CC 03-07-2022 Item No. 4 Consider ameding the Cupertino Municipal Code to repeal ERC, DRC, and EDC Written CommunicationsCC 3-7-2023
Item No. 4
Consider amending the
Cupertino Municipal Code to
repeal ERC, DRC, and EDC
Written Communications
From:Peggy Griffin
To:City Council
Cc:City Clerk
Subject:2023-03-07 City Council Mtg Agenda Item 4 - FIRST READING of committee eliminations and changes
Date:Saturday, March 4, 2023 3:45:43 PM
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Please include this email as part of the 3-7-2023 City Council Meeting Written Communications for
Agenda Item 4 on CONSENT CALENDAR.
Dear City Council,
When reading the agenda for the upcoming City Council Meeting, it was not clear to me that Agenda
Item #4 was a SECOND READING. Nothing in the description of this agenda item specified that it was
a SECOND READING.
SUGGESTION: In the future, please indicate FIRST and SECOND readings of ordinances in their
agenda item description.
For people who attend meetings sporadically, this is very important and will save time and reduce
frustrations. Also, since just about anything has appeared under the Consent Calendar recently, it
can’t be assumed that just because an item is under Consent that it is actually a second reading.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Peggy Griffin
From:Jenny Griffin
To:City Clerk
Cc:grenna5000@yahoo.com
Subject:Fwd: City Council Agenda Issues
Date:Saturday, March 4, 2023 3:44:12 PM
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FYI. Please add to the Public Record for the City Council Agenda on March 7, 2023,
Especially per items (currently 11 ) concerning the removal of Mr. Wang from the
Planning Commission, Item Number 4 on Consent Calendar concerning dissolving the
ERC, the DRC, the LRC and the Audit Committees, Item 10 on the Consent Calendar
About the Housing Element Consultants and Item Number 15 about the Chamber of
Commerce.
Thank you very much.
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Subject: City Council Agenda Issues
From: Jenny Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 4, 2023, 3:36 PM
To: citycouncil@cupertino.org
CC: grenna5000@yahoo.com
Dear City Council:
The Cupertino City Council Agenda for March 7, 2023 is unprofessional and confusing.
The item (now 11) attempting to remove Mr. Wang from his Planning Commission seat is
extremely
unprofessional in every sense of the word. This is bordering on a creating a circus scandal in
the City
Council Chambers. This item should be removed from the agenda.
Why is Number 4 on the Consent Calendar again? This item is attempting to dissolve the
ERC, the DRC ,
The LRC and the Audit Committee. No one from the public can pull the item to discuss it
So why is it back on the Consent Calendar? To just show the public they can't speak on
anything
Anymore and every commission t hat we had in the city has been dissolved?
Again, why is Item 10 under the Consent Calendar? No one from the public can talk about the
Housing Element or the Consultants? So the public spent a great deal of their time and effort
Participating in the supposed public meetings from the Housing Elements. We did our time.
We
Did our duty. We sat through through meeting after meeting as dictated by the Housing
Element agenda. We apparently wasted our time as we are apparently not going to be allowed
To speak on the Housing Element now. This item needs to be pulled to allow the public to
Speak or I guess we wasted our entire spring, summer and fall and winter of 2022 attending to
The tirades of the RHNA and the never ending rules from HCD over the Housing Element.
The Housing Element apparently tells the public when they get to say anything about what
happens
In their city.
Also, why is Item 15 under an Informational item? Doesn't the public get to ask questions on
Things pertaining to such things as the Chamber of Commerce or as was listed in the last
City Council Agenda under informational The request to increase restaurant space at Main
Street? What ever happened to that item?
Please put the City Council Agenda back to the sensible order that it used to have and please
Remove the highly embarrassing and unprofessional item (Now Number 11) accusing Mr.
Wang of all manner of outrageous things and trying to remove him from his Planning
Commission seat. This item is highly irregular, unorthodox and deeply disturbing to be
Appearing in a City Council Agenda. Indeed, it is highly shocking.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin