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Good evening, everyone. Today is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. We will call the regular meeting in

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place and let's have a pledge of allegiance.

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It's allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

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which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Just

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came out of the closed session. We'll ask our legal counsel to do a report.

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Yeah, Madam Mayor, we do have a report out this evening by a vote of three to two with Mayor Hu and Vice Mayor Josie Voting-No.

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The council voted to refrain from seeking appellate review of the Save Mount D'Avolo versus City of Dublin case. That's the end of my report.

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Thank you. Let's move on to agenda item 3, Presentations and Proclamations.

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3.1, Presentation of the Ramadan Proclamation.

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Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar year,

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and is the annual holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal.

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It is a time to reflect spirituality, build community, and those in need spend time with

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friends and families and celebrate and express gratitude.

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So Masha, we have a public comment for this item, right?

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I do have a public comment for this item, Mayor, and that's Brent Sanji.

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Thank you.

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So I don't want to offend anybody, but this is part of the DEI calendar.

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And I think it's offensive to Americans and Christians. They're not on the DEI calendar, and I don't think that's an accident

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So it's like a good thing that we're celebrating the Muslim holiday

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But most people don't celebrate this holiday

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We don't know anything about it and I can't really like celebrate with people that we don't even know their culture or anything

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that I want the city to celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving and

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Fourth of July and that's not on the DEI calendar

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So it's not like it doesn't make sense to ask to put that on the calendar

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I think it's left off the calendar on purpose

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So I think the whole DEI should be thrown out with the whole calendar.

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We shouldn't be celebrating religious holidays of these people.

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No offense.

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That's just my opinion.

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Thank you.

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Masha, do we have any additional comments?

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I have no other speakers left on that item here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So we have a Dublin Muslim Cultural Society,

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Rabia Bader, to accept the proclamations.

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And also, there's a Muslim Community Center

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East Bay, we want both of you come to accept the proclamations and then take photos with

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us.

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And also, if you have anything you want to say, please.

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Thank you.

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So good evening, Mayor and respective council members.

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First of all, thank you so much for recognizing Ramadan with this proclamation.

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On behalf of the – as a board member of the MCC East Bay, I'm very deeply grateful

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to you and grateful for the City of Dublin for this proclamation and for a continued commitment

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to, for inclusion of our community and our partnership. Ramadan is a very sacred time

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for us as Muslims. It's a month of reflection, gratitude, service, and at MCC East Bay, these

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values guide our work year-round. Our example is our food pantry, which now serves hundreds

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of households in the Tri Valley serving Dublin, Pleasanton, and all across the Bay Area.

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Through these partnerships with the Alameda County Food Bank and local organizations,

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we provide fresh produce, staples, and essential items ensuring families can access food with

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dignity, especially during these challenging times. Beyond food security, MTC supports

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refugee families, provides emergency assistance, offers educational and youth programs,

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and engages in an interfaith and civic work all rooted in the belief that

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caring for our community is a shared responsibility. This work would not be

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possible without your support so we thank you so much for continuing to

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support us and we we really stand with you for for recognizing our values and

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the values that Ramadan represents. Before I conclude I'd like to uplift

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the next generation of leaders in our community I'm honored to introduce

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my daughter, Rabia. She's an 18-year-old student from Averwes High School. She was the recipient

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of the Three Valley Community Salvation Next Gen Award, the Enthalantropus Award,

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and she's going to speak on behalf of the Dublin Muslim Cultural Society. Thank you.

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Good evening, Mayor, Council members, community staff, and members of the community.

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My name is Rabia, and I'm a senior at Averwes High School. It's an honor to accept the

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Ramadan proclamation on behalf of the Muslim Cultural Society of Dublin.

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Ramadan is a month rooted in reflection, generosity, connection, and we're grateful to the City

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of Dublin for recognizing it and for fostering a community where people of all backgrounds

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feel like they belong.

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The spirit of connection is at the heart of our upcoming events.

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This Ramadan, we're bringing neighbors together at our community FTR on Friday,

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February 20th at 5.30 p.m. at Meza and Mocha in Liverbore, hosting a food

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drive to support the Dublin Unified School District food and assistance

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pantry from March 9th to March 23rd, and celebrating Eagle Fitter with the

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City on April 21st at the Civic Center, followed by Eid al-Adha on May 30th at the Dublin Senior

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Center. Each of these moments is about service, celebration, and building relationships across

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our city. As a young person involved in community service, it means a great deal to see our city

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uplift faith communities and celebrate people and to come together in meaningful

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waves. Thank you to the City of Dublin for this proclamation and for your

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partnership and for helping make Dublin a place where everyone feels welcome.

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Thank you and Ramadan Mubarak. Thank you very much. So we have proclamation for

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you to accept that we made two for each of you. Great work.

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Let's start from here together.

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That item for public comment. At this time the public is permitted to address the City Council

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on non-agendaized items. Please step to the podium and clearly state your name for the record.

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Mayor, I have 18 speakers left right now for this item and so we will start with those

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person and then we will go to those on Zoom. So our first speaker is Shirley

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Lewandowski.

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Good evening council staff. My name is Shirley Lewandowski and this

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is my helper today. Todd Benson. We're both Dublin residents. This is

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This is Dulin Canyon. I think I got my wrong glasses. Can I switch?

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Yeah. Oh, God.

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I'll just stand here and look pretty.

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That's what happens when you get old.

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Okay. Anyway, sorry about that. Thank you.

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This picture is Dulin Canyon. It's located in Alameda County, unincorporated land.

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and one of the last beautiful and breathtaking open space and agricultural

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area left in the Tri Valley. It is protected from development under the

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2014 open space initiative and serves as a green belt barrier between Dublin and

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Livermore. Now the second slide shows all the existing animals and plants in

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the canyon. Their habitat will be destroyed or disrupted by any type

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of development. The open space initiative does not mandate a road to

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connect Dublin and Livermore. It only says that the city may consider one. If that is

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the case, then it becomes a question of what the road will look like and at what financial

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and environmental costs. Within the Dulin Canyon is a cross-bic property where the

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proposed Dublin extension will cut through 80 acres of the cross-bic property here

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And it's going to use up open space to connect to Livermore.

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The extension is one and a half miles long and depicted by this dotted line here, starting

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from Fallon Road going east all the way to North Gaines Parkway in Livermore.

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It's going to consist of 12 six-to-car lanes wide and a bike and pedestrian lane.

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And it's going to be sitting 1200 feet above and parallel to 580 here.

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Our proposed option is the solid line here, the yellow line here, which is a two-lane

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road, which is called Road, and it starts on Fallon, it goes south, and you only have to

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build a third of a mile road to connect it to another existing two-lane road called Collier

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Canyon Road, to Livermore, okay. And our proposed lane also includes a bike and pedestrian lane.

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Next one.

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The city's design is estimated to cost $160 million.

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Building it means losing 80 acres of Crosby property open space and a major disruption

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to the biodiversity of the area.

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Its multi-lanes means more traffic with more added from 580 and creating more air pollution.

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This design is currently not completely funded.

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The city is borrowing $71 million from general funds to jumpstart it.

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To help offset the cost, the city wants to commercially develop along the road on the

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Crosby property, but this must be voter approved.

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Commercial development would eliminate any financial support from Livermore and require

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annexation of the Crosby property.

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Our alternative to lane design is estimated to cost $44 million.

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dollars. It can be fully funded within the city's capital improvement budget. It saves open space,

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minimal impact to the existing biodiversity. Two-lane means less traffic, less pollution,

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no commercial development or annexation needed. This is the more cost-effective and responsible

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use of taxpayer money. If a road is considered to connect Dublin to Livermore, this is the

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design the city should build. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Here is Brad Dabrinsitsky.

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Good evening. My name is Brad Dabrinsitsky.

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Good evening, Mayor Hu and distinguished members

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of the Dublin City Council.

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It is my honor to serve as the proudly elected representative

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and leader of the diligent, tenacious, and adaptable members

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of the Dublin Teachers Association.

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Normally I restrict my comments to the school board meetings,

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but tonight I'm reaching out to our larger community.

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Your Dublin educators need our community's help to protect our students.

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Please demand that Dublin Unified School District Management

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reprioritize their budget to invest in students and avert a potential strike.

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For over 18 months, the members of the Dublin Teachers Association

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have been advocating for ways to enhance the revenue of our school district

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so that we can invest in Dublin students.

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We have suggested early retirement incentives and update to independent study

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that would align with state laws allowing our district to recover funds

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that are lost when students are absent and medical billing for publicable services.

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While your educators have been advocating for ways to invest in students, I'm sad to report

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that in December, Superintendent Funk revealed that an accounting error, for which he has

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claimed full responsibility, has resulted in an additional $3.6 million deficit.

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This would be scary news to any concerned stakeholder. However, when placed in context

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of past behavior, it really raises questions about how effective Dublin Unified School

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district management is at managing taxpayer dollars. Based on the unaudited actuals in

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2021-22, management underestimated the revenue by over $11 million. In 22-23, they underestimated

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revenue by almost $18 million. 23-24, they underestimated revenue by over $9 million.

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And in 24-25, it will come as no surprise that the pattern continues with revenue

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again being underestimated by over $8 million. This context begs two questions. First,

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First, how many millions of dollars is DOSD management

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off by in their accounting this year?

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As a teacher, I am so happy to be able

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to answer your question.

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Currently, DOSD management has not accounted

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for nearly 19 million in additional state revenue.

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The second question is, where did all the money go

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for the last four years?

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Some of that money is spent in ways

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that are not student-centered like outside contractors

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and the rest may language in unrestricted reserves.

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Based on Superintendent Funk's presentation

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recommendation, the Board of Trustees

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for Dublin Unified School District

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recently voted to approve several cuts. These cuts managed nearly $6 million, $6.8 million,

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and there are plans for more cuts at the meeting on February 10th. What you might

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notice in these cuts, however, is that none of them are to senior management salaries.

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If superintendent Funk does take full responsibility as he claims, why are none

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of the cuts touching his salary or the salary of the assistant superintendents

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who share the responsibility of managing the district budget appropriately?

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Our neighbors to the east in Livermore also had a draft to propose cuts. Out of

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pages almost exclusively kept cuts away from student-facing employees and programs.

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Indeed, the entire first page of Livermore's proposals are cuts to senior management salaries

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via furlough days. Sadly, Dublin's district management have not made those same student-centered

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choices. Instead, cuts from DOC management teams protect their salaries while gutting the

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Reports and services for our students. Should the superintendent of our Dublin schools, a

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man who earns more than the governor of California, have his salary protected at the expense of

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the health and well-being of Dublin students? This pattern of decision making and mismanagement

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is why.

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Time is over.

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Thank you.

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Next speaker is Tom Evans, followed by Janine Gillingerton and then Mike Grant and then

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John Cameron.

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Good

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evening, Mayor and Council, staff.

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My name is Tommy Evans, a long-time resident.

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I just want to show support for Shirley Lewandowski's efforts to find a better solution for the

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Dublin Boulevard Extension.

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We could find something that fits our budget better, is more friendly to the environment,

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for example, and doesn't need to involve the Crosby property. We can probably effectively

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accomplish all the requirements that we're trying to get by having a good road built through there,

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but we don't need to hang on to the expensive one that we're looking at now. Thank you very much.

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Thank you. Next speaker is Jeanine Gillinggarden.

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Good evening everyone. My name is Jeanine

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Gillinggarden and I would like to address the staff report from the first January meeting on the

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sale of safe and sane fireworks in the City of Dublin. I was saddened to see that of the

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options offered to the City Council for their consideration, the option of choosing not to

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out the sale of fireworks was not present. I believe the comparison cities should have

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only included those of our neighbors in the Tri-Valley and Benton counties to the east

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of the hills that separate us from the bay. Even our weather forecast put us in a separate

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category than the communities surrounding the bay. We are an inland valley. We are

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hotter and drier than communities on the other side of the foothills. And let

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us not forget the Dublin wind, which is a factor.

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Looking at this in terms of climate and vegetation, we can see that we are more at risk here in

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the Tri Valley area because of a drier climate, a hotter climate, and a substantial shared

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boundary with rural landscape, especially in West Dublin and the hills of East Dublin.

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Exactly those single family home neighborhoods that make up one of the three designated

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areas where these fireworks are allowed.

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I know that some people will be concerned that this opportunity to raise funds for nonprofits serving Dublin and Dublin residents is very significant.

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When I look through the report, the cost of the program, the 2025 program for the sale of these fireworks to the city was $79,000.

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The revenue to the city was $5,000.

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The report also notes that the costs to the nonprofits have risen and it is

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becoming harder for them to earn as much money as they had in the past for the sale

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of fireworks. So I have a couple of possible ideas I would like you to also

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consider. BAM the sale of all fireworks. Consider using the funds to have a

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carnival where local nonprofits can have booths to raise funds or let the

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non-profits use the current lottery system to secure booths at events like Splatter and St. Patrick's Day.

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Another idea, ban fireworks except at the allowed parks.

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Require a California ID to buy the fireworks, to prove the buyer lives in Dublin,

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and add a surcharge to each sale to pay for the cost of police and fire.

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and this is just an idea of mine, limit the sale to 10 booths in front of the

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police department. That gives us possibilities. Ban the sale of all

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fireworks. Why not take the money that would have been spent? We had 15 booths,

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so divide it by 15, which is the average number of booths that were allowed, and

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give the nonprofit groups each one-fifteenth of the money. You can

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do something that is helpful we can be safer in our homes and the non-profits

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can continue their good work. Thank you very much. The next speaker is Mike Grant

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followed by John Cameron and then Linda Milanese.

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Good evening Mike Grant long-time

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resident owner Guns Unlimited Repair Dublin. I'd like to comment on the

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item you brought up on January the 20th about the indoor gun range and gun

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dealerships. So you all know, I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and do support

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someone having the right to open a gun quality gun range or gun store in Dublin. I think

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that all of us should know that gun dealers are highly regulated by the ATF and the

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DOJ. We're also inspected for these items like securing guns and proper paperwork being

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filled out per the law each year. Now on the other hand handgun gun ranges are not

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regulated or inspected by the DOJ or the ATF, only Cal OSHA. If they have an air

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quality complaint or an employee has to see a doctor then that trips a workman's

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comp claim and that's when they come out. Quality ranges start with good air

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handling equipment, indoor ranges can will produce high levels of burnt powder and lead

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in the air.

