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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're ready to go.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, good evening.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Today's Thursday, March 5th, 2026. This is
the.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): regular meeting of the Cupertino Parks and
Recreation Commission, and this is a hybrid meeting. The meeting will be
recorded.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And for members of the public wishing to
address the Parks and Recreation Commission on Zoom, the Zoom application
will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press
continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would like at this point, to call to
order the meeting of the Parks and Recreation.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, once again, thank you, and
welcome to the March 5th, 2025 Certino Parks and Recreation Commission
meetings. I will now call the meeting to order. Roll call, please.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Tamarapon? Here. Commissioner
Shrinkman? Here. Commissioner Stanick? Here.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bono? Here. Chair Swamy, for the record,
Sheriff Spalamy is absent.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, staff. Moving on to the first
item of business, the approval of the minutes.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd like to know if any of the
commissioners would like to make a motion to approve the November 6, 2025
Parks and Recreation Commission meeting minutes. I'll move to approve for
November.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Second that. Perfect, thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? We're gonna have the roll call?
Absolutely.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, I'll obstained as I was absent.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so I've seen? Yeah, I've seen.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Sharikan? I have 4.
Commissioner Stanick? Yes. Vice Chair Bono? Yes. Commissioner Swamy is
absent. Motion carries, with Commissioner Marcon abstaining.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): effect, and I would like to go ahead and
approve also the December 4th, 2025, looking for a motion to approve the
meeting minutes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I can approve.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can make the motion. Perfect. And a
second?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Second, second. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Perfect. Cop fleets, and what's our Sunday.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah. So I'm checking to see that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Kamarapon? I think I was.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): absent for that, too. So, I'll upstream.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Street? Yes. Commissioner
Stanek? Abstain.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Vice Chair Bono? Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: She responds while me is absent?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Since we have two absentions and two
people who voted yes, the motion doesn't carry.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect. No, I didn't realize that.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right? Is there any postponements?
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Quinlan Conf Room: No response. Perfect. Oral communication.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): This portion of the meeting is reserved
for persons wishing to address the Commission on any matter within the
jurisdiction of the Commission and not on the agenda. Speakers are
limited to 3 minutes.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): In most cases, state law would prohibit
the Commission from making any decision with respect to a matter not on
the agenda. Do we have any oral communications?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers in person, and no
hands raised.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll close the order of communication,
and we'll move into all business.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nope. Okay. Alright, new business of the
day, subject is selection of the chair and the vice chair selection. In
recommended action, conduct the selection of the chair and the vice
chair.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right. Is there anyone who would like
to make a motion?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Point of order, would you like me to go
through the, process? Yes, please. Okay. What we'll do is we'll call for
a motion, and then whoever is nominated, a motion slash nomination,
whoever's nominated would accept that. Then we would look for a second to
that.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll open for discussion, and, then go to
vote, unless there is a substitute motion, that would be if somebody else
was nominated, and an acceptance, and a second.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): and discussion. If we have that substitute
motion, we'll vote on that motion first, and then that's how the order
would go. So…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's the process. Perfect. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I, can I knock the ball?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, since Sami is not here, can I make a
motion to push this to the next…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): This agent icon next month. Oh, this has
to happen… It has to be happening today.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, is that? We still have, we still have
quorum. Yeah. You can make a motion.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll make a motion to move this to the,
next month.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is there a second?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, but, so because she was a chair,
don't.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think she should be there. Last time… last year, I
was not there.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I think that we should be fair, that
we should do it when everyone is there. So I will second their motion.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I didn't know that she's not going
to be there. Yeah, so… That's what I…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would say that it's fair to have
everyone present, right? Because last year, I missed it, I felt bad.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, that's… that's my motion. We can
focus on the other things now. But it doesn't gotta work.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a motion and a second. So, we are
going for the roll call. Discussion? Oh, discussion.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): You were not here, indeed, last year.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): but in.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): in all fairness to the chair, she was the
chair, so we're going to put… so it's like putting a dent on the moving
forward, because I'm just saying installing.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Personally, that's me, because at the end
of the day, a new election would happen regardless.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nestleton.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Doesn't doable.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's not… it's an agenda, but I'm making a
motion to push it out to the next month, so that…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Laura, the motions have been discussed.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd like to make a comment. Please go
ahead.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd like to go ahead with it tonight. I
think,
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): As we were told, the chair had the
opportunity to participate remotely, and after.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): for whatever reason, she didn't take us up
on that. And we have a very important meeting tonight. I think we should
move forward and vote on a chair, and a vice chair, and move forward on
that.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So what you could do, is provide a
substitute motion. Oh, well…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, so my substitute motion would be to
nominate Claudio Bono as chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Motion would be to whether you are moving
forward… Oh!
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Voting tonight. Oh!
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, I could just say your substitute
motion, I believe, to… is to move forward tonight.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Correct. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's your substitute motion. I'll
second that. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now you'd open that for discussion. Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I hear what you're saying. I hear what
everyone's saying. I just don't feel like it's fair for the Parks and
Recreation Commission to install when it was still going to be,
regardless, a change within… I think… Sorry.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): One more comment is, I know, Sheila, last
year you weren't here, you had just been appointed, and I know that that
was a very quick turnaround for you, and so I completely understand why
you weren't able to be there. Yeah, right. But,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Here we are. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's like honoring a tradition, walking
along.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): He does.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. So, what is it now? That means it's
all nullified, so it has to go…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if you're closing the discussion on
the item… Closing the discussion. …still go to public comment.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you would check in on public comment?
Is there public comments on that?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers, Chair. Okay, perfect.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, let's move.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): substitute motion. You would move to a
vote on the substitute motion. Yep.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Kamaraquan?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): What is the subscription usually? So I
didn't get it sitting.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, could you restate the… Lindsay,
could you restate what they're voting on? The substitute…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is not to postpone the elections.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's… no.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Sirika?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It makes sense to move right there. Move
ahead with this election.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Today, because, you know, doesn't… Yes,
let's go with it.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Spanning? Yes.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Bono? Yes.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know, yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): We get it. Right, the motion carries.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): with Commissioner Kamara Pondolino.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, go ahead.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd like to make a motion for Claudio Bono
to become our chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I also make… do you accept that
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Why do you accept, yeah. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I also make a motion?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good substitute motion? Yeah. On this
motion? Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know you were always, taking… you want…
if you… as long as you're available and not missing meetings, I want to,
I… I'm gonna nominate you if you are up for it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Sure.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm for the nominated for what? Sinfor,
the chair.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a substitute motion.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we have a motion to nominate. We
have an acceptance. Do we have a second on that, that first motion?
Second that. Okay, so we have that.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now we have a substitute motion.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nominatingly.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, and then do you accept that? Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can second that to you. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Now you open for discussion.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry, that motion, the original motion?
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Mr. Park. Okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): two motions, and it's correct.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I'll be back down.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So now you have discussion on… The
substitute motion.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, so I felt that I knew I'm, not ready
to take up chair, otherwise I would have nominated myself. However, I
want to try vice chair this time. I've conducted, library. However, for
chair.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You guys have taken already some
positions. Vice Chair, you have been there, vice chair, you have been
chair, and has been the chair.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Commissioner, I know Commissioner
Kumarpan attends a lot of… for a while, you are here, but I know last…
past few months you've had some sandwich.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You have been so involved in all the
things, so I thought, you know, you would be a great… I mean, you should
get a fair opportunity to do that, so we can take turns, all of us can
take turns and bring in some ideas.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, are we close… okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, my comment on that is…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): As I said last year, participation and
attendance is really important to me. I think Claudio has shown his
dedication to being here, he's been the vice chair this year, and I
think,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): he's shown that he can be the chair. I
know that, Commissioner Kamaran has been chair before, and, before, when
he was on Parks and Rec, and, and I think
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): You'd be a great vice chair if you're
willing to step into that. So, I do think participation is important, and
I understand that sometimes family is more important.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And those are the priorities. But, I
think, Vice Chair Bono has his earned disposition.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Is there any more discussion?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Keshama, I take the… The absentism, I
don't want that to be…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Called out as the…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): disqualified or not enough qualification,
because, as I said, the last two meetings, specifically one I should have
attended, I left it on the same day because of urgency at the family in
India. It's not locally, I'm sitting here and
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): absence, everyone. I just came back last
night from India, so I'm still on jet life, so I had to go back to India
again to take care of my parents. So, I think that's not, but I think, as
I said, I do put enough time and effort on this.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): care for the park and dry accounting. So,
I sincerely respect her nomination, whatever she said. So, but yeah,
going forward, I will be continually attending it. It's not unless there
was any emergency calls out.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I don't want that to be as a disquality
factor to be nominated for the chair, so I just want to put it in clear
conditions. Any more discussions on.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): this. That's… I just want to clarify.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let's move into the.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Public comment. Public comment. Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have this first mister.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, we'll close, oral comments on
that, and we'll move with the roll call.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I would like to, if you could please
reiterate what the motion is.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The motion is to nominate Earl Paul as
chair.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Right?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we can ready to… yeah, that's the
first, yeah.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, it's always subsequently. Oh, I see.
Okay.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we're ready to vote.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Marupon? Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Shrieken?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Commissioner Stanek? No.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Bono? No.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's okay. Motion fails, with
Commissioners Stanek and Vice Chair Bono voting no.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, now we go, I think, the original
motion. For the original motion.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Would you like to re-discuss the original
motion before we're moving to roll call?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The original motion is to nominate Zeich…
Let's chair.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let me… one other comment is that this is
the last year of Commissioner Bono's term.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's true.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And…
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, there's not going to be another opportunity.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I also feel that I…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Very easy to be awards.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): don't have enough, you know, don't attend
enough meetings, but anyways, out of the… This is not what this is about.
No, no, like, give a fair opportunity.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): like, marking absent to the meeting
shouldn't be impacting this decision, right? Because he was still within
the limit of,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): But where I've seen the Commission
Kumarapan is he has attended all other park events. I've seen him taking
pictures, he's so involved in all parks and recs, he never asks
rudimentary questions, right?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): He, I mean, he was on top of other
activities as well. I definitely, much more than what I contribute, he
has contributed. I've seen him on the field, so that is why, I went with
Commission… I feel… No, I understand.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, appreciate it. I, I.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would like to just say one word before
we're moving to that thing. I understand everyone's position. I think,
personally, I may be old-fashioned. As a vice chair, it's a complete
lockstep to be chair, period.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): At the end of the day, regardless of
however our own individual lives are, I do have a 100% attendance record,
and I travel the world as well, and I know if something would happen to
my family, I would not want it to be held against me, fully understand.
But, yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): just my last year here, it wouldn't make
sense to be chair. So, if no one else has anything to say, I'd like to
close the, motion… the discussion, and we go back to the motion at play.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks, Nick, Mark?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): No. Can you reseed the…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): or go to the ocean.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the motion is to nominate Vice Chair
Bono as chair.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. VR screen, right?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And now we're going to the vote. Okay. No.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Striken?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I, I don't say no word.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Stanick? Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Bono? Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The motion to bail is with Commissioner
Sanick and Vice Chair Bono voting yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Now, we'll ask direction to staff.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): what's next.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Gotcha.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you get your way.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah. Or do you want?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): To do the vice chair.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we can move on to Vice Chair.
Because it is the next item on the agenda.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Oh, I see.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we would need to postpone before we
move on to the vice chair? Yeah.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): We don't have a choice. Oh, we can make
the vice chair now.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so… They can make another motion.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. I can try it again.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You guys are so cool.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's so cool.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Very cool.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): go… Oh, shit.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have to stay with decorum at the
meeting, but we can make another motion to vote
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): go to another vote, we can make another
motion, or you can go on to, you can make a motion to postpone, and then
move on to the vice chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can we have a discussion on?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then you would go to discussion on it.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will… I'll make a motion to move with
the vice chair nomination.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's how we need to make a motion. Oh, no?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How does that work? Sorry, I missed it.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We can make another motion for chair. For
chair, so another nomination, and go to… go to the discussion and the
vote again.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or you can make a motion to postpone.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, if you do that, then the next
item would… and you would vote on that, and then you would move to the
next item, which is the vice chair.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll make a motion to
postpone it to the, next meeting.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): the task selection.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Elsa.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Hey, what did you go and vote?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can you restate what the motion is? Here
we are.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): per share to the next meeting. Okay, and
don't start the vote.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now you discuss.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Here we are. We're gonna.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): 2 and 2, unless somebody wants.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): change their vote. We'll postpone, and
we'll roll the dice for next time.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, can you open public comment?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): already open to public comment for this
item. For this motion? Don't need to open it for.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): promotion, we just need to… Just that one.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Gotcha. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, now we go to both.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Madam Baro Pong? Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Shrieken?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Standard? Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Bono? Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Motion carries unanimously.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright. Twice, so…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, moving to the next one. Now, we're
going to enter our fiscal year 2020. Shoot. Sorry about that. Can I make
a motion on Vice Chair as well? Yeah, you can make a motion.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, hold on. Let's…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chair Bono will go to the next item, so
you'll state the item. Got it. Okay, we're now opening the front.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): subject will be to, select a vice chair
for the Parks and Recreation Commission, and the recommended action is to
conduct the selection bill.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, who wants to make a motion?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll make a motion to make, Sheila being
the vice chair. No.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I wanted to make a motion before
Commissioner Kumar, but…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): he already.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): takes out a motion, in the end, you have
to do a substitute motion. Particular to accept.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Except I'm not, yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I make a discussion before that,
accepting? Okay, so you mean? You mean an omni.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the next thing is, do you accept or
not accept that? Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or you make a substitute.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Well, accept or not accept. Right.
Quest, do you accept or not accept? Okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): For this week, I will not accept, because
it makes sense to push it out in case you become chair, the other one can
become vice chair. Okay, so motion… They both are out there.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): status quo. Okay, perfect.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right. Is there another motion to make
the Vice Chair? I would have made the same motion.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't like me.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, yeah, makes sense, right? Because
they are up there in any case, both of them are competing for chair,
right? And if one becomes the chair, other can become the vice chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's an accept, not accept. If it's
accepted, then you look for a second motion, and then you would discuss.
So, try not to… Okay, so is that an acceptance or a non-acceptance?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): non-acceptance for… So it's a non-
acceptance. Non-acceptance.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we don't have a second because there's
not an accepted. Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Depends on…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So now we'll make an option.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): to postpone the vice chair position to the
next agenda setting.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So moved.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): A, and then we have a second?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Second. Seconded.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nominated, Commissioner Standic, seconded,
correct?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, discussion?
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We don't need to go to public comment, or
this is a new agenda item. Correct.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We use all the same items, so we only need
you to go to public permit once. Gotcha.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We're really good about public comment and teen
commission.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We open it a lot. Okay, so now we would go
to a vote.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Kamara?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nice, nice to see you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Stanik?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Mr. Arvona? Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Chair Swami is absent. The motion carries unanimously.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, now…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): On the next subject item, the fiscal year
2026-2027 Community Funding Grants Application and Program Evaluation
Process, and the recommended action is to review the fiscal year 2026-
2027 Community Funding Grant Application and Program Evaluation Process.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I feel like I'm his own moment.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, it's… I'll speak.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd like to introduce Jacinta Liang,
Management Analyst, and share a staff report on the process. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, Vice Chair and Fellow
Commissioners. My name is Justin Tiplay, Management Analyst at the Parks
and Recreation.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So today, I will be going over the item.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): But before we begin, for complete
transparency, I need to ask if any commissioners have affiliation with
any of the applicant organizations.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): tonight? And if so, can you speak now?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oops. I'm a member of Rotary.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I'm not in leadership, so I will not.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Cruz myself.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm also on the road, libertarian.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other officials? No.
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Quinlan Conf Room: On tonight's.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): community funding meeting. I will give a
quick summary of.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): this year.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Received applications, and then invite the
organizations out to present details about their funding requests.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): And applicants will have 3 minutes for
their presentations, and the commissioners can then ask clarifying
questions.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): after.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are estimating a maximum of 10 minutes
per organization, which includes… And after the organizational
presentation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will go over the.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): eligibility and evaluation process, where
the evaluation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): discussion will take place next month at
the April Parks and Recreation meeting.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this year, we received 22 applications,
for.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): 18 new applicants and 8 returning
applicants. We'll plan for a quick 5-10 minute break after the new
applicant and returning applicant presentations.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): And organ…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): organizations within.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): attendance whenever.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): introduce your slide. Please come up to
the front of…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): The front of the table on the.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): conference room and be prepared to speak.
