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>> GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO THE
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CITY OF SANTA CLARA JOINT MEETING OF
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THE COUNCIL AND AUTHORITIES
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CONCURRENT I'M CALLING THIS MEETING
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TO ORDER. ROLL CALL PLEASE ASSISTANT
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CITY CLERK?
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>> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
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>> HERE.
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>> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
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>> PRESENT.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
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>> PRESENT.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
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>> HERE.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
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>> HERE.
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>> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
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>> HERE.
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>> MAYOR GILLMOR, CHAIR.
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>> HERE.
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>> THANK YOU.
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>> THANK YOU. SO, PUBLIC COMMENT.
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DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON
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ANY ITEMS ON THE CLOSED SESSION
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AGENDA? IF SO, PLEASE RAISE YOUR
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HAND. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, DO YOU
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SEE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT
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WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ANY CLOSED
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SESSION ITEMS.
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>> I DO NOT SEE ANY HANDS MAYOR
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AND I DO NOT HAVE ECOMMENTS OR
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PUBLIC COMMENT EMAILS AS WELL SO
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NOTHING HERE.
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>> OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE
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WILL NOW BE ADJOURNING TO CLOSED
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SESSION, WE WILL BE BACK ON OPEN
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SESSION AT 6:00 P.M. FOR THE OPEN
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COUNCIL MEETING AND STADIUM
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AUTHORITY MEETING. THANK YOU. WE
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WILL SEE YOU THEN.
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(MEETING IN CLOSED SESSION)
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>> ORDER OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE
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COUNCIL AND AUTHORITIES CONCURRENT
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MEETING. CAN YOU STAND FOR THE
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND REMAIN
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STANDING FOR THE STATEMENT OF
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VALUES.
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE
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REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION,
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UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND
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JUSTICE FOR ALL.
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>> AS WE GATHER, WE HUMBLY SEEK
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BLESSINGS, UPON THIS MEETING MAY
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WE ACT WITH STRENGTH. COURAGE AND
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WILL TO PERFORM OUR OBLIGATIONS AND
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DUTYTY TO PEOPLE WITH JUSTICE TO ALL.
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MAY WE SEEK WISDOM TO ACT WITH OUR
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NEIGHBORS PEOPLE AND COUNTRY. WE
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MAY SERVE OUR COMMUNITY WITH
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FAIRNESS AND RESPECTED PUTTING THEIR
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NEEDS BEFORE ALL.
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>> THANK YOU. PLEASE BE SEATED.
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>> MAY I READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
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>> READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
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>> AB23 ANNOUNCEMENT. [READING].
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TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST
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LEVELS OF CONDUCT THIS INCLUDES
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MUTUAL RESPECT, DISCUSSION AND
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MATTER TO BE DONE IN CONSISTENT
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MATTER THE MAYOR AND CHAIR'S
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DIRECTION AND PROCESS OF DEQUORUM
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SHOULD BE FOLLOWED AND GAVEL
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CONVERSATIONS MUST CONCLUDE AND
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EVERYONE SHOULD COME TO ORDER AND
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ATTENDANCE WELCOME THANK YOU FOR
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YOUR ARCITIES PACING.
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>> THANK YOU ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
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GOOD AFTERNOON WELCOME EVERYONE
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THE CITY CONTINUE TOSS USE A ZOOM
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FEATURE TO ALLOW PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
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FROM THE SAFETY OF YOUR HOME OR
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OFFICE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC YOU
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CAN JOIN US VIA THE LINK OR THE ZOOM
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MEETING DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN
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NOW. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON
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AN AGENDA ITEM OR DURING PUBLIC
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PRESENTATIONS RAISE YOUR HAND ON
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THE ZOOM PUBLICATION OR PRESS STAR
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NINE ON YOUR PHONE PLEASE ONLY
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RAISE YOUR HAND WHILE THE ITEM YOU
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ARE SEEKING TO SPEAK ON IS BEING
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PRESENTED STAFF WILL ENTER YOUR NAME
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OR LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE
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NUMBER AND I WILL CALL YOU TO SPEAK
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AS A FRIENDLY REMINDER MEMBERS OF
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THE PUBLIC HAVE TWO MINUTES TO
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SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS, AND PUBLIC
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PRESENTATIONS ON TOPICS NOT ON THE
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AGENDA STAR WILL LOWER EACH HAND TO
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MAKE SURE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
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REQUESTING TO SPEAK UNDER THE
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APPROPRIATE ITEMS YOU MUST ALSO
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SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS ON THE
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ECOMMENT FEATURE AVAILABLE ON THE
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SANTA CLARA STAR BEIGE OR SANTA
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CLARA DOT ca.gov AND COMMENTS
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WILL BE READ INTO THE RECORD NOW LET'S
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MOVE TO THE COUNCIL SECTION. ACTIONS
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TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION CITY
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ATTORNEY.
