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Speaker 2 (Community Hall): Whoops.
200:00:08.620 --> 00:00:09.370Community Hall: Okay.
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Community Hall: Hidden Dragon. Couching Dragon. Oops.
400:00:19.790 --> 00:00:20.530Community Hall: March.
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Community Hall: No, your mic was hot.
600:00:28.600 --> 00:00:39.380Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Good evening. It is 6.01, and I call this special meeting of the Cupertino City Council, May 11th, 2026, meeting to order.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Madam City Clerk, will you please call the roll?
800:00:45.860 --> 00:00:52.339Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Councilmember Fruan? Here. Councilmember Mohan? Here. Councilmember Wong? Here.
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Community Hall: more. Here.
1000:00:55.010 --> 00:01:08.980Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, thank you. So, tonight is a study session on the budget. Madam City Manager, do we have a presentation? Thank you, Mayor. We do have a presentation. Tonight, we're presenting the proposed budget for your review and discussion as.
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Speaker 4 (Community Hall): part of this budget study session. As you know, one significant component of
the budget, which is the law enforcement contract.
1200:01:16.060 --> 00:01:29.979Speaker 4 (Community Hall): It's still being finalized, and it remains a moving target as negotiations continue. I do want to note that our efforts have, so far resulted in a reduction of more than a million dollars
from earlier projections, which is a positive development.
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Speaker 4 (Community Hall): I also, want to point out that what you will see tonight is not the final budget.
The finalized budget will be brought back to Council in June for formal adoption.
1400:01:39.680 --> 00:01:58.409Speaker 4 (Community Hall): This evening provides an opportunity for Council to review the proposed budget, provide feedback, and identify any adjustments or additional direction you would like staff to consider before the final version is prepared. I would like to thank the budget team and staff from all departments who helped with the preparation of the proposed budget.
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00:01:58.410 --> 00:02:13.929Speaker 4 (Community Hall): And also thank all council members for taking the time to meet with staff last week to go over tonight's materials. And with that, I will now turn it over to Acting Director of Admin Services Jonathan Orozco, and Acting Budget Manager Tony Oase Anderson for the presentation.
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Speaker 4 (Community Hall): Good evening, Honorable Mayor Moore, Vice Mayor, and Council Members.
Tonight, staff will present the City Manager's proposed.
1700:02:24.980 --> 00:02:28.310Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Fiscal year 2026-2027 budget.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The purpose of tonight's study session is to provide an overview of the
proposed budget.
1900:02:34.780 --> 00:02:45.140Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Receive comments and questions from Council and the public, and gather feedback before returning in June, June 16th, for the final budget hearing and adoption.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This slide provides a high-level overview of the City's budget, development,
and balancing process. As you can see, the budget began back in… earlier in the fiscal year in October,
where the budget format was reviewed by a subcommittee of the Audit Committee.
2100:03:05.540 --> 00:03:15.550Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And formats were subsequently provided to Council, and the approval was granted to pursue a more robust and transparent
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): budget. Later in the fiscal year, in December, a Q1 report was provided to Council, and the updated City Work Program was approved.
2300:03:25.610 --> 00:03:34.890Speaker 5 (Community Hall): In March, the mid-year, budget was provide, mid-year budget update was
2400:03:35.650 --> 00:03:43.140Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Last month, we had a successful community budget meeting, where we received the highest turnout in recent years.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And here we are today, with the proposed budget hearing, that includes CIP,
review. And then next month, we will have the proposed budget, for both the operating and the CIP.
2600:03:58.800 --> 00:04:05.309Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The proposed budget and related materials are available on the City's website at cupcauno.gov forward slash budget.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This year also marks the City's first year utilizing OpenGov publications in the Financial Transparency Portal to improve accessibility and transparency of financial information.
2800:04:17.200 --> 00:04:22.869Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The new platform allows users to more easily navigate the budget and explore
financial data.
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00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.749Speaker 5 (Community Hall): I would like to point out that it's still a work in progress. Some, charts are…
3000:04:28.860 --> 00:04:37.810Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Need to be resized, but we are, in the process of cleaning that up, and that will
be, updated before the final adopted budget.
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00:04:38.390 --> 00:04:51.120Speaker 5 (Community Hall): In addition, the Budget Learning Library provides educational resources to help explain key budget concepts and processes for community members who may be less familiar with finance… municipal finance.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Tonight's presentation will begin with financial overview and discussion of the
general fund forecast.
3300:05:00.920 --> 00:05:05.550Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Followed by an overview of the general fund and all funds revenues and expenditures.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): We will then review proposed budget results, staffing, and capital improvement
program before concluding with a discussion on key issues and challenges and next steps in the budget process.
3500:05:20.800 --> 00:05:24.949Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This table provides a high-level overview of the city's major fund groups.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Across all the funds, the City is proposing $150.6 million in revenues and
$155.5 million in expenditures, resulting in a planned use of fund balance or a net position of approximately $4.9 million.
3700:05:39.780 --> 00:05:45.799Speaker 5 (Community Hall): It's important to note that the negative change in fund balance does not necessarily indicate a structural issue.
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00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:54.640Speaker 5 (Community Hall): In many cases, it reflects a planned use of accumulated reserves or one-time funding for capital projects and infrastructure investments.
3900:05:54.940 --> 00:06:01.369Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The general fund remains balanced with a projected surplus of just over
$30,000.
4000:06:04.790 --> 00:06:07.340Speaker 5 (Community Hall): We now move into the general fund forecast.
4100:06:08.920 --> 00:06:14.250Speaker 5 (Community Hall): I'll briefly cover key revenue forecast assumptions used in developing the 10-
year forecast.
4200:06:14.950 --> 00:06:29.480Speaker 5 (Community Hall): For the city's largest revenue sources, sales tax and property tax, staff utilized HDL's fiscal year 2025-26 projections, followed by a moderate annual growth assumption of approximately 2.58% in the out years.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The significant increase in sales tax revenue between the current adopted
budget and the proposed fiscal year 26-27 proposed budget is largely attributed to the strong growth in a
limited number of businesses within the city.
4400:06:42.780 --> 00:06:49.889Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Do the confidentiality requirements associated with sales tax data Staff cannot discuss specific taxpayers.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): For transient occupancy tax, or hotel tax, the forecast assumes modest long-term growth based on historical trends.
00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:08.020Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Lastly, the forecast assumes the recession in fiscal year 27-28, with no revenue growth assumed in major categories except property taxes.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This slide summarizes the expenditure assumptions incorporated in the
forecast.
4800:07:15.690 --> 00:07:20.610Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Personnel costs continue to be one of the city's largest expenditure categories.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Compensation assumptions include negotiated COLA increases.
5000:07:26.130 --> 00:07:29.779Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Step increases, and a 4% vacancy assumption.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): in all years.
5200:07:32.220 --> 00:07:38.789Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The benefit costs are based largely on CalPERS projections and anticipated increase in health insurance contributions.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Materials and contracts are generally forecasted using CPI assumptions, with
the sheriff's contract specifically forecasted as CPI plus 2, or roughly 4.5% to 5% annually.
5400:07:51.160 --> 00:08:00.670Speaker 5 (Community Hall): It is important to note that the City still does not know what the increase, annual increase, will be for Sheriff's contract. As they are…
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): inform the city that it'll be based off of actuals, and so we have yet to see what
that… or yet to see what to anticipate for those growths. So as we move through the negotiation process, we'll update the forecast, to reflect the updated numbers or anticipated growth.
5600:08:20.480 --> 00:08:25.930Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This chart visually illustrates the projected changes in general fund over the next 10 years.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Next three fiscal years, beginning with the proposed fiscal year 26-27 budget.
5900:08:35.320 --> 00:08:45.130Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This improvement is largely attributed to stronger-than-anticipated revenues,
fiscally prudent decisions over the past few years, Pot.
6000:08:45.330 --> 00:08:49.270Speaker 5 (Community Hall): However, the forecast per… per… Sorry.
6100:08:49.650 --> 00:08:56.280Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The forecast per… Progresses into the out years, expenditures begin to outpiss
the revenue growth.
6200:08:56.710 --> 00:09:00.480Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Resulting in a return of structural deficit later in the forecast period.
6300:09:00.620 --> 00:09:05.210Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Key drivers include the uncertainty in the long-term growth of the sheriff's
contract.
6400:09:05.690 --> 00:09:16.740Speaker 5 (Community Hall): It is also important to note that the long-term forecast includes a 4% vacancy savings assumption in all years, while the proposed budget itself is built position by position.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And therefore, does not assume vacancies.
6600:09:22.600 --> 00:09:29.329Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This ad provides additional detail on projected general fund balance classifications over the next 10 years.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Overall, the city's general fund balance remains relatively stable in the next 3
years of the forecast, with the total fund balance projected of approximately $178 million in fiscal year 26-
27. However, beginning of fiscal year 2030, the fund balance is projected to gradually decline.
6800:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.930Speaker 5 (Community Hall): As expenditure growth begins to outpace revenue growth, and the forecast returns to a structural deficit.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The forecast assumes reserve for future roofs remains untouched at
approximately $62 million throughout the entirety of the forecast period.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The Economic Uncertainty Reserve is projected to grow over time as revenues and expenditures increase, while the pension trust initially grows due to investment earnings.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The unassigned fund balance is projected to remain positive throughout the
forecast, though it declines in the later years as the forecast
7200:10:22.470 --> 00:10:30.279Speaker 5 (Community Hall): of the forecast due to ongoing expenditure pressures and scheduled sunset of the user utility tax in fiscal year 2030-31.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This chart provides a high-level, a consolidated,
7400:10:46.510 --> 00:10:57.250Speaker 5 (Community Hall): summary of the various classifications within the general fund. As you can see, we are projected to end the fiscal year 25-26 with $177.9, or $178 million.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): In, total fund balance, we're, as next fiscal year, we are anticipating $178
billion, which is just a $31,000 increase.
7600:11:08.410 --> 00:11:18.080Speaker 5 (Community Hall): However, as indicated in the forecast, by fiscal year 2035-2036, the city anticipates to have a fund balance of $143 million.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Or $144 million. And largely, you can see the decrease in unassigned fund bonds decreasing from $65.9 million in the current fiscal year down to $2.7 million.
7800:11:33.300 --> 00:11:38.670Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Next, I'll provide an overview of the general fund revenues and expenditures proposed fiscal year 26-27.
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00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:57.819Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This table compares proposed general fund revenues in fiscal year 25-26 of the 25-26 adopted budget. Overall, general fund revenues are projected to increase by approximately $12.5 million, or 12.9% compared to the current adopted budget.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The largest increase is in sales tax, primarily driven by strong performance in a
small number of businesses.
8100:12:04.180 --> 00:12:08.799Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Licenses and permits is… sorry, licenses and permits are also included
8200:12:09.020 --> 00:12:18.420Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Are increasing due to the development-related activity and updated fee assumptions, while the use of money and property revenues continue to benefit from the higher investment earnings.
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8400:12:30.700 --> 00:12:36.909Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The largest increases within contract services, primarily driven by the increases
related to law enforcement services.
8500:12:37.890 --> 00:12:46.740Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Personal costs for personnel costs also continue to rise due to the negotiated compensation adjustments and benefit cost increases.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Next, we'll transition to the general fund, from the general fund to an overview
of all city funds combined.
8700:12:59.350 --> 00:13:06.710Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This table compares all funds' revenues between the current adopted budget and the proposed fiscal year 26-27 budget.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Across all funds, revenues are projected to increase by approximately $16.9
million, or 12.7%.
8900:13:13.630 --> 00:13:16.640Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The primary drivers generally align with general fund.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Including increase in sales taxes, investment earnings, development-related
activity, and intergovernmental revenues.
9100:13:26.110 --> 00:13:27.789Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Across all funds.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Expenditures are projected to increase by approximately $19.9 million
compared to the current adopted budget. The largest increase are, again, within the contract services.
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projects and transfers out reflecting continued infrastructure investment, operating costs, and interfund support needs.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): With that, I now turn the presentation over to Tony OSA-Anderson, Acting
Budget Manager.
9500:13:58.020 --> 00:14:01.029Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Thank you, Acting Director Orozco.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): This slide here defines the impacts of one-time costs versus ongoing costs in
fiscal year.
9700:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.259Speaker 6 (Community Hall): 7th Budget and the City's 10-year forecast.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The following four slides are images of the 25-2027 City of Work program,
which has a total of 30 projects, one of which was canceled at the December 2025 meeting, bringing it to a
total of 29 City of Work program projects.
