PSC 01-10-08 MINUTE S
CUPERTINO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
January 10, 2008
CUPERTINO 7:00 p.m.
Cupertino City Hall
Conference Room A
The meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present: Charles Caldwell
Fari Aberg
Hugh Riddell
Jay Cena
Commissioners Absent: Nina Daruwalla
Others Present: Captain Terry Calderone, Santa Clara County Sheriffls Department
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - NONE
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS - NONE
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes of the regular meeting of November 8, 2007, were approved 4-0.
OLD BUSINESS
1. Community Survey
ACTION: NONE
Assistant Director Goepfert noted that the City Manager removed a report on the results of the
survey from the previous Council agenda, because the City Manager felt that delivering the
report in a public hearing would not be the most effective method of advising the Council of the
survey results. In a public meeting, Council would be procedurally unable to respond to any
public reaction there might be to an item in the survey. The City Manager instead made the
survey results available to the Councilmembers individually, giving them the opportunity to
place it on a future Council agenda, should they so desire. A discussion ensued in which the
commissioners questioned that decision. The conversation expanded to include a dialog about
the proper role of commissions, with the commissioners expressing the opinion generally that
commissions are held too much in check by staff. A couple of commissioners asserted that the
difference between the visions held by the commissioners, on the one hand, and staff, on the
other hand, of the proper role of the Commission are sufficiently at odds that when their terms
expired, they would probably not apply for reappointment.
2. Radar & Speed Limit Signs
ACTION: By acclamation.
NOTES: The Commission recommended that Public Works take action to ask for budget
appropriations to phase in more of these facilities over the next few years. The Commission also
recommended that speed enforcement be requested of the Sheriff's Office at the locations at
which the installations would be made.
3. Safe Routes to School - Garden Gate
ACTION: NONE
NEW BUSINESS
4. Tri-Schools Shuttle Report to Council
ACTION: NONE
Commissioner Aberg noted that Council had mistakenly mentioned that the Public Safety
Commission had recommended against the Tri-schools shuttle concept. She wanted it officially
noted that that was not the case, that the Public Safety Commission was on the record as favoring
the concept. Assistant Director Goepfert said that he had not heard that mentioned by Council,
acknowledged that the attribution of opposition by the PSC, was incorrect, that it was staff who
had recommended against the concept after having established what it thought were associated
operational and monetary infeasibilities, and that staff would do what it could in any further
reporting to the Council on the shuttle topic to correct the record regarding the PSC position on
the topic.
5. Commission Vacancies/Appointments
ACTION: NONE
REPORTS
Santa Clara County Fire District - NONE
Santa Clara County Sheriff
NOTES: Captain Calderone noted that the Sheriffls Office had been warking hard on burglaries
recently. A number of cases have been resolved involving two perpetrators in particular who have been
tied to many burglary incidents. Auto burglaries at Vallco are down substantially, largely because the
holidays are over.
Commissioner's Reports - NONE
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS - NONE
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:59 p.m.
SUBMITTED BY:
Glenn Goepfert
Assistant Director