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>> THANK YOU MAYOR. COUNCIL TOOK
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NO ACTION IN CLOSEDED SESSION.
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>> THANK YOU CONTINUES AND
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EXCEPTION ANYONE HAVE A
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CONTINUANCE OR EXCEPTION ON THE CITY
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COUNCIL THEN WE WILL MOVE TO THE
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PUBLIC. ANYONE?
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>> MAYOR.
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>> YES.
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>> I HAVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS TO
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MENTION.
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>> GO AHEAD.
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>> UNDER THIS SECTION OUR LAST
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MEETING I STATED I WOULD PROVIDE
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SUMMARY OF THE ITEMS TIME SENSITIVE
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FOR THE COUNCIL TO HEAR THIS EVENING
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IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THERE IS
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CONTINUE NEWTY OF CITY SERVICES AND
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OPERATIONS I FIRST WANT TO START WITH
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ITEM NUMBER 8. THAT ITEM BE
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CONTINUED TO JUNE 22ND. WE HAVE
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HEARD FROM THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IF THE
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ITEM CANNOT BE HEARD EARLY THEY DO
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REQUEST THAT THE ITEM BE SCHEDULED
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EARLIER ON THE AGENDA ON JUNE 22ND
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SO I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT ITEM
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BE DEFERRED AND WE WILL NOTE IT
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PROPERLY.
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>> CAN WE DO THAT RIGHT NOW?
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>> SURE.
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>> SO THAT ITEM IS ITEM 8. I THINK
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THAT'S ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
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>> IT IS. SO, IT WOULD BE CONTINUED
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BY ACTION. AND THAT'S THE RESOLUTION
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OF NECESSITY TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN REAL
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PROPERTY INTEREST AT 890 WALSH
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AVENUE.
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>> THANK YOU. A MOTION TO CONTINUE
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THAT?
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>> SO MOVED [MULTIPLE SPEAKERS].
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>> THERE'S A MOTION. IS THERE A
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SECOND.
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>> SECOND.
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>> MOTION, SECOND ON THAT. ANY
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DISCUSSION ON THAT OR ANY DISCUSSION
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FROM THE PUBLIC ON THAT.
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>> MAYOR WE DO HAVE A HAND
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RAISED.
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>> OKAY. GO AHEAD. [MULTIPLE
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SPEAKERS] WHO?
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>> PHIL.
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>> CAN YOU HEAR ME?
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>> YES GO AHOED PHIL. I'M CPA I
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REPRESENT THE INTEREST AND I'M IN
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FAVOR OF IT AS WELL TO THE 22.
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>> THANK YOU PHIL WE WILL MAKE
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SURE THAT GETS ON THE AGENDA FOR
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YOUR CLIENT. OKAY? ALL RIGHT. THANK
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YOU WHERE SHE A MOTION AND
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SECOND. NO OTHER DISCUSSION
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ASSISTANT CITY CLERK ROLL CALL VOTE
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PLEASE?
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>> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
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>> YES.
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>> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
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>> YES.
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>> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
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>> YES.
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>> MAYOR GILLMOR.
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>> YES.
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>> THANK YOU THAT PASSES
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UNANIMOUSLY GO AHEAD AND CITY
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MANAGER.