9900:14:48.510 --> 00:15:07.589Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This slide updates the City Work Program included in the budget document to reflect recent funding updates and requests. While several projects were originally identified with zero allocated budget, the protections for parkland and housing site inventory projects have since received
funding allocations of approximately $475,000
10000:15:07.590 --> 00:15:10.739Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And $660,000, respectively.
10100:15:10.930 --> 00:15:13.060Speaker 6 (Community Hall): At this time, the only new
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00:15:13.280 --> 00:15:32.030Speaker 6 (Community Hall): fiscal year 2026-27 funding requests associated with the City of Work program is a public outreach and engagement strategy project for $25,000. If approved by City Council, this request would reduce the currently projected general fund surplus of approximately
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): $30,000. $13,900.
10400:15:39.820 --> 00:15:46.570Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Overall, there are a total of $2.37 million in one-time requests.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): at $1.3 million, mainly for vehicle and equipment replacement and IT
infrastructure-related projects, and also about $1.1 million in general fund requests. These requests will be reviewed in the following slides.
10700:16:17.710 --> 00:16:34.349Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This slide shows the requests broken out by departments. So, as mentioned in the previous slide, there are a total of 2.37 million in one-time requests.09 million in recurring costs, and a
total of 2.46 million in requests for next year.
10800:16:34.350 --> 00:16:41.040Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Majority of these requests are in the city's largest Department of Public Works, and more information on these
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Will be recovered in the following slides.
11000:16:48.090 --> 00:17:00.540Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Now we'll review department requests at a high level. So for City Council, there is a total of $32,500 for community funding, which we'll cover in a future slide.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This is for the Innovation Technology Department, which shows a total of
$565,000 in requests. Some of the larger, requests here are in the internal service funds for $150,000 each
for network access control and Wi-Fi refresh, and for multifunction printers.
11200:17:23.700 --> 00:17:31.500Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The next largest request is in the general fund for $115,000 for a Panasonic camera and controller.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The video projects, are PEG-funded.
11400:17:39.740 --> 00:17:52.080Speaker 6 (Community Hall): In the Community Development Department, they are requesting $117,000 in the general fund, and these requests include on-call contracts for design review and environmental review.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The Parks and Recreation Department is requesting $15,500 in the general
fund for Quinlan Community Center Round Table Replacement.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The Public Works Department is requesting $1.64 million in one-time costs, and $0.09 million in recurring costs.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): The largest request is in the internal service funds for $890,000 for vehicle and
equipment replacement, followed by the request of $130,000 in facilities for HVAC upgrade.
11800:18:30.390 --> 00:18:50.359Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Two other larger funding requests are in the Transportation Division, and you'll see here there's $115,000 for the Stevens Creek Boulevard Traffic Signal Synchronization project, and $110,000 for the De Anza Traffic Signal Synchronization project.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): There are also 4 facilities-related projects, which total $322,000.
12000:18:58.540 --> 00:19:12.380Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And the sustainability intern is your request to directly support, all sustainability work streams. It will… this position will also help maintain compliance with the adopted Climate Action Plan 2.0.
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00:19:12.380 --> 00:19:21.630Speaker 6 (Community Hall): meeting reporting requirements, and advanced priority climate and environmental initiatives that are identified by Council, including public engagement and sustainability.
12200:19:27.380 --> 00:19:43.340Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This table here lists all the organizations that are requesting festival fee
waivers for next fiscal year, and organizations receiving festival fee waivers in the current fiscal year, along
with year-to-date costs. It is recommended that City Council approve a budget of
12300:19:43.340 --> 00:19:49.100Speaker 6 (Community Hall): $141,154.03.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And festival fee waivers.
12500:19:56.150 --> 00:20:07.469Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This slide here are the community funding requests, which includes organizations that received funding last fiscal year and are recommended to receive funding, next fiscal year.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And the total is $32,500.
12700:20:12.870 --> 00:20:15.200Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Dollars in requests for funding.
00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:37.329Speaker 6 (Community Hall): This is just another way to look at the community funding request. This chart is provided to you as an attachment to the study session agenda, with further information from the Parks and Recreation Commission, who approved the following proposed list of organizations to receive the $32,500.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): So if additional funding is available, there is a request to first fund the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation and the remaining organizations' requested amount in the rank order at the Council's discretion.
13000:20:55.970 --> 00:21:01.509Speaker 6 (Community Hall): For staffing, there are no new full-time positions requested next fiscal year.
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00:21:07.450 --> 00:21:27.340Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Moving on to CIP, this slide shows the Capital Improvement Program, which was presented to Council in March. The CIP includes $7.5 million in total funding, which includes $7.3 million in projects, and $175,000 in ongoing planning, design, and project support.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): CIP is funded by $6.9 million in city funding, which includes the resumed $2
million transfer to the Capital Reserve, and $600,000 is externally funded, in… from in-lieu funds.
13300:21:48.170 --> 00:21:52.510Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Now, I'll hand the presentation back over to Acting Director Orozco.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): while the prop… While the proposed budget for fiscal year 26-27 budget is
balanced, and the city's financial outlook.
13500:22:11.290 --> 00:22:19.469Speaker 5 (Community Hall): has improved compared to prior years. There are still several important issues and challenges that could impact the city's long-term financial stability.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): First, the city continues to face structural challenge where expenditure growth
is projected to outpace revenue growth in the out years of the forecast. Although the next several years are
projected to remain positive, the ongoing cost pressures eventually result in a projected deficit beginning of fiscal year 2030.
13700:22:38.290 --> 00:22:43.370Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Second, there continues to be uncertainty surrounding the future growth of
this sheriff's contract.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Staff will continue to closely monitor these issues and return to Council with updates as additional information continues…
14000:23:04.130 --> 00:23:06.390Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Sorry, additional information becomes available.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): to next steps.
14200:23:19.200 --> 00:23:26.099Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Okay, so for next step, let's talk about what's coming up next in the budget cycle. So today is the proposed budget study session.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And on June 16th, we'll return for the final budget hearing and adoption.
14400:23:31.940 --> 00:23:44.410Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And as mentioned already, the fiscal year 27 marks the first year that we're using OpenGov publications to produce the budget document in both a PDF and an online interactive format.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Staff has been working diligently to ensure accuracy during this transition, so as mentioned earlier, some formatting will still be addressed in coordination with OpenGov, so the interactive version will be published at a future date, along with adopted budget.
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Speaker 6 (Community Hall): So, in November, we will present to you the first quarter financial report, which
will update the City Council on year-end results of the current fiscal year and first quarter results for next
fiscal year.
14700:24:22.120 --> 00:24:31.589Speaker 6 (Community Hall): That concludes our proposed budget presentation. Thank you for listening, and the budget team and department directors are available to answer any questions you may have.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Right, thank you very much for the presentation on the budget. Do we have
any clarifying questions from members of the Council at this time?
14900:24:50.590 --> 00:24:52.000Community Hall: No questions.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Councilmember Fruen.
15100:24:56.370 --> 00:24:59.569Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Can you take us back to slide 11 for a moment?
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay.
15300:25:24.210 --> 00:25:27.910Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Perfect. So, for the sake of clarity, that you and your team.
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Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Expires in 2030-31 fiscal year, yes.
15500:25:36.260 --> 00:25:37.180Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Community Hall): And it's… it's right now pulling in something in excess of about $4 million. So,
theoretically, it accounts for the entirety of the structural deficit at that point.
15700:25:48.650 --> 00:25:49.260Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Correct.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And it…
15900:25:50.200 --> 00:26:03.560Speaker 5 (Community Hall): One thing I would like to add, again, as we discussed earlier, the sheriff's contract being uncertainty. In addition to that, any one-time projects is not considered here, so if there is any additional part, this is just assuming the base budget.
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Speaker 7 (Community Hall): the operating budget. Do you have… Any kind of…
16100:26:10.940 --> 00:26:16.640Speaker 7 (Community Hall): background projection that you've made for what this would look like if the UUT were renewed under its current terms?
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): We've ran those scenarios, what you could assume is the, you would have
about a $5 million or $4.5 million deficit in the year.
16300:26:28.660 --> 00:26:30.740Speaker 5 (Community Hall): 20, 30, 36. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Is that something that you think you could put into an informational memo for us? Certainly. Okay, that'd be really useful.
16500:26:36.940 --> 00:26:37.660Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Thanks.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Councilmember Mohan?
16700:26:49.940 --> 00:26:52.980Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Acting Director Orozco for the presentation. There's just a ton of information
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16900:26:59.310 --> 00:27:05.459Speaker 8 (Community Hall): My question was about the proposed budget requests by department.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): I think the total is about…
17100:27:09.980 --> 00:27:17.230Speaker 8 (Community Hall): 2.3 in, one time, 2.3 million in one time. About 88,000.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Recurring.
17300:27:18.950 --> 00:27:23.339Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And, I think somewhere in the narrative, you have said that
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): These, the funds to cover these requests.
17500:27:27.360 --> 00:27:28.990Speaker 8 (Community Hall): are available.
17600:27:29.860 --> 00:27:31.780Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And my question is, where are they available?
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): they're currently available through the use of the fund balance… well, through the use of revenues. So, these, requests is either… let's assume general fund, because that's our
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): primary fund.
17900:27:46.440 --> 00:27:59.810Speaker 5 (Community Hall): These have been built into the budget itself, so if Council were to move forward with these projects and the budget as it stands, these would be funded, and the City would retain that $31,000.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): A surplus.
18100:28:02.600 --> 00:28:08.300Speaker 5 (Community Hall): So… Currently, this is being funded by Fiscal year 26-27 revenues.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): 26, 27 revenues, or… 25, 26 existing ballots.
18300:28:19.915 --> 00:28:21.974Speaker 5 (Community Hall): No, these particular proposed
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): requests are built into the budget. Oh, they've already… okay, they've been
passed. Incorporated in the $109 million.
18500:28:30.045 --> 00:28:30.885Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Yeah.
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18800:28:37.460 --> 00:28:38.559Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Jump in, jump.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I'll continue.
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Well, through the mayor, may I?
19100:28:44.975 --> 00:28:49.845Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Sorry, Vice Mayor Chao, and then, Councilmember Wong?
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19300:28:54.025 --> 00:28:56.434Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So, get your hands raised. Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Hello.
19500:28:57.975 --> 00:29:04.434Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you for the presentation. So… And you mentioned.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): the highest increase in contract service is the sheriff's contract, and… but that's
still using the old formula of the projects, the CIP plus 2.
19700:29:17.610 --> 00:29:19.849Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Or does that… right?
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The growth over the course of the forecast uses CPI plus 2. However, the
new… the proposed budget assumes the latest proposal
19900:29:30.930 --> 00:29:39.619Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The county, which is an approximately increase of $6.5 million, $25.5 million for the total contract.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So the proposed budget now includes the $26 million proposed, annual cost.
20100:29:47.770 --> 00:29:48.820Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, correct.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): the $25.5 million.
20300:29:51.700 --> 00:29:57.770Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, I thought, okay, but then that contract is still uncertain.
20400:29:59.490 --> 00:30:00.820Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, yeah.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And what we are seeing, the project forecast, is taking into that worst-case
scenario into account.
20600:30:11.940 --> 00:30:16.390Speaker 9 (Community Hall): The forecast. For the forecast, that chart you show.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Does that include the, worst case, $26 million contract?
20800:30:22.430 --> 00:30:24.070Speaker 9 (Community Hall): into account.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): assumes that the latest proposal, however, it's not the worst case. Worst case
would be the county returns and, increases the contract year over year by 10-15%. Oh.
21000:30:37.620 --> 00:30:46.029Speaker 9 (Community Hall): assumes the latest proposal, but assuming it doesn't have an ear-to-ear increase over CIP plus 2.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Yeah, the county has indicated that they are not going to limit the contract by
a CPI plus 2%, and that's the challenge with this forecast, because we can't… we just use that because, historically, that's what it's been.
21200:31:00.620 --> 00:31:06.899Speaker 5 (Community Hall): However, due to the uncertainty, it's difficult to put a dollar value or a rate increase.
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21400:31:09.910 --> 00:31:26.829Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And then, for… I think I asked in my prep session, I think for the public, it will be nice to know what's our change in terms of the sales tax over the years that's in the budget book. Do you
have that handy? Yeah, that's…
21500:31:31.250 --> 00:31:33.400Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Yeah, that's in page 56.
