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Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our closed session. City Attorney Loew will make a closed session announcement, and then we will welcome public comment on the item listed for closed session.

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Good evening, mayor and council members. There is one item on this evening's closed session agenda. Item 2.1 is a meeting to consider appointment of a city attorney pursuant to government code section 5 for 957B1.

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Thank you. Would any member of the public joining us virtually?

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or in person, like to provide comment on the closed session item listed on today's agenda.

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If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a speaker card to the city clerk.

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We will take in person speakers first.

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Each speaker will have three minutes.

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We have no in-person comments.

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We will now take virtual speakers.

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Seeing none, the council will now recess to the Plaza Conference Room for closed session

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and return to the council chambers at the close to continue to the regular session.

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Session.

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Okay, so good evening everyone.

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Welcome to the joint meeting of the Mountain View City Council, Shoreline Regional Park

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Community and City of Mountain View Capital Improvements, Financing Authority of June 9th,

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2026.

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Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

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for which it stands, one nation under God,

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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The city clerk will take attendance by roll call.

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Council member Hicks.

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Here, council member Kameh.

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Here, council member McHallister.

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Council member Ramirez.

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Here, council member Schoelter.

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Here, vice mayor clerk.

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Here, mayor Amos.

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Here, you have a clerk.

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Wonderful.

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City Attorney Low, do you have a closed session report?

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No final action was taken in closed session this evening.

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Great. That leads us to item 3 presentations. Please note that these are presentations only.

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The City Council will not take any action. Public comment will occur after the presentation

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items. If you would like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker

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card to the City Clerk now. So we will now go on to item 3.1. Pride month proclamation.

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We are happy to be joined this evening by Saldi Surubin, Sarah Fernando, and Becca Ponds from the Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs to accept this proclamation.

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Would you all join me at the lectern?

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The proclamation reads, whereas the city of Mountain View is committed to supporting dignity, equity,

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Whereas Mountain View celebrates the history and diversity of our city's LGBTQIA plus community and promote the society in which all residents can live free from discrimination and whereas the city will host its second citywide pride celebration called together in pride on June 20th.

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The event will feature a flag raising ceremony.

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Other activities will include performances by artists, community booths, roaming entertainment, family fun zones, and a community art project and whereas flying the rainbow flag at City Hall throughout the month of June further symbolizes the city's celebration of diversity and support for the city's LGBTQIA plus residents.

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Now, therefore I, Emily Ann Ramos, mayor of the City of Mountsview, along with my colleagues on the City Council.

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Do you hereby proclaim the month of June as Pride Month and encourage all residents of Mountsview to celebrate the rich diversity of our community,

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Salvi, would you like to say a few words?

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Yes, thank you, mayor.

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Good evening, everyone, my name is Salvi Sirven, my pronoun is he, him, his.

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I am with the County San Clara Office of LGBT Affairs.

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Thank you for being here as we celebrate Pride Month.

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Pride is a beautiful reminder of the power of visibility and the strength of the United community.

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It's a time to honor our past, celebrate our joy and reaffirm our commitment to full equality.

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But real support extends far beyond the flags and festivals.

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It lives in our policies and resources.

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If you or someone you love looking for support, advocacy or community connection,

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I want to remind you about an incredible local resource,

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which is our office, Santa Clara County Office of LGBT Affairs.

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Established as historic first in the United States,

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this office acts as a dedicated champion for the health,

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safety, and well-being of the LGBTQ plus residents

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right here in Santa Clara County,

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including the city of Mountain View.

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From connecting community members to affirming healthcare

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and housing to providing cultural competition training,

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The office work tirelessly to make sure our county is safe to call home.

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Also, this June 12th, I want to invite you all.

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We are turning at 10 year anniversary since the establishment in 2016.

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It's happening on June 12th from 5 to 8 p.m. at 71st heading in San Jose.

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Okay, this June, let's celebrate our diversity and make sure no one walks their journey alone.

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Check out the office of LGBT Affairs.

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Stay connected and have a beautiful, safe, pride month, thank you.

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For our next proclamation, 3.2, June 10th proclamation, we are happy to be joined this evening by

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Jamal Williams, Kima Egg Buhu, and Jocelyn Dubin, co-chairs of the Black Leadership

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Kitchen Cabinet of Silicon Valley to accept this proclamation.

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Would you all join me at the lecture?

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The proclamation reads, whereas President Abraham Lincoln signed the Mancipation Proclamation

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on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in the Confederate territory free, paving the way for the passage of the 13th Amendment, which formerly abolished slavery in the United States of America,

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and word about the signing of the emancipation proclamation was delayed by some two and a half years to June 19th, 1865, in reaching authorities in African Americans in the South and Southwestern United States,

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And whereas this day has a special meeting and is called Juneteenth, combining the words Jun and 19th and Juneteenth is an opportunity to acknowledge a period of our history that shaped and continues to influence our society today,

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a time to honor and pay respects for the sufferings of slavery and whereas the City of Mountain View strives to be a community for all, which is to support its socio-economic and cultural diversity.

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Whereas, the City of Mountain View recognizes the historical significance of the Juneteenth Day to the United States supports the continued nationwide celebration of the Juneteenth Day to provide an opportunity for residents to learn more about the past and to understand better the experiences that have shaped-

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Thank the United States and recognizes that the observance of the end of slavery is part of the history and heritage of the United States. Now, therefore, I, Emily Ann Ramos, mayor of the City of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the City Council, do you hereby proclaim June 19th as Juneteenth Day in the City of Mountain View? Would someone like to say a few words?

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Let me first say that I was given permission to speak by these two wonderful women.

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This is not patriarchy or misogyny at all.

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The black leadership kitchen cabinet continues to work tirelessly on behalf of black residents throughout the county as a coalition.

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We give our time and dedicate our lives and our professions to make sure that we are advocating

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fighting for policy and building community that supports and uplifts the black community.

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We recognize Juneteenth as our Independence Day.

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If we can imagine what it's like, what it was like during the actual Independence Day,

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our ancestors weren't enslaved, but on June 19th, 1865 they finally were able to gain

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some semblance of freedom. And we think about Junete not just as a special day for black Americans

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who were enslaved, but also that's at the course for all underrepresented populations in this

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country. And we want to make sure we recognize that milestone. We think about today and we recognize

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that there's a lot of our civil rights and liberties being under attack. And even as a reflective

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of time such as this, we want to make sure that we're fighting against those that are

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continue to oppress and try to rewrite history.

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The systems and protections that black people fought and die for are under renewed threat

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and social progress that communities achieved not only for themselves but for countless others

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are continuing to be rolled back.

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We've seen black folks continue to be, we've continued to lose black folks in this county

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and we have continued to see women being attacked over this past year and so I ask that when we think about how we choose to move forward with policy that we not only observe Juneteenth as a historical time but we recognize that it says of course forward for us and our policy decisions and our choices with our funding and support for the community so thank you again for this proclamation and we look forward to continue working with y'all in the future.

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What any member of the council like to say a few words?

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Councilmember Shoelalter.

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I really would like to say a few words about Juneteenth.

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Growing up in the capital of Confederacy, I was really educated about the Civil War in

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a way that was just a fairytale.

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And in the last 30 years, there's been an incredible movement to bring back the real history

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of what happened and share it with everyone.

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So we can all learn about our past and think about the implications of it and move forward

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from there in an honest manner.

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And so it just really does my heart good to see this when I was a kid growing up, nobody ever talked about Juneteenth.

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I don't think it became a very popular holiday until the last 20, 25 years.

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But it's a very welcome one.

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And particularly this year, as we celebrate our 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,

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It's so appropriate that we remember the other parts of our history, all of them.

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The good, the bad, the wonderful, the ugly.

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And think about the whole.

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And so I just wanted to mention that this, when we talk about we, the people,

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there were a lot of people included throughout our history that didn't get their story told.

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And this is about telling a very important story and not letting it die.

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So thank you.

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Thank you, Councilmember Showalter, any other comments from seeing none?

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We will now take public comment for the presentation items, would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the presentation items listed on the agenda?

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If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

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We will take in-person speakers first. Each speaker will have three minutes.

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Do we have any in-person speakers?

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All right. No in-person speakers. We will now take virtual speakers.

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All right. We have a virtual speaker. Judy, can you unmute yourself?

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All right, seeing that there are no other public comments we will end item three but with

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just one reminder for your call to action, call to service, call to community.

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On Saturday, June 20th, we're going to have our pride event.

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So yay, we're so excited.

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So please come out for that and show support and celebrate our diversity in our community

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that will be at City Hall Plaza and it will begin at 11 a.m.

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So yay, now we'll move on to our consent calendar.

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These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration.

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If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following approval of the balance of the consent calendar.

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If you would like to speak on these items or the next item oral communications on non-agendite items

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In person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now

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Would any member of the council like to pull an item?

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We will now go oh

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Okay, we will now do you want to speak now or do you want to speak after public comment?

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Okay, so would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to submit a comment on these items if so

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Please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

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If we will take in-person speakers first, each speaker will have three minutes.

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This is for consent calendar. Do we have any speakers?

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No in-person speakers? All right, we will now take virtual speakers.

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Judy?

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Yes, hello. Can you hear me? I got disconnected on my public comment. We can hear you.

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Okay. I got this connected on my public comment earlier and I wish you would make a disruption

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policy to cover the disruptions in virtual comments. That is a state law by the beginning of July.

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You need to do that because I would like to be able to speak on the last section where they were

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talking about the black pride day and the gay pride day. Will you still let me speak about that?

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No, this is no longer that item for this public comment, but thank you so much.

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Okay. Well, thank you. In please work on that disruption policy because you cost me my speech tonight and that is a few points discriminate. Thank you.

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Next up, we have Albert Jeans.

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Hi there. Just a quick comment on 4.10, the acquisition property of Terabella.

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Of course, that's a really great, you know, it's a great opportunity to add to the park.

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There's a big difference between, I think, a two-acre park and a three-acre,

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but I just wanted to point out, as Mr. Jean did in his email, that's a lot next to that.

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At 965 Terabella, it also appears to be available.

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And if we could add that, you know, we'd be looking out of four acre park, which is a really decent size.

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So, you know, it's pretty rare I think that the city can put together so many lots to make a decent sized park.

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So I really hope the staff and the city council will move forward on that.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Albert.

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We will now bring this back to council.

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Council for Council action and note that a motion to approve the consent calendar should

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also include the reading of the titles of the ordinance and resolution attached to the

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consent calendar items 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.9. Good luck with that.

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The city clerk will take row call as we have a council member participating remotely this

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evening. Council member show alter.

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All right, I guess I should have looked at how much I had to read.

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No, that's okay, I'm just kidding.

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I also want to make a couple comments.

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One, when we get to the end of the sort of the sessions, we have two more meetings in this session.

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Before we have our summer break, there are always a lot of consent calendar items.

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And that's just kind of indicative of all the work that the city is doing.

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And they want to get things wrapped up enough, so they have approval to get through the summer.

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So there's always this spade of them.

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I think the most I ever observed was 28 in one meeting, that was definitely a record.

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But so this time, I think we have 11 and next time I bet we'll have more, we'll see.

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But anyway, it's interesting to note that three of them are second readings of ordinances or

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resolutions that we've passed, which is also an indication of something that we've finished.

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We've completed and that's a good thing.

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And I particularly want to, I also want to mention 4.4,

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that's the extension of our shelter emergency.

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And that allows us to continue our programs to assist the homeless.

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It's very important in the social fiber of our community.

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On a very happy note, we are putting more money into the heat pay,

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a heat pump rebate program, it was so popular that we used up all the money.

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And so by putting another $500,000 in, we'll be able to take 250 more heat pumps out of people's houses and mountain view.

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And the reason it's so important to take a heat pump out is because a water heater in a typical single family home uses about the same,

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I mean, produced is about the same amount of greenhouse gases as a car does, a family car.

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So these reductions are very important, and it's something to be proud of.

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Also, as Albert Jean's mentioned, 4.10, we're purchasing some land that's going to allow for

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a park that's a little larger than three acres in this area.

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That is definitely something to celebrate, and also I just want to thank the BPAC and

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James Guzammal, congratulate for being willing to step up and serve on the Santa Clara Transportation Authority by PED advisory board.

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That's an important way to bring the Mountain View concepts to county issues.

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Okay, so with that, I'm going to have to probably have a few sips while I do this, but I'd like to move the

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Consent Calendar item 4.1, adopt an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, amending chapter 36.

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Article 9, division 2, residential development, below market rate housing program, of the Mountain View City Code to modify the below market rate program and

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An ad section, 30.40.32, governing graduated fee reduction for small projects and finding that these code amendments are not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act to be read in title only further reading weight.

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Item 4.2, adopt an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, amending chapter 36, zoning of the Mountain View City Council code to authorize streamlined administrative approval of housing development projects.

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projects that are statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act,

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pursuing to public resources code section 21080.66.

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next.

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And to make other minor modifications to chapter 36 to align land uses in the recreation, I mean in the residential and commercial zones with state laws, and finding that the amendments are exempt from review under sequa as recommended by the Environmental Planning Committee to be read and title only further reading waived. Adopt an ordinance of the city council of the city of Mountain View, amending chapter 28 subdivisions and chapter 41, park land, dedication, or fees in lieu thereof.

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of the Mountain View City Code to authorize streamlined administrative approval of housing development projects that are statutorically exempted from CEQA, pursuant to public resources code section 21080.66 and make other minor modifications to Chapter 28 and 41 to achieve greater consistency with state laws for internal consistency within the city code and to align the city code with current permitting

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procedures and practices, and finding that amendments are exempt from review under

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CEQA to be read and title only further reading waived.

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Item 4.3, adopt an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, renewing

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approval of the Mountain View Police Department Military Equipment Use Policy, adopting

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updated military equipment use policy, and finding that this action is not subject to CEQA

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to be read entitled only further reading waived.

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Item 4.4, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, authorizing

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the City Manager or designate to execute fiscal years, 2026, 27 funding agreements with

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the Community Services Agency of Mountain View, Los Alta's and Los Alta's Hales, for housing

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related services and an amount not to exceed $177,000 for a homeless prevention direct financial

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assistance program in an amount not to exceed $150,000 to be read and title only for the reading wave.

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And, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, a mending resolution 18301 to extend the declaration of a shelter crisis in the City of Mountain View through June 30th, 2035 to be read and title only for the reading wave.

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Item 4.5, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View approving

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a request to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the allocation of fiscal

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year 2026-27 Transportation Development Act Article 3 pedestrian bicycle project funding

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to be read and title only further reading waived.

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Item 4.6, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View authorizing the city

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manager or their designate to amend an agreement with Silicon Valley Clean Energy to increase funding

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for the heat pump water heater program by $500,000 resulting in a total not-to-excite amount

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of a million dollars to revet and title only for their reading waived.

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Item 4.7 adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, calling a general

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municipal election for the purpose of electing three members of the City Council, requesting

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the Board of Supervisors to authorize the Registrar of Voters to contract for election services,

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authorizing the city clerk to contract with the county of Santa Clara,

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pertaining to services to be performed by the county in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday,

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November 3, 2026, and related actions to be read and title only further reading wait.

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And a doctor resolution of the City of Mountain View,

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City Council of the City of Mountain View adopting a 200 word, 200 word maximum, I've got to flip the page here guys, so I'm sorry,

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200 word maximum in for a candidate statement of qualifications and charging each candidate for a fixed share of costs for the printing, handling, translating, and mailing for the general municipal election to be head on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 to be read and title only for their reading way.

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And last but not least, item 4.9, introduce an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, amending chapter 2, Article 8 of the Mountain View City Code to add Section 2.86.25, governing the selection of arguments for city ballot measures and make other clarifying modifications to be read and title only further reading waived and set a second reading for June 23, 2026.

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All right, so we have a motion by Council Member Shoal Walter, seconded by Council Member

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Hicks.

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City clerk, will you mind taking the roll call vote?

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Council Member Shoal Walter.

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Yes.

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Council Member Hicks.

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Yes.

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Council Member Kameh.

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Yes.

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Council Member McAllister.

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Yes.

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Council Member Ramirez.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Clerk.

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Yes.

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Mayor Ramos.

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Yes.

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Motion carries unanimously.

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All right.

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All right, so that concludes a consent calendar.

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We will now move on to item five, oral communications.

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This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the council on any matter, not on the agenda.

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Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic within the city's council's subject matter jurisdiction for up to three minutes during the section.

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State law prohibits the council from acting on non-agenda items.

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If you would like to speak on this item or the next item in person, please submit a blue

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speaker card to the city clerk now.

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And in recent weeks, the city along with few other neighboring elected decision making

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bodies have been subjected to disruptive, racist, verbal attacks by anonymous collars during

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virtual public comments.

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The city of Mountain View is fully committed to racial, religious, and cultural equality and

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justice as we strive to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive community for all.

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Well, the Council welcomes respectful, non-threatening public comments on matters within our jurisdiction.

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Common seemed otherwise pursuant to the Council Code of Conduct and the Government Code may be grounds for terminating a speaker's public comment period.

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So we will now move on to our public comment.

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It looks like we have one, two, three, four five people in the queue, so we'll go for two minutes.

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So with any member of the public joining us virtually, our in-person like to provide comment on this item, is so please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit blue speaker cards to the city clerk, we will take in person speakers first, each speaker will have two minutes.

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Our first one is going to be Bruce Carney, followed by Kristen Anderson, followed by KBT, followed by Shawnee Klein House.

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Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers, Ms. Glazer.

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Would you please show this slide for public comment I submitted earlier.

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Thank you very much.

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I want to take just one minute of your time to make sure you are aware of the greenhouse gas admission report released earlier this year by Silicon Valley Clean Energy.

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They prepare reports each year for all of their member agencies.

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The clerk is showing the latest slide for mountain view.

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As you can see, emissions in 2024 were higher than in 2019, the year before the pandemic,

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in fact, 5% higher.

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The reason for the increased emissions is that in 2024, Silicon Valley Clean Energy was

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unable to meet its goal of providing 100% carbon-free electricity.

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I have been assured that SVCE returned to being carbon-free in 2025, and will strive to be

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carbon-free in the future, but what happened in 2024 should serve as a reminder that we

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can't take it for granted that the electricity we consume will always be as clean as we hope

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it will be.

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Thank you, Mr. Carney, Kristen Anderson,

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followed by KBT, followed by Shawnee Kleinhouse.

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Good evening. Thanks for hearing me.

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I just have two things I want to bring to your attention. One of them is the City of Mount

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be a dog park overall for shoreline by shoreline across from shoreline amplitheater by the golf course.

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There's a dog park has both four large dogs and separated for small dogs.

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It is barren.

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There's like one covered bench for someone to sit in and

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then another one has like a second bench or it'll have some benches.

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But it's just plain, plain, gravel type of dirt, nothing for the dogs to do and run around or have fun with.

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And so I would like to see you guys kind of spruce it up, it's been this way for decades, as long as it's been there.

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So it would be nice to have some fun added to it.