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>> WE HAVE SIX CONSENT CALENDAR
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ITEMS TIME SENSITIVE I WILL STATE THEM
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FOR THE COUNCIL ITEM 4F LIKE FRANK
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4G LIKE GEORGE 4H, 4K, 4M AND 4R
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THOSE EACH HAVE TIME SENSITIVE
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DATES ON THE GENERAL BUSINESS SIDE
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OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA I JUST WANT TO
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NOTE THAT ITEMS 5, 6 AND [AUDIO
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CUTTING OUT] TEN ARE TIME SENSITIVE
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ITEM 7 IS ALSO RELATIVELY TIME
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SENSITIVE ALTHOUGH IT CAN BE DEFERRED
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TO JUNE 15TH IF NEEDED BUT THAT ITEM
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HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DEFERRED LIKE
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ITEMS 5 AND 6.
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>> OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE?
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>> THAT'S IT.
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>> THANK YOU CITY MANAGER.
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ANYBODY ELSE ON THE COUNCIL? OKAY.
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WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THEN--OR THE
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PUBLIC--DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC
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MEMBER?
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>> MAYOR WE HAVE A HAND UP FROM--
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>> YES GO AHEAD. ARE YOU CALLING
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THEM?
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>> HELLO?
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>> GABRIELLA.
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>> YES K YOU HEAR ME.
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>> YES GO AHEAD.
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>> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE I'M
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GABRIELLA WITH THE AGENT LAW LINES,
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AND ITEM 12 ASKED IT BE MOVED UP
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AND HANDLES FIRST SO THE PUBLIC
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MEMBERS PLANNING ON JOINING DON'T
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HAVE TO WAIT FOR LATE INTO THE NIGHT.
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>> OKAY. THANK YOU GABRIELLA.
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COUNCILMEMBERS ANYBODY LIKE TO
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TAKE THAT ON.
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>> I LIKE TO MOVE THAT UP TO BEFORE
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ITEM 5. ITEM 12 BE MOVED TO BEFORE
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ITEM 5 AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR PUBLIC
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HEARING.
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>> I WILL SECOND THAT.
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>> OKAY WHERE SHE A MOTION AND
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SECOND TO MOVE THAT ITEM UP.
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COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
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>> THANK YOU MAYOR. YES. I WOULD
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JUST LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THIS IS
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NOT CITY BUSINESS. WE HAVE RECEIVED
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A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT POLITICAL
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MATTERS BEING PUT BEFORE CITY
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BUSINESS WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT
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TONIGHT ON OUR CALENDAR A LOT OF
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ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN CONTINUED
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FROM MAY 4TH. AND MAY 25. I THINK
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CITY BUSINESS SHOULD BE TAKEN
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PRIORITY OVER POLITICAL POLITICS SO I WILL
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NOT SUPPORT THE MOTION. THANK YOU.
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>> THANK YOU. I'M SURE IT'S GOING TO
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PASS I'M NOT GOING SUPPORT IT EITHER.
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WE HAVE ITEMS TONIGHT. OBVIOUSLY,
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PERSONAL POLITICAL ITEMS WILL GO FIRST.
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ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO COMMENT ON
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THIS? ALL RIGHT. ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
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VOTE TO MOVE THAT UP AHEAD OF ALL
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OTHER CITY BUSINESS AND OTHER OTHER
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BUSINESS.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
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>> NO.
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>> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER HARDY.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
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>> YES AND YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCIL MEMBER BECKER?
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>> YES.
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>> MAYOR GILLMOR.
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>> NO. AND THAT PASSES 5 TO 2.
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OKAY. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT. LET'S
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TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS GENERAL.