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.560Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And that is increasing over the current fiscal year.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Adopted budget of $12 million to about $17 million for next year.
21800:31:44.230 --> 00:31:47.000Speaker 5 (Community Hall): If you look at the first chart,
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The charts leading up to that will provide you the overall increase by major
categories, including sales taxes, property taxes, and TOT, and so forth.
22000:32:02.520 --> 00:32:03.990Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And, and I'll let Councilmember want to go first.
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22300:32:11.015 --> 00:32:14.455Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Councilmember Wang? Hey, thanks, so, I realize.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): how hard it's to put the stuff in the budget, as well as an open gov. More of a general question, we get.
22500:32:20.080 --> 00:32:38.580Speaker 10 (Community Hall): macro views of expenses, line items, revenues, they're all in there. How do
we get and drill down to the departmental level? We get FTE counts, but there's nothing deeper than that to
understand what's in those budgets. Those budgets are assumed that they're gonna hold the same or
steady, is the assumption, but we don't see that level of detail in the OpenGov.
22600:32:40.610 --> 00:32:42.080Speaker 5 (Community Hall): the OpenGov.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The opening of budget does provide us, for instance, let's go to administration,
which is the first category.
22800:32:51.630 --> 00:32:57.900Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And in that section, you will see the org chart, and then you go… A few pages
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): into, let's say, page 165, it shows Oracle.
23000:33:02.880 --> 00:33:06.949Speaker 5 (Community Hall): FTEs, as well as what the budget is funded at.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): We get the FTEs, yes, but we don't get anything else as to the projects, the
programs that are associated with the department.
23200:33:13.065 --> 00:33:29.394Speaker 10 (Community Hall): So, for example, I mean, I don't know, I'll pick a department, but you might just say finance in AP, and you're spending X amount on training, or you're spending X amount for
something else. Like, other than the personnel costs, we don't see any other costs in there. Is there a way to
get down to that level?
23300:33:33.635 --> 00:33:41.275Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Like, I can't tell what Public Works is spending on, I don't know, trucks. I can't tell what Community Development's spending on permitting fees.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): So, I thought I saw something like that before, so I might be missing
something. We can take a look at the.
23500:33:45.465 --> 00:33:49.355Speaker 5 (Community Hall): OpenGov and see if it drills down to the GL account level.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Thank you, yes. Everybody.
23700:33:51.730 --> 00:33:54.459Speaker 5 (Community Hall): included in the info memo, that, that'd be.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): So, but it seems like everything's holding flat in general on the FTE. It's like,
we see it at that level, and definitely at the MAC review, and we can see it at the expense and revenue side.
I was just trying to go a little bit deeper to understand how each department functions, so…
23900:34:05.775 --> 00:34:16.475Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Okay, and then, in general, I think, you know, when we think about government efficiency, investments in automation, cost efficiency, quality of life, public safety, they seem to be top of mind.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): On the other ones, I just have a detailed question just on… there are things we can remove here, too, in the request, right? We can make a request to make that removal, but I do want to understand them before we do that. What's the transportation bike pet education and the e-bike education numbers that are there?
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Give me a brief moment, I can… I want to know if it's grant-funded or if it's something we're adding to it. It's page… I'm sorry about that, always get you to a page here. It's other department requests. I don't necessarily see a page, but it looks like 32 on the PDF.
24200:34:47.795 --> 00:34:48.514Speaker 10 (Community Hall): So…
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24400:35:03.025 --> 00:35:05.204Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Right, right above the sustainability intern.
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24600:35:07.430 --> 00:35:12.679Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Take your time, take your time. So, and then I'll just queue one, another one up is we have a…
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24800:35:22.320 --> 00:35:34.010Speaker 10 (Community Hall): For the, West Valley services, that's a 150% increase. Everybody else has
gone down, except for that, and so just kind of curious why that's there. Also with the, Fremont Union
School High School Foundation, so… So we'll go back to you, Chad, I guess.
24900:35:34.480 --> 00:35:40.670Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Yeah, good evening, Council. Chad Mosley, Director of Public Works. With respect to the bike education and the.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): e-bike education, all of that is funded through grant funding, or there's a little
bit that's also Measure B funding as well. There's nothing general planned there at this moment. We have
been lucky over the last couple of years to get grant funding for expansive bicycle education.
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25200:36:03.680 --> 00:36:07.300Speaker 10 (Community Hall): I'm just trying to find anywhere we can cut costs at this moment, so…
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): community funding as provided by the Parks and Rec Commission? Yes.
25500:36:30.305 --> 00:36:32.585Speaker 10 (Community Hall): But I think Rishaw is…
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Community Hall: Oh, sure, sure, excellent.
25700:36:41.130 --> 00:36:47.159Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Councilmember Wang, this is Gopal, the Chair of the Park and Recreation Commission. I think you said.
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): But the question is, Where is the increase for the West Valley and Fremont?
I'm sorry.
25900:36:51.275 --> 00:37:00.424Speaker 10 (Community Hall): why the increase for the West Valley from 2,000 to $5,000? And then, I did take… pay attention to the meeting, but… and then Fremont Union High School Foundation, why… why the,
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): $8,500 request for them.
26100:37:03.075 --> 00:37:04.434Speaker 12 (Community Hall): No, I think the… the…
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Originally, they requested for 15, and what we are allocating is only $8,500.
The first time they have come here, and they meet all the criteria, because we, all the five commission
members, evaluate based on a criteria.
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allocated only a partial budget, because we didn't have so much budget. If we allocated all of them, the rest of them will not get it. That's why we allocated that.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Funding from federal sources or state sources, that's why they're coming to
us, or is it a new program on their end?
26500:37:36.275 --> 00:37:50.035Speaker 12 (Community Hall): a new program on it. So they do have a program, on the tube. The details are given already on in detail, but they are for additional one. And the West Valley, I'll just go back, it's… earlier they used to ask 15 and 20, this time they asked for
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Last year, there was only 2, now they went for 5. Originally, a couple of years back, they used to be on the T4, Tier 3 or 4, which is 15K.
26700:37:58.345 --> 00:38:04.644Speaker 12 (Community Hall): They're now gone down because they got a lot of funding from other sources, so they actually came down and they asked.
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26900:38:12.180 --> 00:38:13.329Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Yield my turn, though.
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27100:38:19.475 --> 00:38:27.385Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So, I am next, when we're looking at the Fremont High School District,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): keep in mind that we are already covering, the… the resource officer at almost a million dollars for this… for that school district. And also, when we're looking at Rotary.
27300:38:42.345 --> 00:39:00.965Speaker 3 (Community Hall): We waived, $22,000 in festival fees, and have also contributed $3 million, I believe, to the Mary Villas, project. So there's other parts. I kind of feel that, like, we need to revisit
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): With regards to the vehicles and equipment, that is a request for $890,000.
When you go into
27700:39:27.805 --> 00:39:46.035Speaker 3 (Community Hall): public works section, you'll see the actual vehicles that they are requesting there. So, once… after we've gone through public comment and, we come back and can discuss this some more about that dollar amount, and the replacement list question.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, I was wondering… When we're looking at law enforcement.
27900:39:57.025 --> 00:40:03.725Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Are we still including the miscellaneous amount? I do see a revenue
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Of $2.3 million. Page 215. Is that revenue the old miscellaneous number?
28100:40:15.415 --> 00:40:18.604Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I do see a donation of 1 point.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): 1… 6… That I believe is the…
28300:40:24.635 --> 00:40:33.844Speaker 3 (Community Hall): is what I'm referring to. I'm wondering what this other revenue dollar amount is, or is that, anticipated, sheriff
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Payments for special events that aren't in the festival fee waiver category.
28500:40:42.695 --> 00:40:47.955Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Sorry, I did not notice this before, but I do see we've got 1.16,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): million for the law enforcement donation, that's the old miscellaneous number.
But up above, for total revenues, it's a higher number. I'm just curious what that could be coming from.
28700:41:05.785 --> 00:41:07.094Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And I can…
00:41:09.820 --> 00:41:16.740Speaker 5 (Community Hall): So… Great, so some of these are relating to, the When a,
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): a local company, or, like, for instance, Apple, when they have their event, they
provide, the city provides services, and we bill them for those services. You'll see that some of those,
charges for service built into these other lines.
29000:41:32.100 --> 00:41:36.179Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, that's what I was hoping that was for.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And in the City Work Program, I think when this comes back, it would help if
we know which parts are, being either grant funded, or Measure B funded, or if the developer is paying for them, such as,
29200:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.219Speaker 3 (Community Hall): The, the budget for the no net loss,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): item, which we have in there. I…
29400:42:04.260 --> 00:42:23.650Speaker 3 (Community Hall): do have a question, don't need the answer right now, but I know that we did spend some money on Danza traffic signal synchronization, and so I would like to offline understand why we are spending more on that, and I am glad to see that Stevens Creek Boulevard has been added. I think that
will…
29500:42:23.650 --> 00:42:25.220Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Helped quite a bit.
29600:42:28.400 --> 00:42:36.250Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Was looking into, for festival fee waivers, having the sheriff costs,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Increase this amount, commensurate with the sheriff's contract increase.
29900:43:06.010 --> 00:43:14.960Speaker 5 (Community Hall): No, this, the rate did not include the latest, from my understanding, so we may have to go back and reassess whether it's inappropriate.
30000:43:15.215 --> 00:43:19.954Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, so it might end up a little higher because everything's all gone up in cost.
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Speaker 4 (Community Hall): If I may add to that, my understanding is that the… when the organizations go directly to the sheriff's office, they're quoted a certain number by the sheriff's office, which may or may not correlate to our contract.
30200:43:33.105 --> 00:43:35.074Speaker 4 (Community Hall): That's the way they currently do it.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Okay, so…
30500:43:55.515 --> 00:43:58.184Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I'm still there. You're still there, okay.
30600:43:58.515 --> 00:44:01.724Speaker 8 (Community Hall): I thought I should take it off before I started talking.
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30800:44:11.880 --> 00:44:16.610Speaker 8 (Community Hall): So… If you could explain…
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31000:44:28.160 --> 00:44:32.130Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Expenditures in a reserve which cannot be touched.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): What we can use, what… What is locked up?
31400:44:53.200 --> 00:44:54.080Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Certainly.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): So, just going down the list, you have non-spendable fund balance. So this is
typically your inventory or accounts receivable, something that, is tangible or you just don't have access to,
however, there's a value to it.
31600:45:07.820 --> 00:45:17.670Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Restricted funds, these are, funds that are restricted or, by an outside organization. So, for instance, the…
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): the PARS Section 115 trust, although the City invests these funds and can use
these funds for pension-related, expenses.
31800:45:27.890 --> 00:45:44.449Speaker 5 (Community Hall): it cannot use it to subsidize the general fund for a CIP project, right? It has a specific purpose. And so that makes up the bulk of that restricted fund balance of $21.9 million. Committed funds, however, are those
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32000:45:52.310 --> 00:45:56.549Speaker 5 (Community Hall): The sales tax payment reserve originally was the
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32200:46:08.840 --> 00:46:12.229Speaker 5 (Community Hall): A settlement agreement that, that was released
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00:46:18.030 --> 00:46:24.930Speaker 5 (Community Hall): for an additional discretionary payment towards a… it's Calforce, liability, or pension liabilities.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And then just last December, the Council used $2.5 million of those funds to,
to conduct an assessment on the City Hall renovation project. And so now it's at $62.m.
32600:46:38.510 --> 00:46:51.789Speaker 5 (Community Hall): $62 million. The Council can have the discretion to use those funds for any project it sees fit. And so it could, whether that's the renovation of City Hall or another capital improvement program.
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00:46:52.100 --> 00:47:01.760Speaker 5 (Community Hall): the… however, the Economic Strategy Fund, we have a policy on how that is calculated, which is 2 months' worth of expenditures, plus a month and a half of revenues.
32800:47:02.220 --> 00:47:03.369Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Now, does that…
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00:47:03.540 --> 00:47:15.619Speaker 5 (Community Hall): by the city from not being able to use that fund? No. However, you want to hold on to these funds for a rainy day. So, as of right now, there are sufficient funds sitting in both the
33000:47:15.920 --> 00:47:23.860Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Sales, future use reserve, and your unassigned fund balance, which you should
use those before you tap into that economic uncertainty, fund.
33100:47:24.560 --> 00:47:42.630Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Here there is… we don't have anything for a signed fund, but this is typically your… any kind of carryovers due to encumbrances. So, the city has a contractual obligation to pay a vendor, whether it's through a CIP project, you'll typically see a balance here for that.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And then lastly, your unassigned fund balance, which is your most
discretionary funds. You can use this for just about anything you'd like.
