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[0:04] I'm going to start a meeting at 401. We have a roll call.
[0:13] Councilmember Corrigan. Councilmember Tyson. Councilmember
[0:16] Spring. Vice Mayor Tonka. Mayor Wu. Here.
[0:23] The next item will be public comments. Public
[0:26] comments is limited to item which are on the subject of a special meeting. I believe we have two
[0:32] minutes for each comment.
[0:40] So Deborah, do we want to have a participant to start?
[0:44] Yes. If anybody on the Zoom call would like to speak, would you please raise your hand.
[0:52] Can you go to attendees, Cody? Do you see them, Madam Mayor?
[1:04] Cody, can you start? I cannot see you because it's too far. I'm on your side.
[1:08] Okay. Robert Sandor, if you can unmute him, he has two minutes.
[1:14] Okay, your audio is very bad. Can I, uh, any way to, uh, get a little bit better?
[1:20] Can you hear me now?
[1:22] Kind of.
[1:24] Well, you're, you're streaming from the council chamber, so we're limited in, in how much
[1:29] we can, the week in here, you just find.
[1:32] Okay.
[1:32] That, that, that should, uh, should be enough.
[1:35] Okay.
[1:35] I'm just going to reiterate my comments that I made, uh, in the, uh, in the last, uh, finance
[1:42] committee meeting.
[1:45] I don't think it made it properly on to the minutes that are being presented tonight.
[1:53] So I'd like to make sure my previous statements are in the minutes for the meeting tonight.
[1:59] So my comments are about the city manager.
[2:04] one. Can the town council please explain to me what positive proactive management the city manager has provided to us since this last
[2:13] contract extension. I've seen an incredibly mismanaged garbage contract that was anything but proactively managed and forces the town into 15 year commitment on this factor alone. I've asked the city manager to be replaced.
[2:31] Second, can you assure me that the community and the city manager is effective in managing
[2:36] the town staff?
[2:38] I've only heard negative feedback from the great Los Althos Hills town staff that I interact
[2:43] with.
[2:45] I suggest that most of the cities in this area including Los Althos Hills will be suffering
[2:51] greatly from reduced revenue to the pandemic.
[2:53] I suggest that any financial commitment that you'd be making to our highest plate in
[3:00] employees is not wise at this time.
[3:03] And finally, in a time when our community is facing great employment and fiscal uncertainty,
[3:09] why would the county offer a long-term guarantee to obviously underperform an employee?
[3:16] In the commercial world, I don't see anybody getting multi-year guaranteed employment contracts anymore.
[3:22] If a short-term arrangement needs to be put in place, I suggest it be a month to month
[3:31] extension of anything currently in place. To these ends, I suggest the town council owes us all
[3:38] a formal explanation and presentation of the accomplishments and the qualifications of Mr.
[3:45] Hill or our city manager especially at a time and we do that at a time when the pandemic
[3:53] allows us all to meet together in person rather than on Zoom and and contributed. Thank
[4:00] you.
[4:03] Thank you. The next speaker, Cody, if you can unmute John Swan.
[4:16] Thank you. Good old Zoom.
[4:19] Yeah, I sent the letter. I'll just briefly summarize what was in the letter and I like to make two
[4:24] additional points. The letter I said would basically, I'm in favor of a one-year extension
[4:32] of the contract, but based on issues that go way, way back, and it's not worth bringing
[4:40] up old issues, I think we need to have a professional performance review done and start that soon,
[4:49] so that by the end of this year, we have the feedback from that performance evaluation,
[4:54] which can be done privately so that existing states
[5:00] The staff and recently departing staff feel open and free to discuss the issues. And then in parallel, my second comment is I would like to suggest that a committee of residents be formed, that their objective is to go out and get residents input on Carl's performance. So by the end of this year, you'll have both the professional evaluation that was
[5:29] done that surveys the staff, current and former staff and you'll have the results of this
[5:35] task force saying from the resident's perspective, here's our evaluation of the town manager.
[5:42] So then you'll have an additional, if we have this in place by the end of this year, you'll
[5:46] have the additional time to say can we improve our situation or should we just start looking
[5:55] for another manager and that gives you six months to find a replacement because that's
[6:01] the end of my comments.
[6:06] Thank you, Cody.
[6:07] If you can unmute Shell Carlson, please.
[6:15] Shell, are you there?
[6:16] Yes, I'm here.
[6:18] Okay.
[6:18] Thank you, Deborah.
[6:20] I just want to point out, I don't know if that's a brown that violation.
[6:24] I'm looking at today's 6 o'clock agenda item 5A.
[6:28] or have a talk about the May 21st closed session meeting at 4 p.m. Now that's not listed anywhere
[6:37] and I would say and the recording seemingly is still not public that when Bob Sanders letter
[6:46] was read into you guys because the another thing that absolutely have to be fixed in this time
[6:52] is that the minutes are always sanitized for some month's protection.
[6:58] I mean, you know what I said.
[7:00] And it just basically the minutes says,
[7:03] city management should be reviewed more than once a year.
[7:06] You know, I said a lot more,
[7:08] more important things than that,
[7:10] such as name one thing that's proactively managed.
[7:14] And then it says here, just city clerk Patavan, who's excellent,
[7:18] read in, read an email into the record
[7:22] from recent Robert Sander requesting the council delay making a decision on the contract
[7:28] until council can meet a person. Well, you know his letter said a lot more than that.
[7:34] It was basically process related comments. It was nothing and they're ready into the record.
[7:41] Good luck trying to find that record. That record is nowhere other than yet opposed it again.
[7:47] So no more not recording and not public comment of a closed session is the most important public input that the council in our former government can ever be had.
[8:06] It's that's how we residents can offer the console inputs. So you guys cannot no longer say we didn't know anything because now record it's
[8:18] We know what you know and when you knew it. So you know, we are we look forward to work together. We offer to work together with, you know, a big car
[8:30] Every time you issue an olive branch, and let's work together. We get your two minutes are up shall sorry
[8:39] Cody, who do you see next?
[8:41] Is it Courtney?
[8:42] Is there a Courtney that has their hand raised?
[8:44] Somebody has their hand raised.
[8:47] If there's anybody else on the Zoom call
[8:50] that wishes to speak, could you please raise your hand
[8:53] using Zoom?
[8:55] Or maybe I'll ask Courtney, can you unmute Courtney
[8:59] in case they can't raise their hand, Cody?
[9:03] Courtney, would you like to speak?
[9:09] No, thank you.
[9:10] Thank you.
[9:12] John Harpoutlian, would you like to speak?
[9:17] one more. Yeah. John,
[9:24] John Harput Leon, would you like to speak?
[9:28] No, thank you. Thank you.
[9:34] Should I continue to go down the list? Okay. Thank you.