEVER WE
04:07:56 DO, IF WE HAVE AN SPL LICENSE ON THE
04:07:59 SEATS AND WE MAKE MONEY, $10,000,
04:08:05 $11,000, $15,000, IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY
04:08:08 FOR THE CITY TO MAKE MONEY.AND I FULLY
04:08:10 AGREEFOR SOME OF THE FINDINGS OVER
04:08:14 THERE THAT BUFFET COSTS SHOULD NOT BE
04:08:20 INCLUDED, YES, I BELIEVE THAT IF WE
04:08:21 APPROVED THIS THING ON CONSENT, LET'S
04:08:23 PUT A VERY CONDITIONALTHING TO THAT,
04:08:30 THAT BY FAITH COSTS, WHATEVER THE SBL
04:08:35 LICENSE, THEY WILL NOT BECOVERED BY SBL
04:08:39 OR STADIUM AUTHORITY.IT WILL BE THE
04:08:44 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE 49ERS, BASICALLY.
04:08:46 THE AIM OVER HERE IS NOT TO GET THE
04:08:50 SEATS AND NOT TO GET THE SEEDS, IF THE
04:08:53 SEATS ARE THERE WHAT MONEY CAN THE CITY
04:08:56 MAKE?AND HERE'S ONE OF THE OPTIONSAND
04:09:02 IT IS A GOOD OPTIONFOR THE STADIUM
04:09:05 AUTHORITY TO MAKE MORE MONEYIF YOU CAN
04:09:08 ELIMINATE THE BUFFET COSTSAND I AM NOT
04:09:10 SURE THATA LETTER IS MORE CLEAR THAT IT
04:09:15 DOES SAYTHAT THEY WILL NOT BE CHARGING
04:09:18 THE PUBLIC. YOU SAID(INAUDIBLE)
04:09:25 MULTIPLE YEAR BUT WE CAN ALWAYSVERIFY
04:09:27 THATAND OTHER THINGS CLARIFICATIONSNFL,
04:09:35 WHO SETS THE, THAT'S THE MAIN OTHER
04:09:38 POINT. THERE ARE TWO MAJOR ISSUESWE
04:09:44 HAVE TO FIX HERE. WHO SAYS THE TICKET
04:09:46 PRICE AND BUFFET COSTS SHOULD BE
04:09:48 ELIMINATEDFOR THE LIFE. IS THAT RIGHT,
04:09:54 CITY MANAGER?
04:10:00 >>NO, THE SPL AS FOR DIRECTED LAST YEAR
04:10:06 HAS A LOT OF RISK WITH RESPECT TO THE
04:10:07 TEMPORARY NATURE. YOU HAVE THE GENERAL
04:10:09 MANAGER HIMSELF NOT RECOMMENDING THAT
04:10:11 YOU HAVE THE UNCERTAINTY OF THEFOOD AND
04:10:14 BEVERAGE, YOU HAVE THE UNCERTAINTY OF
04:10:16 THE PROPOSAL NUMBERS WITH RESPECT TO
04:10:19 THE RESERVE TICKET PRICEAND I ALSO
04:10:22 WANTED TO MENTIONTHAT THERE IS NO TIME
04:10:26 FOR NEGOTIATINGVICE MAYOR CHAHAL, AND
04:10:33 THAT WAS PART OF THE ISSUE THAT WE
04:10:34 RAISED IN THE REPORT IS THAT MAKE NO
04:10:37 MISTAKE, THE AGREEMENTAFTER MAY 31
04:10:43 ALLOWS FOR THE 49ERS TO SELL THESE
04:10:44 TICKETS UNENCUMBERED. THEYDID SAY THAT
04:10:49 GIVEN THAT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO SUBMIT
04:10:50 THEIR PROPOSAL IN APRIL WHEN THEY ASKED
04:10:53 FOR IT IN MAY AND WRITING WHICH IS
04:10:54 BEFORE YOUAND IT WAS DEFERRED FROM THE
04:10:58 MAY 25, SO THE ONLY GAVE US A 30 DAY
04:10:59 EXTENSION. IT'S VERY UNLIKELY THEY ARE
04:11:01 READY TO GO TO MARKET THAT WE CAN
04:11:04 COMPLETE THESE AGREEMENTS AND GO TO
04:11:07 MARKET WITHIN THE 30 DAYS, WE ARE AT
04:11:10 JUNE 8 NOW, AND THE SUCCESSFULAT
04:11:14 SELLING 64 SEATS FOR THE REMAINDER OF
04:11:15 JUNE. AND SO PART OF WHAT YOU NEED TO
04:11:17 CONSIDERAS A MAIN ISSUE IS THE
04:11:20 TIMELINESS OR PERHAPS THE UNTIMELINESS
04:11:27 OF THEIR WILLINGNESS TO'S SURFACE THIS
04:11:28 CONVERSATION. IT DOES NOT ALLOWTIME FOR
04:11:29 THE NEGOTIATIONS GET RECEIVING THE
04:11:35 CLARITY BUT ALSO THE ABILITY FOR THEM
04:11:36 TO SELL THESE TICKETS UNENCUMBERED. SO
04:11:37 CLEARLYIF THERE WAS MORE RESPECT FOR
04:11:39 THE BOARD ON THE PART OF THESTADIUM
04:11:42 MANAGER THEY WOULD HAVE COME BACK AT AN
04:11:43 EARLIER TIMEALLOWING MULTIPLE MONTHS
04:11:47 FOR US TO GO BACK AND FORTH GET TO THE
04:11:48 BALANCE OF THAT REVENUE.
04:11:51 >>IF I MAY COUNTER THAT, WE CAN GIVE
04:11:56 THEM TIME. IF THEY COME BACKFOR MAKING
04:12:01 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE STADIUM
04:12:03 AUTHORITY CAN WE PRIORITIZE THIS THING?
04:12:06 WE NEED MONEYFOR THIS STADIUM AUTHORITY
04:12:11 . THESE THINGS CAN BE ANSWEREDON A
04:12:13 PRIORITY BASIS AND WE DECIDE THAT LET'S
04:12:19 MAKE THAT MONEY. I KNOW YOU MENTIONED,
04:12:20 THAT RISKIS SBL LICENSES, RIGHT?
04:12:24 ANYBODY ELSE
04:12:28 >>NO, THE SEATS HAVE TO BE APPROVED
04:12:29 EVERY YEARBY THE NFL.
04:12:31 >>RIGHT.
04:12:36 >>EVERY OTHER SPL IS STATIC AND STABLE.
04:12:39 I'M SORRY, BUT I CANNOT PRIORITIZE THIS
04:12:41 TO GET THIS DONE WITHOUT KNOWING THE
04:12:45 STADIUM MANAGER IS A WILLING PARTNER.
04:12:46 THEY ARE NOT HERE, THERE'S A LOT OF
04:12:48 MISSING INFORMATION,IT'S VERY
04:12:52 UNREALISTIC FOR THIS ITEM TO BE
04:12:55 DEFERRED FOR TWO WEEKSAFTER HAVING TO
04:12:58 REQUESTED IN WRITING FROM THE 49ERSIN
04:13:03 APRIL WHICH WE HAVE GONE TO MAY 10 AND
04:13:06 THEN FOR THE BURDEN TO BE PLACED ON ME
04:13:09 WITH RUNNING THE CITY WITH $6 BILLION
04:13:10 OF ASSETSAND EXPECT FOR THIS TO BE
04:13:12 COMPLETED IN TIME TO SELLING JUNE THE
04:13:15 SAME MONTH 64 FILLED SCENES. THAT IS A
04:13:19 FOOLS ERRAND, AND I HAVE TO SAYI FEEL
04:13:24 VERY MISUNDERSTOODIN THAT THE ISSUES OF
04:13:28 A PRIORITY RUNNING WITH THE CITY
04:13:31 ANYTHING I CAN PUT EVERYTHING ASIDE TO
04:13:32 DO THISSO THAT THE CITY CAN BE
04:13:34 SUCCESSFUL AND STILL SELLING 64 SEATS
04:13:36 UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. I WOULD LOVE
04:13:39 TO MEET THE PERSON THAT CAN. ESPECIALLY
04:13:43 WHEN THE 49ERS DID NOT RESPECT THE
04:13:44 BOARD ENOUGH TO BE HERE TO CLARIFY
04:13:46 THESE QUESTIONS AND EXPEDITE THE
04:13:47 CONVERSATION.
04:13:53 >>BASICALLY WE ARE READY TO ELECTING
04:13:54 SEATS GOAS THEY WERE GOING IN LAST FEW
04:13:56 YEARS
04:13:58 [CROSSTALK]
04:14:01 >>I THINK YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR
04:14:02 STADIUM MANAGER TO, EARLIER AS
04:14:11 (INAUDIBLE) DID LAST YEAR IN 2020, COME
04:14:12 UP WITH A PROPOSAL THAT THE GENERAL
04:14:13 MANAGER HIMSELF IS NOT SUPPORTING IN
04:14:14 WRITINGKITES IN YOUR PACKET TO FIND A
04:14:16 WAY TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE FOR THE NEXT
04:14:17 YEAR. AND THAT IS WHAT THE BOARD DID
04:14:18 LAST YEAR THEY DISRESPECTED THE BOARD,
04:14:21 THEY MAKE IT ABOUT THIS TENSION BETWEEN
04:14:24 STAFF AND THE STADIUM MANAGER, WE WORK
04:14:27 WITH THEM IN APRIL, WE TOLD THEM TO PUT
04:14:28 IT IN WRITING BECAUSE OF THE TIMING,
04:14:29 THEY ARE NOT RESPECTINGYOUR DIRECTION,
04:14:32 VICE MAYOR, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, AND
04:14:35 THEY ARE BEING UNTIMELY, IT'S EASY TO
04:14:37 SURMISE THAT THE BENEFIT IS TO THEM
04:14:39 AFTER MAY 31THAT THEY ARE BEING
04:14:42 UNTIMELY ON PURPOSE.AND WE HAVE A 30
04:14:47 DAY EXTENSION, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF
04:14:49 TIME,WITH WHAT WE CAN LOOK FOR HIS NEXT
04:14:53 YEAR, BUT THE BOARD HAS TO BE VERY
04:14:55 STRONG IN THIS DIRECTIONAND WHAT IS SIX
04:15:01 FROM THE STADIUM MANAGER. IT REALLY
04:15:02 BOILS DOWN TO THAT. THIS IS NOT A
04:15:03 FUNCTION OF THE EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR OR
04:15:04 STAFF PERFORMING POORLY, THIS IS YOUR
04:15:07 STADIUM MANAGER DISRESPECTING THE BOARD.
04:15:12 >>ANYTHING ELSE, VICE CHAIR?
04:15:15 >>MY CONTENTION IS IF WE CAN MAKE SOME
04:15:16 MONEYWHY DON'T WE DO IT?
04:15:17 >>I WOULD ASK THE STADIUM MANAGER WHY
04:15:24 THEY WEREN'T TIMELY AND HOW COULD THEY
04:15:25 COME UP WITH A BETTER PROPOSAL? YOU'RE
04:15:26 THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE STADIUM,
04:15:30 MANAGEMENT COMPANY IS SAYING THIS IS
04:15:31 NOT PRUDENT. WE KNOW THE RISKOF THE
04:15:34 BOARD REJECTING THOSE THIS. I BELIEVE
04:15:35 YOU VOTED PROJECTING THOSE RISKS LAST
04:15:37 YEAR, VICE MAYOR. WE KNOW THE NUMBERS
04:15:39 ARE INCONSISTENT, WE KNOW SOME OF THE
04:15:40 NUMBERSARE NOT REALLY ATTAINABLE BASED
04:15:42 ON THE PREVIOUS DATA.IT'S TIME FOR THEM
04:15:47 TO EITHER DETERMINE IF THEY ARE IN GOOD
04:15:50 FAITH COMING TO THIS BOARDWITH A
04:15:52 PROPOSAL THAT A DEBT ADDRESSES THE
04:15:57 CONCERNS AND WE THINK IT'S THE RESERVE
04:15:58 TICKET PRICE WHERE THERE IS A REALLY
04:15:59 GOOD OPTION, IT'S UNFORTUNATETHAT IT'S
04:16:02 AT THE STADIUM AUTHORITY LEVEL WHERE WE
04:16:03 HAVE TOFLOAT THIS IDEA, IT WOULD'VE
04:16:07 BEEN NICE WITH STADIUM MANAGER TO TEE
04:16:08 IT UP FOR USTO FURTHER THAT OUT, BUT I
04:16:10 THINK THAT'S YOUR OPTION, THERE'S A
04:16:13 REALLY GOOD OPTION FORMAXIMIZING
04:16:17 REVENUE FOR THE STADIUM AUTHORITY IN
04:16:18 ADDRESSING THE RISKTHAT EVEN THEY SAY
04:16:20 IS NOT PRUDENT. BUT I CANNOT DO THAT AND
04:16:27 HAVE THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SELLING
04:16:28 EVERYTHING'S 64 FIELD SEATSBEFORE THE
04:16:30 END OF JUNE AND THINK WE ARE ALL GOING
04:16:31 TO BE SUCCESSFUL.THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
04:16:33 NEXT YEAR, IF YOU PROVIDE STRONG
04:16:36 DIRECTION TO THEMOF WHAT THE
04:16:39 EXPECTATIONS ARE ON THE PART OF THE
04:16:41 BOARD, I THINKTHAT TALK WITH THEM
04:16:45 DURING YOUR OWN ONE ON ONES ABOUT HOW
04:16:46 MUCH PROGRESS IS GOINGWE MIGHT HAVE AN
04:16:47 OPPORTUNITY THERE.
04:16:54 >>OKAY.BOARD MEMBER PARK?
04:17:05 >>OKAY. THIS IS INTERESTING. SO AS
04:17:06 SOMEONE WHO MEETS WITH THE 49ERS, NOT
04:17:07 TO GET INFORMATIONIF I AM NOT EVEN
04:17:09 GOING TO USE ANYTHING FOR MY MEETINGS
04:17:10 WITH THEM IN MY STATEMENTS.IVC
04:17:16 DISCUSSIONS IN TIME TO REVIEW ONLY THE
04:17:17 MATERIALS ON THESE CONSENT ITEMS. I AM
04:17:18 BAFFLED, ACTUALLY. WHY WOULD WE NEEDA
04:17:23 CIVIL INSTRUMENT TO REPLACE SPL'S? THE
04:17:24 ALTERNATE INSTRUMENT IS BASICALLY A
04:17:25 SEASON-TICKET. BUT NAMING IS NOT EVEN
04:17:27 AN ISSUE. WE TALK ABOUT RISKI'M LOOKING
04:17:29 AT THE CONCLUSIONS, DID NOT ADDRESS THE
04:17:38 2020S CONCERNS AND DIRECTION, ACTUALLY
04:17:39 I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THOSE CONCERNS
04:17:40 I'M WORRIED ABOUT CURRENT CONCERNS. OR
04:17:41 ABANDON THE SPL OPTION 2020. I WILL
04:17:43 ADDRESS EVERYTHINGUP TO THAT. RISKS,
04:17:48 WHAT RISK? BIFACE? PRORATED COUPONS?
04:17:54 THE REASONS I SEE IN THE LETTERS WITH
04:17:55 STAFF SEEM PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD. ONE
04:17:56 RISK THERE TRYING TO AVOID IS NOT
04:17:58 COLLECTING FEES FOR THE SEATS WITH
04:17:59 PEOPLE SAIDHAS ALREADY BEEN PUT IN
04:18:02 PLACE. THE SEATS ARE TEMPORARY AND
04:18:03 WHILE WE WOULD BE ON THE FOR PRORATED
04:18:04 REFUNDS OF THE SEATS WERE REMOVEDWE
04:18:07 STILL MAKE MONEY ON SEATS WHILE THEY
04:18:08 ARE IN PLACE. AFTER C PRICING HAS
04:18:10 NOTHING TO DO IT.NOBODY PAYS
04:18:15 (INAUDIBLE) PRICE. THE PRICE IS WHATEVER
04:18:18 , THE PRICES FOR THE PRODUCT THAT
04:18:19 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PAY FOR. AND IT
04:18:22 SOUNDS LIKE THE 49ERS COULD USE THE
04:18:23 OPTION TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS AND COSTS
04:18:25 IF WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT PRORATED
04:18:26 REFUNDS IN THE 49ERSBUT GOING TO PUT
04:18:27 THEIR OWN MONEY TO BUILD THEM WHY DON'T
04:18:30 WE JUST FORCE THEM TO MAKE IT PERMANENT?
04:18:32 THAT WOULD REMOVE A LOT OF THESE ISSUES
04:18:35 AND IT WOULD BE AT THE COST OF THE
04:18:36 49ERS.I WAS NOT A STATE-SUPPORTED. I
04:18:39 STILL SEE A NUMBER OF ISSUES WITH THE
04:18:43 STADIUM. WHEN I LOOK AT THE OTHER
04:18:44 POTENTIAL PROJECTS AROUND IT. BUT TO
04:18:46 NOT COLLECT MONIES FOR SEATS ALREADY IN
04:18:47 CHRIST IN PLACE SOUNDS ODD. THIS IS NOT
04:18:51 A PRO 49 POSITION, THIS APPROACHSANTA
04:18:53 CLARA. I DON'T THINK PEOPLEUNDERSTAND
04:18:59 THAT. EVEN IF WE AS THE EXECUTIVE
04:19:00 DIRECTOR SUGGEST MAKE ONLY $260,000 PER
04:19:04 YEAR WHILE THE SAME TIME PLACE, THAT'S
04:19:07 $260,000 MORE THAN WE MAKE TODAY. AND
04:19:10 I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT DISRESPECTING THE
04:19:11 BOARD, GET MORE DISRESPECT FROM MY OWN
04:19:17 BOARD MEMBERS, PEOPLE ACCUSING ME OF
04:19:18 BEING ON THE PAYROLL OF 49ERS WHICH IS
04:19:19 CLEARLY NOT TRUE. ANYONE WHO SEESTHE
04:19:25 NUMBERS, ACTUALLY DIGGING INTO IT AS
04:19:26 OPPOSED TO LISTENING TO ACCUSATIONSIN A
04:19:28 BOARD MEETINGTHAT DOESN'T CONCERN ME AT
04:19:31 ALL.AND HAVINGEXTRA LINE LIKE THE
04:19:39 STADIUM MANAGER DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN,
04:19:40 THAT'S NOT AN ISSUE.I GET MORE PUSHBACK
04:19:41 FROM MY OWN BOARD MEMBERS.WHATEVER
04:19:45 BOARD MEMBER BECKER RED WAS SENTTO
04:19:51 DIRECTOR SANTANA. THERE IS NO
04:19:52 FIRST-TIER RESTRICTION IN THAT LETTER,
04:19:53 LIKE IT WAS SENT MONDAY, 10 MAY AT 5:43
04:19:57 P.M. IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS, I RESPOND.
04:20:04 THE MONTH HAS 31 DAYS AND AND THIS IS
04:20:05 NOT A RECENT ISSUE. THIS ISSUE IS NOT
04:20:06 RECENT. IT DIDN'T COME UP IN MAY, THIS
04:20:07 DISCUSSION SEEMS LIKEIT HAS BEEN GOING
04:20:09 ON FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT UNLIKE ALL
04:20:10 THESERANDOM IMPACTS OF BOARD MEMBERS
04:20:14 WATANABE'S ASSERTION THAT ONE MEMBER OF
04:20:15 THE COUNCIL IS BRINGING IT TO THE BOARD
04:20:17 IT IS LITERALLY AN AGENDA ITEMON THE
04:20:20 REQUEST OF THE BOARD BY THE STADIUM
04:20:21 MANAGER.I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYWAY THAT
04:20:24 THEY WOULD GO AROUND DOING SOMETHING
04:20:27 LIKE THAT. AGAIN, WHERE'S THE RISK?
04:20:31 CONCLUSION FOUR, YOU DOUBT THAT THE
04:20:32 RESERVE TICKET PRICE OF THE $175IN
04:20:35 FUTURE YEARS? I DON'T UNDERSTANDWHAT
04:20:38 THAT IS. THERE'S NO GUARANTEE. THERE IS
04:20:41 A COST THAT WE GET BASED ONOUR
04:20:44 AGREEMENT. WE GET 10% IN THE SCHOOLS
04:20:47 GET LIKE $0.35. I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT
04:20:50 THAT COST IS.THEY HAVE TO PAY USFOR
04:20:59 SCHOOL KIDS. IF MONEY AND LOST IT SEEMS
04:21:00 TO BE ON THEM. THEY MAKE A LARGE
04:21:01 TORSION OF THE PROFITS? YES.RIGHT? THEY
04:21:03 MAKE THE MOST MONEY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
04:21:07 (INAUDIBLE) DOES. I LITERALLY DO NOT SEE
04:21:09 ANY OF THE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE BRINGING
04:21:11 UP BEING REAL BASED ON THE INFORMATION
04:21:15 ON THE ATTACHMENTS TO THESE ITEMS. AND
04:21:19 IT DOES SAY IT SETS THE PROTOCOL FOR
04:21:21 SETTING THE TICKET PRICE.THERE ARE
04:21:25 PROTOCOLS FOR WHAT PORTIONSCOULD GET
04:21:28 THESE AND NOT GET FEES.AGAIN, WHEN I
04:21:33 LOOK AT JUST THE MATERIAL THAT'S
04:21:34 PRESENTED HERE IT'S REALLY HARDTO
04:21:37 UNDERSTAND THE PUSHBACK ON RECEIVING
04:21:39 MONIES FOR SEATS THAT ARE ALREADY IN
04:21:40 PLACE EVEN IF WE HAVE TO REFUND THE
04:21:41 PRORATED DIFFERENCE. REFUNDING THE
04:21:44 PRORATED DIFFERENCE DOESN'T LOSE US
04:21:47 MONEY, IT MEANS WE DON'T MAKE AS MUCH
04:21:48 MONEY FOR AS LONG BUT WE MAKE MONEY ON
04:21:53 THE SEATS WHILE THEY ARE IN PLACE.
04:21:54 AGAIN, IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE
04:21:56 TEMPORARY NATURE, IF YOUR WORRIED ABOUT
04:21:57 GIVING WAYPRORATED REFUNDS, THEY WOULD
04:22:00 NEVER BE AN OPTIONIF PEOPLE LOST MONEY
04:22:01 ON THEM. THEY WOULD NOT BE AN OPTION.
04:22:03 BUT WE DO MAKE MONEY ON THEM.EVERYBODY
04:22:10 MAKES MONEY ON PRORATED REFUNDS BECAUSE
04:22:11 THAT'S WHAT THE PRORATED IS, YOU GET
04:22:12 THE MONIES FOR THE THINGS THAT ARE USED
04:22:13 . LIKEI DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS. AND IF I
04:22:16 WERE TO MAKE A MOTION, IN FACT I'M
04:22:21 GOING TO MAKE A MOTION, I THINK WE
04:22:22 SHOULD JUST APPROVE THE SEATS AND MAKE
04:22:23 THE MONIES THAT WE CAN GET ON THE SEATS
04:22:25 THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE. IF THERE IS
04:22:28 IN FACT, ACTUALLY I TAKE THAT BACK.
04:22:33 >>I JUST HAVE TO INSERT.
04:22:34 >>YOU GO AHEAD.
04:22:35 >>I HAVE TO CORRECTBECAUSE IT IS
04:22:39 SIGNIFICANT. THE ANNUAL REVENUE
04:22:46 COUNCILMEMBER PARK THAT YOU STATED IS
04:22:47 $262,000 PER YEAR. THAT'S NOT TRUE,
04:22:52 THAT'S THE REVENUE OVER THE TERM OF THE
04:22:53 SPL WHICH IS CLOSER TO 20 YEARS. THE
04:22:56 MAXIMUM REVENUE IS ABOUT 39,000 PER
04:23:00 YEAR AND IT'S BROKEN DOWN IN THE REPORT
04:23:02 IS A COMBINATION OF INTEREST AS A
04:23:04 COMBINATION OF THE TICKET SURCHARGE,
04:23:07 AND SO THERE WAS JUST A COUPLE OF OTHER
04:23:08 STATEMENTSTHAT WERE INCORRECT IN YOUR
04:23:10 COMMENTS BUT THE LARGEST ONE, THE PUBLIC
04:23:13 [CROSSTALK]
04:23:16 >>LET HER FINISH, PLEASE.
04:23:17 >>UNDERSTOOD.
04:23:19 >>AND HUNDRED AND 75 PER YEAR IS A
04:23:22 PRICING THAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED WHENTHE
04:23:25 DATA SHOW IN THE PAST THAT THAT'S NOT,
04:23:30 IT'S ONLY HAPPENED ABOUT 15% OF THE TIME
04:23:34 . SO THE LIKELINESS IS NOT AT THAT
04:23:35 AMOUNT.
04:23:39 >>WAS A HIGHER OR LOWER?
04:23:40 >>(INAUDIBLE)IT'S LOWER. HERE'S THE
04:23:42 DATA RIGHT HEREWHEREAT $175 OR ABOVE
04:23:49 HAS HAPPENED THREE TIMESOUT OF THE 20
04:23:52 TIMES IN THE LAST TWO YEARS. SO THE
04:23:54 $39,000IT'S PROBABLY AN INFLATED NUMBER
04:23:59 SINCE THE TICKET PRICES HAS BEEN LOWER
04:24:03 THAN 175 IN MOST CASES.
04:24:08 >>OKAY, I'M LOOKING FOR THAT NUMBER,
04:24:09 BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S. THIS IS $175 OR
04:24:12 GREATER. I THINK THAT AGAIN IF YOU,
04:24:14 HOLD ONTO THAT, HOLD ON TO THAT AND
04:24:17 EVEN YOUR OTHER NUMBER.
04:24:19 [CROSSTALK]
04:24:24 >>UNTIL TODAY YESTERDAY WHEN THEY SAID
04:24:25 THEY DON'T GUARANTEE THOSE PRICES.AND
04:24:28 THAT THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW THE NFL. THEY
04:24:29 AND THEIR PROPOSAL HOLD THEMSELVES TO
04:24:30 IT WHICH WE BASE OUR ANALYSIS OFF OFON
04:24:34 HOWEVER THEY BACKTRACKED AND SAID FOR
04:24:35 TICKETWAS SUBJECT TO NFL GUIDELINES, WE
04:24:40 DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS OR HOW
04:24:41 THAT HAPPENS. BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT
04:24:43 IT'S LESS RELIABLE OF THE NUMBERTO
04:24:47 PROJECT REVENUE PROJECTIONS.
04:24:48 >>THEN WE SHOULD FIND OUT. BUT AGAIN,
04:24:51 EVEN YOUR OTHER POINT IS ONLY $39,000
04:24:52 PER YEAR, THAT DOESN'T COUNCIL OUT THE
04:24:56 ARGUMENT IN ALL WHICH IS $39,000 OVER
04:25:01 ANYTHING THAT WE ARE GETTING TODAY.
04:25:02 LIKE THAT ARGUMENT DOESN'T MAKE ANY
04:25:04 SENSE TO ME.
04:25:11 >>LET ME BE VERY CLEAR, COUNCILMEMBER
04:25:12 PART. I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THE
04:25:13 REPORT TO THE BOARD, THE BOARD IS ON
04:25:14 RECORD OF ABANDONING OR REJECTING AN
04:25:17 SPL AND ASKING FOR SIMILAR INSTRUMENT.
04:25:18 AS I REPORT TO THE BOARD, THAT IS THE
04:25:21 MISSION, THEN, BASED ON YOUR DIRECTION.
04:25:23 AND SOI AM BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION AS
04:25:32 THE BOARD THAT WHERE WE LEFT OFF OF THE
04:25:33 BOARD WAS THAT THEY REJECTED THE SBL'S
04:25:36 AND THEREFOREWHEN I PICK UP AND NOW
04:25:41 THIS IS I PICK UP WHERE THE BOARD LAST
04:25:42 DIRECTED THE STADIUM MANAGER AS WELL AS
04:25:43 MYSELF TO PICK UPTHE ANALYSIS FROM
04:25:46 THERE. THAT'S WHAT I DID.
04:25:51 >>I WILL SAY I'VE BEEN A PART OF A LOT
04:25:52 OF COMMISSIONS, A LOT OF BOARDS, NOT
04:25:53 FOR SANTA CLARA BUT IT'S REALLY
04:25:56 DIFFICULT FOR ME TO GET APPOINTED BY
04:25:57 CITY COUNCIL, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE
04:26:00 BOARDS CHANGE, COMMITTEES CHANGE.YOU
04:26:02 CAN'T HOLD THE CURRENT ARGUMENT OR
04:26:04 CURRENT THINKINGBASED ON OLD DIRECTION.
04:26:11 LIKE IF SOMETHING CHANGES AND IT SOUNDS
04:26:12 LIKE YOU'RE TELLING ALL OF USTHAT
04:26:13 THINGS HAVE CHANGED, I THINK WE SHOULD
04:26:14 HAVENEW THINKING GO ALONG WITH THAT.
04:26:18 YOU CAN'T JUST SAYWE DID THIS IN THE
04:26:23 PAST. THESE THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND WE
04:26:25 MEAN TO STAY WITH OUR DIRECTION THAT WE
04:26:29 HAD IN THE PAST. THAT MAKES NO SENSE.
04:26:31 >>WITH ALL DUE RESPECT I DID CHECK IN
04:26:33 WHEN I DETERMINEDTHAT THE
04:26:40 COUNCILMEMBERS ABANDONED THE SPL AND
04:26:41 PROVIDED THAT DIRECTION I MADE A
04:26:42 REASONABLE INTERPRETATION OF WHERE THE
04:26:43 COUNCIL WOULD BE BECAUSE AT THAT TIME
04:26:46 THE LAST THAT I HAD HEARD FROM THE BOARD
04:26:49 WAS AT LEAST FIVE MEMBERS ON THIS
04:26:50 COUNCIL DIRECTEDAND SIMILAR
04:26:55 INSTRUMENTS. AND INDEED THE COUNCIL
04:26:56 DIRECTION IT DOES STAND.THAT'S WHY THE
04:27:00 MATTERS BEFORE YOU AND THE COUNCIL CAN
04:27:04 CERTAINLY DO OR THE BOARD CAN CERTAINLY
04:27:05 DO THAT LIKE BUT IT IS VERY REASONABLE
04:27:07 FOR MAY 2020 DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD
04:27:11 THAT IS SUPPORTED BY FIVE MEMBERS ON
04:27:12 THIS COUNCIL FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
04:27:13 TO MAKE A DETERMINATION THAT THAT'S
04:27:15 WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE WHEN IT COMES
04:27:17 BACK FROM THE STADIUM MANAGEROR THE
04:27:19 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
04:27:22 >>OKAY, WASN'T THERE IN MAY 2020 BUT I
04:27:25 WOULD STILL LIKE TO GET THE ANSWERS TO
04:27:26 MY QUESTION. WHICH IS WHAT RISKS? WHAT
04:27:27 IS THE PROBLEMWITH PRORATED SEATS, WHY
04:27:31 CAN'T WE ASK THEM TO MAKE IT PERMANENT
04:27:33 IF THAT'S WHAT OUR CONCERN IS? AND WHAT
04:27:36 IS THE PROBLEM WITH MAKING ONLY MONEY
04:27:39 FOR PART OF THE TERM AS OPPOSED TO
04:27:40 MAKING MONEYFOR THE WHOLE TERM? WE ARE
04:27:43 NOT LOSING MONEY?
04:27:44 >>
04:27:45 [CROSSTALK]
04:27:47 >>WE CAN'T ASK THEM TO MAKE THE SEEDS
04:27:52 PERMANENT BECAUSE THEY ADMIT IF WE GO
04:27:53 TO THE GENERAL MANAGER STATEMENTTHEY
04:27:56 ADMIT THEY DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO
04:27:57 MAKE THE SEEDS PERMANENT. THESE ARE
04:27:59 SEATS THAT NEED TO BE APPROVED ANNUALLY
04:28:01 BY THE NFL.
04:28:04 >>I THINK CAN WE GO ON WITH THIS ITEM?
04:28:07 BECAUSE AUTHORITY MEMBER PARK, THE
04:28:10 STADIUM AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
04:28:13 WENT THROUGH IN QUITE AN AMOUNT OF
04:28:14 DETAILWHY ALL THOSE THINGS YOU'RE ASKING
04:28:20 , WHY SHE ANSWERED ALL OF THOSE
04:28:21 QUESTIONS. CERTAINLY WHATEVER THEY
04:28:26 WANT, EXCUSE ME, CERTAINLY THE BOARD
04:28:27 CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITH THIS BUT
04:28:30 SHE DID ANSWER ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
04:28:31 >>I'M SAYING I DON'T AGREE, I AM ASKING
04:28:35 FOR CLARIFICATION.
04:28:37 >>YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH MY
04:28:39 ANSWERS, THAT EVEN THE GENERAL MANAGER
04:28:43 SAYS THAT THEY ARE TEMPORARY IN NATURE,
04:28:45 THE NFLWE CAN CONFIRM DOES APPROVE THEM
04:28:48 EVERY YEAR SO THESE ARE NOT SEATS THAT
04:28:51 ARE SUBJECT TO BEING PERMANENT WITHIN
04:28:56 THE STADIUM. THAT IS SUPPORTED TO THE
04:28:58 GENERAL MANAGERS STATEMENTS AND
04:29:01 ASSESSMENTS THAT THE SBL IS NOT THE
04:29:02 RIGHT TOOL.
04:29:04 >>WHAT IS THE RISK?
04:29:09 >>(INAUDIBLE) AUTHORITY MEMBER PART TO
04:29:10 UNDERSTAND. CITY MANAGER, WHEN YOU BUY
04:29:12 IN SBL, YOU'RE BUYING AN SPL FOR A
04:29:14 CERTAIN NUMBER OF YEARS, CORRECT?
04:29:17 >>THAT'S CORRECT.
04:29:24 >>SO YOU BUY IT FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF
04:29:25 YEARS. IF THE NFL HAS ANNUALLY APPROVED
04:29:26 THOSE THINGS, ANNUALLY APPROVED THEM,
04:29:28 AND THEY DECIDE THAT AFTER YEAR TWO
04:29:32 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO APPROVE THEM
04:29:33 ANYMORE, WOULD IT NOT BE THE STADIUM
04:29:34 AUTHORITY, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY ARE
04:29:36 REFUNDING YOUR MONEY, IS IT NOT THE
04:29:37 RESPONSIBILITYTO FIND ALTERNATE SCENES
04:29:39 FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BOUGHTSBL'S?
04:29:46 >>THE AGREEMENT CALLS FOR TWO OPTIONS.
04:29:47 ONE IS PROVIDED COMPARABLE ORTO REFUND
04:29:53 .
04:29:54 >>REFUND ALL THE MONEY.
04:29:55 >>NOT ALL THE MONEY.
04:29:58 >>YOU AMORTIZE WHAT'S LEFT.
04:29:59 >>EXACTLY. PRORATED REFUND. WHERE'S THE
04:30:00 RISK?
04:30:02 >>ONE OF THE CONCERNS AUTHORITY MEMBER
04:30:04 PARKHEAD WAS LET'S MAKE A TINY BIT OF
04:30:08 MONEY IS BETTER THAN MAKING NO MONEY AT
04:30:09 ALL. RIGHT? AND YOUR POSITION ISIF WE
04:30:12 ARE GOING TO DO THIS, WE SHOULD MAKEA
04:30:17 FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY, NOT A TINY BITBUT
04:30:19 A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE SEATS.