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This is why you need a building that is almost tight is basically negative air box, what

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it boils down to.

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Contamination out of the air is pulled through two sets of high high high filters, rating

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from Merch 15 to a Merch 17, which is HEPA filters.

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safety for the shooting. The shooters is also very important and that's ballistic

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panels between the lanes. So if you have an AED it doesn't shoot the guy next to

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you. I'm going to talk about suicide. We always bring suicide up which is

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rightfully so. I was at a seminar in recently a suicide prevention seminar.

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keynote speaker was VA Doug Collins. He had a great point and he said veteran

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suicide he said everyone can just do one thing and maybe we can save a life so

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think about that. On the panel there was a member who ran a gun range and she was

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in Colorado where her husband had a shooting in 2022. The person came in an

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older gentleman. He passed the SNF test. They rented him a gun. He hit my box ammo. He shot

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almost the whole box up. Then he turned the gun on himself and he killed himself. So what

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I'm saying here is another thing to prevent suicides is I'm against renting guns. If

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you don't own a gun,

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then go buy one legally and then you can go ahead and shoot. But

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Rending guns and not having supervision on a range

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is very dangerous.

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Thank you.

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Next speaker is John Cameron,

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followed by Linda Milanese and then Carol Silva.

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John Cameron, longtime resident.

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Right now in America we're seeing growing resistance

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spreading quickly against authoritarianism

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and fascism all across the country.

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People realize democracy is like a muscle.

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You don't use it, it will atrophy.

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From the presidency to the sycophants in Congress and the Supreme Court down to local D leaders who lost sight of the privilege and

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responsibility they've been given a

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correction is coming

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There have always been fascists here always will but now we've seen what happens when they have power

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Families broken up. No due process. No accountability

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murder

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People are rising and resisting who never have they're watching closely

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as to who is full of BS and who the real leaders are.

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We're finding who caters to the rich and powerful

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and who is concerned about doing the right thing

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for the good of the many,

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despite the efforts of the powerful,

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special interests only concerned with getting more.

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Locally, I think we need to pick up the pace,

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meet this challenge head on,

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offer to buy that federal land, FCI sits on,

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take away the opportunity for ICE

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to get a foothold in our community.

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Use imminent domain if you have to or any other way,

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but we need to get that away from them.

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One very practical use for this site,

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and I've already talked to firefighters

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about this in the area who think it's a great idea

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is to construct a park that the land sits on

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with a considerable size reservoir

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for aerial fire crews to access from.

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It's centrally located in Dublin

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to hit everything equally.

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It's a great location for that.

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aerial fire crews. What the helicopters do they can come they can extract nearly a

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thousand gallons of water in less than a minute. Instead of spending money on an

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unnecessary road most Dubliners don't want, Livermore definitely doesn't want

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and special interests are written all over it. Buy that land and put a park

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on it. You'll be preserving beautiful open space for everyone to enjoy and

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decompress from the pressures of everyday life. Protect our vanishing

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wildlife and give us a tremendous tool in combating a potential catastrophe.

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Quickly when we have the best chance to stop it, it'll save lives, save property and potentially

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billions of dollars.

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We all hope to never need such a tool.

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But don't wait to say, I wish it was something we had done before fire ripped through our

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city.

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It's, um, I've been concerned about fire for a long time, the changing weather

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conditions we have here, the way the wind acts and the heat. I've never seen it before.

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This February, the amount of frost we used to have was considerable. Now it's almost non-existent.

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So it is happening. And I agree with the fireworks. It's time to give those up.

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I mean, we are in a powder keg. And I think this park idea with the reservoir is a great idea.

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Just to prepare. Thank you.

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Next speaker is Linda Milanese, followed by Carol Silva, followed by Todd.

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Good evening, Linda Milanese.

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As the Livermore resident, I am really annoyed that Dublin wants to contaminate the open space between it and Livermore,

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with a six-lane, one-and-a-half-mile extension of Dublin Boulevard. For what

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purpose? A shortcut to LPC or Costco? Or a permanent shortcut for more traffic

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during congested commute hours? Measure II misled voters into believing it was

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a clean air open space preservation initiative. Dublin voters were duped. Who's going to pay

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for this $160 million intrusion on our open space, not live or more? The people of Dublin

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will end up footing the bill for something that benefits them in no way. Dublin residents would

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benefit more if your efforts and money were directed at developing a downtown, a real center

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for Dublin, instead of sprawling all over our open space. Dublin voters didn't get what they

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thought they were getting, and the courts agree that it's a questionable piece of legislation,

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so why not let it go? Let the appeal go and look at the sensible alternative plan

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for one-fourth the cost of one-third mile extension that connects already existing

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two-lane roads. You'll have both your connecting road as well as the open

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space you promise voters in Measure II. As a Livermore resident, I'm more than

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annoyed by the mega extension plan for Dublin Boulevard. But if I were a

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Dublin resident, I'd be furious. Don't waste their money and destroy what remains of their

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open space. Let the appeal go. Let it go and consider the alternative plan. Thank you.

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Next speaker is Carol Silva, followed by Todd, followed by Juan Pablo Dalvin Mulfine.

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Good

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evening, Mayor and City Council, Members and City staff.

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On July 15, 2024, Livermore Mayor's John Marshawn sent a letter to Dublin City's Mayor, who's

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now the former Mayor of Dublin, favoring the road extension but prioritizing preserving

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serving open space and maintaining a considerable visual buffer between the two communities.

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Mayor Marchand was concerned that the video that Dublin used to convince its residents

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to support the extension shows the road bounded by open space.

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Mayor Marchand states, even more quote, even more cynical is the name Dublin Open Space

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initiative. Since it eliminates open space, at the same time, Dublin staff

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maintains that in order to fund the expressway, there will be solid industrial

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and commercial buildings from Fallon Road to Dolan Road. Why doesn't the video

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The video showed the voters what this will really look like, unquote.

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Livermore City Council directed Livermore staff to conduct a citywide poll regarding preserving

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open space and the scenic corridor north of 580.

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The poll results showed that Livermore favors a road extension, but prioritizes open space

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and a visual buffer between our communities. Respondents were much less likely to support

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a road project if commercial and industrial development were constructed.

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On April 23,

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23, 2025, Dublin Mayor's Sherry Hugh held a state of the city launcheon. She noted

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that the five-year capital improvement program budget is projected at $104.9 million, which amounts

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to approximately $21 million per year, with the city's proposed six-lane extension of double and

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bowl of art estimated at that time a hundred at a hundred and sixty million this including this

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well separately another item is the city's vision for the downtown Dublin project

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also the large regional event center and other street parks and general improvement projects

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projects, how does the proposed road make economic sense for Dublin taxpayers?

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Thank you.

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Next speaker is Todd, followed by Juan Pablo Galvan-Wolfine, followed by G.O.T.

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Sharma.

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Good evening, Dublin City Council.

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My name is Todd Benson, longtime resident in Dublin.

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And what I'm here to speak about is in support of Shirley's proposal to come up

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with a $44 million option for the road extension as opposed to $160 million. That would be

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a considerable saving but still meets the need of this road that I guess is still being

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planned. I'm thinking about money savings. There's a lot of good things we could do for

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that in Dublin. And on a selfish note, I can just talking about my own street. Along

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Stagecoach Road, we have multiple roads that feed off of it and people are blowing

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by it. They're just going right through the stop signs. Specifically, Jade Circle and Topaz Circle.

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Around our area, we have two police officers at Park of the Stop Sign. These guys are making bucks.

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People are not even stopping at these stop signs. They're not even looking at them. And the

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problem here is that it's a safety issue. I'm surprised nobody's been killed yet. We did

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have a neighbor's dog that was hit by a car because the guy couldn't bother to stop or

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even go the speed limit.

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So what I'm proposing with this money savings with this option that maybe we put in some

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safety into some of our streets, put in speed bumps.

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For example, to install one speed bump is about $1,000 to $7,000.

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And if you look at what type it is, asphalt is $3,000 to $7,000.

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even cheaper are rubber refurbished speed bumps. We could use that money for

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something good to save lives because I can tell you along stagecoach they think

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it's a raceway and it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. I'm surprised nobody's

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been killed there yet. So that's one option I thought that we could use that

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money that we save on this other option. The other one is an iron horse

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trail right behind Dublin High School. It's a beautiful area. A lot of people

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use it. A lot of people use it at night. I've seen high school kids walking over there, joggers,

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bikers, scooters. But it's really dark. And it's a safety issue. I've seen near-collisions because

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people can't see each other. Partly their fault. They should wear reflective vests. They should

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wear lights. They don't. So I'm proposing with some of this money maybe put some safety lights

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out there. And maybe for the summertime when people use it too, it's like an oven there.

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people are baking. It's direct sun. Let's put some trees over there. You guys have

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already put a nice beginning of a nice park over there with that nice little

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kind of walking trail. Let's let's pretty it up and let's make it safer.

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And looking at my time, the one that's not as selfish is let's look at a

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door-tea overpass walkway right along door-tea parallel to the scarlet

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drive. Iron Horse goes right through there. Let's do an overpass rockway over

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door teeth that connects on Iron Horse and ends up at the Don Bridal Community

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Park. This area has a lot of foot traffic. It would improve the public safety and

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function of that area. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker is Juan Pablo

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Galvan Mulfine, followed by Jyoti Sharma, and then Trepti Sagair.

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Good evening, Dublin

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City Council, Ms. Mayor, Dublin City staff. My name is Juan Pablo Galvan Martinez,

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senior land use manager for Seymour Diablo. Sorry, I should learn to write a

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little better, but yeah, that is my name. No big deal. Just up here to say

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thank you so much to the majority of the City Council that voted to not

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appeal the court's decision from this past fall that measure II did require

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environmental review before putting it on the ballot. We think it's a wise

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decision, takes a long-term view that it's the correct decision, and we

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absolutely agree with it and are very appreciative. One of our utmost

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priorities in the entire Diablo Range, which spans 200 miles, is the

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preservation of the green belt between Dublin and Livermore, the last open

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space remaining in those two cities, and our efforts in 2014 that created

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the east side of the limit line that Dublin enjoys today always allowed a road connection between

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Dublin and Livermore. I think there's quite a bit of passion in the community for a road

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alternative that could be more economically feasible and be a lot easier in a lot of respects to

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what the city is currently contemplating, but we appreciate city leadership that takes its

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decisions after a lot of thought and follows the rules. So thank you very much for the

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decision tonight. And we look forward to working with all of you in the future for Dublin's

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prosperity and the protection of open space in the region. Thank you.

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Next speaker is Jyoti Sharma, followed by Trepti Sagar, followed by Sarisha Ludiniri.

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So good evening, Mayor and the councilmember. Pretty much our request is the same, but

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from the different perspective. So my name is Jyoti Sharma, and I have been the resident

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Dublin from past 15 years. My beautiful kids, they have grown here. And I live in a summer

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Glen community, which is one of the oldest community on the east side of the Dublin.

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I'm also a former special ed teacher with Dublin Unified School District. And through

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both my professional and personal experience, I deeply value accessibility, inclusion

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and community well-being.

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After collaborating with our tight neighborhood group

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who support this idea of building a pedestrian bridge

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on the Tassahara Creek connecting the Summerglen neighborhood

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to the Emerlgen Park.

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We seek your guidance regarding the improved

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safe and accessible access to the Emerlgen Park.

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For around 1,000 of Summerglen residents,

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This access could greatly benefit senior residents, individuals with mobility challenges,

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families with stroller, and children helping them to enjoy the park without safety concerns.

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Most importantly, access to the farmers market in no time. Earlier there was stairs which

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used to pass through the stairs, but this accessibility has been blocked from past

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two years because of flooding.

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So as a long-time resident and educator, I have seen first-hand

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how thoughtful infrastructure can significantly improve the quality of life and promote the

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independence of all the members of my community. I'm happy to share the photos of the current

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condition of the stairs and along with a few innovative ideas which we can develop.

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many people are talking about the if we can stop spending towards that road and

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how many millions of dollars we can save and beautiful pedestrian bridges are

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there in Don Riddle Park very accessible very neat with a new technology

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nothing very fancy but I hope you can support our request to conduct a cost

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analysis for the pedestrian bridge and promote and provide a report back to us

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whenever possible. Thank you. The next speaker is Trupti Sagar. Actually it's

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okay I'd like to go ahead. I'm Sarisha. We've talked among ourselves. Hi my name

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is Sarisha Sinha. I'm a local real estate broker. I live within the

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Assembler Glen neighborhood and you know we're all neighbors. So we're all

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part of this initiative. I'm here to support this initiative because I

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I strongly believe in this.

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Jordan brought up a lot of great points here.

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There's been a lot of suspicious,

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not a lot of, there's been some suspicious activity

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around that area, and we're pretty vigilant

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within our communities, so we're always keeping an eye out

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to see something that we don't recognize,

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people that we don't recognize,

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something that doesn't seem right to us,

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we always call it out within our WhatsApp group,

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and that's how we all kind of get together

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and coordinate on things, collaborate.

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So anyways, we do that,

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but I think it would be really helpful

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to have that bridge connecting our community

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to Emeril Glen Park because there's so many community events that happen there and it's

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just something that will help senior citizens and differently able people access the park

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much easier because otherwise you have to go all the way around and it's actually, you

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know, it's quite a bit of a walk for someone who's, you know, not able to.

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So I'm here to support this initiative.

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I'm also here to give you my perspective from a real estate angle.

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Again, like I said, I'm a real estate broker.

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I've been doing this full time for over 20 years.

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and in the summer, a resident of Summer Glen for more than seven years now.

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So I see that addition of this bridge making it, making the neighborhood,

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making it accessible for the neighborhood residents to go across to Summer Glen Park

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will greatly increase the attractiveness of our neighborhood,

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the desirability of this particular neighborhood,

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which is already in a great location because it's walking distance to Safeway,

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to the movies, to parks, to the local schools, et cetera.