I will then share your submitted presentation on the screen, and there
will be a 1 minute and 30 minutes, or 30-second.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): My three minutes are almost up.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): And after your sophistication.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The nurse will ask any clarifying
questions.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): When the question and answer.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Once the session is complete, you may
leave the conference room, and I will introduce.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The next one.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): organization.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we'll get started with the organization
presentations now. Kim, Blue Leaf Labs.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): We may head to the on-deck bench and get
ready.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I see this right now.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can stand along with what I was told.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah. So, our…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): This applicant is blue equals.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They are a new applicant and requesting
funding for their Osenal Flux project. They are $750.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect. My name is Rowan. I'm here on
behalf of Bluebeam Labs, so…
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Everyone ready?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, Commissioners. My name is
Rohan Agarwal. I'm a 10th grader in Monta Vista High School, and I'm the
founder of Blue Leaf Labs, an environmental energy and research nonprofit
based here in Cupertino.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): In Cupertino, we get our drinking water
from Santa Clara County Valley Water, and they've listed seawater reverse
osmosis desalination as one of their future water sources in their 2021
Water Supply Master Plan.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): However, desalination generates highly
concentrated brine, and its disposal is of environmental concern and
economic cost for our taxpayers. That's why I'm developing Osmoflux, a
model and educational platform to recover energy from desalination brine
and deplete its concentration.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So this is what Osmoflux does.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): First, I'm building a computational model
of this technology, the reverse electrodialysis, to generate energy from
desalination brown. I'll be evaluating it using real plant conditions
using published valley water desalination data, and I'll identify where
energy is viable and where it isn't.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll also be constructing a physical
reverse electrodialysis prototype on a benchtop in a home lab. I'll
validate its measurement using the computational model, and I'll turn it
into a hands-on demonstration tool for classrooms.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Finally, I'll make sure my results are
public and open to all residents of Cupertino, and develop educational
materials for students and educators to learn more about the water-energy
nexus and desalination.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Here's where my requested $750 goes.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): The majority of it is into actually
building my physical prototype demonstration with $75 for contingency.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm requesting half of my budget from the
city. I've already received $220 from my school's research class, and
$530 from my personal and family sources. In fact, the city's funding
will help me develop my prototype. Next.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Here's what Cupertino gets back. Firstly,
open research data for any Cupertino resident to use. Second, a classroom
demonstration and educational materials related to the water-energy nexus
for environmental science, engineering, or chemistry classrooms.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next, I'll be presenting my findings at
community events, such as the FUHSD Climate Collective's annual Earth Day
and other local venues. And finally, I'll make sure that my analysis
stays local and relevant using Valley Water's published numbers.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our water is our problem. Our environments
is our biggest concern. CosmoFlux makes sure that those two concerns meet
in energy, education, and beyond.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Perfect. Thank you so much for
your time. Do any of you guys have any questions?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): the floor to Commissioners. We'll start
with, Commissioner Stanek, and then Commissioner Kamara Pan.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hi, thank you for the presentation. Sounds
very interesting. In your application, you.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): stated the project duration was September
of 25 to May of 26. Have you already started your research? And is this
already ongoing?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): computational model. However, I'm unable
to get access to certain materials that I need for the physical prototype
specifically because I lack funding. Again, I've managed to get about
half of my funding secured through external sources. However, in order
for my prototype to become a reality and a powerful demonstration tool, I
really need funding.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I guess one follow-up question is if you
were aware that this grant is for the next fiscal year of the city's
budget.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which doesn't start until July. And so,
I'm very concerned that… you're a first applicant tonight, but I think
there are a number of applicants that have timeframe that don't
necessarily match with the funding period.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I just wanted to clarify that.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect, yeah. I think my research is
definitely going to be ongoing. I think this is a technology that needs
to be explored, possibly in future years. Membrane technologies will
become more efficient, prices will drop, so I think it's really a multi-
year experience, and I definitely foresee, especially in July, I will be
working on leaving the center.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Kamara? Good catch.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I think that that's,
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Maybe I have two questions. One…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How does this directly help Copating or
residents, or students?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the computation model is, okay, once
you get the prototype. How does it help?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there's an area of science,
environmental science, known as the water-energy nexus. This involves
technologies such as desalination, osmotic energy generation, etc. And
I've found that in the environmental science classrooms today, especially
in Cupertino, education about the water-energy energy nexus is lacking.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I hope to use my physical prototype and
the associated learnings and findings from it to help better educate both
students and teachers that the water-energy nexus exists, and it's
impacting us on a day-to-day basis.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, the U.S.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have two in the classroom. That's
fantastic. The second question is, do you plan to partner with, I know
you're in Monta Vista, with other high school students, or the answer?
Because you can take it to the next level. Do you have a plan to partner
with others to share and take it to the next level? Because this is only
a first step.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do you have any plans? Currently, my plan
involves starting in Monta Vista, and then I definitely plan to extend it
to other schools, such as, you know, Hopestead, Fremont, in our district.
But then I think, potentially, I think De Anza and
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): possibly even West Valley College, if
that's in scope, is a really, really good option, because I've actually
taken some of their environmental science courses, and I think a
demonstration such as this would be very useful.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Awesome.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, because… thank you, Misha.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is this a solo project?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are you doing it by yourself, or do you
have a team of people from one of the stuff?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): As of now, it's only me working on this
project. However, my organization may scale this specific project to
outset individuals as well.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Any more questions?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for your presentation, and we
sincerely appreciate you being here. Thank you again.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much, all commissioners, for
your time. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, staff, introduce the presenter.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Local minds, will you please proceed to
the on-deck waiting area outside of the conference room?
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): strip?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we will invite our next presenter,
Einstalk.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, teams talk to Senior Applicant.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So they are requesting funding $450 for
their Cooper Teens Got Laps program.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for being here. The floor is
yours. Thank you. Good night, everyone. My name is Digi Chen.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): and I'm a freshman at.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): High School. It is my honor to be here to
present our grant for the.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): 2026, Cooperate Godlass event was
assembled by Teens Talk Foundation.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): First of all, who is Teens Talk? Teens
Talk is a non-profit founded by local high school students, and Teens
Talk started from a teens comedy club.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our mission is to create fun events for
teenagers and advocate for teen voices to be heard.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): 2025 was the first year that we held the
Cupertins Got Last event. With great help from Cupertino volunteer and
staff members, it was a big success.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): There were 5 local high schools, 22
performances, and 300 more attendees.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): The Cupertins Got Last event was held at
the Cupertino Community Hall at the end of November.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Based on audience feedback, we are
planning to make it an annual event, and make it even better from 2026.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now, let's move on to the 2026 event
budget forecast. In 2025, our total spending was $350.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): In 2026, we are predicting a total budget
of $900, and our requested grant is 50% of that, which is $450.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for attention, and
thank you so much for considering to help Cupertino teens to have more
fun. Any questions?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sessions from Commissioners?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, I think I had one question he
already answered quite something. Only one question, maybe I have a two
questions, one is related. How many overall do you expect in the future
here? Because, sorry, if you go back onto it, the number of people
attended the first one.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, it says 300 plus attendees right
now, right, in 2025. In the projection, you're… you're trying to spend
more. That means you're projecting that more attendees will be there from
the high school. Do you have any projection how many you're going to
double? 600, or people… On high schools or attendees?
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): attendees in general.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I thought attendees are high school
students, it's not.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, can you repeat that? These attendees
are high school students, or in public, or general public?
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): anyone in general, or… Oh, thanks.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I see. Yeah. And do you expect that to
be doubled? That's what you're asking for more funding?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's it? That's it. Go ahead.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): ask the question. If you go back to the 25
and 26 comparison on the cost, it looks like the mayor, that you were
granted, the venue for free last year, and so that is contributing a lot
to the increase in your costs. Yes. And so it seems that… Oh, I see,
sorry. Is it true?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Make this mistake.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): In the form of a question that, basically,
this would help you get there, because the costs are higher, because of
the… primarily the venue. Yeah, primarily because of the venue.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, thank you, Todd.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks for your presentation. Thank you,
thank you.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can we please have the next presenter?
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Please proceed to the on-deck waiting area
outside the conference room.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next I will.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): by Colorful Minds. They are a new
applicant to check staying funding of $1,500 for artboard shops for
neurodivergent disorders.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, applicants. Just wanted to
remind you, you have 3 minutes for your presentation. Staff will also
show you when you're closer to.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): the time being, off. So, the floor is
yours. Good luck.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, Commissioners! We are
Telephone Minds.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): My name is Caitlin. My name is Queen. My
name's Nicole. I'm Emma. And I'm Sarah.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The next slide.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, a little bit about our organization.
We are a 501c3.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): certified nonprofit organization that is
aimed at providing a safe space for neurodivergent children through
creative self-expression, specifically through different mediums or… next
slide.
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Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): So our workshops we host every Sunday at
the Coppertino Library, but every month we also attend.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): PACE workshops, where we partner with
PACE, or Pacific Autism Education Center, which is a nonprofit
organization that also helps children and adults with autism.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): But our normal workshops, we… we never
really have class schedules, but instead, we let the children come in,
and we let them choose what activity they want to do.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, because we value their interests,
their values, and their preferred way of expressing themselves
creatively. So, we do painting, sculpting, coloring, scratch art, zooming
in the long run.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 14 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, in addition to our workshops, we also
host and attend events. Just some examples of events.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): we have hosted is, like, the Artworks for
Clements, which is an art competition that I've hosted. Another one is a
recent community event, in which we co-hosted, like, a board game day
with some of our volunteers in conjunction with our usual Saturday
workshop. We've also, attended a couple resource fairs. One, for example,
is the San Andreas Regional Center Superhero Summer Festival, and there,
we just engage with our community, share about our organization, but we
also
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): We offer face painting, as well as our
keychains, and any money made from these resource fairs goes towards
funding our workshop materials.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, what would our funding be used for?
So, a majority of our funding will be used for the material.
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Speaker 16 (Quinlan Conf Room): and equipment used during our creative
workshop. For example, things like, acrylic paint, canvas, and quantum
peg. So around $1,200 will be allocated for these art materials.
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Speaker 16 (Quinlan Conf Room): Something else that our funding will be
used for is renting the rooms and venues, for example, the Cupertino
Library, and also other
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Speaker 16 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like, rooms and venues for other events,
like we mentioned previously, and around $300 will be allocated towards
rentals.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Some additional info, all.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): All of our volunteers are high school
students, and we handle everything, such as the finance, teaching,
promotion.
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Speaker 17 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're based in Cupertino Library, but we
don't have an exact number of students who are Cupertino residents,
because we don't take that data from them, but we do know that they are
from around the Cupertino area, and we've only received money from
donations from parents and students.
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Speaker 17 (Quinlan Conf Room): And from the money that we receive from
fairs and festivals.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for your time.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. I'm, making the floor for
Commissioners. Any questions?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Kamarafin? Yeah, so, two
quick questions. One is, I think in the application you mentioned, there
are 34 participants, right?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): In number of participants, yeah, so, 34.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's in 2025, so if it exceeds
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Juan, so do you have enough volunteers in
yours to help them out? Yes. In your organization? So, what happens
during our.
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): workshops is that the students can, like,
sign up, depending on their, like, own time and whether they're
available. So it's not, like, a set class where, like, they have to come
in every workshop, it's whenever they have time. So usually we have
around, like, seven students, at a time, and then we'll have volunteers
helping them out more one-on-one.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, not 34 at the same time. No, not 34 at
the same time.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I see.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, and how do they… second question is,
how do they really know, especially the neurodivergent children, right?
In Cupertino, specifically? I know you don't take that count, but how do
you really make it a point that they get to know that this one? Because
there are many people I personally know.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): When I went to Copenhagen High School and
other areas, when I go and work with them, there are many.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How do you really promote? Because you
don't know how many people… how many Cupertino residents, or the kids
from Cupertino.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But how… what are the mechanisms you
communicate that you have such workshops?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): What is your question? Because I'm getting
lost. You have a question.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Communication mechanisms that this
particular program exists.
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Quinlan Conf Room: due to the Cupertino residents.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How do they find?
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Speaker 15 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, so we started off with, just
knowing a couple of, like, parents who, our calendar, and they started
coming to our workshops, and really, it's just been, like, word of mouth,
but also word of mouth, but also, we attend those, like, resource fairs,
and that's also how we get, like, encourage more students to come as
well.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. My question is simply to see
that you're doing some good program. How do you make it more aware? There
are many kids in the
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): can utilize yours, so thank you. All
right, any other questions?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, go ahead, Commissioner Stanley.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): In the event that we can't give you the
full $1,500, I believe you stated that a minimum would be $1,000. Is that
to just continue the program, or is that… you'd be looking for a minimum
from the city in terms of a grant? We can't get that, then…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): What program does it continue? And is it
planned for next school year?
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Speaker 17 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, so, our organization will be, like,
continuing, for, like, the, you know, next, like, few years, maybe even
longer, so we are definitely planning for the next school year and,
beyond. And, in the case that we don't receive the full funding, we will
still be able to, like, continue our work from the donations that we
receive.
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Speaker 17 (Quinlan Conf Room): But we might not be able to supply the
students with the best materials that we think they deserved. So yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any more questions from Commissioners?
Perfect. Thank you so much for your presentation.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I truly thankful.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): What do I have these here?
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): in the world.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Wish you a wonderful evening. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, line for you, please press next to
the undetermining area, slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'll invite our…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): When I was here, and so we have food
blips. They are a new applicant requesting.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): $2,500 in funding.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): for their police recovery program.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening and welcome.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): You will have 3 minutes for your
presentation. Our staff will signal you when it's almost time is up, and
the floor is yours. Good evening, and welcome.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hi, my name is RJ Nathan, and I'm the
founder of FoodLifts.org, a youth-led 501.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): C3 nonprofit organization based here in
Cupertino, California. Next slide.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our organization aims to fight both food
waste and food insecurity by specifically addressing close to 11% of all
food waste that comes from grocery stores and farmers markets in our
county alone.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So here's how it works. First, we collect
at the physical market location. Then, we transport the produce with care
and deliver it to our partner organizations, where it can then be fed out
to our community and feed those who need it the most. Next slide.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So far, our organization has recovered
over 500 pounds of produce, and we've delivered it to two major food
banks, West Valley Community Services and Martha's Soup Kitchen. And for
every pound of produce that we save, we are contributing to our
environmental sustainability by limiting 2.8 pounds of CO2
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): from emitting into our atmosphere. Next
slide.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So today, I propose a $2,500 grant from
the City of Cupertino, and I'll break down what this means for our
organization within the next coming months. Next slide.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the large…
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the largest share of the money will go
towards collection equipment, specifically heavy-duty stackable crates
and rolling utility carts. And today, I have an example of what those
utility carts would look like. So, these things look very simple, but
they cost actually around $5 to $10, and we need approximately 50 to 60
of these for each time that we plan to collect.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): We also want to spend around $800
specifically towards transportation, and this includes both U-Haul car
rentals and fuel costs, and we estimate those to be anywhere between $50
to $60 for each trip that we have. Next.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): We also want to make sure that our
volunteers are remaining professional and food safety, like, certified,
so we want to purchase vests and gloves so they know where to do that.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): And finally, the last part of our money,
around 4%, will go towards our website and domain hosting. We host our
website on Hostinger.com, which requires a $23 per month subscription,
but we also want to use that money for volunteer scheduling and data
integration.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for listening to my
talk today. Do you guys have any further questions?
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can choose that.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Promotheutin?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): driving the new hobby.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we would… our organization is 100%
youth-based, mostly, but we also need parents specifically for that, for
driving those U-Haul cars. So, we would… right now, our team is around 5
to 10 people, but we're trying to market this through our social media,
which you can find on our Instagram.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): One more question.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sometimes, wherever you're collecting the,
produce from, don't they give boxes, cartons?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): to be united by the sun.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, so…
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): you might ask why I might not use a
cardboard box with something else that would be a little bit cheaper?