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BEFORE WE START OUR SPECIAL ORDER OF
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BUSINESS I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT
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TO TWO OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS HERE IN
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SANTA CLARA. ONE IS THE SANTA CLARA
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HIGH SCHOOLBOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL
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TEAM IN THE PLAY OFFS THAT ONE THEIR
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DM DIVISION, WE WILL BE RECOGNIZING
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THEM LATER THIS MONTH THEY ARE
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PLAYING PALO ALTO. AT 7 O'CLOCK I WANT
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TO WISH THE COACH AND THE BOYS
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BASKETBALL TEAM REPRESENTING OUR
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CITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT. WISH THEM
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GOOD LUCK. THEY MADE IT SO FAR GO
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SANTA CLARA HIGH. ALSO WILCOX HIGH
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SCHOOL WON THEIR FIRST PLAY OFF GAME
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COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE AND I
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ATTENDED THEY WILL PLAY HILLSDALE
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TONIGHT TO THE WILCOX TEAM AND
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COACH MALOY GOOD LUCK TONIGHT. WE
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HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING I TO BE AT
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BOTH OF THOSE OR HALF AND HALF. GOOD
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LUCK. WE WILL MOVE TO ITEMS OF
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BUSINESS THE FIRST ITEM WE HAVE ON
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THE YOUTH COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR
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FISCAL YEAR 20 AND 21. AS A SPECIAL
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ORDER OF BUSINESS THIS EVENING, THE
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CITY COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE
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SEVEN OUTGOING MEMBERS OF THE
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YOUTH COMMISSION. SINCE IT'S
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INCEPTION IN 1995, THE 15 MEMBER
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YOUTH COMMISSION HAS PROVIDED A
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YOUTH PERSPECTIVE AND VOICE AS WELL
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AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIC
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ENGAGEMENT SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
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TRAINING THAT SUPPORT AND ACTIVE AND
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HEALTHY YOUTH POPULATION SO YOUTH
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COMMISSION STAFF LIAISON JOHN
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KAWATA IS WITH US THIS EVENING. HE
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WILL PRESENT THE SEVEN OUTGOING
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MEMBERS JOHN I SAW YOU ON HERE A
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LITTLE BIT AGO.
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>> I AM HERE.
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>> WELCOME JOHN.
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>> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING MAYOR
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GILLMOR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CITY
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STAFF WITH US TONIGHT AS MAYOR
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GILLMOR SAID I'M STAFF LIAISON TO THE
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YOUTH COMMISSION COMMISSION. IT'S
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MY PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE SEVEN
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OUTGOING YOUTH COMMISSIONERS THIS
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EVENING, WE APPRECIATE THE SERVICE
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THAT I HAVE TO THE COMMUNITY AND
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WISH THEM THE BEST AS THEY CONTINUE
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SERVICE AND EDUCATION FIRST IS
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ADRIANNE KRIVOKAPIC-ZHOU WHO
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GRADUATED FROM SANTA CLARA HIGH
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SCHOOL AND HAS SERVED THREE TERMS
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ADRIANNE WILL BE ATTENDING CAL
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BERKELEY. COLIN LIM GRADUATED FROM
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BASIS SILICON VALLEY WILL BE ATTENDING
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY KAYLA PHAN
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GRADUATES FROM SANTA CLARA AND
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SERVED FOUR TERMS WILL BE ATTENDING
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FULLERTON. CONSIDER KAVYA SRIRAM
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AND SMRITHI SURESH NA NA WILL BE
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ATTENDING PITZER COLLEGE AMY ZUO
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GRADUATED AND SERVED TWO TERMS
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AMY WILL BE ATTENDING RICE UNIVERSITY
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SO OUR OUTGOING COMMISSIONERS WE
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WILL COORDINATE A TIME TO GET
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CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION TO THEM AS
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WELL AS WE HAVE HOPEFULLY YOU CAN
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SEE THIS, WE HAVE LAWN SIGNS FOR
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THEM.
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>> WE CAN'T SEE THEM. WAIT TRY THAT
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AGAIN JOHN. TRY THAT AGAIN. I WANT TO
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SEE THOSE OH, WELL.
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>> WE WILL TAKE PICTURES INTO THE
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NEWSLETTER FOR EVERYBODY. AGAIN
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THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE
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CITY OF SANTA CLARA IT IS VERY MUCH
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APPRECIATED THANK YOU MAYOR AND
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COUNCILMEMBERS.
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>> LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND OF
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APPLAUSE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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SERVICE. TO HEAR ABOUT SOME OF
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THOSE COLLEGES THAT IS IMPRESSIVE I'M
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PROUD OF OUR YOUTH COMMISSIONERS
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AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND WISH
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THEM LUCK IN COLLEGE I THINK THEY'LL BE
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WELL PREPARED THOSE THEY HAVE DONE
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SUCH WONDERFUL WORK AND THANK YOU
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FOR THE WONDERFUL WORK YOU HAVE
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DONE FOR THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA ON
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THE YOUTH COMMISSION, WE ALL VERY
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MUCH APPRECIATE IT. SO, NEXT, WE
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HAVE.