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So I think it's a great initiative, and adding some lighting along that gravelly part there,

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which is pretty dark right now, will certainly deter any unsavory characters from hanging out

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there. So I'm here to support that initiative. And again, like Jyoti said, we're happy to put

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together a proposal. If this is something that you're willing to encourage us to kind of take

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this forward from this point onwards. Thank you. And then the next speaker is Trepti Sagar.

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Thank you. Good evening, Ms. Mayer, as well as City Council member and city staff. Thank you for

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giving the opportunity to just share my perspective with regards to this particular Permisson bridge,

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which will be connecting to the Imragerin Park area. This is a very lively area at this moment,

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and this particular bridge will bring, especially it will be the photo-worthy community

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destination for the not only for the young kids but for the this community

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people as well. The bridge become will be the recognizable landmark for the visual

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asset perspective to the city and the community and it will serve as a backdrop

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for the prom photos, graduation photos and the family portrait because that

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area as I said it's very lively. From the education standpoint also and from

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the nature appreciation perspective also. This will provide a safe and engaging outdoor

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learning extension to the Daughty Elementary School. This will act as a pause point for

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the students, to the observers, toward the creek and the wildlife. And apart from that,

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it will support the environment, education, STEM learning and appreciation of the nature's

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resources. This particular bridge will encourage and increase the foot traffic

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to the nearby park and the amenities too. As already shared by Jyoti, this will

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encourage this for the walking as well as biking for the casual

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exploration. It will connect to the resident more directly to the park's

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trail and the open spaces. This will boost the park users and in terms of

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recreation as well as with the community health as well and I think I from the as I'm living in

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this community for last 18 plus year that area especially for the emeraldine park this will

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be very very useful bridge not only for the community where we are living but whoever is

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coming from the emeraldine area to the community this will be a really connecting bridge to

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all the communities. Thank you.

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Next speaker is David Buley.

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Good evening. She just heard my name is David Buley and I have been living in Dublin for

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quite some time. I am the co-author of the 2014 Open Space Initiative. That is before

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you and the work is being done on that as well as major M that was done on the west

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side of the city. I have had some experience dealing with this legislation and wrote the

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language and created some of that for us. And I'm here to tell you that as to 2014

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open space initiative, being one of the co-authors, the intent was to keep it open

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space. Guaranteed I'm the author, co-author.

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What can be done and what should be done and what's in that legislation, and it's really

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the only appropriate thing to do if you want a connection to go across, is not a separate

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road with a commercial development. That was not the intent. I can tell you that. I'm

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the writer. What can be done, if that's what you feel you need, is you can extend if

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it's necessary. The Frontage Road, about a third of the mile. That'll serve the

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purpose of getting across that area. If you put a road that has commercial development

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across that main open space area, you are violating the intent of that open space initiative

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that was never intended.

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I can tell you that and that's really the way it is. I wrote

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part of it. So I hope that you will take that very seriously. And if you are watched

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to have an extension feel as necessary for for purpose of safety all those things connecting

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across to the road that goes up towards Costco up there dueling Canyon do it by the front

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approach do that not an expensive extension across the open space that was not intended

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by that legislation I guarantee you I wrote it thank you someone left their glasses up here

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by the way

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now we're going to go to zoom for our next speaker so our next speaker on

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Zoom is Norm Lewandowski.

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Good evening. My name is Norm Lewandowski, a resident of Dublin.

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Today about the proposed Dublin Extension Road and Measure II, which are relevant to each other.

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There was a recent ruling by the Alameda Court on the lawsuit that was filed by

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save Mount Diablo and Friends of Livermore against the city of Dublin on Measure I.I.

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The judge ruled against Dublin on the city's argument that there was no project associated

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with Measure I.I. and therefore no environmental impact report was required.

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The judge said in his decision that an EIR was necessary and further stated that this

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This city misled the public on the wording of Measure II.

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He ruled that Measure II is invalid.

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Why is it that the city and the City Council in 2024 chose to mislead the public on the

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ballot wording and not just state the city's actual intended plan to eliminate 80 acres

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of open space and build a $160 million elaborate 64-lane road with commercial development?

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it. It's obvious. If you would have put the actual project on the ballot, it would most

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likely not have passed. So the city labeled the ballot for Measure I.I. as Dublin Traffic

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Relief, Clean Air, Open Space Preservation Measure. Heck, who wouldn't vote for this?

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The elaborate $160 million roadway is only 1.5 miles of road and is not

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necessary. It's meant to benefit the landowners and developers. It offers very

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little benefit to the public and will impact the endangered species that

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occupy this beautiful open space. Our city can easily build a simple two-lane

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Connector Road just like all the other neighboring cities have done for a fraction of the cost.

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The city staff claims this project will be paid back in 10 years from traffic impact fees, grants

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and other development fees. The reality is these calculations were based on a lot of wishful

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assumptions to justify the plan. It will take decades to actually pay back the money for this

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project. The money the city will spend or have tied up on this project can

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certainly be put to much better use to benefit the residents. Thank you.

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The next speaker is Melissa Pocacci.

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Good evening.

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We can hear you. You can go

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ahead. Can you hear us? Yes, thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor Hugu, City

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Council members and dedicated city staff. My name is Melissa Picacci, a dedicated resident

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and active Summer Glen community member for the past 15 years. I've had the honor of being

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the neighborhood watch captain for the Persimmon Drive neighborhood within Summer Glen for the

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past 11 years. We've seen great improvements to our city during my time here and tonight

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we look to our city council for directed assistance in improving accessibility and safety in our neighborhood.

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After long neglect, Perciven Path along the eastern perimeter of Emel Glen Park has recently been repaved.

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However, the path and the abandoned stairs across Tassahara Creek, mentioned by neighbors tonight,

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remains to be a dark and dangerous area in the evenings.

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More lighting needs to be provided along Persimmon Path and extended to the gravel path at the northeast corner of the park.

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This gravel path, which connects Persimmon Drive and Gleason Drive, needs to be paved for safety reasons,

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and most importantly, to provide accessibility to the elderly and all our Dublin citizens.

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Having this along the area, there are things from happening, like this past Sunday, or

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the Sunday morning, where that area was targeted specifically in the community, being in an

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abundant contest from more cars, shown Oakland the night before.

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Melissa,

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you're breaking up.

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we are not able to hear you at this time.

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Can you hear me? Yes. Hello? Yes, can you hear us?

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Yes, I'm not quite sure where I broke up, but maybe I'll just repeat the last portion of my

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the last portion of what I just said. Melissa, we need to do it cars.

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Are

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you there still Melissa? I'm still here. I'm sorry if the reception is not working out.

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You

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can go ahead and continue your comments if you, we can hear you maybe.

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Okay, having this all along the area would deter things from happening like early Sunday

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morning where that area was targeted specifically by car thieves emptying in a bag full of

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hours.

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One example of the safety issues this darkened is caused through the

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years. Our Dublin neighborhood thanks you for your attention and for your service.

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Thank you.

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The next speaker is Charvi Koviru.

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Good evening mayor and council

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members. My name is Charvi Koviru and I am a sophomore at Emerald High School.

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I've come here today to speak about an issue that many people have also spoken about this

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evening, which is about the Dublin Boulevard and Livermore Road Extension, also known as

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the Fallon 580 Project.

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I want to provide the perspective of a student who goes to Emerald High School to everyday.

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So past Emerald High School, like when you drive more beyond, there is the construction

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construction of the Dublin Center, which is in the middle of many roads.

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And I've also noticed there's a construction of a new neighborhood called Francis Ranch.

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So with all these, I've noticed that Dublin has been emphasizing the importance of more

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urban development.

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However, as a suburban city, I believe that we shouldn't just strive to constantly

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develop into natural habitats. We are known as a suburban city for a reason.

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This road extension, the Dublin, Boulevard and Livermore one, will cut into

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the natural habitats that have stayed, such as Dewan Canyon, and disrupt many

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special species in the area. For example, according to the Alameda County

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Government, the Alameda Whipsnake, the Loggerhead Shrike, and the California

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and tiger salamander are just some of the species that are considered to be these special

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status species. These species are so critical from maintaining the biodiversity of our environment

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as that makes our habitats more resilient to change. With this road, that chance of resilience

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is diminished. Regents across the U.S. have already experienced the devastating impacts

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of over-development into natural habitats. In Florida, for instance, projects to create

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numerous homes as well as roads have reduced critical habitats and post threats to Florida

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cougars making it difficult for these animals to roam and recover. In fact, according to the WSF

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public media, 36 of these Florida cougars have died in 2024, many from traffic collisions.

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Past experiences like these must be considered if we don't want to repeat mistakes that

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that usually come with over-development.

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So in conclusion, I urge you to make a decision

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that will allow future generations

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to take into account the significance

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of our natural habitats and species.

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Thank you for your time.

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And the last speaker on Zoom is Adia Ragunanthan.

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Can you hear me?

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So we can hear you.

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Hello, Distinguished Dublin City Council.

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My name is Aadiraganandan and I'm a sophomore at Emerald High School, where my club, Emerald

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Eco Impact, was brought into an issue raised by the Sierra Club. This concerns a one-and-a-half

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mile-long road that has plans to be built to connect North Canyon Parkway and Dublin Boulevard.

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The main issue with this is that the placement of the road would cross through a very sensitive

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ecosystem and has the potential to harm special status species in the area.

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Dublin has also failed to do an economic review under the California Environmental

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Equality Act, otherwise known as CEQA, and do a roadway ballot measure tied to development,

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both of which are procedures that need to be followed in order to move the urban line limit

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and have not been done. This project poses a major problem not only for the environment,

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but for the city of Dublin, since moving the ULL without going through these procedures

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leaves the city open to litigation and the possibility of CEQA forcing a much

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more costly, full environmental review on the city. Our proposed solution to this

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is a 1.0.3 mile long road with two lanes that would only cost around

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$44 million which is far less than the $160 plus million dollar current

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plan for the project. It will also save around 80 acres of land from

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commercial development. It does not have significant impact on the biodiversity

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diversity of the area, all while maintaining the Dublin ULL.

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The money used for this project could do so much more good for our community, and the current

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proposal does not consider the environment, the reality, or the people's opinions.

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Please consider our solution. Thank you for your time.

667
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I have no more speaker slips, Mayor.

668
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Thank you very much. Thanks for all the comments.

669
00:57:49,580 --> 00:57:53,280
So we are going to agenda item 5,

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consent calendar. So consent calendar items are typically non-controversial in

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nature and are considered for approval by the council with one single action. So I

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want to ask council members, do you have any discussions, any comments? But good,

673
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Good. Good. Okay. So, I look forward to Moshi.

674
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Second. Second. So, all in favor, say aye.

675
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Aye. Aye. So, all the Boston, Canada items are passed.

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Agenda item six is a public

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hearing, nine, seven, and finish the business, nine. Agenda item eight, new business eight

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Good

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evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council members, Jordan Foss, Senior Management Analyst and this evening I'll be giving a presentation on the 2026 City of Dublin Legislative Platform.

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So the City Council adopts an annual legislative platform that guides the city's legislative advocacy efforts for the upcoming year.

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The platform itself is structured into three tiers, guiding principles, which are the broader

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foundational goals for advocacy efforts, public policy priorities, which are guiding categories

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for areas of the city's support and opposition to legislation, and advocacy positions, which

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provide more specific positions on each given public policy priority.

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The advocacy positions list is by no means exhaustive, and in those instances when

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a piece of legislation comes up that is not listed in the advocacy positions, the guiding

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principle will inform the city's action. In rare cases and if needed, staff may bring

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recommendations on specific legislation to the city council for direction.

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The 2026 platform is very similar to last year's platform. The 2026 platform makes

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modifications to account for

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changes in state law, anticipated issues for the upcoming legislative session, as well as

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grammatical and or word changes, wording changes. I would like to mention as well that towns and

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public affairs who supports the city's lobbying and government affairs work reviewed the draft

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platform to ensure it contains appropriate language for proposed and future legislation.

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Additionally, department heads reviewed the platform and made recommendations in their

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areas of expertise.

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So diving into the changes in the platform, the 2026 platform modifies

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five existing priorities from the 25 platform. Priority number 1.7 was modified to add the

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words without burdening city resources to address future Brown Act or open government

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initiative legislation that may negatively impact city resources. Priority 7.1 is

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modified to reference greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to global warming pollution levels.

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This updated language is in line with the language that we see used in our current legislation.

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Priority number 7.3 is modified to include the added language of assisting local governments,

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as well as replacing local compliance efforts for meeting compliance obligations.

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Priority 7.4 is modified to reference water purveyors and local governments to allow for flexibility

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in supporting local water agencies or other municipal operators.

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And lastly, Priority 7.10 has modified to include the added language of local governments

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to specifically protect local agencies from unfunded mandates related to environmental

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programs and regulations.

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New additions were also made to the platform, of which all eight were for supporting legislation.

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So the draft platform proposes additions that include supporting legislation that provides

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for equitable funding distribution from regional transit measures.

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And this position is in response to SB 63, which authorized a regional transit funding measure to stabilize operations and then prevent service cuts.

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So by supporting this, we'd basically be supporting equitable funding distribution to ensure the local jurisdictions and local transit operators receive a fair share of the regional revenues.

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Next is supporting legislation that would promote planning and implementation of regional transit improvements and supporting legislation that would promote maintenance and rehabilitation of aging infrastructure.

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And then we'd also, another addition is supporting legislation that would provide state incentives for affordable transit oriented and mixed income housing while still preserving local planning authority.

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And that position is in response to SB 79, which did pass in 2025, and incentivizes high-density transit-oriented housing development statewide.

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This advocacy position would support the development of affordable and mixed-income housing while still preserving the local authority over design or community planning and other things.

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So, to continue moving forward to supporting legislation that invests in safe active transportation

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infrastructure and local flexibility to manage e-bike use in sensitive areas and supporting

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legislation that provides a balanced statewide approach to e-bike safety and supporting legislation

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that advocates for clear and consistent e-bike definitions, use standards and safety measures

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that are enforceable and practical.

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These e-bike additions are important because e-bikes have become more prevalent.