Well, these ones, the specific reason is because there's contamination
issues. For example, if we have things like fruits like pomegranates and
oranges, those can easily leak, and so we want to make sure that if we…
instead of getting a cardboard box, we have none of these, which is very
savy and secure, in order to make sure we transport with efficiency and
care.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): state that your program duration is 3 to 4
years. When do you anticipate spending this?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): We made… our opposition requested $2,500
today. We plan to spend most of this money within the next… around 4 to 6
months, in particular. But our duration will be much longer than that.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, will you have money in the 4 to 6
months? And the reason I ask that is that this grant for the next fiscal
year for the city, starts in July. Yes.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, so regarding that, we will have the
funds until then, because we will… we have other funding that we also
secured from the Youth Service America grant, which is around $1,000. So
we have… we are also reaching out to other programs also to fund our
programs, not just Cupertino Community Grants.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Minimum, you said, if we couldn't, because
we have limited files, if we couldn't support.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): request. Yes.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): The minimum that you.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): would be looking for?
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): We would be looking anywhere between
$1,000 to $1,250 for that.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): What you came up.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And yet, Commissioner and Kamara Penn?
Yes. How many times.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do you do this on a weekly basis, or do
you collect the food, you said, right, from farmer's market and others?
So often you do…
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Basically, the produce that we've
collected so far has been, we've done it around the November-December
timeline, sometime around then, but those were mainly just to test
whether this
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): program will be, like, actually
applicable, like, whether we can actually scale this to actually become
something. And so we've determined that that's possible, so now we're
planning to try to, like… the money that I'm trying to request today is
to implement, like, a formalized collection program, something that's
structured, rigid, and that can continue for, like, the time to come,
even in a situation where I don't even need…
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, that's on a weekly, monthly? Yes,
that would be on a weekly basis, one… two times a week, on Saturday and
Sunday.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Picaizo.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you're doing it for weekly, the cost
for the U-Haul one, that's what I was questioning. The second one is, do
you have any partnership? You've tested out with the local grocery stores
or anything?
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, yes. So, we are currently working
with… trying to work with Felipe's Market in order to implement a
collection program there, and we want to expand at… specifically at
Felipe's Market, a lot of their produce is, like, mold or rotten, so we
also want to expand looking into composting, which is one… another thing
that we're looking into. But yet again, and we're also looking to partner
with Second Harvest, so I just had a talk with them a couple days back
about their food recovery program, but we haven't… those details are
still
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've worked out as of the moment right
now.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, thanks.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's all questions? Perfect. I don't
have a question, but I just have a feedback. I think that what you do is
wonderful, and I wanted to thank you, because there's a lot of food
insecurity going on right there, and to come up with ideas like this and
move forward takes a lot of courage and a lot of good heart, so thank
you. Thank you so much. Thank you again for your presentation.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, and I thank all of you guys for
listening, and let me talk. Thank you so much for being here today.
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Speaker 18 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks, Jessa.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): farm, and I think, to the…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): on deck, believe.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): area, while.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I invite our.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): next speaker.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Mine, where you had shown.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They are a new applicant requesting $2,500
in funding for their heart care program that delivers medical resources.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening. Can I interject? They're
getting the information about the timing, so you don't have… have to tell
them again. Sure. And you're at about 6 minutes so far, total. Okay.
Okay. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hi everyone, thank you for your time. My
name is Sarah, and I'm the founder.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): of Mind for Youth, which is a nonprofit
that makes mental health resources accessible for all young people.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): I started this organization after I had a
sibling attend Monta Vista High School, and he was diagnosed with
depression at that time, and so that's when I learned how big of an issue
mental health is, especially in the Cupertino area.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this is one of mine for youth's
biggest programs called HeartCare, which distributes mental wellness kits
to youth to promote awareness and also make resources accessible. So,
these kits include items like slime, handmade cards by other youth.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): and awareness merchandise, and then some
of our special items are with our partnership with Lush, where we also
include bath bombs, and then a food therapy voucher.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): From our partnership with BetterHub. Next
slide.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So far, we have distributed 5,100 heart
care kits across North America. This includes the United States and
Canada so far. However, for me, local impact also means just as much as
impact anywhere else, especially by being a Cupertino resident. I think I
really want to give back to my community here as well in Cupertino.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide. So, with the $2,500 grant I'm
requesting, 80% of the kits that we make with this grant go towards
middle and high schools in the FUHSD and CUSD districts.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this includes special programs such
as ESL, special education, and at-risk youth programs, and then the other
20% of the kits we make will go towards, homeless shelters for youth in
the Santa Clara County.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. And then, as a part of this
program as well, we'll be holding volunteer events to assemble the kits
themselves.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we predict that we'll hold events that
reach about 150 volunteers from Cupertino, so we're also bringing our own
community together to get involved in this effort. And then these are
some of the pictures of events for volunteering we've held in the
Cupertino Library so far.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this is just an overview of our
budget. As you can see, 90% of our grant will be going towards the kit
materials themselves. And then on the next slide, there… this is a more
specific breakdown of
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): which, items, and then how much each item
costs. So, in addition to the materials themselves, we'll also be
spending on the kit boxes, and then things like printing vouchers,
getting wristbands, stickers, and slime.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide. So, with this grant, we
estimate that we'll be able to assemble 1,400 kits for youth, so also
reaching 1,400 youth, but also the other teens and adults that we're able
to engage in the volunteering process of assembling these kits.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, welcome to questions by
Commissioner of tomorrow.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Couple of quick questions. One,
how do you identify when you distribute the kids? And it's a privacy
issue, right? Mental health, or nobody's going to say that to one in
school. So how do you really select and distribute? I know you said
5,100, whatever, do you go out, the nation, or even Canada, you say?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How do you select and distribute? Yeah, so
for.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): selection process, our main kind of
demographic in the past has been if they are a participant of one of the
programs. So, for this grant, if they attend, for example, if they're a
part of the special education program at a high school, we usually
distribute kits to all students, because we realize that mental health
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): it's not just about needing help, that
might not be the only issue, but there's also stigma with mental health,
and so I believe that reaching all youth, regardless of whether they are
currently, like, facing a mental health condition, is still important for
addressing the stigma that's involved. So we do get it to all youth who
are a part of a program.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): The second question is, since you're
already done food.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 5K plus, number one. Is there a way you
measure that there is an improvement, or the school gives you a feedback,
or wherever, that, yes, it helped, kind of? Do you get the feedback?
Yeah, in the past.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've distributed mainly to youth
homeless shelters, and so from the people who run those shelters, we've
heard how much, like, fun those kids and recipients have had with the
kids.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we've also heard from a youth
directly that because of the voucher that we give with BetterHelp to
access free therapy, that helped them personally a lot, because it also
helped them address the linguistic barriers
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): With, mental health and speaking to a
counselor, since the platform offers therapy in multiple languages.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent, excellent. Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, Rick. Good luck, Commissioner
Smith.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): You show the program duration of 9 months.
Is there a from and a to? When is that 9 months? Yes, so, the.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): from will be about from June, so the,
this year of June.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Two, we estimate, it should wrap up in
December of this year as well. So, it won't be too long of a program, but
main thing is also holding the volunteer events throughout the year, so
it won't just be we assemble all the kits at once. We'll be doing it,
throughout the year, multiple events.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Two assemble kits and distribute that.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, and… My other question is, what
slime?
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, someone like this, like…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's funny.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, yeah, slime's like a
footy, so it's for, like.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Relaxation or something.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's really slight here. Yeah, we found.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): I feel like kids really enjoy that, just
from school, like, it's sometimes a nice distraction as well. Okay, thank
you. Great idea.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): question for you, are those 1,400 kits
that you foresee are going to be all for Cupertino? Because there are,
like I said, on another slide, you were talking about North America, so I
just wanted to say, geographically, are those 1,400 going to be here in
Cupertino, provided? Yes.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, of those 1,400, 80% of them will be
going directly in Cupertino, so to schools in the FUHSD and CUSD
district, but then the other 20%, we're hoping to distribute in
Cupertino, but also a bit around Cupertino, so we can reach youth who are
in homeless shelters currently. Right, because there are no homeless
shelters.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): In Cupertino, yeah, yeah. Alright, thank
you so much. Is there…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): No other questions. Warren, thank you so
much for your presentation. Thank you. Thank you.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of course, mind as a lot of these are the
speakers who are on day.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): waiting area.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): First, from Flower Magic, they are a new
applicant requesting $1,000 in funding to drive their seniors to visit
places.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hello everybody, good evening. My name is
Archana Panda. I'm a 20 years resident of corporate.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): and I'm also Art and Culture
Commissioner, and I've been work… I've worked with Oracle, I've worked
with Comcast and Wells Fargo. I'm an engineer. I also have teaching
experience in Unified Public School System. I'm an education teacher for
San Jose State. Last five years, I've been working with seniors.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): I do, exercise diasporas for them every
morning, from 2021 till now. Every morning, they have rain or shine, we
do exercise, dancing, and recently, like, from last 3 years, we also
started taking them to performances. And I've observed in this duration,
I have come across their life very closely, emotionally, socially,
financially. I mean, all my seniors are kind of very close to me.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I felt that I can now take them one
step higher. I've realized that they feel very left out in technology and
studying, in, like, I feel there are four things that they actually mean.
Scared, I call it. C is connecting, connected, being connected. A is
staying alive, R is being respected, and E is education. And coming from
outside, especially if they're immigrants, they don't usually have that
much of
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): technical expertise, but they are willing
to learn. I mean, even if they're 18, 90, I have my students 95 years who
still wants to learn how to do slides, how to text, how to… what is
Google Suite, and we have taken these things, like, in smaller scales,
but I feel I can scale it up a little bit. I have limited potential in my
capacity, but if given a chance, I want to take a little further, scale
it up to more people, and, you know, and it's my class of
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): free. Zoom, and it's on Zoom, Zoom every
morning, it's free.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): So anybody who can, you know, who wish to
learn something, they can come and, you know, whatever I can share.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): So now, what's my plan? What I want to do
with the fund that's being assigned? So I want to take it to schools.
Being a teacher for 5 years, I've seen the school system, the children,
and the seniors. They kind of complement each other. I have a plan in
mind, which I call the heritage. If I can bring my seniors to schools and
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): These people whose parents are very busy,
and I can understand me being a parent, I've been so… my schedules are so
busy, if they can make a grandparent-children combination.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the children can teach my seniors
technology, and the seniors can teach them heritage, storytelling, their
legacy, their culture, and the students can, in return, give them the
basic knowledge of technology. Now, it's not rockets, it's very simple on
either side, but they need to be connected. That connection I want to
form, like, very minimal resources, techno-technical
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): computers, and it's not, like, new. RAFT,
there's a center called Resource Area for Teachers. They have very
reasonable charges for all these technical instruments. I, being a
teacher, I'm authorized to take it, so in very limited amount, I can
actually set up a center where my seniors and students can benefit from
each other. So, what are the…
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): pros and what are the cons. So this not
only teaches them education, science, technology, but it kind of bonds
them together. They give up, they get a sense of attachment, the seniors
and the students. I'm sorry, I'm not following this thing, but I'm just
speaking from my heart, from my mind, what is in my mind, what I wanted
and wished to do. So, and it's just not the, fund, but it's a
recognition. When I go to… when I… when I go to…
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): go and talk to the schools about what my
plans are. It'll give me a very strong foothold that people believe in
what I'm planning to do, my dream, my aspirations.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, yeah, and in the end, I'll say that I
have 3 children who have graduated from Manta Vista High School, and
they've settled well. So they… from them, I learned that what they need,
what my seniors need, there are two potential sections, which needs to be
brought together. I'll need your good wishes for that purpose.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm too wide.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Sweet.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): How would the funds be?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the funds that you're requesting?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there's the expense. Sure.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the space is figures, you know,
there's no overhead, there's no person, they all are volunteers, but the
resources, the computers, the material that we can get, all the stuff,
and I plan to have some little bit of event organizing stuff.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I want to take it long, not just one
time I can afford, but if I can sustain it for long, one year, two years,
five years, so for the smaller expenses, I need to have that fund
available with me for the parents or the seniors, even if I find the free
rides for them, or the low-paid rights for them. So those small, small
expenses add up. So those are the things I… and also the small resources.
In RAFT, I get computers within $50 to $100.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): If I can get those for, like, a set of
10, my seniors can sit together to learn. My students, if they come, if I
have to award somebody, like, smaller… those are small expenses, but I
need to have a budget for that.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other questions? Commissioner? Yeah.
So, do you,
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): partner with, our senior centers, because
senior center has this.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I have taken classes there. One
full session I had taken last season, I taught them… all the seniors
were… first, I did in my groupindo Sports Center. For four years, I was
teaching the Bombay Jam.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Then I've got some hurt, then I started
seniors dance… teaching dances to seniors. So, in my… in our senior
center, I've taken last season one dance full session free, like, for my
seniors.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, okay, sorry.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And my question was.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is… you said you're selecting people,
like, who were the seniors, they're not for whatever… Right, right. So
it's the same thing, can you do it for the… because you said everyday
mornings you're doing it. Yes.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can you… are you partnering with the
senior centers? Because a lot of folks in senior centers can also utilize
your.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): Absolutely, sir, I've already… I've
already been doing that. Okay. I teach them dance, aerobics, Zumba,
pranayam, yoga, and meditation. Okay. This semester, I could not get the
slot open, but last semester, I taught them there. Awesome. Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's the only question, because the
moment you showed, I thought, that's the only question I have.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): your son? Yes.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): The application, and what's shown there
is the grant.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's to… for driving our seniors to.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): visit places. I couldn't quite hear you.
I heard you talking about things.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): seniors to meet with students, but I
thought in the application it was more about performances and things like
that, so I don't just… They'd like to clarify. They're also doing that,
but.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): I have a bigger vision than that, that
when I applied for it, that was also in my mind, but now I think that my
dream, my vision, my mission is a little higher than just taking… for a
purpose, for a passion, for some… something that they can attain, for
that mission of accomplishment. Not just going, but doing something. I
feel my seniors can do much more than just visiting and enjoying.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): that they do anyways. But if they have
something that they are worth of doing, getting that,
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): That, you know, that… The word, I should
say is.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): the project that they can help. I mean,
nobody else can do that. They have a lot of experience, potential talent,
which they can share with others. And if they can, you know, pass that
legacy to our children, to our students, I mean, that will be win-win for
both groups.
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Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I'm not exactly, like, planned out in
which way in smaller things, but I feel that once I get that allowance
and that permission, the plan can be formulated.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any more questions?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Appreciate it. Thank you so much for your
presentation. Thank you, Lisa.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Institute for the Study of Western
Civilization, you may proceed to the on-vacuating area while inviting.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): our next presenter.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): center. So it's, you know, this limestone.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the Science Club is a.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): applicants. They are requesting $5,000 of
funding for their fish upon.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening, welcome, the floor is yours.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. As a proud lion, I want to say.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): happy or part of your community. We've
been serving Cupertino for over 60 years.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Annually, since 1964, we've held a fish-
a-thon. This event is an event for disabled and handicapped individuals,
mentally and physically. We bring them together for a day of fishing.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Currently, we, have stocked a pond with
fish, we purchase the fish, we put it in, the pond's made for a special
for this, and then we invite the community to come in. We use the
community of
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Dios, that's the Junior Lions in high
school. We bring in the Boy Scout troops, 290, and then we also bring in
the Flycasters as a community event. This event, is designed to
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Give a day of fishing to these people.
They actually come, they have volunteers, we escort everyone down for a
safe day, they come, they learn how to cast, they catch their fish. The
Boy Scouts, now, they get to earn their medal in fishing.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): So they gut the fish, they clean the
fish, they present the fish back to the participants.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): The participants are, like, so excited
when they see their fish. And then we take pictures of them, just like
it's a trophy fish, and then we send them home with 3 fish.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): that they can provide food for their
family for that day. People have been coming to this event. There's one
person who's never missed it.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): We do not… we're inclusive. Once you get
into the list, we will continuously invite you. We have the communities,
the whole entire Bay Area, we reach out to places.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let's serve these people and say, we
would like to have a day of fun for them.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's so rare that they get a day of fun,
and this is a day of fun. That's what it's all about. Lions, we say we
serve. We recognize this need in the community because we want them to
feel that they're part of their community. We want them to feel like they
can… they…
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): The joy! It's unbelievable if you've ever
been. Cupertino has, awarded us several awards for this event. And so,
over the last couple years, during the COVID time, we didn't have
fundraising like we had before. We're rethinking how we're fundraising so
that we can keep this event.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): And if you can flip through my slides, I…
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just that's true.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, sorry, she's been showing you.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Billings?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I think it's already slipped.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, what I want to say here is that we're
asking for some money to help purchase the fish. The fish are not cheap.