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The other one is the issue on for Charleston entrance onto Southbound 101 highway.

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There is, right there, it's by the Costco, and there's also an exit from Southbound 101 to Ringstorf.

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And they are within 100 feet of each other.

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There's also, in addition to that, there is a Ringstorf entrance to 101, that's right after that.

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And this clogs up 101 all the time, all day there's no give from that.

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And I'm surprised honestly that there's not more accidents right there.

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It's very hazardous and I would like to see, when last year you guys closed that entrance

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from Charleston and it just made the flow on Southbound 101 so much easier, it was amazing.

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So if there's a way that you guys can actually disclose that entrance because there is a ring

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store if one and if you do need an additional thank you all right next we have KBT followed

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by Shawnee Kleinhouse followed by Alvin Kerr

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I'm with the coalition of community organizations

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called SOS safety over surveillance and I want to commend the council and the Mountain View

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police chief for taking the grounds breaking step of canceling the flock AI-enabled cameras

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to protect our citizens from outside surveillance by federal agencies like ICE and from violations

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to our fourth amendment rights protecting us from warrantless searches and invasions of our privacy.

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This is so incredibly important also for our immigrant community as well.

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While other cities drag their feet, Mountain View leads the way by canceling these cameras.

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I was overjoyed to see the cameras near my neighborhood removed and some other ones as I drive around

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In the last couple of weeks or so. I had thought from the February 24th meeting that there was going to be an official announcement

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To the public of when these cameras were going to be removed

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So I hope that that can be considered soon

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To be announced because I would love to see our city stand firm for the individual civil

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civil liberties and a safe surveillance free zone for our city.

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Additionally, I hope the council continues to reject the use of any AI-enabled ARPR cameras from any company in the future because there is still so much evidence of increased misuse and abuse and lack of data protection.

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So I hope we can continue to protect our citizens from overreach by the federal government by doing so.

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So thank you, again, so much, Council for canceling the contract.

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Thank you, Shawnee Kleinhouse, followed by Alvin Kerr.

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Good evening.

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Shawnee Kleinhouse with the Santa Clara Valley Borderlines.

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I wanted to thank you for adopting the Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan.

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The biodiversity anchors in the plan are really great to see, and thank you for that.

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It's more than just a park feature.

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It really looks forward to integrating nature into the fabric of the city.

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So it's really important to know that one, the plan does not require every new plan in

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every part to be native, not at all.

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You only have to have one area or one tree or in a few trees that provide biodiversity value.

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And by biodiversity value, I would take the California native society definition that talks

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about what is biodiversity in that web of life that co-evolves together, native plants

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that evolved along native insects, birds and other wildlife, providing food, shelter

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and ecological relationship all together.

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So, we're not talking about a lot of trees from a lot of places, that's not biodiversity, that's

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relevant to this landscape here.

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So we really need to look at how do we bring a biodiversity anchor that has biodiversity value.

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So a tree from Nevada or New York or Pennsylvania doesn't have that value here.

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And we need to remember that in the definitions and how you look at the next plan, which is going

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to come next time and I can't come and speak some here today.

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And, you know, there is a city in Sinitas that just adopted their native plant ordinance.

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100% of all plants planted on city properties have to be native.

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And in other projects that they permit, 50%, not asking you to do that today.

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But I think keep in mind, there's an importance to bringing back and supporting local bio-ecosystems

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and our local native plants.

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These are about its life.

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Thank you.

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Next up we have Alvin Kura.

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Mayor Ramas-Vice, Mayor Clark, Councilmember of City staff, Chief Canfield.

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Alvin Kura is open park neighborhood.

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Just three quick things.

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One, thank you, Mayor Ramas, for the sake of the city.

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I don't know if you've been told, but I wanted to mention it's really important that these things be sent on the Internet so that those of us who can't be at onsite for those kinds of things are able to watch.

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I'm very grateful.

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City Attorney Logan, congratulations.

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I hope that it's something you're looking forward to,

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not just something you feel like you have to do.

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So, thank you.

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And finally, particular minutes of Chief Canter, I'm-

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I'm an active prisoner at St. Joseph Parish, and I wanted to thank you all for being supportive of the activities that we do just like this last weekend. Especially if your support is your patience. I'm pretty sure my pastor appreciates it. I can tell you for sure that I do, and I yield back my time. Thank you. Thank you so much. We will now take virtual speakers. We have one virtual speaker, Judy.

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Can you hear me? We can hear you. All right. Is this for non-agenda items?

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It is for non-agenda items.

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Okay, great.

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Because it's within your purview to discuss this, you give these special days for special

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groups like the Gay Group and the Black Group, so on.

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You don't have the right to cut me off just because I'm white, and I want something for

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my group.

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Just recently, the SPLC has been under a lot of investigation now on indictment or some

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kind of charges put on them for basically giving Jewish actors the assignment.

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All right.

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Okay.

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Okay, we're going to stop that.

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The council rep welcomes welcoming, respectful and non-threatening public comments on matters

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within our jurisdictions, comment deemed otherwise pursuant to the council code of conduct and

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the government code, maybe grounds for terminating a speaker's comment period, thank you so much.

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And we will now move forward to item six, the public hearings.

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So item 6.1, city of mountain view vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts, government

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amendment code section 3502.3, human resources director, Maxine Gillo will present the item.

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If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to

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the city clerk now. Did I pronounce your name wrong?

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I'm so sorry.

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Maxine Gillo.

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Correct.

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All right.

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And we are ready when you are.

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All right.

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Good evening.

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Mayor Ramos and members of the council, I am Maxine Gillo, human resources director and

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And tonight, I'll be presenting Mountain View's annual Workforce Transparency Report under AB 2561, covering our vacancy data, what we're doing to address it, and how we're investing in our workforce for the long term.

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AB 2561 took effect January 1, 2025, requiring public agencies to report vacancy and recruitment data at a public hearing at least once per fiscal year.

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If any bargaining unit exceeds a 20% vacancy rate, a formal remediation plan is required.

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Tonight's presentation fulfills that obligation, and I'm very pleased to report that no bargaining unit is in that territory.

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Yes, AV-25-61 to, sorry, with that.

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So let's go into our four recognized labor organizations.

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We have Eagles, SEIU, the Mountain View Professional Firefighters Local 1965, and the Police Officers

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Association known as POA, representing nearly 640 positions that deliver essential services

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is to our community every day.

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Their work is the foundation of everything

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this council prioritizes.

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At the time of this report, I'm very happy to say

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that we have four new higher schedule

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to start by the end of the fiscal year,

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which improves the vacancy rate to 9.0 for a percent,

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which is below the National Public Sector Benchmark

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of 10 to 11 percent.

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And I want to say that that is not a coincidence.

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It really reflects the years of deliberate, sustained investment in our recruitment and retention efforts that the city has done.

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Vacancies by a snapshot, so breaking it down by unit, public safety is performing really well.

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Firefighters at 4.4%, and POA at 3.3%.

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Our Eagles group is at 10.5%, and SEIU is at 14.54%.

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Both are below the 20% threshold requiring additional disclosure under the law, but both

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are numbers we take seriously and are actively working to bring that number down.

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I'm happy to report that even since this report has been done, we actually have six new

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start dates for positions in our Eagles bargaining unit.

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So our numbers continue to change every day.

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So,

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for our recruitment and retention efforts, our recruitment efforts really begin with

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the community for all approach, where we recruit individuals who reflect Mountain Views

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diversity and values, prioritizing quality over speed.

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Also we are recruiting smarter, we are expanding our use of NeoGov, which is our online applicant

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tracking system, to reduce time to higher.

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We offer a great competitive package.

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We have targeted hiring bonuses for hard-to-fill roles, and we continue to build from within

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our organization through succession planning, internal advancement pathways.

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On the retention side, we provide paid parental leave.

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We offer a hybrid work options, and we also provide mental health and wellness resources.

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And these are just a few of all the wonderful things that the City of Mountain View provides to our employees to contribute to our retention efforts.

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Also, I want to highlight that we continue to invest in our workforce.

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Over the last decade, Mountain View has grown by 129 FTEs.

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And that's a 22% increase.

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The fiscal year 2026, 27 recommended budget, which comes on next,

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proposes 714.75 regular positions.

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And this is the highest in city history.

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But I'd like to be clear about how we've gotten here.

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That every position added has been tied to a specific service need,

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a funded budget line item or a deliberate council decision.

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This growth has been fiscally responsible and calibrated to what our budget can sustain.

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Not adding, not simply adding headcount, and I believe that this is part of the fiscal

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prudence of Mountain View is what makes us so fiscally sound as an organization.

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Through the last several years, the city has converted multiple temporary and limited period

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positions to permanent.

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I will even say that in HR last year, we had a limited term and

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administrative assistant funded from limited term to regular,

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which really helps continue capacity in HR to support services such as

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recruitments.

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With all these great things, there's also some challenges.

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We still continue to find challenging in the technical and

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specialized roles such as engineering, planning, utilities,

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and dispatchers.

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they continue to remain one of the hardest to fill because the credential pipelines are long and everyone's competing in this market space.

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Public safety hiring requires multiple step post standards and that can't be shortcut.

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We're also planning proactively for some anticipated retirement ways in the next three to five years.

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And so we continue to build our investment in HR

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are such as hiring a limited-term recruitment analyst at the City Council approved in mid-year.

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And she's actually training this on her first week so that she can continue to assist and support us in recruitment.

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In summary, Mountain View continues to be below the National Vacancy Benchmark.

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We continue to grow our permanent workforce responsibly and

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add and convert temporary roles to permanent positions.

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And so this concludes my presentation, and if you have any questions, please leave

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a comment.

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Thank you.

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We will now hear from Kevin Ho, Analyst 2, and President of our Eagles Union.

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Welcome.

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My name is Kevin.

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I work for the City and the Public Works Department.

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Good evening, Council Members.

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First, we'd like to give appreciation to the City for their continued transparency and partnership,

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as well as their commitment to strengthening recruitment and retention efforts.

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So thank you.

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However, with the passage of California Assembly Bill 339,

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we are asking the city to prioritize feeling vacant full-time positions and

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to convert more hourly, temporary, and contract roles into permanent union positions.

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AB 339 has made it clear how many positions remain vacant and how much work relies on temporary and contract staff.

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Work that permanent union representative employees could and should be doing.

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Our goal moving forward is simple.

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Transition, these hourly contract and temporary roles into permanent positions to strengthen our workforce and better serve the people of Mountain View.

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Doing so has many benefits for the city and its employees by allowing the city to retain institutional knowledge and

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and increase accountability and oversight.

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It guarantees coverage for crucial 24-7 operations.

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It promotes stability and because permanent roles are stable,

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they strengthen workforce reliability and encourages commitment by supporting career growth

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and providing access to essential benefits like CalPERS and healthcare.

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All these reasons and many more underscore the importance of making sure union jobs are done by union workers.

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We support thoughtful, limited use of non-permanent staff when truly needed.

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However, over reliance on temporary workers, weekends long-term workforce capacity and

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union representation.

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Thank you for your time, and we look forward to working together so we can build a more

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resilient, invested city workforce.

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Thank you.

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Does any member of the council have any questions?

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None.

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would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item?

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If so, please click the raise hand button and zoom or press star 9 on your phone.

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A timer will be displayed on the screen. Each speaker will have three minutes.

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Do we have any speakers in person?

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We will now take virtual speakers. Do we have any virtual speakers?

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Seeing none, thank you. I will now bring the item back for council deliberation.

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any

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deliberation?

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00:57:39,750 --> 00:57:44,950
It doesn't look like there's any motion, so with that, go ahead, Council Member

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Hicks.

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00:57:45,450 --> 00:57:49,950
Well, I'll just say, although I know this is a pro forma thing that we didn't put it on

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the agenda ourselves, I find it quite useful, actually, to check in and I found the written

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staff report and then the two, the two, the report from the union from you, Maxine. I find

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And helpful to go over these things every year and think about them and think about staffing.

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So thank you all for taking the time.

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Any other comments from Council?

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Council Member Schoell-Walter?

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00:58:22,910 --> 00:58:32,110
Yeah, I think it would be interesting to see how the number of staff has varied with the population.

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because although our staff members have gone up over the last 20 years, our population has gone up a lot, too.

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And so, I mean, it's not.

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It would just be interesting to see how that changes over time, how that's changed.

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00:58:54,730 --> 00:58:55,950
Go ahead, Council Member Hicks.

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00:58:56,990 --> 00:58:58,050
Okay, and I'll add to that.

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00:58:58,490 --> 00:59:03,870
It would be interesting taking the point of the gentleman from Eagles who spoke.

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It would be interesting also to see the temporary and part-time, whether that has been constant over the past several decades or whether it has grown, that would be an interesting thing to track as well.

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City Attorney Logan.

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When you're done delivering, can I just recommend that you make a motion to receive and file the report just so that we can close out the minutes and it's clear?

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00:59:29,390 --> 00:59:29,450
Mayor.

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All right.

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00:59:31,050 --> 00:59:36,770
It looks like we have a motion by Vice Mayor Clark, seconded by Council Member Hicks.

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00:59:36,890 --> 00:59:37,230
Go ahead.

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Council Member Clark.

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00:59:39,230 --> 00:59:39,490
Yeah.

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00:59:39,630 --> 00:59:41,070
The motion is what the City Attorney said.

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Can we get a row call vote, City Clerk?

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Vice Mayor Clark?

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00:59:48,950 --> 00:59:49,130
Yes.

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00:59:49,390 --> 00:59:50,170
Council Member Hicks?

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00:59:50,310 --> 00:59:50,410
Yes.

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00:59:50,610 --> 00:59:51,330
Council Member Kameh?

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00:59:51,590 --> 00:59:51,710
Yes.

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00:59:51,950 --> 00:59:52,910
Council Member McCallister?

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00:59:53,890 --> 00:59:54,350
Yes.

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00:59:54,650 --> 00:59:55,630
Council Member Mayor Marens?

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00:59:55,690 --> 00:59:55,830
Yes.

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00:59:56,030 --> 00:59:56,930
Council Member Shilwellter?

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00:59:57,170 --> 00:59:57,310
Yes.

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00:59:57,630 --> 00:59:58,050
Mayor Ramos?

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00:59:58,050 --> 00:59:59,470
Yes, motion carries unanimously.

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01:00:00,210 --> 01:00:19,770
All right, and that concludes our public hearing. We will now move on to item 6.2. City manager McCarthy will kick us off and finance and administrative services director Derek Rampone and assistant finance administrative director Grace Zang will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

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01:00:22,070 --> 01:00:31,570
Let's go. All right. Thank you mayor. Good evening. Mayor and council members. I'm very pleased to be here before you tonight to present a structurally balanced

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budget, and as the mayor said, I'm joined by our Finance and Administrative Services

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01:00:36,170 --> 01:00:42,310
Director Derek Grimpone, an Assistant Director Grace thing, and I just wanted to highlight

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01:00:42,310 --> 01:00:45,470
a couple things before we launch into the presentation.

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And the first thing that I want to say is you all heard during the April budget workshop

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01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:58,450
how this recommended budget before you this evening is focused on providing core city services

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01:00:58,450 --> 01:01:06,270
long-term service delivery, there's a real concerted focus on putting funding and

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01:01:06,270 --> 01:01:11,450
recommendations in those council priority areas, the strategic priorities and

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01:01:11,450 --> 01:01:17,010
projects, and then obviously one thing that we really pride ourselves on is

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01:01:17,010 --> 01:01:22,930
still trying to be the first at many things and innovating, doing things differently

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01:01:22,930 --> 01:01:27,730
and really doing these important projects for our community members.

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So that is kind of the baseline for what we present to you this evening.

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But one thing that I do want to underscore is the fact that our revenues, although stable,

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01:01:41,090 --> 01:01:45,090
they are not growing as fast as what we have seen in the past.

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And so what that means is that we have a lot of bold initiatives, we have a lot of projects

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01:01:51,550 --> 01:01:58,390
and priorities that Council and the community are wanting us to do and we are seeking to fund

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01:01:58,390 --> 01:02:04,030
and we just simply do not have all the money that we need to do all of these things.

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01:02:04,530 --> 01:02:12,310
So coupled on top of that is this economic uncertainty that we all know that we're in right now and

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01:02:12,310 --> 01:02:18,490
we just really can't look that far ahead in our crystal wall right now to know what's going to

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01:02:18,490 --> 01:02:22,230
happen certainly by the end of this year and into next year.

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So as with a lot of cities, we're very focused on our infrastructure improving our streets and our roads and our facilities, but it doesn't stop at that.

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We have a lot of important priorities related to affordable housing and sustainability and new parks and also making investments in technology within the city organization because there's been a lot of things over the last several years.

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01:02:48,330 --> 01:02:55,090
certainly since the pandemic and before where we just need to upgrade our aging systems and so

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01:02:55,090 --> 01:03:02,950
that's something that we're really focused on as well. So talking about our revenues not growing

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01:03:02,950 --> 01:03:10,750
as fast as they should be and needing more money to do a lot of these really important projects we are

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We are looking at revenue measure in the November 2026 ballot which the council will discuss

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at your June 23rd meeting and really this is to help meet those needs that our community

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01:03:26,210 --> 01:03:32,630
has identified and also think about how we can build the mountain view of tomorrow together.

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01:03:33,030 --> 01:03:40,450
So you will see that phrase in a lot of the infrastructure projects we have tried to talk

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01:03:40,450 --> 01:03:48,370
about that not just with community members but with conversations that we're having individually

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01:03:48,370 --> 01:03:53,250
with people and then you'll also start seeing those signs around town so people can actually

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01:03:53,250 --> 01:03:58,210
see the things that we're working on and they know that these dollars are being invested in

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01:03:58,210 --> 01:04:05,090
this important work. So I also want to talk about how this budget making strides towards improving

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01:04:05,090 --> 01:04:10,810
in our internal city operations, some of the things that Council has highlighted both

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01:04:10,810 --> 01:04:17,390
at the mid-year budget and in the April budget workshop are things like the organization

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01:04:17,390 --> 01:04:24,170
of our transportation division, hiring and you all approving a new chief transportation

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01:04:24,170 --> 01:04:25,630
officer position.

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We have also expanded the weekend hours of our library and added more staffing and security

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01:04:32,750 --> 01:04:35,610
where prioritizing long-range planning,

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we're making investments in our objective design standards,

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which I know is a very important council priority project

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01:04:44,010 --> 01:04:48,030
in parallel with updating the standard details

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for our roads and sidewalks,

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and really looking at green street infrastructure.

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So that's something that will really be focused on

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in the next budget cycle and beyond.

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And then one of the other things I'll want to point out what this budget is.

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We've made a very concerted focus to place a lot of resources on economic vitality and small business support.

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So we've implemented a lot of different updates like small business zoning code updates,

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01:05:20,870 --> 01:05:27,330
the business and ambassador team we've created, we've launched the facade improvement program.

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And so in this budget, we also have recommended the creation of what's called a property-based improvement district or a peabid, which will really help improve the downtown district.