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The popularity has increased. There's more usage.

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The legislature is taking a more comprehensive look at ways to regulate safety and usage with enforceable policies.

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And the last position is supporting legislation that encourages state-level cybersecurity investments

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and responsible artificial intelligence standards that enhance city operations.

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So for next steps, if approved this evening, the legislative platform will be published

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on the city's website and staff will begin utilizing the platform during the 2026 legislative

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cycle.

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Staff will also be proposing a shift from a one-year platform to a two-year platform

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that is aligned with the California legislative cycle.

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So the next two-year California legislative cycle does begin on January 1, 2027 and

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runs through December 31, 2029.

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So staff anticipates bringing a proposed draft to your legislative platform to the City Council in November 2026 for your consideration to ensure that it will be ready by January of 27.

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So staff's recommendation is to receive the report and adopt the resolution approving the 2026 City of Dublin legislative platform. And that concludes my presentation.

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I'm happy to take any questions or comments that you may have.

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And I do want to also mention that Carly Shelby from Townsend Public Affairs is also

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on the call this evening, and she can answer any questions you may have.

741
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Thank you.

742
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Thank you, Jordan.

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Any questions?

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Go ahead.

745
01:04:54,590 --> 01:04:55,030
Thank you.

746
01:04:55,450 --> 01:04:56,190
Thank you, Jordan.

747
01:04:56,550 --> 01:04:57,570
I appreciate all the work on this.

748
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I only have one question, nothing about the additions, but one about a potential item

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we might want to look at, and I'm glad that Townsend is on the line as well.

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Now, AB 32 that is currently under litigation is AB 32 banned private companies from running

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prisons in the state of California.

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That's been appealed and it's continuing to work its way through.

753
01:05:28,250 --> 01:05:33,910
Do you feel it is appropriate for us to have something in our platform that takes

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01:05:33,910 --> 01:05:44,010
a support position around the prevention of private prisons, particularly given the discussion

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01:05:44,010 --> 01:05:44,790
of FCI Dillon?

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So I actually wish Carly was online.

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She's not online right now.

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She's at another meeting.

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So hopefully she'll be able to join shortly.

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She would be the best person, I believe, to Ask Townsend would have a good idea if

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it would be appropriate for us to put that within the platform.

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And again, we utilize them for a lot of the time to review this to make sure the language that we're using is appropriate.

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So I'll have to check with her.

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If she does jump on the call before we're done, then we'll definitely circle back to that.

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But I would like to check with her.

766
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:22,460
Okay. I know it's not a new bill that's moving this legislative cycle, so it may not have been on their radar.

767
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But given that the Bureau of Prisons isn't tending to transfer control of that property,

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which then makes it so that it's a possibility of it being up for sale.

769
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It seems like it might be something we would want to weigh in on.

770
01:06:38,380 --> 01:06:41,360
I mean, it doesn't mean we can't weigh in on if it's not in our legislative platform,

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but it seems like we might want the nimbleness of staff,

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so we can talk about that more at discussion time.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Questions?

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Who wants to do it?

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You want to do it?

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01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:54,860
Go ahead.

779
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:03,880
Just got two basic questions for you. First, is this informs our ledge policy or positions

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at the county, state, and federal level, if I'm correct?

781
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Correct. It'll cover all. Traditionally, it's focused on the state, but yes, it covers all

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different levels.

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And last time this was brought up in terms of our ledge platform, we were pushing for

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for certain stances and there was some pushback around that, how if, or I guess, has the climate

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changed and if so how?

786
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:35,160
Yeah, that would be a great question for Carly, but I did speak, I've spoken to her about

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this.

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The climate has changed at this point towns and fields like it's appropriate to add certain

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language into the platform, both from like the state perspective as well as the federal

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perspective that there is not as much ethnic backlash necessarily for certain

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terms when it comes to funding opportunities or you know grant

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opportunities those types of things so I've got some suggestions but I'll

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wait for after a public comment any questions question yeah go ahead yeah

794
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:14,260
thank you mayor good evening mr. Foss good evening good to see you I have one

795
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question I want to ask on behalf of residents and then my own question

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after that. So, the very first one is actually more of an administrative question. So, if

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I may ask this, which is the – by the way, this was a lot to go through. So, thank you

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for doing that job for me. I appreciate it. The – I had that preamble because the

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question that I have from the resident was, given that we have a lot here in terms

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of our legislative platform, could you share with us how our strategic plan may or may

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not tie into how we support some legislation or vice versa. So just give us an overview

802
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if you may.

803
01:08:53,180 --> 01:08:57,700
Yes, so I mean our legislative, they don't tie directly, right? So the legislative platform

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is going to align with our mission vision and values. It's going to align with council

805
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priorities and council goals. So there is overlap in that sense, but the public policy

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01:09:09,580 --> 01:09:16,560
priorities do not tie directly to a strategic plan, goal, or objective.

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But again, that being said, the policies of the City Council are taken into consideration

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when developing the legislative platform.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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That's the clarity I was looking for.

812
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Then let me get to my question, which is on legislative platform item six under

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Parks and Community Services, item number 10, so 6.10, it states that we will – we're

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supporting – sorry – it states that expands the protection of natural resources and strengthens

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the safety and scrutiny of these resources, which I'm all for.

816
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Would it be appropriate, considering the number of folks who are up here this evening

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providing public comment, that some of an interpretation could also be rendered towards

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the definition of open space because of 6.10?

819
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I believe you could interpret it that way. If the direction of council is to add specific

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language, then that's the direction of council. Obviously, staff will be able to make those

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changes. But yes, the idea of natural resources, again, we're talking about open space.

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we're talking about waterways, natural habitats, those types of things, air

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quality, those types of things. Thank you for the

824
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affirmation. Appreciate it. No further questions?

825
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:51,040
Thank you. No question from you? No. Okay, so I have a one quick question too. So

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this is our city's legislative platform but we work with Townsend to

827
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So my question is, does it also work with all the other tri-valley cities?

828
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Do other cities have a similar legislative platform as what we have?

829
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So not all of the cities within the tri-valley coalition have legislative platforms.

830
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A couple do, and they are going to be relatively similar to us.

831
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We do follow the TDC framework, which are very high level points that then we kind

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to build our more specific Dublin detail around in our platform. So the framework is a guiding

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principle that we get about every two years. And then we again, we tailor it towards Dublin.

834
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And each city does the same thing. Okay. Thank you. So we get all our questions

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asked. Do we have a public comment? I do have two speakers, Mayor. The first one is

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Dan Morley.

837
01:12:03,380 --> 01:12:09,580
Hello mayor and city council. Thank you for your time. I'm generally supportive of

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this resolution acknowledging the fact that local government does not exist on an island.

839
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I appreciate that the city has the foresight to create this platform because legislation

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enacted at the federal state and county levels all have an effect on cities and the residents.

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Cities need to know where they stand in relation to policies and enforcement of said

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01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:36,720
policies. As we have been seeing in Minnesota, when faced with policies enforced by a reckless

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:42,100
federal government agency acting with impunity, residents on the ground look to their local

844
01:12:42,100 --> 01:12:49,540
neighborhood organizers, cities, counties, and states for support. So I thank you for having this

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package. Specifically, I want to applaud the part in

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2.11 that supports legislation lowering the supermajority from two-thirds to 55 percent

847
01:13:03,420 --> 01:13:08,540
to approve local general obligation bonds and special taxes for affordable housing.

848
01:13:09,020 --> 01:13:10,380
We need affordable housing.

849
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:19,120
And on one wordsmith correction, I think in section 4.2 that you mean citing starting

850
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:23,900
with an S instead of citing starting with a C. That's it.

851
01:13:26,500 --> 01:13:28,460
And the next speaker is Liz Schmidt.

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01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:39,620
Madam Mayor, City Council staff,

853
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it's true that we have a flow from this government state to this county to the city,

854
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but I want to let you know that it also can go the other direction

855
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:56,420
because of the bravery and the principle of this council. Alameda County has now declared

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01:13:56,420 --> 01:14:02,000
the county an ice-free zone and it's considering making setting a resolution

857
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that will allow not allow a detention center in Dublin. I commend you and I

858
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:10,080
tell people I am proud to be in the city to be in the forefront of any

859
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,540
organization and we'll have the courage to stand up and say what is

860
01:14:13,540 --> 01:14:15,780
happening is wrong and we need to change it. Thank you.

861
01:14:18,370 --> 01:14:19,070
I have no other

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01:14:19,070 --> 01:14:23,110
speaker slips. Thank you for the comments. We'll come back for additional

863
01:14:23,110 --> 01:14:25,610
additional comments. You have additional comments?

864
01:14:26,910 --> 01:14:33,490
Sure. Appreciate the public comment and the background. I actually wanted to propose three changes.

865
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The first two are adding the phrase regardless of immigration status.

866
01:14:41,130 --> 01:14:48,550
So the first one is 1.3 currently reads, assures every person the right to equal treatment in and access to all

867
01:14:48,550 --> 01:14:52,770
government-sponsored benefits or funded programs.

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And my suggestion here is to add, regardless of immigration status, to the beginning of that.

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Every person regardless of immigration status, the right to equal treatment and in and access

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to all government sponsored benefits or funded programs. So this is under the general admin

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01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:21,320
section. The second one is to section 5.13, which is under the public safety. And so currently

872
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:26,300
reads provides for public safety reforms that prioritize the safety, dignity and fair treatment

873
01:15:26,300 --> 01:15:30,800
of all individuals and my suggestion is to again add regardless of immigration status at the end of

874
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:42,500
that. And then the third suggestion that I had was under Section 8 technology would be to add

875
01:15:43,140 --> 01:15:47,840
a line item which would be supports protecting our residents information

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01:15:49,300 --> 01:15:52,340
from being used for surveillance and targeting.

877
01:15:55,780 --> 01:15:56,860
That would be a new one, yes.

878
01:15:56,860 --> 01:15:58,620
Can you say that wording for me one time?

879
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:05,740
Supports protecting our residents' information from being used for surveillance and targeting.

880
01:16:27,220 --> 01:16:27,580
Comments?

881
01:16:28,220 --> 01:16:28,340
Yeah.

882
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,100
I'm going to want to wordsmith that.

883
01:16:33,420 --> 01:16:40,820
I'm generally supportive of your proposed changes, definitely all in on your changes

884
01:16:40,820 --> 01:16:41,540
to 5.13.

885
01:16:43,140 --> 01:16:47,120
We definitely need to add, regardless of immigration status to that one, I would

886
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:53,900
I would like to hear staff's thoughts on 1.3 before I'm fully supportive of that only

887
01:16:53,900 --> 01:17:00,540
because that could, I just want to make sure that there's no unintended consequences to

888
01:17:00,540 --> 01:17:08,200
that one, because of funding being used for people who may not be documented, so I want

889
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:09,500
to hear staff's take on that one.

890
01:17:09,500 --> 01:17:25,660
But I do, I would like to see us add a 5.16, I guess, with wording that supports legislation

891
01:17:25,660 --> 01:17:32,500
that limits the transfer of federal or state assets to organizations that would use them

892
01:17:32,500 --> 01:17:35,860
for for-profit prisons of any kind.

893
01:17:43,500 --> 01:17:48,420
Yeah, for 8.7, I'm generally supportive of your thought process.

894
01:17:51,980 --> 01:17:59,460
Yeah, I think, first of all, it was really well done, a lot of good work, very comprehensive.

895
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:08,920
And I will say I'm also supportive of, first of all, adding a 5.16 limiting transfer of assets.

896
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,180
I like that a lot.

897
01:18:11,180 --> 01:18:17,600
I also like your new eight point, whatever it's going to be.

898
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:24,440
I think that's necessary. I think we need to clarify targeting surveillance.

899
01:18:24,660 --> 01:18:27,560
We just need to define that a little bit more.

900
01:18:28,140 --> 01:18:35,260
And I would be supportive of the minor addition to 513 at this point.

901
01:18:35,260 --> 01:18:47,300
So I'm good with those so far, but I'd like to see what we can do with your new Section 8 and, you know, how 516 might look like, too.

902
01:18:50,940 --> 01:18:51,360
Yeah.

903
01:18:51,820 --> 01:18:52,140
Yeah.

904
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:00,940
I'm digesting this for a moment.

905
01:19:03,620 --> 01:19:09,660
So for the addition to Item 8, I think I'm pretty good with that.

906
01:19:09,660 --> 01:19:18,880
that I would like to also learn about how does that not come back at us in the situation

907
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:26,280
of a crime, right, if we need to use surveillance and target somebody to observe them in a crime

908
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:26,600
situation.

909
01:19:27,380 --> 01:19:34,400
So, let me ask a general question, administrative question, is tonight or right now, are we

910
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,360
Are we asked to deliberate this and then make a

911
01:19:38,440 --> 01:19:44,400
Approver decline a resolution or can we make a motion to defer for further research because these items are very heavy

912
01:19:45,060 --> 01:19:45,540
like

913
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:51,560
Tonight the it's to receive the report and to adopt the resolution approving the platform

914
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:58,440
So if you you would need to make a motion to defer to another meeting to bring the edits back

915
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:01,800
Can I ask you a quick question on that?

916
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,320
Jordan, what would be the consequences of us deferring this?

917
01:20:04,460 --> 01:20:07,700
The legislative calendar is off and running.

918
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:12,980
Deferring it to another meeting would be...

919
01:20:12,980 --> 01:20:16,620
We would still be under the existing legislative platform.

920
01:20:17,820 --> 01:20:21,420
So the changes that you have proposed that came from Townsend

921
01:20:21,420 --> 01:20:25,300
and our other Tri-Valley partners would not be in effect.

922
01:20:25,300 --> 01:20:31,620
So, the bills that they are specifically meant to engage on, you would not be able to engage

923
01:20:31,620 --> 01:20:35,000
on fully until we adopt the resolution set, correct?

924
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:40,240
Yeah, we would not be able to, staff would not be able to support and or oppose any legislation

925
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:45,040
without, without that language in there if it was, you know, specific around that bill.

926
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,900
But anything from the previous platform would roll over.

927
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:48,380
Okay.

