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From:Connie-Comcast Swim5am
To:City Clerk; City Council; Public Comments
Cc:Tina Kapoor; Floy Andrews
Subject:2025-12-12 CC Agenda Item 1 City Council Training
Date:Thursday, December 11, 2025 4:13:27 PM
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Dear City Clerk, Please add this to the written communications for this meeting. Thank you,
Connie
December 12, 2025 City Council Agenda Item 1 City Council Training
Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmembers, City Manager, and City Attorney:
My name is Connie Cunningham, 38 year resident and Chair, Housing Commission, speaking
for myself only.
I recognize that this Training session for City Council will be particularly meaningful since
there is a specific question that has been raised, and it will be helpful to review this as a group.
It may raise other issues never before considered.
The question was: Shock by the sudden ending of the December 2, meeting with its agenda
item for the Mary Avenue Project. Shock by the method used by a Councilmember attending
virtually, who had been clearly opposed to the Project. The method used was to “unplug” his
computer that disrupted and forced adjournment of the City Council meeting. He thus bullied
the City Council by ending the meeting using Brown Act rules never-before-used this way.
Two of his prior "Brown Act sudden-forced endings” of meetings he explained as his plane’s
departure time. Although disruptive, it was "clearly forgiven and forgotten” since he was
authorized virtual attendance on December 2. After the first plane departure issue, he should,
at the least, have scheduled a flight for the morning after the next meeting, since City Council
meetings often run late.
California Penal Code section 403 that states that willful disruption of a meeting is a crime.
"Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly ormeeting that is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred toin Section 302 of the Penal Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of amisdemeanor."
California Penal Code section 403
(2025)
california.public.law
I am asking that City Council revise its rules so this cannot happen again.
I am asking that until that is revised, this Councilmember should not be allowed to virtually
attend meetings. All of this is disruptive to the Council, to Staff, to residents, and to those
affected by the decisions to be made by the City Council.
I am asking that R. Wang be censured for causing at least 3 City Council meetings to end
ahead of time, forcing work to be redone and agenda items postponed to future meetings.
Sincerely, and Urgently,
Connie L Cunningham