04:30:25 BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING SOLD. WHEN WE
04:30:26 WERE, LET ME GO TO THE BUFFET. BECAUSE
04:30:28 THIS IS ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES. ON THE
04:30:33 49ERS AND MANKO GAVE US A BILL
04:30:35 AFTERWARDS AFTER THE RENT WAS RESETTHEY
04:30:37 GAVE US A BILL FOR THE BUFFETAND THEY
04:30:43 ADDED IN, WE JUST GOT A KIND OF
04:30:44 RECENTLY, IT'S ONE OF OUR SUITS OUR
04:30:48 ARBITRATIONS, WAS THERE ANY AMOUNT OF
04:30:49 DETAIL IN THAT BUFFET BILL? SO MY
04:30:52 QUESTION IS DO WE EVEN KNOW IF WE ARE
04:30:55 PAYING FOR THE BUFFET FOR THE SEATS OR
04:30:56 NOT? IS THERE ANY WAY FOR US TO EVEN
04:30:58 TELL? MAYBE THAT'S THE EXECUTIVE
04:31:01 EARNINGS QUESTION.
04:31:06 >>AGAIN, THANK YOU CHARGES FOR THE
04:31:07 BUFFET WE SHOW THEM THE LETTER THAT
04:31:08 THEY SENT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
04:31:10 SANTANA ON MAY 10 THAT SAYS THEY WILL
04:31:12 PAY FOR THIS.
04:31:14 >>I GET ALL THAT, BUT I AM JUST ASKING
04:31:17 WHAT LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT THEY GIVE US
04:31:22 ON THESE BUFFET COST? HOW ENOUGH THE
04:31:23 KITCHEN SINK NOT THROWN IN?
04:31:24 >>WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. THEY GIVE US
04:31:25 VERY LITTLE DETAIL, THAT'S EXACTLY THE
04:31:28 PROBLEM.I DON'T WANT TO KEEP GOING
04:31:35 HERE, BUT I THINK LEVERAGE FOR $39,000
04:31:38 IN STAFF COSTS DISCUSSING THIS WHEN
04:31:39 THEY DON'T EVEN HAVETHE BELIEF IN THEIR
04:31:46 PROPOSAL TO SHOW UP AND EXPLAIN.SO WE
04:31:52 KEEP GOING AROUND AND AROUND. DEANNA
04:32:00 AND I ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, WE ASKED
04:32:01 THEM ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND THEY
04:32:02 HAVEN'T ANSWERED THEM. AND WE ASKED
04:32:05 THEM TO COME TO THE MEETING TO EXPLAIN
04:32:06 TO YOU AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO THE
04:32:07 PUBLIC, BECAUSE THE WHOLE REASON WE ARE
04:32:08 SITTING HERE IN THIS BIG MASSIVE
04:32:10 LITIGATION IS BECAUSEOF BACKROOM DEALS
04:32:16 BEHIND-THE-SCENES DEALS. AND YOU GUYS
04:32:17 ARE OVER THEREENGAGING IN
04:32:22 BEHIND-THE-SCENES DISCUSSIONS WITH
04:32:23 THEM. HE SAID COME TO THE MEETINGLET
04:32:25 THE PUBLIC HEAR WHAT YOUR PROPOSAL IS.
04:32:27 AND HERE WE ARE ALL OF US FIGHTING WITH
04:32:30 EACH OTHER, CONGRATULATIONS, JED YORK,
04:32:34 YUNG-1, YOU'VE CREATEDA DYSFUNCTIONAL
04:32:36 STADIUM AUTHORITYBOARD.
04:32:41 CONGRATULATIONS, MR. GORE, WE ARE ALL
04:32:42 SITTING HERE FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER
04:32:43 ABOUT WHAT THEY SAID TO EACH OF US.AND
04:32:47 ACCUSING EACH OTHER OF BEING WITH THEM
04:32:48 OR AGAINST THEM AND NOT AGAINST THEM.
04:32:51 THIS COULD EASILY BE SOLVED BY THEM
04:32:52 SIMPLY SHOWING UPAND CLEARLY ANSWERING
04:32:54 ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS AND ALL OF THE
04:32:56 PUBLIC'S QUESTIONS. AND I RECOMMEND TO
04:32:59 THE BOARD THAT YOU SIMPLYDROP THIS
04:33:02 MATTER UNTIL THEY ARE WILLING TO SHOW UP
04:33:07 ANSWER THE QUESTION. SO THAT WE ARE ALL
04:33:08 HEARING THE SAME THING AT THE SAME
04:33:13 TIME. IT SEEMS LIKE A COMPLETE WASTE OF
04:33:14 TIME FOR US TO BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE
04:33:15 THINK THEY ARE TELLING US. THANK YOU.
04:33:19 >>I WANT TO SAY FOR THE RECORD I DID
04:33:20 INVITE THEM TO COME AND PARTICIPATE IN
04:33:21 TODAY'S MEETING.
04:33:24 >>YES, OKAY. OKAY. AUTHORITY MEMBER
04:33:25 JANE?
04:33:28 >>YES, SOI THINK THERE'S A LITTLE
04:33:37 CONFUSION HERE. I SEE THREE SCENARIOS.
04:33:40 ONE IS THEY DON'T PUT IN SEATS, AND
04:33:43 THEN WE DON'T GET ANY MONEY. THE SECOND
04:33:44 SCENARIO ISTHEY PUT IN THE SEATSWITHOUT
04:33:50 OUR INVOLVEMENT, WHICH THEY'VE BEEN
04:33:54 DOING FOR TWO YEARS, THEY STILL HAVE TO
04:33:55 PAY USTHE SURCHARGE. THAT'S THE 10% ON
04:34:01 THE ROUGHLY $175 PER SEAT, WHICH THEY
04:34:04 HAVE BEEN PAYING US, THEY WILL CONTINUE
04:34:05 TO DO THAT. THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE IS TO
04:34:10 PUT THE SEATS UNDER SBL. IF THEY PUT
04:34:13 THEM UNDER SBL WE GET THE SAME AMOUNT
04:34:14 OF CASH PER YEAR.THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS
04:34:17 THE SPL MONEY JUST LIKE $700,000GOES TO
04:34:20 PAY DOWN THE DEBTIF THAT DOESN'T GO
04:34:23 INTO THE GENERAL FUND, IT DOESN'T
04:34:27 REALLY CHANGE ANYTHING. SO I AGREE WITH
04:34:29 THE CITY MANAGER THAT THERE IS NOT
04:34:31 REALLY ANY HURRY TO DO THIS. WE CAN WAIT
04:34:37 A FULL YEAR BECAUSE WE GET THE SAME
04:34:38 MONEY. IF THEY PUT THE SEATS IN WITH OR
04:34:43 WITHOUT THE SVL WAS THE SAME AMOUNT OF
04:34:44 MONEY.
04:34:45 >>THANK YOU.AUTHORITY MEMBER PARK?
04:34:53 >>YES, FOR THESE INSERTIONS I THINK
04:34:54 THAT THE CITY MANAGER, SORRY, THE
04:34:56 STADIUM BOARD ATTORNEY, AS BEING A
04:34:57 LITTLE BITMELODRAMATICALLY BUT I AM NOT
04:35:01 USING ANYTHING FROM YOU, I'M LOOKING AT
04:35:02 EVERYTHING FROM THE ATTACHMENTS ON
04:35:04 THESE TWO ITEMS. AND AGAIN, I WOULD
04:35:09 LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE RISKS ARE, BECAUSE
04:35:10 EVEN IF WE MAKE A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY
04:35:16 AS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL THE BOARD
04:35:17 CHAIR. THAT IS A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY
04:35:23 THAT WE ARE NOT MAKING TODAY. AND I
04:35:24 AGREETHAT THEY ARE MAY NOT BE IN ANY
04:35:28 HURRY, BUT THE SOONER THAT WE ACT ON
04:35:29 SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THE MORE MONEY THE
04:35:31 FASTER WE PAY DOWN THE DEBT. THE SEATS
04:35:36 SEEM LIKE THEY ARE ALREADY IN PLACE AND
04:35:37 FOR EVERYONE THAT TELLS ME LIKE I
04:35:38 HAVEN'T BE HONEST, IHAVE CALLED THIS IS
04:35:41 MUCH AS I CALL SINCE I HAVE BEEN A
04:35:44 BOARD MEMBER. I DIDN'T FOLLOW THISTHAT
04:35:47 CLOSELY PREVIOUSLY. BUTNONE OF THE
04:35:50 DISCUSSIONS SEEM TO MAKE SENSE. THIS IS
04:35:53 BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS. THE SEATS
04:35:57 HAVE BEEN PUT ON FOR TWO YEARS NOW IT
04:35:58 SEEMS LIKE EVERY YEARWE HAVE A
04:36:00 DISCUSSION THAT SAYS, WELL, THIS IS THE
04:36:06 REASON WHY WE WANT TO WAIT ON IT. THIS
04:36:07 IS THE REASON ONE THAT WEIGHT ON IT.
04:36:08 FOR PEOPLE TO SUGGEST THAT THIS IS FROM
04:36:10 HONEST AS A SURPRISEAND THAT WE DON'TI
04:36:17 WE ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THESE KIND OF
04:36:18 THINGS? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. AGAIN,
04:36:21 I AM ONLY LOOKING AT THE COMMUNICATIONS
04:36:24 THAT ARE THERE. I LOOK AT THE RESPONSES
04:36:25 FROM CITY STAFF, LOOK AT THE RESPONSES
04:36:26 FROM JIM MERCURIO AND OTHER PEOPLE ON
04:36:30 THE 49ERS ORGANIZATION AND I DON'T SEE
04:36:33 ANYTHING THAT SAYS THESE ARE WRONG. I
04:36:35 LOOK AT THE REVENUE PROJECTIONSAND I
04:36:39 DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT SAYS THESE ARE
04:36:40 WRONG. SOIN THE UNFORTUNATELY THE
04:36:43 PRESENTATION THAT WAS JUST GIVENBY THE
04:36:45 EXECUTIVE DIRECTORDOESN'T MAKE ANY
04:36:49 SENSE, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT
04:36:50 WERE BROUGHT UPTHAT I THINK ARE
04:36:53 MATERIAL TO THE DISCUSSION. AND AGAIN,
04:36:56 IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONCLUSIONS, IT'S
04:36:57 JUST THE CONCLUSION. A LOT OF THEM ARE
04:37:00 WHILE THIS COULD HAPPEN. IF WE DO IT
04:37:03 YOUR WAY IS LIKELY THE WRONG. IFDO IT
04:37:06 MY WAY IS LIKELY TO WRITE. WE DON'T GO
04:37:08 BY LIKELY. I DON'T THINK WE GO BYWHAT
04:37:12 OUR FEELING IS. WE GO BYTHIS IS WHAT'S
04:37:20 IN THE CONTRACTOR THIS IS WHAT'S IN A
04:37:21 LETTER OR THIS IS WHAT'S IN SOMETHING
04:37:22 THAT WE CAN BACKUP. WHY AREN'T WE DOING
04:37:23 THAT? WHY ARE WE ONLYGOING OUT THESE
04:37:28 ARE OUR FEARS? EVEN OUR FEARS ARE WE'RE
04:37:29 NOT GOING TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS WE
04:37:30 COULD MAKE.LET'S LAID OUT HOW MUCH
04:37:32 MONEY THAT WE THINK WE COULD MAKE, AND
04:37:36 WHY DO WE TRY TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY
04:37:37 INSTEAD OF TRYING TO USE, MONEY FROM
04:37:39 BEING MADE?I HEARD THE DISCUSSIONAND I
04:37:48 WATCHED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND
04:37:51 I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO REACH A
04:37:52 DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONTHAT THAT
04:37:54 PRESENTATION WASFUND, AND I DON'T SEE
04:37:58 IT'S(INAUDIBLE) FOR THE DETRIMENT OF
04:38:04 SANTA CLARA. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE
04:38:05 TO ME.THANK YOU.
04:38:06 >>AUTHORITY MEMBER WATANABE?
04:38:12 >>THANK YOU.SOI WANT TO GO BACK. THERE
04:38:22 IS A LETTER IN THE PACKAGEABOUT FROM
04:38:29 THE NFL DATED FEBRUARY 25, 2019.
04:38:36 STATING ABOUT HOW VARIOUS REASONS AND
04:38:37 SAFETY OPERATIONAL IMPACTS TEMPORARY
04:38:38 SEATING STRUCTURES ON THE FIELD LEVEL
04:38:42 ARE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL REVIEW AND
04:38:43 APPROVAL PRIOR TO THE SEASON. THIS IS A
04:38:45 LETTER FROM THE NFL. I THINK THAT
04:38:48 CLEARLY STATES THAT HOW THE SEATS ARE
04:38:51 TEMPORARY, THEY ARE NOT PERMANENT. THEY
04:38:55 ARE JUST TEMPORARY.AND I THINK THE
04:38:59 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HAS DONE A FANTASTIC
04:39:01 JOBBREAKING EVERYTHING OUT, ALL THE
04:39:08 DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, EACH GAME
04:39:09 DEPENDING ON WHO THEY'RE PLAYING AGAINST
04:39:11 , DETERMINES THE PRICE OF EACH TICKET.
04:39:13 BUT THAT PARTICULAR GAME.OTHER TEAMS
04:39:20 WILL BE MORE THAN OTHERS. AND SO THAT
04:39:21 IS GOING TO DETERMINETHE TICKET PRICE.
04:39:24 ANDBUT WHAT I WANT TO GET AT IS THATWHY
04:39:32 DO WE WANT TO TAKE A RISK?IF THE 49ERS
04:39:37 WANT TOOFFERTHE WAY FOR THE STADIUM
04:39:50 AUTHORITY TO MAKE MORE MONEY, I AGREED
04:39:51 WITH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THAT THEY
04:39:52 NEED TO COME IN THEY NEED TO MAKE A
04:39:53 PRESENTATIONIF IT'S THAT IMPORTANT THAN
04:39:59 , THE SEEDS BEEN OUT THERE LIKE I SAID
04:40:00 BEFORE, THEY HAVE BEEN OUT THERE FOR
04:40:01 YEARS AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WANT
04:40:02 TO SHARE THE WEALTHWITH THE STADIUM
04:40:03 AUTHORITY.. SO BASED ON WHAT I HEARDAND
04:40:14 JUSTIN AND ATTEMPT TO MOVE THIS ISSUE
04:40:15 FORWARDI WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A
04:40:18 RECOMMENDATIONPER THE STAFF'S MEMORANDUM
04:40:25 , THERE ARE TWO ALTERNATIVES, AND I
04:40:26 WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATIONAND
04:40:33 A MOTION THAT THE STADIUM AUTHORITY
04:40:34 TAKE NO ACTION ON THE STADIUM MANAGER'S
04:40:35 PROPOSAL TO ADD STADIUM BUILDER
04:40:36 LICENSES TO THE TEMPORARY SEATS,
04:40:38 TEMPORARYAGAIN IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH
04:40:44 IN ZONES OF LEVI'S STADIUM. THAT IS MY
04:40:45 MOTION.
04:40:47 >>SECOND.
04:40:48 >>THANK YOU.
04:40:51 >>I WILL SECOND TO GET IT ON FOR
04:40:52 DISCUSSION.BECKER?
04:40:56 >>JUST WANT TO MAKE A QUICK COMMENT.
04:40:59 WHEN THE CITY ATTORNEY SPOKE ABOUT
04:41:02 BACKROOM DEALS IN CERTAIN MEMBERS OF
04:41:03 THIS BOARDMEETING WITH THE 49ERS,
04:41:08 THAT'S NOT OKAY. BECAUSE I DON'T MAKE
04:41:09 BACKROOM DEALS. THANK YOU.
04:41:14 >>I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT
04:41:15 THAT, BECAUSEI SAID THAT THERE'S 5/7
04:41:17 MEMBERS MEETINGWITH THE 49ERS. IT'S A
04:41:24 FACT. CAN YOU NOT MEETING ALL THE TIME,
04:41:25 BUT YOUR MEETING ON A REGULAR BASIS.
04:41:30 IT'S A FACT, I READ EVERYBODY'S
04:41:31 CALENDAR. YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL OF
04:41:33 OUR CALENDARS,..
04:41:38 >>(INAUDIBLE)
04:41:39 >>I'M NOT DEBATING YOU.
04:41:42 >>IT'S NOT A CRIME.
04:41:43 >>I AM NOT SAYING THAT WAS, I AM SAYING
04:41:46 IT'S A FACT.ONE THING IS BROUGHT UP,
04:41:49 WAS THE MEETING OF MEETING WITH ANYBODY
04:41:52 ELSE, RIGHT?THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE.
04:41:58 AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT THAT
04:41:59 DIFFERENCE IS, IS THAT THERE IS 5/7
04:42:03 MEMBERS MEETINGALMOST VIRTUALLY WEEKLY
04:42:08 OR BIWEEKLY. JUST LOOK AT ALL THE
04:42:10 CALENDARS.THAT'S A FACT.YOU'RE GETTING
04:42:16 INFORMATIONTHAT THE OTHER TWO MEMBERS
04:42:26 AREN'T GETTING MORE THE PUBLIC'S NOT
04:42:27 GETTING. RIGHT? THERE IS INFORMATION
04:42:28 FLOWING, YOU'RE NOT JUST SITTING THERE,
04:42:29 THERE'S INFORMATION FLOWING. THIS GROUP
04:42:31 OF THE 49ERSHAVE SEVEN LEGAL ACTIONS
04:42:36 AGAINST THE STADIUM AUTHORITYIN THE CITY
04:42:43 , SEVEN LEGAL ACTIONS. SHOW ME ANOTHER
04:42:44 COMPANY THAT HAS THAT MANY LEGAL
04:42:45 ACTIONS AGAINST THE CITYFOR THE STADIUM
04:42:46 AUTHORITY.AND THEY ARE LOBBYING, THEIR
04:42:53 LOBBYISTS, THEIR LOBBYING FOR THEIR OWN
04:42:54 INTEREST.SOIF THE STAFFIS NEGOTIATING
04:43:02 WITH THE TEAMON ALL OF THESE VARIOUS
04:43:07 ISSUES, WE HAVE A TON OF ISSUES THAT WE
04:43:08 ARE NEGOTIATING ON, THEN IT APPEARS
04:43:12 THAT AUTHORITY MEMBER BOARD MEMBERS AND
04:43:13 COUNCILMEMBERSCOULD POSSIBLY BE
04:43:14 UNDERMININGOUR CITY STAFFAND BY
04:43:19 EXTENSION THE CITY OR THE TAXPAYERS,
04:43:23 WHEN YOU CARRY THE TEAMS WATER AT THESE
04:43:24 MEETINGS THEY ARE NOT HERE. SO YOU'RE
04:43:26 TELLING US WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD BY
04:43:28 THEM FROM YOUR PRIVATE MEETINGS. AND
04:43:33 ESPECIALLY WITH INFORMATION IS NOT
04:43:35 CORRECT THAT AREEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN
04:43:41 OUR ATTORNEY HAVE TO CORRECT. IT MAKES
04:43:42 IT DIFFICULT FOR OUR STAFF, ESPECIALLY
04:43:45 THAT ARE IN CHARGE, I AM JUST TRYING TO
04:43:49 POINT IT OUT THE APPEARANCE OF THIS, THE
04:43:51 OBJECTS OF THIS, IT IS DIFFICULT FOR
04:43:52 OUR STAFFTO BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATEON
04:43:56 BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCILWHEN THESE
04:43:59 THINGS ARE GOING ON WITH SEVEN CENTSTO
04:44:01 BOOT. I DON'T KNOW ANY SITUATION IN ANY
04:44:02 CITY INCLUDING OURS WHERE THIS IS
04:44:04 HAPPENING. SO THAT'S THE BIG DIFFERENCE
04:44:09 . AND I JUST HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THE
04:44:10 OPTICS OF HOW IT LOOKS. YOU CAN SAY ARE
04:44:11 NOT SEEING ANYTHING,I'M NOT DOING IT, I
04:44:13 AM NOT NOT MAKING ANY PROMISES, BUT
04:44:15 THOSE ARE THE SAME THINGS. I'M NOT
04:44:20 SAYING BACKROOM DEALS, I'M NOT SAYING
04:44:21 ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THOSE ARE JUST THE
04:44:22 OPTICS BECAUSE OF ALL THE SUITS AND OUR
04:44:24 STAFF AND I HOPE YOU CAN APPRECIATE
04:44:27 HEARING THE VOICES, THE FRUSTRATION,
04:44:28 THATYOU'RE GETTING INCORRECT INFORMATION
04:44:33 , THE STADIUM AUTHORITY, THAT'S A WE
04:44:36 ENTERTAIN, WE ANSWER TO OUR PUBLIC. THE
04:44:39 EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS TRYING TO GETTHE
04:44:43 MOST MONEY THAT SHE CAN FOR US AND FAIR
04:44:47 MONEY FOR WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THAT
04:44:50 STADIUM, JUST FAIR MONEY. SHE IS NOT
04:44:53 SETTLING FOR CRUMBS AND SHE IS NOT
04:44:54 GOING FORTHE MOON. IT'S JUST BEEN FAIR.
04:45:00 SO I HOPE THE COUNCILMEMBERS AND
04:45:01 AUTHORITY MEMBERS THAT ARE CONCERNED
04:45:06 ABOUT ALL THE COSTS AND CRA THINGS
04:45:07 ANNOUNCED TAKE THAT SAME CONCERNFOR THE
04:45:14 STATE AUTHORITY AND IN THIS CASE WITH
04:45:15 ANYTHING 49ER RELATED AND TAKE THAT
04:45:16 SAME AMOUNT OF PASSIONTO PROTECT OUR
04:45:18 TAXPAYERS AND GET WHAT'S FAIR FOR US.
04:45:23 AND I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO SAY IT. I
04:45:28 MEAN, THEY HAVE GIVEN REPORTS, THEY ARE
04:45:29 VERY DETAILED REPORTS FROM OUR
04:45:30 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ON WHAT THE RISKS
04:45:33 ARE. THE CITY ATTORNEY IS TELLING US,
04:45:36 HEY, THEY DON'T COME, SO YOU'RE GETTING
04:45:37 THINGS VERBALLY. IT'S NOT INWRITING. WE
04:45:40 CANNOT OPERATE LIKE THAT. IT JUST SETS
04:45:43 UP AS THE ATTORNEY SETS, INVESTMENT
04:45:47 FUNCTION.ARLENE TEAM IN NEGOTIATIONS IS
04:45:57 BEING UNDERMINED. SORRY, BUT I HAVE TO
04:45:58 LIST EVERYBODY ELSE. I REALLY NEED TO
04:45:59 THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GIVE
04:46:01 OUR LEAD NEGOTIATORSDIRECTION. AND
04:46:08 WHETHER OR NOT THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL
04:46:09 GAVE DIRECTION, THERE WERE FOUR OF US
04:46:10 ON. THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL. THOUGH THE
04:46:12 MAJORITY FOR THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL, THEY
04:46:14 GAVE DIRECTION IN THE SITTINGTHE
04:46:19 DIRECTION FROM OUR PREVIOUS COUNCIL,
04:46:21 WERE FOUR OF US WRONG, (INAUDIBLE). SHE
04:46:26 HAS TO DO THAT. THERE HAS TO BE SOME
04:46:27 GUIDELINESCAN'T HAVE THE WILD BUS FOR
04:46:36 INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS, YOUR HANDS
04:46:37 ARE GOING UP, INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE
04:46:38 OUT THERE NEGOTIATING SAYING I'M NOT
04:46:40 GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT I HEAR ABOUT,
04:46:41 I'M GOING TO GO WITH WHAT I READ. NO,
04:46:44 WE HAVE TO HAVE THE LEAD NEGOTIATORS,
04:46:45 YOU'RE PUTTING THE STATE AND THE CITY
04:46:46 AT RISK. SEVEN STUDENTSI YOU SHOULDN'T
04:46:48 EVENBE TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING RELATED
04:46:53 TO ANY OF THOSE SUITS.AND I KNOW,
04:46:59 PROBABLY DON, BUT I'M SAYING THAT. SO
04:47:01 ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO, AROUND THREE OR
04:47:05 FOUR, FIVE. THE THREE-MEMBER PARK
04:47:08 >>YES, THANK YOU. SO EVERYTHINGI FACED
04:47:14 MY INFORMATIONAL IS IN THE PACKET AND
04:47:15 THE PRESENTATION. NO DISCUSSIONSAND
04:47:22 TELL ME WHERE I'M WRONG ABOUT THIS,
04:47:23 MEAN TELL ME WHERE I BROUGHT IN FROM
04:47:24 SOMETHING FROM OUTSIDE. YOU FIND GETTING
04:47:25 INCORRECT INFORMATION AT LEAST
04:47:26 CONSISTENT IN THE INFORMATION GIVEN BY
04:47:28 BOTH THE STATION MANAGER AND STAFF. I
04:47:32 NEED TO PRO SANTA CLARA. HE WAS SAYING
04:47:35 NOT THE BEST DEAL BUT IN THE MEANTIME
04:47:36 LET'S GET ONE THING. THIS IS NOT A
04:47:41 RECENT THING, THIS WAS A REPEAT REQUEST
04:47:42 FOR YEARS AND I JUST WANT TO HEAR AN
04:47:43 ANSWER TO MY QUESTION, WHICH AREWHAT
04:47:45 ARE THE RISKSAND WHERE ARE WE LOSING
04:47:48 MONEY EVEN IF THE SEATS ARE TEMPORARY?
04:47:56 >>AUTHORITY MEMBER PART, YOU'RE
04:47:57 REPEATING YOURSELF YOUR
04:47:58 >>YES, THAT I DID NOT HEAR AN ANSWER.
04:47:59 [CROSSTALK]
04:48:02 >>I HAVE NOT HEARD ANSWER TO MY
04:48:03 QUESTION, WHAT ARE THE RISKSSEATS ARE
04:48:06 TEMPORARY?
04:48:11 >>I THINK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WENT
04:48:12 THROUGH THAT ALREADY. I'M NOT SURE SHE
04:48:13 HAS THE ENERGY TO GO THROUGH IT AGAIN.
04:48:19 >>THE RISKS HAVE ALREADY BEEN OUTLINED
04:48:20 IN THE REPORT, HAVE BEEN FOUND AND
04:48:21 SUPPORTED BY THE BOARD, WE RESTATED THEM
04:48:23 , I HAVE ALREADY CORRECTED IN TERMS OF
04:48:24 THE PROPOSED ANNUAL REVENUE, WILL MAKE
04:48:25 ONE LAST CORRECTION AND THAT IT IS NOT
04:48:29 A FACT THAT WE ARE GETTING NOTHING, I
04:48:30 HAVE ALREADY STATED THAT, WE ARE GETTING
04:48:32 THE TICKET SURCHARGE AND SOI KNOW THAT
04:48:37 MY PRESENTATION WASN'T POPULAR WITH
04:48:38 COUNCILMEMBER PARK, IT USED A DEROGATORY
04:48:43 TERM OF BOND BUT I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST
04:48:44 THATEXTREME LANGUAGE AND USING NOTHING,
04:48:49 THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID. I HAVE BEEN
04:48:52 VERY CLEAR IN TERMS OF WHAT THE DATA
04:48:53 SHOW AS WELL AS WHERE THEY PRESENTED
04:49:00 THAT THEY HAVE CONTROL AND WHERE THE
04:49:01 DON'T HAVE CONTROL, WHERE THE NFL HAS
04:49:02 AN INFLUENCE, AND SO THIS MATTER HAS
04:49:03 BEEN INVOLVED IN TERMS OF THE ISSUES
04:49:05 AND INCONSISTENCIES.
04:49:06 >>YOU SAYING WE ARE GETTING MONEY FOR
04:49:15 THE SPL FEAR FROM ME KNOW IF I MADE A
04:49:16 COMMENTTHAT WE GET NOTHING. YOU DIDN'T
04:49:19 USE SBL.
04:49:22 >>NOTHING BEYOND THE TICKET SALES.
04:49:23 [CROSSTALK]UNDERSTOOD, OKAY.
04:49:24 >>THE FACTS ARE VERY CLEAR AND I WOULD
04:49:27 REALLY ASK FOR YOU TO BE RESPECTFUL
04:49:30 ABOUT YOUR COMMENTS, THE TERMBUT IS NOT
04:49:34 POPULAR WHETHER HIS FELLOW FUD OR F
04:49:39 UDD, AND I TAKE EXCEPTION TO THE
04:49:40 DEROGATORY NATUREOF STAFF PRESENTATION
04:49:48 AND THE COMMENTS THAT I'VE MADE. I
04:49:49 THINK THEY ARE UNPROFESSIONAL,
04:49:50 UNBECOMING IS COUNCILMEMBER AND I WOULD
04:49:51 LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU PRIVATELYCOUNCIL
04:49:53 SEPARATELYON THIS MATTER LATER ON.
04:50:00 THANK YOU.
04:50:01 >>THANK YOU, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. VICE
04:50:03 CHAIR CHAHAL?
04:50:06 >>THANK YOU, CHAIR.ONE THING, UNTIL
04:50:13 OTHER PEOPLE NOT TO REPEAT YOU BROUGHT
04:50:16 THIRD TIME THAT COUNCILMEMBER 49ERS.
04:50:17 >>I WAS JUST ANSWERING, THAT'S ALL. AND
04:50:24 IF YOU ARE NOT, YOU BRING THAT AGAIN
04:50:25 AND AGAINAND WHEN OTHER PEOPLE SAY
04:50:31 SOMETHING YOU SAY YOU'RE REPEATING
04:50:32 YOURSELF. SO LET ME GIVE YOU
04:50:33 PERSPECTIVE. YOU COUNCILMEMBER SITTING
04:50:34 ON THEIRHAVE BEEN WITH THE 49ERS SINCE
04:50:43 WE CAME ON BOARD. GIVE ME ONE EXAMPLE
04:50:44 WHERE WE TOOK THE DECISION (INAUDIBLE)
04:50:45 THE CITY. DON'T CREATEOPTICS ABOUT IT,
04:50:48 ANYONEEXAMPLE THAT WAS DETRIMENTAL TO
04:50:51 THE CITY.
04:51:00 >>I AM NOT GOING TO ENGAGE IN THIS.
04:51:01 BECAUSE THERE IS NO ANSWER. THERE IS
04:51:03 ONE THING OF CREATING OPTIONS OPTICS
04:51:07 AND THERE'S ANOTHER THING WITHOUT
04:51:08 HAVING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.I CAN
04:51:10 RAISE ANY AMOUNT OF QUESTIONS THAT
04:51:13 (INAUDIBLE). HISTORICALLYNONE OF THESE
04:51:19 COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE DONE ANYTHING
04:51:20 DETRIMENTAL TO THE INTEREST OF THE CITY
04:51:25 AND THE REASON IS THINGS BEING
04:51:26 DISCUSSED OVER HERE RIGHT NOW IS NOT
04:51:29 FOR '49. BUT IN VERY CLEAR. IT'S BEEN
04:51:32 DISCUSSED OVER HERE HOW CITY CAN MAKE
04:51:35 MORE MONEY OFF OF THE SCENE. THESES
04:51:39 HAVE BEEN GOING IN THAT STATEMENT THE
04:51:42 LAST TWO YEARS. WHAT WE DID. WE, OUR
04:51:43 SURCHARGE, THIS THING WE ARE TALKING
04:51:47 ABOUT OVER HERE, WHAT MORE MONEY CAN BE
04:51:50 MADE BY THE CITY AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE
04:51:52 TALKING ABOUT.SO THAT'S VERY CLEAR.
04:52:00 LET'S NOT THINK THIS THINGOR TO COUNCIL
04:52:07 OR THREE COUNCILMEMBERS ARE FIGHTING
04:52:08 FOR THE 49ERS.WE ARE FIGHTING FOR
04:52:11 GETTING REVENUE TO THE CITY,..THERE IS
04:52:18 (INAUDIBLE) WHICH IS COUNCILMEMBER PARK
04:52:19 HAS MENTIONED. HE IS REALLY ON TOP OF
04:52:25 THE WAY, WHAT IS THE MIX IF THEGET
04:52:33 CANCER AT LEAST WE GET THE MONEY WHICH
04:52:34 IS BEING DONATED FOR THIS YEAR FOR
04:52:35 FAILING TO GET THAT MONEY. THERE IS NO
04:52:36 RISK INTO IT. IF NEXT YEARWE LOSE NEXT
04:52:41 YEAR MINE IS NOT HERE ANYWAY.WE EARN
04:52:44 THAT MONEY.IN THE CHART ON ATTACHMENT
04:52:50 TWO SHOWS PROJECTION.THERE ARE SOME
04:52:55 DIFFERENCES ON THAT PERCENTAGE, BUT
04:52:59 (INAUDIBLE).AND IF WE WANT TO DEBATE
04:53:06 THAT, YES, LET'S DEBATE THAT. WHAT IS
04:53:07 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT? IF YOU
04:53:08 WANT TO DEBATE10,000 CAN INCREASE IT TO
04:53:10 50,000, LET'S DO IT NOW.(INAUDIBLE) THE
04:53:21 COUNCILMEMBERS (INAUDIBLE) ISSUES WITH
04:53:22 THE 49ERS IS COMPLETELY WRONG,
04:53:23 COMPLETELY WRONG.WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE
04:53:26 MONEY FOR THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA.
04:53:27 PERIOD. THANK YOU.
04:53:28 >>THANK YOU. I CAN'T. ALL RIGHT, THE
04:53:32 EXECUTIVE ATTORNEY, DIRECTOR ATTORNEY.
04:53:33 >>YES, NO, JUST WANT TO MAKE A STATEMENT
04:53:43 TO BOARD MEMBER BECKER. I WAS NOT
04:53:44 SAYING, BOARD MEMBER BECKER THAT YOU
04:53:47 ARE MAKING BACKROOM DEALS OR NOR WAS I
04:53:48 SAYING PEOPLE WERE MAKING BACKROOM
04:53:52 DEALS. WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO IS THE
04:53:53 FACT THAT THE REASON WE HAVE SEVEN
04:53:57 LAWSUITS FROM THE 49ERS AGAINST US IS
04:53:58 THATPREVIOUS COUNCILS WERE MAKING
04:54:02 BACKROOM DEALS. THAT I KNOW.FOR THOSE
04:54:07 BACKROOM DEALS WERE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
04:54:08 THEY WERE.AND THE ISSUE IS NOTTHAT YOU
04:54:13 ARE MAKING DEALS WITH THESE GUYS,YOU
04:54:18 CAN'T MAKE A DEAL WITH IN THESE
04:54:19 MEETINGS, WE KNOW THAT.THE POINT I WAS
04:54:21 TRYING TO MAKE ISTHE PUBLIC DESERVES TO
04:54:23 KNOWTHE STRAIGHT STORY FROM THE 49ERS.
04:54:33 WE PAY THEM TO BE THE MANAGER. WE PAY
04:54:34 THEM TO SHOW UPAND TALK TO THE BOARDIN
04:54:37 PUBLIC, TO DEFEND THEIR PROPOSALSTO THE
04:54:43 PUBLIC THAT IS MAKING THE DECISION.WE
04:54:47 DON'T TESTIFY IN THE TAX APPEAL BOARD
04:54:50 THAT HE REPORTS TO THE STADIUM BOARD.