928
01:20:48,700 --> 01:20:50,620
I wouldn't be supportive of deferring at this point.

929
01:20:50,620 --> 01:20:56,240
Jordan, are we in violation of any compliance if we defer it for further research?

930
01:20:56,900 --> 01:20:57,340
No.

931
01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:58,580
No, there'd be no.

932
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:07,280
As the Vice Mayor or Josie mentioned, we would just utilize the 25 platform until the 26 platform is adopted.

933
01:21:07,500 --> 01:21:13,380
So if there's any legislation that either Dublin and or the Tri Valley Coalition would like to take action on,

934
01:21:13,380 --> 01:21:19,320
We would not, that was not currently covered in the 25 platform, we wouldn't be able to

935
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:21,380
without bringing it back to you for special consideration.

936
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:22,180
Okay.

937
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:29,980
See, where I'm headed with this is we have one answer questions and we have specialists

938
01:21:29,980 --> 01:21:32,860
and consultants who can answer these questions for us.

939
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:38,180
So we deliberate this in a silo this evening and we pass a resolution without having

940
01:21:38,180 --> 01:21:42,440
the full breadth of answers I feel is impartial.

941
01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:49,720
So, like he just said, there's no cost to deferring this or making a motion to defer

942
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:55,800
for subsequent review because we can and there's no financial penalty to this nor legislative

943
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:57,200
or compliance penalty to this.

944
01:21:58,380 --> 01:21:59,800
So what's the rush?

945
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:01,040
I guess is my question.

946
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:02,360
Is there one?

947
01:22:02,660 --> 01:22:03,400
Did I miss something?

948
01:22:03,740 --> 01:22:03,860
Jordan?

949
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:11,940
There's not necessarily, I mean the rush is that the legislature is working currently

950
01:22:11,940 --> 01:22:17,140
on proposing bills and we like to make sure we're at the front of that and that we're having

951
01:22:17,140 --> 01:22:21,620
conversations early and that we're speaking to these offices. We're unable to do that

952
01:22:21,620 --> 01:22:28,300
from our capacity without this document unless again it's something that falls within the 2025

953
01:22:28,300 --> 01:22:33,940
platform. Are any of the items presented by our council member cadre for modification

954
01:22:34,540 --> 01:22:39,220
or the questions that were asked by Vice Mayor items that are up for the debate and

955
01:22:39,220 --> 01:22:43,660
legislation at this moment or this week? That would be a question for Townsend so

956
01:22:43,660 --> 01:22:47,980
unfortunately we don't have an answer for this week specifically you know we if

957
01:22:47,980 --> 01:22:52,800
something were to come back to the next meeting you know that would again that

958
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:56,940
would be the sooner the better of course getting anything approved because

959
01:22:56,940 --> 01:23:01,020
it just allows us to act faster. Okay so missing Townsend right now

960
01:23:01,020 --> 01:23:05,860
is a pillar that we really need them here. Yes unfortunately she's stuck

961
01:23:05,860 --> 01:23:08,900
right currently at another meeting and hopefully she'll be able to join an

962
01:23:08,900 --> 01:23:15,200
answer any questions before the deliberation is done. I just want to

963
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,160
address something that John said.

964
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,040
So what I want to understand is, and this is

965
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:28,300
more procedural too, so is there anything in this document aside from what

966
01:23:28,300 --> 01:23:33,820
we've talked about tonight that you have a need for further discussion? Okay,

967
01:23:33,820 --> 01:23:39,800
Okay, so from a procedural standpoint, this may sound too simplistic, but I want to understand,

968
01:23:39,900 --> 01:23:47,140
if we were to adopt something subject to what it is now and then have further amendments,

969
01:23:47,440 --> 01:23:51,800
is that procedural possibility?

970
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:56,840
If we came back in another week and said, okay, we're going to look at these other

971
01:23:56,840 --> 01:24:06,260
items here and digest them and come up with addendums or additions to this document. What

972
01:24:06,260 --> 01:24:10,180
I'm saying here is this provides us with a means. There might be something that's very

973
01:24:10,180 --> 01:24:15,840
essential in this tonight that's coming up, right, and that you're going to need those

974
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:21,280
tools. We're going to need that, right? So I just want to make sure that from a

975
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:25,400
procedural standpoint we have a little flexibility. Yeah, if there's no issues

976
01:24:25,400 --> 01:24:31,300
use what we see here, we move forward with something like this and we come back with these

977
01:24:31,300 --> 01:24:36,000
five items or so and seriously get into this because I think there's some really good items

978
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:36,280
here.

979
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,040
I just wanted to ask the question.

980
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:46,240
Your question to him said, is there any urgency or are there any bills moving based

981
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,940
on the amendments that we are asking for staff's report?

982
01:24:49,300 --> 01:24:54,380
But I'm more concerned with passing what staff presented to us and I wanted to

983
01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:57,560
make sure you weren't losing sight of that that there's there's a lot of new

984
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:01,720
things in here that are not in the 2025 legislative platform and I want to make

985
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:05,220
sure that we are moving on that quickly because the reason they're in here is

986
01:25:05,220 --> 01:25:09,160
because there are bills moving on those issues like SB 63 and those other

987
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:14,000
issues that are that are moving forward and so I don't want to delay the

988
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,880
recommendations that we're getting from staff that we are all I think we

989
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:20,420
haven't heard from everybody's full position but but most of us were

990
01:25:20,420 --> 01:25:23,560
quite receptive when that came forward from us so I just want to

991
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:26,220
And make sure that we haven't lost sight of that, that those changes we're talking about

992
01:25:26,220 --> 01:25:30,240
to our ledge platform are not just the things, you know, what we want to pass tonight, not

993
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:35,020
just the things that we're adding, yes, and so I want to make sure that that was fully

994
01:25:35,020 --> 01:25:35,220
understood.

995
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:36,500
That's kind of what I said.

996
01:25:37,020 --> 01:25:37,060
Right?

997
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:37,900
That's what it was.

998
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:44,700
Very clear in terms of our ledge package.

999
01:25:45,100 --> 01:25:48,520
And if you don't know what I'm referring to, feel free to turn on the news or

1000
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:49,120
read the newspaper.

1001
01:25:49,580 --> 01:25:52,300
I mean, it's a very tragic situation what's happening.

1002
01:25:52,300 --> 01:25:58,620
Yeah, and I, so first I'll address the, yes, I understand the baseline that we have, so

1003
01:25:58,620 --> 01:26:04,300
I'm okay with it, because we can, it sounds like we can come up for a special review again

1004
01:26:04,300 --> 01:26:05,100
to make modifications.

1005
01:26:05,300 --> 01:26:05,380
Okay.

1006
01:26:05,540 --> 01:26:05,740
Fine.

1007
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:11,800
Look, I'm not, I'm not ambivalent to what's happening in the world right now.

1008
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:12,540
Okay.

1009
01:26:12,700 --> 01:26:19,700
But what I also am very strongly considering is that what is the constitutionality of

1010
01:26:19,700 --> 01:26:20,380
what's being requested?

1011
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:26,540
So I don't have time to do that unless I go and chat GPT right now, but we apparently

1012
01:26:26,540 --> 01:26:32,220
have a city norm that I can't be really on my computer looking at things, so I want the

1013
01:26:32,220 --> 01:26:37,100
time to review and understand the customer channel or the request that's being presented.

1014
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:38,120
That's all.

1015
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:42,020
And I'm not saying yes or no, I'm just, you got to give me some time because that's

1016
01:26:42,020 --> 01:26:44,280
a very heavy lift item that's being presented.

1017
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:50,680
I'm sure attorney can weigh in given this very similar language has been

1018
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:53,480
approved by other cities, local cities.

1019
01:26:56,300 --> 01:26:57,980
Yeah, I'm not concerned about the

1020
01:26:57,980 --> 01:27:01,240
constitutionality of such a statement being included in your legislative

1021
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:07,020
platform. I think there has been legislation that says similar, has

1022
01:27:07,020 --> 01:27:09,700
included similar phrasing and I haven't heard about any constitutional

1023
01:27:09,700 --> 01:27:17,860
challenges. If I could just add, last year we had a similar conversation and we

1024
01:27:17,860 --> 01:27:23,280
had some language proposed related to immigration status and the direction then

1025
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:28,440
was to go back and review it with Townsend which we did and given the

1026
01:27:28,440 --> 01:27:32,200
climate at the time Townsend didn't feel comfortable without language and we

1027
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:36,460
talked about how the climate has changed and so I'd like to ask Jordan

1028
01:27:36,460 --> 01:27:41,440
to speak about any conversations he's had with Townsend about that change in the climate.

1029
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:47,860
Yeah so I referenced it a little bit earlier but when we had last year when we had talked about

1030
01:27:47,860 --> 01:27:53,320
that language Townsend was concerned about using that language again due to the unknown surrounding

1031
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,900
the federal administration coming in and what that would mean for grant funding for federal

1032
01:27:58,900 --> 01:28:05,460
funding etc. They do not currently share the same concerns that they had just from what they've

1033
01:28:05,460 --> 01:28:12,500
been able to see, and they do not believe that adding any language similar to what was

1034
01:28:12,500 --> 01:28:16,820
requested last year, that adding that language would be a concern this year.

1035
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:23,900
So they were in favor of us adding that language if it did come back up within discussion.

1036
01:28:30,530 --> 01:28:39,690
Working with all of our tribal cities, and I had some time with other mayors last week

1037
01:28:39,690 --> 01:28:46,850
when we went to Washington D.C. for legislative advocacy trip and also mayor's conference.

1038
01:28:47,530 --> 01:28:56,710
I kind of sense some of the languages we just talked about may not appear in other cities

1039
01:28:58,550 --> 01:29:07,650
platform. If that's the sense, if Thompson has to act for all of our cities, if we have language

1040
01:29:07,650 --> 01:29:12,390
different from other cities' language, what would be the consequence?

1041
01:29:13,490 --> 01:29:16,150
So I guess that would really depend.

1042
01:29:16,570 --> 01:29:19,130
It's the interpretation of the language, right?

1043
01:29:19,210 --> 01:29:24,630
So if certain cities, and I don't specifically know what Livermore or Danville has in their

1044
01:29:24,630 --> 01:29:29,530
legislative platform, but if they have language that's maybe more broad, they'll be able

1045
01:29:29,530 --> 01:29:33,830
to interpret it one way and then their staff will be able to interpret it one way and

1046
01:29:33,830 --> 01:29:40,090
then react, you know, our language is currently written the way it is and it allows staff

1047
01:29:40,090 --> 01:29:48,370
to act that way. So, you know, really it's just kind of boils down to does it fit with

1048
01:29:48,370 --> 01:29:52,190
kind of what the TVC collectively is working on. That's what we really think about when

1049
01:29:52,190 --> 01:29:55,970
we work on things regionally. Does it fit really within our framework? And then we

1050
01:29:55,970 --> 01:29:59,990
start to look at the nuance things to make sure we're comfortable signing on to

1051
01:30:02,210 --> 01:30:09,290
I would say two, and thinking more about this, you know, the two items that councilmember

1052
01:30:09,290 --> 01:30:21,430
Caudry is looking at 1.3 and 5.13 already say everyone. So they already capture everyone.

1053
01:30:21,950 --> 01:30:26,570
So I think what the councilmember is getting at about putting words in your mouth is a point

1054
01:30:26,570 --> 01:30:31,410
of emphasis here on, given what's happening around us.

1055
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:35,860
Sorry, I just wanted to correct myself.

1056
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:42,560
I left off the words for immigration enforcement cooperation for the last part of that, and

1057
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:43,680
I don't know if that was your question.

1058
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:44,080
I'm sorry.

1059
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:44,400
All right.

1060
01:30:44,620 --> 01:30:45,080
That would you say?

1061
01:30:45,620 --> 01:30:52,020
It was supports protecting our residents' information from being used for surveillance

1062
01:30:52,020 --> 01:30:55,520
and targeting for immigration enforcement.

1063
01:30:55,860 --> 01:30:56,960
Oh, for 8.1.

1064
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:57,660
I apologize.

1065
01:30:57,660 --> 01:30:59,620
for leaving that piece out.

1066
01:31:00,100 --> 01:31:00,680
Thank you.

1067
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:02,880
That makes a big difference for me because my concern,

1068
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:05,080
so I've got a couple of concerns.

1069
01:31:05,660 --> 01:31:10,900
I am 100% on board with you and I will champion your point of view

1070
01:31:10,900 --> 01:31:13,420
on 5.13, absolutely 100%.

1071
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:19,260
1.3 is a little bit different only in that it talks about

1072
01:31:19,260 --> 01:31:22,240
all government-sponsored benefits and funded programs.

1073
01:31:23,480 --> 01:31:27,140
It does say, assures every person the right to equal treatment

1074
01:31:27,140 --> 01:31:34,200
100% but then it goes on to say and access to all government sponsored benefits and funded programs.

1075
01:31:34,700 --> 01:31:40,300
I don't know that that's the position that the council wants to take when we're talking about supporting state legislation

1076
01:31:40,300 --> 01:31:55,940
that funds whatever the benefit programs are or using state taxpayer funding to support potentially people who are undocumented.

1077
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:59,080
I think that that's a little bit more nuanced.

1078
01:31:59,500 --> 01:32:05,200
I think that there are some programs where I would be absolutely in favor of that and

1079
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:08,580
there would be some programs that would give me slight pause on that.

1080
01:32:08,940 --> 01:32:18,490
So I'm a little uncomfortable with adding it to that section, but I'm 100% with you

1081
01:32:18,490 --> 01:32:19,710
on 5.13.

1082
01:32:19,930 --> 01:32:24,450
I think it absolutely should be there for the emphasis that safety, welfare and dignity

1083
01:32:24,450 --> 01:32:29,450
of all persons absolutely regardless of their immigration status.

1084
01:32:30,030 --> 01:32:35,890
And I think it mostly covers what you had, the point you're trying to make, that on a

1085
01:32:35,890 --> 01:32:41,250
health and welfare basis, it does not matter what somebody's status is.

1086
01:32:41,290 --> 01:32:44,810
We support legislation that provides a public safety net.