They're growing up in Mount Glasson, they stock them, they grow them,
then they ship them down here. That's a cost that actually we have to pay
every year so we can put on this event. We're ecstatic to put this event
on. Every year, we bring the community in, and our club has been doing
this for so long.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any questions, please? And we're opening
the floor to the Commission.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): and Commissioner Comerica. I know you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): You mentioned that you have so many
people, and you said only 10.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): On this one, but how many people you… how
do you select those people? Okay, so…
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): to all the, people that… groups that deal
with people that are physically challenged and mentally challenged. We
take 50-50 of each of them. And then once they get on the list, they're
always on the list. We do not exclude everyone, but we add people every
year.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so right now, we're up to about 104
people that are served every year.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 140.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, it's 104 people last year. We expect
this year to be about 100, 110 is our goal, and that we know we can
support that when we buy the fish.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 1 tenth of it is the Scopardino residence,
right? Because the reason I went is a 10, because I thought that's a
total, but it's total 140 out of each 10 are…
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's over 100 volunteers in this
thing, so…
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Most of the volunteers are cute patino.
The single kids come from.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): from San Jose and a half years.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, you know.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you never know where.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Prior to COVID, there was a group fairwest
in Cupertino, and we would go through them.
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): year after COVID.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And things had moved around.
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): a little bit. But we still maintain, if
you're on our list, Grace, who is 93, has gone to all 60 of these events.
We have…
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): kids that… that know me, even if I don't
know them. Some of them are 50 or 60 years old. They are wheelchair-
bound. This is the only chance they have to go out into the wilderness
and experience local food movement, where they actually get to see where
the food comes from. This is what a real fish looks like, and depending
on their
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): physical ability, they actually do the
whole fishing, or they just cast, and then they receive help bringing it
in. And then the Boy Scouts do handle the knives and the gutting of the
fish and the cleaning, so that they can receive them ready to cook at
home. Awesome. Thank you.
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, thank you.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): Your event date is April 25th.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Correct. And so this grant for this cycle
is for the city fiscal year that begins in July. Okay. And so,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): you've been doing it for 60 years, I'm
presuming. Yep. It's always…
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): The last week of April, first week of May
is when we always do it. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, yeah, just so you're aware, these
funds wouldn't be available.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And you asked for $5,000. Right.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, you know, we have limited funds, so
do you ask if there was a minimum amount? Is there something in my.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the cost for the fish this year is
going to be about $5,900. The cost for the entire event is going to be
close to $12,000. Anything that's contributed by the City of Cupertino,
we would love to have your sponsorship in this.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): question is, so you said it's the Stevens
Creek.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): Corey, it's not the reservoir?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Across the street. It's across the street.
Okay.
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Speaker 25 (Quinlan Conf Room): He likes to do the dirt and block.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right, okay, because I know.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now at the… at the reservoir, there's
signs that say that the fish could have mercury.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): All of that.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): All of our fish are brought in 3 days
before the event. The quarry makes a special pond for us. Oh, okay. And
then after that pond is made, we stock it, and then we do the fishing,
and then they take away the pond, actually, and go back to what they're
doing. So it's a temporary pond just for this event that they do every
year for us. They started this event 5 years before.
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Speaker 25 (Quinlan Conf Room): No. Yes. These are… farm, fresh.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's a bitch.
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): It doesn't impact any local businesses.
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Speaker 23 (Quinlan Conf Room): Lawson Fishy is where we get our fish.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Any more questions from the
Commissioners? Perfect.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for your presentation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): This lives in the undead waiting area.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): While I invite our next speaker.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Western civilization, okay.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): How are you being.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): advocate for costing $5,000 in funding
for… I'm sorry.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): I couldn't hear English language said.
I'm so sorry. Just the last line.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So our…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): applicant, and.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Institute for the study of Western
Civilization. They are requesting $5,000 for their continuing education
units for their Institute Scholarship program teachers. Welcome, and…
Good evening.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Since 2000.
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Speaker 17 (Quinlan Conf Room): the Institute for the Study of Western
Civilization has been linking the past to the present. Our mission is.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): is to advance our collective
understanding of how we, in the 21st century, came to be who we are by
studying the arts and culture, the challenges and achievements, and the
context of Western civilization within the global history of humanity.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): We offer the only university-level
continuing education courses in history and humanities in the South Bay,
and it is a vital part of our mission to offer our courses to teachers
who are guiding the next generation.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our institute scholarship program has
provided free tuition to our classes for over 160 Santa Clara Valley
secondary school teachers over the past 8 years.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): The Institute also pays for the
continuing education units through the University of Pacific Professional
Development Continuing Education Program, which costs about $17,000 per
year. A $5,000 grant, or any amount, would be helpful to defraying those
costs.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): You might be wondering, is this really
that impactful? So let's hear from a teacher who's actually been coming
to the Institute for several years.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Greg Russo, Homestead High School social
studies teacher, says, quote, The Institute's lectures have been a gift.
Dr. Frenlin brings history into focus with a richness that goes far
beyond dates and names, revealing the ideas and personalities that have
shaped our world.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): The clarity of presentation, coupled with
an ability to weave big picture themes with vivid detail, has given me
stories, insights, and perspectives that translate directly into more
engaging and meaningful classroom discussions.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Every session leaves me with new ways to
frame lessons, new anecdotes to share, and a renewed sense of why the
study of history matters. So if teachers like… end quote. So if teachers
like Greg Rousseau can get inspired, imagine how his enthusiasm
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): It encourages curiosity and learning in
students.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the Institute's impact on teachers is
real, it's deep, and over 18,000 students have benefited.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): So again, any amount of… any grant would
be helpful to defraying these costs. Thank you.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much, and welcome to the
Philippine Commission, if you have any questions.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We should have to marathon.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Huh.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know you said that it is mainly teaching
the teachers, and then they… Yes. …and then they go to the students,
right? Yes. But is it open to public?
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes. So, you know, asking specifically
about what we would do with this money, it would be for that program. But
yes, so we have a range of programs for the general public. Anybody can
come to these classes. We actually started… Dr. Fredland, Bill Fredland,
who launched the Institute as a founder, he started classes, history,
humanities classes.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the general public, and then later.
730
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because there were teachers in his
classes who would say, wow, this is really helpful, and so then they were
able to get enough funding through another grantmaker to be able to
launch a program where they could offer free tuition. Right now, it's
$335 a quarter, there's three quarters, so that's…
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): a fair amount of money for a teacher. So
this way, we offer free tuition for all of that, plus we pay for their
continuing education units.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): For anybody.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the public to come.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of course, and a quick follow-up.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): follow-up question on that.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is it not part of the standard curriculum
in the school, or how does… how does it augment this? Why it's not
equally so important thing? I just want to make sure that you are
complementing, or… Yes, yes. …filling the gap. Yes.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, I don't know how you all feel about
history, but there are many times, even for history teachers, where it
can be a little bit dry, or it can be a little bit, narrow, and on top of
that, how you teach.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if you're someone who loves to read,
and that's how they became interested in history, and they read texts.
739
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): They might be assigning a lot of reading,
where the students aren't necessarily interested in learning history that
way.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, not only do they, you know, these
stories and things, it's because Dr. Fredland and the lecturers there,
and full disclosure, I am a lecturer there as well, you know, we provide
very engaging, richly illustrated.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): PowerPoint presentations with links and
stories, and it just makes it much more widely. So, like the teacher in
the, you know, Greg Russeau said, it impacts
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): how he links the things together. So he's
also modeling for them how you can teach this in a more engaging way for
students, and also prompt discussion, because I think that's really
important, especially linking… understanding… I mean, why study the past
at all? It's because it affects today. This is how we got here, and it's
going to affect later, and they're later. They're the future. So really
having them link the past to the present to the future is really key.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Awesome. Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So much, and the more fresh.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, you chose that your program duration
is June 1st through the 30th. I guess that's when the teachers are off
school, so that they can take it. June 1st through the 30th of 2026? I'm
not sure why.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm sorry, I didn't fill out the form.
748
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): says that's probably because that's when
they apply for the continuing ed units, I'm not sure, but…
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): It is… the courses themselves are 10
weeks, 3 10 weeks.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): The teachers actually… that's how
engaging it is. They're teaching all day, and they still come 30 times a
year to listen to another lecture, so that's how engaging the lectures
are. And so I'm not sure why it says. Okay, okay, because the funds…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): this grant period will begin with the
city's fiscal year in July. Oh. So, so there won't be any funds. It won't
even be approved.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, so I'm sorry, and then the classes,
the classes start, in the fall, so it runs smooth… Okay. So, and then I'm
not sure how… I, I'm sorry. Okay, okay. And the funding, I thought I've
read that.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): The funding is actually to pay UOP for the
continuing education credits, is that right? Yes. So that's where the
dollars, they come in, and the teachers get the continuing education
credits? Yes, so we pay for that.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): And depending on the number of teachers
doing things, it can be about $17,000 a year, so even if we've got the
maximum $5,000, we're still putting out other money, so this is already,
you know, so again, just a little bit. Okay. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for your… Okay.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're gonna have to stand up for me. Thank
you.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, thanks for that. Peace for Steve.
758
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll invite her.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Disappointed.
760
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's not their fault.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's beautiful.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have 5 new before we have a break.
Okay. Five more. Oh, okay. Okay. We will have a break. We have American
Legion.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): post 6.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They are a new applicant requesting $1,000
for their pizza cost in America.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would like to introduce Our commander of
our post, Vince Panini, and our.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Arturo's gonna help me. You guys can go
ahead and sit. He's gonna help me with the information and all. Since I'm
wasting time, I better get going. Thank you for allowing our American
Legion Steven Street Pro 642 to apply for the city grant.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our post has been supporting Cupertino
and veterans for 67 years. We are a not-for-profit 501c19 organization.
For the past 10 years, our post has sponsored the local Reese Across
America program in conjunction with the nationwide celebration
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): on the same December date set by the
official Resuppress America organization.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our event focuses on our military
veterans who've served and who have since passed on to a higher mission
above, and who are buried at our local Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
770
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Reese Across America is a nationally
recognized program that commenced on December 8, 2008, at Arlington
National Cemetery.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our post became involved in 2016, when
there were 1,100 cemeteries participating nationwide on the same December
day.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): In 2026, it's expected that more than
5,500 cemeteries will partake in this event on December 19th this year.
773
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): The event involves wreaths manufactured
in New England and then transported across the country to the various
cemeteries involved.
774
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): According to the Gate of Heaven Cemetery,
there are 1,935 veterans buried there. The cost to cover all the
veterans' gravesites exceeds $32,000. That's $17 per wreath.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): For the past 10 years, on the average,
we've only raised $13,000, except for last year, last year, we did a good
job at that more than $16,000.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): We previously advertised at our city's
annual Veterans Day event at the Cuppuccino Veterans Memorial. We
promoted our event at various City Council meetings.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've had further requests and received
funds from local service clubs, local military-related nonprofit
organizations, local churches, business communities, and families who
have the loved ones there.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Due to our continued shortfall, and to
follow the mission of the National Recent Class America program,
remember, teach, and honor.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): We desire to honor those who over the
years have sacrificed and quote-unquote, signed a contract with our
nation with a blank check made payable to the United States of America
for an amount up to and including their life. And we will… we're not
looking just for $20,000, we'll take anything. We're desperate, so thank
you.
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): What do you expect?
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, we'll open the questions to
the commissioners.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner from Erin? Thank you. I
don't think it's bad, so… Oh, thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): My question is that last year you said
$16K. We, we…
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): Exceed 16K. How much, I don't know, but
we received $16K for the purchase of the reefs.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, okay, I thought.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): you served, how many…
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): 1985… 1935 grave sites there, but we were
only covering…
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, it looks like… 1,300 or less grave
sites. Okay, now your goal is.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now, your goal is to cover 1985. We're
looking to cover them all, but…
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): We will take whatever we can get.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Any other commissioners have
any questions? Thank you so much for your presentation. Thank you. Thank
you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Please be remodeling.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Union High Schools Foundation, please
proceed to the undead waiting area while I.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Invited soon.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our next speaker.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): I understand that.
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Speaker 24 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we have.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): failure?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): new applicants requesting funding $19,050,
or $19,050 for their prevention program to reduce the number of unfixed
caps in full. Thank you, and welcome. Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, good evening. My name is Vanessa
Horney, and I'm the president of Bay Area Cats. Thank you for the
opportunity.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): to present our Cupertino, Spain River
project.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bay Area Cats is a volunteer-run 501c3
nonprofit founded in 2022. Our mission is simple, to decrease the number
of unfixed cats in the community. In 2025 alone, we assisted over 2,500
cats, which includes 700 owned pets, 1,300 community cats sprayed and
neutered through trouting to return projects.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): And 500 cats and kittens rescued.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We focus on prevention at the source
because spay and neuter is the most effective and cost-efficient strategy
cities have to address overpopulation.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are requesting $19,050 to operate a
one-year prevention program in Cupertino. Our goals include spay and
neuter for 50 community cats and 50 owned cats, with vaccinations and
microchips included.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We will measure success through shelter
intake data and aim for a 25% reduction in cat-related animal control
calls in 2026. We are already partnering with San Jose Shelter and local
field officers to refer Cupertino residents directly to us and to notify
us of found kittens so we can address breeding at the source.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): San Jose Animal Care Center is currently
over capacity, and rarely has space to accept publicly strayed cats or
kittens.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): In addition, animal control does not
provide trapping or transportation.
810
01:29:00.590 --> 01:29:05.860
Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Without intervention, residents are left
to managing uncontrolled breeding themselves.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our program fills that gap, reduces
nuisance complaints, and improves quality of life in our neighborhoods.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We began working in Cupertino in November
2025, and have already sprayed and neutered over 70 cats. That is more
than the average yearly intake of cats from Cupertino at the San Jose
Shelter, a contract which the city pays approximately $340,000 for. This
is about $1,500 per animal.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are offering a preventive-based
solution that is $150 per cap.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have replicated this in Sunnyvale,
where the shelter intake combined with shelter appointments decreased
intake by 43% within 3 years.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): The… next slide.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): This program directly serves at least 75
to Latino residents, many of whom are low-income. But because we operate
at the neighborhood level, the impact extends beyond individual
households. Sterilizing cats in a defined area reduces spraying,
fighting, litters, disease transmission, and complaints across
surrounding properties.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): 100% of our requested funds go directly
to services and microchips. This is a proactive investment that reduces
long-term municipal costs.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): One unsprayed female cat can produce 3
litters per year, with kittens breeding at 7 months of age. Without
intervention, populations grow exponentially. Prevention reduces nuisance
complaints and shelter intake, improves public health, and reduces long-
term municipal costs to the city.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is a proactive investment instead of
a reactive expense, and aligns directly with Cupertino's public health
and safety goals. We are already doing the work in Cupertino, and with
your support, we can scale prevention strategically and create
measurable, lasting impact for residents and neighborhoods. Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's so much. Any questions?
Commissioners?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Marathon?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I just learned this, 340K. Can you explain
what is that, that $340,000 spend?
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): the animal services contract with the San
Jose Shelter. They take in approximately 50 cats per year from Sunnyvale.
They also take in other animals, dogs, and, like, rats and stuff like
that, and the total animal's about 220,
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): three months last year, so we're paying…
but they also provide some kind of support for, like, in the field, like,
picking up deceased animals and stuff. We're not…
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): replacing animal control. We're, like,
working alongside them and with them to handle cases they can't handle.
For example, like, large hoarding cases. Usually, animal control isn't
able to do things like trap cats, transport cats, provide appointments,
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): let alone, like, spay-neuter appointments
and all the other stuff we do. So this is, like, in addition, and we work
with animal control, and that's how we've done it inside of them.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): last three years. Just one follow-up.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): portion, so… If they are over capacity,
and if they are seeking your help.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes. Won't they help funding? Because they
do get the funding from the cities, right? Because, you know, like, for
example, 50 things, they're getting $340K. Yes. Won't they… because… and
though those folks asked you about… Yes, we… would they… would they
really help you fund you, or they would say on your own? The shelter?
Yeah.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): The shelter does not take healthy cats
for pins.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So they only take sick or injured?