33300:47:51.100 --> 00:47:56.600Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And that will make up your total of $177.9, or $178 million.
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): And projected fund balance for fiscal year 25-26.
33500:48:02.430 --> 00:48:08.830Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And… and the two and a half month reserve, is, is what? Which… is that the
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): That's the Economic Uncertainty Fund, and that is 2 months of expenditures plus a month and a half of revenues. And that's $24 million?
33700:48:18.075 --> 00:48:27.594Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Yeah, that's… that's what we budgeted. However, if you take a look at, our
proposed budget, and the years thereafter and our forecast, it is formula-driven.
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00:48:27.665 --> 00:48:42.924Speaker 5 (Community Hall): So, depending on the revenues and expenses, it kind of increases over time based off of the anticipated revenues and expenses. So, for next year, we have an economic uncertainty fund of $26.5 million.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Okay.
34000:48:46.010 --> 00:48:55.210Speaker 8 (Community Hall): So the point I wanted to, make here, Mayor, was that we have the $62 million, sitting in the committed
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): apart.
34200:48:56.430 --> 00:49:03.640Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Which we are not using, and this is over and above any reserve that we are required to hold.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Right?
34400:49:05.650 --> 00:49:11.609Speaker 8 (Community Hall): So, this is something, and since this is one-time, it could be used for one-time needs.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And so I… I sort of… I'm suggesting to the Council
34600:49:18.120 --> 00:49:24.929Speaker 8 (Community Hall): that for large items, like, like the City Hall, retrofit.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): This amount is available, and if we could lock it in some way, we could.
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00:49:31.210 --> 00:49:37.590Speaker 8 (Community Hall): But, it doesn't make sense to keep postponing the City Hall.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Project, since the funds are available.
35000:49:40.850 --> 00:49:42.070Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Now.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And that's it for now, Mayor. Thank you.
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00:49:47.385 --> 00:49:50.725Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Yes, I'm in agreement on that.
35300:49:52.125 --> 00:49:53.625Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Vice Mayor?
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Oh.
35500:49:54.895 --> 00:49:55.855Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So… Let me… Just a minute.
35700:50:04.265 --> 00:50:05.125Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): This one.
35900:50:09.970 --> 00:50:10.680Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah.
36100:50:12.110 --> 00:50:16.850Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, this is from page, I think, 663 of the budget book.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I'd like to show this to the community, because…
36300:50:21.270 --> 00:50:38.710Speaker 9 (Community Hall): our sales tax before, I think I'm still in the aftershack of the sales tax
reduction, and it was about $27, $26 million before COVID. During COVID, there was a boost, but then now
we are down to about…
36400:50:38.860 --> 00:50:44.930Speaker 9 (Community Hall): 17 million, so it's still about $10 million below our normal sales tax.
36500:50:44.960 --> 00:50:59.349
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): before COVID, so we are having a balanced budget that, because our city
really is doing our job of only spending what we have. I think many other cities are…
36600:50:59.450 --> 00:51:09.179Speaker 9 (Community Hall): going to text just their residents when there is a shortfall of some sort, so I'd like to commend the city that we are
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): We do have that impact of…
36800:51:12.280 --> 00:51:20.749Speaker 9 (Community Hall): at least $10 million, then below our normal sales tax. Yeah, so just wanted to point that out.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And then, some question about the departmental request.
37000:51:27.520 --> 00:51:36.959Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I have a question. So, for the traffic light, upgrades, I'm just curious, how come these ones are…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): not CIP project, but they are, like, departmental requests, so how do we
distinguish between those two?
37200:51:46.730 --> 00:51:53.470Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Traffic light sync, traffic light upgrade.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): I can briefly answer that. For our tran- for the transportation and traffic light
items, a lot of that is done by our transportation,
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transportation and not necessarily in CIP.
37500:52:17.790 --> 00:52:34.579Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Oh, you mean CIP is when you decide you need, additional consultant to
perform the work? Oftentimes, yes. Oh, but this is, you would evaluate, for all the traffic lights in the city
and decide, these are the upgrades we need.
37600:52:34.580 --> 00:52:50.000Speaker 11 (Community Hall): Correct, and to a certain extent, our transportation division kind of manages the traffic-related projects themselves. CIP, again, is kind of a different animal, although they do similar things.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I do have to say that the traffic sinking along Dianza.
37800:52:55.225 --> 00:53:12.505Speaker 9 (Community Hall): is pretty… not very good. So, could we expect a better syncing of that traffic light? Because when I drive in San Jose, their traffic sinking, does a really good job, either, east, west, or north-south.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): Yeah, and I guess it depends on which direction you're going and what time of day. De Anza is synced very well for certain directions at certain times of day. If you're going the opposite direction, it's not going to work very well for you. All that said, this sinking will enhance the traffic progression on De Anza, as well as on Stevens Creek.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): Oh.
38100:53:32.765 --> 00:53:48.834Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I think when I went in San Jose, it was early morning rush hour, like, 9, 10 o'clock, and, if I go from… my exit is to, 87 Santa Clara, going…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): East… east. I… many traffic lights, but they are almost always pretty synced.
So… and sometimes I…
38300:53:59.195 --> 00:54:18.195Speaker 9 (Community Hall): when one exit over, I would be going from south to the north on the 3rd Street, and I was very surprised even that direction, it was kind of sick also. And for Deanza, my experience usually is when I was rushing to the city hall around 6 o'clock from
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): 280 exit to City Hall. That, I think, is the direction… that's the rush hour direction, but I was almost stopped at every traffic light.
00:54:28.235 --> 00:54:32.584Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So… Yeah, there is a huge difference.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): I can understand that, and keep in mind that that section of, De Anza from
280 South, does get quite a few cars, probably a lot more cars than 3rd Street in San Jose. Yeah.
38700:54:43.825 --> 00:54:54.325Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Those are smaller streets, yes, true, but still, I think that's a major direction, traffic jam for Cupertino, southbound on Dianza. Well, we are.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Also lost the lane.
38900:54:55.445 --> 00:54:58.114Speaker 11 (Community Hall): We'll be focusing on that… Okay. …project. Okay.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, so now, question is, I'm seeing two items for the sustainability In turn,
they are reoccurring.
39100:55:07.260 --> 00:55:14.859Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, are we going to have sustainability intern? How many of them, every year?
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): We've had a sustainability intern for about 5 years. We hire an AmeriCorps
person. They come in for $25,000. We basically get a full-time employee. We're finding very good value in
that in our sustainability division. Our intent is for the price to continue that until it doesn't make economic sense, and then,
39300:55:36.480 --> 00:55:39.299Speaker 11 (Community Hall): We may need to remove that and see…
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): I'd have to see what additional items would be affected by that loss, but I know a lot of what that person is doing is focusing on our utilities and working with our utility companies to ensure that our rates are…
39500:55:53.190 --> 00:55:57.839Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, the other one is another, so we have two intern positions.
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00:55:59.180 --> 00:56:01.100Speaker 9 (Community Hall): It's the same position.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, it's just one.
39800:56:02.820 --> 00:56:11.350Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Because there are two items, that's why… 25,000, and there is 8,400.
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00:56:11.355 --> 00:56:17.355Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Except the, the, the positions, the cost is allocated across multiple divisions.
40000:56:17.355 --> 00:56:29.374Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Oh, I see. Yeah, I think it's good that the city is offering interim positions, so I do support that. I'm just curious about what… so is this… is this grant funded or not?
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00:56:30.035 --> 00:56:30.855Speaker 9 (Community Hall): It is not.
40200:56:30.995 --> 00:56:32.355Speaker 11 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): How many other divisions in Cupertino offers interim positions?
40400:56:39.280 --> 00:56:40.970Speaker 11 (Community Hall): There are no others within public.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I think IT and video department sometimes has interns. Do we know?
40600:56:46.935 --> 00:56:55.074Speaker 9 (Community Hall): maybe you can answer, afterwards. I do want to understand how, how we are offering intern and…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So it's good to learn that we do that for assessment and ability, but I do want
to have, overall understanding how have we done that in the past, and…
40800:57:07.825 --> 00:57:09.384Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And the next question is about the community funding grant.
41000:57:15.185 --> 00:57:24.125Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, for the Freeman Union High School Environmental Education Classroom, I…
41100:57:24.345 --> 00:57:40.485Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Maybe I didn't go to read the application. I thought we already have one major that funds all the classrooms in high school, so why are they requesting funding? And this is not from Fremont Union High School, not from the Foundation.
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00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:50.749Speaker 12 (Community Hall): No, this is the, the foundation request. So it's foundation. Foundation request, because the school site budget doesn't allow them
41300:57:50.950 --> 00:58:00.089Speaker 12 (Community Hall): For it, so they wanted to do the mini-grant of 1K for 15, teachers to do it on
the 5 schools.
41400:58:00.650 --> 00:58:12.419Speaker 12 (Community Hall): So, the ask is simply, it is not available as part of the school site budget, so the foundation is pitching in, and they are putting some money, but they were asking us to grant us for… they call mini…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So they are getting the mini-grant funding from the city, and then giving it to
the teachers, but then the teachers would receive it under the Fremont Union Foundation. The city doesn't
get any credit.
41600:58:27.425 --> 00:58:29.044Speaker 12 (Community Hall): I do not know the details on this part.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): True donation.
41800:58:30.445 --> 00:58:31.305Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Password donation.
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Yeah, I do not know the details. The one they presented is going as a mini-
grant. I do not know what the city gets, but these teachers are going and teaching the kids in every school,
so there are 3 teachers per school.
42000:58:45.570 --> 00:58:57.419Speaker 12 (Community Hall): So the five, Fremont High Schools, Fremont High School Union District schools are getting this education. So that's where, as part of the application, I don't know the… how would the city
benefits…
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00:58:57.425 --> 00:59:05.794Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I think the community granting policy says the grant should benefit Cupertino residents.
42200:59:06.055 --> 00:59:09.734Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And only 2 out of the 5 high schools, actually.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): have Cupertino residents, I think. Yeah, so that's one of…
42400:59:13.225 --> 00:59:14.055Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Please send me…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): benefiting corporation.
42600:59:15.425 --> 00:59:31.205Speaker 12 (Community Hall): No, I think the… that's one of the reasons we didn't fully fund on them, so we partially funded it, assuming it will go to that. So we haven't put out a restriction that it has to go to only the students in the Copatino. We haven't put that restriction. If you need to put it, it's at the…
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): City Council's discretion.
42800:59:35.490 --> 00:59:40.119Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay. And then the question for the Gift of Hope, also.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): This is a program that also is open for everyone, right? It's not just for
Cupertino.
43000:59:47.550 --> 00:59:50.620Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And West Valley serves multiple cities.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Sure.
43200:59:51.605 --> 01:00:11.274Speaker 12 (Community Hall): That's the… that's the… one of the reasons, but the number of participants, which gets benefited when we really evaluate, it is, compared to the rest of the programs, it is higher. That's one of the reasons that we put in. It's not just for Copatino residents, I agree, but the number of the evaluation criteria.
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): how many number of Cupertino residents gets benefited. Yeah.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): as I remember in the beginning, the community grant policy was mainly to fund the festivals that's open to the public, so that we can help smaller organizations to host more festivals. But over the years, it seems there are a lot more other
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Service programs that have been getting funding, rather than having more
programs that's open to the entire community, not just specific students who attend this or that school.
43701:00:55.595 --> 01:00:58.565Speaker 9 (Community Hall): That's not really open to the community.
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Yeah, no, again, I just want to close the thought. So, all of the criteria defined
by the city, the Park and Recreation Department, the eligible criteria is being evaluated by all the five
Commission members independently, and when it really put together on our… what's a summary, who really
43901:01:16.065 --> 01:01:21.875Speaker 12 (Community Hall): stack rank, number 1, 2, 3, 4, that's what we put in there. It's not, like… On the right…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Banking is not included in the attachment.
44101:01:25.725 --> 01:01:29.424Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So there was only that ranking for the additional.
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Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Yeah, there is a community ranking in the sheet.
44301:01:32.665 --> 01:01:36.964Speaker 9 (Community Hall): actual scoring, I guess the scoring was not included.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I'm curious how they are scored in.
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01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:44.789Speaker 12 (Community Hall): Yeah, so they can include the scoring, but the ranking is in the system, all the 17.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, thank you. Sure.