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Also more frequent cleaning of the parking garages downtown and also the actual pet mall, the Castro street.

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So those are recommended in the budget as well, along with a brand new storefront activation program along the pet mall.

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And I also want to say that we're really excited about investing in the summer of soccer.

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So really supporting those world cup activities and helping activate our businesses and

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bring people downtown, both spending money and eating downtown.

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We've also made an investment in this budget in our public art and culture.

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And part of that is hiring or I guess you all approving a brand new public art administrator position for the first time and we are in that hiring process right now this month so that's very exciting.

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And then we'll also be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Center for Performing Arts this year.

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So we're very excited to recommend a funding towards that project.

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And then lastly, before I turn it over to our finance director, really at the foundation

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of all that we do in this budget and in everything we do every day is our focus on being

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a community for all.

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We've heard about it tonight, we've talked about it, and it really is our foundational principle

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01:07:06,870 --> 01:07:11,730
in Mountain View and our funding of our programs and initiatives.

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all the various events is really rooted in this belief that Mountain View is a city

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that serves a very diverse community and that we are a welcoming, safe and

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inclusive place for everyone not just to live but to work and visit. So that is

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also at the foundation of our budget. So with that I'll turn it over to our finance

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Minister Rector, Mr. Ampone, to walk you through some of the details in the budget.

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All right, thank you, City Manager McCarty.

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01:07:43,890 --> 01:07:47,110
Good evening, Mayor Ramos, and Vice Mayor Clark, Council Members,

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Derek Ramppone, your Finance and Administrative Services Director.

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Joining me this evening is Grace Sang, the Assistant Finance and Administrative Services Director.

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01:07:55,410 --> 01:08:02,070
The item you have in front of you tonight is the Public Hearing for the fiscal year 2627 recommended budget.

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Here is a road map of the budget development process, as you've seen before.

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As you know, the process really begins in November with a kickoff memo distributed to departments.

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Departments then prepare and submit their budget requests to the finance department around the December holiday time frame.

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In January, the budget team compiles and reviews those requests.

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And in February, the budget team and the city manager meet with departments to discuss priorities and proposed funding.

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Also in February, we provide the mid-year budget update to the city council.

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On April 14th of this year, we provided the preliminary review of the fiscal year 2627 budget.

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The recommended budget that you have before you this evening was actually published early this year on May 22nd.

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And then here we are now at the public hearing for this recommended budget, and then the next and final step in this process will occur on June 23rd, when Council considers adoption of the budget, and including in that will be the capital improvement program.

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As we've discussed previously, the city has a long history of sound fiscal practices.

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We consistently adopt structurally balanced budgets,

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aligning ongoing revenues with ongoing expenditures and using one time funds for only one time costs.

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In recent years, strong revenue growth has generated operating balances that have allowed the city to make additional payments towards our long-term liabilities,

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such as paying down our pension obligation through CalPERS, and fully funding our retiree health benefits.

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The city also prioritizes maintaining healthy reserves to prepare for economic uncertainties.

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These practices have helped support the city's AAA credit rating from Standard and Pores, which is the highest possible rating.

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And this has helped reduce our borrowing costs as we saw last just last month when we issued our lease revenue bonds.

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And finally, the city has received national recognition for excellence in budgeting, financial reporting, and procurement.

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As we look at what's changed since our last touch point in April, we still have a lot of economic uncertainty.

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It remains elevated, which makes revenue forecasting more challenging.

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Growth continues, but at a slower pace than previous years.

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Inflation has actually shown some signs recently of re-accelerating, which have increased cost pressures for

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both residents and local governments.

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Consumers confidence has softened as households grapple and face affordability challenges.

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The labor market remains resilient but is showing signs of moderation recently.

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And interest rates are expected to remain higher for a longer period of time which may affect

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development, investment, and economic activity.

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Overall staff continues to recommend a prudent and cautious fiscal approach while closely

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monitoring economic conditions and revenue trends.

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As we turn to the local economy, the local economy continue to show signs of slowing,

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though growth does remain positive.

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Revenue growth is expected to be modest in future years.

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Unemployment remains low but is expected to rise slightly.

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Sales tax has been impacted by business relocations and closures.

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affordability has spoken about previously remains a challenge for residents and businesses.

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However, there have been some new employers that continue to locate in Mountain View,

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which will support the city's long-term economic vitality.

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Overall, I would say the local economy remains resilient, but growth is really expected to be more moderate going forward.

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The forecast assumes moderate growth and a stable local economy property tax is expected to grow at

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about 2.9% while sales taxes forecast to remain flat.

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Least revenues for the city have been projected with the 2% annual increase.

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Expenditure increases are expected to grow faster than revenues, which creates an ongoing budget pressure.

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Key risks for the forecast include inflation, the federal policies uncertainty, and the potential for an economic slowdown.

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The forecast that we have prepared does not include or assume every session.

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So overall, the budget remains balanced, but there's definitely uncertainty and

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expect an expenditure growth that continues to require close monitoring.

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Here's the recommended budget for fiscal year 2627.

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It's structurally balanced.

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We have new ongoing staffing requests that are very limited and targeted.

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The budget focuses on maintaining service levels and advancing council priorities.

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Investments are also included to improve operations and support a lot of economic vitality.

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The budget balances fiscal sustainability with strategic investments in city services and priorities.

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Included in the recommended budget as the city manager McCarty previously indicated our various continuous improvement efforts.

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These recommendations focus on improving service delivery and operational effectiveness.

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Key initiatives here include the Transportation Division reorganization, expanded library hours,

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and enhanced long-range planning.

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Investments in public safety, health and wellness, and technology improvements support employee effectiveness and community service.

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Overall, the budget includes these targeted improvements that strengthen city operations and service delivery.

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As we previously spoke about with economic vitality and small business support, this budget

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includes targeted investments to support small businesses, downtown activity and economic

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vitality.

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Funding supports grants, loans, business promotion and storefront activation programs.

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The budget also invests in public art and cultural programming, including a new public art administrator

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position and the MVCPA's 35th anniversary celebration.

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These investments will support a vibrant economy in active downtown and a strong cultural community.

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Now we turn to some of the recommended items in the budget for 2627.

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The recommended budget includes a limited number of targeted staffing changes.

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These positions focus on legal services planning, transportation, and public safety operations.

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One GIS position is being converted from limited period to ongoing.

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And one of warehouse staffing position is being modestly increased to meet operational needs.

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These position changes are strategic and

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focused on maintaining service levels and addressing key workload demands.

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As we look toward building the mountain view of tomorrow, I'd like to take a moment to again highlight the new revenue source that's now available to the city.

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Measure G was approved by more than 72% of voters as now generating dedicated funding for community priorities.

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In fiscal year, this fiscal year, 2526, measure G is projected to generate over $5 million in revenue.

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These funds will support the public safety building, parks and open space, affordable housing and other community investments.

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Measure G provides an important local funding source to help advance council priorities and invest in mountain views future.

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As we continue building the mountain view of tomorrow, we're asking the community help shape our future priorities.

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A community survey is now live to gather input on potential investments in public infrastructures,

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public safety parks, affordable housing, among other things.

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The survey results will help inform council discussions regarding a potential revenue measure.

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And this survey is a good opportunity for residents to provide direct feedback on the services and

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investments that matter most to them.

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Now we'll get into a little bit of an overview of the numbers.

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In the actual recommended budget, first we'll turn to budgeted revenues.

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This is citywide all funds, just over $520 million.

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As you can see in the pie chart, the General Operating Fund, Enterprise Fund, and

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the Shoreline Regional Park Community Fund, make up nearly 80% of the city's budgeted revenues.

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With special revenue funds, capital project funds, internal service funds, and

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other general fund-related funds comprising the rest of the balance.

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Switching to citywide expenditures.

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The fiscal year 2627 recommended budget includes nearly 598 million in expenditures across all funds.

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The general operating fund remains the largest component at 36% of total expenditures followed by enterprise funds,

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special revenue funds, and the shoreline regional park community.

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Together, these four fund categories account for over 80% of citywide expenditures.

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Expenditures, exceed revenues on a citywide basis because certain activities such as capital projects and affordable housing loans are funded from accumulated fund resources and balances, rather than current year revenues, so you may notice that the total expenditures exceed revenues, but that's why now

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turning to the general operating fund, which is the city's primary operating fund and supports core services in fiscal year 2627.

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revenues in the general fund are expected, operating fund are expected to increase by 11.9 million or approximately 6% compared to the fiscal year 2526 adopted budget.

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This represents healthy revenue growth, particularly given the economic uncertainty and slower growth environment discussed earlier.

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And this projected revenue growth will help support city's service commitments and a structurally balanced budget.

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But the slide really highlights some of the major economically sensitive revenue sources and how they compare both through the current year's budget and current year's projections property tax remains the city's largest and most stable revenue source it's expected to increase approximately 3% over current year estimates utility users tax continues to face some pressures projected to be below budget assumptions, which really reflects changing consumer

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behavior and utility usage patterns, business license tax continues to perform well while sales tax is projected to remain relatively flat as the local economic growth moderates.

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It is important to note that comparing current years adopted budget shows a 6% increase, but comparing to what we now expect to actually receive for this year, growth is a more modest 2.6% in the bottom right corner.

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I

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wanted to give a little bit of context for how our major revenues are growing.

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This chart really shows the historical growth rates of the city's major general operating fund tax revenues.

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Revenue growth has generally been positive but has definitely varied based on economic conditions.

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The current year, 2526 and next fiscal year projections are below historical averages.

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As you can see on the chart, 2.8% and 1.5%.

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This really reflects the more moderate growth assumptions that are included in our forecast.

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Overall, we continue to project revenue growth, but definitely at a slower pace than the city has experienced in many prior years.

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Now we'll turn to expenditures in the General Operating Fund.

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They are expected to grow by 6.4%, or 12.5 million dollars in fiscal year 2627,

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One compared to the 25-26 adopted budget, as you will recall a few slides ago.

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Revenues are expected to increase by 6.1% or 11.9 million.

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So you can see there is a slight gap, where expenditures are definitely growing at a higher rate than revenues.

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This slide shows the five year forecast for the general operating fund.

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As you can see, the 26-27 years is structurally balanced with the projected operating balance of

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$150,000, however, looking ahead, you'll see the red numbers, those are modest deficits beginning in 2728 as expenditure growth really starts to outpace revenue growth.

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The forecast does return to a positive balance in 2030-31, but that's largely due to projected reductions in pension costs, which are variable and can really change.

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So

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still focusing on the general operating fund, this is the revenue by function or by type with property taxes being the number one source, the largest source and use of money and property being the second, use of money and property is investment earnings and lease revenues that the city receives as a land owner of numerous ground leases, having a higher percentage of revenue come from lease revenue is a rather unique situation, which the city has extra

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historically benefited from, especially during economic slowdowns.

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Most cities usually have sales tax as their number two revenue source, but

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a mountain view, it's actually our number four largest revenue in the general operating fund.

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22 expenditures in the general operating fund, approximately 217.7 million dollars.

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This chart shows how expenditures are distributed across major service areas.

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is police and fire account for 46% of the general fund expenditures.

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This is typical for California cities as public safety services must be staffed and

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available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are generally funded through broad based city revenues rather than user fees.

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As detailed in the recommended budget document, this slide summarizes the ongoing general operating fund recommendations for next fiscal year.

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The non-discretionary items, it's about $1.5 million, those are required cost increases to maintain current operations such as citywide utility costs, fleet maintenance, investments in technology and the janitorial services contract, among other things, there's 3.1 million in discretionary funding that supports the six ongoing position changes discussed earlier, as well as other high priority programs and services.

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We also have limited period funding included in the 2627 recommended budget.

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These are one time strategic investments where the staff is proposing $7.9 million in limited period funding for fiscal year 2627.

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Those key investments really are staffing support, upcoming election costs,

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contract services for various programs and grants.

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Additional funding will support firefighter recruits attending the academy, and also some other limited period support for various departments, including consulting services to evaluate and improve some of the city's planning, permitting and land use processes.

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So at the April preliminary review, council did provide some direction regarding right sizing council member travel and training budgets.

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It should be noted that council budgets have not been adjusted in 10 years.

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The recommended budget does include increased travel and training budgets, as you can see on the first bullet point there.

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What's not in this recommended budget but we will be including in the adopted budget is an increase to the per term technology and office equipment allowance.

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So that will be included, that's per term for four years, so we're going to recommend increasing that from 3,800 to 5,000 total for the four years.

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So I'd like to close with just next steps of the budget process and we will return to the city council on June 23rd within the updates or modifications that are discussed tonight.

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including we will have the capital improvement program budgets.

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In addition, we will be seeking approval of utility rates and other fees charged to customers.

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And we'll also have the GAN appropriations limit as a separate item for approval.

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And with that, we're happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Does any member of the council have questions?

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Let's go.

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Questions?

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Question?

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You know what?

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Council member Ramirez.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I just have a couple of quick ones.

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First thank you, staff, for the presentation.

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Nothing surprising, because we've had many opportunities to provide them, but I have

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a question for the fire chief, I'm sorry to burden you, but I hope we'll be easy.

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I'm curious why the fire protection performance measures use averages rather than median figures.

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Good

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evening, council, honorable Mayor Vice Mayor, council members, Brian Jones, currently serving as the fire chief for City of Mountain View.

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Because our performance measures provided for a four-minute travel time, which is the most common measure that we don't meet due to traffic, road closures, other variables that are beyond our control.

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providing an average gives you a good example of where we most often meet, which is around

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five minutes and 55 seconds, which is very good for the city.

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Answering your question on median, we did in response to your question that you asked

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earlier this week.

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We are median for EMS incidents and small fires as four minutes and 52 seconds.

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And median response times for, or median travel times for building fires as four minutes

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in 11 seconds.

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As far as why we did average over median, it was just a staff decision at the time, but we

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We are more than willing to provide both in the future.

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Great, thank you very much.

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I think that's good for now.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Council Member Ramirez.

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Council Member Shobalter.

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Yeah, I asked a couple of questions about inspections,

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because when I hear complaints from residents,

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it's often about things that are related to

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an inspection of one sort of another.

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And so it was very helpful for the staff to answer questions about specific kinds.

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But yeah, why don't you come back up, Brian?

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Because I was going to ask about the code in Enforcements.

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One of the things I think that people have questions about is how,

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just kind of how a code enforcement, how code enforcement procedural works.

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How do you hear about it and when it comes in, where is it usually go, that kind of thing?

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So to start in the City of Mountain View we adopt the California fire code, so that's

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our standard for our fire inspections.

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We also have a municipal code item which has several mountain view specific fire code adoptions

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that we've made.

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So, our inspectors have several mandated inspections.

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The majority of those are what we call R2 occupancies, so there are multiple family occupancies,

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a lot of your apartment buildings, residences that house four or more occupancies, four

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plexes as such.

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So all of those are mandated that we go to each year, as well as hospitals, schools, and

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those types of facilities.

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And then we have all of our permitted occupancies, occupancies that hold hazardous materials,

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restaurants, assemblies, large people gather, large amounts of people gather.

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So all of those require annual inspections.

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So we have an inspection list and a database.

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We hit all of those inspections annually and our inspectors go out.

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They, on their first inspection, they will note any violations.

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The most common ones we come into are house keeping, so a lot of clutter around exits blocked electrical boxes that are blocked by high piled storage.

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Storage that is piled within 18 inches of a sprinkler head that would prevent the sprinkler head from dispersing adequately to put out a fire.

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Those are the most common things we see also exit lighting that is commonly out that we just asked to replace.

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our priority is always in fixing an issue and addressing an issue so we'll

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write up and notice a violation. We come back out 30 days later and our focus

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is really on helping those property owners or business owners address the

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issues. Our ultimate goal is safety and through if they don't address those on the

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first round we usually go out one more time.

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And really help them understand what the issue is and address the importance of it, why this is such an important issue. Almost every fire code item that you'll run into is because there's a fire that had multiple fatalities. You look back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there's a huge fire problem in the United States. We had a lot of large assembly fires that occurred in assembly occupancies.

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a lot of nightclubs, hotels, multiple family dwellings,

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apartments, fires, all of those fires that resulted in a lot of fatalities

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is what led to a lot of these fire code items.

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So we stress the importance of those and through that education campaign,

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a lot of people make those fixes right away.

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Very rarely will somebody refuse to make a change.

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01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:57,460
When that happens, then we go to an administrative hearing

853
01:30:57,460 --> 01:31:00,200
and there's sometimes a fine involved with it,

854
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:02,160
but ultimately our goal is always safety.

855
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:04,760
And basically this year, there weren't any of those.

856
01:31:05,700 --> 01:31:09,080
I understood reading the table properly.

857
01:31:10,420 --> 01:31:12,660
Correct, well, I'd have to go back

858
01:31:12,660 --> 01:31:13,700
and review the performance measure,

859
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:16,200
but we hit 100% of all the inspections.

860
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,220
But you hit 100% all the inspections.

861
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:18,760
Yes.

862
01:31:18,980 --> 01:31:21,700
Well, one of the, another reason I bring in this up

863
01:31:21,700 --> 01:31:24,760
is that I think that, you know, it's really important

864
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:35,520
for us all to understand all the many layers of government and kind of what we do and what we do to keep us safe.

865
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:46,800
So, without any complaints that anybody makes, all of these things get inspected by the City of Mountain View, by a professional every year.

866
01:31:47,100 --> 01:31:51,800
That's just a very important service that we offer.

867
01:31:51,800 --> 01:32:05,860
And so that's why I'm asking these questions to kind of bring it, you know, bring it forward because I do think it's a very important service and people should be aware that, you know, that we are really, you know, actively involved in promoting their safety.

868
01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:20,500
And I know that in previous times, previous chief mentioned the calls that the fire department gets and the vast majority of them are for medical.

869
01:32:20,500 --> 01:32:26,920
right and that you know and he attributed it that to this very extensive inspection program

870
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:33,700
that we have that that means that the number of fires we have is less than it might

871
01:32:33,700 --> 01:32:38,380
otherwise be. Yep. So, the view has always been very proactive in fire prevention since

872
01:32:38,380 --> 01:32:43,060
the early 80s. It was one of the first cities to adopt a full city code fire sprinkler ordinance

873
01:32:43,060 --> 01:32:49,920
and then I would also add in addition to those mandated inspections the city and the fire department

874
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:52,820
are very proactive in other events.

875
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:59,360
So, for example, for the Super Bowl event, where we knew different assemblies were going

876
01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:01,620
to have festivals or events.

877
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,840
We went out and proactively worked with those business owners, offered an inspection,

878
01:33:06,480 --> 01:33:10,260
made sure that those assembly occupancies were safe.

879
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:16,380
We also do that where every shoreline concert doing prior technic inspections, making sure

880
01:33:16,380 --> 01:33:18,160
all of the exits are clear throughout those concerts.

881
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:22,820
So we're very proactive in safety throughout the city, not only on our mandated inspections,

882
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:26,300
but anywhere where we believe there's a safety hazard.

883
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:27,740
Thank you, okay.