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, if you find kittens in your yard
who are responsible for the spay-neuter, for trapping, and we're offering
services, help, we'll take in the kittens, we have an adoption center, so
we take the kittens for adoption. So we're pretty much… we offer to San
Jose Shelter, we're gonna take all the Cupertino cats, all the kittens.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll go out and get the colony fixed,
where they're coming from, and drop shelter intake every year, with the
goal of it pretty much being almost nothing, which is what we have in
Sunnyvale now.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Last question. The 70 cats you mentioned,
is it worth you trapped, neutered, and returned?
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Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): of… of…
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Pets, trap, neuter, return, and kittens
we rescued.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I see.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): colony, and it was, like, 45 cats in,
like, Forest Avenue and… of Cupertino, and that was a majority of the 70.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): measured at 70 is super patina.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): 70 is Cupertino. We've fixed 7065 cats
since December 1st, actually. We're very, very, very, very focused on
spay-neater, because that is what makes the difference. We're not going
to adopt our way out of this problem. And prevent… like, prevention is
how you save money in a city, so…
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh my god, I didn'.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, you enlightened me, so thank you.
Thank you. So this graph…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): will allow you to expand your services in
Cupertino? Is that… Yes, yes. So the goal.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): we have wrapped up, we're kind of in
maintenance mode at Sunnyvale, and we're looking at, like, which city we
want to support. Cupertino nearby, and we're like, now we have a big
team. I started Sunnyvale by myself, that's how I started this
organization, and then now we have a team of, like, over 100 people, so
we're ready to tackle a new city with
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): you know, effective techniques and the
skills and everything we've learned, like working with animal control,
like we did in Sunnyvale, so we're gonna do it again, but this time
better, because we have a team this time, so that's the goal.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): that we have a limited budget and a lot of
applicants, so if you were not to receive the full amount, would you
still be able to do something if you were to receive… I think you have in
your… in the application, like, $10,000, this would still allow you to do
something.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, we're planning on allocating
about, $75,000 to $100,000 to help Cupertino, so we do actually
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): need a lot of help. I mean, we can scale
our services. For example, we could do something like, oh, we'll help
north of Stevens Creek, but, like, this is the… this is the thing that
everyone needs, and everyone is dealing with kids in their yard, and
what… what are they gonna do, you know? So…
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we're here to help, we do everything,
we do all the tracking, we do all the holding, recovery, we evaluate the
cats, we keep the friendly ones, and we bring back the feral cats, and
then on the side, we do the pets, and we also do, like, transportation
for the pets from our Petco Sunnyvale Adoption Center, so people don't
have to drive to Nine Lines, to Watsonville, like, we'll do the driving,
you just drop them off.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we charge… we just… it's all
donations, so if they can't pay, they don't pay. We don't ask them to pay
if they can't afford it.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): I've never seen the problem. Well, you
can contact us, Barry, if that's not your session, I'll give you any
help.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, thank you so much for your
presentation. Yes, I'm sure. Thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Today, Los Angeles National…
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll dive in the area while I invite our
next speaker.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Four organizations to break,
commissioners. Four organizations to a break.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think we need a bigger room.
858
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or we can go out.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): reached under.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would say.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, and welcome.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Before they get started, I just have one
question.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, our next topic.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have Vermont Union High Schools
Foundation. They are costing $2,000 for their environmental education
classroom for a school district.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, everyone. Thank you for this
opportunity. We are here today, on behalf of Fremont High School.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): Foundation, and Fremont Union High School
District, which serves all of our Cupertino teens, and these are our five
high schools. Three of our high schools are physically in Cupertino, but
all of our high schools serve students, and…
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is Ms. Banner from Monta Vista, this
is Ms. Peng from Foundation. My name is Camila Gupta, I'm Science
Curriculum Lead for the Fremont Union High School District, and these are
our wonderful students. This is why we are here today. Next slide,
please.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I'm not going to talk much more about
our schools, because I'm sure you've heard through great points. I'm
going to skip over this and go to the next slide, please.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm here to request for mini
environmental grants for 15 teachers. The idea is to get 3 teachers from
every high school who will support these students' desire to learn more
about their environment.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And currently, they don't have… we don't
have any structured program. They do a lot of individual projects, and it
is a teacher's will. Some teachers teach, some don't teach, but the
students want to learn more. So we are requesting mini environmental
grant funding. Next slide, please.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we are requesting $1,000 per teacher.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And 500 of those dollars will go towards
teacher hours, and 500 towards classroom supplies.
873
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): The idea of those $500 is this will be
extra work on part of teachers, because it is not part of their
curriculum, so they need to invest time in creating this. And we are
hoping that they can co-create it with the students, which will be a
noble model. We've not had student voice in generation of material.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide, please.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And… This… and once they have generated
these lessons, then this is…
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm going to skip over this slide and
next slide. You can see teachers tend to talk more, and this definitely
aligns with Cupertino's sustainability goals, but when we invest in our
teachers and our students, we invest in our future, so I hope he will
support these wonderful kids. These are some of their projects. The
student worked
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): on creating, at Homestead, a native
garden, all on her own.
878
01:38:34.460 --> 01:38:39.390
Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): This student worked on creating a
biodegradable fungile.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And also created a ceramic keystone
species. The students started different tag markers recycling, and then
we did heat mapping and created windmills. So I hope you will get
inspired and really support this group of students to help us support for
future generation. Over a thousand students per year will be impacted.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, thank you, I'm gonna open to
questions to the Commissioner?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Commissioner Shrutane. Thank you so
much, Ms. Havita Gupta.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): One different program.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are these projects done through clubs in
the schools?
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): students do individual programs. We also
have a district initiative that's called Climate Collective, because our
superintendent really values sustainability.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): But all of the time is wanted. So,
students, you know, like, the student just has an advisor, but a lot of
the work they're doing on their own.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can also answer for, like, the Urban
Leaf Island project, so I did.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): that in my physics classroom at Buena
Vista, and I had another teacher.
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Speaker 31 (Quinlan Conf Room): from Cupertino, you know, so they did at
Cupertino, and I did at one of the stuff. So, we do have, like, sprinkles
of this all around the district in different classrooms.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): When our students for polls are
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): 9th grader, only 40% said they received
any environmental education in their year. By 12th grade, that percentage
decreased to about 10%.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Baropath? Take care.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Assuming that, you know, you've asked the
question of partial funding, but do you have a prioritized, I know the
15K is 1,000…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): per teacher, and you said 3 teachers per
school, so 5 schools, right? And, do you want to, like, use these
projects, or similar projects? How do you really come up with those new
projects? We are hoping students will.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): do place-based learning. So, right now,
their learning is within their classroom.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): And with these, we are hoping teachers
will develop lessons where they can see partnerships with the city. We
do, like, recycling. Can we do something here? Can we do a clothing swap,
you know, where teenagers do that? So we are really hoping to go out in
our community.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hence, we need to create new lessons.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I see. Okay, these are not just this
one, but the new this one. Yeah, new lessons. Yeah, you can keep it down,
because, yeah, no, you're holding it on… I'm feeling the pain of holding
it on board.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's a good question.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Stanton? Yeah, so you said.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): $500 is for materials, and $500 is for the
teachers. Is that cash that's handed to the teachers?
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, it'll be against hours, they'll be
paid hourly rate. Teachers get paid around, I think, $60 an hour is their
rate, so they will be then putting in 10 hours.
902
01:41:42.120 --> 01:41:46.330
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, so it's a cash… it's a payment to the
teacher, outside of their… On that sheets.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, on timesheets. So…
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Speaker 31 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it could be done through the district.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): So yeah, so the foundation will, on
behalf of the city of Bertino, and donate it to the district, and then
they will use it.
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Speaker 32 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I think, you know… About financial
brick. Yeah, so having this will support more organized activities
instead of, like, individuals. So, we've seen all these individuals right
now, but if that will be happening to all of the high schoolers in
Cuentino, I mean, residents of the country.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure, yeah, I'm going to ask your
question. The ask is really high, given how much poll we have. If you get
funded partially, would that still help? It would. I think what would be
really.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that whatever we get will be
better than what we have right now.
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Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we'll appreciate that. It'll just
keep decreasing. If we can get in whatever you can support us with, we
will start with that, and we'll continue seeking funding, because we must
ride by these kids. So, here, I'll go other places as well, after here,
I'm going to start here.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for your presentation.
Thank you.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for waiting.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks,
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): projects, I know that.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've got school tomorrow. Hopefully they
were doing that while they were waiting. Congratulations.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll do that.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): We don't 5 minutes for us.
918
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't like our stretch.
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Speaker 29 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hello? Wayne, are you in constellations?
Yes, we are.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, one more before you guys… Oh, one
more?
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't?
922
01:43:44.330 --> 01:43:48.100
Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Fair enough.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which one? The LM.
924
01:43:51.860 --> 01:43:52.809
Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Other divisions, yeah.
925
01:43:53.355 --> 01:43:55.094
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Fair enough here.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Lost.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Los Angeles.
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01:43:57.320 --> 01:44:01.159
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): National Division League, if you are here,
or virtually.
929
01:44:02.185 --> 01:44:06.095
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): to speak… Make sure you assign our sleeves
off.
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01:44:06.345 --> 01:44:09.745
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If not, we will move on to the next
presentation.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Windows. Belts.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's nice to meet you, sir.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): move on to Tessellation School. They are a
new applicant requesting $20,000 in funding for the outdoor theater.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That would be great. Yes. Yeah, so we are
really proud to be a part.
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of the educational ecosystem of
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Cupertino, and also, you know, to be a
part of, you know, the Tesla… to be a part of Cupertino.
937
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our school, we are… we consider
ourselves, sort of, stewards.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): of the property. We've invested about a
million dollars in the property, and that property not only serves our
students, but it serves the community. At 9, it is a place.
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Walk,
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): around the track, kids ride their bikes.
In a time when there is so much isolation and disconnection, it is a
place, it's become a community hub.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, this stage that we would like to
bring would be a focal point for creativity and for innovation, for
community and community activism, all related to equity and
sustainability.
942
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, bye.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And so…
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): tessellation.
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): is…
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): is a unique school. Parents come from…
they come from Cupertino, but they come from, around the globe.
947
01:45:54.025 --> 01:46:12.575
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because the school serves, children who
are gifted. They… it's a K-8 school, and the… our definition of
giftedness involves more than just, you know, their high cognitive
abilities. You know, they have special social, emotional needs.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so we develop the whole child and
help them reach their potential. And the big question at Tessellations is
how can we develop these young people to really serve, the community and
to advance an equitable and sustainable world? Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And so…
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): Basically, you know, our education, you
know, we have 248 students, about 1,000 people, in our community.
951
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it is, rooted in experiential
education, and one of, our commitments as a school is connection to self,
connection to other, connection to nature. Our kids from very… from K
through 3 learn that, basically, they learn to love nature.
952
01:47:01.185 --> 01:47:03.445
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the rest of the programs
953
01:47:03.515 --> 01:47:16.004
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): 4 to 5 is really focused on stewardship
and cultivating the land. The kids are stewards of our campus, and we
want to be stewards of Cupertino, and finally stewards of the world.
954
01:47:17.805 --> 01:47:34.475
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this project, really would be a place
where creativity, you know, in terms of expression of the arts, would be
a major focus. It would also be a hub for community gatherings.
955
01:47:34.475 --> 01:47:44.355
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not only for our school community, but
for our community around. We live in an elderly, or a community that's an
aging community.
956
01:47:44.355 --> 01:48:02.285
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And one of the things that we feel is
really important is to engage the neighbors and to have this system of
wisdom coming into the school and the kids coming together with the
neighbors for a larger cause. And this stage would be a part of that.
Next.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this is completely, you know, aligned
to…
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): thinking about how do we build, sort of,
healthy and engaged communities. And I think the point here is in this
age of isolation and disconnection, how do we reveal the communities.
959
01:48:21.270 --> 01:48:26.090
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, sorry. Oh, my minutes.
960
01:48:26.095 --> 01:48:29.015
Speaker 35 (Quinlan Conf Room): I was not even looking, I'm sorry. Yeah,
that was my fault.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, you're, you're over.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, so, you're over by a minute. Oh, I'm
over by a minute? Yep.
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Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right.
964
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're gonna open.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): for a discussion with Commissioners
Freedom.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm going first. There is already an
existing Cupertino City program with outdoor theaters, like, outdoor
movie watching with this Cupertino entire community is not just for
installations, for anyone. Have you guys, tapped into that program?
967
01:49:04.790 --> 01:49:09.269
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Probably then combine this outdoor theater
program with that.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, we haven't, we haven't, but it's very
important that you mention that. So because we're a school, we hope.
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Speaker 37 (Quinlan Conf Room): to have a stage for our students to
realize, and also since the community's coming, we see them in the
morning, we see them in the evening, that they can also use it for other
community events, so it would be just an extra stage they can use for
different setting, different part of the city.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, sorry, one follow-up question. So, the
theater would be… outdoor theater would be used for any specific, kind
of, you know, genre, or… As expressions of the.
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Speaker 37 (Quinlan Conf Room): the arts of the school, so the kids will
have concerts, the kids will have play shows, where we can invite the
community. We have more community events that we're trying to plan. We
have to… we want to bring Grandparents' Day to school, so just a great
area for kids to connect, not only inside the classroom, but outside the
classroom as well.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Also.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): planning, and we're going to be working
with, the other Cupertino schools on a week that is really World
Creativity and innovation.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And again, it will end with sort of both
highlighting, examples of student creativity and innovation as it relates
to equity and climate change.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I will also have an art stewarding
day.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. Commissioner.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, you know, you mentioned that it's a
private school. Yes, it is.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How does that, especially for copiting or
community, how do you reall…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): pull in and help the Cupertino, because
this funding is predominantly… would love to see the Cupertino community
be getting benefited.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): How do you approach that?
982
01:50:56.530 --> 01:51:00.969
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): focusing on this particular funding. Well,
I think that, you know.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): We sort of rent from the Cupertino School
District. We pay them over $3 million a year, and so we are sort of…
that's one way. The other way is we're partnering with the Cupertino
schools.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that's this program that we're trying
to create for the week-long program, because science is something they
want to focus on, and we, in some ways, can function for them like a
charter school, because we are less regulated, and we can experiment with
education in certain ways, and we can move certain things forward that
are more difficult for them.
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Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we are really deeply embedded in the.
986
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Collector. Okay. Thank you.
987
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Stenning? Yeah, I thought I
read.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): in your…
989
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): application at the.
990
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): project is for a spring, construction, is
that right?
991
01:51:52.385 --> 01:52:04.465
Speaker 37 (Quinlan Conf Room): We hope that we get the funding, we can
start in the spring, but because it's another teeter, we have the
flexibility, as soon as we get the funds, to put it in place when… when
we get the funds, so…
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01:52:04.795 --> 01:52:11.084
Speaker 37 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's something that would be very
beneficial for our kids and the community. And if you.
993
01:52:11.515 --> 01:52:15.285
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): because of our limited funding. If we
don't get the 20,000,
994
01:52:16.005 --> 01:52:16.995
Quinlan Conf Room: what would…
995
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): be useful, and where we're getting the
rest of that trending? I, I think that.
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Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): But we're not gonna sort of… we'll try to
get the funding in some other way, because again, I think we're committed
to making this a community hub, and we're committed.
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01:52:32.645 --> 01:52:38.454
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): to, sort of, making this, sort of, open
to a resource that.
998
01:52:38.455 --> 01:52:39.324
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): share, and I think.
999
01:52:39.330 --> 01:52:39.980
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's what's.
1000
01:52:39.980 --> 01:52:43.730
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): different from us than a lot of other
private schools, is that when.
1001
01:52:43.735 --> 01:52:47.475
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're not only thinking about how we're
serving our kids, but how we can get back.
1002
01:52:47.475 --> 01:52:49.754
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Access to what we have to the community.
1003
01:52:49.755 --> 01:52:52.755
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): itself, as well as share it.
1004
01:52:52.760 --> 01:52:53.799
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): with the school.
1005
01:52:53.805 --> 01:52:57.215
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): schools in the local area. Are you a
year-round school?
1006
01:52:57.960 --> 01:53:00.909
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have summer school, but we're not
year-round.
1007
01:53:00.915 --> 01:53:01.675
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): But…
1008
01:53:01.675 --> 01:53:02.415
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): because.
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01:53:02.420 --> 01:53:03.229
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of, you know.