1087
01:32:46,350 --> 01:32:51,770
On the 8.7, protecting our residents' information from being used for surveillance

1088
01:32:51,770 --> 01:32:56,430
and targeting for immigration enforcement having those words makes all the difference because I

1089
01:32:56,430 --> 01:33:03,330
was concerned with the unintended consequences perhaps to our LPRs but with those words added

1090
01:33:03,330 --> 01:33:11,450
I'm with you a hundred percent so I appreciate that and I hope that you're also on board with the

1091
01:33:12,350 --> 01:33:16,530
sale or transfer properties for a proper present. How does that wording go? Mine?

1092
01:33:17,270 --> 01:33:17,750
Mine.

1093
01:33:17,750 --> 01:33:17,890
Mine.

1094
01:33:18,970 --> 01:33:21,850
It would be 5.15.

1095
01:33:22,610 --> 01:33:28,130
5.16, yeah, which would say, so it's under the supports, so it would be the item would

1096
01:33:28,130 --> 01:33:32,310
start with the words limits, but it's basically saying we support legislation that limits the

1097
01:33:32,310 --> 01:33:38,050
transfer of federal or state assets to organizations that would use them for for-profit prisons.

1098
01:33:40,970 --> 01:33:41,610
Thank you.

1099
01:33:41,610 --> 01:33:42,190
Do

1100
01:33:47,090 --> 01:33:51,970
you want to limit it to just assets or just limit or profit?

1101
01:33:56,010 --> 01:34:00,230
I worded it that way because that is very specifically a Dublin issue.

1102
01:34:00,910 --> 01:34:08,830
I mean, I think that I don't know that we would want to weigh in as a city on, we wouldn't

1103
01:34:08,830 --> 01:34:12,190
take a position really unless it affects us.

1104
01:34:12,610 --> 01:34:15,770
And I think that transfer is what is going to affect us.

1105
01:34:16,050 --> 01:34:18,030
And so that's why I worded it that way.

1106
01:34:18,030 --> 01:34:23,410
I mean, I think it would also it's fairly clear that we support legislative. I mean that we don't we're not in favor of for-profit prisons

1107
01:34:23,410 --> 01:34:29,270
But as far as the bills that we would weigh in, I don't think we would take a position on something that was not really

1108
01:34:30,490 --> 01:34:34,290
In our area, so that's why I worded that way, but I'm open to other suggestions

1109
01:34:34,290 --> 01:34:40,370
But I think that that gives a clear nexus to Dublin and what we're doing. I

1110
01:34:40,370 --> 01:34:47,750
Think we should that's a good good comment like a focus on things related to our devilies position

1111
01:34:48,810 --> 01:34:53,390
So, Mayor and Council members, we might not have agreement on 1.3, but do we have enough

1112
01:34:54,450 --> 01:35:03,790
agreement to move forward with 5.13, the new 8, and the new 5.16?

1113
01:35:07,260 --> 01:35:09,640
I'm okay with that, if that's the will of the council.

1114
01:35:09,780 --> 01:35:10,740
I can go along with that.

1115
01:35:10,860 --> 01:35:14,960
I wanted to also introduce this other idea to give us all flexibility.

1116
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:19,120
As I said, I want to make sure that we get what we need out the door.

1117
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:31,340
But if it's the will of the council, I'm fine. I'm also listening to another council member who has a very reasonable ask, and I didn't see any harm in it.

1118
01:35:31,460 --> 01:35:42,240
But look, I'll go with the flow here if that's what we're doing here, but I respect his positions because there is a lot in this thing. There is absolutely a lot.

1119
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:49,960
Yeah, I kind of understand that. And I also want to check with Townsend before we pass something

1120
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:56,960
additionally. So I would like to propose we pass what we already have the staff recommended today

1121
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:03,840
so you can move on with your work for additional amendments, things we have Townsend in the call

1122
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:09,240
or we have time to discuss with them before we approve additional amendments.

1123
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:18,380
Thank you. Is there anything, John, in the proposed amendments that you feel that you

1124
01:36:18,380 --> 01:36:23,860
could get through tonight? There's some really good stuff, right? And I was just wondering,

1125
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:28,880
is there anything in there that you feel that we could throw in here that we can just

1126
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:35,220
move forward with and then come back to some, you know, whatever is left over, whatever

1127
01:36:35,220 --> 01:36:35,640
it is?

1128
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:40,920
Yeah, so thank you for that and I really appreciate the dialogue and thank you for the considerations, everybody.

1129
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:44,820
I'm okay with actually everything other than 1.3.

1130
01:36:45,540 --> 01:36:51,940
I just need more time on that because that's really tough for me.

1131
01:36:55,020 --> 01:36:58,040
It's 5.1 seconds.

1132
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:05,520
one second. If we're all good. I know that I'd love to make a motion wait for a second I didn't

1133
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:12,560
understand what you do say like which one you it's the one the item is a 1.3 council member

1134
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:17,780
country which states that something about programs and regardless of immigration status

1135
01:37:20,610 --> 01:37:26,990
forget which one it was 3 1.3 so you already made the change to 1.3 right

1136
01:37:26,990 --> 01:37:34,250
Mayor, no, the three items that Council Member Morata is saying that he agrees with are changes

1137
01:37:34,250 --> 01:37:41,310
to 5.13, 8.8, is it, or 8.7, and 5.16.

1138
01:37:42,270 --> 01:37:53,150
So we'll be modifying 5.13 to add language, and then we have two new support positions.

1139
01:37:54,310 --> 01:37:58,510
Not 1.3. I think that's fine.

1140
01:38:00,150 --> 01:38:09,190
I have to make a motion to go back to the very beginning to receive and adopt.

1141
01:38:10,650 --> 01:38:11,670
Where are we?

1142
01:38:13,410 --> 01:38:16,730
I am so sorry. I had it queued up.

1143
01:38:16,730 --> 01:38:23,490
But to adopt the resolution approving the 2026 City of Dublin legislative platform

1144
01:38:23,490 --> 01:38:32,390
with one, two, three amendments, the first one being 5.13 adding comma regardless of

1145
01:38:32,390 --> 01:38:39,930
immigration status, adding 5.16 limits, the transfer of federal and state assets for for-profit

1146
01:38:39,930 --> 01:38:46,510
prisons and adding an item in section eight, which would be supports protecting our residents

1147
01:38:46,510 --> 01:38:51,770
information from being used for surveillance and targeting for immigration enforcement.

1148
01:38:52,130 --> 01:38:59,550
And I will second that motion. Okay so all in favor say aye. Aye. So the motion passes unanimously.

1149
01:39:03,050 --> 01:39:03,770
So

1150
01:39:11,450 --> 01:39:18,470
let's move on to agenda item 8.2 proposed amendments to the city's noise regulations.

1151
01:39:18,470 --> 01:39:19,490
Good

1152
01:39:43,010 --> 01:39:49,830
evening, City Council Mayor. Jennifer Bias, planning manager here to talk a little

1153
01:39:49,830 --> 01:39:55,370
bit about proposed amendments to the city's noise ordinance. And we're pulling up the

1154
01:39:55,370 --> 01:40:02,040
presentation here. And a little bit of background of why we're here tonight to talk to you

1155
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:07,060
about this at your December 2nd meeting, City Council approved outdoor live entertainment

1156
01:40:07,060 --> 01:40:13,380
statement in the downtown. At that meeting, council raised concerns regarding the existing

1157
01:40:13,380 --> 01:40:20,740
noise ordinance and some subjectivity around that area and regulations. Council directed

1158
01:40:20,740 --> 01:40:25,120
us to return with this report. That's what we're here tonight to talk about what we

1159
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:34,420
discovered. And in addition, at that meeting, council also directed us to adjust the complaint

1160
01:40:34,420 --> 01:40:38,900
process for making complaints on noise to make it simpler and just wanted to

1161
01:40:38,900 --> 01:40:44,100
report back to you that we have added noise as an issue if you're going in to

1162
01:40:44,100 --> 01:40:48,740
fix it Dublin so you can provide a complaint if you have a noise related

1163
01:40:48,740 --> 01:40:53,740
issue and then you also requested that staff come back in a year's time to

1164
01:40:53,740 --> 01:40:58,420
check in on the status of any kind of complaints we received regarding the

1165
01:40:58,420 --> 01:41:04,560
changes to outdoor live entertainment in the downtown area so we expect we'll be

1166
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:10,300
back probably December of 2026 with that report and just a little refresher

1167
01:41:10,300 --> 01:41:16,280
background the existing noise ordinance for the city does prohibit noise

1168
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:22,520
that's loud and necessary and natural unusual or habitual the enforcement is

1169
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:27,680
based on a reasonable person standard and a reasonable person standard is

1170
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:36,600
judged by whether an average person can find it unreasonably loud or disturbing under the circumstances.

1171
01:41:37,780 --> 01:41:45,420
So with that, based after the December 2nd meeting, staff went back and reviewed the surrounding cities

1172
01:41:45,420 --> 01:41:50,240
for some comparison on how other jurisdictions regulate noise.

1173
01:41:50,820 --> 01:41:55,060
We looked at Livermore Pleasanton, San Ramon, Danville, and Walnut Creek.

1174
01:41:55,060 --> 01:41:59,460
Then we found that there's two ways typical to regulate.

1175
01:41:59,740 --> 01:42:05,620
One is an activity-based regulation, which Ceremon, Livermore, Danville, Walnut Creek

1176
01:42:05,620 --> 01:42:06,260
all have.

1177
01:42:06,820 --> 01:42:12,260
And then there's another way that is decimal-based, where you have a more technical decimal-based

1178
01:42:13,120 --> 01:42:15,720
set on an activity or a land use.

1179
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:23,900
The activity-based approach again provides that balance with flexibility and enforceability,

1180
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:28,540
and it is really based on community needs.

1181
01:42:29,080 --> 01:42:35,020
So for example, one thing that you might find in an activity-based approach is lawn

1182
01:42:35,020 --> 01:42:42,300
equipment being used, and they might establish hours that activity can go on or be prohibited

1183
01:42:42,300 --> 01:42:45,800
prohibited, and days of the week where those activities might go on and be prohibited.

1184
01:42:47,020 --> 01:42:52,220
Also historically in our research, Dublin's complaints have been fairly limited.

1185
01:42:53,280 --> 01:42:56,460
We did go back and pull the data 12 years.

1186
01:42:56,840 --> 01:43:01,920
We've had about 35 complaints, all of which have been resolved under our current ordinance.

1187
01:43:02,580 --> 01:43:07,820
But the common themes that we saw in some of those complaints were related to concerns,

1188
01:43:07,820 --> 01:43:11,300
again, related to typical lawn equipment, leaf blowers,

1189
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:15,060
and late night parties that might disturb

1190
01:43:15,060 --> 01:43:16,380
residential neighborhoods.

1191
01:43:20,190 --> 01:43:23,090
Based on what we found and kind of looking

1192
01:43:23,090 --> 01:43:24,810
at some of our surrounding communities

1193
01:43:24,810 --> 01:43:27,290
and how they look at activities and the direction

1194
01:43:28,110 --> 01:43:32,270
we received, we went back and staff is looking at

1195
01:43:32,270 --> 01:43:34,510
and wanting to discuss tonight some changes

1196
01:43:34,510 --> 01:43:36,590
to our noise ordinance.

1197
01:43:36,590 --> 01:43:44,750
Those would be adding in some activity-based regulations based on the lawn, excuse me,

1198
01:43:44,790 --> 01:43:46,790
landscape equipment, like leaf blowers.

1199
01:43:47,270 --> 01:43:52,090
And we'd be looking at adding days as well as hour restrictions for those types of activities,

1200
01:43:52,450 --> 01:43:57,230
as well as, again, amplified music and noise looking at days and activities.

1201
01:43:57,630 --> 01:44:04,510
So for example, or what we're suggesting staff is recommending, we would limit landscape equipment use

1202
01:44:04,510 --> 01:44:10,370
Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and that's when you can use your equipment.

1203
01:44:12,190 --> 01:44:16,270
Also, you could use it Saturday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

1204
01:44:16,950 --> 01:44:20,130
We've had a little bit of discussion around 10 p.m. on Sunday.

1205
01:44:20,690 --> 01:44:21,930
Might be a little late.

1206
01:44:22,650 --> 01:44:26,670
So, could hear some discussion around maybe that hour on a Sunday.

1207
01:44:27,230 --> 01:44:29,030
Again, amplified noise and parties.

1208
01:44:29,030 --> 01:44:34,090
we would be suggesting days Sunday through Thursday,

1209
01:44:34,790 --> 01:44:40,200
10 a.m. to 8 p.m., as well as Fridays and Saturdays,

1210
01:44:41,050 --> 01:44:42,450
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

1211
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:53,040
Tonight I'm here again bringing back this report to you,

1212
01:44:53,260 --> 01:44:57,340
to seek your direction and regards to the proposed changes

1213
01:44:57,340 --> 01:44:58,680
that I just presented.

1214
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,640
The next steps for staff would be going back and then rolling up our sleeves and making those

1215
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:09,120
changes based on tonight's discussion in your direction and then bringing that back in a

1216
01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:12,320
form of an ordinance. With that, I'm available for any question.

1217
01:45:13,560 --> 01:45:16,140
Thank you so much, Jennifer. And questions?

1218
01:45:18,180 --> 01:45:22,580
And I know we'll get into this discussion and get into the weeds here, but oh, that's

1219
01:45:22,580 --> 01:45:33,180
pun, huh? Never mind. So you made a point about the leaf blowers or the landscape

1220
01:45:33,180 --> 01:45:39,020
equipment on Saturday night. Who's doing that stuff at 10 p.m. at night? What's

1221
01:45:39,020 --> 01:45:42,040
going on there? I think that's a question. I want to know where you came up

1222
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:45,860
with that number. You know it varies. It varies based on community needs and

1223
01:45:45,860 --> 01:45:52,000
bases. You know, I occasionally will work late in the evenings in the

1224
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:56,080
summertime. So, you know, again, am I out there at 10 o'clock at night? Probably not.