04:54:53 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE SAW AL GUIDO
04:54:57 HERE? I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM IN YEARS.IF
04:55:01 THIS IS A GOOD DEAL THEY WOULD BE HERE
04:55:03 TO DEFEND IT. THEY WOULD BE HERE TO
04:55:07 DEFEND IT. THEY COULD DEFEND IT OR NOT
04:55:08 HERE. THAT TELLS ME IT'S NOT A GREAT
04:55:11 DEAL. DEANNA AND I CAME UP WITH ANOTHER
04:55:14 DEAL THAT HAS LESS STRINGS ATTACHED TO
04:55:25 IT, LESS FUSS AND MUST, LESS
04:55:26 ADMINISTRATIVE ANYTHING. HE SAID TAKE
04:55:27 THE TICKET PRICE INCREASE THE TICKET
04:55:28 PRICE AND GIVE US A 10% OF THE HIGHER
04:55:29 TICKET PRICE. THAT GIVES US A SIMILAR
04:55:32 AMOUNT OF MONEY WITHOUT ALL THE
04:55:33 RIGMAROLE ATTACHED TO IT.WE SAID TO
04:55:39 THEM WHY CAN'T YOU DO THIS? THEY SAID
04:55:40 SOME VAGUE THING ABOUT THE NOBEL. WE
04:55:42 SET THE TICKET PRICE, THEY DIDN'T SAY
04:55:43 THE NFL RESTRICTS HOLIDAY SEX OF CHRIST
04:55:48 , IT JUST SAYS THAT THERE IT WASN'T
04:55:50 ARBITRARY AND WAS SET ACCORDING TO NFL
04:55:51 GUIDELINES.THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY
04:55:55 CAN'T GIVE US THAT VERY SIMPLE FORMULA
04:55:57 OF THE LARGER TICKET PRICEWITH US
04:56:06 GETTING A LARGER AMOUNT 10%. THAT'S THE
04:56:07 EASIEST CLEANEST WAY OF DOING IT, NO
04:56:08 RESTRICTIONS, WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE
04:56:09 TO USE A PAYMENT IF WE DON'T WANT TO,
04:56:11 AND FRANKLY DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE TO
04:56:13 USE IT FOR DEBT REPAYMENT OF THE
04:56:14 STADIUMWHEN THE SEATS WERE BUILT
04:56:21 WITHOUT THE LOAN, THE CONSTRUCTION
04:56:22 LOAN, THE STADIUM, IT REALLY DOESN'T
04:56:23 NECESSARILY MAKE SENSE TO ATTACH AN SPL
04:56:24 AND TO RESTRICT THE REVENUE TO DEBT
04:56:25 REPAYMENT.BUT IF THEY WERE WILLING TO
04:56:28 GIVE US THE MONEY FOR SOME FORMULA,
04:56:35 DEANNA AND I CAME UP WITH A VERY SIMPLE
04:56:36 STRAIGHTFORWARD FORMULA AND WE ASKED
04:56:37 THEM TO SHOW UP TONIGHT AND TELL US WHY
04:56:40 THEY COULDN'T GIVE US THAT DEAL.
04:56:41 INSTEAD THEY SENT US A LITTLE EMAIL
04:56:42 SAYINGNFL GUIDELINES NOT EXPLAINING
04:56:46 ANYTHING, AND WE SAID WHY DON'T YOU
04:56:48 COME TOTHE MEETING AND EXPLAIN TO US
04:56:53 WHY YOU COULD GIVE US THE SIMPLE
04:56:55 STRAIGHTFORWARD DEAL FOR THESTADIUM?
04:57:05 AND GUESS WHAT, THEY'RE NOT HERE. HERE
04:57:06 WE ARE ALL YELLING AT EACH OTHER
04:57:07 WONDERING WHAT IT IS THE DEAL IS AND
04:57:08 WHAT THE BEST DEAL IS AND GUESS WHAT,
04:57:09 THEY'RE SITTING THERE JUST LAUGHING.
04:57:10 LAUGHING AT USAND I SAY LET'S STOP THE
04:57:14 PAIN, LET'S STOP YELLING AT EACH OTHER,
04:57:17 LET'S SAY IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK AND
04:57:18 EXPLAIN TO US WHYOUR DEAL DOESN'T WORK,
04:57:24 THEN GO AHEAD AND DO THAT. AND THEY
04:57:25 COULD COME BACK IN TWO WEEKS AND
04:57:26 EXPLAINED TO US. BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE
04:57:29 ANY SENSE FOR US TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT
04:57:30 WHAT WE THINK WE HEARD THEM SAY FOR
04:57:31 WHAT WE THINK THESE WORDS MEAN IN THEIR
04:57:33 WRITTEN STATEMENTS BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY
04:57:42 THEY TAKE WHATEVER THEY WRITE AND THEY
04:57:43 TWISTED AND TWISTED AND TWISTED AND
04:57:44 PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO LAWYERS TO
04:57:45 GET OUT OF WHATEVER DEAL IT WASTHEY
04:57:46 THOUGHT THEY WERE GIVING US.THAT'S THE
04:57:47 FACT OF MY LIFE THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
04:57:49 THESE PEOPLE, IF THEY COULD DEFEND THE
04:57:52 DEAL IN PUBLIC THEY WOULD BE HERE.BUT
04:57:57 THEY CAN'T. SO THEY WANT TO USE THEIR,
04:57:59 THEY ARE NOT EVEN WILLING TO DEFEND IN
04:58:03 PUBLIC AND GUYS ARE JUST SAYING WHAT
04:58:08 YOU THINK IT IS? WE'RE YELLING AT EACH
04:58:09 OTHER, IT MAKES NO SENSE. WE SHOULD
04:58:10 REALLY JUST CALL IT QUITS ON THIS, IF
04:58:11 THEY WANT TO COME HERE AND EXPLAIN WHAT
04:58:12 THE DEAL ISTO THE FULL PUBLIC, I THINK
04:58:14 THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOWWHAT ISTHEY
04:58:20 ARE SAYING.LET'S STOPALL CHAOSAND IT IS
04:58:28 A BIT. IF THEY WANT TO COME BACK THEY
04:58:34 CAN EXPLAIN IT IN PUBLIC. THAT'S ALL
04:58:35 I'M SAYING. I'M NOT SAYING YOU GUYS DID
04:58:36 ANYTHING WRONG. OKAY?
04:58:37 >>THANK YOU. I THINK AFTER ALL THATI
04:58:38 WANT TO MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENTTO
04:58:43 AUTHORITY MEMBER WATANABE'S MOTION THAT
04:58:44 I SECONDED THAT THE AUTHORITIES STADIUM
04:58:48 AUTHORITY SUPPORT THE HIGHER TICKET
04:58:49 PRICEFOR PROPOSED BY STAFFAND THAT THEY
04:58:53 NEGOTIATE A HIGHER TICKET PRICE WITHOUT
04:58:58 ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THIS PO OR FOOD OR
04:59:00 ANYTHING LIKE THAT. AND TO GET THE MOST
04:59:03 MONEY THEY CANFOR THE FOOD AND STADIUM
04:59:07 AUTHORITY. IS THAT RIGHT, AUTHORITY
04:59:10 MEMBER WATANABE?
04:59:15 >>YES, THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE.
04:59:16 >>
04:59:25 >>MAYOR GILLMOR, COULD YOU PLEASE
04:59:26 RESTATE THAT?
04:59:27 >>I KEEP CALLING COUNCIL. THE STADIUM
04:59:30 AUTHORITY MEMBERSTHAT WE SUPPORT THE
04:59:34 HIGHER TICKET PRICE PROPOSEDBY OUR
04:59:36 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.WITHOUT THE SPL.
04:59:44 WHICH WOULD GENERATEMORE FOR THE STATE
04:59:47 AND AUTHORITYAND VERY LITTLE TO NO RISK
04:59:53 . AUTHORITY MEMBER JANE?
04:59:58 >>I AGREE IN THE HIGHER TICKET PRICE,
05:00:00 BECAUSE THAT'S GOES TO THE GENERAL FUND.
05:00:05 SPO MONEY JUST GOES TO PAY OFFTHE
05:00:08 DEBT, WHICH IS REALLY HELPWITH OUR
05:00:12 DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS. BUT I THINK,
05:00:24 PEOPLE THAT BOUGHT IS FEEL SOME OF THEM
05:00:25 PAID $800,000 FOR SPL ZINET LIKE THE
05:00:26 GUARANTEE OF HAVINGSEATS, THEY LIKE
05:00:31 WHATEVER BENEFITS THEY ARE GETTING.
05:00:37 THEY ARE WILLING TO PUT DOWN MONEY FOR
05:00:38 SBL'S. AND I BELIEVE THAT OUR STADIUM
05:00:40 AUTHORITY DIRECTOR SANTANA SAID A YEAR
05:00:42 AGO THE BOARD SAID NOT TO PURSUE SPL'S.
05:00:46 ANDI AM NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT. I
05:00:53 THINK IF S FEELS ARE THE WAY TO GET
05:00:54 MORE MONEYWE SHOULD CONTINUE TO PURSUE
05:00:58 THAT IF WE CAN GET HIGHER TICKET PRICES
05:01:00 WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT. MY
05:01:03 UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERETO
05:01:11 COMPONENTS, THE RESERVE PRICE AND THE
05:01:12 PREMIUM PRICE AND THEY GO TO DIFFERENT
05:01:13 ENTITIES. I THINK THE PREMIUM GOES TO
05:01:14 LENDERSAND THE TICKET GOESTO THE 49ER
05:01:18 TEAM BUT I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS
05:01:21 AT ALL.IT SEEMS LIKE NO ONE HERE
05:01:26 UNDERSTANDS HOW THIS WORKS. AND SOI
05:01:28 THINK WE NEED TO GET CLARITY AS TO HOW
05:01:30 THAT RESERVE PRICEIS ACTUALLY
05:01:33 CALCULATED.
05:01:40 >>SO WE SHOULD GET SOMETHING IN WRITING
05:01:41 ABOUT MAN QUO VADIS WORKS. I THINK THAT
05:01:50 THE ISSUE WITH THE SPL'S THAT IS IN
05:01:51 TEMPORARY STATEMENTS. THE SPL'S THAT
05:01:53 HAVE BEEN SOLD.
05:01:54 >>I UNDERSTAND THEY ARE TEMPORARY. BUT
05:01:58 THE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO SPEND $10,000
05:02:00 FOR A TEMPORARY LICENSETHEN FINE, TAKE
05:02:04 THEIR MONEY.
05:02:06 >>IT'S JUST, OKAY. I GUESS, I'M SORRY,
05:02:07 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,I WAS HOPING
05:02:10 EVERYONE WAS LISTENING TO YOUR REPORT
05:02:12 AND ALL THE PITFALLS AND WHATEVER.
05:02:14 OKAY, SODO WE CONTINUE THIS UNTIL WE
05:02:19 GET SOMETHING IN WRITING OR WHAT THE
05:02:22 ACTUAL DEAL IS? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE
05:02:24 ANYTHING?I AM NOT SURE WHERE TO GO WITH
05:02:28 THIS. BECAUSEI THOUGHT EVERYONE
05:02:36 UNDERSTOOD. WE HAVE A MOTION. LET'S GO
05:02:37 WITH THE MOTION. LET'S SEE HOW THAT
05:02:38 WORKS. CITY CLERK, STATE AUTHORITY
05:02:41 CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE MOTION AND
05:02:42 THEN I'M GOING TO GO TO THE PUBLIC.
05:02:48 >>SO IT'S A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WAS
05:02:49 APPROVED STADIUM AUTHORITYTO SUPPORT
05:02:50 THE HIGHER TICKET PRICEPROPOSED BY THE
05:02:53 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
05:02:58 >>HIGHER TICKET PRICE
05:02:59 >>AND MOBILE PHASE.
05:03:03 >>TO MAXIMIZE OUR REVENUE. TO MAXIMIZE,
05:03:06 IS THAT ALL RIGHT, MAKER OF THE MOTION?
05:03:09 TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE.
05:03:13 >>YES, THAT'S FINE. IT'S PERFECTLY FINE.
05:03:16 >>WITH IDEASAND HOW TO RACK MAXIMIZE
05:03:25 REVENUE FOR THE STADIUM AUTHORITY.
05:03:26 LET'S TRY THAT THE LET'S GO TO THE
05:03:27 PUBLIC FIRST, WE HAVEPUBLIC COMMENTERS
05:03:28 WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SPEAK. KIRK,
05:03:31 GO AHEAD, KIRK.
05:03:33 >>AT EVENING, COUNCIL, I'M SORRY,
05:03:36 AUTHORITYEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COUNCIL
05:03:40 STADIUM AUTHORITY FAULTS. APPRECIATE
05:03:44 HEARING ALL THIS I DID HEAR ALL IT BUT
05:03:46 I HEARD ENOUGH, WHICH IS PRETTY
05:03:49 CONSISTENT FROM WHAT I'VE EXPERIENCED
05:03:51 OVER THE LASTI GUESS THAT'S ABOUT 10
05:03:54 YEARS NOWOR I GUESS SEVEN YEARS WITH
05:04:01 THE 49ER RESERVATION FOR BASICALLY ONCE
05:04:04 THEY GET THEIR CONTRACT THEY SEEM FAIRLY
05:04:05 ABSENT. ANDI DON'T KNOWTHE AUDIT I SAW
05:04:16 A NUMBER OF AUTHORITY MEMBERS THERE. I
05:04:24 KNOW THE CHAIRS AT THOSE MEETINGS ONE
05:04:25 OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS IS NOT HERE
05:04:26 ANYMORE WAS AT THE MEETING AND THE
05:04:29 ATTORNEYS AT THOSE MEETINGS.I NEVER
05:04:34 SAW, NEVER SAW A 49ERI SAW SOME OF THE
05:04:38 40 METER READINGS (INAUDIBLE) AND THAT
05:04:45 MEANS BUT I NEVER SAW THEM SPEAK IT
05:04:46 MEANS I REPRESENT(INAUDIBLE) AND ONCE
05:04:54 AGAIN AFTER HEARING ALL THE ARGUING
05:04:55 BICKERING ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENINGWITH
05:05:00 AIR OPERATIONS FOR THEM NOT TO BE HERE
05:05:01 PRESENTAND FOR THIS FORWARD TO BE
05:05:07 DEBATING STUFF THAT IS FRANKLY INMANCOS
05:05:14 WHEELHOUSE HERE IS ABSURD. WE ARE NOT
05:05:17 LISTENING FROM WHAT I CAN HEAR YOU'RE
05:05:18 NOT TAKING DIRECTIONFROM THE EXECUTIVE
05:05:21 DIRECTOR HERE WHICH HAS ALL THE DATAAND
05:05:27 SUPPORTING HER EFFORTS. IN MEETING WITH
05:05:28 THE 49ERS OUTSIDE THATJUST SEEMS LIKE
05:05:31 JUST CRAZY BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDERMINING
05:05:34 THE VERY THINGS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO
05:05:35 ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS. I HOPE YOU JUST
05:05:42 (INAUDIBLE) THE 49ERS SPEAK AT THESE
05:05:43 MEETINGS.
05:05:46 >>EDWARD, GO AHEAD, AS WITH.
05:05:51 >>OKAY, I AM HERE. I AM STILL HERE. I
05:05:54 JUST WANTED TO SAYABOUT MAKING MONEY
05:05:57 FOR THE CITY,THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION,
05:06:03 THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH COMMUNICATION,
05:06:06 AND I KNOW THAT NINERS HAD HIRED
05:06:10 CONSULTANTS TO LOOK INTO TRYING TO
05:06:12 STILL HAVE THE STADIUMEMPTY MOST OF THE
05:06:15 TIME DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS BECAUSE
05:06:16 OF THE HEATAND I KNOW HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE
05:06:19 BACK IN THEIR SEATS. I KNOW THAT THESE
05:06:24 CONSULTANTS SAY WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE
05:06:33 WITH THE OVERHANG ON THE SAND HE SIDE
05:06:36 OF THE STADIUM TO KEEP FANS IN THEIR
05:06:37 SEATS. SO I'M THINKINGTHERE IS A SIMPLE
05:06:42 IDEA THAT I HAVE COME UP WITH THAT
05:06:43 WOULD HELP KEEP PEOPLE IN THEIR SEATS
05:06:46 AND BRING MORE PEOPLE TO THE STADIUM,
05:06:47 BUT NOBODY WANTS TO LISTEN. I REACHED
05:06:51 OUT TO THE NINERS, THE CITY, NOBODY
05:06:52 WANTS RESPOND. SO THERE'S FALL ON BOTH
05:06:56 SIDES THIS FALL WITH THE CITY AND THE
05:06:57 NINERS AND LACK OF COMMUNICATION LACK
05:06:58 OF RESPONSE EMAILS. ALSO, YES, THE
05:07:02 NINERS WERE INTERESTED IN TEMPORARY
05:07:06 SEATS IN GETTING THIS THING FORWARD,
05:07:11 YOU THINK THEY WOULD ATTEND THESE
05:07:12 MEETINGS AND % THEIR NUMBERS TO SHOW,
05:07:18 HEY, THIS CAN MAKE MONEY FOR THE CITY.
05:07:19 THE MINERS HAVE A TERRIBLE HISTORYWITH
05:07:20 THE CITY.IT'S IN THE NEWS THAT THERE IS
05:07:28 CONSTANT FRICTION BETWEEN THE CITY AND
05:07:29 THE NIGHT OF HIS CAN'T JUST TRUST NOT
05:07:31 MINOR OWNERSHIP BECAUSE OF THEIR
05:07:33 HISTORY LIKE WITH THE SOCCER FIELD. YOU
05:07:39 AND JOE MONTANA WANTED TO BUILD HIS
05:07:40 HOTEL IN THE PARKING LOT AND SOMEHOW
05:07:41 THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, THAT COULD HAVE
05:07:47 BEEN A GOOD MONEYMAKER. THE DELAYS WERE
05:07:48 RELATED BECAUSE OF COVID. MYSELF, I KNOW
05:07:51 THIS COVID STUFF, IT'S A SCAM.IT'S IN
05:07:56 THE NEWS, SHE SAID, WHERE THE MASS,
05:07:57 DON'T WEAR THE MASK. HE IS GOT A
05:07:58 HISTORY OF LYING.THE VACCINES, KILLING
05:08:00 4000, 54,000 PEOPLE IT'S JUST CRAZY.
05:08:05 THAT'S WHAT RUINED OUR ECONOMY.THAT'S
05:08:08 WHY WE ARE SEEKING MONEY FOR THE CITY.
05:08:14 >>THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT, THANK
05:08:15 YOU. ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS?
05:08:18 OKAY. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK OR STADIUM
05:08:24 AUTHORITY CLERK, WE HAVE A MOTION IN
05:08:25 THE SECOND, WITH THREE BACK PROMOTION,
05:08:26 PLEASE?
05:08:30 >>APPROVED STADIUM AUTHORITY SUPPORT
05:08:31 THE HIGHER TICKET PRICE PROPOSED BY
05:08:33 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE
05:08:35 >>OKAY.VICE CHAIR CHAHAL.
05:08:40 >>THANK YOU.AS MENTIONED BY CITY
05:08:43 AUTHORITY, I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL
05:08:47 OPTIONS.I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT A
05:08:57 DIFFERENT MOTION IF I WANT TO TABLE
05:08:58 THAT MOTION. NOW THAT HAVEBOTH SPL
05:09:00 OPTIONS AND TICKET OPTIONSAND I THINK
05:09:03 49ERS STADIUM MANAGERS MUST BE
05:09:07 LISTENING TO US,THEN WE MOVE THIS THING
05:09:12 TO TWO WEEKS AND LET THEM COME BACK
05:09:14 WITH A PROPOSAL.I WOULD PREFER THE
05:09:22 COMING PERSONIN ADDITION TO WRITING AS
05:09:26 FACT, BUT HIMTHE PROPOSAL, WHAT I'M
05:09:32 PROPOSING WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS TO
05:09:33 MAKE MONEY FOR THE CITY.
05:09:34 >>I AGREE, AND IF THIS MOTION FAILS YOU
05:09:40 CAN MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THISTWO
05:09:42 WEEKS TO HAVE THEM RESPOND, BUT OUR
05:09:45 MOTION IS TO COME BACK WITH MAXIMIZING
05:09:48 THE REVENUE FOR THE CITY.THAT'S WHAT
05:09:53 WE'RE ALL TRYING TO DO. FOR MCCRIGHT,
05:09:54 BUT THE THING IS TIME IS OF ESSENCE. WE
05:09:56 NEED, WE DON'T MAKE MONEY
05:10:05 >>THAT'S WHY THIS MOTION NEEDS TO PASS
05:10:06 INSTEAD OF CONTINUE FOR TWO WEEKS ON
05:10:07 THE CITY STAFF CAN WORK ON IT.I REALLY
05:10:08 THINK WE SHOULD JUST DO THIS. ALL
05:10:12 RIGHT, ON THE MOTION, AGAIN, 30 MEMBER
05:10:13 PART.
05:10:16 >>I HEARD WHAT AUTHORITY MEMBER JANE
05:10:19 SAIDIT'S LAID OUT IN THE LETTER DATED
05:10:27 JUNE MAY 2, 2021. THE QUESTION I WOULD
05:10:28 HAVE IS IF THEY INCREASE THE PRICE OF
05:10:29 THE SEATS OR THE PREMIUM PORTION WE
05:10:30 DON'TGET CUT OF THAT. THE QUESTION THAT
05:10:39 I WOULD ASK IS WHY WOULD PEOPLE PAY
05:10:40 HIGHER PRICES FOR STATES THAT DON'T
05:10:41 COME WITH AMENITIES? AT THAT POINT I
05:10:43 JUST HAVE TROUBLE FINDINGA WAY TO
05:10:48 SUPPORT THIS MOTION WITHOUT GOING INTO
05:10:49 DETAILS. THANK YOU.
05:10:50 >>THERE IS A TIMELINE ON THIS.
05:10:59 COUNCILMEMBER JANE, YOU HAVE SOMETHING
05:11:00 ELSE TO SAY?
05:11:01 >>IJUST WANT TO CLARIFYSANTANA WAS
05:11:15 SAYING SHE WAS OPERATING UNDER PREVIOUS
05:11:16 COUNCIL DIRECTIONTO NOT PURSUE SPL'S.
05:11:24 JUST WANT TO VERIFY THAT. THAT'S
05:11:25 CORRECT. I MISSPOKE DURING COMMENTS,
05:11:26 FOR THE COUNCILMEMBERSMADE THE
05:11:33 DIRECTION TO NOT PURSUE SPL'S BUT UNDER
05:11:34 THE AGREEMENT TO PURSUE A SIMILAR
05:11:35 INSTRUMENT. THOSE DIRECTION FROM MAY
05:11:37 2020.
05:11:39 >>OKAY. SOI WILL NOT BE SUPPORTINGTHE
05:11:46 MOTION BECAUSE IF THE 49ERS WANT TO DO
05:11:47 SBL'S AND WE SHOULD LEAVE THAT ON THE
05:11:53 TABLE, WE SHOULD TAKE THAT OFF THE
05:11:54 TABLE.
05:11:55 >>OKAY, LET'S TRY THE MOTION.
05:11:56 ASSISTANCE AND CLERK A ROLL CALL, PLEASE
05:11:59 , ASSIST IN AUTHORITY PART. WE ONLY
05:12:00 HAVE TILL THE END OF JUNE, SO WE HAVE
05:12:03 TO TRY SOMETHING. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK?
05:12:05 >>
05:12:06 [CALLING ROLL]THAT FAILS5-2. ALL RIGHT.
05:12:58 IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE MOTION OR IS
05:13:00 THERE NO ACTION?ABILITY MEMBERS JAMES
05:13:06 LEE
05:13:07 >>I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION. I
05:13:08 WOULD LIKE TO GRANTOUR AUTHORITY
05:13:14 DIRECTOR SANTANA TO GAUGE DISCUSSIONS
05:13:23 OVER PURSUING SP HEALTH AND PERHAPS AN
05:13:26 ALTERNATIVESCHEME FOR LICENSESAND ALSO
05:13:34 TO ENGAGE IN A DISCUSSIONOF HOW TO
05:13:41 MAXIMIZE THE RESERVE PRICEFOR THE 64
05:13:51 SEATS.
05:13:52 >>I CAN SECOND, ANDBOARD MEMBER JANE, I
05:14:02 WOULD LIKE TO BE BROUGHT BACK IN TWO
05:14:03 WEEKS WE HAVE DECIDED. IF YOU WANT TO
05:14:04 MAKE SOME(INAUDIBLE).
05:14:08 >>ON HEARING FROMDIRECTIVE SANTANA THAT
05:14:17 THERE IS NO STAFF TIME TO DO THAT. SO I
05:14:27 WILL NOT BE TAKEN THAT AMENDMENT. I'M
05:14:28 GOING TO LEAVE IT TO HER DISCRETIONAS
05:14:35 TO WHEN SHE WANTS TO BRING IT BACK. I'M
05:14:36 SORRY, I'M NOT GOING TO ACCEPT THAT.
05:14:38 >>WE DO ACCEPT THAT THE TEAM MUST PUT
05:14:39 IT IN WRITING WHAT THE PROPOSAL IS
05:14:42 WHATEVER ENDS UP HAPPENING AND MUST BE
05:14:43 IN WRITING FROM MANCOS. FROM OF COURSE,
05:14:46 SOMETHING HAS TO BE IN WRITING
05:14:50 >>I AM ASKING IF YOU WOULD TAKE THAT AS
05:14:51 PART OF YOUR MOTION IS VERY LOUDCLEAR
05:14:54 TO THEM TO PLEASE PUT SOMETHING IN
05:14:55 WRITING.
05:14:56 >>OF COURSE,EVERYTHING SHOULD BE IN
05:15:02 WRITING.
05:15:03 >>YOU WILL ACCEPT THAT AS A MOTION?
05:15:04 >>YES.
05:15:05 >>THEN I CAN SECOND THAT.
05:15:07 >>I WOULD LIKE TO REPEAT THE MOTION ON
05:15:08 THE FLOOR. THIS ISTO GRANT EXECUTIVE
05:15:16 DIRECTOR TO ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION OF
05:15:17 PURSUING SPL'S AN ALTERNATIVE SCHEME
05:15:18 FOR LICENSES AND ALSO ENGAGE IN THE
05:15:19 DISCUSSION HOW TO MAXIMIZE TICKET PRICE
05:15:20 THE 64 SEATS AND THAT THE PROPOSAL WILL
05:15:23 BE IN WRITING.IS THAT CORRECT, THE
05:15:29 MAKER OF MOTION PLEASE
05:15:30 >>THAT'S CORRECT.
05:15:41 >>OKAY, JUST WANTED TO SAY IT CAN'T BE
05:15:42 ANY RISK TO THE SAME ABILITY. WE JUST
05:15:43 CAN'T. SO ASSISTANT CLERK, A ROLL CALL
05:15:47 VOTE, PLEASE?
05:15:51 >>
05:15:52 [CALLING ROLL]
05:16:23 >>THAT PASS IS 61. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
05:16:24 FOR THAT.WE ARE DONE WITH THAT.ALL
05:16:28 RIGHT. OKAY, BEFORE WE GO ON TO THEITEM
05:16:33 THAT WAS MOVED OUT WHICH IS THE CENTER
05:16:34 AND MANAGEMENTOF COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE
05:16:38 AND MYSELF I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF
05:16:39 THERE'S ANYBODYTHAT HAS A POTENTIAL
05:16:43 PUBLIC HEARING, BECAUSE WE HAVEONE,
05:16:48 TWO, WE HAVE SEVERAL PUBLIC HEARINGS
05:16:51 THAT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH TONIGHT AND
05:16:52 I KNOWESPECIALLY THERE WAS ONE ON THE
05:16:57 DATA CENTER WHICH IS NUMBER 10 WHICH
05:16:58 WOULD PROBABLYTHE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR
05:17:03 IN THE MORNING IF WE JUST KEEP GOING.
05:17:04 IS THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE THEIR
05:17:05 ITEM CONTINUEDAND THAT COULD HAVE THEIR
05:17:06 ITEM CONTINUEDFOR I WOULD SAY THE NEXT
05:17:11 MEETING?WE NEED TO CONTINUE WITH OUR
05:17:18 CONTINUANCES FOR CITY BUSINESS. CITY
05:17:19 MANAGERHAVE YOU HEARD FROM ANYONE?
05:17:23 >>I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT ITEMS
05:17:27 SEVEN TO BE HEARD ON JUNE 15.
05:17:28 >>OKAY.
05:17:40 >>ITEM 9 SHOULD BE A QUICK ITEM, THAT
05:17:41 THE COUNCIL HAS READ THIS BEFORE, THIS
05:17:42 IS THE PUBLIC HEARING.
05:17:45 >>I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ONES THAT
05:17:50 >>LET'S CONTINUE THE DATA CENTER ITEM
05:17:57 UNTIL THE 15TH.
05:17:58 >>ARE THEY OKAY WITH THAT?
05:17:59 >>I AM HEARING THERE OKAY, IT IS TIME
05:18:00 SENSITIVE I CANNOT BEDEFERRED PAST THE
05:18:02 LAST JUNE MEETING.
05:18:03 >>AND WE PUT IT ON THE BEGINNING OF THE
05:18:04 AGENDABECAUSE THEY WAITED ALL THIS
05:18:06 TIME.
05:18:07 >>WILL PUT IT RIGHT AFTER ITEM 8.
05:18:08 >>OKAY.
05:18:15 >>ITEM 5 AND ITEM 6 ARE TIME SENSITIVE
05:18:18 .
05:18:19 >>WE WILL GET TO THOSE NO MATTER THE
05:18:20 TIMEAND SO COULD I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION
05:18:26 ? WAIT, SO WE'RE GOING TO ASK
05:18:31 >>WE CAN RECAP, MAYOR, IF YOU WOULD
05:18:32 LIKE.
05:18:33 >>PLEASE.
05:18:34 >>ITEM NUMBER SEVENAND ITEM NUMBER10
05:18:39 WILL GO TO THE JUNE 15 AND ITEM NUMBER
05:18:42 EIGHTTHE COUNCIL ACTED TO MOVE ITS JUNE
05:18:48 22.
05:18:49 >>WE ALREADY TOOK THAT ACTION.
05:18:53 >>THAT LEAVES FIVE, SIX AND NINE.
05:18:54 >>OKAY.
05:19:00 >>WE GO NOW TO 11 AS WELL AS 11. MAYBE
05:19:01 YOU GUYS WANT TO MOVE 11 TO 15TH OR THE
05:19:05 25TH, 22ND? ARE WE OKAY WITH THAT,
05:19:08 ANTHONY?
05:19:10 >>MY QUESTION IS THAT'S JUST HOW TO PUT
05:19:14 ON THE FUTURE AGENDA. IS THAT CORRECT OR
05:19:19 >>WELL, I DON'T KNOW.
05:19:24 >>I KNOW THE CITY ATTORNEY'S ADVICE,
05:19:30 GREAT DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT.
05:19:31 >>YES, YOU KNOW HOW THAT GOES.
05:19:34 >>YES, SOUGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT OKAY,
05:19:35 WELL IN THAT CASE, MAYBE WE WANT TO DO
05:19:37 THIS, YES OR NO? WE ALL TAKE A VOTE AND
05:19:39 THEN WE MOVE ON AND SAY THAT DOWN THE
05:19:41 ROAD. BUT IF WE DON'TAND WE WANT TO
05:19:45 CHIT CHAT FOR A WHILE THEN LET'S MOVE
05:19:46 IN ON ANOTHER DATE. BUT IF IT'S A QUICK
05:19:47 VOTEJUST TO SEE IF WE ARE GOING TO DO IT
05:19:54 , WE CAN DO IT QUICKLY.
05:19:55 >>WILL JUST LEAVE IT. IF IT GETS
05:19:56 ANYTHING PAST THAT WE ARE GOING TO
05:19:57 CONTINUE.BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHEN THAT
05:20:00 WILL BE HEARD PLEASE CITY CLERK? DO YOU
05:20:03 HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?
05:20:04 >>I UNDERSTAND THERE'S OTHER THINGS
05:20:14 THAT ARE CRITICAL, I WILL HAVE A
05:20:15 PROBLEM PUSHING ITEM 7. THIS IS THE
05:20:16 SECOND TIMEFOR THE THIRD TIME IS PUSHED.
05:20:20 IT WILL BECOME TIME SENSITIVE SOON, SO
05:20:21 I KNOWTHE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CITY
05:20:26 MANAGER TO PUSH IT TO THE 15TH NEXT WEEK
05:20:31 BUT WE REALLY CAN'T BE PUSHING THIS ANY
05:20:32 FURTHER. AS DEADLINESAND SUCH WHICH WE
05:20:34 WILL BE COMPRESSING OURSELVESTOWARDS IF
05:20:37 WE KEEP PUSHING THIS. I HAVE NOPROBLEM
05:20:40 WITH PUSHING LATE, BUT REALLY, THIS
05:20:41 WILL BE THE THIRD TIME.
05:20:42 >>THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENED. BECAUSEWE
05:20:46 ARE FUNCTIONING AT THIS LEVEL.
05:20:47 >>I AM AWARE OF THIS, I HAVE BEEN YEAR
05:20:48 OF THESE MEETINGS AND WATCHING.
05:20:51 >>WE HAVE ALREADY TALKED INTERNALLY
05:20:52 ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DOJUST TO SHAVE DOWN
05:20:56 THE WORKLOAD ONCE COUNCIL ASKS,.
05:20:57 >>I HEAR YOU.
05:20:58 >>I RECOGNIZE YOUR COMMENTS, BUT WE ARE
05:21:02 TRYING TOON THE BACK AND LOOK AT HOW WE
05:21:06 CAN CLOSE THE GAP SOWE MAKE UP FROM THE
05:21:11 STAFF PERSPECTIVE.
05:21:12 >>I KNOW YOU HIT IT, CITY MANAGER TIME
05:21:16 TRYING TO CONVEY THAT MESSAGE TO THE
05:21:17 COUNCIL.CONTINUALLY PUNTING.
05:21:18 >>I'M COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU, THERE
05:21:26 IS NO WAY WE SHOULD BE ACTING LIKE THIS
05:21:27 ON A REGULAR BASISAND WE ARE GOING TO
05:21:30 TRY TO DEAL WITH THAT, WHAT OUR ISSUES
05:21:31 ARE, WHICH I'M SURE THE PUBLIC CAN SEE
05:21:35 WHAT OUR ISSUES ARE. SO I THINK THAT WE
05:21:39 CAN'T CONTINUE TO CONDUCT BUSINESS LIKE
05:21:40 THIS BECAUSE THOSE OF US WHO WORK, WE
05:21:42 CAN'T, LOOK, WE ARE GOING 11:45, BUT
05:21:46 WE'VE GOT TO HAVETHE CENTER AND THE
05:21:51 ADMONISHMENT HEARING THAT WE HAVE ALL
05:21:52 THESE OTHER HEARINGS WE HAVE TO DO. SO
05:21:54 WE HAVE NO CHOICE. WE JUST HAVE TO DEAL
05:21:55 WITH IT AND WORK AT OUR LIMITED
05:21:58 CAPACITY AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT, AND
05:22:01 THAT'S JUST WHAT WE ARE GOING HAVE TO
05:22:02 DO. CAN WE MOVE ON?I NEED A MOTION TO
05:22:04 CONTINUE ITEM 7 AND 10 TO JUNE 15,
05:22:09 COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
05:22:11 >>I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION.
05:22:15 >>I SECOND THAT.
05:22:16 >>THERE IS A MOTION IN THE SECOND. ANY
05:22:17 OTHERDISCUSSION FOR THAT? ANY MEMBER OF
05:22:18 THE PUBLIC OPPOSE THAT? OKAY,
05:22:21 ASSISTANCE AND CLERK.
05:22:26 >>SORRY, MATT AMERICA I AM LOOKING AT
05:22:29 THEIR SEVERAL ATTENDEES THAT HAVE ITEM
05:22:30 10IN THEIR NAME.
05:22:35 >>I KNOW. I'M FEELING VERY BAD AND I
05:22:37 WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE, I WAS
05:22:40 HOPING THAT WE WOULD GET TO THIS TONIGHT
05:22:43 BUT WE WILL PUT IT ON AS EARLY AS WE CAN
05:22:47 AT THE NEXT MEETING SO YOU DON'T HAVE
05:22:48 TO ENDURE THIS. AND I APOLOGIZE.
05:22:51 >>COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE?
05:22:58 >>WAY, I HAVE COUNCILMEMBER PARK, HER
05:22:59 HANDS UP.
05:23:00 >>JUST A CLARIFICATION, URGED EARLIER
05:23:01 THAT ITEM 11 WAS ALSO POTENTIAL TO BE
05:23:02 PUSHED TO JUNE 15AND I WANT TO KNOW IF
05:23:04 WE WANTED TO DO THATOR HAVE A DIFFERENT
05:23:08 DATE OR YOU WANT TO PUSH THAT?