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>> MADAME MAYOR?
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COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE HAS HER
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HAND UP.
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>> GO AHEAD.
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>> THANK YOU JOHN FOR SHARING THAT
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I KNOW THE YOUTH COMMISSION HAS
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DEFINITELY HAD TO MAKE SOME
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CHANGES THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVE I
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HAVE SEEN POSTINGS ACTIVITIES THEY
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ARE PARTICIPATING IN I NOTICED THE
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PARKS AND RECK HAVE BEEN POSTING
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PICTURES OF THE STUDENTS THAT WORK IN
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THE DEPARTMENT UP ON THE CITY
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WEBSITE. I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST
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MAYBE TAKING PICTURES OF THE YOUTH
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COMMISSIONERS WITH THE SIGNS UP
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AND POSTING ON THE WEBSITE SINCE WE
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COULDN'T SEE THE SIGNS AS WELL. LIKE
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TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM WITH THE SIGN
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AS WELL. THANKS FOR DOING THAT WITH
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THE SIGN.
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>> I DO, TOO. I THINK THAT IS A
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WONDERFUL IDEA.
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>> WE WILL CERTAINLY DO THAT.
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>> NEXT IS SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS
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THIS EVENING THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD
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LIKE TO CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDED
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REAPPOINTMENT OF EIGHT MEMBERS
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AND SEVEN NEW MEMBER
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APPOINTMENTS AND TWO ALTERNATE
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APPOINTMENTS TO THE YOUTH
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COMMISSION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021
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AND 22. AND TURNOVER AGAIN TO JOHN.
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AND SHARE THE CANDIDATES ELIGIBLE
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FOR REAPPOINTMENT AND THE
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RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES TO FILL
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VACANCYS AND ALTERNATES JOHN TAKE
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IT AWAY AGAIN.
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>> THANK YOU ON MARCH 27TH AND
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APRIL 3RD, '26 CANDIDATES INTERVIEWED
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FOR THE YOUTH COMMISSION.
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[INAUDIBLE] FISCAL YEAR 21-22 TERM.
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YOUTH COMMISSIONERS CITY OF SANTA
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CLARA RESIDENTS 12 TO 19 AND MAY
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SEVEN UP TO 6, 1 YEAR TERMS FOR THE
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COUNCIL I LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE
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RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES AND
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ELIGIBLE RETURNING MEMBERS FOR THE
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UPCOMING TERM UPCOMING
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CANDIDATES ARE MITCHELL BLANDA,
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KAITLYN BUTCHER MATT CUPERTINO HIGH
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SCHOOL. MALIA MARTIN, HIRANYA
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PAREKH AND SAMARTH SURESH 8TH
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GREAT. RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES
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ARE FATIMAH ISMAIL WILCOX HIGH
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SCHOOL AND KIRA LIANG CUPERTINO.
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RETURNING YOUTH COMMISSIONERS
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RECOMMENDED FOR REAPPOINTMENT
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ARE AARVA GUPTA 10TH GRADE COLLEGE
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PREP ENTERING THIRD TERM. AHMAD
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ISMAIL WILCOX HIGH SCHOOL. THIRD
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TERM. JASMINE KELLY-TANTI SANTA
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CLARA HIGH SCHOOL. 4TH TERM.
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KHADEEJAH KHAN 10TH GRADE SANTA
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CLARA HIGH SCHOOL. SECOND TERM.
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RAJVI KHANJAN SHROFF 11TH GRADE
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CUPERTINO HIGH SCHOOL SECOND TERM.