884
01:33:28,220 --> 01:33:34,940
And then I have another question about inspections, and that's probably related to public works or planning.

885
01:33:35,540 --> 01:33:41,500
And I wanted to hear a little bit about the distinctions between the inspections that public works does.

886
01:33:41,500 --> 01:33:49,200
and the Planning Department does in the construction of a project.

887
01:33:59,290 --> 01:34:03,250
Good evening Honourable Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, Christian Murdoch, Community Development Director.

888
01:34:03,950 --> 01:34:07,070
One of the divisions within the Community Development Department is the Building Division.

889
01:34:07,390 --> 01:34:13,970
And there are a number of inspectors we have on staff that go out and primarily focus on the private property components of developments.

890
01:34:14,590 --> 01:34:20,570
So things all the way from the underground utilities, excavations, foundations all the way up to.

891
01:34:20,570 --> 01:34:22,830
the multiple levels of construction above grade.

892
01:34:23,410 --> 01:34:27,470
I'll defer to the public works director to describe the scope of her team's inspections,

893
01:34:27,470 --> 01:34:31,330
but primarily those involved issues typically related in the public right of way.

894
01:34:31,830 --> 01:34:35,930
Utilities connections, street design, curb, stormwater, and so forth.

895
01:34:37,670 --> 01:34:46,690
To make sure that that's all produced properly, and it will function as built, as designed.

896
01:34:47,050 --> 01:34:51,230
That's correct, so the building inspectors are there making sure that the field conditions and

897
01:34:51,230 --> 01:34:56,830
The construction is occurring consistent with the approved plans, which have been reviewed for California Building Code compliance.

898
01:34:57,350 --> 01:35:06,250
Similarly, the public works inspectors are making sure the public realm improvements are meeting city standard details and other standards for connections to the city infrastructure.

899
01:35:07,190 --> 01:35:07,870
Thank you.

900
01:35:12,690 --> 01:35:15,850
I want to talk a little bit about public works inspections.

901
01:35:17,870 --> 01:35:19,410
Educate us a little bit about that.

902
01:35:24,220 --> 01:35:29,800
I'm always happy to talk public works, I'm Jennifer Eing, I'm the public works director here at the City of Mountain View.

903
01:35:30,220 --> 01:35:39,860
As Christian described, when we do an inspection on a private development project, public works as a realm is really related to everything that's in the public right of way.

904
01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:49,160
So any sort of frontage improvements, those could include sidewalks, curb and gutter, the street itself, the street trees that are installed,

905
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:55,440
the utilities that are in the street, those all fall under the realm of the public works inspector.

906
01:35:56,160 --> 01:36:02,740
Any sort of, I call it mitigation, if we have to do anything to touch a traffic signal, etc.

907
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:08,600
That is also in the public right away and falls under the public works domain.

908
01:36:09,360 --> 01:36:14,960
As it relates to private development, CDD is really in the driver's seat with respect to that,

909
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:21,220
And so the public works inspections fall under the general umbrella of the overall building permit.

910
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:26,620
And so my team and public works interface is very closely with the building division and

911
01:36:26,620 --> 01:36:32,180
the building division's inspectors so that at the end of the project everything is wrapped up nice and

912
01:36:32,180 --> 01:36:39,420
tidy and everybody agrees that the project is ready to be accepted as public improvements for

913
01:36:39,420 --> 01:36:41,040
the city that then take on maintenance.

914
01:36:41,840 --> 01:37:09,580
And also just that things are built safely, it's really tough to make sure that things are built safely, and I think that's another thing I try and stress when I talk to people is that we can't necessarily control what is built here because that has a lot to do with what developers want to build, but we can make sure that it's designed well, and we can certainly make sure that it's built safely.

915
01:37:09,580 --> 01:37:27,660
And that's really what all these inspections are about, so that's why I wanted to bring this up because I think this, you know, this production of a safe city infrastructure is just a major function of a government service that we provide.

916
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:29,540
So thank you very much. Those are my questions.

917
01:37:29,540 --> 01:37:33,620
And thank you, Council Member Shoal, Walter.

918
01:37:33,620 --> 01:37:34,360
Vice Mayor Clark.

919
01:37:35,820 --> 01:37:45,920
Just a clarification question on the Council budget changes for travel training per term.

920
01:37:46,440 --> 01:37:50,940
So I think with travel training, that's annual.

921
01:37:51,420 --> 01:37:58,260
So I think, and that's typically for either brand new Council members, because the fiscal year doesn't match our terms.

922
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:03,700
typically your first and last year it's per rated to like 50 percent so that

923
01:38:03,700 --> 01:38:09,420
would that will that will be a natural puration that occurs in July. Yes that's

924
01:38:09,420 --> 01:38:17,560
correct and then the per term are different because that's for the that is an

925
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:23,640
annual so I'm just curious if if you plan to in what comes back to us in a couple

926
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:29,400
weeks have a sort of a perforation formula there that you'll just take care of or if you

927
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:36,710
need direction from us tonight as to how to how to think through that yeah I plan was to

928
01:38:36,710 --> 01:38:45,140
do a perforation based on the years left for the 5,000 okay got it that's perfect thanks thank you

929
01:38:45,140 --> 01:38:50,920
vice mayor clerk council member kamey great thank you and apologies these questions came to me

930
01:38:50,920 --> 01:38:55,800
as I was sitting here, not ahead of time, so apologies to staff.

931
01:38:56,680 --> 01:39:00,680
So, one of my questions is about the nursing pot at the library.

932
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:04,560
I know that that came forward because of community feedback.

933
01:39:04,980 --> 01:39:09,240
Has staff heard about community feedback, for example, at our community center,

934
01:39:09,460 --> 01:39:13,180
or anywhere else where council might be able to explore that?

935
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:16,960
I'm sorry, I don't know who to direct the question to.

936
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:18,880
Thank you.

937
01:39:22,710 --> 01:39:25,090
Good evening, John Marshont, Community Services Director.

938
01:39:26,910 --> 01:39:29,650
Specific requests for that service at the Community Center.

939
01:39:29,790 --> 01:39:31,610
We do not get that on a regular basis.

940
01:39:32,210 --> 01:39:36,850
There's an interest on the part of Council, we can look into it, but that is not a typical

941
01:39:36,850 --> 01:39:40,150
request that we receive to date.

942
01:39:40,570 --> 01:39:46,090
Yeah, I was curious, I think we were getting, we have so many programs at the Community Center

943
01:39:46,490 --> 01:39:48,390
and I know that's how it came about at the library.

944
01:39:49,310 --> 01:39:55,390
I'm not sure if staff can look into if they're the cost on it and come back to council when this returns and

945
01:39:55,390 --> 01:40:02,270
Just would be curious if it I know that times are a constraint, but if they're that could be possible. Great. Thank you

946
01:40:02,270 --> 01:40:04,150
And then my second question

947
01:40:05,530 --> 01:40:10,530
Unfortunately came to came to mind because of news. So today the the voice

948
01:40:10,530 --> 01:40:17,770
Said that the vacancy office office vacancy rate. I think it's more specifically to downtown is over 30%

949
01:40:17,770 --> 01:40:23,330
But when we're talking about our budget, we were talking about how we've reduced our vacancy rate.

950
01:40:23,330 --> 01:40:31,430
I'm assuming that's across our whole city, or maybe we can provide some clarity on those numbers, or what we're doing.

951
01:40:31,670 --> 01:40:36,650
I'm not to get into too many comments, but I know we've, as the city manager mentioned,

952
01:40:36,790 --> 01:40:43,890
economic vitality has been of one of our pillars, and I just wanted to ask the question, so we can provide clarity if necessary.

953
01:40:44,290 --> 01:40:44,410
Thank you.

954
01:40:44,410 --> 01:40:51,850
Sure, so I think the story and the voice was highlighting the vacancy rate that resulted from a single large

955
01:40:52,730 --> 01:40:55,730
Tenant vacancy and that resulted from a broader

956
01:40:55,730 --> 01:41:00,710
corporate restructuring and acquisition that occurred so I'm not taking that as an indication of

957
01:41:01,330 --> 01:41:06,950
Particularly challenging conditions in our downtown related to office vacancy. There's a broader regional

958
01:41:07,570 --> 01:41:12,890
Challenge with that as business continues to change post-COVID and rematcheting

959
01:41:13,990 --> 01:41:16,190
office work versus remote work and so forth.

960
01:41:16,410 --> 01:41:22,990
And so I think it's difficult to sort of draw a trend from that particular single vacancy.

961
01:41:23,450 --> 01:41:30,590
We are continuing to pursue strategies across a range of activities to improve the conditions for office occupancy in the downtown.

962
01:41:31,530 --> 01:41:39,590
But overall, I would say, what our budget is showing is that we've been tackling that and reducing overall office vacancy throughout the city.

963
01:41:39,590 --> 01:41:43,510
And I think that distinction is important clarity, but that's how I read.

964
01:41:43,730 --> 01:41:47,430
That's right, and we reported extensive on that in the economic vitality strategy update.

965
01:41:47,810 --> 01:41:50,890
And so I feel confident we're trending in the right direction across.

966
01:41:51,530 --> 01:41:51,790
Thank you.

967
01:41:53,490 --> 01:41:58,950
Council member Kameh, I'd like to ask our library director to come up here just to provide further

968
01:41:58,950 --> 01:42:02,690
context about your question and the library's experience and the cost.

969
01:42:08,730 --> 01:42:11,030
Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor Council.

970
01:42:11,030 --> 01:42:14,230
So, thank you for the question, Tracy Gray Library Director.

971
01:42:15,230 --> 01:42:19,810
So the lactation pod at the library was installed in October.

972
01:42:20,870 --> 01:42:25,530
And in the last update that we got statistics.

973
01:42:26,330 --> 01:42:34,230
So for about six months of use, six months, our usage has been about 140 uses,

974
01:42:34,450 --> 01:42:40,670
which is quite a lot compared to several other libraries who do have them in their

975
01:42:40,670 --> 01:42:49,370
in their libraries. So the cost would, there's some inspection components, and public works,

976
01:42:51,130 --> 01:43:00,710
that piece, but probably the cost ranges from 30 to 60,000 dollars. Okay.

977
01:43:03,570 --> 01:43:06,270
Thank you, Council Member Kameh. Council Member Hicks.

978
01:43:09,710 --> 01:43:15,710
So first just sort of a big picture question of clarity. One of the things that jumped out to me was that the

979
01:43:15,710 --> 01:43:22,910
And correct me if I'm wrong, is from, because I'm saying this from memory is that the expenditures were over revenues,

980
01:43:23,130 --> 01:43:30,150
but then there's a little asterisk that says that this is because of fund balance equity use.

981
01:43:30,610 --> 01:43:33,830
And I thought maybe that jumped out at other people and

982
01:43:33,830 --> 01:43:37,530
maybe you could give sort of a little more clarity on what all that means.

983
01:43:38,270 --> 01:43:39,730
Yeah, thanks for the question.

984
01:43:39,730 --> 01:43:45,230
And so over the years, as fund balances, as revenues may have exceeded expenditures in

985
01:43:45,230 --> 01:43:50,250
years past, especially for a capital projects fund or other type of fund, not necessarily

986
01:43:50,250 --> 01:43:53,870
the general fund, but the other fund types, enterprise funds, same things.

987
01:43:54,270 --> 01:43:57,690
As they build reserves, we will use those in subsequent years.

988
01:43:58,210 --> 01:44:02,990
And so our expenditures will look like they're higher, will they will be higher because we

989
01:44:02,990 --> 01:44:06,450
are using accumulated balances from prior years, basically.

990
01:44:08,380 --> 01:44:14,480
Yeah, and I'm asking that because the quick glance when you're thumbing through the report, it just looks like we're being really irresponsible.

991
01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:23,120
And I guess the other question, and I feel like this is a big quick picture question too, and I feel like I should know the answer.

992
01:44:23,620 --> 01:44:29,280
But when you talk about the process for developing the budget, you talk about asking the different departments what they need.

993
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:36,760
Do you also ask kind of as we're hitting somewhat harder times than we were when I was first on council?

994
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:41,400
Do you ask, what maybe, do you do what we do in our family?

995
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:45,200
I've asked like, are there some streaming services we don't need anymore?

996
01:44:45,540 --> 01:44:49,800
Do you also ask, is there anything that's kind of built up that we don't need?

997
01:44:50,020 --> 01:44:52,980
Because it seems like that's a good practice.

998
01:44:55,350 --> 01:44:59,810
Yes, I think you were, if you were to ask the department.

999
01:45:02,260 --> 01:45:28,120
There are certainly discussion about whether it's requests that come in for maybe minor adjustments, or things that may have been going on for a long time that may not necessarily be needed anymore. And the budget team has discussed the process for next year as well. And depending on how revenues come in, we may need to ask that question even further.

1000
01:45:29,260 --> 01:45:35,800
exactly that's where I was going to go but I won't need to say that in comments thank you all

1001
01:45:37,460 --> 01:45:42,980
right any other questions from council all right we will now move on to public comment with any

1002
01:45:42,980 --> 01:45:47,960
member of the public on the line like the provide public comment on this item if so please click the

1003
01:45:47,960 --> 01:45:53,060
raise hand button in zoom or press star nine on your phone a timer will be displayed on the screen each

1004
01:45:53,060 --> 01:45:59,200
speaker will have three minutes we will take in person public comment first so we will start with

1005
01:45:59,200 --> 01:46:01,140
Bruce Carney, followed by Kristen Anderson.

1006
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:10,180
Hello again, Marin Council.

1007
01:46:11,100 --> 01:46:12,880
Ms. Glazer, would you put up these slides?

1008
01:46:13,500 --> 01:46:14,400
Thank you so much.

1009
01:46:15,140 --> 01:46:17,680
This first slide shows how the prices

1010
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,880
of residential electricity and natural gas

1011
01:46:19,880 --> 01:46:21,900
have changed over the last six and a half years.

1012
01:46:22,680 --> 01:46:25,480
Both have increased by more than 7% per year,

1013
01:46:25,980 --> 01:46:28,540
but the price of electricity peaked two years ago

1014
01:46:28,540 --> 01:46:30,100
and has since fallen.

1015
01:46:30,700 --> 01:46:33,760
Over the period shown gas prices have risen faster

1016
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:34,440
than electricity.

1017
01:46:35,140 --> 01:46:36,480
Next slide please.

1018
01:46:43,290 --> 01:46:51,870
This second slide shows how the rising cost of energy is increasing our city's revenue from its 3% tax on electricity and natural gas.

1019
01:46:52,510 --> 01:46:58,210
Tax receipts in the last three fiscal years were almost 50% higher than in the preceding years.

1020
01:46:58,850 --> 01:47:06,130
It's my opinion that the rising price of gas and electricity has created a windfall that should be returned to the community from which it came.

1021
01:47:06,130 --> 01:47:11,710
The windfalls should be returned in ways that will help reduce future energy bills.

1022
01:47:13,930 --> 01:47:15,050
Next slide, please.

1023
01:47:17,070 --> 01:47:22,510
If windfall is defined as the portion of the energy tax revenue exceeding $5 million per year,

1024
01:47:22,910 --> 01:47:25,390
you can see how large the windfall has been.

1025
01:47:26,070 --> 01:47:29,770
The windfall is almost $7 million in just the last three years.

1026
01:47:30,750 --> 01:47:32,270
Future windfalls will be larger.

1027
01:47:32,270 --> 01:47:37,130
In fact, they're likely to be far larger, shockingly larger.

1028
01:47:37,850 --> 01:47:38,550
Next slide, please.

1029
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:49,340
About a year ago, the California Public Utilities Commission hired PG&E to produce a 30-year forecast of natural gas and electricity prices.

1030
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:51,680
The report included two scenarios.

1031
01:47:52,440 --> 01:47:56,320
In scenario one, it was assumed that the use of natural gas would decline quickly.

1032
01:47:56,840 --> 01:48:00,380
This would leave fewer customers to cover the gas systems fixed costs.

1033
01:48:00,380 --> 01:48:06,660
Thus, the price of gas would rise rapidly and continuously until the late 2040s.

1034
01:48:07,300 --> 01:48:11,660
In scenario two, the assumption was that a slower pace of decarbonization would lead to less

1035
01:48:12,260 --> 01:48:14,220
cataclysmic increases in gas prices.

1036
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:19,780
But even in scenario two, natural gas prices are projected to increase three times faster

1037
01:48:19,780 --> 01:48:20,860
than electricity prices.

1038
01:48:21,960 --> 01:48:25,680
Many mountain view families have seen the riding on the wall and replaced their gas water

1039
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:29,880
better heaters, furnaces, furnaces, and other appliances with electric equivalents.

1040
01:48:30,220 --> 01:48:35,720
But most have not, and those families need your help, especially families who are renters.

1041
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:37,680
Final slide, please.

1042
01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:43,020
My first conclusion is that the last household is to decarbonize,

1043
01:48:43,020 --> 01:48:46,540
be burdened by shockingly high gas bills for years and years.

1044
01:48:47,200 --> 01:48:55,040
My second conclusion is that it would be prudent for the city to begin earmarking the windfall portion of its energy tax receipts for

1045
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:57,800
or decarbonization incentives and investments

1046
01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:00,880
while letting the rest flow to the general fund.

1047
01:49:01,380 --> 01:49:04,140
Finally, I would love to see the council add significantly

1048
01:49:04,140 --> 01:49:06,220
to the coming year sustainability budget.

1049
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:09,460
In the words of Oliver Twist, please good council folk,

1050
01:49:09,620 --> 01:49:10,580
I want more.

1051
01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:15,180
Thank you, Mr. Carney, Kristen Anderson.

1052
01:49:20,100 --> 01:49:20,540
Hello.

1053
01:49:21,540 --> 01:49:26,140
So I'm a resident at the Santiago Vella mobile home park.

1054
01:49:26,140 --> 01:49:32,580
And we have approximately 358 homes there.

1055
01:49:33,540 --> 01:49:45,480
And so with your utility rates increase proposed, I would like to remind you that mobile home parks are lower income.

1056
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:55,600
And your increase is, or not the increase, but your proposal is $22.55 per month, per household.

1057
01:49:56,480 --> 01:50:05,340
So with that, with 358 units, that's over $8,000 that you're going to be getting a month.

1058
01:50:06,340 --> 01:50:12,680
Over $96,000 per year, for our park alone.

1059
01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:15,900
And this is to pay the someone to read the meter.

1060
01:50:16,820 --> 01:50:23,620
And so I guess to look at the lines once a year, I feel like that needs to be addressed.

1061
01:50:23,620 --> 01:50:32,640
that that's too much for low income housing and so if you could just look at that and adjust

1062
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that price accordingly because I know it was raised last year and I thought it was reduced.

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01:50:41,080 --> 01:50:45,380
So can you look into that because that's just a lot.

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01:50:46,480 --> 01:50:50,740
I know it might not seem like a lot for some people but just look into that rate and increase

1065
01:50:50,740 --> 01:51:00,410
Okay, for utilities for the low income people, the other guy for the, with the gas, I went

1066
01:51:00,410 --> 01:51:07,530
all last winter not using my gas heater and using electric heaters just because of the price of gas.