05:23:10 >>WE JUST HAD A DISCUSSION ON THATAND
05:23:13 WE DECIDED WE ARE GOING TO KEEP ITON,
05:23:18 IF IT ENDS UP BEINGMORE OF A DISCUSSION
05:23:23 OF PUT ON THE AGENDA WE WILL CONTINUE
05:23:25 IT.
05:23:31 >>SHOULD I CONTINUE?
05:23:32 >>GO AHEAD.
05:23:33 [CALLING ROLL]
05:23:53 >>THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE NEXT
05:23:54 ITEM WE HAVE IS PULLED UP A SECTION ON
05:23:55 CENTER OF COUNCILMEMBERWATANABE AND IT
05:23:57 MANAGEMENT OF MAYOR GILMORE. SO I'M
05:23:59 GOING TO HAND THAT OVER TO
05:24:00 COUNCILMEMBER HARDYSINCE YOU PUT THESE
05:24:04 ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. GO AHEAD,
05:24:05 COUNCILMEMBERALREADY, THE FLOOR IS
05:24:07 YOURS.
05:24:08 >>THANK YOU. ON MARCH 31 THERE WAS AN
05:24:11 ANTI-ASIAN TAKE RALLYTHAT WAS SPONSORED
05:24:14 BYCOUNCILMEMBER WATANABEAND ATTENDED BY
05:24:20 QUITE A FEW COUNCILMEMBERS AND OTHER
05:24:22 DIGNITARIESAND ELECTED OFFICIALS. AND
05:24:27 THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATIONWHERE
05:24:31 COUNCILMEMBER KEVIN PARK WAS NOT
05:24:33 ALLOWED TO SPEAKPUBLICLY AND WAS TOLD
05:24:37 THAT HE COULD NOT. AND THE PHRASE WAS
05:24:41 IT'S MY EVENT. SO I AM CONCERNED
05:24:47 BECAUSE THAT IS NOT THE WAY WE SHOULD
05:24:48 BE TREATING ONE ANOTHER IN A PUBLIC
05:24:49 EVENT. AND THEN WHEN IT WAS POINTED OUT
05:24:54 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABEINSTEAD OF JUST
05:24:57 APOLOGIZING, FELT THE NEED TO DEFEND
05:25:00 HER POSITION. A SENSOR IS JUSTAN
05:25:11 OFFICIAL DECLARATION THAT YOU HAVE NOT
05:25:12 KEPT UP ETHICSOF BEHAVIOR, AND IT'S THE
05:25:15 CONDUCT, AND THAT IS MY CONCERN. AND SO
05:25:19 THAT WAS WHY I ASKED FOR THIS.AND YOU
05:25:25 HAVE A RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU, I WOULD
05:25:26 LIKE TO KEEP THOSE TWO SEPARATE. ONE IS
05:25:28 A RESOLUTION OF CENSUREFOR
05:25:30 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
05:25:34 >>OKAY, SO WE HAVE A COUNCIL POLICY FOR
05:25:35 CENTER.THERE HAS TO BE A HEARING.SO
05:25:50 HAVE YOU READ THE POLICY?
05:25:51 >>YES, I HAVE. FROM OKAY, SO
05:25:53 >>SO THEN WE WOULD ASK FOR
05:25:54 COUNCILMEMBERS AND FOR THE PUBLIC. SO I
05:25:57 WOULD ASK IF THERE ANY COUNCILMEMBERS
05:25:59 THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAKON THE
05:26:03 RESOLUTION.
05:26:07 >>OKAY.COUNCILMEMBER JANE.
05:26:13 >>YES,I AM GOING TO REPEAT WHAT I SAID
05:26:18 THE LAST TIME, WHICH WAS THAT ON JUNE
05:26:22 12, 2018, WHICH WAS THAT ON JUNE 12, 20
05:26:24 6:18 HOURSOFINTERVIEWS WITH THE PUBLIC
05:26:31 COUNCILMEMBERS KOLSTAD WE HADED VOTED
05:26:37 TO NOT APPOINT ANYBODY TO THE COUNCIL.
05:26:42 AND THEY WERESCREEN:A LOT OF PEOPLE
05:26:47 YELLED AT THEM FOR TAKING EVERYONE'S
05:26:49 TIME AND EVERYTHING, AND THEN COUNCIL
05:26:53 DECIDED THATTHAT WASN'T ENOUGH AND THAT
05:26:58 THEY WANTED TO SEND.AND AT THAT POINT I
05:27:02 THINK IT WAS POINTED OUT BY THE ATTORNEY
05:27:06 THAT CENTURIES ARE PRETTY SERIOUSSTEP,
05:27:11 MEASURE, AND THAT THE, THEIR ACTIONS
05:27:20 DID NOT WARRANT CENSURE, AND SO THEN
05:27:22 COUNCIL TOOK TIMETO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
05:27:31 HAVE COMPLAINED OF NOT DOING THE
05:27:32 PEOPLE'S BUSINESS, THE COUNCIL AT THAT
05:27:33 TIME TOOK THE TIMEFORMALLY ADMONISHED
05:27:40 FOR SOMETHING THAT THEY WERE FULLY IN
05:27:41 THEIR RIGHTS TO DO. SO HERE WE ARE AGAIN
05:27:46 . I PERSONALLY WILL NOT BESUPPORTING
05:27:49 CENTER, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THATWE
05:27:57 ARE AT THAT LEVEL. SOTHAT'S, I WAS NOT
05:28:06 HAPPY WHEN THEY EVEN DECIDED TO ADMONISH
05:28:15 COUNCILMEMBERS KOLSTAD IN MAN.
05:28:18 CERTAINLY NOT JUST CENTER ANYONE.HERE
05:28:25 WE ARE AGAIN.
05:28:26 >>I WANT TO PROVIDE A LITTLE CLARITY TO
05:28:27 THAT, IS THAT THAT WAS A COMPLETELY
05:28:28 DIFFERENT SITUATION AND IT WAS BROUGHT
05:28:31 BY A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. THE COUNCIL
05:28:34 ENDED UP ADMONISHING COUNCILMEMBERS MAN
05:28:39 AND KOLSTAD, AND HERE'S THE REASON WHY.
05:28:40 THEY AGREEDTO THE PROCESS THAT WE WERE
05:28:43 GOING TO USETO APPOINTCITY
05:28:48 COUNCILMEMBER TO THE VACANT SEAT, AND
05:28:51 THEY AGREED ON THE PROCESS. AND WE SPENT
05:28:53 HOURS, HOURS INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES.
05:28:59 WE HAD SO MANY CANDIDATES. AND WE SPENT
05:29:03 HOURS INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES AFTER
05:29:04 THEY AGREED THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AGREED
05:29:07 TO THE PROCESS YOU ARE GOING TO USE.
05:29:12 WHEN IT CAME TIME TO SUPPORT, WE HAD
05:29:22 FIVE CANDIDATES THAT WE PUT FORWARD.
05:29:23 THEY WERE ALL CANDIDATES OF COLOR,
05:29:27 FIVE. AND AT THAT TIME WE TRIED TO BOTH
05:29:31 FOR THEM ONE BY ONE OF THE FIVE
05:29:33 COUNCILMEMBER MAY HAND KOLSTADTHIS
05:29:38 TURNED EVERYBODY DOWN. SO IT BECAME
05:29:39 OBVIOUS THEY WEREN'T GOING TO APPROVE
05:29:40 ANYBODY AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY
05:29:47 COUNCILMEMBER MAY HANDSET THE
05:29:48 CANDIDATES DID NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF
05:29:49 THE COUNCILMEMBER. AND OF THOSE
05:29:52 CANDIDATES I WILL TELL YOU THAT NIGHT
05:29:53 IT'S INTERESTING SAID THAT,
05:29:55 COUNCILMEMBER JANE, BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T
05:29:56 UNDERSTAND, I REMEMBERYOU'RE ONE OF THE
05:29:59 CANDIDATES THE COUNCILMEMBER MAN SAID
05:30:03 DIDN'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF
05:30:04 COUNCILMEMBER. IT WAS COUNCILMEMBER
05:30:05 PARK. SO IS CITY CLERKHASSAN GOD. SO
05:30:10 WITH DOCTOR NADEEM. SO IS AVERAGELY
05:30:11 FORTE. ALL WONDERFUL AND QUALIFIED
05:30:12 INDIVIDUALS. BECAUSE IT CAME OBVIOUS
05:30:17 THAT THEY WEREN'T GOING TO APPROVE
05:30:18 ANYONE. AND I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR
05:30:22 FACE, COUNCILMEMBER JANE, WHEN THAT
05:30:23 HAPPENED. YOU JUST STOOD THERE LOOKING
05:30:24 SHOCKED. EVERYBODY LOOKED SHOCKED,
05:30:26 BECAUSEEVERYONE, AND I KNOW THE CITY
05:30:30 CLERK AS WELL WAS THERE, IT WASTED
05:30:33 EVERYBODY'S TIME, SO IT WAS DECEITFUL
05:30:39 THAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO GO
05:30:40 ALONG WITH PROCESS IN GOOD FAITHAND
05:30:41 THEN DECIDED THEY WEREN'T GOING TO
05:30:47 SUPPORT ANYBODY. WAS IT IN THE RIGHT,
05:30:48 YES. BUT THEY SHOULDN'T JUST COME OUT
05:30:50 SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN WE HAD ANOTHER
05:30:51 VACANCY COUNCILMEMBER HARDYAND VICE
05:30:53 CHAIR, VICE MAYOR CHAHAL, WHEN WE ARE
05:30:57 GOING TO APPOINT, THEY SAID ITRIGHT UP
05:31:03 FRONT AND SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO
05:31:04 SUPPORT ANYWAYUNLESS IT SAYS JANE.
05:31:11 WE'RE NOT GOING TO EVEN GO THROUGH THE
05:31:12 PROCESS. THEY AT LEAST HAD THE COURTESY
05:31:13 TO TELL US UP FRONT THAT THEY WERE NOT
05:31:14 GOING TO GO, AND I THINK THAT IS A
05:31:19 RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN 2018
05:31:20 MEETING. THAT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
05:31:21 CIRCUMSTANCEAND IT ALL TOOK PLACE HERE
05:31:24 AT CITY HALL. ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT
05:31:25 TO ASK COUNCILMEMBER ALREADYIS WHAT IS
05:31:26 THE STANDARDTHAT WE ARE SETTING HERE?
05:31:30 WHAT IS THE STANDARD?FOR WHAT YOU'RE
05:31:33 DOING? I DON'T KNOW, IF YOU OFFEND
05:31:38 SOMEONE, YOU BECOME CENTURYI DON'T KNOW
05:31:50 IF THE STANDARD IS, WHAT THE ACTUAL
05:31:51 CHARGES OR CRIMES ARE. COUNCILMEMBER
05:31:52 JANE SAYS IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS.I WAS
05:31:53 WAITING TO HEAR WHAT CRIMES OR POLICIES
05:31:54 HAVE BEENVIOLATED. COUNSELOR JANE, I'M
05:32:04 SORRY, DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING?
05:32:05 >>I DID WANT TO RESPOND TO YOURS. SO I
05:32:06 WAS THERE THAT NIGHT. I WAS NOT
05:32:09 SURPRISED. ACTUALLY CLICKAND THEN ON
05:32:16 THE EVENING WHENVICE MAYOR CHAHAL AND
05:32:21 COUNCILMEMBER PARTYWERE TRYING TO I
05:32:26 GUESS THE POINT ME, DAVEY DAVIS SAID
05:32:29 I'M DISAPPOINTED IN RAJ, AND THEN SHE
05:32:32 SAID SUDS JAINSHE WAS GOING TO START
05:32:35 SAYING SOMETHING, SHE WAS STOPPEDKATHY
05:32:45 WHAT NEVINS SAYSHE WILL RECUSE HIMSELF.
05:32:50 SO THERE WAS A LOT OF ANGERWHAT VICE
05:32:52 MAYOR CHAHAL DIDWHAT COUNCILMEMBER
05:32:55 HARDY DIDFOR NOT LETTING PEOPLE HAVE
05:32:59 THEIR TIME. AND NOW YOU'RE LIKE
05:33:02 REWRITING HISTORYAND YOU'RE SAYING AT
05:33:04 LEASTTHEY HAD THE DECENCY TO DO IT
05:33:14 UPFRONT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
05:33:15 EXPECT.
05:33:16 >>WE DIDN'T CENTER ADMONISH
05:33:17 COUNCILMEMBER ALREADYOR THE VICE MAYOR
05:33:18 CHAHAL EITHER. WE DIDN'T. ANYWAYS,
05:33:22 OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER WILL NOT BE.
05:33:25 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. YES, LOOKING AT
05:33:26 POLICIES047AND THE PROCEDURE ON YOUR
05:33:31 CENSUREWITH STATES THAT A CENSURE ACTION
05:33:41 IS PLACED ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA, CITY
05:33:42 CLERK SHALL PROVIDE NOTICEOF THE
05:33:45 CENTURY. COUNCILMEMBER WHO IS THE
05:33:46 SUBJECT OF THE ACTION AND SHALL CONTAIN
05:33:56 THE SPECIFIC CHARGES (INAUDIBLE) THAT
05:33:57 THE MATTER WILL BE HEARD. THE COUNCIL
05:33:58 MAY TAKE ACTION BY RESOLUTIONSETTING
05:34:01 FORTH ITS FINDINGS STATING THE TERMS OF
05:34:02 THE CENTER. I'VE NOT RECEIVED A NOTICE.
05:34:04 I'VE NOT RECEIVED ANYTHING FORMALLY
05:34:05 ESTATES AT THE SPECIFIC CHARGES ARE AND
05:34:09 WHAT THIS PROPOSED CENSURE IS ALL ABOUT
05:34:14 AS WELL AS THE DATE AND THE TIME THAT
05:34:15 THE MATTER IS TO BE HEARD. SO I DON'T
05:34:18 FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN PROPER
05:34:19 NOTICE OF THIS PROCEDURE AND SO I'M
05:34:26 CALLING IT INTO QUESTION. WHETHER OR
05:34:27 NOT IT'S VALID AND LEGAL.
05:34:29 >>I SENT YOU THE RESOLUTIONAND I SENT
05:34:31 IT TO THE MAYORI SENT IT TO THE CITY
05:34:36 CLERK I SENT IT TO THE CITY MANAGER
05:34:40 [CROSSTALK] THE CITY ATTORNEY, THE
05:34:41 NIGHTLY SAID THIS WOULD GOON A
05:34:46 SUBSEQUENT AGENDA.
05:34:47 >>THERE IS NO SPECIFIC DATE AT THAT
05:34:48 PUNK TIME.
05:34:49 >>I HAD NO DATE.
05:34:50 >>YOU'VE TAKEN THIS ACTION UPON
05:34:53 YOURSELF AND THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN YOUR
05:34:54 RESPONSIBILITY TO FOLLOW THROUGH.
05:34:57 >>I HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE CITY GAVE A
05:35:01 DATE, BUT I SENT YOU THE RESOLUTION AND
05:35:06 I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN ALLOWED TO READ
05:35:07 THAT, WHEREAS THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA
05:35:08 CODE OF ETHICS AND VALUES COMMANDS AND
05:35:10 RELEVANT ARE THE CITY OF SANTA CLARATO
05:35:20 PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST
05:35:21 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN THE CITY'S
05:35:22 GOVERNMENT. ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE
05:35:26 REQUIRED TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CODE
05:35:29 BECAUSE WE SEEK PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN
05:35:30 PUBLIC TRUSTTHIS DECISION-MAKER. OURS
05:35:34 MUST MAKE THE MOST DEMANDING ETHICAL
05:35:35 STANDARDSAND PART OF THE QUOTATION, I
05:35:40 PROVIDE FRIENDLY RECEPTIVE COURTEOUS
05:35:41 SERVICE TO EVERYONE. I'M ATTUNEDTO AND
05:35:44 CARE ABOUT THE NEEDS OF CITIZENSAND
05:35:48 PUBLIC OFFICIALS. I CAN.YOU INTRODUCED
05:35:57 YOURSELF AS A COUNCILMEMBER. YOU SAID
05:35:59 IT WAS YOUR EVENT, BUT YOU HAD OTHER
05:36:04 OFFICIALS SPEAK THEIRAND DID NOT ALLOW
05:36:10 >>KEVIN, DO YOU HAVE THE VIDEO READY TO
05:36:11 GO?
05:36:13 >>OH, YOU HAVE A VIDEO,HOW CONVENIENT.
05:36:14 >>I HAVE IT DOWNLOADED ON MY LAPTOP AND
05:36:19 I HAVE A LINKSO WE CAN DO THAT. I CAN
05:36:26 TELL YOU AT 23:15 THEIR PRODUCTION OF
05:36:30 COUNCILMEMBERS IN THAT ONE HOUR THREE
05:36:31 THERE'S REFUSAL. IF THE MEEKTHE TIME TO
05:36:33 QUEUE IT UP AGAIN, THIS IS THEIMPETUS
05:36:38 OF IT, BUT I THINK THAT THAT IN AND OF
05:36:39 ITSELF DENYING SOMEBODY THE ABILITY TO
05:36:41 TALKI IT WASN'T JUST ME, AS EVERY
05:36:46 COUNCILMEMBER EXCEPT FOR OF COURSE
05:36:51 MAYOR LISA GILLMOR.YOU KNEW WE WERE
05:36:58 THERE. YOU'RE INTRODUCING 23:50 INTO
05:36:59 THE VIDEO WE WERE INTRODUCED. AND WHEN
05:37:01 YOU SAYOTHER PEOPLE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO
05:37:06 SPEAK, IT'S FUNNY, BUT THE
05:37:07 COUNCILMEMBERSTHAT WERE INVITED, NONE
05:37:10 OF THEM WERE GIVEN A CHANCE TO SPEAK
05:37:11 AND WHEN THEY ASKED TO SPEAK THERE WAS
05:37:15 NO OPPORTUNITY GIVEN, BUT THAT'S NOT
05:37:16 THE REASON. LIKE THAT ALONE SHOULD
05:37:21 (INAUDIBLE) ITEM 7OF THE CODE OF ETHICS
05:37:24 AND VALUES WHICH SAYS THAT IS
05:37:29 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF SANTA
05:37:30 CLARA I WILL THECOLLABORATIVE,
05:37:34 COOPERATIVE GROUPS AND OTHER
05:37:35 INDIVIDUALS WORKING TOGETHER FOR
05:37:38 TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING. THERE WERE
05:37:39 CLOSE CONSENSUS BUILDINGGAINING VALUE
05:37:43 FROM DIVERSE OPINIONS. AS THE GOALS AND
05:37:44 RESPONSIBILITIES OF MY POSITION WHILE
05:37:46 RESPECTING MY ROLE. CONSIDER THE
05:37:48 STATEWIDE IMPLICATIONS OF THE ISSUES
05:37:49 AND I DON'T EVEN THINK YOU TO THE
05:37:52 STANDARD OF THE EVENT THAT YOU ARE
05:37:54 TRYING TO PUT ON. BUT IF YOU NEED THE
05:38:00 VIDEO I THINK YOU THAT.
05:38:12 >>SO THE STANDARD FORA CENTURY IS THAT
05:38:16 COUNCILMEMBER PARK WAS ALLOWED TO SPEAK
05:38:18 ANDTHAT VIOLATED OUR ETHICAL AND LEGAL
05:38:23 GUIDELINES HERE IN THE CITYBECAUSE
05:38:29 COUNCILMEMBER PART, COUNCILMEMBER
05:38:35 WATANABE OFFENDED COUNCILMEMBER PART.
05:38:37 AND HE WASN'T ALLOWED.
05:38:40 >>PUBLICLY OUT OF ANTI-HEY ASIAN RALLY.
05:38:53 WHO IS THE ONLY COUNCILMEMBER
05:38:54 SPECIFICALLY OF ASIAN DESCENT ASKED TO.
05:38:59 I DO HAVE KEVIN, IF THAT'S NOT QUITE
05:39:00 READY, DO YOU HAVE IT LOOKS LIKE TWO
05:39:01 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO
05:39:02 SPEAK.
05:39:08 >>I WILL CALL THEM.
05:39:15 >>ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET THE PUBLIC,
05:39:17 YOUNGEST GO NOW? I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT
05:39:20 CLEAR THAT WE ARESEND SHEARING
05:39:27 POTENTIALLY CENSURING COUNCILMEMBER
05:39:28 WATANABE FOR OFFENDINGCOUNCILMEMBER PART
05:39:31 AND IN VIOLATION OF THE ETHICS, THE
05:39:38 ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR THE CITY.
05:39:39 >>I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A CLARIFICATION.
05:39:41 >>I'M TRYING TO GET WITH THE CHARGES.
05:39:42 >>(INAUDIBLE) THE BIGGER IMPLICATIONS
05:39:46 FOR ME ISTO BE HONEST I WASN'T OFFENDED
05:39:50 ASTHAT I WASN'T ALLOWED TO SPEAK. I
05:39:54 DIDN'T EVEN EXPECT THATCOUNCILMEMBER
05:39:58 WATANABE WOULD ALLOW ME TO SPEAK
05:39:59 BECAUSE OF HER INTERACTIONS WITH MEIN
05:40:00 OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS IN GENERALOUTSIDE
05:40:01 COUNCIL MEETINGS IN THAT EVENT. I CAN
05:40:02 SAY HELLO TO KATHY WATANABEIN COUNCIL,
05:40:03 INSIDE OUR OFFICES ANDTHE KNOWLEDGE I
05:40:04 WAS THERE I SAID HELLO, I SAID GOODBYE
05:40:09 AND SHE HAD TO LEAVE THE ROOM TO ASK ME
05:40:10 AND GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO ASK YOU TO
05:40:11 LEAVE BECAUSESHE WOULD NOT EVEN TALK TO
05:40:15 ME. BUT I THINK THE BIGGER ISSUE ISAFTER
05:40:22 THE ISSUE BECAME BIG, MEANING THAT IT
05:40:23 AND 1/2 IF IT HAS BECOME BECAUSE I
05:40:24 THOUGHTTHAT NOBODY HEARD IT, SO I WENT
05:40:25 HOME. I THOUGHT TO JUST A FEW PEOPLE
05:40:26 HEARD ITINCLUDING SOME ELECTED OFFICIALS
05:40:32 THERE WERE NEAR ME WHO APOLOGIZE TO ME,
05:40:33 IT WAS AFTER THAT WHEN IT WAS CLEARIF
05:40:34 THERE WAS AN ISSUE THAT COUNCILMEMBER
05:40:35 WATANABE DID THE THING THAT I THINK
05:40:38 EVERYONESHOULD CONDEMN WHICH AND SHE
05:40:43 LIED ABOUT IT.SHE GAVE MULTIPLE
05:40:47 CONFLICTING REASONS WHY I WOULD NOT
05:40:51 SPEAK. I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK. THAT
05:40:52 I DIDN'TRSVP, I ARRIVED LATETO THE VERY
05:41:08 END SHE TRIED NOT TO GIVE AN APOLOGY.
05:41:09 SHE IS VERY UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT THIS.
05:41:10 LISTENING THAT SHE NEEDS TO GIVE THE
05:41:12 APOLOGY TO. IT WAS EVERY OTHER ASIAN
05:41:13 AMERICAN(INAUDIBLE) AND COULD NOT GET
05:41:19 AN APOLOGY OR A STRAIGHT ANSWER. AGAIN,
05:41:21 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I DON'T NECESSARILY
05:41:31 EXPECT ANYTHING COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE
05:41:32 BECAUSE I HAVE HAD A LONG HISTORY WITH
05:41:33 COUNCILMEMBER KATHY WATANABE.I WAS
05:41:40 AGAIN SUBMITTED TODAY AND SHE WAS FOR
05:41:41 IT.WE ARE ON THE SAME SANTA CLARA
05:41:45 SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION BOARD. IN FACT
05:41:47 I SAID THIS BEFORE AND IN THE SISTER
05:41:53 CITIES ORGANIZATION IS ONE OF THE
05:41:54 REASONS I LEFT THAT ORGANIZATION. BUT
05:41:56 AGAIN, IT IS I AM GOING TO SAY IT, THE
05:42:00 ADMONITION CENTER POLICYIT IS VERY CLEAR
05:42:07 IT REQUIRES FORMAL ADOPTION, BUT IT SAYS
05:42:11 THAT WE FOLLOW THE CODE OF ETHICS. THE
05:42:14 ETHICS SHOULD NOT BEIF IT'S NOT THAT WE
05:42:24 ARE NOT COLLABORATIVE, WE ARE NOT GOING
05:42:25 TO, WE'RE GOING TO INVITE PEOPLE TO
05:42:26 COMMENT, WE WILL INVITE CITY
05:42:27 COUNCILMEMBERS TO COME BUT NOT SPEAK,
05:42:31 THAT'S PRETTY BAD. IT'S NOT REALLY BAD,
05:42:32 IT'S NOT TO THE POINT WHERE I WANT TO
05:42:33 CENSURE, IT'S KIND OF IT COMES TO
05:42:37 POLITICS. BUT TO LIE ABOUT IT AND
05:42:38 CREATE A FALSE NARRATIVE AND SELL IT TO
05:42:39 THE PEOPLE, THAT, I THINK IS REALLY
05:42:40 BAD. THAT ACTUALLY I THINK THAT TOUCHED
05:42:42 MORE PEOPLEOFF THEN EVEN HER INITIAL
05:42:53 REFUSAL TO ALLOW ME TO SPEAK. IT WAS
05:42:54 HOW SHE RESPONDED TO THAT. AND SHE
05:42:55 RESPONDED TO THAT IN THE VERY POOR WAY.
05:42:57 >>SO IT ALSO SOUNDS LIKEARE YOU
05:43:04 PROPOSING CENSURE OR IS COUNCILMEMBER
05:43:05 HARDY PROPOSING CENTERFOR THE FACT THAT
05:43:09 YOU ASKED TO SPEAK MINUTES BEFORE THIS
05:43:10 WAS OVER AND YOU WERE DENIED AND WERE
05:43:13 OFFENDEDTHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO SPEAK FOR
05:43:22 IS THE STUFF THAT IS HAPPENED IN THE
05:43:23 PAST WITH COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE? I
05:43:25 KNOW A LOT OF COUNSELORS AND STOP AT
05:43:26 THATIN THE PAST, NOT NECESSARILY AS.
05:43:36 >>I FEEL LIKE YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO
05:43:37 ME.
05:43:38 >>YOU REALLY HAVE TO DESCRIBE.
05:43:39 >>I FEEL LIKE YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO
05:43:40 ME WHICH IS THE EVENTSTHAT HAPPENED AS
05:43:44 KATHY WATANABE'S EVENT, THOSE WERE BAD.
05:43:45 BUT THE WAY THAT SHE RESPONSE TO THATTO
05:43:46 THE COMMUNITY BY DIRECTPROCESS, LIES,
05:43:52 THAT IS A BIGGER ISSUE. AND LIKE AGAIN,
05:43:57 I WOULD THINK THAT BECAUSE OF OUR
05:43:58 WORKING TOGETHER, SHE COULD AT LEAST
05:44:01 TALK TO ME ABOUT THINGS, BUT THAT IS NOT
05:44:06 CLEAR ON HER SIDE. LIKE IT IS CLEAR
05:44:07 THAT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO DO THAT.I AM
05:44:14 HERE IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, I AM
05:44:15 HERE IN THE STAFF CONFERENCE ROOMAS I
05:44:18 USUALLY DO AFTER I PICK UP MY DAUGHTER
05:44:19 AND DROP HER OFF, I COME DIRECTLY HERE.
05:44:24 AND AGAIN I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE A SHOW
05:44:25 WHERE I AM I'M NOT TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE
05:44:29 , I AM IN THE WORKING CLASS. IF I DON'T
05:44:30 WORK I DON'T MAKE MONEY. BUT I AM
05:44:31 COMMITTED TO THESE MEETINGS AND IF
05:44:40 YOU'RE ACCUSING ME OF HOLDING PAST
05:44:41 GRUDGES I DON'T CARE ABOUT PAST
05:44:42 GRUDGES. IF I DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO
05:44:43 MOVE ON THEN NOTHING GETS DONE. LIKE
05:44:49 EVERYONE HAS OFFENDED ME. AT SOME POINT
05:44:50 IN MY LIFE. EVERYONE THAT I LOVE THE
05:44:51 DEFENDANT BE AT SOME POINT IN MY LIFE
05:44:54 AND THAT DOESN'T STOP ME FROM LOVING
05:44:55 THEM. RIGHT? AND THIS, I WILL SAY AGAIN
05:44:57 , IT WAS NOT THE EVENT ITSELFTHAT
05:45:03 CAUSED ME TO GO TO THE POINT OF ALL,
05:45:04 THIS IS REALLY THAT, MEANING I DON'T
05:45:05 THINK THAT WAS, I JUST THINK THAT WAS
05:45:07 JUSTBAD POLICY. BUT TO THE POINT WHERE
05:45:15 YOU'RE GOING TO LIE CREATE A NARRATIVE
05:45:16 AND CONTINUE TO CREATE A NARRATIVEWHERE
05:45:21 YOU ARE THERE, AND I DIDN'T, I CAME LATE
05:45:23 ,I DIDN'T TELL PEOPLE I WANTED TO SPEAK
05:45:33 I DID TELL PEOPLE I WANT TO SPEAK.
05:45:34 THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME SPEAK. YOU WILL
05:45:35 SEE THAT THE VIDEO IS REALLY LONG, IT'S
05:45:36 MORE THAN THE HOUR BECAUSE EVEN AFTER
05:45:39 KATHY WATANABE TOLD ME THERE IS NO TIME
05:45:40 LEFTIT WENT ON FOR ANOTHER 30 MINUTES.
05:45:46 AT SOME POINT I THINK THAT THE COVER-UP
05:45:47 IS A BIGGER PROBLEMAND THE PROBLEM
05:45:50 ITSELF. AND THAT'S WHY THINKTHIS
05:45:55 DESERVES CENSURE.
05:45:56 >>I ASK BECAUSE YOU SAID KATHY WATANABE
05:45:59 LIFETIME ACTUALLY WENT BACK AND LISTENED
05:46:04 TO THE PAST COUNCIL MEETINGS AND YOU
05:46:05 JUST SAID IT WASN'T THE EVENT ITSELF
05:46:07 THAT'S NOT CENTRAL.SO CAN I ASKWHAT YOU
05:46:11 THINK KATHY WATANABE LIED ABOUT FLEET
05:46:20 >>SHE LIED ABOUT ALL THE REASONS FOR
05:46:21 NOT GIVING THEM TIME TO SPEAK. SHE LIED
05:46:22 ABOUT ALL THE REASONS FOR, SHE LIED
05:46:27 ABOUT THE NARRATIVE THAT SHE WAS
05:46:28 CREATING AS TO WHYIS NOT AT FAULT.
05:46:32 >>CAN GIVE AN EXAMPLE?
05:46:36 >>LIKE I SAID.
05:46:37 >>THE CENTURY HEARING, WE SHOULD HAVE
05:46:38 SOME(INAUDIBLE).
05:46:39 >>AGAIN,THE ACTUAL THINGS, I HAVE
05:46:45 GOTTEN DOWN, JUST DON'T HAVE THEM ON MY
05:46:48 PHONE WHICH IS WHERE THE WHERE I'M
05:46:50 TAKING THE MEETING.
05:46:54 >>LET'S GIVE YOU FOR SOME TIME FOR
05:46:55 THAT. IN THE MEANTIME I CAN GO TO PUBLIC
05:46:57 IS THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN
05:46:58 WAITING A LONG TIME. SO ON THE CENSURE.
05:47:02 WE HAVE FIRST WE'RE GOING TO GO TO
05:47:04 WILL. GO AHEAD, WILL.
05:47:08 >>HELLO, EVERYONE.I JUST WANTED TO TALK
05:47:14 ABOUT THIS ONE AND I THINK IT'S
05:47:15 RELEVANT TO THE NEXT ONE ON THE AGENDA
05:47:17 AND ACTUALLY THE CLAIM AGAINST KAREN
05:47:21 RELATED TO (INAUDIBLE) ATTORNEY.WAY I
05:47:24 LOOK AT THEM THEY ARE ALL THE SAME,
05:47:28 THEY ARE ALL THE SAME THING, AS PART OF
05:47:29 THE BACK-AND-FORTHAND THAT GOES OFF
05:47:33 BETWEEN THE TWO SANCTIONS. AND I GET IT
05:47:36 , BUT I THINK IN MY DAY DIDN'T QUITE
05:47:40 GET TO THE STAGEI JUST WANTED TO SAYI
05:47:48 KNOW ALMOST ALL OF YOU THE GOOD FOLKS,
05:47:54 WORKING REALLY HARD FOR THE CITY AND I
05:47:55 HAVE SEEN SOME EFFORTS TO BE FAIR AND
05:47:56 CIVIL, BUT I DO THINK THAT IN THIS
05:47:58 PARTICULAR SETTINGAND ON THE CITY
05:48:04 COUNCIL THAT DIVIDED IT'S POSSIBLE TO
05:48:05 DO SOMETHINGTHAT THEY WILL THINK VERY
05:48:08 DIFFERENTLY ABOUTAND(INAUDIBLE)
05:48:22 MISDEMEANORS PACE IS HARD TO GO BACK IS
05:48:24 HARD TO RECONCILE JUST GOES ON AND ON
05:48:28 AND ON. I CAN'T TELLIF THIS WILL PASS
05:48:32 OR NOT,IF IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO
05:48:36 PASS I WOULD URGE SOMEBODY TOEXTEND THE
05:48:39 MOTION TO TABLE THIS JUST TO HAVE SOME
05:48:41 DISCUSSION OR MAYBE JUST GIVE SOME
05:48:44 THOUGHT(INAUDIBLE). THANKS. ANN THANK
05:48:51 YOU, WILL, APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
05:48:52 PAUL, GO AHEAD, PAUL.YOUR MUTED.
05:48:53 >>OKAY, THANK YOU.MY NAME IS PAUL LONG
05:49:04 PEER, FORMER ASSEMBLY MEMBER 22ND
05:49:07 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT FROM 2008 TO 2012 AND
05:49:11 THE 28TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT FROM 2012 TO
05:49:14 2014. BOTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS REPRESENT
05:49:16 A MAJOR PORTION OF SANTA CLARATHE 22ND
05:49:19 ASSEMBLY ON THE MINOR PORTION OF SANTA
05:49:28 CLARA. SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC
05:49:29 THERE'VE BEEN OVER 700 ANTIAGING HATE
05:49:30 INCIDENTS IN THE BAY AREA ALONE
05:49:35 COMPRISING (INAUDIBLE) OF THE NATIONWIDE
05:49:39 INCIDENTS. THEY RALLY MARCH 31 WAS AN
05:49:41 ABJECT FAILURE BECAUSE IT DID NOT
05:49:42 INCLUDE THE VOICE OF KEVIN HART. WHEN
05:49:45 KEVIN ASKED KATHY WATANABE IF HE COULD
05:49:47 SPEAK SHE SAID NO, REFUSAL TO ALLOWEVAN
05:49:51 PARKED HIS FEE FOR SHOPPING DOCUMENTS A
05:49:55 GRAVE ERROR BY HER. FOLLOWING THIS
05:49:56 INCIDENT MANY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP JOINED
05:50:01 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS CALLING FOR THE
05:50:02 CENTER OF COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
05:50:06 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE EXCLUSION OF
05:50:09 KEVIN PARK VIOLATED THE CITY OF SANTA
05:50:10 CLARA CODE OF ETHICSYOU FAILED TO
05:50:14 MAINTAIN THE HIGHER STANDARDS OF
05:50:15 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT.