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RIYA MEHTA 12TH GRADE SECOND
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TERM. PALAK PARIKH WILCOX HIGH
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SCHOOL SECOND TERM. AND SARAH
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ZUO. 10TH GRADE CUPERTINO HIGH
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SCHOOL ENTERING SECOND TERM. THOSE
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ARE THE CANDIDATES BRINGING FORTH TO
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MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
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>> THANK YOU JOHN. I LOVE TO SEE
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THAT THE COMMISSIONERS ARE SERVING
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MULTIPLE TERMS. THAT MEANS THEY'RE
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ENJOYING THEIR TIME ON THE
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COMMISSION AND WANT TO CONTINUE
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SO, I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS A WONDERFUL
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SIGN SO THANK YOU FOR REUPPING YOUR
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COMMITMENT TO THE CITY WE REALLY
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APPRECIATE IT. SO, I WOULD NEED NOW
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FROM OUR CITY COUNCIL A MOTION TO
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RECOMMEND REAPPOINTMENT OF EIGHT
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COMMISSIONERS, AND THE
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APPOINTMENT OF SEVEN NEW
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COMMISSIONERS AND TWO ALTERNATIVE
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APPOINTMENTS COUCILMEMBER
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BECKER.
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>> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THAT MOTION.
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>> SECOND.
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>> MOTION AND SECOND BY
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COUNCILMEMBER HARDY. IS THERE
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ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SAY
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ANYTHING? I'M EXCITED FOR OUR NEW
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COMMISSION. ALL RIGHT. ASSISTANT CITY
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CLERK ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE?
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>> COUNCILMEMBER WATANABE.
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>> YES.
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>> VICE MAYOR CHAHAL.
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>> YES.
00:20:54
>> COUNCIL MEMBER HARDY.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER PARK.
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>> YES.
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>> COUNCILMEMBER JAIN.
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>> YES.
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>> COUCILMEMBER BECKER.
00:21:04
>> YES.
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>> MAYOR GILLMOR.
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>> THAT YES THAT PASSES
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UNANIMOUSLY THANK YOU JAMES
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TEIXEIRA WITH THE YOUTH
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COMMISSIONERS WITH THE BRIGHT
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MINDS AND ACTIVITIES WE HOPE THEY
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WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE MORE IN
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THE UPCOMING TERM.
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>> THANK YOU THIS EVENING. I'M
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PROUD TO ANNOUNCE. THIS IS LESBIAN,
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GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND
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QUEER LGBTQ + PRIDE MONTH.
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PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO
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RECOGNIZE THE IMPACT THAT LGBTQ +
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INDIVIDUALS HAVE HAD ON OUR NATION'S
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IDEALS OF EQUALITY AND FREEDOM AND
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TO HONOR THE 1969 STONEWALL RIOTS ON
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JUNE 28, 1969. PATRONS OF THE
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STONEWALL INN IN NEW YORK CITY TOOK
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A STAND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY
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AND STAGED AND UPRISING TO RESIST
00:22:21
POLICE HARASSMENT AND PURSE
00:22:24
CUSHION TO WHICH LGBT INDIVIDUAL
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WERE COMMONLY SUBJECTED TO AT THAT
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TIME. THE STONEWALL RIOTS MARKED
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THE BEGINNING OF THE LGBT CIVIL
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RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO OUT LAW
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DISCRIMINATORY LAWS AND PRACTICES
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AND PAVE THE WAY FORWARD TOWARDS
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LGBTQ + EQUALITY AND FOREVER
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CHANGE THE COURSE OF SOCIAL MODERN
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MOVEMENTS DURING PRIDE MONTH, WE
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HONOR THE RESILIENT SPIRIT AND
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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LGBTQ +
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INDIVIDUALS WHOSE PERSONAL
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SACRIFICES AND DETERMINATION WERE
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INSTRUMENTAL IN THE STRUGGLE FOR
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EQUALITY FOR ALL. LAST WEEK, WE RAISED
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THE RAINBOW FLAG OVER SANTA CLARA
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CITY HALL, THAT IS JUST LAST FRIDAY. I
00:23:11
KNOW ONLINE, YOU CAN SEE A VIDEO OF
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THAT CEREMONY. THE RAINBOW FLAG WILL
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FLY OVER SANTA CLARA THROUGH THE END
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OF JUNE TO HONOR. LGBTQ + PRIDE
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MONTH. I LIKE TO INTRODUCE I HOPE
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SHE'S HERE WAITING, GABRIELLE
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ANTOLAVICH AT THE PRIDE FLAG RAISING
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CEREMONY FOR FIVE YEARS WE HAD OUR
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FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY GABRIELLE. AND
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[INAUDIBLE] THIS YEAR. I HEAR HER
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LAUGHING GABRIELLE HAS BEEN A FIERCE
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I SAY FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR ADVANCING
00:24:01
LGBTQ + AND HAS LED THE
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IMPLEMENTATION OF A VARIETY OF
00:24:05
PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF
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THE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY. I LIKE TO
00:24:10
INVITE. BILLY BOARD PRESIDENT AND
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GABRIELLA PRESIDENT. THANK YOU VERY
00:24:20
MUCH.