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01:51:08,070 --> 01:51:08,450
Thank

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01:51:12,350 --> 01:51:22,120
you. We will now move on to, we will now move on to virtual speakers.

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01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:28,000
We have Judy back.

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01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:37,340
I will say before we unmute you that we are a very welcoming community here in Mount

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01:51:37,340 --> 01:51:37,680
of View.

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01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:39,260
We are proud of our diversity.

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We are a community for all and we will not accept comments that will deviate from that.

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01:51:46,100 --> 01:51:49,520
So with that, we will go ahead and call upon you.

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01:51:50,240 --> 01:51:55,800
But keep in mind, we will mute you if this gives out a hand.

1076
01:51:58,220 --> 01:52:03,380
Yes, and I am transcribing this, and you will hear from me, and nothing's gotten out of

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01:52:03,380 --> 01:52:03,620
hand.

1078
01:52:03,780 --> 01:52:08,000
You have not allowed my viewpoint, and I think that's on full display, and you will have

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01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:08,820
to account for that.

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01:52:09,460 --> 01:52:14,880
I'm going to say that as far as it goes with the other people who spoke, I approve the

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01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:21,520
gas as well and then I would say as a white person I believe I have the right to express

1082
01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:31,780
myself and I think that the rates on these and the financing of this money is you know

1083
01:52:31,780 --> 01:52:41,820
by nature a Jewish and we're done here that ends our virtual public comments we will now bring

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it back to council for deliberation.

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01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:47,940
Council member Ramirez.

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01:52:48,640 --> 01:52:57,460
Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate most of the public comments. But I guess I was sort

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01:52:57,460 --> 01:53:04,060
of becoming introspective earlier today because this will be the final budget I have the opportunity

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01:53:04,060 --> 01:53:12,760
to work on with council members and in Higgs. It's also an interesting day because I've had

1089
01:53:12,760 --> 01:53:16,780
to contend with the budgets of two cities, and you can guess which one was more satisfying

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01:53:16,780 --> 01:53:17,340
to deal with.

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01:53:19,360 --> 01:53:29,360
But I was sharing with the city manager earlier, I feel very optimistic about the future

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01:53:29,360 --> 01:53:29,920
of the city.

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01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:42,240
I feel like we're leaving the incoming council with a remarkable set of programs and investments

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01:53:42,240 --> 01:53:59,800
amendments supporting many of the community priorities that we've heard over the years that we've worked together, an exceptional staff, some really strong bones, a wonderful foundation to work from, and many other cities can't say that.

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01:54:02,020 --> 01:54:09,660
And we're also working on some things that may come up in the next council meeting that I think will strengthen the city's position.

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01:54:10,500 --> 01:54:14,940
So I just want to share my gratitude to staff for

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01:54:16,800 --> 01:54:24,900
having worked with me over the years to incorporate many of the priorities I've been interested in in collaboration with my colleagues.

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01:54:26,020 --> 01:54:28,260
I feel really good about the work that we've done.

1099
01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:35,740
I have just a few quick comments so I'm going to move to approve the staff recommendations with some very minor tweaks.

1100
01:54:35,740 --> 01:54:42,340
First, I'm grateful to the staff for the responses provided in advance in the meeting.

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01:54:43,500 --> 01:54:50,820
And in particular, FASDs, I'm guessing it's FASDs' response to question three about thinking

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01:54:50,820 --> 01:55:00,220
about a different way of presenting the other local taxes or major revenues information and

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01:55:00,220 --> 01:55:02,540
not for this budget, obviously, but in the future.

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01:55:02,540 --> 01:55:11,360
I think some of this, the way it's been presented, made sense when a lot of these types of revenue

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01:55:11,360 --> 01:55:18,080
were comparatively trivial, the previous version of the business license tax, even the

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01:55:18,080 --> 01:55:26,300
UUT, the cannabis tax continues to be minor, and then we also have taxes that are not included

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01:55:26,300 --> 01:55:31,640
here for the reasons you've explained, but I think still merits some level of transparency,

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01:55:31,640 --> 01:56:00,000
Right? The construction tax is minor, but I think something that is worth elevating to the community, it exists, it generates revenue, here's how we use it, here's the projections over time, but now that the real property transfer tax is significant, and even though it's a volatile source of revenue, we are now using it for an ongoing purpose, right, for debt service, and I think that also merits some level of transparency.

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01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:10,080
So I don't want to be prescriptive and how you choose to present that information, but I do think it will be increasingly valuable, particularly for the incoming council.

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01:56:10,240 --> 01:56:20,720
I think one of the things I've really appreciated about our budget presentations is that the budget is an educational document as much as it is a financial planning document.

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01:56:21,340 --> 01:56:28,480
I always learn a lot reading through it even though I've been monitoring the council for a long time and now I've had the privilege to serve for nearly eight years.

1112
01:56:28,480 --> 01:56:32,220
every time I read through the budget, I learned something.

1113
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:41,600
And probably some of that is because I've forgotten over the year what I recall reading from previous budget cycles.

1114
01:56:43,260 --> 01:56:46,560
So I'm grateful to you for that consideration.

1115
01:56:47,300 --> 01:56:54,980
I also don't want to provide explicit direction, but I've learned recently about there is value in

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01:56:54,980 --> 01:56:59,440
presenting both in our performance measures averages as well as median figures.

1117
01:56:59,700 --> 01:57:03,820
So I appreciate the fire chief's responses to the questions earlier.

1118
01:57:04,020 --> 01:57:05,460
And I'll leave it up to you.

1119
01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:08,960
If it makes sense to present both, we can learn something from each of those.

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01:57:09,660 --> 01:57:19,920
But I thought it was useful to understand your perspective in choosing the performance measures as you have.

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01:57:21,580 --> 01:57:30,840
Really the only thing I wanted to suggest or change was based on an experience that I had

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01:57:30,840 --> 01:57:34,420
at the recent Civic Leadership Academy graduation.

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01:57:34,480 --> 01:57:38,720
I had the opportunity to attend with Mayor Ramos, with Council Member Kameh and Council

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01:57:38,720 --> 01:57:46,560
Member Showalter, and I think many of us have been going for years and it's always a wonderful

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01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:56,800
experience, hearing the enthusiasm and I guess the excitement to continue to be engaged

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01:57:57,380 --> 01:58:01,360
from the graduates of both the Spanish and Chinese leadership academies.

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01:58:01,600 --> 01:58:14,060
As we were speaking with many of the graduates, I think what I took away was there's a strong desire for more opportunities to engage the city

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And in particular, for things like mixers, for graduates from previous academies,

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01:58:20,560 --> 01:58:29,900
or some of the cultural programming that we've been doing a lot of investment

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01:58:29,900 --> 01:58:33,560
in over the past several years that we've been on the council.

1131
01:58:34,300 --> 01:58:41,600
The DLOS Muertos, the Lunar New Year Festival, I think those were some of the events

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01:58:41,600 --> 01:58:49,270
that have come up repeatedly as a desired well-received enthusiastically by our community.

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01:58:49,950 --> 01:58:56,910
So again, I don't necessarily want to prescribe exactly how staff would like to do this,

1134
01:58:56,990 --> 01:59:05,570
but I think a very modest increase to the multi-cultural engagement program for something

1135
01:59:05,570 --> 01:59:16,250
like regular alumni mixers or expanding some of the existing events to provide additional

1136
01:59:16,250 --> 01:59:21,270
volunteer opportunities or something like that, you know, I'd welcome the input from my

1137
01:59:21,270 --> 01:59:26,310
colleagues. But I'm thinking based on the analysis that you provided us and the first two questions,

1138
01:59:27,090 --> 01:59:33,510
you know, in the realm of $5,000 to $10,000. And I don't want to be specific about

1139
01:59:33,510 --> 01:59:39,990
a figure because I would be interested in staff's perspective on how best to use that money.

1140
01:59:41,170 --> 01:59:50,650
But I would move the staff recommendation with the addition of some about recommended by staff

1141
01:59:50,650 --> 01:59:59,750
between maybe $5,000 and $10,000 for additional multi-cultural engagement program events and activities.

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01:59:59,750 --> 01:59:59,850
You

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02:00:02,410 --> 02:00:09,470
And I think I'll leave it at that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilmember Ramirez, Councilmember

1144
02:00:09,470 --> 02:00:10,050
Schowalter.

1145
02:00:12,280 --> 02:00:16,440
Thank you. Yeah, I think having a little more extra money from that is a great

1146
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:16,820
idea.

1147
02:00:18,960 --> 02:00:23,360
It could concede, well, staff can put it where they want to. I couldn't imagine it could

1148
02:00:23,360 --> 02:00:31,480
also be part of community services, you know, ongoing and recreation program. But I just want

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02:00:31,480 --> 02:00:42,100
I wanted to thank all the staff having served in local government for many years, not as an employee at Mountain View.

1150
02:00:42,280 --> 02:00:50,000
But as an employee of a local special agency, I know how much work goes into budgets.

1151
02:00:50,640 --> 02:00:54,620
And boy, it's not just one or two people, I mean we see one or two people up here.

1152
02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:59,200
I know you've devoted hours and hours and hours to this but you're not the only one.

1153
02:00:59,200 --> 02:01:00,980
I mean, there have been people throughout.

1154
02:01:01,200 --> 02:01:12,660
We have over 700 employees, and I would venture to say that probably at least a hundred of them and maybe 150 of them have been actively involved in getting this budget together.

1155
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:16,220
So, thank you all for working together to do that.

1156
02:01:16,920 --> 02:01:24,520
And I also want to talk about how a little bit about how budgets are kind of a story.

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02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:54,500
They're a story of how we're going to spend our money, and they're a story of what we value and what we care about, and I think that one of the parts of the story that I think are so important now is that we're really trying to focus on the things that we can control, and we're working on affordable housing, things that we can help get built, we're working on getting more parks for

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02:01:54,500 --> 02:02:00,260
people, we're working on the inspections, they keep people safe, you know, those are,

1159
02:02:00,660 --> 02:02:05,500
we're concentrating on what are the things we can control because we know that some of

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02:02:05,500 --> 02:02:10,700
the insistence from other, from the federal system, it's just not what it was before.

1161
02:02:11,220 --> 02:02:17,540
And so we, we have to stand by ourselves and we have to collaborate internally to do that.

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02:02:17,740 --> 02:02:23,900
And, and I see that the staff is doing that and I really, I really appreciate it and I hope

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02:02:23,900 --> 02:02:30,080
you're having fun doing it and you're learning more about what each other's jobs are and that can be,

1164
02:02:30,320 --> 02:02:37,340
you know, really a great growth, professional growth experience as well. And it also saves money

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02:02:37,340 --> 02:02:44,940
because if, you know, you find out by working together that you can have one process that can meet

1166
02:02:44,940 --> 02:02:50,820
a certain subject instead of having ten of them, well, you've saved a lot of money and that's a good

1167
02:02:52,180 --> 02:03:03,760
So then I also wanted to talk a little bit about revenue and how we are really working to get some increases in our revenue.

1168
02:03:04,140 --> 02:03:15,960
Like we fixed the minimum purchase agreement issue with our water bill that has amounted to upwards of $3 million a year.

1169
02:03:15,960 --> 02:03:22,420
I mean, we have a, that's not a lot in terms of our budget, but it all adds up.

1170
02:03:22,540 --> 02:03:30,300
So I think, and that goes into our water fund, which we will need money in forever to maintain our infrastructure.

1171
02:03:30,760 --> 02:03:35,660
We have measure G, which is bringing up new money.

1172
02:03:35,740 --> 02:03:37,140
We've had the business licenses.

1173
02:03:38,060 --> 02:03:43,960
We did a new funding study to evaluate, I mean, a fee study.

1174
02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:50,800
We did a new fee study to evaluate what was appropriate in terms of charging people fees for

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02:03:50,800 --> 02:03:53,540
services that we provide, particularly with respect to development.

1176
02:03:53,880 --> 02:03:57,300
And some of those fees went up a lot, which was appropriate because they hadn't been changed.

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02:03:57,720 --> 02:04:02,720
I mean, some of them hadn't been touched in 20 years or so, so there's been a lot of inflation over that time.

1178
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And then we are also working to bring new businesses to our community.

1179
02:04:07,980 --> 02:04:13,780
And the one that we're all looking forward to for many reasons will be the new Toyota dealership,

1180
02:04:13,900 --> 02:04:16,220
which will open in stores in a few years.

1181
02:04:16,320 --> 02:04:20,000
And I think that will help our sales tax revenue go up.

1182
02:04:20,480 --> 02:04:24,540
So all of these things I do add together.

1183
02:04:24,860 --> 02:04:37,140
And I would also say that considering the windfall nature of the UTT is really an interesting idea.

1184
02:04:37,140 --> 02:04:46,380
Because it, in a sense, is sort of an internal collaboration between our desire to meet our climate goals,

1185
02:04:46,740 --> 02:04:57,540
i.e. reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, that the less gas is used, nothing gas is used,

1186
02:04:58,020 --> 02:05:01,120
the less greenhouse gas emissions we produce.

1187
02:05:01,120 --> 02:05:05,620
the closer we are to meeting our standards.

1188
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And at the same time, while we, while gas gets more expensive, we can utilize that money to help people do things that reduce their greenhouse gases locally.

1189
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:30,060
like getting a heat pump or buy an electric car, or other things that might help.

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02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:34,820
Plants, lots of trees, I mean there are many things we've heard that that would be valuable.

1191
02:05:35,500 --> 02:05:41,100
So I just, I thought that was a really good suggestion and but

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02:05:41,100 --> 02:05:45,400
mostly I just want to say thank you and I appreciate the time and

1193
02:05:45,400 --> 02:05:51,820
effort that's gone into this and I also appreciate how you keep reorganizing this and

1194
02:05:51,820 --> 02:05:59,700
I keep getting better, and having been reading these for ten years now, I couldn't agree

1195
02:05:59,700 --> 02:06:02,760
more with my colleague council member Ramirez.

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02:06:03,020 --> 02:06:09,520
Every time I read the budget, I learn just a lot, like, I don't know, 20 or 30 new facts

1197
02:06:10,080 --> 02:06:14,080
about the city that I either had not known before or had forgotten.

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So it's really good to have these all put together, and I particularly love these little vignettes

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on every department and what they're supposed to do,

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and how many people they have,

1201
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:29,620
and the org chart, all of that information brought together,

1202
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:32,200
it really does provide a great story

1203
02:06:34,700 --> 02:06:36,780
of what's the organization of the city.

1204
02:06:37,300 --> 02:06:38,840
So anyway, thank you for all that work,

1205
02:06:39,220 --> 02:06:42,500
and yes, I'm very happy to be seconding this motion.

1206
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:45,960
Thank you, Council Member Shoal,

1207
02:06:46,020 --> 02:06:47,200
Walter, Council Member Hicks.

1208
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:51,200
Yes, I'd like to express my thanks as well.

1209
02:06:51,840 --> 02:06:53,500
I actually wasn't going to speak.

1210
02:06:53,680 --> 02:06:59,520
I was just going to support the motion because for members of the public who don't come

1211
02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:05,300
to every council meeting, we actually go over the budget multiple times and we kind of hopefully

1212
02:07:05,300 --> 02:07:06,460
make all our big changes.

1213
02:07:06,660 --> 02:07:08,140
I'm not going to propose a big change.

1214
02:07:09,420 --> 02:07:11,360
All our big changes earlier.

1215
02:07:13,700 --> 02:07:31,940
And also I made my main comment, which is because we're not as flush as we have been in past years that we're going to have to, it's a good time to take a look and see if there are, there are any things that have kind of grown unnecessary but I made that comment already during questions.

1216
02:07:32,580 --> 02:07:38,320
So I wasn't going to say anything additionally, and then Council Member Ramirez talked about

1217
02:07:38,760 --> 02:07:45,340
more money for cultural events, and I have to say, and I agree, I will support that.

1218
02:07:46,060 --> 02:07:52,380
And I've been to the lunar New Year and the day-day Los Muertos and enjoyed them a lot.

1219
02:07:54,320 --> 02:08:01,260
And I just, I agree with you that staff can figure out how to use more money and make

1220
02:08:01,260 --> 02:08:07,220
better but I do want to encourage good music because I have to say the music has been uneven

1221
02:08:07,220 --> 02:08:12,240
from year to year. There have been times when there have been really great bands and that's

1222
02:08:12,880 --> 02:08:19,060
to me, that's what gets me out. And a lot of other people, so I want to encourage that that

1223
02:08:19,560 --> 02:08:24,900
be taken under consideration. And then lastly, I agree with what council members,

1224
02:08:24,900 --> 02:08:33,000
commercial Walters said about the UUT that it might be good to put it towards electrification

1225
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:38,960
and, you know, reducing people's carbon footprint in the future.

1226
02:08:42,080 --> 02:08:43,700
Thank you, Council Member Hicks.

1227
02:08:43,940 --> 02:08:44,880
Council Member Kameh.

1228
02:08:49,020 --> 02:08:49,440
Thanks, Mayor.

1229
02:08:50,240 --> 02:08:50,460
Okay.

1230
02:08:51,500 --> 02:08:56,520
So I just want to thank staff.

1231
02:08:56,520 --> 02:09:06,760
I look forward to reading the budget now and I think when we talk about building the

1232
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mountain view of tomorrow, Council is able to be forward thinking and to be creative

1233
02:09:14,320 --> 02:09:20,200
and to do all these things because of staff, because you are working with us not only

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02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:25,140
it's staff doing that, our community, I feel like the way that we've been able to engage

1235
02:09:25,140 --> 02:09:44,660
With our community has been much more robust each year, we improve whether it's the budget in brief or it's the video or other ways to demystify honestly local government and what we are spending city funds on.

1236
02:09:44,820 --> 02:09:54,600
I think that helps us tell the story of mountain view and so budgets are, you know, testament of our values and our greatest value is how we're a community for all.

1237
02:09:54,600 --> 02:10:11,060
and the everything in our budget helps showcase that and it makes me feel very proud to be able to vote and support this budget and hopefully colleagues feel this way and our community feels that as well.

1238
02:10:11,640 --> 02:10:18,040
I think it's also so timely that we're talking about recruitment and retention efforts and our budget.

1239
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same night back-to-back, because I also feel like we've made a lot of progress as a city and as a council, and just to kind of give a couple like vignettes of how I've seen that when council member Hicks and Ramirez and I started our budget for multi-culture engagement, I think was like 0.5 FTE.

1240
02:10:44,200 --> 02:10:47,540
And now it is this robust program.

1241
02:10:47,600 --> 02:10:53,740
We've been able to support expansion and create our Mandra and Chinese Civic Leadership Program.

1242
02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:57,760
And that's just one example of what we've done.

1243
02:10:58,400 --> 02:11:04,360
And as I reflect back on nearly eight years, there's so many instances where we're able to say that.