1225
01:45:56,240 --> 01:46:02,640
But this is just, again, a basic basis to start the discussion of what might be reasonable

1226
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:09,740
and see where we would want to head with do we want to have hours? Do we want to talk

1227
01:46:09,740 --> 01:46:13,980
about activities? Right? How do we want to look at addressing some of the concerns

1228
01:46:13,980 --> 01:46:15,360
of the communities that we see?

1229
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:16,780
Thank you. Appreciate it.

1230
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:23,260
Thank you. I appreciate it. I have one question. I think you alluded to

1231
01:46:23,260 --> 01:46:28,640
but I'm not sure this the staff report actually laid it out very explicitly is the intention here

1232
01:46:29,190 --> 01:46:34,580
that we're only talking about these things in residential areas as opposed to citywide.

1233
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:40,980
They would be citywide but yes our suggestion would be for these two items with the suggested

1234
01:46:40,980 --> 01:46:45,940
changes that they would be limited to resident residential activities. Yeah the Norse ordinance

1235
01:46:45,940 --> 01:46:50,640
obviously would be citywide but the but these changes would specifically be at residences.

1236
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:51,200
Right.

1237
01:46:51,640 --> 01:46:51,860
Okay.

1238
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:52,300
Thank you.

1239
01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:52,980
That's my only question.

1240
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:54,720
Questions?

1241
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:57,320
I've got two questions.

1242
01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:03,280
I guess how, for a context, how big of a problem is this within our city?

1243
01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:07,860
How many complaints do we typically get in a year, for instance?

1244
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:09,440
Yeah.

1245
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,440
Again, we don't receive very many noise complaints.

1246
01:47:13,300 --> 01:47:18,280
We do have, I have the kind of breakdown for the last 12 years.

1247
01:47:18,280 --> 01:47:25,800
years. But I think I said 35 in my presentation since 2012 was the count. It seems like the

1248
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:35,120
last 2024 and 2025, the numbers have gone up from maybe like 6, 10 to maybe 13. So there's

1249
01:47:35,120 --> 01:47:42,780
a little bit of an uptick in the last few years. But normal data that we were able to

1250
01:47:42,780 --> 01:47:45,420
provide is maybe three to four a year.

1251
01:47:46,980 --> 01:47:49,580
And then, second question was just around enforcement.

1252
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:51,280
What does that typically look like?

1253
01:47:51,420 --> 01:47:53,760
I mean, who's enforcing this code?

1254
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:56,360
Yeah, good question.

1255
01:47:57,180 --> 01:48:03,180
Our code enforcement staff would be responsible for addressing or receiving any complaint

1256
01:48:03,620 --> 01:48:07,500
and then any kind of follow-up that would be needed if the complaint to address the

1257
01:48:07,500 --> 01:48:07,760
complaint.

1258
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:13,220
Go ahead.

1259
01:48:13,500 --> 01:48:13,660
Okay.

1260
01:48:13,860 --> 01:48:14,240
Thank you.

1261
01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:15,480
Good evening, Ms. Bios.

1262
01:48:16,660 --> 01:48:18,760
So I'm actually looking at Table 2,

1263
01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:21,580
and it's hard for me to support this,

1264
01:48:22,040 --> 01:48:24,700
considering you have nothing about rolling your trash bins

1265
01:48:24,700 --> 01:48:26,520
into your driveway at 3 o'clock in the morning.

1266
01:48:27,320 --> 01:48:28,660
And I think we need something about that.

1267
01:48:29,440 --> 01:48:29,760
I'm joking.

1268
01:48:30,700 --> 01:48:31,400
All right, real question.

1269
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:38,320
Which is, there are plenty of folks who contract

1270
01:48:38,320 --> 01:48:40,320
their landscaping work,

1271
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:48,080
work, and therefore it may be written in the contract that they can start sun up or work

1272
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:48,640
until sundown.

1273
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:56,340
How will we as part of the enforcement process or next steps educate either the contractors

1274
01:48:56,340 --> 01:49:00,460
or homeowners so that they know what the times, the limitations are that will be put

1275
01:49:00,460 --> 01:49:03,060
on noise in the residences?

1276
01:49:04,700 --> 01:49:11,660
Good question. I think part of this process is once we get some information around the

1277
01:49:11,660 --> 01:49:16,020
direction we want to go, we'll be developing the process for any kind of outreach that would

1278
01:49:16,020 --> 01:49:20,960
be needed to let residents or let, again, commercial operators know that these are the

1279
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:25,680
rules and that's how we would address that.

1280
01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:35,280
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, Jennifer. So I just have some other comments. I heard

1281
01:49:35,280 --> 01:49:42,260
from residents. There's two things I heard about their noise complaint. One is the school

1282
01:49:42,260 --> 01:49:51,800
district. Somehow they said they have a place. We heard of that. But it's not, I don't think

1283
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:56,800
it's the noise from this leaf blower or noise from these parties.

1284
01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,840
It's more like operations, like trucks, those kind of noise.

1285
01:50:01,140 --> 01:50:06,460
Do we have any regulation to regulate those kind of noise?

1286
01:50:08,410 --> 01:50:10,840
With these changes, we're not suggesting regulating

1287
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:15,460
commercial noises or activities that generate noise

1288
01:50:15,460 --> 01:50:17,480
with commercial or industrial uses.

1289
01:50:18,020 --> 01:50:19,380
Again, that hasn't been an area

1290
01:50:19,380 --> 01:50:24,420
that we've seen a lot of complaints around, we will still have our existing noise ordinance

1291
01:50:24,420 --> 01:50:25,020
in effect.

1292
01:50:25,400 --> 01:50:31,140
So if somebody is concerned and complaining about that, our code enforcement officers will

1293
01:50:31,140 --> 01:50:32,920
still address those complaints.

1294
01:50:33,900 --> 01:50:39,160
These changes would just simply make it that if the complaint was this activity that

1295
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:44,700
we've specified, we now have a day and a time limit around, that it would become

1296
01:50:45,360 --> 01:50:47,880
less subjective and more direct.

1297
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:53,040
like, hey, you're unrolling your trash cans, you're blowing your lawn at 3 a.m., that's

1298
01:50:53,040 --> 01:50:57,560
outside of the time that that's allowed, and then they would need to address and not do

1299
01:50:57,560 --> 01:50:58,440
that activity anymore.

1300
01:50:59,080 --> 01:50:59,680
Does that help?

1301
01:51:00,060 --> 01:51:04,840
So for the commercial noise, what's our current regulation?

1302
01:51:05,560 --> 01:51:07,780
It's just based on a reasonable standard.

1303
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:18,100
Based on, like, do we have, like, you said, present has a decibel-based, what kind of

1304
01:51:18,100 --> 01:51:22,580
current our community, what kind of standard we have?

1305
01:51:23,080 --> 01:51:29,780
Yeah, we don't have a decimal-based standard or an activity-based standard that would

1306
01:51:29,780 --> 01:51:32,700
address any industrial or commercial activities.

1307
01:51:32,700 --> 01:51:39,940
So if somebody calls, they would be required to comply with the reasonable person standard.

1308
01:51:42,140 --> 01:51:45,120
Resonable. I don't got this.

1309
01:51:46,540 --> 01:51:54,920
Well, Mayor, we talked about, this is one of the reasons we went back and looked at this issue is because when we were talking about the downtown live music,

1310
01:51:56,320 --> 01:52:04,160
the vice mayor brought up the fact that we have this very general subjective vague noise

1311
01:52:04,160 --> 01:52:10,220
ordinance, right? And so that's why we researched other ways of doing it. And given the fact

1312
01:52:10,220 --> 01:52:15,860
that we don't really experience complaints about commercial activities, I mean, you have

1313
01:52:15,860 --> 01:52:20,980
one-offs, what we chose to focus on was noise from residences. And those are the

1314
01:52:20,980 --> 01:52:26,920
things that we've we've heard about okay yeah got it okay yeah and as a

1315
01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:32,560
company I heard is about I think it's a military bugle cause right like as a

1316
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:38,440
many military the bugle calls yeah well the system is going under maintenance

1317
01:52:38,440 --> 01:52:42,960
right now so I hate to tell you this it's not gone away it's going to come

1318
01:52:42,960 --> 01:52:47,920
back but the hope is that they'll have more control over the volume and the

1319
01:52:47,920 --> 01:52:50,800
But it's coming back and it will be in use.

1320
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:51,800
Okay.

1321
01:52:51,940 --> 01:52:52,600
Got it.

1322
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:52,720
Okay.

1323
01:52:53,960 --> 01:52:54,960
Thank you so much.

1324
01:52:55,140 --> 01:52:56,700
That's all the questions we have.

1325
01:52:56,860 --> 01:52:58,580
Are there public comments?

1326
01:52:59,180 --> 01:53:00,860
I have no speaker slips on the side of Mayor.

1327
01:53:01,280 --> 01:53:01,580
Great.

1328
01:53:01,800 --> 01:53:01,940
Okay.

1329
01:53:02,380 --> 01:53:04,540
So any additional comments you want to make?

1330
01:53:04,720 --> 01:53:04,900
Yeah.

1331
01:53:05,080 --> 01:53:05,300
Thanks.

1332
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:05,820
Go ahead.

1333
01:53:06,860 --> 01:53:12,940
First of all, thank you for the outreach and the comparison from other cities.

1334
01:53:13,440 --> 01:53:19,380
I am an agreement that 10 a.m. or 10 p.m. Excuse me on Saturdays and Sundays is maybe a little outside the

1335
01:53:19,380 --> 01:53:22,880
Scope of what we would want to do if we decided we wanted to go forward with this

1336
01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:30,460
Maybe just Saturdays and Sundays 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. I was struck by your comment that you're only getting 6 to 80

1337
01:53:30,460 --> 01:53:34,840
Year because I think they must all be coming to me. I think I'm getting that many per year

1338
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,800
So I appreciate that we're at least taking a look at this

1339
01:53:42,060 --> 01:53:45,120
Certainly there are other things that people complain about the noise

1340
01:53:45,900 --> 01:53:50,560
Some of those things we don't have any control over the bugle calls. For example, the city doesn't really have control over

1341
01:53:51,560 --> 01:53:55,020
You know noise from the football stadiums band practice, you know

1342
01:53:55,020 --> 01:53:57,380
We have a second high school now that is right in the middle of a neighborhood

1343
01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:02,980
Now that I'm working at both high schools their band metronome at four o'clock in the afternoon

1344
01:54:02,980 --> 01:54:05,720
If I lived right next door to that would be certainly

1345
01:54:07,100 --> 01:54:12,000
I'm not sure I would be considered a reasonable person in that circumstance, but there are things that we can't really

1346
01:54:12,980 --> 01:54:15,220
That's not our property. That's not anything we can do about that

1347
01:54:15,220 --> 01:54:25,320
But I think from the landscaping at the crack of dawn, I think we can certainly put that in there. I think to John's point, like, how do we tell people about that?

1348
01:54:26,520 --> 01:54:29,180
We do, quote, enforcement on a complaint basis, correct?

1349
01:54:29,900 --> 01:54:30,060
Right.

1350
01:54:30,820 --> 01:54:38,940
So for example, we have, off the top of my head, I'm thinking we have an ordinance that says you can't have a basketball hoop that's in the street that's at your curb.

1351
01:54:39,520 --> 01:54:43,780
but we don't drive around to every, you know, we wait for people to, to their

1352
01:54:43,780 --> 01:54:47,520
neighbors to say these kids are playing basketball in my court. Code enforcement,

1353
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,380
you know, that's not okay. I would imagine this would be similar is the

1354
01:54:51,380 --> 01:54:53,760
approach we would take. I mean we would certainly want to let everybody know

1355
01:54:53,760 --> 01:54:59,380
that we've taken that, that we've done that, but we would be taking

1356
01:54:59,380 --> 01:55:03,140
complaints, correct? Not driving around it, we wouldn't have code enforcement

1357
01:55:03,140 --> 01:55:05,380
out there driving around at 6 a.m. on a Saturday check and to see if

1358
01:55:05,380 --> 01:55:08,560
anybody's running a leaf blower. Correct. Our code enforcement program is

1359
01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:11,340
It's Monday through Friday, 8 to 5.

1360
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:15,700
And if a complaint comes in outside of that, we address it, but we're not actively looking

1361
01:55:15,700 --> 01:55:17,200
for violations on weekends.

1362
01:55:17,640 --> 01:55:19,400
Let's follow up based on the complaint.

1363
01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:22,120
So I'm generally supportive of this.

1364
01:55:22,260 --> 01:55:28,140
I think it is a baby step towards addressing the things that affect people's quality

1365
01:55:28,140 --> 01:55:28,500
of life.

1366
01:55:28,780 --> 01:55:33,840
I think the amplified noise, I don't know whether we want to put the word parties

1367
01:55:33,840 --> 01:55:34,200
in there.

1368
01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:39,840
I think we would want to just leave it as amplified noise, because I don't think we're

1369
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:43,860
trying to regulate people chatting in their backyards, so much as we are them playing

1370
01:55:43,860 --> 01:55:47,900
noise through their Bluetooth speaker or whatever, that is keeping the neighbors awake.

1371
01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:52,140
And I think the rest of it can sort of fall under reasonable person standard.

1372
01:55:52,540 --> 01:55:54,560
But you know, you got to turn the music off.

1373
01:55:55,120 --> 01:55:59,780
You got to turn the amplified speeches off at whatever time we set in this.

1374
01:55:59,880 --> 01:56:01,280
I think these are good suggestions.

1375
01:56:02,240 --> 01:56:06,140
I wouldn't want it to say your party has to end at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night.

1376
01:56:07,020 --> 01:56:11,300
There might be, you know, graduation parties or whatever that people, you know, that doesn't happen all the time.

1377
01:56:12,080 --> 01:56:23,360
Taking the word parties out and having the amplified noise to me, that seems like a good balance between, you know, just turn the music off, keep doing what you're doing.

1378
01:56:23,360 --> 01:56:28,840
But the reasonable person standard continues to be applicable if you live next door to

1379
01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:32,780
somebody who has parties every week and is out there having, you know, 20 people in the

1380
01:56:32,780 --> 01:56:35,780
yard playing in the pool or whatever until midnight every weekend.