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01:01:49.930 --> 01:01:50.650Speaker 13 (Community Hall): like, together.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): go out for public comment, Madam City Clerk, do we have any members of the
public that would like to comment on this item? I'm wondering how many people are online, and how many
speaker cards do we have?
44901:02:00.995 --> 01:02:07.224Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Mayor, at this time, I have two requests to speak in person, but one is a group, I believe,
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Speaker 14 (Community Hall): 4 or 5 people, so that could be, I think up to 10 minutes for this group, and then another speaker card, so that's 13 minutes. And at this time, I do not see any hands raised, virtually. Okay.
45101:02:20.265 --> 01:02:26.065Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So we'll give 8 minutes to the group, and 3 minutes individually. Thank you.
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01:02:27.015 --> 01:02:30.514Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Okay, so at this time, we will welcome Arif and your group.
45301:02:30.975 --> 01:02:32.794Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Followed by Connie Cunningham.
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Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Good evening. Excuse me. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members.
45501:02:48.740 --> 01:02:58.609Speaker 15 (Community Hall): My name is Arif Sheikh, and I'm a Cupertino resident. I'd like to begin by expressing my sincere appreciation for the Council and the City staff for the work that you all do.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): While going through the proposed budget, I quickly realized the many facets and complexities you all deal with, so thank you for your service.
45701:03:07.480 --> 01:03:19.299Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Your work ensures our city remains a vibrant place to live, which is why I want to highlight one specific line item on the proposed budget that is so vital to our community's well-
being.
45801:03:20.230 --> 01:03:30.940Speaker 15 (Community Hall): I'm here tonight, joined by three fellow Cupertino residents and a community member, to speak in support of the $150K budget allocation for the noise abatement at Memorial Park.
45901:03:31.460 --> 01:03:37.639Speaker 15 (Community Hall): We play pickleball at Memoriam Park pretty much every day, and we have seen the profound impact firsthand.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): It's where players schedule their chores and doctor's appointments around the court times. It's where players recharge.
46101:03:45.080 --> 01:03:47.830Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Before and after a long workday.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): It's where those who have lost loved ones find solace and community.
46301:03:53.420 --> 01:04:11.189Speaker 15 (Community Hall): At last week's meeting, we all heard from speakers from all walks of life, spanning every age, ethnicity, and background, all expressing the profound impact this pickleball community has on their lives. For many, this isn't just a game, it's much more than that.
464
01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:17.559Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Pickleball serves as a multi-generational bridge for our society, for our… for our city.
46501:04:18.000 --> 01:04:22.709Speaker 15 (Community Hall): It's where 8-year-olds and the 80-year-olds play on the same coat.
466
01:04:23.110 --> 01:04:26.570Speaker 15 (Community Hall): It's one of the few places, and perhaps the only place in Cupertino.
46701:04:26.920 --> 01:04:30.979Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Where every demographic truly and actively participates and connects.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): This is in line with Mayor's initiatives focused on physical activity and community.
46901:04:37.090 --> 01:04:38.879Speaker 15 (Community Hall): I applaud the mayor for that.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Pickleball delivers on both.
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the applied deserves recognition and consideration.
47201:04:49.770 --> 01:04:55.339Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Hence, following through with the planned sound barriers is the most logical
and the reasonable step.
47301:04:57.080 --> 01:05:03.780Speaker 15 (Community Hall): At $150K, this is a small, but a high-impact investment for thousands of community members.
47401:05:04.160 --> 01:05:08.369
Speaker 15 (Community Hall): The math is simple, at least in my mind. We have 1,000 plus members.
47501:05:08.840 --> 01:05:15.329Speaker 15 (Community Hall): In our club, who are not just playing the game, they are active participants in our local community.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): In a local economy as well.
47701:05:18.580 --> 01:05:24.859Speaker 15 (Community Hall): They're buying gases, groceries, dining at our local restaurants, grabbing a quick bite, drinks at cafes.
47801:05:24.990 --> 01:05:29.280
Speaker 15 (Community Hall): And shopping at our stores. They're spending at least $200 a month.
47901:05:30.410 --> 01:05:36.390Speaker 15 (Community Hall): If you do the math, it translates to 1,000 times 200 times 12, it's about 2.4 million.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Annually.
48101:05:38.660 --> 01:05:44.750Speaker 15 (Community Hall): And that also means that the city is getting tax revenue, approximately $25K.
48201:05:46.440 --> 01:05:51.120Speaker 15 (Community Hall): The way I see it, the city will recoup the capital investment in less than 5-6
years.
48301:05:51.770 --> 01:05:59.540Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Not to mention the goodwill that the city and you all will get from the small business owners, community members, as well as our neighbors.
48401:06:00.020 --> 01:06:04.799Speaker 15 (Community Hall): I would also like to add that many of the players support the Senior Center.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): They participate in everything from Tai Chi to bridges to the outings. They're
basically supporting cities, initiatives, and many programs.
48601:06:13.640 --> 01:06:20.189Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Speaking as residents and community members, Pickleball benefits us physically, socially, and mentally.
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Speaker 15 (Community Hall): But more importantly, it supports Kuberino's economy, And brings the community together.
48801:06:27.350 --> 01:06:35.719Speaker 15 (Community Hall): Therefore, we urge you to approve the 150K lying atom for the NICE abatement project at Memorial Park. Thank you.
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01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:40.380Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Thank you.
49001:06:41.020 --> 01:06:43.390Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Next, we will welcome Connie Cunningham.
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Speaker 14 (Community Hall): And, as a reminder to members of the public wishing to speak on this item should raise their hand virtually or submit a request to speak card in the next four and a half minutes, or before the end of Connie's,
49201:06:56.760 --> 01:06:58.560Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Time. Welcome, Connie.
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01:06:59.620 --> 01:07:00.689Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Thank you.
49401:07:01.090 --> 01:07:04.600Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Good evening, Mayor and Council Members.
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Speaker 14 (Community Hall): My name is Connie Cunningham. I am a member of the Housing Commission, but I am here tonight speaking for myself only.
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Speaker 14 (Community Hall): I would like to turn your attention.
49701:07:12.825 --> 01:07:19.285Speaker 16 (Community Hall): tonight to the critical budget commitments to vulnerable, low-income
residents.
49801:07:19.355 --> 01:07:32.015Speaker 16 (Community Hall): The general plan makes it clear that Cupertino intends to, excuse me, support all residents. The housing element specifies sites and policies for providing housing to all incomes and abilities.
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Speaker 16 (Community Hall): There are two issues in the budget. One is that there are revenue grants,
called federal revenue grants, under a specific title, CDBG. What that revenue cut means is that we have well
over $100,000 made
50001:07:48.795 --> 01:08:06.274Speaker 16 (Community Hall): reach up to $300,000 that the federal government has given to the city in the past, which they now do not. That has to be, refilled, and backfilling it through city funds is the most, logical
way to do that.
501
01:08:06.395 --> 01:08:24.305Speaker 16 (Community Hall): That is revenue funds that are being cut. The other is that, excuse me, the slow replacement of BMR rental homes under our housing element. By the end of the housing element period, most of our existing below-market rate rental units will mature out of the system.
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Speaker 16 (Community Hall): Many residents will be displaced because it is highly unlikely at the current
rate that current applicants are building below market rate housing that we will replace that rental… those
rental units.
50301:08:38.835 --> 01:08:42.815Speaker 16 (Community Hall): With the housing element and the no net loss law.
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Speaker 16 (Community Hall): We're caught between state requirements to build, And lack of funding
support.
50501:08:48.645 --> 01:08:51.465Speaker 16 (Community Hall): For developers of low-income housing.
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Speaker 16 (Community Hall): Site availability.
50701:08:53.895 --> 01:08:59.955
financing.
50801:09:00.854 --> 01:09:05.285Speaker 16 (Community Hall): Budget cuts impact our vulnerable residents the most.
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01:09:07.135 --> 01:09:24.675Speaker 16 (Community Hall): I urge Council to support our vulnerable residents to ensure our city provides housing and services for low, very low, and extremely low-income residents. Our City General Plan, with the housing element, eloquently states the City's commitment to all residents.
51001:09:24.995 --> 01:09:31.245
Speaker 16 (Community Hall): The Charter of the City's Housing Commission is focused on below-market
rate housing.
51101:09:31.755 --> 01:09:46.264Speaker 16 (Community Hall): I urge the City to use city funds to replace the federal revenue grants, and I urge the City to do research on funding techniques that will fill this hole left by banks and other conventional lenders.
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Speaker 16 (Community Hall): Please find a way to provide funding for developers to provide low-income,
below-market-rate rental housing. Thank you for your time.
51301:09:59.770 --> 01:10:06.009Speaker 14 (Community Hall): Thank you, Connie. And Mayor, I don't see any hands raised virtually, so that concludes the request to speak on this item.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): All right, thank you. I don't know if this is a new hand raise from Vice Mayor, but I… I do have you listed there.
51501:10:16.470 --> 01:10:17.240Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Well, I will speak for a moment. No one online. I have a couple of requests.
51701:10:29.380 --> 01:10:30.040Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Hmm.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Please.
51901:10:32.240 --> 01:10:44.890
occupancy tax amount. I think that will help just to have that figure there.
52001:10:45.110 --> 01:10:58.730Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And, we have these pages, 73 to 78. It's, development information that the
subcommittee had already requested that that be removed.
52101:10:58.830 --> 01:11:06.799Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And, just as a reminder, I served on the Audit Committee subcommittee for budget format review.
52201:11:07.170 --> 01:11:22.050
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): so it's… it's very interesting to see the new, layout and what OpenGov
provided. I… there's, as you've seen, there's some areas that it needs to be tightened up on, with regards to
the formatting.
52301:11:22.230 --> 01:11:32.299Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I would like to see, graphics for the charts on page 83 to 84, and perhaps offline I can…
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Ask… ask for some other ones there. So we had… we had a few more,
52501:11:40.180 --> 01:11:43.809Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Graphical images in our prior,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): budget, and I've been looking at, Milpitas' budget, for instance, and so they
show a chart similar to this one with its data, but they have it in a graphical form, which I think might be, for
some of us, easier to,
52701:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.589Speaker 3 (Community Hall): easier to understand.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Then lastly, I marked pages 41 and 42 for some reason. Oh, yeah, so perhaps
I can get this information offline as well. On page 41, you have revenues, right up top of $1.8 million, and then you have use of money, of $8 million.
52901:12:25.060 --> 01:12:30.349Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And on the next page, you have use of money and property
530
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Of, 9 point… about $9.9 million, which turns out to be the exact, addition of that revenue number from 41 in use of money.
01:12:42.230 --> 01:12:56.140Speaker 3 (Community Hall): If you could explain to me, offline, or if you already know what the answer is, for why it's broken out that way. So I'm going to assume that page 41 is what OpenGov kicked out, and then…
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I don't know how page 42 was generated.
53301:13:03.440 --> 01:13:22.209Speaker 5 (Community Hall): You're correct. So, the, the page… the chart on page 41 is compiled by OpenGov, based off of the data it's, pulled together. So, as you can see, it's a bit more… it has a bit more detail to it, whereas the table on 42 is,
534
01:13:22.350 --> 01:13:35.290Speaker 5 (Community Hall): a internally developed chart, which we do plan on eventually migrating over to OpenGov. So the formatting may change a little bit in the next iteration as far as the budget. Okay.
53501:13:35.295 --> 01:13:48.874Speaker 3 (Community Hall): adopted budget. Thank you, and if you could define what the difference is at
some point between the use of money and then the plain revenues amount? Like, what's the difference
there? And are we giving up anything?
53601:13:49.045 --> 01:13:51.605Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Because I don't… when I look at the,
53701:13:52.225 --> 01:13:59.745
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): the Special Revenue Fund, plus Enterprise Fund and Internal Service Fund,
53801:14:00.045 --> 01:14:12.574Speaker 3 (Community Hall): That doesn't… I don't… that's not going to add up to the $1.8 million. Those three don't account for it, and then you've got the general fund amount is $8.5 million, which doesn't…
53901:14:12.755 --> 01:14:24.604
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): connect to the 8 million even, so that's… I think this is a level of detail that
probably needs to be looked at, separately, but it seems like we're gonna lose some…
54001:14:24.875 --> 01:14:34.155Speaker 3 (Community Hall): If we… if we abandon this table on page 42, which I hope we don't, we're gonna lose some of that extra data, I think?