1244
02:11:04,980 --> 02:11:09,880
And those wins are all because of staff.

1245
02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:17,080
So I just think it's really important for us to highlight one other thing and it'll

1246
02:11:17,080 --> 02:11:21,960
be a seed I plant because I know better than to try to sneak something into the budget

1247
02:11:21,960 --> 02:11:31,020
last a minute is the mayor's like oh you need a match no I think that one of the things

1248
02:11:31,020 --> 02:11:36,300
I've seen our city do and this ties into the recruitment or attention is how we have become

1249
02:11:37,000 --> 02:11:43,960
an all-inclusive family-friendly city and we have done that in how we've

1250
02:11:43,960 --> 02:11:47,460
approached paid leave, our commitment towards childcare, how we're including it

1251
02:11:47,460 --> 02:11:53,500
in one of our all affordable housing projects. It heartens me that we have

1252
02:11:53,500 --> 02:11:58,400
seen such high usage of our nursing pod in our library just over a short

1253
02:11:58,400 --> 02:12:06,900
amount of time of six months. I feel a bit surprised that because our aquatic center,

1254
02:12:07,140 --> 02:12:11,680
our community center are right there and I see so many families utilizing it that it hasn't come

1255
02:12:11,680 --> 02:12:19,400
forward. But I also remember when I was, you know, a new mother, how overwhelming and kind of shy,

1256
02:12:19,780 --> 02:12:27,600
you can become from making those kind of requests. And so I would just ask council to, you know,

1257
02:12:27,600 --> 02:12:32,000
So, maybe not this budget, but in future looking budgets, how we might be able to do that.

1258
02:12:32,180 --> 02:12:34,100
Rangstorf Park is so heavily utilized.

1259
02:12:34,400 --> 02:12:38,000
I'm sure thousands of people use it every day, especially we have magical bridge.

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Providing that opportunity, I think would be really great.

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02:12:44,400 --> 02:12:45,840
So I just want to plant that seed.

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02:12:46,340 --> 02:12:46,860
Thank you, Mayor.

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02:12:48,120 --> 02:12:49,700
Thank you, Council Member Camey.

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I don't see anyone else in the queue, so I will use the same to thank staff for their amazing work in the budget.

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Thank you to my colleagues for putting in all the things that you want to put in our budget.

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02:13:01,780 --> 02:13:05,280
One thing I would also like to point out with our Multicultural Engagement Program.

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02:13:05,780 --> 02:13:13,520
I see throughout the state and our local region how all these councils want to talk about

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like we care about community engagement, and I'm sure there are several candidates for

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02:13:18,420 --> 02:13:19,120
council here.

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02:13:19,280 --> 02:13:25,160
I'm just going to be just like council member Amira's who will say how much we care

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about community engagement, but this budget is one of those things where you show where we invest in that community engagement and it has really paid dividends, not just with the multicultural engagement program with our neighborhood council neighborhoods committee grants.

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There are a lot of things that our city does that really not only says that we care about our community and having them having a voice, we invest in it.

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And we invest in that megaphone that they have for us.

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So thank you to staff, thank you to my colleagues.

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We are ready for a vote, City Clerk, feel free to do the roll call vote.

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Council member Ramirez?

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02:14:10,900 --> 02:14:11,100
Yes.

1278
02:14:11,540 --> 02:14:12,540
Council member Schoelter?

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02:14:12,960 --> 02:14:13,140
Yes.

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02:14:13,380 --> 02:14:14,220
Council member Hicks?

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02:14:14,560 --> 02:14:14,660
Yes.

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02:14:14,860 --> 02:14:15,740
Council member Kameh?

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02:14:15,740 --> 02:14:15,920
Yes.

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02:14:16,140 --> 02:14:17,160
Council member McAllister?

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02:14:18,200 --> 02:14:18,720
Yes.

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02:14:19,120 --> 02:14:19,740
Vice Mayor Clerk?

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02:14:20,060 --> 02:14:20,220
Yes.

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02:14:20,460 --> 02:14:20,820
Mayor Ramos?

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02:14:21,260 --> 02:14:21,400
Yes.

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02:14:21,640 --> 02:14:22,440
Listen, Kerry's unanimously.

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Thank you, City Clerk.

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We will now go into item seven, new business.

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This City Attorney Jennifer Logan and Assistant City Attorney Francesca Serrano will present the item.

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If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

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02:14:43,000 --> 02:14:44,580
And we will, we

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02:14:47,140 --> 02:14:50,600
will take a few minutes to shift around.

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Thank you to all our department heads to make sure that they got funded.

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Just in case.

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Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. Francesca Sorano, Assistant City Attorney, here with City Attorney Locke to present the 2026 proposed ballot measure for the charter modernization. Want to start with a little bit of background, how we got here, what the initial directive was for this first ballot initiative regarding the charter modernization. Charter modernization was included in 2025.

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The plan is to have two separate ballot items, the first of which would be the 2026 proposed ballot measure.

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This proposed ballot measure would include non-substative and non-controversial updates.

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The purpose of this first ballot measure is to modernize and clarify the city charter.

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And it is very limited in scope to typographical errors, clarifying existing language, revising archaic terminology, improving internal consistency, and getting us aligned with charter and state law and current operational practices.

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02:16:45,960 --> 02:16:47,060
There

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was a February study session with the council in this issue, and City Attorney

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02:16:56,460 --> 02:17:02,240
Log did comprehensive benchmarking with several of their cities looking at their charters,

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and the nine cities are listed on the slide.

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And after the study session, council gave majority support to correct typographical errors,

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to replace gender-specific terminology with gender-neutral terminology, to clarify a reference

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02:17:21,640 --> 02:17:29,880
to qualified elector to align with state law, to amend the deadline to fill a city council

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02:17:29,880 --> 02:17:37,180
vacancy from 30 to 60 days, to remove the requirement that ordinances and resolutions be read or

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have their titles read prior to adoption, to require a roll call vote.

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You adapt adoption of ordinances and resolutions only when requested by a council member or

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02:17:50,640 --> 02:17:56,680
required by law, to remove some outdated references to maintaining books and

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02:17:56,680 --> 02:18:06,900
update that language, and make changes to charter section 900 to address requirements for

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board and commissions, and then finally to clarify the requirement that stagger terms for

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02:18:15,660 --> 02:18:23,100
board's commissions and committees. So, we will go through the changes that we are proposing

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for the charter to myself in City Attorney Loeb, and we will not be going through them in

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02:18:27,440 --> 02:18:31,920
chronological order. Instead, we'll start with the simplest changes and then go to the more

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complex changes.

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So the first change is Section 504 in regards to vacancies and currently the 30-day

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02:18:43,220 --> 02:18:49,340
charter deadline to Felicity Council vacancy creates a very constrained timeline, particularly when

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02:18:49,340 --> 02:18:57,540
vacancies arrive unexpectedly. And so this gives us a little bit more time when there are vacancies,

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02:18:57,540 --> 02:19:03,860
particular unexpected vacancies to fill them. Again, at the study session, a majority

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02:19:03,860 --> 02:19:09,200
of council indicated support for amending the charter in Section 504 to extend this

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deadline.

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Section 602, powers and duties. This is one of the replacements to gender specific

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02:19:18,770 --> 02:19:26,310
language into a gender neutral alternative. And making these changes helps to modernize

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02:19:26,310 --> 02:19:31,610
the charter improves clarity and inclusivity and ensures that the document reflects contemporary

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02:19:31,610 --> 02:19:36,810
drafting standards. And again, at the study session, this was another change that the majority

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of councils supported.

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02:19:41,780 --> 02:19:44,980
Section 7-11 powers and duties of the city attorney.

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02:19:46,260 --> 02:19:53,620
This is another section wherein, and if you'll notice, just in subsection H, that we change

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02:19:53,620 --> 02:19:57,420
his or her to there. So again, that gender-neutral language.

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02:20:01,360 --> 02:20:05,000
Section 11-07 contracts for public works,

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this was a very minimal change, and this was just an error. Changing noting to nothing,

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if you'll see it, the very last paragraph of Section A. Very straightforward.

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Section 501,

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02:20:20,250 --> 02:20:25,390
eligibility. So, this, the term qualified

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elector that was referred to in this section, did not actually exist in the California

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02:20:31,710 --> 02:20:39,770
Elections Code. So, in order to make very clear that we were referencing the California

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Elections Code and the term that they use as elector, we wanted to clarify.

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And so this

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02:20:47,910 --> 02:20:53,130
see that there's additional changes, that's just to clean up and streamline language.

1345
02:20:53,430 --> 02:20:54,330
Nothing substantive.

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02:21:00,400 --> 02:21:04,240
Section 514, adoption of ordinances and resolutions.

1347
02:21:05,640 --> 02:21:10,120
Again, this was to streamline council meetings and align with current practice.

1348
02:21:10,820 --> 02:21:16,640
The substantive portion of the changes here removed the requirement that the title of the ordinances

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and resolutions be read and fall.

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02:21:21,520 --> 02:21:28,240
And again, the additional changes are just to clean up some of the language and stream line.

1351
02:21:28,740 --> 02:21:37,580
And I will say that at the study session, this was enthusiastically indicated as something that Council supports.

1352
02:21:40,760 --> 02:21:48,340
Section 515, I's and knows this streamlines the council meetings and aligns with current city practice.

1353
02:21:48,340 --> 02:21:56,680
This revises the current roll calling voting requirement so that a roll call vote is required only if requested by a council member or required by law.

1354
02:21:57,180 --> 02:22:04,000
Again, this was a change that the majority of council indicated support for at the February study session.

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02:22:06,880 --> 02:22:10,240
Section 709, powers and duties of City Clerk.

1356
02:22:10,840 --> 02:22:15,340
This refers to what I referenced previously, some outdated language.

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02:22:15,340 --> 02:22:20,280
there was many references to keeping books, which is not something we do any longer.

1358
02:22:21,000 --> 02:22:27,480
And so this modernizes the charter while preserving the substance of the city clerk's duties and responsibilities.

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02:22:28,500 --> 02:22:32,380
And it's rewritten to make the language clear and more concise.

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02:22:33,320 --> 02:22:38,400
And these changes were also supported by the majority of council during the February study session.

1361
02:22:40,870 --> 02:22:44,070
Section 1603, the construction of the charter.

1362
02:22:44,070 --> 02:22:52,250
So, in addition to fixing the specific instances of gender-specific language, we also included

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this amendment to this section to address kind of a catch-all so that, going forward,

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we can indicate that we are our intention to use gender-neutral language.

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02:23:09,510 --> 02:23:12,000
Section 1702, definitions.

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02:23:12,000 --> 02:23:22,540
This was a section that, at the study session, Council directed staff to confer with the rental housing committee to determine whether it supported amending this chapter.

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02:23:23,200 --> 02:23:25,400
I'll refresh Council's recollection.

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02:23:26,100 --> 02:23:33,700
The reason for amending this was that it was actually an incorrect citation to the code section.

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02:23:34,140 --> 02:23:40,320
However, because of where it falls in the charter and kind of how it can be controversial,

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Council did want to get that input from the Rental Housing Committee.

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We did get that input and they are in support of this amendment.

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And I will hand it over to City Attorney Locke.

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Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and Council Members, Jennifer Locke.

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I'm going to take you through the section 900 changes.

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02:24:06,360 --> 02:24:13,780
If you recall section 900, at the study session, you were given three options for section 900.

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This is a section that had the residency and qualified elector requirements for members of boards, commissions, and committees.

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And the three options was one to maintain the status quo and require the residency and

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02:24:27,400 --> 02:24:32,140
qualified elector for all boards, commissions, and committees.

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02:24:32,440 --> 02:24:40,580
Option two was a partial delegation where charter-created bodies had to have the qualified elector and

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02:24:40,580 --> 02:24:46,200
residency requirements while Council-created bodies did not, and the third option was full

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02:24:46,200 --> 02:24:50,820
delegation to City Council, so that you could decide for everybody whether or not they needed

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02:24:50,820 --> 02:24:57,480
to be a resident or qualified elector. The majority of Council supported option two, which is

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02:24:57,480 --> 02:25:02,240
partial delegation that preserves the residency and elector requirements for boards and commissions

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02:25:02,860 --> 02:25:09,920
created by the charter, unless the charter itself otherwise provides, and while granting City

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02:25:09,920 --> 02:25:15,580
council authority to establish membership and qualifications for bodies created legislatively.

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And then you also supported making corresponding clarifying and conforming amendments to other

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sections within Article 9.

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I will now take you through each section.

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02:25:29,040 --> 02:25:31,520
So Section 900 begins Article 9.

1390
02:25:31,860 --> 02:25:38,100
This is the one in where we are now implementing option 2.

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02:25:38,100 --> 02:25:52,460
You can see clearly that at the top, in addition to the boards and commissions that are established by that article that council is now authorized to create by ordinance or resolution additional boards, commissions and committees as you deem necessary.

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And then any ordinance or resolution creating such body shall prescribe its functions, duties, powers, jurisdiction, membership qualifications, any other and any other terms or conditions, council deems appropriate.

1393
02:26:06,520 --> 02:26:11,600
So, now you are fully delegated the authority to establish those other bodies.

1394
02:26:13,640 --> 02:26:19,960
The rest of this section maintains requirements that we're already in it.

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It's just cleaning it up.

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02:26:22,560 --> 02:26:33,440
It maintains the requirement that members of board commissions and committees shall not hold paid offices or paid employment with the city during their term of employment.

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And it also maintains the requirement that every member of a board commission or committee

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established by this article only shall be a qualified elector of the city.

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And the reason why I put the word established by this article is to ensure that we are not impacting

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the requirements that are already set forth in the CSFRA with regard to their membership requirements.

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02:26:59,920 --> 02:27:20,680
So, this qualified elector requirement is only going to apply to the boards and commissions and committee established by Article 9, which currently stand as the EPC or Environmental Planning Commission, the Parks and Recreation Committee and the Library or the Trustees.

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Those are the only three that are in Article 9, and those are the only three that will be affected by this qualified

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02:27:27,620 --> 02:27:30,600
elector and residency requirement.

1404
02:27:31,080 --> 02:27:35,540
The CSFRA stands on its own terms, okay?

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02:27:40,660 --> 02:27:49,420
Section 902, in this section, I have just added the word before it only referred to boards and commissions.

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02:27:49,420 --> 02:27:54,000
I've clarified that it applies to board's commissions and committees.

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02:27:54,800 --> 02:28:01,860
I cleaned up the first sentence just to clarify that it's the affirmative vote of at least four council members.

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02:28:03,480 --> 02:28:13,680
And then with regard to terms, I said unless otherwise provided in this charter, members of board's commissions and committee shall serve four terms.

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02:28:13,680 --> 02:28:19,560
That literally is only if every document relating to these Board's commissions and committees is silent.

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02:28:20,000 --> 02:28:27,260
There is at least a term somewhere, but you in the next sentence, you see that you have the power to establish the terms.

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02:28:27,780 --> 02:28:33,160
Unless the terms are created in the charter, that is once again to preserve what is in the CSFRA.

1412
02:28:33,460 --> 02:28:40,560
They do establish terms for their members, and so I didn't want to take away what was already existing in the CSFRA.

1413
02:28:40,560 --> 02:28:45,640
But you otherwise have the authority to establish terms as you, as you deem appropriate.

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And then it also clarifies the staggered term assignment.

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02:28:50,460 --> 02:28:55,600
There was a requirement that staggered terms begin on January 1.

1416
02:28:56,280 --> 02:29:07,160
I clarified the language to establish the terms in accordance with the bodies established appointment cycle because some of the bodies have different appointment cycles.

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02:29:07,160 --> 02:29:10,180
So this just provided a little bit more flexibility.

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02:29:14,730 --> 02:29:22,890
Section 904, in the title you see that I made it gender-neutral to presiding officer as opposed to chairman.

1419
02:29:23,850 --> 02:29:27,950
Again, I cleaned up some of the language adding boards, commissions, and committees.

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02:29:30,210 --> 02:29:38,950
And then I don't think there were any other changes in here, other than just to clarify the language.

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02:29:39,790 --> 02:29:43,450
In the third paragraph, we clarified some language.

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It was very difficult to determine the vote requirement when there are vacancies on the body, so we made it very clear that it's excluding vacant positions provided that the members then in office is not less than a quorum, so as long as the body has a quorum.

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They can move forward and now we know what their vote requirement is. And so there was a lot of confusion over that, so we've clarified that language. And then you see the rest is just adding the term committee to the rest of the section.

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02:30:19,680 --> 02:30:32,940
Section 905, the major change that I made here is to clarify that a vacancy is not created simply because someone is no longer a qualified elector or resident.

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unless that is a requirement of their membership.

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02:30:36,760 --> 02:30:48,160
So before vacancy was automatically created when that happened, but now it aligns with the option to that you chose, and so now it does not automatically create a vacancy.

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02:30:48,760 --> 02:30:59,380
The other things that create a vacancy were existing already existed in this section, and all I've done is cleaned it up a bit, but it's the exact same requirements,

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okay?

1429
02:31:02,450 --> 02:31:09,210
So, this is the language that will show up for voters of the proposed ballot measure.

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02:31:10,110 --> 02:31:16,270
And it includes a summary of all of the changes that we just went through.

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And so, this is our recommendation to the council.

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In addition, we want to note that the resolution in section 13 allows for council to select

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and authorize up to three members of the body to file a written argument in favor of the proposed measure.

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02:31:37,960 --> 02:31:44,160
So any motion on this matter should include adoption of not just the resolution,

1435
02:31:44,160 --> 02:31:48,700
but also identify the members you select to file arguments in favor.

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02:31:49,720 --> 02:31:52,060
And so with that, we're happy to answer any questions.

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02:31:53,000 --> 02:31:53,740
Thank you.

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02:31:54,300 --> 02:31:56,320
Does any member of the council have questions?

1439
02:32:01,700 --> 02:32:02,700
Vice Mayor Clark.

1440
02:32:07,290 --> 02:32:08,030
Right, it took me a minute.

1441
02:32:11,190 --> 02:32:12,750
Two, hopefully, simple questions.

1442
02:32:13,290 --> 02:32:15,750
Section 902, the appointments in terms.

1443
02:32:18,730 --> 02:32:21,850
The affirmative vote of at least four council members.

1444
02:32:23,490 --> 02:32:26,810
What if we only have a quorum of five and three?

1445
02:32:27,130 --> 02:32:33,590
Can it just be a simple majority instead of requiring four people to be affirmative?

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02:32:33,590 --> 02:32:34,550
in the affirmative.

1447
02:32:38,050 --> 02:32:39,150
If you-

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02:32:39,150 --> 02:32:40,990
It slides 16 at the top with that help.

1449
02:32:41,350 --> 02:32:45,530
Yeah. If you want to change that, you can.

1450
02:32:45,730 --> 02:32:48,550
That was just the requirement that already existed in the charter.

1451
02:32:48,790 --> 02:32:52,550
And so I did not change it. Affirmative votes was always had to be four.