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01:53:03.235 --> 01:53:14.974
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a CUP, which is, you know, our
conditional use permit, and part of what we have to demonstrate when we
want to get changes to that is community benefit. So we have to be very
steeped and embedded
1011
01:53:14.975 --> 01:53:24.684
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): and justify, basically, our existence
there. And I think it's led to some really… and leading to some really
interesting partnerships.
1012
01:53:24.685 --> 01:53:49.525
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): Where it's not just us giving to them,
but there are things that we are learning from them as well. And I think
that's a very unique relationship that doesn't, I haven't seen, exist
anywhere else, where you have… because we don't compete with them because
we really do a special form of special education for gifted students that
they don't serve. So, basically, we compliment them and just randomly
1013
01:53:49.525 --> 01:53:54.484
Speaker 34 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, the wonderful education assistant
that Lupertino already has. Technical questions?
1014
01:53:54.485 --> 01:53:56.454
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): As far as sheriff's side? Anyone else?
1015
01:53:56.455 --> 01:53:58.675
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect. Thank you so much for your
patience.
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01:53:58.675 --> 01:54:03.224
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thanks for waiting for your time.
1017
01:54:03.225 --> 01:54:06.914
Speaker 30 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't know how to banging around.
Towards the end… Next time.
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01:54:06.915 --> 01:54:07.675
Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm sorry.
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01:54:07.675 --> 01:54:09.175
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry, I apologize.
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Speaker 35 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next time, no doubt.
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01:54:13.675 --> 01:54:15.275
Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll get that offset my own dog.
1022
01:54:15.275 --> 01:54:20.284
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much. Pleasure to be a
pleasure.
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01:54:20.550 --> 01:54:24.059
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): After our next presentation, we can go
over the notary.
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01:54:28.085 --> 01:54:30.644
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Club, if they aren't here.
1025
01:54:31.175 --> 01:54:32.185
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not…
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01:54:33.100 --> 01:54:36.610
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Fair enough. I guess we could take a short
break.
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01:54:37.260 --> 01:54:38.360
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect.
1028
01:54:38.360 --> 01:54:38.910
Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): But…
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01:54:38.910 --> 01:54:42.909
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we're… go back exactly at 9 PM? Is
that okay?
1030
01:54:43.030 --> 01:54:44.860
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we will take a few breaths.
1031
01:55:40.270 --> 01:55:45.450
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But it's still powerful clicking. Right?
Comes back to last year? Don't you think so.
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, but I also… after our 5-minute
break.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): meeting to present. The intention was to
say that we give grants up to $20,000. Yeah, but I thought we used to
have a…
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01:55:59.210 --> 01:56:03.199
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Why it's only $35 now? Because the
budget, because of Apple.
1035
01:56:03.205 --> 01:56:10.085
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): sales tax remediation, yeah. Oh my god, we
go over to Washington.
1036
01:56:10.085 --> 01:56:13.505
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): one-third of it, right? It used to be 90K.
1037
01:56:14.275 --> 01:56:20.495
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 88K, 90K.
1038
01:56:20.715 --> 01:56:27.874
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, I personally plan to start my own home
base in the Hall of Museum. Super big, can you hear us?
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Victoria Ma: Yeah, hello.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Victoria?
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Victoria Ma: Hello? Yeah, I just had a question. So, I'm presenting on
behalf of Remember the Tooth Theory, but I just wanted to make sure that
you guys know that I'll be presenting virtually, since we weren't able to
make it there in person.
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01:56:46.770 --> 01:56:49.629
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Yeah, we have that down.
1043
01:56:49.830 --> 01:56:52.519
Victoria Ma: Okay, sounds good. I just wanted to make sure.
1044
01:56:52.900 --> 01:56:53.929
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Thank you.
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Victoria Ma: so much.
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02:05:51.510 --> 02:05:52.120
Victoria Ma: Hello?
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02:05:55.870 --> 02:05:59.229
Victoria Ma: I'm not able to hear anything.
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02:05:59.880 --> 02:06:01.589
Victoria Ma: Can you guys hear me okay?
1049
02:06:02.160 --> 02:06:04.890
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, we can hear you. We can hear you,
Victoria.
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02:06:06.000 --> 02:06:13.290
Victoria Ma: Okay, thank you so much. Okay, yeah, so hi, my name is
Victoria, and I'll be presenting on behalf of Remember the Tooth Fairy.
Next slide.
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Victoria Ma: So, remember the Tooth Fair is a student-led nonprofit
organization working to instill healthy brushing habits in children
through early education and exposure, and as mentioned earlier, we are
student-led, meaning that all members of our executive and leadership
team are made up of high school, college, and graduate students.
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Victoria Ma: So, we have 3 different service programs to help achieve our
mission. The first one is our donation program, where we provide small
bags with dental hygiene products and a handwritten card from our
volunteers to help guide these children to start their dental hygiene
journey. And then our next one is our educational outreach program, which
is
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02:06:49.080 --> 02:07:12.529
Victoria Ma: The program that we are specifically requesting funds for
today. So, through this program, we visit elementary schools to deliver
free oral health presentations to children around 5 to 11 years old to
teach them healthy dental hygiene habits, through lessons, games, arts,
and crafts. And then lastly, we have our dental treatment program, which
recently launched, and it allows elementary schoolers who have never
visited a dentist to receive a cleaning.
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02:07:12.540 --> 02:07:14.430
Victoria Ma: And screening for the first time.
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02:07:16.340 --> 02:07:33.639
Victoria Ma: So, here are some statistics. So, recent data from the 2023
to 2024 kindergarten oral health assessment indicates that 26% of
kindergarteners in the Santa Clara County had visible tooth decay, which
is the most common chronic illness in children worldwide. So, this
impacts the students because
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02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:39.180
Victoria Ma: People with dental pain are 50% more likely to miss school,
and 4 times more likely to have lower grades.
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02:07:40.740 --> 02:08:02.780
Victoria Ma: So we proposed a solution to this to provide students dental
education early on in their lives, and we found that 85% of kids who have
been taught dental hygiene brushed twice daily, and 70% flossed twice
daily. And so educated students and families are more likely to have
regular checkups, and tooth decay affects children regardless of their
income level, so we believe every child deserves the knowledge to protect
their health.
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Victoria Ma: Next slide.
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Victoria Ma: Yeah, so our approach to solving this problem, is to
remember that dental education itself, just like presenting it, is not
enough for this information to stick in their heads, so we end off all of
our presentations at the elementary schools with an interactive game of
Bingo and Jeopardy to help students actively recall what they learned.
Next slide.
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02:08:25.530 --> 02:08:30.270
Victoria Ma: We also do arts and crafts, such as two-third popsicle
sticks, origami.
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Victoria Ma: dental health posters and coloring pages for all ages, from
transitional kindergarteners to middle schoolers. And so, after our
presentations, the students will also receive a smile back from us, which
contains, all the necessary dental hygiene products that they need, and
again, the personal handwritten card.
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02:08:48.870 --> 02:08:52.530
Victoria Ma: And here's a list of all our after-school partners.
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02:08:53.460 --> 02:08:57.460
Victoria Ma: And then here are some of the schools that we visited in
2025.
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Victoria Ma: And then lastly, how the funds will be used. So, we are an
organization that fully relies on volunteers to handle all operations
behind the scenes, so therefore, we're able to dedicate 100% of our funds
to use to help support our programs, as mentioned earlier. So, they'll
help towards assembling the smile bags, buying arts and craft supplies,
and maintenance of our entire program. And we're requesting $2,000.
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02:09:22.650 --> 02:09:27.439
Victoria Ma: To serve around 1,000 children, because it costs about $2
per child per event.
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Victoria Ma: And we're projected to serve around 2,400 or more children
across the South Bay Area in the year of 2026.
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Victoria Ma: Yeah, thank you so much for your time. Let me know if you
have any questions.
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02:09:39.360 --> 02:09:43.950
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, we're opening the questions.
Commissioner, thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this is, Commissioner Kumaraphan. So,
a couple of questions. One, I think you said 4 presentations per month,
50 students per presentation, 2,400 students.
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02:09:57.870 --> 02:10:00.109
Quinlan Conf Room: She said, what is it, like, 4…
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02:10:02.670 --> 02:10:04.310
Victoria Ma: Wait, sorry, could you repeat that?
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02:10:04.910 --> 02:10:10.319
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, so it's 4 presentations per month
and 50 students per presentation, so it's 2,000.
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02:10:10.620 --> 02:10:20.220
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): presentations, but okay, you're covering
2,400 students overall. That… some of the math maybe didn't come out, but
that's okay. It is 2,000 plus.
1074
02:10:20.590 --> 02:10:25.520
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But you, mentioned last year, it is a 20…
1075
02:10:26.600 --> 02:10:38.490
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 3, 24, survey says 83% of it. Do you have
the data based on your last year? Because 25, if you go to one of the
slides you presented and you said.
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02:10:38.640 --> 02:10:44.740
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Based on the school data, which is from 23
to 24.
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02:10:45.520 --> 02:10:46.869
Victoria Ma: Can you go back?
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02:10:46.870 --> 02:10:47.410
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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02:10:47.890 --> 02:10:49.150
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Yes.
1080
02:10:50.070 --> 02:10:55.230
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I know you did the program last year
to those many schools, right? Is that…
1081
02:10:55.570 --> 02:11:05.360
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Does it really reduce, or the awareness is
kicking off, or what is that, output performance you
1082
02:11:05.660 --> 02:11:06.790
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Make sure that.
1083
02:11:07.740 --> 02:11:15.810
Victoria Ma: Yeah, so with the statistics that we researched, this is
just, in general, we just wanted to show that
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Victoria Ma: With better dental education, it does improve the student's
ability to perform better in school. We haven't done research
specifically on, like, this year or last year's data, but we believe that
the trend is usually the same, since tooth decay is a really big problem,
and it does affect a student's learning.
1085
02:11:35.430 --> 02:11:40.650
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I see. Okay, you're just going with the…
okay, that's fine. Thank you, that's the question. Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any questions from any questions?
Perfect. Thank you so much to Ferry.
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Victoria Ma: Thank you.
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02:11:51.190 --> 02:11:52.379
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nope, thank you.
1089
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, next?
1090
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Dear.
1091
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Notary Club?
1092
02:12:01.910 --> 02:12:08.630
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They are a video printing applicant for
about $4,000 for the pollinator garden at McClellan Park.
1093
02:12:09.550 --> 02:12:10.480
Quinlan Conf Room: Joseph.
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02:12:12.830 --> 02:12:15.730
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep, how are you? Good evening,
Commissioner.
1095
02:12:15.735 --> 02:12:17.235
Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): My name's Lisa Saka.
1096
02:12:17.235 --> 02:12:17.975
Speaker 21 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't work.
1097
02:12:17.980 --> 02:12:19.469
Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): cup of puppuccino, and I brought.
1098
02:12:19.475 --> 02:12:23.235
Speaker 13 (Quinlan Conf Room): Lisa Roberts with me. She'll be the
president of our club when we execute.
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02:12:23.235 --> 02:12:25.534
Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): shapeless program. She's our incoming
president.
1100
02:12:25.785 --> 02:12:27.545
Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): So.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): We fundraise for and plan some 50 to 60
charitable projects each year in our community. We divide our projects
into 5 charitable giving avenues of service, and our local charitable
budget
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02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:53.089
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): is about over $175,000 annually, and we
coordinate over 12,000 volunteer hours annually. The project I'm going to
talk to you about today is from our Climate Action Group.
1103
02:12:53.340 --> 02:12:54.290
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Slide.
1104
02:12:55.580 --> 02:12:58.070
Quinlan Conf Room: So, our project is a native.
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02:12:58.070 --> 02:13:11.439
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): plant pollinator garden at McClellan
Ranch, right here in Cocartino. It's a 2,000 square foot plot of land
that will support biodiversity, enhance the public space, and serve as
ongoing educational resource for the community.
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02:13:11.550 --> 02:13:20.799
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Volunteers will join in planting the
garden while learning about the roles of native plants and supporting
wildlife and improving health in our ecosystem… the health of our
ecosystem.
1107
02:13:20.870 --> 02:13:34.220
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're going to partner with Grassroots
Ecology, who owns the necessary tools. They have the established
training, educational programming, and leadership skills to both help us
implement the project and to sustain it.
1108
02:13:34.460 --> 02:13:40.840
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Rotary will help with the fundraising for
the project and the organization of all of the hands-on volunteers for
the project.
1109
02:13:41.180 --> 02:13:42.330
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): The project has a strong alignment with
Cupertino's general plan principles, supporting the Vision 2040
objectives of advancing environmental sustainability, habitat
restoration, and community education.
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02:13:55.750 --> 02:14:14.280
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Specifically, Chapter 6 calls out
environmental resource element, so native plant restoration, and Chapter
9 calls out improvement of McClellan Ranch specifically as a multi-use
public space that supports education, volunteerism, and passive
recreation.
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02:14:14.280 --> 02:14:24.290
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, and it will have a benefit to all the
residents of Cupertino, a lasting benefit, and it will also be a benefit
to the rest of the community as well.
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02:14:24.840 --> 02:14:43.090
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's also going to provide a hands-on
opportunity for not only Rotarians, but scout groups, youth groups, we
sponsor some of them, Rolling Hills 4-H, grassroots ecology supporters,
and there's going to be a general call for volunteers in the community,
and we envision needing at least 100 volunteer slots.
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02:14:43.200 --> 02:15:01.500
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide. This is the proposed area.
The green, area is our… is our garden there. And next slide, this is the
financial breakdown. So, Grassroots Ecology is going to be partnering
with us. They're going to contribute $4,450.
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02:15:01.610 --> 02:15:14.809
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our fundraising goal is $10,000 of the
project, and we'll be paying for materials and direct service costs, and
all of the… all of the work will be unpaid volunteers doing… doing the
labor.
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02:15:14.810 --> 02:15:23.790
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we want to bring in partnership, and
we hope that Cupertino, Parks and Rec… Cupertino, the City of Cupertino,
join Rotary in this partnership. Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much.
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02:15:24.775 --> 02:15:28.104
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Those are open for questioning for
Commissioner Kamara plan.
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02:15:28.740 --> 02:15:35.829
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, you know, this is one time you say
that, but how long… how do you maintain this for the long term?
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02:15:35.835 --> 02:15:50.415
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): plants are… the plants are grown, and
then grassroots Recology, they're on-site, so they monitor the plants if
they need watering, trimming, you know, replacement down the road, so
that's the sustainability. So right now, that land is all barren.
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02:15:50.415 --> 02:16:01.365
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so this is a restoration project for
that land, and so maintaining it… if you go there, you'll see other areas
that have been… have gone through this transformation of, you know, it
was,
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): The land was all, decimated when it
became a ranch, and it was just, you know, empty, so… so these gardens
all have to be maintained, but it will restore the native… the native,
plants and the native environment
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02:16:15.715 --> 02:16:28.164
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then grassroots ecology, and we'll
probably do future projects to go in and help with the sustainability of
the project, replacing plants, or doing pruning as needed, and that sort
of thing. So that's where sustainability comes in.
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02:16:28.315 --> 02:16:39.114
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): But then maybe a follow-up question. So
does it mean that, for example, if you work with the park and rec… looks
like I see that the Park and Recreation Department has allocated that
one? Yes.
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02:16:39.115 --> 02:16:40.295
Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): They haven't picked it out.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): that plot. So this is all part of the
master plan for McCloud Revenge, so it's just a matter of that we're… we
want to provide funding to do a portion of the land. So they've been
doing, they call them islands.
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02:16:53.125 --> 02:17:09.004
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so this is the next island available
to be restored, and so we… Cupertino Rotary wants to lead the fundraising
to be able to do the restoration on this island. And what we're… how
we're making it unique is we're bringing in new and different partners.
So grassroots…
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02:17:09.004 --> 02:17:33.555
Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Ecology works with Parks and Rec, and
they put this plan together, and so they would usually raise money and do
their own volunteers, but what we're doing is we're bringing in a lot of
the community to help with this. So, you know, the Master Gardeners will
benefit, because increased pollination's gonna increase their
productivity of their gardens, the 4-H land is right adjacent to it, too,
so they're going to be supporting us, so we're trying to bring in
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): community partners to implement this
project. Okay. And we want the city to be one of those partners, too.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Awesome.
1131
02:17:40.299 --> 02:17:43.319
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): The question is to see how much the
parking rate
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): department will continue to maintain in
the long term, or it's just going to be handed over, or you will be
maintaining it?