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Speaker 5 (Community Hall): No, we don't plan on removing this chart, it's just, it might be integrated into
OpenGov's platform, so it… the formatting may look a little different, however, the information will remain
the same. Okay.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Alright, thank you. And I do want to, again, thank you for the…
54301:14:53.010 --> 01:15:13.149Speaker 3 (Community Hall): the help that you provided going over the budget, last year, I believe it was,
just being able to do spot checks, like transfers in need to balance with your transfers out, and how to track,
charges for services, and cost allocation, and,
54401:15:13.420 --> 01:15:22.130Speaker 3 (Community Hall): to be able to take the revenue category and the appropriation category and try to follow the money through there. I know it's pretty…
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): complicated, but that part's very helpful, and hopefully during one of our
budget invite meetings in the future, we'll be able to get to, that chart and
54601:15:34.340 --> 01:15:44.329Speaker 3 (Community Hall): and have a whole deep dive lesson into that. I think it'll help a lot of people, and I could certainly use a refresher that would help.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So…
54801:15:45.430 --> 01:15:53.219Speaker 3 (Community Hall): With regards to the Fremont Union High School, receiving the funds and some of that money going to outside,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): That would… that would be one that I personally, am not supportive of. Also,
because the Rotary is already receiving festival fee waiver, of $22,003 million for Mary Avenue Villas. We're covering their sheriff's cost on their,
55001:16:12.710 --> 01:16:16.640Speaker 3 (Community Hall): on their festival that I would… I…
551
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): didn't think that we were providing grants and festival fee waivers. I thought you could have one or the other, not both. So that, again, goes into the grant, policy. But I know we worked on it. The vice mayor and I were on that subcommittee a few years ago. I feel like it does need to be
55201:16:36.390 --> 01:16:38.800
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): revisited,
553
01:16:39.360 --> 01:16:53.970Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And if the city manager could let us know how to set that up, to get that subcommittee going again, and then also getting the festival fee waiver one restarted, I think that would
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Speaker 4 (Community Hall): Yeah, Mayor, if there's interest in forming the subcommittee, for a few months to hash it out, you can… you can either do it now or at the time when you're, approving the budget in June. Okay.
55501:17:08.145 --> 01:17:22.064
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So, just make a motion that the subcommittee be formed with… I don't know if
the Vice Mayor is interested in… since we worked on this previously. So it was… the last time we formed it, it
was the…
55601:17:22.935 --> 01:17:33.754Speaker 3 (Community Hall): we had… I think it was the chair and the vice chair of the Parks and Rec Committee, Commission was part of it, but we met with them.
557
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Oh, I don't think they were part of it.
55801:17:38.340 --> 01:17:38.850Speaker 13 (Community Hall): That…
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): They were… they… they did participate in one of the meetings that we held,
okay. But they could be, they could…
56001:17:46.670 --> 01:17:52.999Speaker 3 (Community Hall): participate in that, so I would move that we, form… reform the…
561
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): the grant policy and the festival fee waiver policy subcommittee, with myself
and the vice mayor. And you're forming this as an ad hoc committee for the Council? Yes.
56201:18:05.795 --> 01:18:06.535Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Okay.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Can we do that under this agenda topic?
56401:18:10.800 --> 01:18:14.959Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I think so. I think we're in the middle of working through the budget, so it would make sense.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Okay.
56601:18:16.100 --> 01:18:23.190Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Madam City Clerk, will you please, let us vote with our… Lights.
567
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Can I ask a quick clarification question? Sure. What, exactly would the
subcommittee be doing?
56801:18:29.195 --> 01:18:38.334Speaker 3 (Community Hall): We would be reviewing the current grant policy and looking at some of the questions that have been, that have come up with regards to
569
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): having funds that would be leaving the city. So in the Fremont Union High School District, even though they've cut it back, that would be funding that's gonna go outside, and do we feel that that… we would bring up
57001:18:51.895 --> 01:19:10.025Speaker 3 (Community Hall): a policy suggestion to the whole council to review, and then also, with regards
to festival fee waivers, we could talk about, with the sheriff's, cost increase, do we think that we should keep
covering that? Things of that nature. Just policy recommendations.
57101:19:10.025 --> 01:19:12.145Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Okay, and this is something that,
57201:19:12.465 --> 01:19:16.075
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): We're not really, eliminating any of…
57301:19:16.425 --> 01:19:19.544Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Of this. We're just coming back with better information.
57401:19:19.845 --> 01:19:22.645Speaker 8 (Community Hall): After the subcommittee, Meats.
575
01:19:22.920 --> 01:19:41.079Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Correct, but if the… if the… that would be a separate issue at this time, if there's not support for some of these items, then that… I would think that that could be something that we're discussing, but we're not… we're not setting the budget tonight. We would simply be talking about it and sharing our point of view.
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Okay.
57701:19:42.970 --> 01:19:44.030Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Good. Okay.
57801:19:44.030 --> 01:20:00.120Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Just to clarify, so any policy recommendation that will come back to the Council will apply to the next year, right? They won't apply to the policy for this year. Yeah.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): However, the Council, at our discretion, can still make an adjustment of the recommendation made by Parks and Rec in our budget adoption.
58001:20:12.840 --> 01:20:16.419Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, regardless of the policy recommendation.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So as a subcommittee, any policy recommendation will be…
58201:20:21.330 --> 01:20:36.720Speaker 9 (Community Hall): only used by Parks and Rec to review applications for next year, or by the city staff to implement the Festival view program for next year, right? Correct. We're not changing in midterm in May for the June budget.
583
01:20:36.940 --> 01:20:52.049Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Correct, correct. And that, in the, in the past, we have done that, where there have been recommendations that were made, and I think this is probably why we had the chair and the vice chair. I remember we met in, in, I believe we were in Quinlan, with,
58401:20:52.050 --> 01:21:16.239
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Director Sander, and they… it's frustrating for the Parks and Rec Commission
to, spend a lot of time going through and making their selections, and then have the Council go and change
it. So we had them present so they had their input, too, so that we could help avoid this from happening in
the future. And so that we're all on the same page when the next group of applicants come through.
58501:21:16.240 --> 01:21:25.010Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Because, you know, they want to follow, and they are following the rules that we're setting, but if we're changing things up, I understand their frustration.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Real quick clarification? Please. So, in a 30-second description, you're saying the committee, the subcommittee, is for future policy.
58701:21:33.425 --> 01:21:37.804Speaker 10 (Community Hall): And we're also saying we can still make changes this year to the budget that
we need to, but not through the committee.
588
01:21:38.055 --> 01:21:38.965Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Correct. Okay, thank you.
01:21:39.595 --> 01:21:56.354Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And that's the same, by the way, you can go line by line. If you don't agree with the, and I don't, the $890,000 for vehicle replacement every year, that's a huge, huge number. We can go through and say, well, you can have half of that.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): For instance, but it… and if there's other things, I know you mentioned, some of the bicycle education. If that… if that doesn't sound like something you're interested in, then you can simply,
59101:22:10.555 --> 01:22:15.705Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Talk about that and make that suggestion if you're seeing things that, you
know, you aren't.
59201:22:15.705 --> 01:22:21.215Speaker 10 (Community Hall): But to be clear, today's just a study session. Correct. And we can't take action on these items. Correct. Thank you.
59301:22:21.390 --> 01:22:21.710
Speaker 13 (Community Hall): So…
59401:22:21.710 --> 01:22:41.129Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Well, just to clarify, the… if we… for some of the items staff proposed, we can voice some opinion, or maybe we can, direct that to city manager to see if there are options for reducing some of the items, and that may be brought back.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): In June, we will adapt to see, okay, if that's something the whole council would
agree on or not, right?
59601:22:48.490 --> 01:22:51.139Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, that… does that make sense?
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): That's a really good point, especially with the vehicle replacement, that we
probably need to understand the policy.
59801:22:57.145 --> 01:23:01.105Speaker 9 (Community Hall): than the staff, lead, yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): No, Yonta?
60001:23:02.310 --> 01:23:05.200Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, Councilmember Mohan? Yeah, just to, again.
60101:23:05.205 --> 01:23:25.105Speaker 8 (Community Hall): again, on the same topic, we're not changing any policies as part of the subcommittee action for this year's, for this budget that we are deliberating on. We're not. So, if anything, the subcommittee will look at the recommendations of the Parks Commission.
602
01:23:25.235 --> 01:23:29.825Speaker 8 (Community Hall): For, for, for these community funding grants.
60301:23:30.300 --> 01:23:36.330Speaker 9 (Community Hall): No, I think the subcommittee won't look at the recommendation for this year, that's not the purpose.
604
01:23:37.450 --> 01:23:54.359Speaker 9 (Community Hall): the committee will look at the community… we have a policy, community funding grant policy. I think we will look at how the parks and Rec is interpreting the policy when they do the criteria ranking, and maybe
60501:23:54.360 --> 01:24:09.689
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): try to see if maybe there's some misunderstanding, or we want to emphasize
something in the policy for next year. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We are not making any specific change to the
recommendation for this year. Okay.
60601:24:11.340 --> 01:24:18.910Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you, and, going back to, like, the, the, vehicle replacement request that,
607
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Community Hall: True.
60801:24:20.400 --> 01:24:31.240Speaker 3 (Community Hall): we… maybe I need a second to direct staff on this, to… if there are some requests that perhaps we might have a list of that,
609
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): we need to have more information as to why they want so much money for
something. So I did ask that question with regards to, Danza, the traffic signal synchronization. It… we had
some,
61001:24:48.510 --> 01:24:58.190Speaker 3 (Community Hall): signal timing type of an item, which we had already funded in the past, so I was surprised to see this showing up again, so that would be,
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): like, an informational memo, I'd like to understand why we're seeing that. With the vehicle, replacement, I'm curious what the vehicle replacement policy is.
01:25:10.110 --> 01:25:27.349Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And… and how does that… how does ours compare to other cities that, might have fiscal constraints as well? Are we replacing our vehicles at a faster rate than other cities? Can we slow some things down?
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): that type of question. Would I need to have a second on that to have those questions answered? I don't think so. I think this is a.
61401:25:36.235 --> 01:25:40.665Speaker 16 (Community Hall): time for the Council to… anybody who chooses to, to.
615
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Speaker 17 (Community Hall): Suggest something to staff that they'd like to have looked into regarding the budget?
61601:25:44.510 --> 01:25:48.370Speaker 4 (Community Hall): Mayor, I just want to clarify, is this an info memo request?
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): It would… that would be fine, but it would be information we're going to need before we have the budget come back, so a little advance, for next year.
61801:25:58.320 --> 01:26:17.569Speaker 3 (Community Hall): No, this year. No, for this, yeah, so with regards to… otherwise, I could offer up that, hey, no, you don't get $890,000, you can have $400,000 this year, but I would rather have
information letting me know why or why not, that would be a good idea, or not, you know. Okay.
61901:26:17.570 --> 01:26:26.399Speaker 4 (Community Hall): Would you like me to see if the Director of Public Works might have information, at least comparative data, that you looked for? Otherwise, info memo is doable before June?
62001:26:26.405 --> 01:26:35.735
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): The… a little comparison would be helpful to see what the replacement,
timeline is for other cities as well.
62101:26:36.055 --> 01:26:41.755Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And with that, I do see, Vice Mayor, your hand is still up? Do you have…
62201:26:42.025 --> 01:26:47.795
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): You have a question? Okay, and then I see, Councilmember Mohan, followed
by Councilmember Wong.
62301:26:49.110 --> 01:26:58.960Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, so my question is about the community grants. So this is the page, I
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I have a question about this, Rotary Club one for Pollinating Garden and McClellan Ranch Park.
62501:27:08.300 --> 01:27:12.179Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So this will be work done in a city park.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Is that part of an existing program that… The city is already doing… You know.
62701:27:19.910 --> 01:27:26.290Speaker 12 (Community Hall): This is part of the existing park, but City is not doing that, so Rotary is pitching in to do that.
628
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): have we approved for this additional work done by a third party?
62901:27:35.180 --> 01:27:45.680Speaker 12 (Community Hall): I do not know, Councilman. They're working with the Park and Rec Department staff. Oh, sorry. I can help with this one. Please, sorry. So this is actually being done by our.
630
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Speaker 18 (Community Hall): grassroots ecology group that is tasked to do these kind of gardens within the McClellan Ranch area, to take over the different areas that have, like.