1452
02:32:52,930 --> 02:32:54,370
I just cleaned up the language.

1453
02:32:55,150 --> 02:32:57,230
So if you want to change that, that's fine.

1454
02:32:58,230 --> 02:32:59,730
I think of your rare occurrence.

1455
02:32:59,730 --> 02:33:03,190
I'm just thinking if we only have five members for whatever reason.

1456
02:33:03,370 --> 02:33:04,730
The simple majority is three.

1457
02:33:04,730 --> 02:33:11,270
Maybe then you have to basically have a super majority to do something but okay.

1458
02:33:12,170 --> 02:33:16,870
But it sounds like it was that way before, there were at least four affirmative votes.

1459
02:33:17,410 --> 02:33:32,970
And then for a slide 18 section 905, there's no world where I think this is another case where

1460
02:33:32,970 --> 02:33:57,630
It's not necessarily any more restrictive than it was before, but if a vacancy occurs, you know, two months before the person's term would have expired, there's no requirement that we appoint someone on short notice for that two month period, we could do we still have the authority to just leave it vacant and fill the next floor full term.

1461
02:33:57,630 --> 02:34:04,570
You do. I don't think there's anything in your charter that requires you to fill a vacancy in any certain period of time.

1462
02:34:05,050 --> 02:34:09,130
Because I think I saw elsewhere in the charter, it says, until their successors are qualified,

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02:34:09,510 --> 02:34:12,250
or I guess maybe that's mostly elected officials.

1464
02:34:12,590 --> 02:34:17,590
And that successors qualify, that was the term, that was in the four-year term,

1465
02:34:17,590 --> 02:34:21,710
but that language has actually been scratched, and I just clarify the one.

1466
02:34:21,770 --> 02:34:23,650
I didn't say until the successors qualified.

1467
02:34:23,650 --> 02:34:31,410
I just it was it didn't really have a purpose it was it's in the term section section

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02:34:33,810 --> 02:34:38,190
I believe you don't spend a whole bunch of time

1469
02:34:50,350 --> 02:34:59,270
So it used to say it said serve a four-year term until their respective

1470
02:34:59,270 --> 02:35:01,470
of successors are appointed and qualified.

1471
02:35:02,370 --> 02:35:05,690
So it just says, so it was a little bit weird.

1472
02:35:07,950 --> 02:35:11,590
They just serve as four-year term period,

1473
02:35:11,950 --> 02:35:13,090
but then if they leave early,

1474
02:35:13,350 --> 02:35:15,810
there's just a vacancy and it gets filled whenever you fill it.

1475
02:35:15,970 --> 02:35:20,050
So I just clarified their language that it's a four-year term,

1476
02:35:20,630 --> 02:35:23,790
but clearly vacancies can be created by retirement

1477
02:35:23,790 --> 02:35:26,730
or you know, resignations or other reasons.

1478
02:35:26,730 --> 02:35:31,410
but then your charter has never had any deadline for you to fill those vacancies.

1479
02:35:31,790 --> 02:35:31,990
Okay.

1480
02:35:37,240 --> 02:35:39,240
Okay. Councilmember Schell-Walter?

1481
02:35:40,180 --> 02:35:50,240
Yeah. I have a question about section 900. That's basically talked about on slide 14 and 15.

1482
02:35:51,000 --> 02:36:00,980
And the idea is of option two is that the City Council gets to set the qualifications for new committees, right?

1483
02:36:02,920 --> 02:36:10,300
Yes, for any legislatively-created committees, so all the committees other than those that are provided by the charter grant.

1484
02:36:11,120 --> 02:36:30,600
So maybe it might be a little clearer if on slide 15 in the second paragraph, we inserted established by this article after no members of any board's commissions or committees established by this article.

1485
02:36:30,600 --> 02:36:38,460
shall hold any paid office or paid employment, because that is a qualification and we would

1486
02:36:38,460 --> 02:36:44,500
like to give that authority to future councils to make that.

1487
02:36:48,140 --> 02:36:55,560
Okay, if you give me a moment, I actually prepared a backup slide, so I can show if that is,

1488
02:36:55,860 --> 02:36:57,280
if this is what you're,

1489
02:37:11,220 --> 02:37:12,320
yes, is that what chair?

1490
02:37:13,040 --> 02:37:15,380
I think that would be clearer.

1491
02:37:15,380 --> 02:37:25,600
And I can imagine that there might be, for instance, if we wanted to have a committee

1492
02:37:25,600 --> 02:37:35,580
sometime related to the way the sevens was working, we, you know, the people who live

1493
02:37:35,580 --> 02:37:42,640
there are, we would want some of them to be city employees because that's who lives

1494
02:37:42,640 --> 02:37:48,620
there. So I can imagine where that's the only one I came up with but I can imagine where

1495
02:37:48,620 --> 02:37:51,300
that would occur. So I'd just like to leave it open.

1496
02:37:53,560 --> 02:37:54,280
That's it. Thank you.

1497
02:37:55,720 --> 02:38:01,060
So I think that's fine. I think we would just want us the motion maker if that is supported

1498
02:38:01,060 --> 02:38:06,920
by the majority of council. If it's supported, we'd need to make that motion for us to

1499
02:38:06,920 --> 02:38:07,540
amend this.

1500
02:38:14,900 --> 02:38:18,980
All right. So since we're still in questions, does anyone else have any questions?

1501
02:38:20,960 --> 02:38:24,860
All right, moving on from questions, we will now go to public comment.

1502
02:38:25,220 --> 02:38:33,460
Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on any item on this item?

1503
02:38:33,580 --> 02:38:37,740
If so, please click the raise hand button and zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

1504
02:38:38,060 --> 02:38:39,580
We will take in person speakers first.

1505
02:38:39,800 --> 02:38:41,280
Each speaker will have three minutes.

1506
02:38:42,480 --> 02:38:44,080
Do we have any speakers?

1507
02:38:47,140 --> 02:38:47,820
No speakers.

1508
02:38:48,420 --> 02:38:49,800
We will now take virtual speakers.

1509
02:38:49,800 --> 02:38:56,580
see none we will bring it back to council so I will now bring the item back for

1510
02:38:56,580 --> 02:39:00,440
council questions and deliberation please note that a motion to approve the

1511
02:39:00,440 --> 02:39:04,260
recommendation should also include reading the title the resolution attached to

1512
02:39:04,260 --> 02:39:08,560
the report the city clerk will take a row call though as we have council member

1513
02:39:08,560 --> 02:39:13,420
persists being remotely this evening next looks like we have a motion by council

1514
02:39:13,420 --> 02:39:19,660
member Ramirez bring it home thank you Mary let's go home early tonight yeah

1515
02:39:19,660 --> 02:39:20,400
I will know.

1516
02:39:20,700 --> 02:39:28,400
We probably would have gone home five minutes earlier if Pat didn't have to read all of that stuff into the record during the consent calendar.

1517
02:39:29,900 --> 02:39:31,140
I move to approve.

1518
02:39:31,500 --> 02:39:35,320
Thank you very much for your work on the charter modernization.

1519
02:39:35,560 --> 02:39:39,580
I know it's been something that we've talked about for quite some time,

1520
02:39:39,760 --> 02:39:47,820
and it takes time and effort to just make time to figure out how we should modernize the provisions of the charter.

1521
02:39:47,820 --> 02:39:58,060
And I've been grateful to the City Attorney's Office, which I'm sure worked in collaboration with the City Manager's Office and the City Clerk's Office to come up with these recommendations.

1522
02:39:58,400 --> 02:40:05,540
So I'll move to approve the staff recommendations, including adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View.

1523
02:40:06,140 --> 02:40:15,060
One, calling a general municipal election and ordering consolidation with the statewide general election for the purpose of submitting to the voters.

1524
02:40:15,060 --> 02:40:44,640
a ballot measure to amend the City Charter to modernize and clarify its provisions to authorizing members of the Council to author an argument for the ballot measure in three directing the City Attorney to prepare an impartial analysis for authorizing the City Clerk to contract with the County of Santa Clara for services to be performed in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday November 3, 2026 to be read entitled only further reading way just to clarify, do we have to, as part of the motion to determine

1525
02:40:44,640 --> 02:40:47,900
in which council members are okay.

1526
02:40:48,140 --> 02:40:49,920
So we might need to think about that.

1527
02:40:50,460 --> 02:40:54,980
I'm okay, including council member Shovelter's recommendation,

1528
02:40:55,440 --> 02:40:58,360
or suggestion noting that the council will retain the authority

1529
02:40:58,360 --> 02:41:00,980
to determine the membership requirements

1530
02:41:00,980 --> 02:41:02,140
by resolution and ordinance

1531
02:41:02,140 --> 02:41:04,240
for legislatively created bodies.

1532
02:41:06,260 --> 02:41:10,680
I'm happy to suggest and we can sort of figure this out later,

1533
02:41:10,680 --> 02:41:21,740
but as a starting point, that the mayor, if you're comfortable, the vice mayor, and, yes,

1534
02:41:22,060 --> 02:41:33,280
this is for the arguments, and I'm happy to volunteer as that third person be the members of the council who are authorized to author an argument.

1535
02:41:33,920 --> 02:41:39,120
If someone else would like to work with us or replace one of us until they're comfortable with that too.

1536
02:41:39,280 --> 02:41:39,520
Thank you.

1537
02:41:39,520 --> 02:41:48,460
Thank you council member Ramirez. It looks so he made the motion and seconded by council

1538
02:41:48,460 --> 02:41:54,260
member Kamei. We also have Chris vice mayor Clark on the queue.

1539
02:41:54,720 --> 02:42:02,520
I just have two more questions. Sorry. One is, what is the practical impact of council

1540
02:42:02,520 --> 02:42:12,420
members, show alters, edition, so it's, so it has to do with commissions or committees

1541
02:42:12,960 --> 02:42:21,240
share the members of such, shall not hold any paid office or paid employment with the

1542
02:42:21,240 --> 02:42:22,720
city during the time of their appointment.

1543
02:42:23,920 --> 02:42:29,700
I just, I'm trying to figure out what the practical impact of it is because it does have one.

1544
02:42:29,700 --> 02:42:43,440
Yes, so the charter has currently written right now prohibits any member of a board or commission from holding a paid office or paid employment, so it's any board or commission.

1545
02:42:45,080 --> 02:43:07,340
With and so I kept the original language with this modification made by council member or proposed by council member show alter, you are now only saying that members of boards and commissions and committees established by Article 9, which is only the Environmental Planning Commission, the Library Board of Trustees and the Parks and Recs.

1546
02:43:07,340 --> 02:43:13,880
This body cannot hold paid offices or paid employment with the city.

1547
02:43:14,820 --> 02:43:30,420
Every other legislatively created body, by you, you can allow paid employees or paid officers to be on those bodies or you can prohibit it in your ordinances and resolutions establishing those bodies.

1548
02:43:30,420 --> 02:43:54,620
To the extent that you are going to allow paid officers or employees to be on those, there is obviously going to need to be some conflict of interest assessments done because there are FPC requirements and regulations governing incompatible offices and things like that, so that is something that would need to be assessed as you are establishing those bodies.

1549
02:43:54,620 --> 02:44:00,320
if you carve this out for yourself when you're creating new bodies legislatively.

1550
02:44:01,060 --> 02:44:10,920
So with the proposed change that the article nine bodies still have that prohibition.

1551
02:44:11,500 --> 02:44:11,740
Correct.

1552
02:44:12,200 --> 02:44:21,160
And then we can decide for everything else whether to allow it on a commission by commission basis or

1553
02:44:21,160 --> 02:44:25,860
overall, which I think we've done previously, or we've at least had that debate at some

1554
02:44:25,860 --> 02:44:26,160
point.

1555
02:44:26,600 --> 02:44:32,540
But basically, we have flexibility, but we're not modifying the chapter 9 or whatever

1556
02:44:32,540 --> 02:44:34,040
article 9 or whatever it is.

1557
02:44:34,400 --> 02:44:34,900
That's correct.

1558
02:44:36,300 --> 02:44:46,200
And then just back to 905 or whatever it was, maybe it was 902, I think.

1559
02:44:49,120 --> 02:44:57,720
I guess the only reason I recoil a bit from four votes is, in my mind, there's three things.

1560
02:44:57,860 --> 02:44:59,220
There's six votes required.

1561
02:44:59,220 --> 02:44:59,980
I don't know.

1562
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:29,500
And I can't remember in the charter if it's six votes or if it's a percentage threshold, but there's like urgency ordinances that require typically six votes. There's appropriations that typically require five votes, which I think is just a two thirds. It doesn't specify five. And then most everything else that we can do is just simple majority. And we have convocs of interest in those present and voting. And I'm just trying to avoid creating arbitrary numeric thresholds.

1563
02:45:29,500 --> 02:45:36,040
any more of those that are necessary, even if they already existed, as opposed to just sticking with simple majority.

1564
02:45:36,460 --> 02:45:38,660
But maybe that's not the right thing to do, I don't know.

1565
02:45:39,240 --> 02:45:46,220
Does our urgency ordinances and appropriations a fraction or a percentage, or I can look it up?

1566
02:45:46,860 --> 02:45:50,560
I don't recall, I would have to pull up, let me pull up the charter.

1567
02:45:51,260 --> 02:45:56,040
I don't know if urgency ordinances had a different vote requirement.

1568
02:45:56,040 --> 02:46:04,660
They have the ability to be adopted without a second reading, but it's possible that the vote requirement

1569
02:46:04,660 --> 02:46:06,100
is the same.

1570
02:46:08,320 --> 02:46:09,500
Let me see.

1571
02:46:10,760 --> 02:46:13,080
It might be called emergency ordinance.

1572
02:46:13,420 --> 02:46:13,700
No

1573
02:46:40,870 --> 02:46:41,670
ordinances.

1574
02:46:48,800 --> 02:46:53,210
I see a few different four-fifths in here.

1575
02:47:06,130 --> 02:47:10,830
I just see no ordinance or resolution shall be passed or become effective without receiving

1576
02:47:10,830 --> 02:47:13,430
being the affirmative votes of at least four members of council.

1577
02:47:14,130 --> 02:47:15,450
So you even have it.

1578
02:47:15,470 --> 02:47:16,750
It's there all over the place then.

1579
02:47:16,890 --> 02:47:17,930
Yeah, it is.

1580
02:47:18,090 --> 02:47:19,170
Yeah, just ignore me then.

1581
02:47:19,510 --> 02:47:19,610
All right.

1582
02:47:24,110 --> 02:47:24,650
Okay.

1583
02:47:26,150 --> 02:47:27,510
Thank you, Vice Mayor Clark.

1584
02:47:28,090 --> 02:47:28,850
Council member McHallister.

1585
02:47:30,390 --> 02:47:35,010
Yeah, could I get clarity on what council member Shoal Walter is asking?

1586
02:47:35,570 --> 02:47:41,450
Because one years ago on my first term of council,

1587
02:47:41,450 --> 02:47:48,050
So this came up before and we discussed that no employee could be, no city employee could

1588
02:47:48,050 --> 02:47:53,370
be on a commission board because of conflict of interest and it was already talked about

1589
02:47:53,370 --> 02:47:58,550
and we kept that in the law of the bylaws.

1590
02:47:58,870 --> 02:48:03,370
So I just get some clarity on which he's asking again, please.

1591
02:48:04,550 --> 02:48:14,090
Certainly, currently the charter prohibits paid employees and paid officers from being on any board commission or committee.

1592
02:48:14,970 --> 02:48:32,890
With this change proposed by Council Member Schowalter, that prohibition would apply to only the boards and commissions created by Article 9, which are currently the Environmental Planning Commission, the Library Board of Trustees.

1593
02:48:32,890 --> 02:48:35,490
in the Parks and Recreation Commission.

1594
02:48:36,250 --> 02:48:39,290
So that prohibition would apply to those three only.

1595
02:48:40,050 --> 02:48:46,670
Every other board commission and committee that would be created by council, by legislative action.

1596
02:48:46,910 --> 02:48:49,450
So you'd either be creating it by ordinance or resolution.

1597
02:48:50,110 --> 02:49:00,830
The council would itself have the authority to decide whether or not to prohibit paid officers and employees from being members of those bodies.

1598
02:49:00,830 --> 02:49:08,650
So, what it does is it gives council the right to decide for those legislatively created

1599
02:49:08,650 --> 02:49:14,830
bodies, but for those that are created by the charter, the prohibition remains in place.

1600
02:49:17,410 --> 02:49:18,010
Thank you.

1601
02:49:18,290 --> 02:49:25,750
So, I can't support that part of the motion, so if you want to buy for Cated, I still see

1602
02:49:25,750 --> 02:49:32,430
a conflict of interest and it could be minor, it could be big, but there could be consequences

1603
02:49:32,430 --> 02:49:37,370
to other members of that he works in the department that he wants something done,

1604
02:49:37,790 --> 02:49:41,390
and it would be opening up a can to where I'm set. Those are my thoughts.

1605
02:49:46,070 --> 02:49:46,850
Is that all your comments?

1606
02:49:49,240 --> 02:49:49,880
Is it?

1607
02:49:50,840 --> 02:49:52,780
All right, council member Hicks.

1608
02:49:55,750 --> 02:50:03,650
So my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong is that the purpose of council member show Walters modification

1609
02:50:03,650 --> 02:50:15,750
was in case there were cases, and you brought up the sevens, which is a portion of it is affordable housing for city employees.

1610
02:50:15,750 --> 02:50:21,290
If you wanted to make a board, you'd have to have city employees on it because that's what that housing is for.

1611
02:50:22,090 --> 02:50:25,390
But do we not have other options for that?

1612
02:50:25,590 --> 02:50:30,390
Could we, if we were going to make some sort of board for the sevens,

1613
02:50:30,390 --> 02:50:37,310
couldn't it not be a brown act body? Could it be some other sort of body? So maybe the

1614
02:50:37,310 --> 02:50:43,170
modification that councilmember show Walters is talking about is not as important as it

1615
02:50:43,170 --> 02:50:49,270
would seem. And I'm thinking I may agree with councilmember McAllister that it's just easier

1616
02:50:49,270 --> 02:50:56,670
to make sure, because council changes, you know, although this current council has talked

1617
02:50:56,670 --> 02:51:01,410
talked about conflicts of interests, and we might, anybody we create, we might make sure

1618
02:51:01,410 --> 02:51:04,390
that there are no, there are appropriate guardrails for that.

1619
02:51:05,030 --> 02:51:10,230
Future councils may not have had that conversation, and you might want it built into the law.

1620
02:51:10,830 --> 02:51:17,110
So I'm thinking maybe we, I'm thinking what council member McAllister has said that maybe

1621
02:51:17,110 --> 02:51:24,770
we should go back to the way it was originally written, but there are other ways to address

1622
02:51:24,770 --> 02:51:34,130
That's what Council Member Shilwalter was worried about, which is, you know, what if there's some exceptional committee that we won't employees to be on.

1623
02:51:34,710 --> 02:51:36,410
So, any comments on that? Welcome.