05:50:17 MAYOR GILMORE AT NO TIME CONDEMNED THE
05:50:18 CONDUCT OF COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE WHICH
05:50:22 SHE KNEW WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE CITY
05:50:23 OF SANTA CLARA IS CODE OF ETHICS AND
05:50:26 VALUES. PRIOR TO CITY COUNCIL
05:50:34 (INAUDIBLE) WATANABE FOR VIOLATIONS OF
05:50:35 THE CODE OF ETHICS AND VALUES AND
05:50:36 ADMONISH MAYOR GILLMOR FOR VIOLATION OF
05:50:40 THE CODE OF ETHICS AND VALUES. THANK
05:50:41 YOU.
05:50:42 >>THANK YOU. ROSE, GO AHEAD, AROSE.
05:50:48 >>THAT EVENING. MY NAME IS ROSE
05:50:51 (INAUDIBLE) AND I'M ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
05:50:52 EXECUTIVE BOARDOF THE LAST ROUNDTABLE.
05:50:57 I'M ALSO A CEO AND TV HOST AND PRODUCER
05:51:02 OF NATIVE WE SEE THE SPIRIT
05:51:10 I ATTENDED BRIARWOOD SANTA CLARA JUNIOR
05:51:11 HIGH, SO I HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF
05:51:12 LIVING IN SANTA CLARAWHICH HAS BEEN
05:51:13 HISTORICALLY RACIST. AND IT'S SO
05:51:18 UNFORTUNATE THAT THINGS HAVE NOT
05:51:19 CHANGED OVER THE YEARSAND SINCE THE
05:51:23 PANDEMIC YES, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF
05:51:24 HATEASIAN INCIDENTSSHOWINGTHEY HAVE HAD
05:51:39 THEIR WINDOWS BROKEN EVERY SINGLE WEEK
05:51:40 FOR THE LAST FOUR WEEKS, ALL THE TRUCK
05:51:43 WINDOWS IN THE BUILDING.THE HATE
05:51:48 CONTINUES AND THAT HE CONTINUES AT THE
05:51:49 SANTA CLARA CITY COUNCIL. HE IS NOT
05:51:59 ALLOWED TO SPEAK WHICH IS SHOCKING AND
05:52:00 PROPHETICALIT'S UNBELIEVABLE. SO AT
05:52:09 THIS TIME SINCETHE ROUNDTABLE JOINED
05:52:21 OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION SO THE
05:52:22 ROUNDTABLE OF THE URGENCY OF SANTA
05:52:23 CLARA TO CENTURYCOUNCILMEMBER KATHY
05:52:24 WATANABE FOR VIOLATIONS OF CODE OF
05:52:29 ETHICS AND VALUES AND ADMONISH MAYOR
05:52:30 GILLMORVIOLATIONSOF VALUES. HOPEFULLY
05:52:40 SANTA CLARA WILL NOT BE AS RACIST AS IT
05:52:41 HAS ALWAYS BEEN. THANK YOU.
05:52:42 >>OKAY. BOB, GO AHEAD, BOB.
05:52:51 >>I AM VERY CONFUSED NOW. COUNCILMEMBER
05:52:54 HARDY(INAUDIBLE) WITH HISKEVIN
05:53:02 PARKINSON OF. KEVIN PARTS THAT HE IS
05:53:05 NOT OFFENDED BY THAT IS BRING UP OTHER
05:53:06 ISSUES ABOUT LYING AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
05:53:07 SO WHAT ARE THE CHARGESTHAT
05:53:12 COUNCILMEMBER ARNIE IS BRINGING? AND IF
05:53:13 YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THIS, THE
05:53:14 EVENT HAPPENED ONMARCH 31 OF THIS YEAR.
05:53:22 ON APRIL 8 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY FILED
05:53:26 HER NOTICE TO GET IT ON THE AGENDA ITEM.
05:53:36 COUNCILMAN WATANABE.SO ABOUT STRATEGIC
05:53:51 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE 49ERS, SHE
05:53:52 MET ALONG WITH HIM THE MEANING OF THAT
05:54:01 TOPIC OF THAT MEETING WAS MEETING
05:54:02 REGARDING STOP ASIAN HATE RALLY
05:54:03 INFORMATION. BUT IF KNOWING
05:54:04 INFORMATION. AS WITH THE DEVICE IS TALK
05:54:05 TO. SO WHERE IS THIS RAGE COME FROM? I
05:54:06 HEARTHE OTHER SPEAKERS THEY HAVE A
05:54:12 RIGHT TO BE UPSET HIM NONEFFECTIVE BY
05:54:18 CAN DO WITH THE 49ERS. THE NEXT CONTACT
05:54:19 SHE HASWAS THE 26 WITH THE LAWYERBYRON
05:54:34 FLACK MADE UP THE RESOLUTIONS, ALSO
05:54:35 THESE RESOLUTIONS SHE HAD MADE UP HER
05:54:36 AGAINST THE LAW. I MENTIONED THAT, I
05:54:37 DON'T KNOW THOSE HAPPENING, I HOPE THAT
05:54:38 POLICE COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND
05:54:39 MAYOR, YOU ASKEDTHE ATTORNEY WAS GOING
05:54:40 ON AND WHY HASN'T COUNCILMEMBER UNDER
05:54:53 COMMON LAW CONFLICT OF INTEREST
05:54:54 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY RECUSED HERSELF?
05:54:55 THANK YOU.
05:54:56 >>THANK YOU. WESLEY, GO AHEAD, WESLEY.
05:54:57 WRITING THEMBECAUSE IT'S GETTING SO LATE
05:55:00 . MY NAME IS WESLEY, I AM A 46 YEAR
05:55:01 RESIDENT OF SANTA CLARAI AM ALSO A
05:55:08 RETIRED SOCIAL WORKER AND I AM A MEMBER
05:55:09 OF THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY BEHAVIORAL
05:55:10 HEALTHBOARD AND CHAIRMAN OF THE
05:55:14 (INAUDIBLE) COMMITTEE. I AM ALSO A
05:55:22 VOLUNTEER (INAUDIBLE) IN THE SANTA
05:55:23 CLARA COUNTY JAIL. I UNDERSTAND AS AN
05:55:24 AGENTWHY WE WERE SO OUTRAGED.KATHY
05:55:54 WATANABE'S CENSORSHIP OF KEVIN PARKS
05:55:55 ATTEMPT TO SPEAK IN AN ANTI-ASIAN
05:55:56 VIOLENCE RALLY WAS A VIOLATION IN THE
05:55:57 CITY OF SANTA CLARA CODE OF ETHICS AS A
05:55:58 PUBLIC OFFICIAL. MAYOR GILMORE'S
05:55:59 COMPLIANCE WITH KATHY WATANABE IS ALSO
05:56:08 AN UNPROFESSIONAL AND VIOLATION OF THE
05:56:09 CITY OF SANTA CLARA'S CODE OF ETHICS.
05:56:10 ALTHOUGH I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THESE
05:56:11 MAY HAVE BEEN HUMAN KNEE-JERK REACTIONS
05:56:12 TO PERSONALITIES, I CAN ALSO, I CAN
05:56:21 ACCEPT THE HUMAN FRAILTIES AND WOULD
05:56:22 LIKE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT WHY AND WHAT
05:56:23 THEY DID. HOWEVER, AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS,
05:56:24 THEY SHOULD BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE. IN THE
05:56:59 CENSURE AND ADMONISHMENT IS AN
05:57:00 APPROPRIATE ACTION. AND AS AN ASIAN
05:57:01 AMERICAN, I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING THE CITY
05:57:02 BECAUSE OF ITS SYSTEMIC RACISM SINCE
05:57:03 2011. I CAN SEE WHERE THE BIASES ARE. I
05:57:04 AM SORRY THEY HAVE THOSE BIASES. I HOPE
05:57:05 THEY WILL CHANGE, THANK YOU. HIM
05:57:06 >>SANTA CLARA CAC, IS THAT YOU, ROB?
05:57:42 YOUR MUTED. HIM
05:57:43 >>I THINK MY LINK IS THE OLD LINK. I
05:57:44 APOLOGIZE. I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF
05:57:45 MYSELF. A COUPLE OF THINGS FOR THE
05:57:46 RECORD AND THAT IS IMPORTANT. THE FIRST
05:57:47 COMMENT THAT HAS CONTINUED TO BE MADE
05:57:48 IS THAT PATTY AND PAT SITUATION IS
05:57:49 DIFFERENT AND THAT WAS THE RIGHT TO
05:57:50 CENSURE WHEN IN FACT IT'S BEEN REPEATED
05:57:51 MULTIPLE TIMES THAT THEY APPROVE TO
05:57:52 FOLLOW THE PROCESS. THEY DID NOT STATE
05:57:53 THAT THEY ARE SELECTED INDIVIDUALS AT
05:57:54 THE END OF THATPROCESS BECAUSE IF THEY
05:58:05 ARE FORCED TO DO WOULD BE ILLEGAL AND
05:58:06 UNETHICAL. FOR THEM TO BE REPRIMANDED
05:58:07 FOR FOLLOWING THE PROCESS AND USING THE
05:58:08 RIGHT OF VOTING AND TO BE CENSURED FOR
05:58:09 THAT WAS COMPLETELY BIASED IN A
05:58:10 PERSONAL ATTACK ON THEIR DECISION. IN
05:58:11 THE LATE ACT OUT THE FRUSTRATIONS OF
05:58:12 MANNING A MAJORITY OF THE TIME.THAT IS
05:58:51 FALSE INTERPRETATION BY THE COMMUNITY
05:58:52 AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL CONTINUE
05:58:53 TO REPLY THAT THAT WAS AN ACCEPTABLE
05:58:54 USE OF CENSURE. SECONDLY, SALVATION AND
05:58:55 HATE RALLY (INAUDIBLE) SOLIDARITY AND
05:58:56 AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THOSE
05:58:57 THAT ARE FEELING MARGINALIZED,
05:58:58 MISTREATED AND FACING THE HATE CRIMES.
05:58:59 IN THAT ENVIRONMENT THAT IS WHAT IS
05:59:00 EXPECTED IS EMPATHY, COLLABORATION,
05:59:01 CONSIDERATION. INCUR EMOTIONS THAT ARE
05:59:02 THE INTENT. THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED
05:59:03 BECAUSE IT WAS NOT (INAUDIBLE) IT WAS A
05:59:04 SUPERFICIAL AND THAT FOR THE PURPOSE OF
05:59:05 GAINING POWER NOT TO TRULY ADDRESS THE
05:59:06 HURT THAT MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS MANY OF
05:59:07 THE MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY AND WHO
05:59:08 REPRESENTS THOSE PEOPLE ON THIS
05:59:09 COUNCIL? EVERYONE SHOULD BE
05:59:10 REPRESENTING THEM. HOWEVER, KEVIN
05:59:11 SUTTON AND ROD ARE ACTUALLY AGENTS WHO
05:59:12 REPRESENT ALL THE COUNCIL OF THE
05:59:13 COMMUNITY BUT ESPECIALLYASIAN MINORITIES
05:59:14 WHICH WERE THE SUBJECT OF THAT EVENT.
05:59:15 AND SO WHEN WE TRY TO PIN THIS ONKEVIN,
05:59:16 KEVIN IS NOT REPRESENTING HIMSELF AS A
05:59:17 COUNCILMEMBER.. FOR THE REST OF US, HE
05:59:22 IS REPRESENTING ALL OF US.
05:59:23 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:59:25 >>THE ASIAN EIGHTCRIMES. THAT SHOULD BE
05:59:29 REMEMBERED. SO KATHY WATANABE
05:59:35 [CROSSTALK] FOR NOT STANDING UP YOUR
05:59:36 >>THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY
05:59:37 THAT COUNCILMEMBERS FORMER
05:59:38 COUNCILMEMBERS MAY HAND AND KOLSTAD
05:59:39 WERE NOT CENSURED.THEY WERE NOT
05:59:44 CENSURED. THEY WERE ADMONISHED, NOT
05:59:45 CENSURED. EDWARD, GO AHEAD.
05:59:50 >>YES, JUST WANTED TO SAY THATI
05:59:52 APPRECIATE ALSOMAYOR LISA GILLMOR FOR
05:59:55 ALLOWING ME TOPRACTICE FREE SPEECH ON
06:00:02 HER PLATFORM ON FACEBOOK AND KATHY IS
06:00:03 NOT THE ONLY ONE. THERE'S OTHER
06:00:04 COUNCILMEMBERSTHAT HAVE STOPPED ME FROM
06:00:07 PRACTICING MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON
06:00:08 THEIR FACEBOOK PLATFORM. IF WE ARE
06:00:09 GOING TO CENSUREKATHY THEY'RE GOING TO
06:00:12 BE OTHERS. I DID THE 23ANDME AND I AM
06:00:16 OVER 25% NATIVE AMERICAN. I WANTED TO
06:00:20 SAY THAT MUCH. ALSOI WANTED TO SAY THAT
06:00:24 WE SHOULDLEARN TO FORGIVE, LIKE
06:00:30 (INAUDIBLE) SAID,IT DID NOT UPSET HIM
06:00:34 THAT HE WAS NOT ABLE TO SPEAK THEIR.
06:00:38 THE THING, TOO, THE MEDIA HAS NOT
06:00:40 REALLY COME OUT WITH THIS IS THAT ASIAN
06:00:42 HATE, IT IS REAL, BUT IT'S NOT THE
06:00:48 MAJORITY OF THIS ASIAN HATE IS NOT
06:00:49 COMING FROM WHITE PEOPLE.THAT IS NOT
06:00:54 BEING TOLD TO THE MASSES. I THINK THAT
06:00:55 SHOULD BE. SO KATHY IS CAUCASIAN BUT
06:01:00 THE MAJORITY OF HATE IS NOT COMING FROM
06:01:01 WHITE PEOPLE, AND THAT'S GOT TO BE
06:01:05 STATED. THANK YOU, BYE.
06:01:07 >>THANK YOU, LOU. QUAN, GO AHEAD.
06:01:16 >>HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
06:01:17 >>YES, WE CAN.
06:01:18 >>YES, OKAY.I FEEL VERY SORRY FOR THIS
06:01:20 TOPIC. ACTUALLYI JUST HEARD ALL THE
06:01:27 COUNCILMEMBERRESPECT EACH OTHERACROSS.
06:01:32 I THINK CASEYIS REALLYPROBABLY MADE A
06:01:37 MISTAKE.I JUST HOPE EVERY COUNCILMEMBER
06:01:47 RESPECT EACH OTHER AND DEALWITH THE
06:01:55 ISSUE, NOT PERSONAL.I DON'T THINKWE
06:02:03 HAVE A SYSTEMATICHATE IN OUR CITY IN
06:02:09 THE USA. I REALLYAPPRECIATETHE USA
06:02:16 POLITICS SYSTEM. SO IT ALLOWS ME TO
06:02:18 SPEAK.I (INAUDIBLE) INDIVIDUAL MISTAKE.
06:02:33 I HOPE SHEUNDERSTAND WHAT'S WRONGAND
06:02:40 CORRECTED AND WE WILL MOVE ON.AND SERVE
06:02:46 THE CITY BETTER.YES, I JUSTHOPEALL THE
06:02:55 COUNCIL MEMBERS LEARNED FROM THIS
06:02:59 RESPECTING EACH OTHER. THANK YOU.
06:03:00 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH. RICHARD? GO
06:03:01 AHEAD.
06:03:10 >>GOOD EVENING, MAYOR GILMORE,
06:03:18 (INAUDIBLE) THE ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE.
06:03:19 WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF THE MARCH 31 STOP
06:03:20 ADP KATE EVENT ORGANIZED BY
06:03:21 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE A LONG LIST OF
06:03:24 INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS JOINED IN
06:03:27 A LETTER EXPRESSING SHOCK AND OUTRAGE
06:03:30 FOR HER REFUSAL TO ALLOW COUNCILMEMBER
06:03:33 (INAUDIBLE) TO SPEAK AT THAT RALLY.
06:03:36 THIS CALLS FOR HER CENSURE. THIS WAS
06:03:42 DISCUSSED AT THE APRIL COUNCIL MEETING,
06:03:43 KATHY WATANABE ATTEMPTED TO JUSTIFY HER
06:03:44 ACTIONS IN PLACE BLAME ON KEVIN PARK.
06:03:47 NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. SHE IS
06:03:51 CLEARLY VIOLATING HER CODE OF ETHICS BY
06:03:52 NOT BEING IN TUNETO AND CARE ABOUT THE
06:03:53 NEEDS OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND FOR THIS
06:03:57 SHE SHOULD BE CENSURED BY THE CITY
06:04:01 COUNCIL. CAN TONIGHT AP I
06:04:02 DISCRIMINATION ISREAL AND SERIOUS IN
06:04:06 THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA.ANTI-ASIAN
06:04:13 GRAFFITI WAS FOUND SPRAY-PAINTED ON A
06:04:14 BUILDING IN SANTA CLARA. THE PACIFIC
06:04:20 ISLANDER MEMBER OF THE POLICE
06:04:21 DEPARTMENT IS ALLEGING EMPLOYMENT
06:04:22 DISCRIMINATION AND COUNCILMEMBER
06:04:23 WATANABE HASRECOUNTED THE ANTI-ASIAN
06:04:33 INCIDENT INVOLVING THE YOUNG PERSON. IN
06:04:34 SANTA CLARA COUNTY 132 HATE INCIDENTS
06:04:35 HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THE STOP A AP I
06:04:37 WEBSITE. I URGE YES VOTE ON CENTER OF
06:04:44 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND ADMONISHMENT
06:04:45 OF MAYOR GILMORE GILLMOR FOR HER
06:04:49 FAILURE TO DENOUNCE COUNCILMEMBERS
06:04:55 WATANABE'S COMMENT. TO DO ANYTHING LESS
06:04:56 WOULD BE AN ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE THE
06:04:57 GRAVITY AND SERIOUSNESSOF THE ISSUE OF
06:05:02 THE AP I HATE IN THE CITY OF SANTA
06:05:03 CLARA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:05:04 >>THANK YOU. FRANK, GO AHEAD.
06:05:09 >>YES. HELLO, MAYOR AND COUNCIL
06:05:13 MEMBERS. MY NAME IS CRAIG PASCUA, I AM
06:05:15 AN EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER WITH
06:05:25 (INAUDIBLE) ROUNDTABLE, I AM ALSO
06:05:26 COMMISSIONER WITH THE COUNTY'S JUVENILE
06:05:27 JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE ANDAT THE
06:05:32 ROUNDTABLE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH
06:05:33 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TOLOOK AT THIS
06:05:35 PROBLEMIN THE SITUATION AND STOP THE
06:05:40 HATE THIS GOING ON. WE DO THIS BY
06:05:41 COLLABORATINGWITH PEOPLE AND AS A
06:05:44 NATIVE AMERICAN,WHO ACTUALLY IS SITTING
06:05:48 ON THE ROUNDTABLES BOARD, I REACHED OUT
06:05:54 TO OTHERS, AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TOWORK
06:05:58 WITH THE NATIVES AND WORK WITH LATINOS
06:06:00 AND GET THINGS DONE. IN THIS SPIRIT OF
06:06:03 COLLABORATION IS SOMETHINGI FEEL AS
06:06:06 MUCH NEEDED IS MUCH NEEDED IN THE CITY
06:06:13 OF SANTA CLARA. WEHAVE LOOKED AT THIS
06:06:18 INCIDENT, AND WE BELIEVE THAT
06:06:19 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABEBY HER EXCLUSION
06:06:22 OF COUNCILMEMBER PARKDID VIOLATE THE
06:06:26 CITY'S CODE OF ETHICS, AND SHE MAILED
06:06:29 TO MAINTAIN THE STANDARDS OF PERSONAL
06:06:31 AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. AND WE ALSO
06:06:37 QUESTION WHY MAYOR GILLMOR WHO IS AT
06:06:38 THIS EVENT DID NOT AT THE TIMEQUESTION
06:06:42 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE TO STEP FORWARD
06:06:46 AND ALLOWCOUNSELOR PARTTO HAVEA FORUM.
06:06:56 SO AT THE ROUNDTABLE, AND THE SPIRIT OF
06:06:57 COOPERATION WITH OTHER COALITIONS IN
06:06:58 THE VALLEY, WE NOW URGE THE CITY
06:07:01 COUNCIL DOES IS CENSURE COUNCILMEMBER
06:07:02 WATANABEFOR VIOLATION OF THE CITY OF
06:07:07 SANTA CLARA'S CODE OF ETHICS AND VALUES
06:07:08 AND ADMONISH MAYOR GILLMOR FOR HER
06:07:12 VIOLATIONS OF THE CODE OF ETHICS AND
06:07:13 VALUES. THANK YOU.
06:07:14 >>THANK YOU. KIRK, GO AHEAD.
06:07:19 >>GOOD EVENING., MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
06:07:26 FIRST, I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY WE ALL
06:07:33 CONDEMN ALL A AP I HATE, CRIMES, ETC.
06:07:34 IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUTFROM THE WAY
06:07:35 PEOPLE ARE TALKING, IT SOUNDS LIKE
06:07:39 THAT'S NOT AN ASSUMPTION. I THINK WE ALL
06:07:42 ASSUME THAT WE ALL ABIDE BY THAT.I ASK
06:07:47 YOU NOT TO SUPPORT THIS CENSURE. I
06:07:48 THINK IT'SWAY OVER STEP OF WHAT'S
06:07:51 HAPPENING. THE NON-CITY EVENTTHAT KATHY
06:07:57 WATANABE ORGANIZED MENTIONED LEAD WAS A
06:08:02 POSITIVE EVENT FULL OF STRONG VOICES.
06:08:03 ONE UNFORTUNATE EVENT HAS BEEN BLOWN
06:08:05 OUT OF PROPORTION AND OUT OF CONTEXT.
06:08:10 I'VE KNOWN KEVIN PARK FOR 15 YEARS, HE
06:08:11 IS VERY INTELLIGENT, DELIBERATEINTENDS
06:08:13 TO MAKE A STATEMENT OR AN ENTRANCE.FOR
06:08:16 EXAMPLE, OFTEN TIMES DURING PUBLIC
06:08:17 COMMENTCOUNCIL CHAIN MEMBERS KEVIN
06:08:21 WOULD NOT SUBMIT A COMMENT CARD AND CAN
06:08:25 WALK UP TO THE BACK AND MAKE A COMMENT.
06:08:26 AND OVER THE YEARS WHEN THOSE THINGS
06:08:29 HAVE HAPPENED, THAT'S A PERSONALITY
06:08:34 TRAIT. AND SO AT THE END OF AN EVENT
06:08:40 THAT IS TIGHTLY ORGANIZED, WITHIN AN
06:08:41 HOUR OF MULTIPLE SPEAKERS FORI MEAN,
06:08:43 I'M PUTTING MYSELF, I PROJECT, BUT I
06:08:46 CAN EASILY SEE MYSELF, I SAW THAT, TO
06:08:50 SEE KEVIN WALK UP, WITHOUT ANY
06:08:53 NOTIFICATION, ANY HEADS UP AND SAY, I
06:08:56 AM GOING TO, I NEED SPEAK. THE
06:08:58 IMMEDIATE REACTION IS, PLEASE DON'T
06:09:01 DISRUPT MY EVENT BECAUSE THAT WAS
06:09:02 BEHAVIORTHAT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATEDIN
06:09:07 THE PAST. IN THIS IS UNFORTUNATE, IT
06:09:10 WAS OBJECTS ARE TERRIBLE ON SOMETHING
06:09:11 LIKE THATBUT IT WAS A MISTAKE BASED ON
06:09:15 HISTORYOF PERSONALITIES AND
06:09:19 RELATIONSHIPS. THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS AND
06:09:22 IS BEING BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION.
06:09:23 >>THANK YOU.IS IT THAI?HOPE I'M SAYING
06:09:29 THAT RIGHT. HI?YOU ARE MUTED.PF? PF?
06:09:45 THERE WE GO. HELLO? OKAY. GABRIELLA, GO
06:09:46 AHEAD.
06:09:48 >>GABRIELLA.
06:09:55 >>GO AHEAD.
06:09:56 >>THIS IS GABRIELLA, ACTUALLYHAVE MET
06:10:01 STEVENS OPEN ON THE LINE WHO IS UNABLE
06:10:02 TO CONNECT, THIS WILL BE HIS PUBLIC
06:10:05 COMMENT, HE IS ON SPEAKERPHONE. ME, I'M
06:10:06 CALLING FROM AN IPHONETO AN IPHONE TO
06:10:09 THE CITY COUNCIL. AN EVENING OR SHOULD
06:10:11 I SAY GOOD MORNING HONORABLE MEMBERS OF
06:10:15 THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA CLARA. MY NAME
06:10:22 IS (INAUDIBLE) I AM A REGISTERED VOTER
06:10:23 IN SANTA CLARA ON INTERNAL AND LEGAL
06:10:24 COUNCIL FOR VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN
06:10:25 COMMUNITYOF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, A.K.A.
06:10:28 BACK NORCAL. I CHOSE TO BE A
06:10:29 NATURALIZED CITIZENMORE THAN 50 YEARS
06:10:30 AGO BECAUSEI STILL BELIEVE AMERICA
06:10:34 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE INTO A MORE FAIR
06:10:37 AND JUST SOCIETY. I'M OFFERING MY
06:10:40 COMMENT TONIGHT AS AN INDIVIDUAL. KATHY
06:10:43 WATANABE'S CONDUCTLANGUAGE AND ATTITUDE
06:10:50 AT THE PUBLIC EVENT ON MARCH 31, 2021
06:10:52 AND AFTERWARDSARE TANTAMOUNT TO MUZZLING
06:10:57 COUNCILMEMBER KEVIN PART. WHILE THERE
06:10:59 ARESANTA CLARA AND SUE VOTED FOR MISS
06:11:03 WATANABE THERE ARE OTHERS WHO VOTED FOR
06:11:06 MR. PART. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY, AND ALL
06:11:11 VOICES SHOULD BE HEARD.ESPECIALLY AT
06:11:13 THIS TIME, MR. PARKS, WHO IS THE ONLY
06:11:18 KOREAN AMERICAN ON THE CITY COUNCIL,
06:11:22 SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE COURTESY TO
06:11:23 SPEAK, WHILE MS. WATANABE HAS AN ASIAN
06:11:28 SURNAME, SHE IS NOT ASIAN AND SHE
06:11:32 CANNOT COMPREHEND THE RACIST EXPERIENCES
06:11:36 PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE SUBJECTED TOEVERY
06:11:39 DAY.ESPECIALLY DURING THIS DANGEROUS
06:11:44 AND DARK. IN AMERICAWHEN VIOLENCE AND
06:11:50 HARASSMENT AND DEADLY ATTACKS ONA8 DI
06:11:53 AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOROUR RAPID AND
06:11:56 ON THE RISE. MISS WATANABE'S BEHAVIOR
06:12:00 WAS UNJUSTIFIED AND NOTHING SHORT OF
06:12:03 ARROGANCEAT THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.
06:12:07 KATHY WATANABESHOULD BE CENSURED ON THE
06:12:09 RECORD, AND MAYOR LISA GILLMORSHOULD BE
06:12:17 ADMONISHED FOR HER INNOCUOUS AND
06:12:18 PATHETIC RESPONSETO MISS WATANABE'S
06:12:21 CONDUCT.LASTLY, DON'T EVER FORGETYOU
06:12:27 ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS. THE OPERATIVE WORD
06:12:32 HERE IS SERVANTS.
06:12:33 >>THANK YOU.
06:12:36 >>THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION.
06:12:37 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH. KAREN WE ARE, GO
06:12:38 AHEAD, PLEASE?YOUR MUTED.GO AHEAD.
06:12:51 >>GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.SOI FEEL THAT
06:12:57 THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA VALUES ARE
06:12:59 INCLUSIVEANDWE SHOULD BE MORE COGNIZANT
06:13:07 OF OUR ACTIONS, AND I BELIEVE THE MAYOR
06:13:15 AND COUNCILWOMANWATANABEARE NOT
06:13:22 REPRESENTING THE VALUES OF THE CITY.
06:13:24 THEY SHOULD BECENSURED AND ADMONISHED.
06:13:29 I GIVE MY TIME TO OTHERS.
06:13:30 >>THANK YOU.MY LANE?GO AHEAD. MY LYNN?
06:13:42 YOU ARE UNMUTED, GO AHEAD.
06:13:50 >>GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS MYLAN FANON
06:13:51 I AM THE CEO AND FOUNDER OF ASIAN
06:13:52 AMERICA ONCENTER OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
06:13:53 AND ALSO PRODUCE MANYVARIETIES OF RADIO
06:13:56 TALKSHOWAN ASIAN AMERICAN PROGRAM.MY
06:14:01 QUESTION ISWHY IS COUNCILMEMBERKEVIN
06:14:09 PARK NOT ALLOWED OR DENIED A CHANCE TO
06:14:10 SPEAKDURING STOP ASIAN HATE RALLY?I
06:14:18 MYSELF, I ORGANIZED MANY DIFFERENT
06:14:19 RALLIESAND COMMUNITY EVENTS AND I FULLY
06:14:23 UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN I AM THE ORGANIZER
06:14:26 OR I AM IN CONTROL I AM ALLOWED TOGIVE
06:14:30 OPPORTUNITY FORPEOPLE WHO MAY NOT
06:14:34 REGISTER TO SPEAK, BUT IF I FEEL THAT
06:14:37 THAT PERSON IS IMPORTANTI WOULD ALLOW
06:14:42 THEM SPEAK. SO WHY IS IT THAT
06:14:43 COUNCILMEMBER KEVIN PARK DID NOT ALLOW,
06:14:46 WHY IS HE THE ONLY ASIAN AMERICAN THERE?
06:14:48 SO I THINKI AM VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH
06:14:53 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE, AND UNDERSTAND
06:14:56 I WOULD DEMAND THATAND I URGE THE CITY
06:15:02 COUNCIL TO STAND WITH COUNCILMEMBER
06:15:04 WATANABE FOR VIOLATIONOF THE CODE OF
06:15:07 ETHICS AND I QUICKLY TO DISAPPOINTED
06:15:13 MAYOR GILLMOR. YOU KNOW THE CONDUCT WAS
06:15:14 NOT VERY GOOD, BUT YOU GO ALONG WITH HER
06:15:17 , SEE BASICALLYALSO COMMITTED AND YOU
06:15:24 VIOLATE THE CITY'S CODE OF ETHICS AND
06:15:25 VALUES. SO I URGE THE CITY COUNCIL TO
06:15:28 CENSURE COUNCILMEMBER KATHY WATANABE
06:15:29 AND ALSOADMONISH MAYOR GILLMOR FOR HER
06:15:32 VIOLATION THE CITY CODES OF ETHICS AND
06:15:39 VALUES. THANK YOU.
06:15:40 >>THANK YOU. CONCERNING ON TRENT ELSE
06:15:41 FROM THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON
06:15:42 THIS?THAT HASN'T SPOKEN ALREADY?
06:15:45 ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY,
06:15:49 GABRIELLA HAS ALREADY SPOKEN. IS THERE
06:15:50 ANYBODY, ANY COMMENTS OR ANYTHING?
06:15:51 >>YES, I HAVE A FEW E COMMENTS AND
06:15:57 PUBLIC COMMENT EMAILS THAT HAVE COME
06:15:58 IN.
06:15:59 >>OKAY, GO AHEAD.
06:16:01 >>THE FIRST 1Z COMMENT FROM SALLY SC,
06:16:03 COUNCILMEMBER ALREADY APOLOGIZEDAND
06:16:07 QUITE HONESTLY THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS
06:16:08 BLOWN COMPLETELY OUT OF PROPORTIONJUST
06:16:11 BECAUSE OTHERS HOLD A CERTAIN
06:16:12 COUNCILMEMBER HE SHOULD BE OFFENDED. AS
06:16:15 FAR AS MAYOR GILMORE IS CONCERNED THAT
06:16:16 SAID NOTHING DO WITH HER AND SHE
06:16:20 SHOULD'VE NEVER BEEN DRAGGED INTO THIS.
06:16:21 IT'S TIME TO MOVE ALONG ALREADY,
06:16:22 ESPECIALLY SINCE OTHERCOUNCILMEMBER
06:16:24 SHOULDN'T THROW ANY STONES IN GLASS
06:16:25 HOUSES. END OF COMMENT.
06:16:28 GIVE ME A SECOND HERE TO TRANSITIONTO
06:16:30 THE EMAIL.THE NEXT COMMENT IS FROM LEE
06:16:33 BROMAN. WHEN IS THE CURRENT CITY
06:16:39 COUNCIL GOING TO START BEHAVING LIKE A
06:16:40 GOVERNING BODY AND START PAYING
06:16:41 ATTENTION CITY BUSINESS? THIS COUNCIL
06:16:46 SPENDS WAY TOO MUCH TIMES TELLING STAFF
06:16:47 HOW TO DO THEIR JOB AND COMPLAINING
06:16:48 ABOUT OTHER COUNCILMEMBERSAPPARENT
06:16:52 SLIGHTS. TONIGHT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
06:16:53 PLACING CITY RESOURCES ON PERSONAL
06:16:56 ISSUES. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FIVE
06:16:57 MINUTE DISCUSSION BETWEEN COUNCILMEMBERS
06:17:01 . SINCE THE GROUP THAT SUED THE CITY
06:17:02 REGARDING DISTRICTING IS AT THE HEART
06:17:03 OF THE COMPLAINT I HARDLY THINK THE
06:17:07 ISSUE HAS BEEN PUT IN PERSPECTIVE. ASK
06:17:08 ALL OF YOU COULD YOU HAVE HANDLED THE
06:17:09 ISSUE DIFFERENTLY?END OF COMMENT.
06:17:12 AND THEN, MY NAME IS MARY GLOVER, AND
06:17:25 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
06:17:26 TONIGHT URGING THE CITY COUNCIL TO
06:17:27 CENSURE COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND
06:17:28 ADMONISH MAYOR GILMORE FOR THEIR
06:17:29 VIOLATION. THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA'S
06:17:33 CODE OF THAT ETHICS. I JOINED THE
06:17:34 COMMUNITY 35 YEARS AGO WHEN I WENT TO
06:17:35 SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY THENFOUR YEARS
06:17:37 AFTERBECOMING AN ALUM, I BECAME A
06:17:42 PERSONAL HOMEOWNERIN THE (INAUDIBLE)
06:17:47 AREA. I SPEAK AS A CHILD OF FILIPINO
06:17:48 IMMIGRANTS WHO WORKED OVERTIMEAS
06:17:53 SHIPBOARD ASSEMBLERS FOR THE
06:17:54 SEMICONDUCTORCOPIES THROUGHOUT SANTA
06:17:57 CLARA. THEIR SACRIFICE MADE IT A
06:17:59 PRIVILEGE PRIVILEGE TO PROMOTE
06:18:05 PARENTING INCLUDING NOW SERVING AS A
06:18:06 NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE ADVANCING USE AND
06:18:07 SUICIDE PREVENTION. ON MY PRIZE OF
06:18:09 SANTA CLARA'S RICH DIVERSITY OF ITS
06:18:13 RESIDENTS AND WORKFORCE ESPECIALLY HIGH
06:18:14 PERCENTAGE OF AP I COMMUNITIES. SO IT
06:18:17 IS WITH GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN I
06:18:18 LEARNED THAT THE CITY OF SANTA CLARAAT
06:18:22 THE AAP I HATE RALLY EXCLUDED THE VOICE
06:18:24 OF PARK.I ALSO FIND IT DISAPPOINTING
06:18:27 THAT WATANABELOST OUTONEXPRESSING A
06:18:37 GESTURE OF GOOD FORCE ESPECIALLY AT A
06:18:38 RALLY THAT BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY
06:18:44 TOGETHER AGAIN SAY AP I HATE. FINALLY I
06:18:45 BELIEVE MAYOR GILLMOR MISSED AN
06:18:46 OPPORTUNITY TO UNIFY THE COMMUNITY BY
06:18:47 RECOGNIZING WATANABE'S ACTION. END OF
06:18:49 COMMENT.
06:18:53 NEXT COMMENT IS FROM MIKEK2. I'M A
06:18:57 SANTA CLARA RESIDENT FOR 37 YEARS. I'M
06:18:59 SPEAKING IS COPRESIDENT OF THE SEQUOIA
06:19:02 CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL
06:19:03 JAPANESE-AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE,
06:19:05 WHICH IS A CIVIL RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONAL
06:19:07 ORGANIZATION. OUR CHAPTER COVERS AREAS
06:19:11 OF SANTA CLARA AND (INAUDIBLE) CITY WITH
06:19:19 (INAUDIBLE)'S ESCALATED SINCE THE
06:19:20 PANDEMIC I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
06:19:21 COMMUNITY AND CITY LEADERS TO DENOUNCE
06:19:22 THE VIOLENCEAND SHOW SUPPORT TO THE
06:19:23 ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY HERE IN LIGHT
06:19:25 OF THIS I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR
06:19:26 ABOUT THE INCIDENTARE COUNCILMEMBER
06:19:29 WATANABE DID NOT ALLOW COUNCILMEMBER
06:19:30 PARTTO SPEAK AT AN ANTI-ASIAN HATE
06:19:33 RALLY. THE VARIOUS VERY LEAKLISA GOES
06:19:39 AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF THE RALLY. I'M
06:19:40 DISAPPOINTED THAT MAYOR GILLMOR DID NOT
06:19:41 ACKNOWLEDGEAND DID NOT THINK ANYTHING
06:19:45 WAS WRONG. ASIAN HATE IS STILL
06:19:46 HAPPENING IS A BIG PROBLEM.THIS IS A
06:19:49 SERIOUS ISSUE AND WE NEED LEADERS OF
06:19:50 THE COMMUNITY NEED TO STRONGLY VOICE
06:19:53 THE SUPPORT OF THE ASIAN-AMERICAN
06:19:54 COMMUNITY. ABSTRACT BECAUSE OF THE HATE
06:19:55 CRIMES AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANSNOT ONLY
06:19:57 FOR MEAND THE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY FOR
06:20:03 THE ELDERLY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
06:20:04 IN THIS CONTEXT I URGETHE COUNCIL TO
06:20:08 CENSURE WATANABE FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE
06:20:09 CODE OF ETHICS AND TO ADMONISHMAYOR
06:20:10 GILMORE FOR THE SAME.
06:20:11 AND I HAVE ONE MORE.MY NAME ISLOVE DARA
06:20:12 MOREY, TO. SINCE 2020 THERE'S BEEN OVER
06:20:15 700 ANTI-ASIAN HATE INCIDENTS REPORTED
06:20:20 IN THE BAY AREA AND THAT NUMBER
06:20:21 CONTINUES TO GROW DAILY. THERE IS A
06:20:24 HATE RALLY ON MARCH 31, 2021THAT HAD
06:20:26 NUMBER OF SPEAKERS IRONICALLYIT WAS NOT
06:20:31 IN A AP I SANTA CLARA COUNCILMEMBER
06:20:32 SPEAKER. KEVIN PARK ASKED WATANABE TO
06:20:33 SPEAK WHICH WAS TOLD THAT THERE WASN'T
06:20:34 ENOUGH TIME. THIS DECISION
06:20:35 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABESHOWS A LACK OF
06:20:36 LEADERSHIP OR JUDGMENTAND INSENSITIVITY
06:20:40 TO NOT ALLOW COUNCILMEMBER PARK TO SPEAK
06:20:48 . AS A SANTA CLARA RESIDENT I WOULD
06:20:49 SUPPORT ALONG WITH THE DIVERSE LOCAL
06:20:50 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THE CENSURE
06:20:51 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE, SINCE YOU
06:20:52 VIOLATED THIS IN THE OF SANTA CLARA
06:20:55 CODE OF ETHICS AND SHE MAY HAVE FAILED
06:20:56 TO MAINTAIN THE HIGH STANDARDS OF
06:20:58 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. ALSO
06:21:00 MAYOR GILLMOR DID NOTADMONISH THE
06:21:04 CONDUCT WHICH SHE KNEW WAS A VIOLATION
06:21:07 OF THE CONDUCT. I URGETHE CENSURE OF
06:21:10 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABEFOR VIOLATINGTHE
06:21:17 CODE OF ETHICS AND ADMONISHINGMAYOR
06:21:21 GILLMOR. END OF COMMENT. THAT'S ALL I
06:21:22 HAVE.
06:21:23 >>THANK YOU. CITY CLERK?
06:21:29 >>I ACTUALLY AM RAISING MY HAND,
06:21:30 ALNYLAM I RAISE MY HAND AS AN ATTENDEE,
06:21:31 I WANT TO SPEAK.
06:21:32 >>NO, JUST ME, NOT THE CITY CLERK. SO I
06:21:42 WANT TO SAY SOMETHING, I ONLY GET TWO
06:21:43 MINUTES A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. I AM A
06:21:45 MINORITYAND THE FIRST MINORITY THAT WAS
06:21:50 ELECTED TO THE CITY TO A SITTING
06:21:52 POSITION AT LARGE IN DECADES. AND SO I
06:21:56 WANT TO ASKTHAT ANYBODY WHO IS NOT A
06:22:00 MINORITY THAT HAS NOT EXPERIENCED
06:22:04 DISCRIMINATIONTO GIVE SPACE TO THOSEWHO
06:22:08 ARE MINORITIESWHEN THEY FEELWHEN THEY
06:22:16 WANT TO EXPRESS THAT THEY ARE BEING
06:22:17 DISCRIMINATED AGAINST TO NOT MAKE A
06:22:18 STATEMENT THAT OH, IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
06:22:22 YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN IN THEIR SHOESTO BE
06:22:26 ABLE TO EXPERIENCE WHAT IS A BIG DEAL
06:22:27 AND WHAT ISN'T. SO I THINK EVERYBODY WHO
06:22:32 HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THAT REALLY NEEDS
06:22:33 TO GIVE SPACE TO FOLKS WHO ARE
06:22:36 MINORITIES. I AM A MINORITY MYSELF.THE
06:22:38 FIRST (INAUDIBLE) ELECTED TO PUBLIC
06:22:42 OFFICE IN THE SOUTH BAY. I HAVE
06:22:52 EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION. IT IS NO
06:22:53 PLACE PLACE TO TELL US WHAT IS AND
06:22:54 ISN'T DISCRIMINATION. I WANT TO SAY
06:22:55 THAT. EVERYBODY WAS NOT EXPERIENCED IT
06:22:56 PLEASE GIVE SPACE TO THOSE WHO TRULY
06:22:57 HAVE EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION. ON THE
06:22:58 FLIPSIDE, I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER KATHY
06:23:01 WATANABE. ALL OF US HERE KNOW HER. WE
06:23:06 KNOW THAT SHE IS NOT RACIST. AND SO
06:23:07 WHEN WE MAKE THIS AN ISSUE OF RACISM
06:23:08 WHEN IT REALLY ISN'TWE DIMINISH THE
06:23:10 REAL CASES OF RACISMTHAT ARE OUT THERE
06:23:13 THAT ARE REALLY OUT THERE ANDIT'S A BIG
06:23:15 PROBLEM IN THE BAY AREA. SOWE CONFLATE
06:23:25 THINGS THAT ARE NOT RACISM TO THINGS
06:23:26 THAT ARE IN IT REALLY DIMINISHES THAT
06:23:27 VALUE. THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS
06:23:30 WHAT IS THE STANDARD, OF COURSE THE
06:23:31 COUNCIL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY
06:23:32 WANT TO DO, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE
06:23:37 FORMER COUNCILMEMBER (INAUDIBLE)
06:23:38 COMMENTS. AT THE END OF THE DAY THERE
06:23:39 SOME AMAZING ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
06:23:40 TAKING A STANCETHAT WE SHOULD CENSURE.
06:23:41 ANDTHEY HAVE REAL GOOD CAUSES THAT THEY
06:23:43 ARE FIGHTING FOR.BUT AFTER THEY LEAVE
06:23:47 TONIGHT NEXT WEEK THE COUNCIL MEETING AT
06:23:53 . AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK
06:23:54 TOGETHER, WHAT IS THE STANDARD FOR
06:23:55 CENSURE THAT YOU'RE SETTING THE BAR HERE
06:24:01 , THE LAST TIME THIS EVEN CAME UP TO
06:24:02 THE COUNCIL WAS WHEN FORMER
06:24:03 COUNCILMEMBER DOMINIC CONCERTA WAS
06:24:04 ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH 10
06:24:05 OFFICIAL REPORTSFILED WITH THE POLICE
06:24:06 DEPARTMENT. THAT WAS THE CONDUCT AND
06:24:10 THE LEVEL OF THRESHOLD FOR CENSURE AND
06:24:11 I JUST WANT THE COUNCIL TO ASK
06:24:12 THEMSELVES THAT QUESTION, WHAT IS YOUR
06:24:13 STANDARD, AND LIKE IS A FORMER
06:24:17 COUNCILMEMBER SAID YOU HAVE TO WORK
06:24:18 TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER FOR YEARS. SO
06:24:21 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY, I'M NOT
06:24:22 SAYING YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T I JUST
06:24:24 WANT EVERYBODY TO HAVE THAT IN THE
06:24:25 CONTEXT AND FOR THE FOLKS WHO ARE
06:24:26 ASKING FOR ITFROM THE PUBLIC, FROM
06:24:28 THESE AMAZINGCIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
06:24:34 , THINK ABOUT HOW THE CITY CAN MOVE
06:24:35 FORWARD AND WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST
06:24:36 OF THE CITY AND I APOLOGIZE FOR GOING
06:24:40 OVER MY TIME.
06:24:41 >>OKAY. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE?ALL RIGHT.
06:24:44 VICE MAYOR CHAHAL?
06:24:46 >>MADAME, JUST A REQUEST,(INAUDIBLE)
06:24:53 DID NOT SPEAK BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE
06:24:56 SPOKE ON HER HOME SO IT DOES MAKE SENSE
06:24:57 TO GIVE HERTIME TO SPEAK. I WILL TAKE
06:25:02 MY TIME LATER ON. I THINK WE SHOULD
06:25:03 GIVE HER TIME TO SPEAK.
06:25:06 >>I THOUGHT SHE SPOKE ALREADY.
06:25:09 >>SOMEBODY ELSE SPOKE UNDER HER NAME.
06:25:12 >>OH, WAS THAT THE PHONE:? OKAY.GO
06:25:19 AHEAD IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, GO
06:25:20 AHEAD.
06:25:23 >>HI, THANK YOU. I KNOW THAT WAS A
06:25:24 LITTLE CONFUSING.
06:25:30 >>I AM A LITTLE TIRED AT 12:45.
06:25:31 >>SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES. I AM GABRIEL
06:25:35 ELLA, I AM WITH THE ASIAN (INAUDIBLE)
06:25:36 AND I'M CALLING AND TO ALSO (INAUDIBLE)
06:25:38 COUNCILMEMBERWATANABE AND THE
06:25:45 ADMONISHMENT OF MAYOR GILLMOR. I WANT
06:25:46 TO EMPHASIZE THIS IS NOT A MATTER OF
06:25:47 OFFENDING SOMEONEGUIDES EXCLUSION FROM
06:25:48 AN EVENT AND A ASIAN AMERICAN VOICES
06:25:52 AND BEYOND THAT THE SITUATION IS NOT
06:25:54 HANDLED CORRECTLY IN THE AFTERMATH AND
06:25:58 COMMUNITY GROUPS MEMBERS GAVE NOTICE OF
06:25:59 THAT AND I THINKIT SPEAKS VOLUMES THAT
06:26:01 WE HAVE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE SIGN ON TO A
06:26:04 LETTER CONDEMNING HOW THE SITUATION WAS
06:26:07 HANDLEDAT THE EVENT AND AFTER THE EVENT
06:26:10 AS WELL. TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHER
06:26:14 ISSUES ON THE LEADER ISSUES AND TO FACE
06:26:18 INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION ABOVE THE
06:26:20 WIDER GOALS OF THE COMMUNITY WAS NOT
06:26:24 REALLY THE BEST MOVE. WE NEED TO MAKE
06:26:25 SURE THAT THESE EVENTS TAKE WIDER GOALS
06:26:27 IN THE WE HAVE OUR COUNCIL LEADERSINPUT
06:26:30 AND SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC FACING EVENT.IT
06:26:34 MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HELD AS OFFICIAL CITY
06:26:35 EVENT BUT IT WAS A PUBLIC FACING EVENT
06:26:36 AND IT WOULD HAVE MADE, I THINK IT
06:26:38 WOULD'VE MADE FOR A MUCH BETTER EVENT
06:26:41 IF WE HAD HAD KEVIN PARKS BEEN.THE
06:26:49 CODES OF ETHICS ARE ALSO VIOLATED JUST
06:26:50 WITH HOW IT'S HANDLED, EVERYONE ELSE IS
06:26:51 ALREADY COVERED ITSO I'LL NOT ANYTHING
06:26:54 ELSE TO THAT. THAT IS ALL FOR MY PUBLIC
06:26:55 COMMENT, THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK.
06:26:58 >>THANK YOU, GABRIELLE. ALL RIGHT.
06:26:59 COUNCILMEMBERS. COUNCILMEMBER PARKS,
06:27:01 DID YOU HAVE THOSE ISSUES YOU WANTEDTO
06:27:03 TALK ABOUT?DID YOU HAVE TIME TO BRING
06:27:08 UP THOSETHINGS THAT YOU SAID
06:27:12 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE LIED ABOUT?
06:27:16 >>SO IT'S FUNNY, BUT I AM GOING THROUGH
06:27:23 THE FACEBOOK IN THE EVENTS ON THE 31ST
06:27:24 IS REMOVED FROM HER TIMELINE. I DO HAVE
06:27:26 THE VIDEO ON MY OTHER COMPUTERBUT WHEN
06:27:30 I PUT IT HERE IT'S TELLING MEIT'S TOO
06:27:32 LONG.SO I CAN CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT,
06:27:35 BUTI THINK IT'S VERY CLEARWHEN WE LOOK
06:27:39 AT HER RESPONSESSHE SAID, AND THESE ARE
06:27:43 THE, FIND THEM ON SITES, I WAS HOPING
06:27:48 THAT THE VIDEO WOULD BE UP, BUT THE
06:27:51 REASONS THAT SHE, LIKE OSAMA SAID, SHE
06:27:58 IS NOT RACIST. THAT'S TRUE, SHE HAS A
06:27:59 LOT OFFRIENDS AND SHE KNOWSA LOT OF
06:28:04 ACQUAINTANCES,PEOPLE OF COLOR. AND I
06:28:07 THINK THAT THAT'S NOT THE ISSUEFOR ME.
06:28:11 I THINK THAT IT WAS BAD THAT SHE DID
06:28:13 NOT ALLOW ME TO SPEAK, RIGHT? THEY SAID
06:28:18 THAT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN SOME
06:28:19 RESPECT. BUT I THINK THAT THE PROBLEM I
06:28:21 HAD IS THATTO COVER UP THE BAD ACTION,
06:28:28 WHICH WASN'T NECESSARILY RACIST, IT WAS
06:28:29 JUST A BAD ACTION, SHE WAS JUST BEING A
06:28:30 BAD ACTOR AT THAT POINT.THE CITIZENS OF
06:28:34 SANTA CLARA SHOULD'VE GIVEN THE RESPECT
06:28:35 TO BE TOLD THE TRUTHAND THE CITY
06:28:38 COUNCIL PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO COVER
06:28:39 THINGS UPAREN'T MAKING THE RESIDENTS
06:28:41 FEEL SAFERBECAUSE THEY ARE BASICALLY
06:28:45 BEING TOLD THAT IF SOMETHING BAD
06:28:49 HAPPENS THEN THAT CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT
06:28:50 WANT TO ADMIT TOCITY COUNCIL WILL LIE
06:28:54 ABOUT IT AND TRY TO COVER IT UP. AND
06:28:55 THAT IS NOT THE KIND OF STORY THAT WE
06:28:56 WANT TO TELL TO THE PEOPLE.AGAIN, I
06:28:59 THINK THAT THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE
06:29:01 EVENT THAT WAS BLOWN WAY OUT OF
06:29:03 PROPORTION, BUT NOT BY THE PEOPLELIKE ME
06:29:11 , I THINK IT WAS BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION
06:29:14 BY KATHY WATANABE BY NOT OWNING UP TO
06:29:15 WHAT SHE DID AND NOT GIVING A TRUTHFUL
06:29:20 RESPONSE AS TO WHAT HAPPENED. I MEAN,
06:29:22 SHE SAID THERE WAS NO TIME. I SHOWED UP
06:29:25 LATE. I HAD SOME MONEY IN THE AUDIENCE
06:29:27 ACCUSE ME OF, I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK
06:29:32 LAST, AND I TRIED TO ADDRESS WHY DID
06:29:33 THAT. IT TAKES A LONG TIMETO COME UP
06:29:34 WITH A CONCLUSION. AND I DO LIKE TO
06:29:36 HEAR WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY. BUT
06:29:38 THAT'S NOT THE REASONBUT I WASN'T
06:29:41 ALLOWED TO SPEAK, BECAUSE I CAME UP
06:29:43 LAST, THERE WAS PLENTY OF TIME AT THAT
06:29:46 EVENT. THAT EVENT DIDN'T ACTUALLY CLOSE
06:29:47 UNTILI'M TOLD A HALF-HOUR AFTER THE
06:29:51 HOUR ENDED. AND WE WERE 10 MINUTES AWAY
06:29:54 FROM, WE HAD 10 MINUTES LEFT. BUT SHE
06:29:56 WAS LITERALLY ASKINGFOR OTHER PEOPLE TO
06:29:58 SPEAK IN AN EVENT WHERE EVERY INVITED
06:30:02 GUESTS WAS ALLOWED TO SPEAK, WHY WOULD
06:30:03 IT BE A NATURALFOR ME TO EXPECT INVITED
06:30:07 COUNCILMEMBERS, I THOUGHT IT WOULD'VE
06:30:12 BEEN A NO-BRAINER TO HAVE INVITED
06:30:13 COUNCILMEMBERS ALSO SPEAK, ESPECIALLY
06:30:15 COUNCILMEMBERS IN THE MINORITYCOMMUNITY
06:30:21 THE EVENT WAS SUPPOSEDLY CREATED TO
06:30:22 SUPPORT. NONE OF THAT MADE ANY SENSE.
06:30:23 PEOPLE SAY WELL, I FELT HURT ORI FELT,
06:30:27 NO, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT I EXPECTED. IN
06:30:28 FACTI TALKED TO THE OTHER
06:30:32 COUNCILMEMBERS RIGHT BEFORE I LEFT
06:30:33 ASKING ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK? AND THEY
06:30:35 SAID NO. AND THEY PRETTY MUCH THAT I
06:30:40 DON'T THINK WE ARE GOING TO BE ALLOWED
06:30:41 TO SPEAK. I SAID I'M GOING TO FIND OUT
06:30:45 BECAUSE I NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION
06:30:46 BECAUSE I WROTE A COUPLE OF THINGS DOWN
06:30:47 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY.BUT AGAIN, SHE
06:30:50 DIDN'T GO UP THERE AND SAY WELL IT
06:30:53 WOULD BE GREAT FOR YOU TO SPEAK, SHE
06:30:54 DIDN'T EVEN HAVEIN HER MIND ON HER LIST
06:31:00 OF SPEAKERS THAT COUNCILMEMBERS THAT
06:31:01 SHE INVITEDTO BE PART OF THIS EVENT.
06:31:05 THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. THERE WERE
06:31:08 A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SHE SAID THEY WERE
06:31:09 ON MY LIST. THEY MIGHT'VE BEEN ON YOUR
06:31:17 LIST BUT YOU DID KNOW THAT THEY WERE
06:31:18 THERE BECAUSE WE HAD TO TELL YOU THAT
06:31:19 THEY WERE THERE. TERESA O'NEILL WAS
06:31:20 THERE AND SHE SAID, BY THE WAY, THESE
06:31:21 PEOPLE ARE HERE.KATHY WATANABE SAID
06:31:22 LET'S HAVE THEM COME UP AND SPEAK. SO
06:31:23 IT CLEARLY WAS NOT A FIXED LIST OR SET
06:31:26 IN STONE BUT AFTER THAT WHEN SHE SAYS,
06:31:33 ADDRESSING ALL THESE THINGS BECAUSE
06:31:34 THESE ARE THE REASON THAT KATHY
06:31:35 WATANABE GAVE TO NOT JUST ME BUT TO
06:31:36 EVERYONECUT TO THE ASIAN COMMUNITY, TO
06:31:38 THE PEOPLE WERE WATCHING, TO OTHER
06:31:40 PEOPLE ON THE NEWSAND I THINK THAT'S
06:31:43 THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM ISWE NEED TO
06:31:48 TELL THE RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY MINORITY
06:31:49 RESIDENTSCONSTITUENTS WHO AREN'T KATHY
06:31:54 WATANABE TRANSIT THEY WILL ALSO BE
06:31:55 RESPECTED AND SUPPORTED. THAT'S HOW IT
06:31:56 HAPPENED.LIKE I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING
06:32:01 OF IT. AND IN FACT I DIDN'T EVEN FEEL
06:32:09 IT WAS A RACIST THING AGAINST ME. IN A
06:32:10 RESIDENT PUT IT VERY CLEAR IN MY MIND.
06:32:11 HE YELLED AT ME AND HE SAID LISTEN, WE
06:32:12 ARE NOT ASKING FOR AN APOLOGY FOR YOU.
06:32:14 YOU MAY NOT EVEN FEEL THAT YOU ARE
06:32:15 ASIAN. BUT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT
06:32:18 YOU ARE THE FACE OF ASIAN PEOPLE HERE,
06:32:20 RIGHT? AND WE ASK FOR AN APOLOGY BECAUSE
06:32:24 THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FELT RACIAL
06:32:29 DISCRIMINATION OR EVERYONE THAT HAS
06:32:30 BEEN IN YOUR POSITION BUT IS NOT HAD
06:32:31 THE PLATFORM TO ASK FOR AN APOLOGY, YOU
06:32:36 NEED TO DO THAT. YOU NEED TO DO THAT
06:32:37 FOR THE ASIAN PEOPLE. AND FOR ALL THE
06:32:38 PEOPLE WERE NOT ASIAN SAYING WE SHOULD
06:32:39 JUST FORGIVE AND FORGET, I THINK
06:32:43 (INAUDIBLE) SAID IT VERY WELL. YOU NEED
06:32:45 OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED IT
06:32:49 SHOULD NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE
06:32:50 WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED IT WHO ARE ASKING
06:32:51 FOR SPECIFIC THINGS BECAUSETHAT IS
06:32:54 THEIR EXPERIENCE. AND THEY ARE
06:32:57 BASICALLY SAYING THAT IN NO WAY DID
06:33:00 KATHY WATANABE'S RESPONSE MAKE THEM
06:33:01 FEEL BETTER WITH THEIR EXPERIENCE. AND
06:33:07 IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE THING, LIKE AT ANY
06:33:08 POINT AT ANY TIME KATHY COULD HAVE SAID
06:33:09 , I APOLOGIZE. I DID THE WRONG THING,
06:33:12 NOT JUST FOR NOT LETTINGKEVIN R THE
06:33:17 OTHER COUNCIL PEOPLE SPEAK BUT ALSO FOR
06:33:18 TRYING TO COVER IT UP. AND THAT HAS
06:33:19 NEVER HAPPENED. IN FACT I DON'T THINK
06:33:22 IT WILL HAPPEN, THE ATTITUDE THAT WE
06:33:23 ARE GETTING IS SHE WANTS TO STOP THIS
06:33:26 AT EVERY POINT, SAY I WASN'T NOTIFIED.
06:33:31 I AM SAYING I THINK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT
06:33:32 HEAR WERE NOTIFIED, THEY KNEW ABOUT THE
06:33:33 TIME AND THE DATE BECAUSE THEY WERE
06:33:34 GIVEN NOTIFICATION OF THIS COUNCIL
06:33:35 MEETINGWHERE THIS WAS AN AGENDA ITEM.
06:33:41 LIKE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE THAT SHE
06:33:42 WOULD GO OUT OF HER WAY TO COME UP WITH
06:33:44 , I'M GOING TO SAY ITKIND OF RIDICULOUS
06:33:46 REASONSFOR NOT GOING THROUGH WITH THIS.
06:33:52 >>OKAY. VICE MAYOR CHAHAL?
06:33:55 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR.AS I SAID EARLIER,
06:34:01 LIKE I WISH WE DON'T HAVE TODISCUSS
06:34:03 THIS THINGAND WE DO NOT EVER HAVE TO
06:34:06 COME TO THISMEETING FOR THIS AGENDA
06:34:09 ITEM.ANDI RESPECT FORMER COUNCILMEMBER
06:34:18 KENNEDY FORGIVING HIS COMMENTS, HE
06:34:21 COMMANDS A LOT OF RESPECT FOR ME, BUT
06:34:24 AT THE SAME TIMETO ME, PERSONALLY, THIS
06:34:31 WAS A CUMULATIVE EFFECT. WHAT HAPPENED
06:34:34 ON THAT DAY WAS ONE INCIDENTAND AFTER
06:34:39 THE INCIDENT, AS MENTIONED BY
06:34:46 COUNCILMEMBER CARMACK, THE APOLOGY
06:34:47 ITSELF, HONEST, LIKE HAD THAT BEEN
06:34:51 HONEST APOLOGY, OH, I MESSED UP, I AM
06:34:55 REALLY SORRY ABOUT THATAND BEING
06:34:58 DISHONEST IN YOUR APOLOGY IS NOT AN
06:35:02 APOLOGY BASICALLY. YOU ARE SUPPLEMENTING
06:35:04 SPACE. AND TO ME BASICALLYI HAVE HAD
06:35:12 SOME OF THE SAME EXPERIENCEJUST
06:35:17 MENTIONED BY (INAUDIBLE) LIKE I GREETED
06:35:18 COUNCILMEMBER(INAUDIBLE) MULTIPLE TIMES
06:35:22 AND SHE COMPLETELY IGNORED ME IN PUBLIC
06:35:24 FORUM, SHE COMPLETELY IGNORED LIKE EVEN
06:35:26 AS A COUNCILMEMBERON THE MEETINGSAND I
06:35:33 TOO TO A LARGE EXTENT THOUGHT OKAY, I
06:35:35 TRY MY BESTTO KEEP BEING MYSELF.I EVEN
06:35:43 ASKED HER MULTIPLE TIMES TO HAVE A
06:35:44 MEETING SO THAT I CAN(INAUDIBLE) STRONG
06:35:50 WHY SHE IS BEHAVING WITH ME THE WAY SHE
06:35:51 WAS BEHAVING WITH ME.AND SO TO ME IT
06:35:56 WAS A CUMULATIVE EFFECT. I COULD SEE
06:35:57 THAT, YES, SHE HAD THATNATURE AND IT'S
06:36:02 NOT ONLY ME.THERE ARE MULTIPLE PEOPLE
06:36:05 TESTIFYING OVER HERE.AND WHEN IT COMES
06:36:10 TO THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENT, I AM GLAD
06:36:12 AFTER LAST MEETINGCOUNCILMEMBER
06:36:16 WATANABE APPROACHED ME THAT SHE WANTED
06:36:19 TO MEET ME FINALLY. WE HAD A FAIR AND
06:36:22 FRANK DISCUSSION, WE DID NOT HAVE
06:36:26 (INAUDIBLE) WE DISCUSSED BUT AT LEAST I
06:36:30 HAD A CONSOLATION THAT AT LEAST SHE MET
06:36:31 MEAFTER TWO YEARS, MORE THAN TWO YEARS,
06:36:35 PROBABLY. SO ON THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENT
06:36:42 I THINKMAYOR GILMORE YOU MENTIONED
06:36:47 POLITICS ABOUT CITY BUSINESS. TO MEIT'S
06:36:49 NOT POLITICS.WHEN SO MANYCIVIC
06:36:54 ORGANIZATIONSHAVE NOTICED THIS THING
06:37:01 ABOUT ALL THESE INCIDENTS AND WHAT'S
06:37:02 HAPPENED AND WHAT THEIR DEMANDING, THAT
06:37:04 REFLECTS WHAT IS GOING ONIN THE PUBLIC.
06:37:07 THAT REFLECTS THAT IS NOT SOMETHING
06:37:09 BETWEEN(INAUDIBLE)AND COUNCILMEMBER
06:37:14 WATANABE ONLY BECAUSETHERE ARE REASONS
06:37:16 WHY THESE PEOPLEOUR, THERE'S REASONS
06:37:21 WARMER ASSEMBLY MEMBERS HAVE SPOKEN
06:37:25 LIKE TWO SITTING ASSEMBLY MEMBERS HAVE
06:37:26 SENT SOME LETTERS ABOUT IT.SOIT'S NOT
06:37:30 ABOUT POLITICS, IT'S ABOUT WHAT IS
06:37:31 HAPPENINGAND WHAT STANDARDSARE WE
06:37:35 HOLDING EACH? AND CLEARLYTHEY HAVE TO
06:37:43 FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS.
06:37:49 AND MAYOR GILMORE, YOU BROUGHT UP THE
06:37:50 ISSUE OF COUNCIL APPOINTMENT. I WOULD
06:37:51 LIKE TOTALK THAT BASIS ALSO. WHEN
06:37:54 MYSELF AND COUNCILMEMBER HARDYVOTED FOR
06:38:03 COALITION TO APPOINT (INAUDIBLE) WE
06:38:05 WERE CRITICIZEDRIGHT ON THE DAIS THAT
06:38:08 THIS IS WRONGNOW YOU'RE NOT GIVING
06:38:12 OPPORTUNITY TO EVERYBODY ELSE, AND WE
06:38:15 WERE IN A BIND, I CAN WE GIVE AN
06:38:16 OPPORTUNITYWE SAID OKAY WE ARE NOT
06:38:21 (INAUDIBLE) BECAUSE TO ME IT WAS
06:38:23 (INAUDIBLE).AND HERE IS PROOF THAT
06:38:29 (INAUDIBLE) BASICALLY. SO WE GOT IN A
06:38:30 BINDLIKE IF YOU DO WHAT YOU DIDLIKE
06:38:35 FORMER MAYOR (INAUDIBLE) AND
06:38:38 COUNCILMEMBER KOLSTAD DID, THEN YOU
06:38:41 BLAME THEM.AND COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE
06:38:48 WAS (INAUDIBLE). SO AND WHAT WE DIDWAS
06:38:52 ONE OF THE OPTIONS ON THE AGENDAAS FOR
06:38:55 THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE CITYWE
06:38:59 DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, YES,WE DON'T
06:39:02 LIKETHE WAY EVERY TIME THE VOTE ROLLS,
06:39:07 BUT THAT'S OKAY, THAT'S PART OF THE
06:39:08 PROCESS.BUT DON'T CRITICIZE SOMEBODY FOR
06:39:14 THE SAKE OF CRITICIZING.WE WERE
06:39:21 SUBJECTED TO THAT, BOTH ME AND
06:39:22 COUNCILMEMBER HARDING WAS SUBJECTED TO
06:39:23 THAT.SO TO MEAS MUCH AS WE WANT TO WORK
06:39:29 TOGETHER, I WANT TO WORK TOGETHER WITH
06:39:31 THE COUNCILBUT I CONSIDER THERE WERE
06:39:36 SOME ISSUESTHAT WENT BEYONDTHE
06:39:41 STANDARDS OF THE COUNCILMEMBERSO
06:39:53 (INAUDIBLE) THIS MOTION AND MAYOR
06:39:54 GILLMOR, ABOUT YOU, LIKE I THINKYOU
06:39:57 COULD HAVE THAT DAY CONTROL THE
06:39:58 SITUATIONWHEN COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE
06:40:01 MENTIONEDYOU COULD'VE EASILY DISSOLVED
06:40:05 THE SITUATIONAND GIVE COUNCILMEMBER
06:40:11 PARK A CHANCE TO SPEAK. AND NOT ONLY
06:40:13 THAT, AFTER THAT YOU DEFENDEDWHAT
06:40:20 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE, AND YOU PUT
06:40:21 COUNCILMEMBER PARK ON THE SAME LEVEL.
06:40:25 YOU SORT OF BLAMED HIM ALSO THAT OH,YOU
06:40:28 ARE INCLUDED TO BE BRAIN. THAT IS NOT A
06:40:30 GOOD SIGN OF A GOOD LEADER.THE VERY
06:40:34 FIRST THING I HELD UP THAT DAYI DID
06:40:37 ATTEND THE MEETING BUT I SAW THE VIDEO
06:40:39 AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MAYOR GILLMORWAS
06:40:42 THE VERY FIRSTPARP, MAYOR GILLMOR
06:40:46 DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING?NO, NOTHING.SO
06:40:53 THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS, THANK YOU.
06:40:54 >>THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER BECKER?
06:41:03 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR. THE ONE QUESTION
06:41:04 EVERYBODY'S BRINGING UP TO ME ISIF I
06:41:06 HAVE HAD A REALLY HARD TIME WITH THIS I
06:41:08 HAVE DEBATED THIS A LOT ANDI'VE
06:41:10 ACTUALLY TALKED TOKOLSTADAND I WILL GET
06:41:22 TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. BUT THE
06:41:23 QUESTION IS ALWAYS BEEN IF THE ROLES
06:41:24 WERE REVERSED WOULD YOU CENSURE ME IF
06:41:25 YOU HAD THE CHANCE? WOULD YOU ADMONISH
06:41:26 ME IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE?THAT IS THE
06:41:27 QUESTIONTHAT MANY HAVE SAID TO ME. IF
06:41:31 THE ROLES WERE REVERSED AND THE SHOE
06:41:32 WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT, THEY WOULD DO IT.
06:41:41 AND I WOULD SAY THAT'S THEIR BELIEF.
06:41:42 THAT MIGHT BE WHAT THEY DO. BUT I'M
06:41:43 GOING TO GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
06:41:47 THAT THEY WOULDN'T DO IT. I'M GOING TO
06:41:48 HAVE THAT FEELING. I'M GOING TO GO AWAY
06:41:49 FROM WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK ON THAT.
06:41:51 I DON'T THINKKATHY WATANABE IS A RATE I
06:42:01 HAVE SPOKEN TO HER, IN FACT, HER
06:42:02 DAUGHTER IS BIRACIAL, SO IF ANYONE IS
06:42:06 GETTING ANY RACISM I THINK HER DAUGHTER
06:42:07 WOULD BE GETTING IT. AND I THINK THAT
06:42:08 AS A MOTHER SHE HAS TO DEAL WITH THAT.
06:42:11 SO I DON'T THINK SHE IS A RACIST. BUT I
06:42:12 THINK THIS WAS POLITICAL. I THINK THERE
06:42:15 WAS A POLITICAL MOVE, SHE MADE A MISTAKE
06:42:18 , I DISAPPROVE OF IT. I DISAPPROVE OF IT
06:42:26 . MANY ARE ASKING ASIAN GROUPS AND NAACP
06:42:28 , THERE IS A DEMAND FOR THIS TO BE DONE
06:42:29 . BUTMY DAD USED TO SAY SOMETHING TO ME
06:42:34 ALL THE TIME ABOUT TOUGH LOVE, THAT
06:42:39 ANTHONY, YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO THROUGH
06:42:40 THIS PUNISHMENT BECAUSE YOU NEED TO
06:42:41 LEARN SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE. AND THE
06:42:42 THING IS THATI LOVE YOU,I LOVE
06:42:50 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE, I LOVE MAYOR
06:42:51 GILLMOR, I LOVE THE REST OF YOU, MY
06:42:52 COLLEAGUES.AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE
06:42:53 ARE WORKING TO ACHIEVEA BETTER STATUS
06:42:55 QUO. ANDWHEN THERE'S THINGS LIKE THIS
06:43:01 IT'S REALLY HARD TO MAKE THOSE
06:43:02 DECISIONS, BECAUSETHE FACTORSTHAT ARE
06:43:06 OUT OF SIGHT.