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it will be part of the public works of
McClellan Ranch. Yeah, that will… That's what it is. I mean, we can come
in and help, you know…
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll conviction.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's mostly a year-long project that we
want to do to rehabilitate the land.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, thank you. Appreciate it.
1137
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): understanding.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. So you.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): We call it a pollination.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): garden, and does that mean the bees will
be coming in, and they'll be working in the community garden?
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, yes, and that's what… that's… and
also, yeah, so… so it's going to be all native plants, so there's,
there's an approved list of plants that are native to this watershed, so
we have to build from that… that plant list.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): But it's all, it's all to be pollination,
and it's right next to the Master Garden, so it will really benefit the
Master Garden only.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): It'll benefit the bees that are there
that 4-H keeps. So it's really meant to… and there's a lot of
biodiversity that comes with, putting in native plants back.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): condition that it was before it turned
into a rancho many years ago. And… We'll be visible.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because right now, the community gardens
are not visible because of all the squirrel and rodent… Right.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, it actually is a lot of the trail.
If you go back to… if you want to go back to the map, so this is the…
this is the trail that we walk. Right.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you'll… so…
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Speaker 19 (Quinlan Conf Room): we're…
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're closest to that trail. So, this
plot, we've actually been helping on this plot, too, just as volunteers,
and it's gonna have some educational signs about native plants.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so we're building on that whole area
there that's being done, but that green part's the part that we're going
to be sponsoring, and it's closest to the trail, so you can see it as you
walk by.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): John Scopian. Yeah.
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Speaker 38 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, there is a fence, I mean, there's a
perimeter fence around the community garden. This is that walkway that
goes around, and then comes to the.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Education Center.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much. Any more questions?
Thank you so much for your presentation.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect staying.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I know we're getting lonely out there.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): That was exciting, thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): West Valley, if you're here, please
proceed to the undesigned area. And next, I will invite our next speaker,
Aynat.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, that's so true.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I now is a returning applicant,
requesting…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Dollars for…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our eye care and eye losses program.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good evening, welcome.
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for giving me the opportunity
to come back and talk about elect-ended
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): Progress in the last 5 years.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we celebrated 5-year milestone last
year to receive SKU awards, but I will talk to you about what we are
doing. NMAC is a non-profit that is based in Silicon Valley. We provide
comprehensive eye exams and prescription eyeglasses at no cost.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): to the receiver. We serve the…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Members of schoolchildren and communities.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): All across the states of California and
New Jersey. Last year, we introduced a program using…
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): handheld spectrometers. We're doing mass
vision screenings to prevent future blindness in the communities who live
in our state and in New Jersey. We also provided a lot of eyeglasses.
Over 5,000 people touched
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): were touched by ENAC, and they received
pre-vision care. We see that there is 63% of the population in America
who are uninsured.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): 40% of the people in 2024 did not visit
an eye doctor.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): 83 million… Americans… Say they cannot
afford vision care, and they were on the verge of losing vision.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): There are people,
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): He really, and he will also say that eye
care in the United States is too expensive. Eye care should be… if you
are wearing eyeglasses, you should be seen every two years and be fine.
People prolong going to an optometrist.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): the time frame is between 3 to 6 years,
and eyes are, I think, one of the most important and delicate organs of
the body, and it needs to be taken care of in a timely manner to prevent
blindness. So, next time.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): So what we are doing this year, we are
continuing to provide Free vision care, the basic
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Childcare to the children, like we have
been doing, partnering with the schools and other non-profits.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): in Santa Clara County, but…
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Last year, we were… in October, we were
on NBC News, so the whole state knows about you, and again, it's free
Ikea. So we are getting a lot of, requests from nonprofits from outside
of the Santa Clara County.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): But most of the grants that we receive,
we can only use them in Santa Clara and Santa Clara. So, all the other
funding that comes in, it goes out of Silicon Valley area.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, my dream is every child should be
able to realize their dream of being whatever they want to be. Vision
impairment should not be a barrier to their education or
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, you're done, okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I fell down on my jaw again.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we are looking.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): For funds again, because your funding
helps us
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): bring vision care to those who really,
really need, each pair of eyeglasses the children are wearing
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): They have a real story. If you hear their
story, you will cry.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): The very first picture It's about a
young…
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): child who came to us through Catholic
charities.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): She is 3 years old in this picture.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): And when the child is born, just let me
say… when the child is born, the eyes are not fully developed.
Development happens as they grow. So, through our… with our vision
reflectors, we are able to do vision screenings from 5 months to 99.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm trying to kill 3 spots.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for your presentation.
We're going to open the floor for Commissioners here if they have any
questions.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Comerbank.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think in the application you mentioned
that there are beneficiaries from Cooper, you know, in general, is
Coutine.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will tell you, I think almost all the
money is being used for Cupertino and Cupertino Unified.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have become so well known.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): In Santa Clara County, so many schools,
and especially in Cupertino, it's a big surprise that so many. Especially
from the apartments. I will tell you, we are giving, eyeglasses to
Prospect High School in Saratoga.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Lindbrook High School. Fremont High
School, when we receive these applications, even we think… we take a
look, and we call the school nurses and everything, and every child that
we are giving our glasses, they are buying. Family members don't speak
English at all.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): So.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): you expect to… my question was, you sold
only 50, but this year you expect to double, triple… do you have any
estimate? I know you've got a lot of applications, and you said all the
money will be spent only for the super team?
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Last year, we got $4,000 in grant, and
some of it we had it for marketing purposes, but whatever the funds were
for the eyeglasses.
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Quinlan Conf Room: A little bit is left, and I'm sure it will be used
within.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): the, Cupertino School District and the
Cupertino unit.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was a surprise for us also, but I
think the…
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): The name is spreading. We have become
very well known.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Commissioner Steinek?
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I'll ask you the same question I've
asked a lot of the other applicants. You say your program duration is
July 25 to June 2021.
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Speaker 31 (Quinlan Conf Room): he said.
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Speaker 31 (Quinlan Conf Room): all of the…
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): We forgot to change that. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): 50s!
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We know that these funds won't be
available until July of this year.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. We all miss that!
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? I'm sorry about that. Okay.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll just ask you once again, because
obviously you're a returning.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): learning, our…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nonprofit asking for funds, and again,
last year, the numbers serving residents.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): was very low. I don't see any difference.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): last year. So, we're talking indeed about
a lot of kids, and don't get me wrong, I love what you.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): do. I think of you almost every week. I
speak of.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): in a week.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): But…
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Speaker 40 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, I'm surprised.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): of the lowest amount. Don't we have enough
kids in Cupertino? I'm surprised of the… you know, kids are kids, it
doesn't matter, but obviously we would prefer to help more in Cupertino.
Do you think that there is not.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): as much reduced.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): request in Cupertino, because we are
Cupertino? I don't know.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right. That is very, very true, because
nothing has come from Monta Vista Heights. Got it. Nothing has come from
the school's
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Kennedy and, you know, I'm from Saratoga,
I don't know the names of the schools, but we do get from Cupertino High
School and some other schools,
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it's hard to remember so many
schools we are serving. On Lillac Drive, or whatever those schools are,
we do receive, and when we see the address of a parent as Cupertino, we
also then say, oh, or from
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… So there are certain,
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): zip codes, certain areas where the
schools are, we are receiving the iClasses. And we also did,
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): reach out.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): I went in and looked at all the schools
that are part of Cupertino School District, and we made.
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Quinlan Conf Room: contact with.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do you know Tarashtri, Krishnam?
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Quinlan Conf Room: -Oh.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): We took her help, we asked her how to go
about, and there are people within the community here in Burnham who are
helping us.
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Speaker 39 (Quinlan Conf Room): re… do a bigger reach out. Because I used
to think, okay, Cupertino Unified, when I came for the first time, I
said, in the Cupertino zip code, and we became very much aware, and we
started doing a research job with it.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much for your presentation
and for coming back.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): A part of the diamond appears here. This
is Christy to the on-diagnosis area.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. This is firm leader.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): This one, but they have.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That has been included in the presentation
supplement, so we will apply to the next half of it. West Valley
Community Services.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, no guards.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry, I'm.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's an impact.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it has provided the.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): slides for there.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): or not.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): here. So we're moving to the next… Okay.
Okay.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we have a hand raised virtually.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's too bad, I love that they do. I mean,
it's so cisons.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Good evening, everyone, can you hear me?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes, we can hear you.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Hi, my name is Sujata Venkatraman, and I'm the
Executive Director at West Valley Community Services, serving the
community of Cupertino and other West Valley cities for 52 years.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: We are requesting funding for our Gift of Hope
program.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: This program, has been in operation under a
different name for the last 30 years. Before, we used to do it as Adopt-
a-family, but with our, community's input, we have moved the program to
more as a carnival.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: It happens in December, the first Saturday of
December, at St. Joseph's Church. The intention of this program is to
bring hope
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Sujatha Venkatraman: And a little bit of fun, for our families who are
living paycheck to paycheck or on fixed income. We serve, 300 Cupertino
residents.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: through this program. The program's intention for,
last year and this year has been to bring, different ethnicities together
to bring volunteers. We make it like a carnival.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: And the funding that we get from, this particular
funding source, we use it to buy gift cards for, basic essential needs,
for food. The families do tell us what their needs are. Many a time, it
is…
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Basic personal hygiene stuff that they're looking
for, shoes, something extra, for the holidays when everybody else is
celebrating the holidays makes our families who are low income, on fixed
income, an opportunity.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Hello, can you…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we can… is that next? Go ahead.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is your presentation over?
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Yes.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, perfect, thank you. We're now open,
for, discussion from, Commissioners. Commissioner Gumarapen has a
question for you. Thank you.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think, you said that this 5,000, this,
Copadino residence sold from a 300, will it go beyond, or you expect to
be sold at the same level?
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Sujatha Venkatraman: It's at the same level.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: But, like I said, we… the cost is going up, we bring
in games, we do food, we have… we make, photo albums for them, because
these are things that are so expensive.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: In the past, we were getting a lot more funding from
this pot, so the numbers have been the same.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I see. Okay, thank you, that's the only
question.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): the questions from?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner, perfect. Thank you so much
for your presentation, truly.
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Sujatha Venkatraman: Thank you!
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Now should be the very last present.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): sophistication part of the vowel cells, at
least for seniors.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, anyways.
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hello, everybody. I want to go home. Of
course.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you for reading.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Bill, thank you.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I have reports.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): As a reminder, they'll be the breakers.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, I'll just do a quick introduction.
We have part of Valley Services for Seniors. They are a returning
applicants, and they are requesting $50,000 in funding for…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure, sure.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, go ahead. Can I stand, I'll draw when
I sit.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or should I stand? Well, we shot?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, hello everybody, my name's Al
Masoto, and I.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): I am the Executive Director for Hearts of
the Valley Services for Seniors. I know that we are a returning
applicant, but I believe it's been several years since we last applied,
and a lot has happened and transpired over the last several years,
especially after COVID. You can go to the next page, please.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so our mission is…
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Speaker 42 (Quinlan Conf Room): Parts of the valley is a.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): 501c3 nonprofit organization, and we are
committed to facilitating and advocating to the independent living of the
seniors, 62 and up, living here in West Santa Clara Valley.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Slightly.
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Speaker 42 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, basically, what our nonprofit.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's been around since 1987, and our
whole entire mission and vision is to help the seniors that are living in
their homes remain independent. A lot of us take for granted the ability
to change light bulbs.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Shopping, do errands, transportation, you
know, handyman, yard work.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's very easy for us, but when you get
older, and your village depletes, it becomes more difficult as time…
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so that is essentially what we're
here to do. We're here to establish companionship, we're here to create
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): to disperse the isolation that the
seniors do have, and to create a community and a village for them. Next
slide.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, essentially, our benefit is we
give low-income.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And homebound seniors, the ability to
maintain their independence through maintaining their home.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Helping with their paperwork with taxes,
taking them shopping, taking them to their doctor's appointment.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, giving them a friendly call,
giving them a friendly visitor. These are the things that we do, and it's
all for fact, and there is no income. Oh, wow! One minute, eligibility…
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Speaker 42 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, quick, let's go to the next one.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so our demographics, we're here in
the West Santa Clara Valley, and of our over 800 clients, 77% are women,
and about half are living, alone, cannot drive, and 33% are living,
disabled, and 66% are below poverty level. Next slide.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, you guys all know by the year 2040,
the demographics are going to rise to 500,000 residents. Next slide. And
we operate all through volunteerism. Everything is free. Next slide.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we're very… it's critical and
important that we give these services to the seniors of West Santa Clara
Valley, because we help them remain independent, and that independent is
their dignity. Next slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: 38 years that we've been around, so we're very
sustainable.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And our budget is $135K. We have given
1,200 services this year. We've serviced over 771 seniors. If you boil it
all down, it's about $80 per
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Service. Okay. We're here because we need
assistance. I'm the new executive director. The website hasn't been
updated since 2021. I'm looking to update the website. I'm looking to get
a CRM. I need to hire more staff so that I can service the more seniors
within this area. That's why we're here.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): we're gonna.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): open the questions up for the
commissioners. Anyone wants to.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Start, Commissioner Kamarapin?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, thank you. A couple of quick
questions. One, especially on the Cupertino seniors, what kind of
services, they really ask for? Like, transportation? Yes. Yeah, so,
Cupertino.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): is very well off, and a lot of our
seniors here are well off, but they do call because they don't have a
village, and they don't have assistance, and they don't have people to
drive them. So we have picked up many seniors here within this area,
taken them to the senior center, taken them to the YMCA, take them to
work out, take them to get,
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): shots in their eyes for, for medical
assistance. There are seeing…
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): To get their, yard work clean, their…
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): stuff on top of their roof, blown off.
They ask for a lot of assistance, and it's all for free.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the second question, the last. So you
said 115, and do you expect more, seniors?
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, my goal is to create.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): more seniors from within Cupertino and
the outside areas. Right now, we've serviced over 771 within this last
year, and of Cupertino itself, it's been about 150 seniors here within
Cupertino. Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other question, Commissioner Striker?
How many are fueling risk, cars?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Working together? How many… how many of
you doing this together? It is me, myself.
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Speaker 26 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's the executive.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): director, manhandling everything, but I
do have over 150 volunteers that do everything for free, and give their
time in kind of contributions.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Spent? Thank you.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): the funding, I think you said in the
application that it was,
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Partially to fund the executive director,
and partially to fund a volunteer coordinator. I need to hire.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): So those are… They wouldn't be a
volunteer. They would be a paid position. Right. But those… Yes. A
coordinator of the volunteers. For the volunteers, yes. Right. Okay.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it's not really project-driven, it's…
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): thing is project and operational at the
same time, as well as requesting funding to upgrade our website and
purchase a CRM so that we can cut our operations down 50%.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm, okay.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I have a question, and probably a follow-
up.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): From 1 to 10.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And how much… how important is
transportation for your organization?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I believe.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): that is the main request. That is the top
request, and that's why you see within our little logo, there's a bar on
it, because sometimes, you know, what is that?
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): hopper doesn't take them everywhere, and
especially within here in Cupertino, these seniors need door-to-door
service. They can't walk to the bus stop, they can't walk to a certain
site, they need
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): for us to pick them up, put them in the
car, walk them to their appointment, bring them back to the car, and take
them back home. So that's what we do.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is exactly why I wrote Hopper here.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because it has expanded to Sunnyvale in
China.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Fire and County.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): They do have the… They do?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): apologies.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Santa Clara, but.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's limited areas, and some of our
people cannot get and walk that far. Perfect.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you so much. Truly appreciate this,
Aaron.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, want to thank you so much for being
here, presenting for us. I appreciate it. Thank you for sticking around.
Thank you guys for sticking around.
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Speaker 43 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, high five to you guys for posting
your time.
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Speaker 43 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anyway, so much.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I also have a quick question?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or…
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Comes to all public comments at this
time?
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, perfect. So, do we have any,
public comments?
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'm sorry? About more slides.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Two more slides below. Any more slides.
Okay.
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Speaker 35 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll finish something.
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): I thought when we were done with the
presumption.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're doing my presentations, but… Great.
Stephanie, can you please leave me?