1624
02:51:41,160 --> 02:51:42,960
Senator, do you have an answer to that?

1625
02:51:43,180 --> 02:51:44,660
Yeah, I can respond.

1626
02:51:45,680 --> 02:51:48,780
Yes, you can create bodies administratively.

1627
02:51:49,260 --> 02:51:53,880
So, if they're not legislatively created bodies, for instance, you have the deferred compensation committee.

1628
02:51:53,880 --> 02:52:01,640
That is all city employees with some investment advisors that is an administratively created body

1629
02:52:01,640 --> 02:52:10,680
that is staffed by members of the union by employees because it's governing investment of our funds, right?

1630
02:52:10,840 --> 02:52:11,740
Our retirement funds.

1631
02:52:12,240 --> 02:52:18,240
And so that is a body that has employees on it and is created administratively.

1632
02:52:18,240 --> 02:52:28,920
So you could have bodies created administratively, which essentially would happen through the city manager's office and you can create these bodies and employees can be, can be on them.

1633
02:52:29,480 --> 02:52:36,780
You just run into the problem if it is a legislatively created body or directed, a body directed by council.

1634
02:52:36,780 --> 02:52:43,720
So I'll say that's my preferred route, and I think there's, I think administrative

1635
02:52:43,720 --> 02:52:49,160
bodies are great. Everybody doesn't have to be a brown act. They might be appropriate

1636
02:52:49,160 --> 02:52:52,820
for other things, and I think we've used them for other things. Anyway, that's my comment.

1637
02:52:56,320 --> 02:52:58,480
Thank you, Council Member Hicks, Vice Mayor Clark.

1638
02:52:59,820 --> 02:53:06,380
So, I think I agree with you, in principle, Council Member Hicks and Council Member Calister.

1639
02:53:06,380 --> 02:53:36,220
The reason that I'm okay with Council Member Schoell-Walter's change is that my goal here is to have the charter be the charter should cover, it should be our constitution, it should cover the most basic fundamental things and everything else should be left to the council because the charter is very difficult to change and all sorts of other things like FPVC regulations and

1640
02:53:36,220 --> 02:53:43,280
And what constitutes, does someone getting $250 from the city?

1641
02:53:43,820 --> 02:53:46,540
Are they treated the same as someone who's a full time employee?

1642
02:53:47,220 --> 02:53:50,200
I think that should be reserved for us in our judgment.

1643
02:53:51,000 --> 02:54:00,780
And so I think what we could do is address the concerns around a paid employee being on a body.

1644
02:54:00,780 --> 02:54:13,780
That can be a resolution that we pass or rules that we have in place that we could put in place now and future councils would be, you know, unless they make changes to it, would have that as the default.

1645
02:54:14,800 --> 02:54:29,100
I think putting, I think having any sort of prohibition without any thresholds or anything like that on every single body that we create at the charter level, I think the charter is the wrong level to set that at.

1646
02:54:29,100 --> 02:54:35,560
But I think we need to be able to respect the principal that I think everyone is, especially

1647
02:54:35,560 --> 02:54:42,340
Councilmember McAllister and Hicks have articulated but not tie our hands to the extent where

1648
02:54:42,340 --> 02:54:47,420
we actually have to go to the voters and ask permission to make a change for something

1649
02:54:47,420 --> 02:54:54,000
like, for a committee that we might want to create at some point in the future that may

1650
02:54:54,000 --> 02:54:57,320
very well need to have an employee or two from the city on there.

1651
02:54:57,320 --> 02:54:58,100
Thank

1652
02:55:01,270 --> 02:55:03,450
you, the Vice Mayor Clark, Council Member Ramirez.

1653
02:55:03,970 --> 02:55:04,710
Thank you, Mayor.

1654
02:55:04,890 --> 02:55:08,450
I appreciate the Vice Mayor's comments, and I was going to say essentially the same thing.

1655
02:55:08,570 --> 02:55:13,770
But sometimes it's helpful to think in terms of example, and

1656
02:55:13,770 --> 02:55:24,610
the example I've been nudily know for is do we want to prevent a high school student who happens to be a compensated lifeguard, right, paid by the city.

1657
02:55:25,050 --> 02:55:28,930
Do we want to prevent that high school student from serving on the youth advisory committee?

1658
02:55:28,930 --> 02:55:31,490
Like is that really what we care about?

1659
02:55:31,670 --> 02:55:37,330
You have to pick, you could only, you have to either be on the Youth Advisory Committee or be a lifeguard.

1660
02:55:37,810 --> 02:55:45,430
And I think that's the kind of example where it gets into exactly what the vice mayor is suggesting that by resolution or

1661
02:55:45,430 --> 02:55:53,130
ordinance as we establish these committees, we, at that level decide it's not appropriate for

1662
02:55:53,130 --> 02:55:56,550
for a city employee to also serve on this body.

1663
02:55:57,230 --> 02:55:59,430
And I would imagine that's probably the case for

1664
02:55:59,430 --> 02:56:02,150
most of the bodies that we create.

1665
02:56:02,450 --> 02:56:11,930
But there are some, and I think the Youth Advisory Committee is a good example, where the conflict of interest is essentially nonexistent.

1666
02:56:12,570 --> 02:56:20,310
And all we've done with this charter language is prevented that high school student who happens to be a lifeguard from serving on our Youth Advisory Committee.

1667
02:56:21,070 --> 02:56:31,170
You know, I reflect sometimes on the vote we took a few years ago where it was a 4-3 vote, we decided to retain the senior advisory committee.

1668
02:56:33,190 --> 02:56:39,370
I supported dissolving it because I felt that it was appropriate to have that as a non-brown act body.

1669
02:56:39,790 --> 02:56:44,150
That staff can assemble seniors in our community to solicit input.

1670
02:56:44,150 --> 02:56:48,670
And I think they would have the flexibility to meet as they wanted, whenever they wanted,

1671
02:56:48,830 --> 02:56:54,270
but a majority of the council disagreed with me and felt that it was appropriate for

1672
02:56:54,270 --> 02:56:55,790
that to be a brown act body.

1673
02:56:56,310 --> 02:57:05,530
And I think that's something to consider here, right, like how much do we want to shackle our brown act bodies?

1674
02:57:07,270 --> 02:57:12,850
So council member Hicks and council member McAllister, I understand your philosophy and

1675
02:57:12,850 --> 02:57:28,010
I would support by resolution or ordinance, generally not permitting city employees to serve on most of the logistly established bodies, but there might be some instances where it is appropriate.

1676
02:57:29,050 --> 02:57:36,510
And I think that as the vice mayor suggested, that flexibility might be valuable for the council to benefit from.

1677
02:57:36,510 --> 02:57:41,560
Thank you council member Ramirez, council member McAllister.

1678
02:57:43,900 --> 02:57:52,290
So everybody's bringing up scenarios and not so right now we have a appointment committee

1679
02:57:52,290 --> 02:57:58,890
of three people and so would they be even though it's supposed to be ratified by the city

1680
02:57:58,890 --> 02:58:05,510
council or does it have to be ratified by the city council of everybody that with those

1681
02:58:05,510 --> 02:58:11,030
Those three members pointing someone to a body and saying, is there a situation where

1682
02:58:11,030 --> 02:58:14,130
the three could do it without the whole consent of the council?

1683
02:58:17,620 --> 02:58:19,100
No, it requires four votes.

1684
02:58:20,420 --> 02:58:20,640
Okay.

1685
02:58:21,660 --> 02:58:27,320
If I could just jump in real quick, John, it would also require that the establishing resolutions

1686
02:58:27,320 --> 02:58:33,260
provide that that can happen and currently you don't have that in any of your resolutions.

1687
02:58:33,260 --> 02:58:34,300
Okay,

1688
02:58:36,340 --> 02:58:42,500
what can happen with, okay, again, what can happen without a resolution?

1689
02:58:42,760 --> 02:58:48,580
So right now, none of your resolutions allow for paid city employees to serve on any of your committees.

1690
02:58:49,960 --> 02:59:03,220
Well, yeah, okay, so that goes back to when we've had the discussion years ago, it was, yes, there's exception to all these things, but I remember the discussions that we had on back then was, well, should we or shouldn't we?

1691
02:59:03,220 --> 02:59:09,220
and the path sounds like we're going down again that there could be potential conflicts.

1692
02:59:10,380 --> 02:59:18,180
Councilmember Ramirez's scenario is also rare but you know we do have other things so.

1693
02:59:19,140 --> 02:59:26,060
I appreciate everybody's input but I still feel that the clear cut case is usually a little easier

1694
02:59:26,060 --> 02:59:33,030
to work with. So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember McAllister. Councilmember Hicks.

1695
02:59:36,670 --> 02:59:41,330
So, there are things I feel strongly about and won't vote for, but this is not one of them.

1696
02:59:41,910 --> 02:59:54,750
I won't be supporting it no matter which way it goes, but that said, isn't the Youth Advisory Commission currently a Brown Act group or not?

1697
02:59:56,010 --> 02:59:59,770
It currently is, but we have talked about making it not.

1698
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:14,580
A brown act. For exactly the reason we're talking about the whole lifeguard thing. That and also because they like, they've wanted to have meetings outside of the city boundaries and our prohibitive for doing that right now. Okay, so thank you for the clarification.

1699
03:00:17,100 --> 03:00:18,580
All right. Anyone else in the queue?

1700
03:00:20,900 --> 03:00:32,960
Councilmember McAllister, you still have your hand up? Okay. Okay. We'll replicate that just to or do you want. I would like to support the whole motion, but except for the

1701
03:00:35,880 --> 03:00:46,420
I'm not sure there's a technically feasible way to do that because we're placing the charter,

1702
03:00:47,900 --> 03:00:50,700
we're placing all of this on the ballot.

1703
03:01:00,000 --> 03:01:01,480
So the attorney, any thoughts?

1704
03:01:04,600 --> 03:01:12,000
I think one thing to consider Council members to just state in the public record your general

1705
03:01:12,000 --> 03:01:20,460
And then with the object, the specific objection, and then I think that's very clear for everyone how you feel about the balance of the amendments.

1706
03:01:23,100 --> 03:01:24,660
I think that is probably that.

1707
03:01:26,900 --> 03:01:35,280
No, I was going to say in respect to councilmember who were marriage for his persistent and encouraging to get this thing cleared up.

1708
03:01:35,280 --> 03:01:37,820
I will go along with his suggestion.

1709
03:01:41,600 --> 03:01:44,620
Seeing the QMT, let's do a row call vote.

1710
03:01:44,620 --> 03:01:46,600
Council member Ramirez.

1711
03:01:47,400 --> 03:01:47,620
Yes.

1712
03:01:47,900 --> 03:01:49,000
Council member Kameh.

1713
03:01:49,000 --> 03:01:49,180
Yes.

1714
03:01:49,500 --> 03:01:50,380
Council member Hicks.

1715
03:01:50,600 --> 03:01:50,700
Yes.

1716
03:01:50,960 --> 03:01:51,980
Council member McAllister.

1717
03:01:53,440 --> 03:01:57,980
Yes, and my gratitude to Council member Ramirez for staying on top of this.

1718
03:01:59,000 --> 03:02:00,260
Council member Schoelter.

1719
03:02:01,240 --> 03:02:01,380
Yes.

1720
03:02:01,660 --> 03:02:02,220
Vice Mayor Clark.

1721
03:02:02,540 --> 03:02:02,660
Yes.

1722
03:02:02,820 --> 03:02:03,220
Mayor Ramos.

1723
03:02:03,640 --> 03:02:03,840
Yes.

1724
03:02:04,000 --> 03:02:04,980
Thank you very unanimously.

1725
03:02:05,620 --> 03:02:06,620
Thank you so much.

1726
03:02:06,960 --> 03:02:08,440
And now we are on item 8.

1727
03:02:08,620 --> 03:02:10,260
Council staff and committee reports.

1728
03:02:10,260 --> 03:02:14,440
Do we have any council staff and committee reports from any of my colleagues?

1729
03:02:16,180 --> 03:02:16,540
Anyone?

1730
03:02:19,730 --> 03:02:20,570
Council member committee.

1731
03:02:20,910 --> 03:02:24,270
Great. Sorry Mayor. I think that since the last time we met we had the

1732
03:02:25,090 --> 03:02:28,390
lot 12 ribbon cutting now known as Corso.

1733
03:02:29,950 --> 03:02:32,590
Yeah, we were all there. Well, it's item eight so I'm just reporting, right?

1734
03:02:34,030 --> 03:02:37,330
But I can I don't know if I'm allowed to for all of us. I don't know is that in the

1735
03:02:37,330 --> 03:02:46,410
the charter amendment. I attended the Chinese leadership academy graduation.

1736
03:02:49,770 --> 03:02:56,050
Thank you. Councilmember McAllister. A couple of transportation deals.

1737
03:02:56,750 --> 03:03:02,110
VTA is actually going to start working on the Wisement Station. It's taken

1738
03:03:02,110 --> 03:03:07,050
a while after the CPUC approved it. Now they're going to give us a guideline to take care

1739
03:03:07,050 --> 03:03:13,790
some of the whistles and bells so hopefully that will take those people. I also attended

1740
03:03:13,790 --> 03:03:20,210
the VTA meeting board meeting where they discussed some money from Mountain View and they also

1741
03:03:20,210 --> 03:03:29,150
were talking about express lanes and SR 85. I know Chris is eager to jump on the 85 corridor

1742
03:03:29,150 --> 03:03:36,470
committee hitkin but they're thinking of trying to modify what was done about six years ago.

1743
03:03:36,470 --> 03:03:39,630
So, we'll have to keep tune on what they're planning to do with that.

1744
03:03:44,010 --> 03:03:46,490
Thank you, Council Member McAllister, Vice Mayor Clark.

1745
03:03:48,370 --> 03:03:53,250
I just wanted to note that I filled in for you, Mayor.

1746
03:03:53,390 --> 03:03:58,350
Well, you're at the US Conference of Mayors and I just wanted, so I just wanted to, we cut

1747
03:03:58,350 --> 03:04:05,330
the ribbon at Lungo TIE, which is at the Grant Road Shopping Center, and it was a great opportunity

1748
03:04:05,330 --> 03:04:12,410
for me to scrape off some of the rust and I was so rusty that I wanted to apologize to my

1749
03:04:12,410 --> 03:04:18,050
colleagues that I cardinal rule number one when you're doing a ribbon cutting is to introduce

1750
03:04:18,050 --> 03:04:23,770
your colleagues and I was so rusty that I failed to do that and I have chamber CEO had to do that

1751
03:04:23,770 --> 03:04:28,710
right after me so I'm sorry for my colleagues that I'm so rusty that I didn't do I didn't follow

1752
03:04:28,710 --> 03:04:32,810
rule number one but I have learned from that and I will try not to be so rusty in the future.

1753
03:04:35,030 --> 03:04:37,990
This is why it's nice, Mary, and then we build up again.

1754
03:04:39,810 --> 03:04:40,990
Council member, show Walter.

1755
03:04:42,010 --> 03:04:47,070
Well, I attended an afternoon workshop at BCDC on sediment.

1756
03:04:47,690 --> 03:04:52,390
We've heard me talk about sediment a lot, and this was pretty exciting because we are

1757
03:04:52,390 --> 03:05:03,230
pretty forth policies about changes in the use of edge material, and this is just an important

1758
03:05:03,230 --> 03:05:05,610
and step in becoming California law.

1759
03:05:06,410 --> 03:05:09,430
And the reason that's important is because for

1760
03:05:09,430 --> 03:05:13,150
C-level rise protection, there's sort of three basic things we gotta do.

1761
03:05:13,890 --> 03:05:20,670
We have to change our policies to allow the things that we need to build to protect us,

1762
03:05:20,790 --> 03:05:22,650
like the Restoration of Pandey W.

1763
03:05:22,870 --> 03:05:24,750
We need to change those policies.

1764
03:05:24,870 --> 03:05:25,650
We're working on that.

1765
03:05:26,430 --> 03:05:29,310
And we need to have the building products to do it.

1766
03:05:29,770 --> 03:05:32,370
And one of the major building projects, the building blocks,

1767
03:05:32,370 --> 03:05:36,950
boxes just dirt. And where do we get that dirt? Well, we get a lot of it from dredging

1768
03:05:36,950 --> 03:05:42,750
and we get a lot of it from construction sites that instead of sending it to a landfill

1769
03:05:42,750 --> 03:05:49,050
and paying for a tipping fee, they can take it to a construction site, which we did for

1770
03:05:49,050 --> 03:05:53,390
Monday to W and we're doing it now. So, and then the third thing, of course, is we have

1771
03:05:53,390 --> 03:05:57,210
to figure out how to pay for it. That's a whole other story. But then I wanted to end on

1772
03:05:57,210 --> 03:06:05,430
And a happy note, an exciting fun note is I had the pleasure of being at the first concert on the green.

1773
03:06:06,130 --> 03:06:13,290
I mean, concert on the plaza, that we do every Friday night during the sort of the long hours of the year.

1774
03:06:13,750 --> 03:06:19,770
And so there will be music and dancing every Friday night from 6 to 7 30.

1775
03:06:21,070 --> 03:06:23,110
Thank you, Councilmember Shaw-Walter.

1776
03:06:24,810 --> 03:06:29,350
I will, I've also went to the lot 12 affordable housing ground breaking and the Chinese

1777
03:06:29,350 --> 03:06:30,930
language and the British leadership academy.

1778
03:06:31,530 --> 03:06:38,430
On May 30th, I presented the odd fellows lodge, their anniversary celebration with a little

1779
03:06:39,050 --> 03:06:39,650
commendation.

1780
03:06:39,850 --> 03:06:41,790
They are celebrating, I believe, 150 years.

1781
03:06:43,030 --> 03:06:48,810
You have the Springer Trees Neighborhood Association ice cream social, that was on the 31st.

1782
03:06:48,810 --> 03:06:53,650
And then the Monteloma Association annual meeting on January 3rd.

1783
03:06:53,650 --> 03:06:58,830
And then I also went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors this past week, and it was an incredible

1784
03:06:58,830 --> 03:06:59,390
experience.

1785
03:06:59,710 --> 03:07:03,930
I'm really so privileged to be a mayor.

1786
03:07:04,170 --> 03:07:04,710
It's crazy.

1787
03:07:05,450 --> 03:07:10,670
I like everyone to allow it and learn about all these mayors and being like, am I really here?

1788
03:07:11,930 --> 03:07:13,730
But thank you so much.

1789
03:07:13,810 --> 03:07:18,370
There were really great panels, a lot of meeting other mayors, all different kinds of mayors.

1790
03:07:19,470 --> 03:07:22,270
and it was really quite an experience.

1791
03:07:23,090 --> 03:07:28,010
So with that, we are on item 9, then adjournment.

1792
03:07:28,130 --> 03:07:32,350
The next city council meeting will be held on June 23rd, 2026.

1793
03:07:32,790 --> 03:07:35,710
This meeting is adjourned at 945.

1794
03:07:35,710 --> 03:07:36,090
live.