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>> THANK YOU. CAN YOU SEE ME?
00:24:22
>> YES, WE CAN SEE YOU.
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>> AND I HAVE LAST YEAR'S
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PROCLAMATION.
00:24:27
>> I HAVE THIS YEAR'S.
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>> 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
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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
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PASSED. ALSO, I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO
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PUNISHMAYOR GILLMOR.YES,I(INAUDIBLE)
07:27:22
EVERY COUNCILMEMBER (INAUDIBLE)IF THE
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CITY ISSUES DONE. THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU. WESLEY, GO AHEAD, WESLEY?
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>>I WOULD LIKE TO SAYTHE PEOPLE THAT
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SAY NO I SAY YESNOT BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE
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MAYOR GILMORE AS A PERSON GILLMOR AS A
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PERSON. SHE HAS BEEN VERYFAIR. BUT IN
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THIS ONE INSTANCE SHE CENSOREDWHAT
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KEVIN WOULD HAVE SAID AND THAT WAS NOT
07:27:58
FAIR.SO A PUBLIC FIGURE AND A PUBLIC
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EVENT, THAT IS AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE
07:28:08
OF ADMONISHMENT TO YOU.BUT I DO THINK
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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
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AM NOT HEARING IT AT ALL, THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU, WESLEY. ANYONE ELSE LIKE
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TO SPEAK? OKAY, I'M GOING BACK TO THE
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COUNCIL. IS THERE IS ACTION WOULD LIKE
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TO TAKE FOR MY ADMONISHMENT?IS THERE A
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MOTION?
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>>I THINK I DID MAKE THE MOTION, I
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DIDN'T HEAR A SECOND.
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>>IS A SECOND, IS IT FOR THE RESOLUTION?
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FOR THAT MOTION?
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>>I SECOND THAT.ANNVICE MAYOR.
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>>I HAVE MY HAND RAISED.
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>>SORRY, I HAVE A HARD TIME BECAUSE
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IT'S LIGHT ON A LIGHT BACKGROUND. I'M
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SO SORRY.
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[CROSSTALK]GO AHEAD, COUNCILMEMBER
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WATANABE.
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>>I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
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TO SPEAK IN YOUR DEFENSEAS YOU SPOKE IN
07:29:23
MIND.WHAT IS BEING DONETO YOU RIGHT NOW
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IS UNFAIR, AND LIKE IT WAS A SECOND
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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
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WERE TWO BOATS, COUNCILMEMBERJANE VOTED
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NOT TO CENSURE MEBUT TO ADMONISH YOU,
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AND COUNCILMEMBER BECKER VOTED TO
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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
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WASN'T GOING TO CENSURE ME, THEN WHY
07:30:13
DID HE FEEL IT WAS NECESSARY TO
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ADMONISH YOU? IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
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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,
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IT'S LIKE THIS IS JUST AN OPPORTUNITY
07:30:35
TO HURTAND POINT FINGERS BECAUSE IN
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PEOPLE YOU KNOW, AND I APPRECIATE THE
07:30:46
FACT THAT PEOPLE POINTED OUT THAT YOU
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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.
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>>THANK YOU FOR THE KIND COMMENTS. WE
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NEED TO GET TO A VOTEBEFORE WE SHUT
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DOWN HERE, WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES. SO
07:31:13
COULDTHE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, COULD YOU
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CALL FOR A ROLL CALL VOTEFORTHE MOTION
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TO ADMONISH ME. THANK YOU.
07:31:24
>>
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[CALLING ROLL]ALL RIGHT. I AM
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OFFICIALLY ADMONISHED. OKAY.THANK YOU.
07:31:53
NOW WE HAVE THE REST OF THE COUNCIL
07:31:54
MEETING TOCONTINUE UNTILTHURSDAY.WE
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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?
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>>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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.