06:43:18 I, SORRY, I'M TRYING TO GET ALL MY
06:43:19 NOTES HERE. MY MAJOR QUESTION IS AFTER
06:43:20 THIS CAN WE MOVE ON? IF THIS DOES GO
06:43:21 FORWARDARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO
06:43:24 THIS? WHERE WILL THEIR EB DAILY ATTACKS
06:43:28 WILL THERE BE DAILY ATTACKS THAT SAY
06:43:31 WE ARE THE BAD GUYS? WE ARE REALLY JUST
06:43:33 TRYING TO DO WHAT PEOPLE WERE ASKING US
06:43:35 TO DO.MAYOR GILLMOR, TO BE HONEST, WHEN
06:43:41 THAT HAPPENS, I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING
06:43:46 TO STEP IN AND I THOUGHT THIS COULD'VE
06:43:47 BEEN YOUR SHINING MOMENT. I DISAPPROVE
06:43:50 OF IT, I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS RIGHT. I
06:44:00 THINK IT COULD HAVE JUST BEEN THAT YOUR
06:44:01 SELF AND KATHY, IT WAS THE MOMENT. IT
06:44:02 WAS THE MOMENT. THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES
06:44:03 WHERE I HAVE DONE SOMETHING, I HAVE
06:44:04 MADE A MISTAKEAND I ACCEPT MY
06:44:05 PUNISHMENT, EXCEPT WHEN I MADE A
06:44:07 MISTAKE ON. WHEN I SAID SOMETHING
06:44:12 WRONG, I HAVE APOLOGIZE.COUNCIL I HAVE
06:44:19 SAID SOMETHING WRONG TOO, AND I HAVE
06:44:20 APOLOGIZED. BECAUSE IT'S THE MOMENT. I
06:44:21 THINK MAYBE THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS WERE
06:44:22 CAUGHT UP IN, AND I DON'T, I UNDERSTAND
06:44:26 THAT. BUT LIKE I SAID, IT WASN'T RACISM
06:44:30 . IT WAS POLITICAL. BUT I THINK WE CAN
06:44:31 ALL LEARN FROM THIS IS A WHOLE. THE
06:44:33 THING IS THATKATHY WATANABE, SHE USED
06:44:38 TO IGNORE ME TOO,AIR GILLMOR WAS NEVER
06:44:45 AS COMMUNICATIVE, BUT WHAT I HAVE
06:44:46 NOTICED, THOUGH, IS WE HAVE BEEN
06:44:47 COMMUNICATING MORE AND WE HAVE BEEN
06:44:48 TALKING MORE. I'VE BEEN LEARNING MORE
06:44:54 ABOUT KATHY, I'VE BEEN LEARNING MORE
06:44:55 ABOUT MAYOR GILMORE, I'VE BEEN LEARNING
06:44:56 MORE ABOUT ALL MY COUNCILMEMBERS AND I
06:44:58 HAVE KNOWN PROBABLY ALL OF YOU A
06:44:59 MAJORITY OF MY LIFE, PROBABLY, AND I'VE
06:45:04 LEARNED A LOT MORE ABOUT YOU. SO I
06:45:05 DON'T WANT THIS TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S
06:45:06 GOING TO RUINALL OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS
06:45:08 IF WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS. I
06:45:09 WANT YOUTO SAY THAT THERE IS STILL HOPE
06:45:13 FOR ALL OF US TO GET ALONG, THAT WE CAN
06:45:17 TURN A NEW PAGE AND STARTED A NEW
06:45:18 CHAPTER. PAT COLE SAIDAS I SAID IN THE
06:45:21 BEGINNING, HE SPOKE TO ME HE SAID,
06:45:27 ANTHONY, YOU NEED TO GO IN THERE AND
06:45:28 YOU NEED TO BE A PEACEMAKER. HE SAYSIF
06:45:31 THE GROUPS THAT ARE OUT THERE ARE
06:45:32 DEMANDING THAT THIS BE DONE, YOU NEED
06:45:34 TO DO WITH THE PEOPLE ARE REQUESTING
06:45:35 YOU TO DO.BUT EITHER NOW IN THE FUTURE
06:45:43 YOU NEED TO BE A PEACEMAKER AND YOU
06:45:44 NEED BRING THIS COUNCIL TOGETHER SOME
06:45:45 WAY IN SOMEHOW. AND THAT IS WHY I AM
06:45:48 SAYING TODAY, TONIGHT, AT THIS LATE HOUR
06:45:50 , AT 1:00 AMBEFORE EVERYONE'S LAST CALL
06:45:56 , I WANT TO BRING THE COUNCIL TOGETHER
06:46:02 THAT WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON THE
06:46:03 POSITIVE AFTER TONIGHT, THIS IS
06:46:04 SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ONSINCE
06:46:10 MARCH 31. YOU CAN'T BELIEVE WE ARE
06:46:11 ALREADY IN JUNE AND STILL DISCUSSING IT.
06:46:15 I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT'S
06:46:16 HAPPENED, I UNDERSTAND WHERE EVERYONE
06:46:17 IS COMING FROM, AND I TRULY WANT THIS
06:46:18 TO BE, TO MOVE FORWARD, AND I HOPE WE
06:46:25 CAN START A NEW CHAPTER AND I HOPE THAT
06:46:26 OUR RELATIONSHIPS CONTINUE TO GROW, AND
06:46:27 I HOPE THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS TONIGHT
06:46:32 THAT MAYOR GO MORE IN COUNCILMEMBER
06:46:33 WATANABE THAT THOSE LINES OF
06:46:34 COMMUNICATION ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE
06:46:35 OPEN, AND I ALWAYS WANT YOU TO CONTACT
06:46:38 ME AS I WILL ALWAYS TRY TO CONTACT YOU.
06:46:40 AND I WANT YOU ALL KNOW THAT I LOVE
06:46:44 EVERYONE OF YOU. SO THANK YOU.
06:46:45 >>THANK YOU.I AM GOING TO MAKE SOME
06:46:50 COMMENTS AND I AM SURE COUNCIL WANTS TO
06:46:52 TAKE ACTION. FIRST OF ALL, THE
06:46:58 ANTI-ASIAN HATE EVENT THAT
06:46:59 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE ORGANIZED WAS A
06:47:01 POSITIVE EVENT WHICH SHE HAD SCHEDULED
06:47:03 SPEAKERS. SHE DID HAVE AN OPEN MIND,
06:47:07 SHE HAD SCHEDULED SPEAKERS ANDHALF WERE
06:47:15 ASIAN AMERICAN SPEAKERS. I'VE BEEN TO
06:47:16 THREE ANTI-ASIAN HATE EVENTS IN THE
06:47:22 CITY OF SANTA CLARA. I AT LEAST WANT TO
06:47:23 THE ONES THAT I KNEW ABOUT. TWO OF THEM
06:47:24 DIDN'T HAVE OPEN MICS, ONE HAD AN OPEN
06:47:26 MIC.SO EVERYBODY DOES THEIR OWN EVENTS
06:47:33 THE WAY THEY ARE. WHEN THAT HAPPENED AT
06:47:34 THE END OF THE EVENT, WHEN KEVIN PARKED
06:47:38 , WHO DIDN'T COME LATE, HE CAME RIGHT
06:47:39 ON TIME AND WAS INTRODUCED, AT THE END
06:47:42 OF THE EVENT WHEN HE CAME UP TO SPEAK
06:47:43 IT WAS A KNEE-JERK REACTIONOF
06:47:45 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE. I ASKED HER IF
06:47:48 YOU CAN DO IT OVER AGAIN WHAT WOULD YOU
06:47:49 DO? SHE SAID, I WOULD LET KEVIN PARK
06:47:51 SPEAKIF I COULD DO IT OVER AGAIN.AND
06:47:57 SHE APOLOGIZED TO COUNCILMEMBER PARKS.
06:47:58 SHE APOLOGIZED TO THE A AP I COMMUNITY.
06:48:05 AFTER THE EVENT SHE WENT AND CONTACTED
06:48:06 EVERY SINGLE COUNCILMEMBER AND ASKED
06:48:08 FOR A MEETING. I BELIEVE SHE MET WITH
06:48:09 EVERYONE EXCEPTI DON'T THINK KEVIN PARK
06:48:14 AND HER WERE ABLE TO COME UP WITH THE
06:48:15 TIME, BUT SHE DID CONTACT EVERYONE TO
06:48:16 SIT DOWN WITH EVERYONEAND TAKE THE STEPS
06:48:21 . MY ROLE IN THIS IS I WANT THE COUNCIL
06:48:24 TO GET ALONG. WE HAVE WORK TO DO. WE
06:48:26 HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.SO KATHY IS
06:48:30 MARRIED TO A CHINESE JAPANESE-AMERICAN
06:48:34 MAN, SHE IS A MIXED-RACE DAUGHTER, IS
06:48:36 COUNCILMEMBER BECKER HAD MENTIONED, AND
06:48:41 ALL I WANT TO SAY IS THATGABRIELLE
06:48:48 (INAUDIBLE) TONIGHT SAID WE NEED TO
06:48:49 WORK TOGETHERTO REWRITE OUR
06:48:50 CONVERSATIONSAND THAT'S ONE OF THE
06:48:54 REASONS WE ARE DOING THIS NOW AS WELL.
06:48:56 WE ALL CONDEMNASIAN HATE, ALL OF US DO.
06:49:00 THERE IS NO QUESTION OR DOUBTTHAT
06:49:04 THAT'S THE ISSUE. BUT SHE SAYS PLEASE
06:49:05 LET'S WORK TOGETHER, GABRIELLE SAID
06:49:09 PLEASE LET'S WORK TOGETHER AND LET'S
06:49:10 NOT TAKE IT OUT ON EACH OTHER. THAT'S
06:49:12 EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS GOING TO DO.AND I
06:49:14 DON'T KNOWIS IT THE BAR THAT IS BEING
06:49:19 SET BY THIS? THE LOW BAR FOR A CENSURE,
06:49:25 ESPECIALLY, ANYBODY CAN ADMONISH ANYONE
06:49:26 FOR ANYTHING. THAT'S DIFFERENT. THE LOW
06:49:30 BAR THAT IS SET FOR A CENTER IS THAT IF
06:49:32 SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS AS OPPOSED
06:49:35 TO WHAT HAPPENED WITH COUNCILMEMBER
06:49:36 CONCERTA, SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS
06:49:38 THAT EVERYONE ON THIS COUNCILHAS
06:49:42 OFFENDEDSOMEONE ELSEIN SOME WAY, SHAPE,
06:49:49 OR FORM. LOOK AT THIS EVENING,
06:49:50 COUNCILMEMBER PARK OFFENDED OUR CITY
06:49:52 MANAGER WITH HIS COMMENTS, RIGHT?DID WE
06:49:59 CENSURE COUNCILMEMBER PARK? WHERE IS
06:50:00 THIS GOING TO END IN TERMS OF CENSURE?
06:50:01 I JUST SAYTHAT COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE
06:50:06 APOLOGIZE, COUNCILMEMBER PARTSHOULD
06:50:09 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK. IT WAS A
06:50:12 MISTAKE, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO
06:50:13 SPEAKAT THE EVENTBUT I REALLY THINK FOR
06:50:21 OUR COUNCIL DYNAMICS IN THE FUTURE AND
06:50:22 EVERYTHING ELSE I THINK WE ALL AGREE
06:50:25 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE IS NOT A RACIST
06:50:27 AND SHE IS, DID HER BESTIN VERY GOOD
06:50:34 FAITH TO HELP THAT LITTLE GIRL AND I
06:50:35 THINK ALL OF THIS IS FORGOTTEN ABOUT
06:50:36 WHAT HAPPENEDTO THAT GIRL, WHICH WAS
06:50:37 HORRENDOUS, IN KATHY'S DISTRICT. THAT'S
06:50:42 WHY SHE HEADED OUT THERE, SIR DISTRICT
06:50:46 THAT IT HAPPENED, SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY
06:50:47 OUT OF HER MIND AND QUICKLY ORGANIZED
06:50:48 EVERYONE THAT SPOKEWAS A SCHEDULED
06:50:53 SPEAKER. THERE WASN'T ANYBODY OUT IN, I
06:50:54 WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR FOR THE RECORD,
06:50:56 I SCHEDULED SPEAKER. A MISTAKE WAS MADE
06:50:59 . KEVIN SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK.
06:51:02 IT WAS A MISTAKE. SHE APOLOGIZED
06:51:42 (INAUDIBLE) SPOKEN ABOUT ME LIKE
06:51:45 HORRENDOUSLY, HORRENDOUSLY, I CAN POINT
06:51:50 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU,EVERY SINGLE
06:51:54 ONE OF US HAVE OFFENDED SOMEONE IN SOME
06:51:55 WAY. WHERE DO WE SET THAT BAR? AND IF
06:52:04 THE COUNCIL CENSURES RIGHT NOW, FORGET
06:52:05 THE ADMONISHMENT, THAT COMES NEXT, I'M
06:52:06 SURE THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TOO BUT
06:52:07 THAT'S THE COUNCIL CENSURES, YOU ARE
06:52:10 SETTING THE BAR AT A CERTAIN AMOUNT. I
06:52:11 KNOW IT'S HARD AND I AM TOUTING WE NEED
06:52:15 TO GET ALONGENOUGH PAID IN THIS WORLD,
06:52:19 THIS IS JUST MORE DIVISION AND IF
06:52:23 THAT'S WHAT WE WANT, FINE, THEN DO IT.
06:52:24 IT'S JUST MORE DIVISIONAND MORE
06:52:25 DYSFUNCTION AND MORE HATEON TOP OF
06:52:31 ALREADY UNFORTUNATE SITUATIONS
06:52:33 COUNCILMEMBER WILL SAID SHE WOULD'VE
06:52:36 DONE DIFFERENTLY. I WISH WE COULD ALL
06:52:38 TURN BACK TIME. I WILL GIVE YOU AN
06:52:42 EXAMPLE TOO. WE HAD THE ONE OF THERALLY
06:52:51 SANTA CLARA WAS ORGANIZED BY
06:52:52 COUNCILMEMBER PARK ANDJAVIER BHATIA WHO
06:52:58 WAS, KATHY'S OPPONENT IN THE LAST
06:52:59 ELECTION, FORGOTTO TALK ABOUT THAT,
06:53:01 THAT ELEMENT OF IT, THAT'S ANOTHER
06:53:05 ELEMENT OF THIS THAT WE ARE NOT TALKING
06:53:06 ABOUT.BUT PUT OUT THAT THEY WERE HAVING
06:53:11 A RALLY, AND I SAW IT ON FACEBOOK AND I
06:53:14 THOUGHT THAT'S GREAT, I'M GOING TO GO.
06:53:20 I WASN'T SURE ABOUT SOME OF THE DETAILS
06:53:21 THAT I WAS VERY FORTUNATE THAT
06:53:22 COUNCILMEMBERSHOULD CALL THE NIGHT
06:53:27 BEFORE AND SAID I THINK YOU SHOULD GO.
06:53:28 GREAT, I'M GOING TO GO. SO I WENT TO
06:53:29 THAT RALLYCOUNCILMEMBER PARK WAS VERY
06:53:31 EXCITED THAT HE HAD CLEANED UP FOR THE
06:53:32 RALLYAND THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE
06:53:34 THERE, IT WAS FUN AND WE ARE
06:53:41 COLLABORATING TOGETHER AND TALKING TO
06:53:42 EACH OTHER, PEOPLE I HAD NEVER MET
06:53:43 BEFORE, WE WALKED FROM THE FRANKLIN MALL
06:53:44 TO THE CIVIC CENTER TO TALK ABOUT WHAT
06:53:45 HAPPENED AND THERE WAS A SCHEDULED
06:53:47 SPEAKERS. I WASN'T ONE OF THE SCHEDULED
06:53:53 SPEAKERS IN THE SANTA CLARA, I WASN'T A
06:53:54 SCHEDULED SPEAKER BUT I WASN'T GOING TO
06:53:55 PUSH MYSELF ON ANYONE.BUT MAYOR
06:53:58 SUNNYVALE WAS INVITED AND THE MAYOR OF
06:54:00 SAN JOSE WAS INVITED BUT I WASN'T
06:54:03 INVITED TO SPEAK. IT ONLY HAPPENED THAT
06:54:05 WHEN THE MAYOR OF SUNNYVALE DIDN'T SHOW
06:54:06 UPI WAS CALLED OVER, COME OVER TO
06:54:08 SPEAK. SO I SPOKEFOR THE MAYOR OF
06:54:11 SUNNYVALE I GUESS. I WASN'T OFFENDED OR
06:54:14 ANY OF THAT BECAUSE I WAS THERE TO
06:54:16 SUPPORT, TO SHOW SOLIDARITYFOR
06:54:21 ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT WAS
06:54:23 IN SANTA CLARA.AND I AM NOT ASIAN, I
06:54:27 WASN'T OFFENDED, I WAS THE MAYOR, STILL
06:54:31 WASN'T OFFENDED, WANTED TO SUPPORT
06:54:34 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. WE HAVE
06:54:35 TO STOP THE DIVISIONAND THE HATE. BUT I
06:54:37 FEAR THAT HAVING THIS HAPPEN, IT'S MORE
06:54:42 DIVISION, AND MAYBE THAT'S DELIBERATE
06:54:44 ON SOME COUNCILMEMBERS PART.
06:54:48 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY, I DIDN'T SEE YOU
06:54:49 AT ANY OF THE EVENTSIN SANTA CLARA. I
06:54:51 DIDN'T SEE YOU ANYWHERE. ON ANY OF THE
06:54:55 THREE EVENTS AT LEAST THAT I WAS AT. I
06:54:59 TRY TO GO TO EVERYTHING, COUNCILMEMBER
06:55:00 WATANABE WAS AT EVERYTHING, WE ARE OUT
06:55:01 THERETRYING TO SUPPORT AND HELP AND
06:55:04 WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY IS
06:55:05 SO DIVERSEAND WE LOVE THAT ABOUT SANTA
06:55:09 CLARA. I LOVE THAT ABOUT SANTA CLARA.
06:55:10 THIS IS SOMETHING, IT WAS AN ISSUE,
06:55:15 PEOPLE WERE OFFENDED, COUNCILMEMBER
06:55:16 PARK WAS OFFENDED, THE ASIAN-AMERICAN
06:55:17 COMMUNITY WAS OFFENDED, AND
06:55:23 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE DID APOLOGIZE.
06:55:24 SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE WE CAN SAY
06:55:25 ABOUT THIS BUT I JUST CAUTION THE
06:55:26 COUNCIL WHERE YOU SETTING THE BAR FOR A
06:55:28 CENTURY?
06:55:33 OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER PARK, GO AHEAD.
06:55:35 >>YES, THANK YOU.I MEAN, BOTH OF THE
06:55:38 QUESTIONS, WAS KATHY RACIST? MAYBE,
06:55:44 MAYBE NOT. WAS SHE UNTRUTHFUL? YES. THE
06:55:45 ISSUE IS OUT DO WE MAKE MINORITIES FEEL
06:55:47 SAFE AND PROTECTED AND SUPPORTED?DID
06:55:50 HER EVENT HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS? YES.
06:55:52 WAS THAT THE TAKE AWAY FROM THE EVENT?
06:55:54 EVIDENTLY NOT.THE LEARNING DOESN'T SEEM
06:55:59 TO BE THERE. LIKE YOU JUST SAID, YOU
06:56:00 THINK IT'S ABOUT OFFENDING PEOPLE.
06:56:03 THERE'S NOBODY ON EARTH WAS GOING TO
06:56:04 GET AWAY WITH NOT OFFENDING PEOPLE.AND
06:56:06 LET'S BE CLEAR, I WASN'T OFFENDED BY
06:56:08 NOT BEING ALLOWED TO SPEAK. BUT YOU
06:56:10 ASKED HOW DID WE GET ALONG?WELL, THE
06:56:15 SHORT ANSWER IS WE OWN UP FOR OUR
06:56:16 ACTIONS. WE ARE CONSISTENT IN WHAT WE
06:56:17 SAY AND WHAT WE DO. THAT IS THE
06:56:19 LITERALLY THE SANTA CLARA CODE OF ETHICS
06:56:24 . WE TRIED TO BE FAIR, WE TRY TO SAY
06:56:25 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. WE SUPPORT
06:56:27 THE ISSUES IN AND OF THE PEOPLE
06:56:31 INVOLVED. YOU'RE STILL TRYING TO
06:56:32 JUSTIFY THE EVENT AND NOT ACKNOWLEDGE
06:56:35 THE ACTIONS, NOT JUST AT THE EVENT BUT
06:56:36 THEACTIONS AFTER THE EVENT. KATHY'S
06:56:39 HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER ARE ASIAN IN GREAT
06:56:44 PART. BUT ASIAN HATE IS NOT THE ISSUE.
06:56:56 IS THE LIE. YOU TALK ABOUT UNITY BUT
06:56:57 YOU DO NOT PUT IT IN PRACTICE. EVEN NOW
06:56:58 YOU WERE TRYING TO SPEND INSTEAD OF
06:56:59 ACKNOWLEDGE THE ACTIONS AND ON UP TO
06:57:00 THE TRUTH. I THINK THESE ARE THE ACTIONS
06:57:01 , THAT IS NOT A LOBAR. LIKE THAT IS NOT
06:57:03 A LOBAR.IT'S A LOBAR, I THINK PEOPLE
06:57:09 SHOULD BE ABLE TO OVERCOME, TO NOT GET
06:57:13 CENSURED. I FEEL THAT THAT'S THE LOW
06:57:14 BAR. BUTIF YOU CAN'T EVEN GET OVER THAT
06:57:17 LITTLETO FOLLOW THE CODE OF ETHICS,
06:57:22 THAT DESERVES CENSURE.AGAIN,I WAS NOT
06:57:28 OFFENDED. IN FACT, IWAS READY TO LEAVE
06:57:41 AND GO ABOUT MY DAY. I HAD ANOTHER
06:57:42 MEETING TO GO TO. IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT
06:57:43 THE ASIAN-AMERICANS WHO DID FEEL
06:57:44 DISCRIMINATIONBUT THE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T
06:57:47 LIKE ME, I AM MOSTLY OBLIVIOUS TO A LOT
06:57:53 OF THINGS BECAUSE I AM AN ENGINEER, I
06:57:54 TRY TO LOOK AT WHAT THE FACTS ARE AND
06:57:56 THINGS DON'T MAKE SENSE, THEY DON'T
06:57:57 MAKE SENSE. I AM ALSO, I DON'T KNOW,
06:58:01 BORN IN AMERICA, I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE
06:58:03 IN MY COUNTRY.BUT THAT IS NOT THE
06:58:06 EXPERIENCE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
06:58:10 ASKING FOR CENSURE. THAT'S NOT TO TAKE
06:58:11 AWAY THAT THEY GOT AND I FEEL THAT BY
06:58:13 ALL OF THESELET'S SHOW SOME UNITY.THAT
06:58:19 IS COMPLETELY DISRESPECTING THEIR POINT
06:58:20 OF VIEW. YOU ARE DISRESPECTINGTHEIR
06:58:24 EXPERIENCE. AND I THINK THAT THESE
06:58:27 KINDS OF BEHAVIORS ARE THE THINGS THAT
06:58:30 WE NEED TO CHANGE. LIKE I SAID, THE
06:58:35 LEARNING JUST DOES NOT SEEM TO BE
06:58:36 THERE. IT IS NOT ABOUT OFFENDING PEOPLE.
06:58:37 THANK YOU.
06:58:41 >>OKAY, COUNCIL.WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
06:58:46 DO?
06:58:47 >>MAYOR, I HAVE MY HAND RAISE.
06:58:51 >>IS HARD FOR ME TO SEE IT. ESPECIALLY
06:58:52 NOW.IT'S ONE SOMETHING, GO AHEAD.
06:58:53 >>YES, I KNOW THAT. I'M GOING TO KEEP
06:58:58 THIS BRIEF BECAUSE I AM AWARE OF THE OUR
06:59:04 . I AM SORRY TO OUR STAFF THAT WE ARE
06:59:05 STILL HERE.THERE WAS A COMMENT MADE
06:59:12 ABOUT ME REMOVING THINGSFROM MY PAGE. I
06:59:16 HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT
06:59:19 , I JUST WANT TO SHOW I HOPE PEOPLE CAN
06:59:20 SEE THIS IS MYCOUNCIL PAGE.WE CAN SEE A
06:59:30 FRIEND OF MINE, COMMUNITY MEMBER,
06:59:31 CREATED. THIS IS ALSO, THIS IS MY
06:59:37 PERSONAL FACEBOOK PAGE THAT ALSO HAS
06:59:39 THE FLYER. I DIDN'T REMOVE THEM. I
06:59:44 HAVEN'T REMOVED ANYTHING FROM MY PAGE,
06:59:45 THE ONLY THING I TOOK DOWN, I TOOK DOWN
06:59:52 MY INSTAGRAM PAGE AND I TOOK DOWN MY
06:59:53 TWITTER PAGES AS A RESULT OF THE
06:59:54 COMMENTS THAT WERE BEING POSTED ON MY
06:59:55 PAGES.I HAVE APOLOGIZED, I HAVE
06:59:57 APOLOGIZED TO COUNCILMEMBER PARK, THE
07:00:00 AP I COMMUNITY, AND THE RESIDENTS, I
07:00:02 HAVE HELD MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE. I HAVE
07:00:09 ASKED TO MEET WITH ALL THE
07:00:10 COUNCILMEMBERS, I HAVE MET WITH FOUR OF
07:00:11 THE FIVE, COUNCILMEMBER PARK WASN'T
07:00:14 AVAILABLE, HIS TIME IS LIMITED, HE
07:00:19 DIDN'T GET BACK TO ME WITH THE TIME.SO
07:00:22 I DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE I CAN DO. I HAVE
07:00:25 DONE MY PART. LIKE I SAID, I HELD
07:00:29 MYSELF SELF ACCOUNTABLE.I AM MARRIED TO
07:00:33 A MANOF CHINESE JAPANESEAMERICAN. MY
07:00:41 DAUGHTER IS BIRACIAL. I WILL ALSO ADD
07:00:44 THAT GROWING UPIN AN IRISH FAMILYI AM
07:00:49 FAMILIAR WITH DISCRIMINATION. I LIVED
07:00:56 IN IRELAND FOR A TIME, I WAS IN
07:00:57 AMERICA I WAS AN AMERICAN WHEN I WENT
07:00:58 THEREAND I STOOD OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB.
07:01:00 SO I HAVE LEARNED DISCRIMINATION AT A
07:01:03 VERY EARLY AGE, WHICH IS MADE ME MORE
07:01:06 APPRECIATIVEOF WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH
07:01:10 WHEN THEY ARETHE UNDERDOGAND I ALWAYS
07:01:16 STICK UP FOR THE UNDERDOGWHICH IS WHAT
07:01:18 I DID THAT DAY FOR THAT CHILD. A CHILD
07:01:24 WHO IS A AP IIN A VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY
07:01:32 . IN THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE SPOKEN OUT
07:01:33 AGAINST ME THEY DON'T KNOW WHO I AM,
07:01:37 YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
07:01:42 ME.
07:01:47 >>BUT I HAVE DONE WHAT I FEEL LIKE I
07:01:49 NEEDED TO DO TO MAKE AMENDS, I HELD
07:01:56 MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE, I APOLOGIZE, I
07:01:57 STATED I WOULD DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY,
07:02:00 AND THAT'S ALL I CAN DO. SO IT'S UP TO
07:02:02 YOU NOWTO TAKE WHATEVER ACTIONS YOU
07:02:06 FEEL ARE NECESSARYAND IN THE INTEREST
07:02:09 OF TIMEI WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD JUST
07:02:12 DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DOAND DO IT QUICKLY.
07:02:16 THANK YOU.
07:02:18 >>THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER (INAUDIBLE)
07:02:24 WE
07:02:25 >>I MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT RESOLUTION
07:02:26 NUMBER ONE TO CENSURECOUNCILMEMBER
07:02:27 WATANABE BASED ONOUR CODE OF ETHICS.
07:02:35 >>I SECOND THAT.
07:02:43 >>WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR
07:02:44 CENSURE.FOR COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
07:02:58 ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THAT?
07:03:04 COUNCILMEMBER JANE.
07:03:07 >>YES, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THATI AM
07:03:09 AMONG THE PEOPLE THATFOR YEARSKATHY
07:03:14 WOULD NOT SAY A WORD TO ME, SHE WOULD
07:03:16 NOTMEET WITH ME, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR
07:03:20 CENTURA. CENSURE.
07:03:27 >>THANK YOU. OBVIOUSLY I AM NOT VOTING
07:03:30 FOR IT EITHER.BASED ONHER COMMENTSAND
07:03:38 MANY OTHER THINGS. I THINK THATIT'S
07:03:43 VERY EXTREME FOR THE SITUATION AND,
07:03:50 ANYWAYS, I HAVE SAID ENOUGH.WE ARE
07:03:54 DOING THE OPPOSITE OF TRYING TO GET
07:03:55 ALONG, LET ME TELL YOU. THIS IS THE
07:03:57 OPPOSITE OF THAT.BUT IT'S REALLY
07:04:01 SHOWING THE DIRECTIONTHAT WE ARE GOING
07:04:09 IN, AND IT'S NOT A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
07:04:10 ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, A ROLL CALL VOTE,
07:04:11 PLEASE? COUNCILMEMBER PARK, YOU HAVE A
07:04:12 FINAL THING TO SAY?
07:04:15 >>I DO. SOI ACTUALLY AGREEWITHTHAT IN
07:04:25 LARGE PART WISHES I WAS NOT GOING TO
07:04:26 PURSUE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS EVENT. BUT
07:04:27 THENTHE EVENTS CONTINUED AND CONTINUED
07:04:30 WITH KATHY'S RESPONSES AND NOT JUST
07:04:34 KATHY'S RESPONSES TO ME BUT KATHY'S
07:04:35 RESPONSES TO THE COMMUNITY.I DON'T LIKE
07:04:41 CENSURE. AND IN FACT I KEPT TELLING
07:04:42 PEOPLE, I DON'T EVEN NEED AN APOLOGY.
07:04:43 BUT I REALIZEDTHIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT MY
07:04:44 OPINION. IT IS ABOUT THE COMFORT OF THE
07:04:48 PEOPLE. THEY NEED TO FEEL SAFE,
07:04:54 PROTECTED AND SUPPORTED, AND THAT'S
07:04:55 CLEARLYNOT WHAT THEY ARE GETTINGOUT OF
07:04:58 WHAT HAPPENED HERE.AND I REALIZE THAT I
07:05:02 MAY NOT NEED, I MAY NEED CERTAIN THINGS
07:05:06 BUT AS SOMEBODY SAIDIN AN EARLIER ITEM
07:05:10 I AM ACTUALLY A CIVIL SERVANT AND I SAT
07:05:13 AND HAD DEEP CONVERSATIONS WITH A LOT
07:05:14 OF THE PEOPLEWHO ARE ASIAN, WHO DO FEEL
07:05:19 DISCRIMINATION, NOT JUST OCCASIONALLY
07:05:25 BUT ON A DAILY BASIS. I TALKED TO
07:05:26 PEOPLE WHO DON'T FEEL SAFE WALKING
07:05:27 AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT JUST
07:05:31 BECAUSE THEIR NEIGHBORS BECAUSE THEY
07:05:32 LIVE ON BUSY STREETS, CARS PASSED BY
07:05:36 WITH BAD THINGS AND I REALIZE THIS IS
07:05:37 WHAT THEY TOLD ME, THEY SAID IF YOU, A
07:05:39 PERSON ON THE PLATFORM WITH A
07:05:44 MICROPHONE IN HAND AREN'T GOING TO
07:05:45 STAND UP AND SPEAK FOR THE ASIANS FOR
07:05:46 US PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE A VOICE, WHO
07:05:48 IS GOING TO DO IT? AND I REALIZE THAT'S
07:05:51 VERY TRUE. SO I NEED TO LOOK AT THIS
07:05:55 FROM A WHAT DO THE RESIDENTS FEEL? WHAT
07:05:58 DID THE MEMBERS OF THE ASIAN-AMERICAN
07:05:59 COMMUNITY FEEL?AND THAT TOOK ME A LONG,
07:06:03 LONG TIME, BECAUSE I SAID FOR YEARS, I
07:06:05 AM SOMEBODY, I HAVE HAD A VERY GOOD
07:06:12 CAREER, I DON'T FEEL THAT THE
07:06:13 DISCRIMINATION THAT MOST ASIANS FEEL, I
07:06:18 DON'T FEEL THAT I FELT THAT. BUT THIS
07:06:19 ISN'T ABOUT ME AND THIS ISN'T ABOUT MY
07:06:22 EXPERIENCE, IT'S ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE
07:06:23 OF THE ASIAN AMERICANCOMMUNITY THAT
07:06:25 DOES NEED SUPPORT. THAT'S WHYPERSONAL
07:06:28 FEELINGS ASIDEI FEEL WE NEED TO SUPPORT
07:06:33 THIS MOTION. THANK YOU.
07:06:37 >>THANK YOU. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, A
07:06:38 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE?
07:06:39 >>
07:06:40 [CALLING ROLL]
07:06:44 >>I HAVE TO VOTE? OKAY, NO. THANK YOU.
07:06:46 [CALLING ROLL]AND THAT PASSES 4-3.
07:07:10 UNFORTUNATELY. OKAY.ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE
07:07:13 HAVE MY ADMONISHMENT. KAREN, WAS IT
07:07:18 YOU?
07:07:19 >>I WILL MAKE THE MOTION TOCAST A
07:07:25 RESOLUTION TO ADMONISH THE MAYOR FOR
07:07:26 NOT STANDING OUTAND SPEAKING AGAINST
07:07:31 WHAT HAPPENED AND NOT KEEPING UP THE
07:07:35 CODE OF ETHICS IN THE SITUATION.
07:07:39 >>I WANT TO POINT OUT A FACTUAL ERROR
07:07:43 IN YOUR RESOLUTION THAT APPARENTLY WAS
07:07:44 WRITTENBY FLECK, IS THAT CORRECT?IT HAS
07:07:50 A QUOTE FROM ME THAT I DIDN'T SAYA QUOTE
07:07:57 AND IT SAYS THAT BOTH SIDES WERE AT
07:07:58 FAULT, ACTUALLY DIDN'T SAY THAT.
07:08:00 COUNCILMEMBER PARK SAID THAT. SO YOU
07:08:01 HAVE A FACTUAL ERROR IN YOUR
07:08:02 RESERVATION. RESOLUTION THAT NEEDS TO
07:08:06 BE REMOVED.
07:08:09 >>YOU DID SAY IT.
07:08:10 >>I DID NOT.
07:08:12 >>IN THE MEETING YOU SAID, I THINK YOU
07:08:17 CAN SAY THAT BOTH OF YOU WERE AT
07:08:18 FAULT.
07:08:19 >>I DID NOT SAY THAT.I WENT BACK AND I
07:08:20 LISTENED TWICE. I SAIDTHATIF BOTH, I
07:08:28 ASKED BOTH SIDES WITH THEY DO THINGS
07:08:29 DIFFERENTLY?KATHY WATANABE SAID, YES,
07:08:33 SHE WOULD LET KEVIN PARTS SPEAK. I ASKED
07:08:38 COUNCILMEMBER PARK, WOULD YOU DO
07:08:39 THINGS DIFFERENT, SHE YOU SAID YES I
07:08:40 WOULD, HUNDRED %. THOSE WORDS NEVER
07:08:41 CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH,COUNCILMEMBER
07:08:43 HARNIK.YOU ACTUALLY DON'T NEED A
07:08:47 RESOLUTION TO ADMONISH, BUT IFYOU'RE
07:08:52 GOING TO HAVE A RESOLUTION THERE ARE
07:08:53 FACTUAL ERRORS IN IT.
