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Written Comments
From:Santosh Rao
To:City Clerk; Tina Kapoor; Liang Chao; Kitty Moore
Subject:Fw: Federal grants status.
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2025 3:05:22 PM
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Dear City Clerk,
Would you please include the below in written communications for items not on agenda.
Thank you.
Further to the below I urge council to publish a real time dashboard of the status of all grants
regardless of source.
Thanks,
San Rao (writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident)
Begin forwarded message:
On Friday, October 10, 2025, 2:01 PM, Santosh Rao <santo_a_rao@yahoo.com> wrote:
[Writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident]
Dear Mayor Chao, ICM Kapoor, Director Mosley, Director Alfaro,
When and how can Cupertino residents get an up-to date view of what federal
grants were granted to Cupertino for currently active or planned CWP or
CIP projects, current status of those federal grants and any impacts from the
below changes such as to BUILD and RAISE.
Please consider posting a real-time dashboard of grant funding allocated, project
allocated for, grant drawdowns and pending amounts, city funding drawdowns
and pending city funds to be drawn, status of grant, status of project. Please in
addition consider posting an informational memo on any impacts of the federal
shutdown or federal grants being cut to in-flight Cupertino projects.
Thank you.
Thanks,
San Rao (writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident)
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On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 7:13 AM, Santosh Rao
<santo_a_rao@yahoo.com> wrote:
[Writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident]
Dear Mayor Chao, Vice-Mayor Moore and Council,
US DOT is clawing back grants previously issued under the prior
federal administration RAISE program and the current federal
administration BUILD program.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/trump-
cancels-trail-bike-lane-grants-deemed-hostile-to-cars
Projects that reduce lane capacity or are otherwise hostile to cars are
having their grants clawed back.
Please ask for a detailed memo on federal grants that are received by
the city, impacts to the currently active or in-flight CWP and CIP due
to any changes in federal grants including but not limited to grants
from RAISE and BUILD.
We need council to be fiscally responsible and ensure that we are not
continuing approvals and funding for projects that we know are
causing the loss of federal grants. By continuing to allow these road
diet projects we are risking federal grant funding to the city
impacting these and other projects.
It’s time for council to stay on top of this closely and get ahead of the
federal actions that have already hit other areas like San Diego and
perhaps are also impacting Cupertino and neighboring cities and our
and other neighboring counties.