1381
01:56:36,220 --> 01:56:37,560
So I'm supportive of this.

1382
01:56:37,660 --> 01:56:42,460
I would love to see us change the Saturday, Sunday, leaf blower lamp escaping equipment

1383
01:56:42,460 --> 01:56:48,420
to an 8 p.m. and or even 9 p.m. I don't know in the summer, you know, maybe sundown

1384
01:56:48,420 --> 01:56:55,160
as the end point but the 7 a.m. weekday 8 a.m. weekend start time I think is

1385
01:56:55,160 --> 01:56:58,880
perfect and the amplified noise I think the times are right so that would be my

1386
01:57:00,900 --> 01:57:08,180
my preference thank you any clarification so if we went back to the

1387
01:57:08,180 --> 01:57:16,320
ordinance itself and 528 020 it's as regards to what you're trying to add to

1388
01:57:16,320 --> 01:57:20,500
this amplified noise, where would you – I'm just curious as to how you would – would

1389
01:57:20,500 --> 01:57:26,960
that be a separate section in there, because it's got a lot going on in A, and you would

1390
01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:34,360
create a separate section within there to describe specifically amplified noise.

1391
01:57:34,460 --> 01:57:35,380
That's my only question.

1392
01:57:35,880 --> 01:57:36,140
Correct.

1393
01:57:36,280 --> 01:57:37,260
Yeah, we would probably –

1394
01:57:37,260 --> 01:57:38,280
With those times.

1395
01:57:38,540 --> 01:57:43,820
A separate section, maybe a little table, or just a sentence of what the requirement

1396
01:57:43,820 --> 01:57:44,300
would be.

1397
01:57:44,300 --> 01:57:52,460
We will come back with that ordinance and those changes as we do and present that information

1398
01:57:52,460 --> 01:57:56,180
to you and what the actual language will be and where it will be inserted.

1399
01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:58,620
But yes, it will be inserted in that section.

1400
01:57:59,740 --> 01:58:00,320
Thank you.

1401
01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:00,700
Okay.

1402
01:58:00,920 --> 01:58:00,960
Thanks.

1403
01:58:01,140 --> 01:58:01,700
Thank you, Jim.

1404
01:58:02,840 --> 01:58:06,440
Ms. Biow, it's just a recommendation, if I may, for the next version that you'll

1405
01:58:06,440 --> 01:58:07,720
be presenting to us.

1406
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:15,280
And actually, parlaying off of Weissmeyer's point here, which is the table two, if we add

1407
01:58:15,280 --> 01:58:20,680
another column that said examples, that would actually, I think, give a perspective to folks

1408
01:58:20,680 --> 01:58:21,580
of what that means.

1409
01:58:22,200 --> 01:58:27,220
That way, in column A, you could generalize that state, make them more general statement,

1410
01:58:27,440 --> 01:58:29,980
and then column C would be the examples hereof.

1411
01:58:31,300 --> 01:58:31,580
Okay.

1412
01:58:32,160 --> 01:58:32,600
That's all.

1413
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:34,480
Comments?

1414
01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:37,760
I'm not particularly adamant about this one.

1415
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:44,320
I mean, I think some of the changes that you suggested seem reasonable, doesn't seem like

1416
01:58:44,320 --> 01:58:46,500
a huge issue at the moment.

1417
01:58:48,220 --> 01:58:54,620
I'm not particularly strong about it, but I'm okay with what's being presented.

1418
01:58:55,420 --> 01:59:01,580
So I agree with data 8 p.m. during the first one, Sunday to Sunday.

1419
01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:09,560
Second one, amplify the noise without parties. I think that's great. So that would be our

1420
01:59:09,560 --> 01:59:16,180
direction to you. Today we just need direction. And thank you so much. That's good work. And

1421
01:59:16,180 --> 01:59:22,620
I'm looking forward to next time when you'll come to bring the more detailed language

1422
01:59:22,620 --> 01:59:22,980
there.

1423
01:59:23,360 --> 01:59:24,480
All right. Thank you very much.

1424
01:59:24,480 --> 01:59:25,460
Thank you Jennifer.

1425
01:59:27,480 --> 01:59:32,980
So moving on to agenda item 9, city manager and the city council

1426
01:59:32,980 --> 01:59:33,600
reports.

1427
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:39,100
Mayor and council members, I want to respond a little bit to the residents that came out

1428
01:59:39,100 --> 01:59:45,320
from Summer Glen, appreciate their feedback on, you know, needing pedestrian bridge there.

1429
01:59:45,860 --> 01:59:50,720
I did communicate with one of them and maybe she didn't see it before she came to the

1430
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:57,680
meeting but that that property is owned by zone 7. Having said that, city staff

1431
01:59:57,680 --> 01:59:59,820
will go out there and take a look at the lighting.

1432
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:04,340
And see what's happening on the trail to see if there's anything that we can do. We are

1433
02:00:04,340 --> 02:00:11,900
responsible for portions of the adjacent trail, so we will do that. Four new pickleball courts

1434
02:00:12,780 --> 02:00:21,240
have been installed at Wallace, so at least one of you is happy about that. And you're going to see

1435
02:00:21,240 --> 02:00:25,900
information coming out about this very soon. It will be included in the summer activity guide,

1436
02:00:25,900 --> 02:00:32,140
But we are planning a community party on July 4th, so don't plan anything for that day except to show up at Dublin Sports Grounds

1437
02:00:32,140 --> 02:00:36,680
And it'll be a good old-fashioned American party right in your backyard. That's all

1438
02:00:37,260 --> 02:00:39,060
Thank you. So

1439
02:00:39,880 --> 02:00:43,500
John you want to start? Thank you mayor for myself

1440
02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:50,120
Attended Ava board meeting as well as their finance meeting as well. Nothing new to report there

1441
02:00:51,180 --> 02:00:56,840
Also, I did get the opportunity to go to Sacramento for the League of California City's Governance

1442
02:00:56,840 --> 02:01:00,360
Transparency Labor Relations Policy Committee.

1443
02:01:01,790 --> 02:01:07,780
I want to let everybody know that it was ratified to have an artificial intelligence policy

1444
02:01:07,780 --> 02:01:10,020
by the GTLR.

1445
02:01:10,680 --> 02:01:14,600
So there will be one now that is officially from that agency.

1446
02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:20,440
And then, also, I had the pleasure and honor to attend the ribbon cutting for the Iron Horse Trail,

1447
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:26,260
which I actually learned quite a bit about the railway that we used to have, but no longer have,

1448
02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:28,660
and a good commemoration to what we have now.

1449
02:01:29,500 --> 02:01:31,060
So with that, that's all I have for now.

1450
02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:32,980
Thank you, Michael.

1451
02:01:34,380 --> 02:01:36,640
Sure. I had a few things.

1452
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:46,740
had a HACA meeting, labor negotiations, had a LAPTA finance administration meeting, nothing

1453
02:01:46,740 --> 02:01:54,360
to really report on those. What I really enjoyed with the accompanying men of Councilmember

1454
02:01:54,360 --> 02:02:00,400
Morata was installing the new board of the chamber. That was fun. You felt very, you

1455
02:02:00,400 --> 02:02:06,460
know, empowered. No, it was fun. Anyway, and a couple of ribbon cuttings. The men

1456
02:02:06,460 --> 02:02:14,360
Nassino Farms, I think a couple of us were there, very impressed, and guys, Jim, and I

1457
02:02:14,980 --> 02:02:18,060
think, oh yeah, Iron Horse Trail, that was great.

1458
02:02:18,380 --> 02:02:21,600
So we were all over the place, yeah, yeah, I'm good, you know.

1459
02:02:22,100 --> 02:02:22,900
Castle Member.

1460
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:28,300
Yeah, two had a pretty busy couple weeks, so the League of California Cities Community

1461
02:02:28,300 --> 02:02:34,900
Services Policy Committee meeting, the Iron Horse Trail opening, the East Bay Leadership

1462
02:02:34,900 --> 02:02:41,120
Council leadership series dinner. That event was fantastic. Yesterday we had the

1463
02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:47,640
Mendocino Farms event which was also great. Earlier had an I-Gate board meeting

1464
02:02:47,640 --> 02:02:52,760
and I'm happy to share that I'm now the vice, selected the vice chair of that

1465
02:02:52,760 --> 02:02:59,680
board and the MLK Fellowship Breakfast in a words hosted by the Three

1466
02:02:59,680 --> 02:03:04,300
Values Community Foundation another really great event and finally the

1467
02:03:04,300 --> 02:03:09,040
federal military community committee meeting. So very busy a couple weeks.

1468
02:03:10,060 --> 02:03:16,460
Thanks. Thank you. Also a busy few weeks. I was done up in Sacramento for the Cal

1469
02:03:16,460 --> 02:03:23,620
Cities Public Safety Policy Committee meeting. They are also doing a e-bike

1470
02:03:23,620 --> 02:03:28,600
task force for Cal Cities and Public Safety will have two or three members

1471
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:34,400
from public safety on the task force and I did put in for that I don't know

1472
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:38,800
when we'll hear the deadline to apply for it was yesterday so we'll see I'd

1473
02:03:38,800 --> 02:03:42,460
love to be able to have Dublin's voice heard on the e-bike task force that'll

1474
02:03:42,460 --> 02:03:47,780
be statewide. Obviously the Iron Horse Trail Park grand opening was amazing

1475
02:03:47,780 --> 02:03:52,700
and as always our historian Steve Menier is an amazing person to talk about

1476
02:03:52,700 --> 02:03:57,340
all the history of the things that used to be once were. I have had two

1477
02:03:57,340 --> 02:04:00,460
You'll have to committee meetings and also stop waste.

1478
02:04:00,900 --> 02:04:09,140
Want to alert folks that stop waste board did pass a new revenue measure that will go

1479
02:04:09,140 --> 02:04:13,940
on everybody's, all the jurisdictions within Alameda County, their haulers, and it will

1480
02:04:13,940 --> 02:04:22,060
be 30 cents a month for residential and a little bit more for commercial to help recover

1481
02:04:22,060 --> 02:04:27,900
stop wastes, regulatory costs for helping to deliver the programs that they deliver

1482
02:04:27,900 --> 02:04:32,460
to all of Alameda County, so a very tiny increase on everybody's bills.

1483
02:04:33,380 --> 02:04:37,840
And then East Bay Leadership Council dinner, that dinner was truly amazing.

1484
02:04:38,120 --> 02:04:42,480
Stacey Abrams was the keynote speaker and I'm hoping that that was recorded somewhere

1485
02:04:42,480 --> 02:04:46,920
for folks that didn't get a chance to go because it really was truly an amazing evening.

1486
02:04:47,380 --> 02:04:48,180
And that was it for me.

1487
02:04:48,360 --> 02:04:48,540
Thank you.

1488
02:04:48,540 --> 02:05:02,280
Thank you. Thank you. Very busy week for seems for a lot of people here. And I was in a lot of ribbon cutting as well. There's one ribbon cutting. I think it's a gym guys.

1489
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:10,400
gym guys was a good one too. Beyond this iron horse nature park and open space

1490
02:05:10,400 --> 02:05:16,280
ribbon cutting and we were pretty proud. I think in the past four months we have

1491
02:05:16,280 --> 02:05:23,220
opened three parks. The what is ranch park, the nature park and this

1492
02:05:23,220 --> 02:05:30,020
iron horse nature park and community like open space. So three parks in

1493
02:05:30,020 --> 02:05:36,060
four months. That's what I would say they have done. I'm so proud of that. And beyond that,

1494
02:05:36,380 --> 02:05:43,160
for last week, the whole week, I was in Washington, D.C., with all the other mayors from Trivali.

1495
02:05:43,540 --> 02:05:55,010
So we had legislative advocacy. We actually got to meet a lot of people. And we actually

1496
02:05:55,010 --> 02:05:57,930
to meet both senators from our California

1497
02:05:57,930 --> 02:06:02,750
and with all the other mayors from California.

1498
02:06:03,210 --> 02:06:04,870
So that was a good meeting as well.

1499
02:06:05,670 --> 02:06:07,250
And the mayor's conference,

1500
02:06:07,570 --> 02:06:10,130
there's a lot of good topics, safety.

1501
02:06:10,790 --> 02:06:12,870
And then in one of the launch meeting,

1502
02:06:13,490 --> 02:06:18,490
the mayor of Minneapolis actually went to speak to us.

1503
02:06:18,950 --> 02:06:20,270
That was like a highlight.

1504
02:06:20,690 --> 02:06:22,870
But one quick thing I want to share with you

1505
02:06:22,870 --> 02:06:25,650
is another mayor who's in suburb of Minneapolis

1506
02:06:26,400 --> 02:06:28,910
also spoke in one of our sessions.

1507
02:06:29,890 --> 02:06:33,970
So we heard from them in real person

1508
02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:38,470
and they just confirmed whatever we have seen on TV.

1509
02:06:39,390 --> 02:06:41,150
The situation was pretty severe.

1510
02:06:42,640 --> 02:06:43,830
They confirmed with us.

1511
02:06:44,070 --> 02:06:45,890
Sometimes you heard all the news from TV,

1512
02:06:46,190 --> 02:06:49,910
from social media you still don't know

1513
02:06:49,910 --> 02:06:56,270
you know, if it's just like in TV, but it's real.

1514
02:06:56,550 --> 02:06:59,990
That's the message I heard from both mayors from that area.

1515
02:07:01,370 --> 02:07:02,410
Quite alarming.

1516
02:07:02,990 --> 02:07:04,910
So that's my last week.

1517
02:07:05,270 --> 02:07:09,290
It was freezing cold, snowing, storm,

1518
02:07:09,670 --> 02:07:11,950
like all the things happened on a Sunday

1519
02:07:11,950 --> 02:07:14,230
and then the rest of the week was cold,

1520
02:07:14,490 --> 02:07:15,670
but weather was okay.

1521
02:07:16,330 --> 02:07:18,590
So with that said, thank you everybody

1522
02:07:18,590 --> 02:07:25,050
for your great work and will adjourn the meeting at 9 0 8. Thanks for all the

1523
02:07:25,050 --> 02:07:25,270
audience.