63101:27:55.450 --> 01:28:09.310Speaker 18 (Community Hall): outside grass growing or something like that. They take all the non-native
plants out, and then they're creating pollinator gardens in some of these areas, and Grassroots has asked
Rotary to work with them. So they're not working with the city, it's already an area that Grassroots is doing,
which we have a contract.
63201:28:09.315 --> 01:28:20.555Speaker 9 (Community Hall): The city does contract with grassroots ecology, which the city is paying for. Yes. And now the city is paying Rotary to work with grassroots Recology, that's…
633
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Speaker 18 (Community Hall): That was part of the ask, and Parks and Rec Commission did… That's kind of
odd.
63401:28:27.070 --> 01:28:32.689Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Why is the city paying Rotary to work with our own contractor? So, again…
635
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Speaker 18 (Community Hall): Council, of course, has the ability to decide whatever they would like, but the
recommendation did come from Parks and Rec Commission.
63601:28:39.510 --> 01:28:43.230Speaker 9 (Community Hall): on… It's just a kind of…
637
01:28:43.370 --> 01:28:55.709Speaker 9 (Community Hall): odd thing. Okay, I do want to comment on the Cupertino Symphonic Band. I'm happy to see that they are funded. I attended a…
63801:28:56.710 --> 01:29:12.349Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I try to attend almost every of their concerts this year. I haven't attended
before. In every concert I have attended, maybe, I think they do that in every concert, they would announce
in the very beginning that they are thankful for the
63901:29:12.350 --> 01:29:27.740Speaker 9 (Community Hall): grant provided by the city, so they announce that every time. It's very well attended, and I love their music choice. So, I'm happy to see that we continue to support this really wonderful program, and it is a…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): It is programmed that Creates activity that anyone can attend in the city.
64101:29:34.690 --> 01:29:42.359Speaker 9 (Community Hall): city, so that's the kind, I think, the kind of program I would like to see community grant fund that
642
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Everyone in the community can attend, not just some people who
64301:29:47.660 --> 01:29:53.310Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Are in a specific area, yeah. The other programs I…
644
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I know I have attended the AAPM Multicultural Festival last year. It was very
well attended.
64501:30:03.950 --> 01:30:08.210Speaker 9 (Community Hall): But the other programs that have been funded, last year.
646
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I don't think I've ever received any invitation from them for us to attend their
program, or…
64701:30:17.050 --> 01:30:25.410
that we actually found.
64801:30:25.690 --> 01:30:32.329Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So… so, it feels like all this program already funded us from last year.
649
01:30:33.080 --> 01:30:41.940Speaker 9 (Community Hall): we are not helping them to publicize, or they are not even reaching out to the council members to attend. That might be…
65001:30:42.140 --> 01:30:43.990Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Something they should do.
651
01:30:44.375 --> 01:30:46.724Speaker 8 (Community Hall): They did not apply. I mean.
65201:30:46.990 --> 01:30:55.990Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I'm not… staying AAP, I mean all the other programs. There's all these other… The…
653
01:30:56.290 --> 01:30:58.860Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I don't know, elder aid?
65401:30:59.360 --> 01:31:01.220Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I… I mean…
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I… the ones that not apply, that's fine, but I'm just curious what they are. We actually funded, but we didn't… I don't really know.
65601:31:11.410 --> 01:31:22.539Speaker 9 (Community Hall): What are they? Like, the iTalented iSpark program, what's that? And Feed the Need program, what's the dental Treatment Program?
657
01:31:22.930 --> 01:31:24.180Speaker 9 (Community Hall): on…
65801:31:25.860 --> 01:31:43.450Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, so I'm just curious, and there is this STEAM outdoor education. I know VIA, VIA is for special needs children, so likely we are not invited, but it will be nice to still get the
information from… here is their store outdoor education program that they are doing.
65901:31:43.450 --> 01:31:47.999Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And are they recognizing the city's funding in their, in their outreach?
01:31:48.230 --> 01:31:50.240Speaker 9 (Community Hall): That's the thing, I don't know.
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah.
66201:31:54.410 --> 01:31:56.100Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, just my comment.
66301:31:57.010 --> 01:31:59.520
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you. Councilmember Mohan?
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01:32:03.400 --> 01:32:08.919Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Yeah, so… My question was, again, about the community funding.
66501:32:09.140 --> 01:32:09.860Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Come on.
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01:32:10.110 --> 01:32:16.719
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): you know, in the big scheme of things, I just wanted to say this, $32,000 is a… is a fairly,
66701:32:17.020 --> 01:32:19.680Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Reasonable amount to…
668
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Fund all these various organizations that are really our partners in the different events that we,
66901:32:28.280 --> 01:32:36.190Speaker 8 (Community Hall): That the city participates in, so I would be, reluctant to cut any funding
670
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): For, for these groups.
67101:32:40.130 --> 01:32:46.640Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And if you look at it, it's fairly reasonable. The Parks Commission has Has done some,
672
01:32:47.400 --> 01:32:50.570
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Has, has used some criteria, and…
67301:32:51.750 --> 01:32:56.689
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Speaker 8 (Community Hall): I would be, reluctant to cut even more from some of these organizations.
67501:33:07.130 --> 01:33:08.909Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Thank you. Councilmember Wang?
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Well, I guess since we're going into the detail level, I had one quick request,
and it's just only because we had the numbers here, on the proposed book, on page 89 and 90.
67701:33:21.110 --> 01:33:36.239Speaker 10 (Community Hall): you have the information and insights already for the general fund revenue, you have the population, it'd be fun to have the ratio if you can. So, I mean, we're sitting at something
about $1,600 per revenue per citizen, and
678
01:33:36.330 --> 01:33:42.379Speaker 10 (Community Hall): It's, it's interesting to see the difference between us and maybe Palo Alto or San Jose, so it's just good to have the ratio numbers in there.
67901:33:43.240 --> 01:33:47.989
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Pardon, Councilmember Wong, I believe you're going by the PDF page from
the online.
68001:33:47.995 --> 01:33:51.145Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Oh, pardon me, I'm on the PDF page, it's easier. Does it have the…
68101:33:51.145 --> 01:33:51.735
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): actual…
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01:33:51.740 --> 01:33:59.829Speaker 10 (Community Hall): There's no ratio, but it says, like… The page number, so we can… Oh, it doesn't have… It's 83, 83, 83, sorry about that. Page 83 and 84.
68301:34:01.230 --> 01:34:06.250
Speaker 10 (Community Hall): On the actual book numbers. I'm just looking for ratios, that's all. I mean, it's
already there, so…
68401:34:06.570 --> 01:34:18.300Speaker 10 (Community Hall): It helps to understand how we're doing in comparative… on the revenue side, helps us understand the sales tax gap, it also helps us understand what we can deliver for our residents in terms of quality of life based on the revenue we have.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, so thank you, and that could be done in a chart form as well, bar
graphs? Yeah, you can do.
68601:34:26.280 --> 01:34:27.010Speaker 7 (Community Hall): Pareto graphs you.
687
01:34:27.010 --> 01:34:29.030Speaker 10 (Community Hall): where we sit, so…
68801:34:29.035 --> 01:34:37.295Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Usually I'm seeing… So this goes from the revenue comparison chart into…
689
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Point of order? Sure. We have a motion that has not been voted on. Oh, thank you.
69001:34:41.775 --> 01:34:48.505Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Madam City Clerk, will you please, set us up so we can vote with our screens here?
691
01:34:48.615 --> 01:34:49.435Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Oop.
69201:34:50.870 --> 01:34:53.910Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Subcommittee. Oh, is this a subcommittee? Yeah, can you repeat?
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): The motion, just so we know.
69401:35:01.240 --> 01:35:13.660Speaker 14 (Community Hall): This is to, form a subcommittee, comprising of Mayor Moore and Vice Mayor Chao, to re-review the grant policy and the festival fee waiver policy.
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): For 2027 and 2028, correct? Okay, just want to make sure that's clear.
69601:35:27.190 --> 01:35:29.819Speaker 14 (Community Hall): The motion carries with Frewin voting no.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Alright, thank you.
69801:35:33.220 --> 01:35:53.049Speaker 3 (Community Hall): So, if I may go back to page 83, we get… we jump from 83, the general fund
of a page, done in, like, a chart form with,
69901:35:53.900 --> 01:36:00.160Speaker 3 (Community Hall): You'll have your sales tax and property tax, all of that kind of in a chapter
together, so…
70001:36:00.570 --> 01:36:01.300Speaker 3 (Community Hall): If
70101:36:02.350 --> 01:36:20.100Speaker 3 (Community Hall): if… I can talk offline on this to see about getting it grouped together so we
have a little visual section. I'm thinking about what I saw in the Milpitas budget, and I thought it was… it
was pretty well done, and they showed… they broke out how
70201:36:20.100 --> 01:36:38.130Speaker 3 (Community Hall): your property tax, was distributed, and your sales tax was distributed, and I know that we've got more information in here this time around, which I do really appreciate. I'm… I'm not sure who is… who really has their hand up to speak, but I do see Councilmember Wong, followed by the…
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): get off cue, because we need to clear the vote on the RTS, so if you clear the
vote, we can then get off
70401:36:42.965 --> 01:36:55.974Speaker 10 (Community Hall): But I do have a comment. Given all the hard work that's been done here, I would really encourage you to submit yourself for the OpenGov High Performance Awards, please, because
there's a lot of work that was done here, and it might be a chance to get some recognition for the city for
your hard work.
70501:36:59.780 --> 01:37:01.700Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you, and Vice Mayor?
70601:37:02.920 --> 01:37:03.514
Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Oh…
707
01:37:06.490 --> 01:37:07.510Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay.
70801:37:09.600 --> 01:37:10.580Speaker 13 (Community Hall): I mean…
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): May I speak while you're getting set up? Sure. Okay, on, page 4, you mentioned the,
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01:37:22.190 --> 01:37:41.360
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): the Historical Society fee waivers, that's the, our ongoing commitment of
$40,000, and the $58.80 for, book sales, Friends of the Cupertino Library, and then we also have the $5,000,
I believe, for the Chamber. So that…
71201:37:41.360 --> 01:37:46.089Speaker 3 (Community Hall): If there was a way, you might need, like, a summary page,
713
01:37:46.580 --> 01:37:57.179
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): to show that… show this ongoing funding that we also have. And perhaps even
the sister city funding could be summarized. I think…
71401:37:57.180 --> 01:38:08.590Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I think you might need one more page in order to, provide a summary. So, particularly with sister city funding, you've got staff time,
715
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): staff time, gifts, the fee waivers, to… so that we can understand the whole picture. I had asked that to be, because it is under City Council, to be information that would be there. I don't know if that got into the OpenGov.
71601:38:25.510 --> 01:38:28.919Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Version this year.
717
01:38:29.470 --> 01:38:32.389Speaker 3 (Community Hall): For sister cities, was it broken out?
71801:38:33.820 --> 01:38:34.380Speaker 13 (Community Hall): I…
719
01:38:35.630 --> 01:38:37.260
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): I don't think so.
72001:38:45.170 --> 01:38:57.609Speaker 3 (Community Hall): No. Okay, so they just have… they have a little brief information. So we started to expand the Sister Cities, section in the past budget book, so either…
721
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): either add it… we could either add it at the Sister Cities page, or at a high level, where you're…
722
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): where you're talking about the nonprofit support opportunities. I don't know where… I kind of feel like it fits better there, at the nonprofit area, than putting it at the sister city… on the Sister Cities page, but if we could add that information as well, so that,
723
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Members of the public get a complete picture of how much we're contributing.
72401:39:27.900 --> 01:39:28.890Speaker 3 (Community Hall): 2019.
725
01:39:29.320 --> 01:39:38.560
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And… yeah, I saw it, but it's, we added more, which showed the… we put the
festival fee waivers, and…
72601:39:38.800 --> 01:39:48.580Speaker 3 (Community Hall): The room, you get free room use, there's a little bit more information we started adding before that OpenGov, scrapes off.
727
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay, and I… I think staff follows what I'm saying there, no problem. Okay,
Vice Mayor, and we have an 8 o'clock closed session, so we're… we're coming up on that, but we're doing pretty well with our time.
72801:40:04.380 --> 01:40:23.150Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Vice Mayor. First, I just, for the benefit of the public, I thank for mentioning this comparison table with other city jurisdictions. I think that's really good. It's on page, I think, 90 of the
PDF, and so, yeah, it'll be nice to have a chart.