07:08:57 >>YOU CAN STRIKE THAT ONE PHRASE, BUT I
07:08:58 STAND BY THE REST OF THE RESOLUTION.
07:08:59 >>I'M JUST TELLING YOUTHERE'S FACTUAL
07:09:04 ERRORS IN IT. SO WHEN YOU TAKE THAT OUT
07:09:09 , WHAT ARE MY QUOTES THAT I AM BEING
07:09:10 ADMONISHED FOR, CAN YOU TELL ME?
07:09:14 >>YOU UPHELD WHAT COUNCILMEMBER
07:09:15 WATANABE SAID, YOU WERE THERE AND DID
07:09:17 NOT STOP ANYTHING.
07:09:21 >>I ASKED FOR MY QUOTE.
07:09:22 >> YOU PUT IT IN MY RESOLUTION. ONE OF
07:09:29 THE QUOTES I AM BEING ADMONISHED FOR?
07:09:48 >>IT SAYS RIGHT IN HERE MAYOR LISA
07:09:49 GILLMOR OFFERED A DEFENSIVE
07:09:50 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE'S CONDUCT, THERE
07:09:54 ARE FAULTS ONBOTH SIDES, COUNCILMEMBER
07:09:57 WATANABE APOLOGIZE, IT'S TIME TO WORK
07:10:00 TOGETHER, AND NO TIME DID LISA GILLMOR
07:10:03 CONDEMN THE CONDUCT OF KATHY WATANABE
07:10:07 WHICH SHE KNEW WERE IN VIOLATION OF THE
07:10:08 CITY OF SANTA CLARA'S CODE OF ETHICS
07:10:10 AND VALUES.
07:10:12 >>WHEN YOU TAKE OUT THE FIRST LINE THAT
07:10:13 IS INACCURATE, MY QUOTES ARE
07:10:18 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE APOLOGIZED AND I
07:10:20 THINK THE COUNCIL SHOULD WORK TOGETHER,
07:10:24 SO YOU'RE GOING TO ADMONISH ME FOR THAT
07:10:25 BECAUSE YOU SAID I KNEW? HOW DO YOU
07:10:28 KNOW WHAT I KNEW THAT SHE VIOLATED THE
07:10:29 CODE OF ETHICS? HOW CAN YOU EVEN SAY
07:10:31 THAT?
07:10:32 >>YOU WERE THERE.
07:10:36 >>SO IS COUNCILMEMBER JANE AND NEVER
07:10:37 HAS HE CONDEMNED HER ACTIONS SO WHERE
07:10:39 IS HIS RESOLUTION?
07:10:40 >>IS NOT THE MAYOR.
07:10:42 >>OH, SO IT'S JUST THE MAYORTHAT GETS
07:10:45 THE ADMONITION.CAN ANYONE ADMONISH
07:10:48 ANYONE FORANY REASON ON THE CITY
07:10:51 COUNCIL?INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY?
07:10:58 >>I WOULD JUST POINT TO THE POLICY
07:11:01 (INAUDIBLE).
07:11:04 >>THE POLICY SAYS SO I COULD ADMONISH
07:11:05 COUNCILMEMBER PARTFOR THE LANGUAGE HE
07:11:11 USED TONIGHT AGAINST OUR CITY STAFF.
07:11:15 VERY NEGATIVE LANGUAGE. I CAN ADMONISH
07:11:16 HIM FOR THAT.I CAN ADMONISH ANYONE FOR
07:11:20 ANYTHING, SO I JUST WANT TO SAYMY ROLE
07:11:24 AS THE MAYOR IS TO TRYTO GET COUNCIL TO
07:11:28 WORK TOGETHERAND I JUST WANT TO SAYI AM
07:11:33 HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME DOING THAT
07:11:37 BECAUSE I AM NOT SURE THAT THIS COUNCIL
07:11:38 WANTS TO WORK TOGETHER. SO I THINK THAT
07:11:42 THIS ADMONISHMENTIS PUSHING THE LIMIT,
07:11:47 CERTAINLY YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT
07:11:51 TO DO AND ANYBODY CAN ADMONISH ANYBODY
07:11:52 FOR ANYTHING.BUT I REALLY BELIEVE THAT
07:11:57 APOLOGIESREMAIN, WE NEED TO MOVE AHEAD
07:12:04 AND WORK TOGETHER, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
07:12:05 ISSUES GOING ON AND ALSO THERE WAS A
07:12:08 LOT OF POLITICS BEHIND THIS AS WELL,
07:12:09 THE FACTCOUNCILMEMBER HARDY THAT YOU
07:12:11 MET WITH (INAUDIBLE) FROM THE 49ERS TO
07:12:16 TALK ABOUT THAT, THAT TELLS ME
07:12:17 SOMETHING RIGHT THERE.THE FACT THATSO
07:12:21 MANY PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED THAT HAD TO DO
07:12:22 WITH LAWSUITSAND OPPONENTS,
07:12:24 COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE LOST THE ELECTION
07:12:27 , I UNDERSTANDTHERE IS A LOT INVOLVED
07:12:29 HERE.BUT TO ADMONISH ME FOR TRYING TO
07:12:34 GET THE COUNCIL TO WORK TOGETHERIS, I
07:12:39 DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR AT ALLAND AGAIN
07:12:42 I CAN TURN AROUND AND GIVE THEM A ORAL
07:12:46 ADMONISHMENT TO YOU. SO I JUST THINK
07:12:47 THE WHOLE THING IS JUST WRONG. I'M NOT
07:12:49 GOING TO SAY ANYMORE ABOUT IT BECAUSE
07:12:52 YOU ALL ARE GOING TO DO WHAT YOU WANT
07:12:53 TO DO ANYWAY, BUTTO SET UP THEIRANDPAST
07:12:58 THESE KINDS OF JUDGMENTS YOU YOURSELF,
07:13:01 COUNCILMEMBER HARDY, DIDN'T ATTEND ANY
07:13:02 RALLIES AT ALL, I JUST THINK IT'S
07:13:07 WRONG. SO NOW GO AHEAD AND START PILING
07:13:08 ON. COUNCILMEMBER PART.
07:13:15 >>YES, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AND I
07:13:16 FEELWHEN YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SAY
07:13:23 YOU'RE TRYING TO GET THE COUNCIL TO
07:13:24 WORK TOGETHER AND YOU'RE NOT VERY GOOD
07:13:25 AT IT, THAT'S NOT COUNCIL'S FAULT THAT
07:13:27 THAT'S THE CASE. WHEN YOU PUSH THE
07:13:28 NARRATIVE, IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE THE
07:13:32 MAJORITY AND THE MAJORITY IS GOING TO
07:13:33 DO WHATEVER THE MAJORITY WANTS TO DO,
07:13:37 THAT IS NOT TAUGHT FROM SOMEBODY IS
07:13:38 TRYING TO UNIFY THE CITY COUNCIL.AND I
07:13:39 WILL ALSO SAY THIS,THERE ARE FIVE
07:13:44 PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT PART OF YOUR
07:13:45 MINORITY TWO-PERSON BLOCK. BUT THAT
07:13:47 DOESN'TMEAN A MAJORITY BLOCK. I WILL
07:13:53 SAY THAT EACH ONE OF US, ALL OF US, I
07:13:58 HAVE DIFFERENCES, AND WE JUSTGO WITH
07:14:02 EACH OTHER, WEVOTE INDEPENDENTLY. I
07:14:05 THINK ONE OF THE PEOPLE REASONS THAT
07:14:09 PEOPLE SAY WHY AREN'T YOU SO EFFECTIVE
07:14:10 IN MAKING CHANGE, AND THE SHORT ANSWER
07:14:15 IS WE DON'T VOTE AS A BLOCK, WE ARE
07:14:16 INDEPENDENT PEOPLE AND WE WORK TOGETHER
07:14:18 TO COME UP WITH POLICIES, AND SOMETIMES
07:14:19 THAT MEANS WE DON'T GET THE INDIVIDUAL
07:14:20 POLICIES THAT WE WANT. BUT WHEN YOU TRY
07:14:23 TOGLOBALON POINTS INSTEAD OF OWNING UP
07:14:27 AND SAYINGTHIS IS WHAT I COULD'VE DONE,
07:14:32 I SEEYOUR POINT ABOUT THIS IS HOW IT
07:14:38 SEEMED, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS MUCH
07:14:39 MORE USEFUL TO UNITY THAN SIMPLY SAYING
07:14:43 EVERYONE SHOULD GET TOGETHER, EVERYONE
07:14:44 SHOULD STOP POINTING FINGERS, EVERYONE
07:14:46 SHOULD STOP, THAT IS NOT A WAY TO GET
07:14:47 UNITY.AND WHAT I CAN DO IS I CAN LOOK
07:14:51 AT THE LETTERS THAT WERE SENTFROMTHE
07:14:55 PEOPLEON THE MAY 4MEETING WHERE THEY
07:15:02 ACKNOWLEDGED YOU ARE TRYING, YOU TRIED
07:15:03 TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE AND SAY, WELL,
07:15:06 KATHY WOULD'VE DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY
07:15:10 AND KEVIN WOULD'VE DONE THINGS
07:15:11 DIFFERENTLY IMPLYING THAT BOTH OF US
07:15:12 WOULD'VE DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I HAD
07:15:13 TO CLARIFY I HAD TO PUSH AND CLARIFY
07:15:17 THE EARLIER MEETING THAT I DIDN'T SAY I
07:15:18 WOULD'VE CHANGED WHAT I WOULD'VE DONE
07:15:20 BECAUSE I MADE A MISTAKE AND WHAT I DID.
07:15:22 I WOULD'VE CHANGED WHAT I DID BECAUSE
07:15:24 NOW I KNOWTHAT THERE WAS NEVER ANY
07:15:27 INTENT FOR KATHY TO LET US SPEAK.SO
07:15:34 WHEN YOU TRY TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE
07:15:35 AND WHEN YOU, YOU ARE THE CHAIR OF THIS
07:15:39 MEETING, BUT THE CHAIR DOESN'T MEAN
07:15:40 THAT YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER YOU WANTAND
07:15:41 ADD COMMENTSIN BETWEEN EVERY PERSON,
07:15:45 EVERY OTHER PERSON'S COMMENT, YOU ARE
07:15:49 SUPPOSED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL CHAIR.
07:15:50 USE THIS POSITIONTO CHANGE THE
07:15:56 NARRATIVE AND TO TRY TO ATTACK EVERY
07:16:00 PERSON THAT MAKES A COMMENT THAT YOU
07:16:01 DON'T AGREE WITH.AND BECAUSE YOU DON'T
07:16:04 SEEM TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU DO
07:16:05 THIS, THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE.AND
07:16:09 THE TROUBLESTHAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE
07:16:14 IS THE CITY COUNCIL ARE GOING TO
07:16:15 CONTINUE TO BE THERE. I DON'T HAVE A
07:16:16 PROBLEMWITH WORKING WITH USJANE, I
07:16:21 DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WORKING WITH
07:16:22 ANTHONY DECHERT AND WE DISAGREE A LOT
07:16:25 OF THE TIME. IF YOU LOOK AT OUR VOTES,
07:16:27 THEY ARE NOT IN LOCKSTEP. THAT DOESN'T
07:16:28 PREVENT USFROM GOING OUT LOOKING AT OUR
07:16:31 COMMUNITIES,WORKING TOGETHER TO TRY TO
07:16:34 FIND SOLUTIONS, AND HERE, LIKE I AM
07:16:36 TELLING YOU, WHEN YOU SIMPLY ASK FOR
07:16:40 UNITY BECAUSEYOU WANT US TO NOT DO
07:16:43 SOMETHING THAT YOU DISAGREE WITHOR YOU
07:16:46 WANT US TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU REALLY
07:16:48 WANT US TO SUPPORT, I THINK A BETTER
07:16:51 WAY TO DO THAT IS SIMPLY EXTEND YOUR
07:16:52 HAND, ACKNOWLEDGEHOW OUR FEELINGS AND
07:16:57 HOW OUR OPINIONS DIFFER FROM YOURS AND
07:17:00 EXCEPT THE, AND OVER TIME, WE WILL GET
07:17:06 A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY YOU FEEL
07:17:07 THE WAY YOU DOAND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
07:17:16 WHY WE FEEL THE WAY WE DO. THAT'S NOT
07:17:17 WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND AGAIN, EVEN TO
07:17:18 THE VERY LAST SECOND YOU'RE TRYING TO
07:17:19 CHANGE THE NARRATIVE TO MAKE IT LOOK
07:17:20 LIKETHE MAJORITY IS SIMPLY PUSHING
07:17:21 THROUGH WHATEVER THE MAJORITY WANTS. ME
07:17:24 AS SOMEBODY WHO MAY OR MAY NOT VOTE ONE
07:17:25 WAY, I WOULD PREFER IF WE DIDN'T HAVE
07:17:30 THESE KINDS OF DISCUSSIONS. I WOULD
07:17:31 REALLY PREFER THAT. I WOULD REALLY
07:17:33 PREFER OR THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ACTS IN
07:17:34 A WAY THAT THE MINORITY COMMUNITIES
07:17:37 THAT WE ARE TRYING TO SUPPORT THAT
07:17:40 ACTUALLY EVERY PERSON THAT WE ARE
07:17:41 TRYING TO SUPPORT FEEL SUPPORTED.AND
07:17:44 PROTECTED. AND SAFE. BUT IT IS CLEAR
07:17:49 THAT THEY DON'T. AGAIN, IF IT WERE JUST
07:17:50 UP TO MEWE WOULD BE DOING OTHER CITY
07:17:53 BUSINESS, BUT I FEEL LIKE WE ARE CIVIL
07:17:55 SERVANTS AND ASWAS TOLD TO ME AND MADE
07:17:58 VERY CLEAR, IF WE OTHER REPRESENTATIVES
07:18:00 OF THE PEOPLEWHO LOOK LIKE US, WHO
07:18:03 SOUND LIKE US WHO LIVE IN THE SAME CITY
07:18:05 OR NOT GOING STAND UPFOR THE RESIDENTS,
07:18:08 THEN WHO WILL?THANK YOU.
07:18:13 >>VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
07:18:15 >>THANK YOU, MAYOR.I FULLY AGREEWITH
07:18:19 COUNCILMEMBER KEVIN PART. JUST NOW YOU
07:18:23 SAIDTHERE OUT THERE PILING UP.I HAVE
07:18:32 HEARD THIS MULTIPLE TIMES. WHEN WE WANT
07:18:33 TO SPEAK YOU SAY HERE THEY COME AGAIN.
07:18:37 (INAUDIBLE) AND I DO NEED TO ASK YOU A
07:18:40 QUESTION. YOU ANSWEREDTHAT THE 49ERS
07:18:46 HAVE DONE THIS, THEY HAVE DONE THAT,
07:18:47 AND I ASKED YOU A SIMPLE QUESTION.WHAT
07:18:50 DID WE GIVE THE 49ERS IN THE LAST TWO
07:18:52 YEARS?AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY ANSWER.AND
07:19:00 DEEP ADMIRATION, I KNOW YOU'RE TALKING
07:19:01 ABOUT NOW TAKING THE HIGH GROUNDI WANT
07:19:04 TO TAKE THE COUNCIL TOGETHER AND WORK
07:19:05 WITH EVERYONE TOGETHERAND WITHIN THIS
07:19:07 NARRATION, TIME AND AGAIN YOU MENTIONED
07:19:13 , THE MAJORITY WILL DO WHAT THEY WANT
07:19:14 TO DO.THAT IS NOT THE CONTEXT,THAT
07:19:19 DOESN'T HELP,MADAM MAYOR, TO FACE THE
07:19:24 CONSEQUENCES TOGETHER. (INAUDIBLE)WE
07:19:29 ARE MUCH INDEPENDENT FIVE PEOPLE.MUCH
07:19:32 MORE INDEPENDENT FIVE PEOPLE.(INAUDIBLE)
07:19:39 POSTED TO EACH OTHER AND THAT'S WHAT
07:19:40 YOU SHOULD BE.(INAUDIBLE)DIFFERENT WAY,
07:19:44 THAT'S A POLITICAL PROCESS, WE RESPECT
07:19:46 EACH OTHER, I HAVE RESPECT AND HONOR
07:19:51 FOR EACH OTHER.YOU ARE TRYING TO CARVE
07:19:55 US INTO A DIFFERENT BRACKETAND
07:20:00 (INAUDIBLE) WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL
07:20:01 US,I WANT TO GET ALL OF YOU TOGETHER
07:20:03 AND WE WANT TO WORK TOGETHERAND IT WILL
07:20:06 TAKE US IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.I WISH
07:20:11 WE HAD A SIMILAR DISCUSSION LAST YEAR,
07:20:13 LIKE I THINKCOUNCILMEMBER HARDYSOLVED
07:20:22 OUTSIDE THE BLOCK, BASICALLY.AND NOT BY
07:20:26 YOU.
07:20:30 >>OH, NO, DON'T EVEN START THAT.
07:20:32 [CROSSTALK] TO EVERYBODY ON THIS
07:20:37 COUNCIL AT ALL TIMES. I AM. SO DON'T
07:20:38 START THAT.
07:20:39 >>(INAUDIBLE) NOT BY YOU. I UNDERSTAND
07:20:43 YOU ALWAYSRETURN CREDIT, I'M NOT
07:20:48 TELLING YOU THAT.I AM TELLING YOU RIGHT
07:20:52 NOW I TELL YOU THAT IN PRIVATE BEHIND
07:20:55 YOUR BACK I SAY THATTHATYOU SHOW THAT
07:21:01 RESPECT. I AM NOT TELLING YOU THAT.SO
07:21:06 THIS THING IS A COLLECTIVEHOLISTIC
07:21:09 (INAUDIBLE) EVEN AFTER THIS MEETINGI
07:21:13 WOULD SAY WHATEVER HAPPENS TODAYI GET
07:21:16 BEHIND IT, AND LET'S ALLI COUNCILMEMBERS
07:21:19 , STICK TOGETHERAND WE WILL REALLY WANT
07:21:21 TO WORK TOGETHER, THEN SIT TOGETHERAND
07:21:28 DO SOME GATHERINGAND NO CITY AGENDA,
07:21:33 LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. HOW WE CAN AT LEAST
07:21:38 (INAUDIBLE)AND LET'S BUILD ON THAT.SO
07:21:43 JUST BY SAYING TODAY THATOH,THIS
07:21:46 NARRATIONTHAT WE ARE DOING WRONGAND
07:21:52 BUILDING THAT IS WRONG, THAT SHOULD NOT
07:21:55 BE (INAUDIBLE).WHEN WE USE STUFF THAT
07:21:59 HAS BEEN POSTING, DEFINING US TO GIVE
07:22:04 SACRIFICES(INAUDIBLE). THANK YOU. ME
07:22:09 OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER JANE?
07:22:13 >>YES, MAYOR GILMORE
07:22:20 >>I JUST CENTER UP FOR ONE SECOND,
07:22:21 COUNCILMEMBER JANE, ALL OF OUR
07:22:22 COMPUTERS DOWN HERE GOING TO TURN OFF
07:22:23 AT 2 AM, WE CAN'T STOP IT BECAUSE AS TO
07:22:24 RESTART THE WHOLE SYSTEM, SO WHATEVER
07:22:25 YOU'RE GOING TO DO, WE HAVE TO DO
07:22:27 BEFORE 2 O'CLOCK. AND IT LOOKS LIKE
07:22:30 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO A POSSIBLE
07:22:32 THURSDAY NIGHT MEETINGTO CONTINUE JUST
07:22:36 THE ITEMS THAT WERE ON HERE BECAUSE WE
07:22:41 HAVE THINGS TO NEED TO GO, I'M SORRY TO
07:22:42 INTERRUPT BUT WE JUST NEED TO MOVE THIS
07:22:43 ALONG SO WE CAN BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO
07:22:47 TURN OFF, WE CAN'T STOP WHAT'S
07:22:48 HAPPENING. SO GO AHEAD, I'M SORRY.
07:22:49 >>MAYOR GO MORE, YOU ARE OF COURSE A
07:22:53 VERY EXPERIENCED ELECTED OFFICIAL, BEEN
07:23:00 IN POLITICS FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS AND FOR
07:23:01 YEARS YOU HAVE A LOT OF INFLUENCE. FOR
07:23:03 YEARS PEOPLE IN THE PRESS REFERRED TO
07:23:04 IT ASLISA GILLMOR'S COUNCIL. AND IN FACT
07:23:08 THE NIGHT THATKAREN HARDY ANDRAJ CHAHAL
07:23:16 WERE TRYING TO GET ME APPOINTED TO
07:23:17 COUNCIL, YOU STOPPEDEMMY DAVIS FROM
07:23:20 SAYING SOMETHING SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE.AND
07:23:22 DURING THEAPPOINTMENT TO THE CHARTER
07:23:24 REVIEWACTUALLY TRIED TO KEEP ME OFFOF
07:23:29 THE CHARTER REVIEWBECAUSE I COULDN'T BE
07:23:32 THERE IN PERSON THAT NIGHT.(INAUDIBLE)
07:23:43 HAD PUT MY NAME OUT TO BE ON THE
07:23:44 CHARTER REVIEW. BUT I WILL NOT BE
07:23:45 VOTING FOR ADMONISHMENT BECAUSE I DO
07:23:46 THINK WE NEED TOFIX THINGS AND MOVE ON
07:23:56 TRY TO GET STUFF DONE FOR THE PEOPLE,
07:23:57 SO I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR
07:23:58 NOURISHMENT.
07:23:59 >>THANK YOU. CAN I JUST RESPOND,
07:24:00 COUNCILMEMBER JANE, THE NIGHT I DIDN'T
07:24:01 WANT TO APPOINT YOU, WE HAD A POLICYIF
07:24:04 YOU DIDN'T SHOW UP IT WASN'T PERSONAL,
07:24:09 IT WAS JUST THAT WAS OUR POLICY AND
07:24:10 CHANGE THAT NIGHT.SO I HAVE TO SAY THAT
07:24:14 IN MY OWN DEFENSE.ALL RIGHT. ANYONE
07:24:16 ELSE?ON MY ADMONISHMENT?OKAY, WE HAVE A
07:24:25 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. KURT OR CAN, GO
07:24:30 AHEAD.ME GOOD MORNING, AMERICA AND
07:24:34 COUNCIL,I REALLY HOPE THATYOU DO NOT
07:24:42 SUPPORT THISADMONISHMENTFOR THE CITY
07:24:49 FOR EVEN WHILE SHE WAS IN THE MAYORSHE
07:24:51 ALWAYS STOOD UPFOR CITY PRIORITIES, AND
07:24:56 I HOPE THAT YOU WILLJUST STOP BEING AS
07:25:00 DIVISIVEAS YOU ARE BEINGAND IT'S REALLY
07:25:04 UPSETTING TO HEAR. I STARTED TO HEAR
07:25:09 THE HOLIER THAN THOU ARGUMENTSLIKE OH,
07:25:13 WELL THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOU
07:25:16 SHOULD NEVER DO THIS BECAUSE, YOU'RE
07:25:20 NOT EVEN HUMAN AT THIS POINT IF YOU DO
07:25:22 THESE KINDS OF THINGS.JUST TAKE A REAL
07:25:27 CAREFUL LOOK, WE ARE ALL HUMAN, WE ALL
07:25:30 MAKE MISTAKES, WE ALL DO THINGS,
07:25:34 HINDSIGHT IS GREAT. BUT TO HEAR SOME OF
07:25:36 THE TALK THAT SOME OF THE
07:25:38 COUNCILMEMBERS AND MADE TONIGHTMAKES IT
07:25:40 SOUND LIKETHERE IS NEVER ANY ISSUES AND
07:25:45 QUESTIONS ABOUTTHEIR BEHAVIORHERE AND
07:25:52 IF THAT'S THE LEVEL, WHICH YOU NOWPUT
07:25:56 IN THE FORM NOWWITH COUNCILMEMBER
07:25:59 WATANABE'S ACTION, VERY DISAPPOINTING.
07:26:00 >>THANK YOU, GO AHEAD, EDWARD?
07:26:08 >>I JUST WANT TO SAYI DO NOT SUPPORT
07:26:11 THIS ADMONISHMENT FOR MAYOR LISA
07:26:13 GILLMOR.I WANTED TO SAY THATMOST OF THE
07:26:18 TIME I DO NOT AGREE WITH LISA GILLMOR,
07:26:23 HER POLITICS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT, BUT
07:26:24 SHE'S VERY FAIR, SHE ALLOWS FREEDOM OF
07:26:26 SPEECH ON HER PELLET FORM WHERE THERE
07:26:28 ARE OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS THAT DO NOT,
07:26:32 LIKE I SAID, I'M OVER 25% NATIVE
07:26:33 AMERICAN, I DID THE 23ANDME, FOR
07:26:40 ANYBODY THAT THINKS TIMELINE, I CAN
07:26:41 BRING THAT.SO I THINKLIKE MAYOR GILLMOR
07:26:46 SAID, YOU ARE SETTINGTHE BAR VERY LOWIF
07:26:50 YOU VOTE FOR ADMONISHMENT FOR HER.
07:26:53 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:26:55 >>THANK YOU.JUAN, GO AHEAD?
07:26:59 >>HI. I AM SO SORRYTHAT THE MOTION
07:27:03 PASSED. ALSO, I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO
07:27:10 PUNISHMAYOR GILLMOR.YES,I(INAUDIBLE)
07:27:22 EVERY COUNCILMEMBER (INAUDIBLE)IF THE
07:27:25 CITY ISSUES DONE. THANK YOU.
07:27:28 >>THANK YOU. WESLEY, GO AHEAD, WESLEY?
07:27:34 >>I WOULD LIKE TO SAYTHE PEOPLE THAT
07:27:37 SAY NO I SAY YESNOT BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE
07:27:44 MAYOR GILMORE AS A PERSON GILLMOR AS A
07:27:48 PERSON. SHE HAS BEEN VERYFAIR. BUT IN
07:27:51 THIS ONE INSTANCE SHE CENSOREDWHAT
07:27:56 KEVIN WOULD HAVE SAID AND THAT WAS NOT
07:27:58 FAIR.SO A PUBLIC FIGURE AND A PUBLIC
07:28:05 EVENT, THAT IS AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE
07:28:08 OF ADMONISHMENT TO YOU.BUT I DO THINK
07:28:13 YOU ARE A DECENT HUMAN BEING AND I KNOW
07:28:15 THAT THAT WAS A MISTAKE. BUT I'M NOT
07:28:18 HEARINGIT WAS A MISTAKE ON YOUR PART.I
07:28:24 AM NOT HEARING IT AT ALL, THANK YOU.
07:28:25 >>THANK YOU, WESLEY. ANYONE ELSE LIKE
07:28:32 TO SPEAK? OKAY, I'M GOING BACK TO THE
07:28:33 COUNCIL. IS THERE IS ACTION WOULD LIKE
07:28:34 TO TAKE FOR MY ADMONISHMENT?IS THERE A
07:28:38 MOTION?
07:28:42 >>I THINK I DID MAKE THE MOTION, I
07:28:46 DIDN'T HEAR A SECOND.
07:28:47 >>IS A SECOND, IS IT FOR THE RESOLUTION?
07:28:58 FOR THAT MOTION?
07:28:59 >>I SECOND THAT.ANNVICE MAYOR.
07:29:04 >>I HAVE MY HAND RAISED.
07:29:07 >>SORRY, I HAVE A HARD TIME BECAUSE
07:29:10 IT'S LIGHT ON A LIGHT BACKGROUND. I'M
07:29:11 SO SORRY.
07:29:14 [CROSSTALK]GO AHEAD, COUNCILMEMBER
07:29:20 WATANABE.
07:29:21 >>I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
07:29:22 TO SPEAK IN YOUR DEFENSEAS YOU SPOKE IN
07:29:23 MIND.WHAT IS BEING DONETO YOU RIGHT NOW
07:29:30 IS UNFAIR, AND LIKE IT WAS A SECOND
07:29:37 THOUGHT, LIKE A PACKAGE DEAL, TWO PEAS
07:29:39 IN A POD, I MEANWHEN YOU LOOKED AT THE
07:29:43 INITIAL BOTH WAS TAKEN ON THISTHERE
07:29:47 WERE TWO BOATS, COUNCILMEMBERJANE VOTED
07:29:53 NOT TO CENSURE MEBUT TO ADMONISH YOU,
07:29:57 AND COUNCILMEMBER BECKER VOTED TO
07:30:02 CENSURE ME BUT NOT ADMONISH YOU.AND IT
07:30:05 JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE BECAUSE IT'S
07:30:07 LIKE, BUT IF COUNCILMEMBER AND JANE
07:30:12 WASN'T GOING TO CENSURE ME, THEN WHY
07:30:13 DID HE FEEL IT WAS NECESSARY TO
07:30:15 ADMONISH YOU? IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
07:30:16 CENSUREAND YOU SHOULD NOT ADMONISH. I
07:30:18 APPRECIATE THE FACT THATHE HAS STATED
07:30:22 HE IS NOT GOING TO CENSUREME AND HE
07:30:26 WILL NOT ADMONISH YOU. BUTLIKE I SAID,
07:30:32 IT'S LIKE THIS IS JUST AN OPPORTUNITY
07:30:35 TO HURTAND POINT FINGERS BECAUSE IN
07:30:45 PEOPLE YOU KNOW, AND I APPRECIATE THE
07:30:46 FACT THAT PEOPLE POINTED OUT THAT YOU
07:30:47 ARE A FAIR PERSON AND WHAT IS BEING
07:30:48 DONE RIGHT NOWIS WRONG. IT'S WRONG. AND
07:30:52 THERE IS NO BASIS FOR IT, THERE IS NO
07:30:54 GROUNDS. NOTHING. ANYWAY,THAT'S MY TWO
07:31:01 CENTS IN A POOR IN SUPPORT OF YOU.
07:31:02 >>THANK YOU FOR THE KIND COMMENTS. WE
07:31:07 NEED TO GET TO A VOTEBEFORE WE SHUT
07:31:12 DOWN HERE, WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES. SO
07:31:13 COULDTHE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, COULD YOU
07:31:17 CALL FOR A ROLL CALL VOTEFORTHE MOTION
07:31:22 TO ADMONISH ME. THANK YOU.
07:31:24 >>
07:31:25 [CALLING ROLL]ALL RIGHT. I AM
07:31:47 OFFICIALLY ADMONISHED. OKAY.THANK YOU.
07:31:53 NOW WE HAVE THE REST OF THE COUNCIL
07:31:54 MEETING TOCONTINUE UNTILTHURSDAY.WE
07:32:03 HAVE TO DO THESE ITEMS. CITY ATTORNEY?
07:32:08 >>THE MOTION AT THIS POINT SHOULD BE TO
07:32:09 ADJOURN TO A TIME CERTAINON THURSDAY AT
07:32:12 WHAT TIME? DO WE HAVE A TIME?
07:32:16 >>CAN WE SAY 6 O'CLOCK?
07:32:17 >>OKAY.
07:32:24 >>I HAVE A THING BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE
07:32:25 TO CANCEL.
07:32:26 >>THURSDAY AT SIXTO FINISH THESE ITEMS?
07:32:28 CAN WETHROW NUMBER 10 ON TOO?
07:32:34 >>YOU CAN STAY ON. ANYTHING STILL ON
07:32:35 THE AGENDA AND STAY ON.
07:32:36 >>WE WILL HOLD A HEARING, WE WILL
07:32:38 CONTINUE ALL OF THE HEARINGS,
07:32:45 >>I THINK NUMBER 10.
07:32:46 >>NUMBER 10 WAS DEFERRED. YOU ALREADY
07:32:47 CONTINUED IT.
07:32:48 >>OKAY.
07:32:49 >>JUST FOR CLARIFYINGWE WILL BRING BACK
07:32:52 ITEM NUMBER FIVE, WILL BRING BACK ITEM
07:32:53 NUMBER SIX, ITEM NUMBER NINE, ITEM
07:32:58 NUMBER 11.
07:32:59 >>IS THAT IT?
07:33:00 >>YES.
07:33:12 >>OKAY.
07:33:13 >>IS THAT IT? IS THAT ALL RIGHT, CITY
07:33:14 ATTORNEY?
07:33:16 >>YUNG-1 TO SAY THE ITEMS JUSTFOR THE
07:33:20 PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT THOSE ARE THE ITEMS
07:33:23 WE REMAIN ON THE AGENDA.
07:33:31 >>MAY HAVE A MOTION?
07:33:32 >>MOTION TO CONTINUE TILL THURSDAY,
07:33:33 JUNE 10AT 6 PM TO CONTINUE THE ITEMS
07:33:36 THAT HAVE NOT BEEN DISCUSSED TONIGHT.
07:33:40 >>SECOND.
07:33:41 >>WE HAVE A MOTIONAND A SECOND TO DO
07:33:44 THAT. ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE?ASSISTANT
07:33:47 CITY CLERK.
07:33:55 >>AS THE MAKER OF THE MOTION I WANT TO
07:33:56 CLARIFY PURSUANT TO THE ATTORNEY'S
07:33:57 ADVICE THAT WE ARE ADJOURNING THE
07:33:58 MEANING TO JUNE 10 AT 6 PM. IS THAT
07:34:01 OKAY IF I CHANGE THE WORDS?
07:34:07 >>THAT'S THE CORRECT WAY TO SAY IT, YES.
07:34:09 >>OKAY, THANK YOU.
07:34:15 >>COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
07:34:16 >>YES.
07:34:19 [CALLING ROLL]
07:34:36 >>I'M SORRY, I HAD MY HAND UP LAST
07:34:37 MINUTE. DON'T WE NEED A 72 HOUR
07:34:38 NOTICE?
07:34:39 >>NO. WHEN YOU DO AN ADJOURNMENT TO A
07:34:40 DATE AND TIME CERTAINYOU JUST SIMPLY
07:34:41 POST A NOTICE OF THE ADJOURNMENT ON THE
07:34:42 COUNCILON BOTH THE PHYSICALAND THE
07:34:44 CLERKS. THIS IS THE PROPER WAY IN THE
07:34:52 BROWN OUR CREW ADJOURNED TO RENOTICE
07:34:53 IT.
07:34:54 >>OKAY, I SAY YES. ALTHOUGHAND THAT
07:35:00 PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.I HAVE AN
07:35:07 ADJOURNMENT.
07:35:08 >>MAY I JUST ADD A COMMENT?
07:35:09 >>, WE'LL ADJOURN ON THURSDAY IN MEMORY
07:35:12 OF ROD DUNHAM'S FATHER. GO AHEAD.
07:35:13 >>I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT THE
07:35:14 ADJOURNMENTGEN-10 AT 6 PM WE WOULD'VE
07:35:17 NORMALLY GOTTEN THE JUNE 15 AGENDA
07:35:21 PACKET OUT, WE WILL GET THAT OUT ON
07:35:22 FRIDAY SO WE CAN MAKE OURSELVES
07:35:23 AVAILABLEFOR THE MEETING.
07:35:24 >>VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.WE HAVE A MOTION
07:35:29 AND A SECOND TO ADJOURN. ASSISTANT CITY
07:35:31 CLERK WE ?
07:35:39 >>I'M SORRY I DIDN'T CATCH THE MOTION
07:35:40 OR THE SECONDFOR THE ADJOURNMENT.
07:35:46 >>I AM NOT SURE.
07:35:47 >>I THINK THE VOTES WERE ALREADY TAKEN,
07:35:48 META-MAYOR.
07:35:50 >>THE VOTE WAS TO ADJOURN THE MEETING.
07:35:56 >>DID WE VOTE ALREADY?
07:35:58 >>WE ADJOURNED THE MEETING.
07:35:59 >>THEN MEETING IS ADJOURNED.GOOD NIGHT,
07:36:08 EVERYBODY.