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Home My WebLink AboutCC 1-21-2026 Oral CommunicationsCC 1-21-2026 Oral Communications Written Comments From:Santosh Rao To:City Council; Tina Kapoor; City Clerk; Kirsten Squarcia; Chad Mosley; Benjamin Fu; Rachelle Sander; Public Comments Subject:Cancel all discretionary spend on giveaways and commence review and halt of all discretionary spend on consultant projects. Date:Thursday, January 15, 2026 11:15:01 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. [Writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident] Dear Mayor Moore, Council Members, and CM Kapoor, I urge you to cancel the items referenced below at the earliest opportunity. The City can no longer afford discretionary giveaways. At a time when tax increases on residents are being contemplated, it is difficult to justify the continuation of such spending. This erodes public trust and undermines the credibility of both staff and Council. Please immediately agendize a comprehensive review of discretionary expenditures. This should include constant projects, special projects, consultant engagements, and roles that could be eliminated or consolidated. Priority should be given to areas where staff capacity can replace consultants and where non-essential headcount can be reduced. The City should not be paying healthcare and pension benefits for any staff whose primary role is supervising consultants and not doing the actual needed work in-house. If staff cannot perform the underlying work, those roles should be reconsidered. There is a substantial pool of qualified federal and other public agency professionals available due to federal layoffs. Please review available candidates for contract work without long-term healthcare and pension benefit obligations. Please close anll open reqs immediately. Engagements should be contingent on delivery of actual work, not primarily consultant oversight. It is time for a rigorous performance review across staff. Expectations must be clear. Staff should execute work, not just supervise consultants. Any project needing consultants needs to be cancelled until we replace staff with those who can do the work in-house. All discretionary giveaways should be cancelled without delay. This is how households manage their budgets. They cannot raise their own paychecks at will. Employers are laying people off. Revenues are slowing. Expecting residents to absorb higher taxes in this environment is disconnected from reality. Many newer residents face severe financial strain. Property taxes are high. Mortgages are resetting from lower rates set five years ago. Utility, grocery, and education costs continue to rise. Paychecks are not keeping pace. Now is the moment to review all staff spending, with urgency and a bias toward action. This will also clearly show residents who amongst council are in touch with the realities of residents affordability challenges and who amongst council are totally disconnected from resident realities. Let’s have agenda items and please vote so that council member track records are on record with actual votes on where they stand on issues. It’s time to replace tax and spend policies with frugality and judicious use of taxpayer dollars to serve residents not lobbyist special interest groups. Thank you for your urgent and immediate attention to fiscal discipline. Thanks, San Rao (writing on behalf of myself only as a Cupertino resident) Begin forwarded message: On Thursday, January 15, 2026, 10:35 AM, City of Cupertino <cupertino@public.govdelivery.com> wrote: Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. 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Cupertino cupertino.gov/recreation city of Cupertino City of Cupertino, California Website | 408.777.3200 10300 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014-3202 Manage Preferences | Help This email was sent to santo_a_rao@yahoo.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud, on behalf of: City of Cupertino, California · 10300 Torre Avenue · Cupertino, CA 95014-3202 From:J j To:Melissa Robertson Cc:City Clerk Subject:RE: tonight"s oral--on written communication Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2026 4:22:03 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear clerk, As a reminder, please include the ones you said you would post to the next meeting if it is earlier than 1/21/26. Thanks. Huang family Sent from my Device -------- Original message -------- From: Melissa Robertson <MelissaR@cupertino.gov> Date: 12/17/25 4:05 PM (GMT-08:00) To: jzw96@hotmail.com Cc: City Clerk <CityClerk@cupertino.gov> Subject: RE: tonight's oral--on written communication Good afternoon, The below email you sent was included in the December 2, 2025 written communications. If you would like your written communication to be included in the next meeting on January 21, 2026 please send us an email after the agenda is posted for this meeting. We will include your email in the written communications if it is received by 4:00 p.m. the day of the meeting. If you send your email after that time, but before the end of the meeting, it will be added as a late communication. Have a great day! Melissa Robertson Administrative Assistant City Manager's Office MelissaR@cupertino.gov (408)777-3148 From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 6:25 PM To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: RE: tonight's oral--on written communication CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Continue I saw you put on Dec 2 revision on Dec 3 file, which didn't get see before the Dec 2 meeting. I thought the missed publication before the Dec 2 meeting will be on Dec 16 's meeting. Please publish it onto the next public meeting. Id tou have any question, please feel free to reach me. Thank you. -------- Original message -------- From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Date: 12/16/25 5:52 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: RE: tonight's oral--on written communication Thanks. It's on today's, right? Sent from my Device -------- Original message -------- From: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Date: 12/2/25 7:33 PM (GMT-08:00) To: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: tonight's oral--on written communication Yes, they will be posted. Thank you Kirsten Squarcia Interim Deputy City Manager/City Clerk City Manager's Office KirstenS@cupertino.gov (408) 777-3225 From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 7:04 PM To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: Re: tonight's oral--on written communication CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. continue Just sent again from yahoo jzwxx@yahoo email. two email titled 'Request to Prioritize Rebuilding Direct Communication Between City Leadership and Residents' and time sensitive! Request for Support, Restoration of Communication, and lift the 'political prisoner/hostage'/Fair Treatment from the City' --both from Huang family From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 9:49 PM To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: Re: tonight's oral Dear city clerk Kirsten, I don't see the email I sent before, which asked to be included in the written communication. Please advise. 'Jenny' - Huang family From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:15 AM To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: FW: tonight's oral Subject: RE: tonight's oral Please publish the email from Huang family. Thank you! Sent from Device -------- Original message -------- From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Date: 11/19/25 10:09 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: RE: tonight's oral Dear Kirsten, At several point of times, the calls got disconnected without my notice. I didn't know my raised hands were dropped as well. Sent from my phone -------- Original message -------- From: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Date: 11/18/25 8:42 PM (GMT-08:00) To: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: tonight's oral Good evening, unfortunately you raised your hand well after the cutoff. These people had their hands raised Kirsten Squarcia Interim Deputy City Manager/City Clerk City Manager's Office KirstenS@cupertino.gov (408) 777-3225 From: J j <jzw96@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 8:17 PM To: Kirsten Squarcia <kirstens@cupertino.org> Subject: tonight's oral CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Kirsten, I submitted this request within nine minutes of the start of the 6:45 p.m. oral session 648p. There was an emergency presentation at that time, and I tried to raise my hand immediately afterward and along the time since 648p. Could you please clarify what happened? Thank you. Huang family From:Randy Kim To:Public Comments Subject:Public comment - The CuperDoodle Program - 12-18-2025 Date:Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:30:30 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My child is scheduled to attend the CuperDoodle program at the start of the new year so any potential changes would be deeply felt. I was just there today with my family to take a tour. My son was terribly excited to see the classrooms and his future classmates. News of potential consideration for closure is shocking. I want to say that I’m no stranger to tough times but I and my childhood friends have already felt the effects of closures in the school system before. I went to Regnart Elementary and knowing it’s gone, hurts. -Randy