72901:40:23.430 --> 01:40:40.789Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And I do have a question about reading our community grant funding policy. There should be an annual report from each recipient, so where can I find the report? Maybe I… we can read more about
730
01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:42.110
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): what they…
73101:40:42.190 --> 01:40:57.370Speaker 9 (Community Hall): have done. I… my question would be about also how much the city is helping them to… maybe Michelle can help answer, how much… does the city help them advertise the community funding program?
732
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Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And, do they… are they required to put city logo on their flyers?
73301:41:02.970 --> 01:41:03.740
734
01:41:03.745 --> 01:41:11.824
Speaker 18 (Community Hall): For the submitting a written report, the Parks and Rec Commission does get an actual, presentation from the groups with their reports.
73501:41:11.825 --> 01:41:30.714Speaker 18 (Community Hall): And the reports are turned into staff, so all of that can be found within the
Parks and Rec Commission. I believe the reports are in August, or… it's in the fall. Okay. And then,
obviously, all of the applications, if you want to know more about what they're actually asking for, are in
March and April of the Parks and Rec Commission. Yeah.
73601:41:30.715 --> 01:41:45.735Speaker 18 (Community Hall): As for city logos and stuff, we do have agreements with them all now, so yes, they can use the city logo in their marketing, and if they reach out to the city needing help, then of course we help them, but they don't have to reach out to the city for help if they don't want our help marketing it.
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Speaker 18 (Community Hall): A lot of them aren't events anymore, if you kind of notice. A lot of them are more, like, helping with certain programs that are already put on.
73801:41:53.510 --> 01:42:01.030Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I guess my question is, are they required to use city logos so it's clear it's a city-funded program? Yes.
739
01:42:01.620 --> 01:42:06.490Speaker 18 (Community Hall): Even if we're only funding a portion of it, they're supposed to put the city logo on their marketing.
74001:42:06.495 --> 01:42:09.845Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Do they give the flyer to the city to review?
741
01:42:09.850 --> 01:42:11.910Speaker 18 (Community Hall): always get the flyer, no. Oh.
74201:42:11.910 --> 01:42:16.230Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So we don't really know if they actually put the logo on or not.
743
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Speaker 18 (Community Hall): I mean, they've signed an agreement to do it. I would hope they're doing it. I don't really want to, you know, speak ill of these nonprofits, but I don't necessarily have them in my inbox to double-check.
74401:42:26.110 --> 01:42:48.530Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And just want to mention, I started attending Cupertino Symphonic Band
because they emailed the City Council to invite us to attend. That's how I started attending. I actually wasn't
attending before, so it's nice if those organizations do reach out so that we can learn more about the
services, the wonderful services.
74501:42:48.530 --> 01:42:52.349Speaker 9 (Community Hall): that they provide with the city funding to our community.
746
01:42:52.350 --> 01:43:02.359Speaker 18 (Community Hall): Yeah, when we, meet with the subcommittee, I think it'd be great if we can add stuff like that to the policy and… or know about it so we can add it to the agreement, because that would be very helpful for staff.
74701:43:02.360 --> 01:43:08.030
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): didn't think about. Yeah. Possible. Yeah, so, thank you.
74801:43:08.800 --> 01:43:12.399Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Alright, next I see Councilmember Mohan, followed by Councilmember Wong.
74901:43:12.920 --> 01:43:30.440Speaker 8 (Community Hall): A quick comment on the Cupertino Symphonic Band. When I attended, I know
how grateful they are, and you mentioned that as well, Vice Mayor, but they also use these funds to replace
the… to actually purchase the instruments that they use. They've been borrowing it from school schools.
75001:43:30.520 --> 01:43:38.229Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And so this enables them to have their own instruments, and I think it's wonderful that we are a part of that.
751
01:43:38.380 --> 01:43:40.749
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): My, other question…
75201:43:41.410 --> 01:43:46.820Speaker 8 (Community Hall): was, and I don't know if this is even the appropriate time to ask for it,
75301:43:46.820 --> 01:44:05.309
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): One of the things I've always felt, Mayor, is that we don't really have a multi-
year policy to upgrade some of the restrooms in the city parks. And I brought it up last year, and there was
just no funds available, but again, this would be a one-time request.
75401:44:05.430 --> 01:44:17.789Speaker 8 (Community Hall): And if, public works or parks sort of, spreads it over maybe 5 years or 6 years, 7 years, we could at least have a
755
01:44:17.900 --> 01:44:19.210
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): restroom.
75601:44:19.280 --> 01:44:24.709
757
01:44:24.740 --> 01:44:43.990
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): Just because they are really, some of them are in bad shape, and I don't know, I hope the department will… agrees with me on that. But anyway, I just wanted to bring that up. That would be a good thing for us to do, because we have a fund balance which we should be using for maintenance-related,
758
01:44:44.210 --> 01:44:46.000
Speaker 8 (Community Hall): projects.
75901:44:47.270 --> 01:44:49.360Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you, Councilmember Wang.
76001:44:49.620 --> 01:44:56.099
Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Yeah, having been in some of those, toilets, they're slightly better than squat
toilets, so I would agree with you there.
76101:44:56.240 --> 01:45:08.119Speaker 10 (Community Hall): Councilmember Moen. I also agree that $32,500 is not too much, but I think it's important that it is spent on Cupertino residents, and that's, you know, and quality of life. I think that's a very important piece. There…
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Speaker 10 (Community Hall): I'll take this time to lobby my fellow council members here. There's some
missing items here that we probably should put in here around fire safety, fire evacuation routes, traffic improvements that I think the public is sensing.
76301:45:20.450 --> 01:45:30.780Speaker 10 (Community Hall): very urgently, and I don't… I'll try to make a proposal later, by email, to make some suggestions, but there are things we can do to at least help, with the people on the west side,
especially in the high…
76401:45:30.780 --> 01:45:47.869Speaker 10 (Community Hall): very high-fire districts. I think that's an important thing. I think it's gonna be a big issue, all the way into the election cycle, because it's an important piece that people are worried about their safety, their ability to get insurance, their ability to maintain their ability to live there, given the high costs that are there.
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01:45:47.870 --> 01:45:59.039
Speaker 10 (Community Hall): And it's truly a quality of life issue, and more importantly, it's a safety issue.
So… so I'm happy to work with any of the council members here to, only one, I believe, so that I can work out a plan to see who wants to help out on that.
76601:45:59.260 --> 01:46:05.160Speaker 10 (Community Hall): But I think it's very important for people on the west side to keep hearing
that. I've met with many residents over the last 3 weeks on this issue.
76701:46:07.560 --> 01:46:09.180Speaker 7 (Community Hall): I'd be happy to work with you on that.
768
01:46:09.960 --> 01:46:11.510
Speaker 10 (Community Hall): I'd accept, it'd be great.
76901:46:12.710 --> 01:46:14.410Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Vice Mayor. Yeah.
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01:46:14.890 --> 01:46:16.280
Speaker 13 (Community Hall): So…
77101:46:16.890 --> 01:46:24.629Speaker 9 (Community Hall): I remember every year we have a staffing historical chart in the budget book.
77201:46:24.840 --> 01:46:29.530
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): But I didn't find it. Maybe it's there.
773
01:46:30.990 --> 01:46:38.599Speaker 9 (Community Hall): there is, like, a staffing level chart made. If you can just tell me later, that's fine.
77401:46:44.220 --> 01:46:46.820
Speaker 14 (Community Hall): We do have a personnel schedule in the appendix.
775
01:46:47.285 --> 01:46:51.034Speaker 6 (Community Hall): On, at the end of the book, on page 528.
77601:46:52.740 --> 01:46:54.059Speaker 6 (Community Hall): And 529.
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01:46:55.600 --> 01:47:03.839
Speaker 3 (Community Hall): And pardon, through the manager, we'll be getting an update on vacancies as well at the next meeting.
77801:47:04.750 --> 01:47:06.970Speaker 9 (Community Hall): That's… Okay.
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01:47:08.370 --> 01:47:11.240
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, what I see is this.
78001:47:12.010 --> 01:47:21.299
year, and it goes back to, like, 20 years.
78101:47:24.550 --> 01:47:33.919Speaker 6 (Community Hall): Yeah, you might… it might be referring to the chart that we also have in the
budget at a glance. It's more of a visual. Oh, yeah. We do provide that.
78201:47:33.920 --> 01:47:41.119Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Yeah, it was in the budget in the glance, usually, but I think it's also usually in the budget book, too. So can we add that?
78301:47:41.470 --> 01:47:42.170
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): We're happy to.
78401:47:42.175 --> 01:47:44.345Speaker 6 (Community Hall): include that in the budget.
78501:47:45.085 --> 01:47:47.194Speaker 9 (Community Hall): That's good information to have.
786
01:47:48.515 --> 01:47:50.195Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And,
78701:47:50.515 --> 01:48:00.454Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Then, also for the parks, I think about… regarding the comment about the bathroom, I think when we adopted the Parks and Rec Master Planning 2000…
788
01:48:00.455 --> 01:48:15.035Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And then there… the staff worked on an implementation plan for that Parks and Rec plan. So that's supposed to have… we are supposed to be implementing each part of that.
78901:48:15.295 --> 01:48:28.565Speaker 9 (Community Hall): So, does that plan include, I think there were, like, playground replacement
every year we have been doing that, and does that also include bathroom replacement upgrade?
79001:48:29.195 --> 01:48:33.895Speaker 9 (Community Hall): As part of our Parks and Rec master plan.
79101:48:34.985 --> 01:48:39.675Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Is Rashella still here, or…
792
01:48:40.220 --> 01:48:43.199Speaker 5 (Community Hall): If you'd like, we can include that.
793
Speaker 5 (Community Hall): Oops, she's coming up.
79401:48:51.360 --> 01:49:09.260Speaker 18 (Community Hall): This is really more of a Chad thing, but, we have been doing the playground
replacements, but they are usually just the equipment, not the restroom. Not the restroom. Yeah, and then
the other piece was the playground amenities, but that's also usually benches, trash cans, fun tables, stuff
like that.
79501:49:09.265 --> 01:49:13.225Speaker 9 (Community Hall): bathroom wasn't part of the plan? No.
796
01:49:13.345 --> 01:49:17.645
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): And have we done any condition assessment for these bedrooms?
79701:49:18.655 --> 01:49:25.105Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Maybe it's a chat question. I don't think so. Doesn't look like it, he's shaking his head. So I didn't do any conditional assessment.
798
01:49:25.305 --> 01:49:30.164
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): To know how old they are, whether they need to be updated. I think most of
them are in.
79901:49:30.165 --> 01:49:44.215Speaker 18 (Community Hall): pretty good condition. I know the two at Memorial, like, they just fixed the fixtures and pipes and stuff like that, so they have been doing things to make sure they're still up-to-date and not just gonna break apart, but, I don't think they've done an actual
800
01:49:44.525 --> 01:49:45.855
Speaker 18 (Community Hall): assessment plan.
80101:49:46.075 --> 01:49:46.955Speaker 18 (Community Hall): Hmm.
802
01:49:47.045 --> 01:49:51.564
Speaker 9 (Community Hall): Okay, so maybe Chad has something to add?
80301:49:53.810 --> 01:50:06.009Speaker 11 (Community Hall): Just briefly, like Rochelle was saying, we maintain the restrooms currently, we paint them, keep them in relatively good condition, but we have not gone in and replaced equipment or sinks or anything in a long time.
804
01:50:06.180 --> 01:50:15.169
Speaker 11 (Community Hall): We do minor, repairs when things break or need to be fixed, but we are doing, paint and other things to keep things…
01:50:15.175 --> 01:50:24.914Speaker 9 (Community Hall): We have, like, a long-term plan of, and here is how we need to replace it every 10 years, and this is a schedule for the.
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Speaker 11 (Community Hall): We are replacing, like I said, equipment within the bathrooms when they
need to be replaced. We're kind of trying to keep them going as long as possible, and then we'll replace them when absolutely necessary. That's part of our maintenance. But we don't have a renovation plan currently for any of the restrooms.
80701:50:43.630 --> 01:50:44.500Speaker 13 (Community Hall): Okay.
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01:50:45.230 --> 01:51:05.049Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Thank you. So we do need to move on to our closed session, which is in the other building. Do we have any, you know, burning statements that must be made right at this point, or we can… okay, so at that point, we're all set. This May 11th special meeting of the Cupertino City Council is adjourned.
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Speaker 3 (Community Hall): Okay. Oops.