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): Things like.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's just finishing the staff report as
part of the presentations.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Got it.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): My focus is so…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The organization, or the organization
presentation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, next I will go over the eligibility
and evaluation process, which you are all familiar of. This is part of
the staff report, so a few more slides, and then we'll open it up. Okay,
thank you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, eligibility, so, staff is included, 7
applications met.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Five applications are pending eligibility,
which is requested, or reflected in, attachment B, the Community Funding
Application Summary. And final.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): eligibility.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some of the applications will be
determined by commission during the evaluation process next month.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, when completing the evaluation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): to email again, commissioners should give
a score of 0 to any applicants who you do not deem eligible, and any
applicants that are deemed eligible, we should evaluate it accordingly to
the criteria in the table.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And you will be able to review the scores
during the evaluation process and discuss eligibility further as a group,
and this is done in the April meeting.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And just a quick process for the.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): April meeting.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commission will facilitate the evaluation
process.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): 5A funding recommendation to Council.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And you should prepare your preliminary
scores prior to the April meeting.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioners will have the opportunity to
discuss organization eligibility and ask clarifying questions.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And after receiving public…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioners will complete and update
their evaluation form, or before providing their full score out of 100
for each application. And just like before, we will, share screen and
tally up the scores live.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, the Commission will then continue the
discussion of the data using the evaluation photos bar.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, finally, you will determine a,
funding recommendation for City Council.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And that concludes the process.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any questions?
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): I do have a question on the first slide.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, if you go back to the first slide.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Prior one. You mentioned commissioners to
give a score of zero to applicants that do not deem eligible. How do we
judge? Because you will say that met eligibility and then 5 applicants, I
assume.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): you will vet it, and finally will say
either all 22 are eligible or not, right? On top of it, how do we… I
forgot, how do we really decide whether eligible or not?
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Remember on the.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): evaluation scoring.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): sheet, we have criteria.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, Alain.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Absolutely.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Remember, you give them scores, you think
that they're not.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): eligible in.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): that criteria.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, is that the criteria? Okay. Yes.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's a subject to… so, over the
criteria, we can give any score, and if you think that they… they don't
meet the criteria, we'll give a zero.
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Give them zero.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Remember, dinner.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): wet last year. It's gonna be crazy, but
we're gonna go through this.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): See that spreadsheet, you'll understand.
Yeah, no.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, now I am clarifying, because
initially I thought, I'm just…
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Quinlan Conf Room: ruling them out completely from it. That's how I
thought.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that's what it says. No, it is.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): If they're not eligible, it says to give
them a zero total.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): for the whole application. That's what it
says. No, that's what I understood, but I was planning for it, it's not.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): trying to say that that's what's written.
And, and that's what she said.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I think you misinterpreted the… you
were correct the first time.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, to give a score zero to applicants,
they do not deem eligible on that criteria. No!
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Speaker 20 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not on the criteria. So, if someone.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is doing something that is… is applying
for something for funds for last year.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): then that's not eligible, it's… it's…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): if they don't fit the criteria for… I
mean, they don't meet the requirements of the application.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so that's why it's very critical that
we agree on what's eligible and what's not. I think saying they're
pending is very confusing.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because it's like, you're saying they're
fine from a staff perspective.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I understand it's up to us, but still,
I think it's very confusing.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, that's what I was…
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): order, because…
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Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): I, I think…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have Jacinta clarify that pending, and
that would go to the commissioners to determine eligibility. Yeah,
because my understanding…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): per the script, we're supposed to open to
public comment, and then we can open to Commissioner's discussion over.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure, Silas.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, you can do clarifying questions, and
then go to public comment, and this is more… more of a clarifying
question, so I think we're okay to finish out the questions, and then
open public comment. Can I say something?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But so you have a question on the table
that I think…
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Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): I do have a question of.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): eligibility. Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): 501c3, I am astonished.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): And based on all this eligibility,
there's no requirements for.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): 501c3 or 501c.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): 119 to be in good standing. Yet, good
standing means that they do provide their forms, they provide their form.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): to the state, and there are.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): good standing, and that is missing here,
so I can have any presentation here, and I know a thing or two about
nonprofit, but that is a basic requirement to be.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): able to give them monies for them to be
first in good standing.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that's missing.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's moving on to another question,
so I'm going to stop you and…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll go back to that. Okay. Jacinta, if
you could clarify on the eligibility and how that sum are marked as
pending by staff, and what we would like the Commission to do with that
pending eligibility.
1451
02:48:24.265 --> 02:48:24.964
Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we have called.
1452
02:48:24.965 --> 02:48:35.145
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): about the pending eligibility, because
staff doesn't want to make that determination, so we want to give it to
the Commission to decide that.
1453
02:48:35.875 --> 02:48:44.904
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we have it listed on the slides,
slides pending. So the org… some organizations have clarified their
presentation, or the program and event date.
1454
02:48:44.905 --> 02:48:46.345
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So.
1455
02:48:46.345 --> 02:48:49.825
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can take that in and score that
accordingly.
1456
02:48:51.280 --> 02:48:57.550
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that would be… But you'll understand
it's a vague… it's a gray era, right? Because now you're.
1457
02:48:57.555 --> 02:48:58.044
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): giving them.
1458
02:48:58.050 --> 02:48:59.009
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): to us.
1459
02:48:59.430 --> 02:49:00.489
Speaker 40 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I get it.
1460
02:49:00.660 --> 02:49:03.049
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): doing the homework. Got it.
1461
02:49:03.055 --> 02:49:07.015
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's fine. And then you have stated
criteria. Yes. So…
1462
02:49:07.135 --> 02:49:10.025
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Your question isn't really a question,
it's just…
1463
02:49:10.385 --> 02:49:13.895
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Stating that that is not spelled out in
the criteria.
1464
02:49:14.980 --> 02:49:15.660
Speaker 35 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
1465
02:49:17.260 --> 02:49:20.370
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Speaking of the 501c3ism.
1466
02:49:20.370 --> 02:49:20.750
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): variable.
1467
02:49:21.545 --> 02:49:31.435
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The good standing part, we do require them
to submit their 501c3 forms. We follow up with that. That's not currently
in the…
1468
02:49:33.065 --> 02:49:34.694
Quinlan Conf Room: I have one question.
1469
02:49:34.695 --> 02:49:36.255
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Regarding the eligibility?
1470
02:49:36.260 --> 02:49:44.510
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are there any applicants that you have
rejected because they did not meet eligibility?
1471
02:49:48.310 --> 02:49:55.029
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, there are only two categories, either
they have met eligibility, or they couldn't decide on their pending
eligibility.
1472
02:49:55.640 --> 02:49:57.040
Quinlan Conf Room: Is there anything that…
1473
02:49:57.760 --> 02:50:01.080
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, it's… they have been declined to
be here.
1474
02:50:02.590 --> 02:50:06.250
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, again, pending eligibility, you don't.
1475
02:50:06.255 --> 02:50:06.855
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Why have to make it up.
1476
02:50:06.860 --> 02:50:07.599
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): 5 months ago.
1477
02:50:07.600 --> 02:50:09.110
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, got it.
1478
02:50:09.115 --> 02:50:16.594
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. So there's no… Yeah, no applicants
that they have rejected already.
1479
02:50:16.595 --> 02:50:19.605
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): the eligibility checklist from staff that
includes.
1480
02:50:19.605 --> 02:50:22.634
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was a yes or no column. Yeah.
1481
02:50:22.635 --> 02:50:26.464
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): If they didn't, meet that, we would put
it… we marked.
1482
02:50:26.465 --> 02:50:41.355
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the X in the notes, review that, and then
if you think otherwise while you're doing evaluation, like, no, they
actually do need it, we can support accordingly, and then present it in
April, and then have a discussion as a group.
1483
02:50:41.360 --> 02:50:42.040
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, and I…
1484
02:50:42.045 --> 02:50:44.415
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I understand all of that, but I still have
to.
1485
02:50:44.420 --> 02:50:49.360
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): press on, because you do have 901 and C3,
we're still giving away money.
1486
02:50:50.120 --> 02:50:53.619
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): If we have to look at 22 presentations to
see if we're actually.
1487
02:50:53.625 --> 02:50:55.224
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): when you're standing, I mean.
1488
02:50:55.230 --> 02:50:56.619
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): That should be part of the process.
1489
02:50:56.625 --> 02:51:00.645
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's like anyone can claim to be a 501c3.
1490
02:51:01.005 --> 02:51:03.935
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anyone can provide you a fake
certificate.
1491
02:51:03.935 --> 02:51:06.995
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): It comes on each city to find out if
they're all good.
1492
02:51:06.995 --> 02:51:10.245
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): extended or not. That should be the base,
right?
1493
02:51:10.830 --> 02:51:13.809
Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm just saying. So that was…
1494
02:51:13.810 --> 02:51:18.149
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That would be a separate agenda item to
discuss, but…
1495
02:51:18.510 --> 02:51:23.189
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): so noted as part of this, but that
wouldn't be part of this agenda item.
1496
02:51:23.195 --> 02:51:24.325
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
1497
02:51:24.325 --> 02:51:25.494
Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): One other question.
1498
02:51:25.495 --> 02:51:26.935
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, sorry, don't need to…
1499
02:51:26.935 --> 02:51:27.695
Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, even though.
1500
02:51:27.695 --> 02:51:35.655
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): that you provide us the IRS form, we do
verify on the IRS website that they are a current 501c3. Got it.
1501
02:51:36.330 --> 02:51:56.000
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, now, since you explained the
eligibility, and I'm going through the process in the next slide. Yeah,
so, will we go through those eligibility, whether we all agree on the
eligibility of those five first, before even we start evaluating the
rest, correct? Assuming that all five
1502
02:51:56.460 --> 02:52:00.689
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): They're going to evaluate first, and we're
going to agree, yes, they are eligible.
1503
02:52:00.930 --> 02:52:08.369
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we move forward, right?
Otherwise, it'll get confused if we go by the order, and the middle is
coming into the debate. Is that what the problem is?
1504
02:52:08.375 --> 02:52:09.935
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll say, I think going back to last
year.
1505
02:52:09.935 --> 02:52:11.415
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): chair eligibility.
1506
02:52:11.415 --> 02:52:12.135
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): was not…
1507
02:52:12.140 --> 02:52:12.870
Speaker 40 (Quinlan Conf Room): Much of an issue.
1508
02:52:12.875 --> 02:52:15.934
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or as long as you follow and print out,
then you go ahead and move.
1509
02:52:15.935 --> 02:52:16.745
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sure.
1510
02:52:16.745 --> 02:52:19.674
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): That should redirect you a little bit
more.
1511
02:52:19.675 --> 02:52:31.584
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was not a problem last year, so now
this year is the new one, so I'm worried about if the process will guide
us to first clear the bucket out, either put it in the one, or if not.
1512
02:52:31.685 --> 02:52:33.874
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's gonna be an exciting question.
1513
02:52:34.660 --> 02:52:36.920
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so, how will we start off.
1514
02:52:36.920 --> 02:52:37.870
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): the meeting.
1515
02:52:38.140 --> 02:52:39.669
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We will discuss.
1516
02:52:39.855 --> 02:52:40.415
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): eligible.
1517
02:52:40.420 --> 02:52:49.150
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): and then go into scoring. Okay. Then you
can read on your scores. Like, let's say, for example, one commissioner
scores
1518
02:52:49.510 --> 02:52:57.520
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): a total of 90, and another commissioner
support zero for that same org. And then after discussions, you guys can
discuss.
1519
02:52:58.090 --> 02:52:59.530
Quinlan Conf Room: like, okay…
1520
02:52:59.530 --> 02:53:06.580
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Why is this one eligible, or why is it 95
when I score this one ineligible? Then you can…
1521
02:53:06.870 --> 02:53:09.750
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): talk about it after the scoring. Got it.
1522
02:53:10.410 --> 02:53:11.990
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, okay, brilliant.
1523
02:53:12.270 --> 02:53:18.299
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Can I make a comment on that? Yes. So, it
seems to me, I think when we go home.
1524
02:53:18.470 --> 02:53:30.990
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We need to score them all, because we may
come in, and maybe we think something's ineligible, and you give it a
zero, and then the other commissioners say, no, it's eligible, and then
you haven't scored it at all, and so you…
1525
02:53:31.140 --> 02:53:35.990
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you might make a comment off to the
side that I think it's ineligible, but if I had to score them.
1526
02:53:36.160 --> 02:53:45.390
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is how I… that's how I would approach
it. But I also, like, I have the question, if you say they're pending,
and you've identified a reason for that.
1527
02:53:45.960 --> 02:53:54.510
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do we have the ability to throw that out
and overrule? I mean, it's really the criteria that's been set down by
the Council.
1528
02:53:54.780 --> 02:54:01.720
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It would seem to me that we shouldn't be
overruling that, and maybe that's part of our discussion, but…
1529
02:54:02.470 --> 02:54:11.870
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't see myself as a commissioner being
able to say, oh, well, they didn't meet this criteria, but let's go ahead
and score them and see how it goes.
1530
02:54:12.560 --> 02:54:14.699
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, fortunately, we do have our,
1531
02:54:15.240 --> 02:54:17.749
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our homework to do, and we just need to…
1532
02:54:17.755 --> 02:54:18.885
Speaker 40 (Quinlan Conf Room): follow the guidelines, I guess.
1533
02:54:19.025 --> 02:54:20.404
Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the best… and what will…
1534
02:54:20.405 --> 02:54:26.345
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): a lot of the conversation and discussion,
and that's where we'll find out together how we'll proceed.
1535
02:54:26.345 --> 02:54:33.915
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's for it. They have the clear lens,
which is clear the 17, but they are dark, and I would say
1536
02:54:34.105 --> 02:54:37.994
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 3 days, but it's okay. Yeah. Yeah, I
think… I mean, there were some…
1537
02:54:38.780 --> 02:54:53.689
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that there were some questions,
certainly mine, about the dates that they're doing stuff, and they may be
a continuing nonprofit, so they really are saying, oh, I'm going to use
it next year, and so maybe that's some judgment for us?
1538
02:54:54.310 --> 02:54:55.820
Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, and…
1539
02:54:55.820 --> 02:54:56.570
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
1540
02:54:57.230 --> 02:55:01.969
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so we want to go to public comment
and then have any other discussion, Ray?
1541
02:55:01.970 --> 02:55:02.970
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): He's.
1542
02:55:02.970 --> 02:55:04.330
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): She… are you done with…
1543
02:55:04.330 --> 02:55:08.789
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are we finalists? Perfect, so now we're
going to open public comment.
1544
02:55:09.500 --> 02:55:13.320
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers, Vice Chair. Fresh
back, so now we're…
1545
02:55:13.320 --> 02:55:15.090
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're closing that, so since our.
1546
02:55:15.090 --> 02:55:16.340
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's no speakers, I don't.
1547
02:55:16.700 --> 02:55:18.090
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): post public comment.
1548
02:55:18.090 --> 02:55:20.820
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And open up for… Commissioners come.
1549
02:55:20.825 --> 02:55:24.395
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): on the item, or even permission is
standing.
1550
02:55:24.395 --> 02:55:30.164
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just one comment on a process from last
year. Sometimes you go through and you're ranking, and
1551
02:55:30.315 --> 02:55:34.354
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): You rank… you end up with the same total
for two different…
1552
02:55:34.365 --> 02:55:51.384
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): different, nonprofits, and the way we do
it is we start to then do the stack ranking of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so it's
important that if you see two that you end up with the same score, that
you figure out how to make one above the other, so that
1553
02:55:51.485 --> 02:56:00.845
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): when we stack rank them, there is a
difference in them. That's just sort of a statistical thing. I guess we
can make that happen.
1554
02:56:01.835 --> 02:56:06.645
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect. All right. And I have another
question.
1555
02:56:07.770 --> 02:56:10.050
Quinlan Conf Room: Our meetings are recorded.
1556
02:56:10.790 --> 02:56:13.370
Quinlan Conf Room: So, the chair could…
1557
02:56:14.210 --> 02:56:18.549
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do you, tonight, in order to participate
in the next meeting?
1558
02:56:20.520 --> 02:56:22.919
Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, hang on to question them.
1559
02:56:22.920 --> 02:56:24.510
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): So.
1560
02:56:25.190 --> 02:56:30.889
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): these evaluation like we did last time, so
we need to bring it in our own laptop, or the… I forgot.
1561
02:56:30.895 --> 02:56:33.074
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think we'd print it out.
1562
02:56:33.075 --> 02:56:34.594
Speaker 28 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm doing it live.
1563
02:56:34.595 --> 02:56:36.075
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we'll give you the scoring, right?
1564
02:56:36.075 --> 02:56:36.835
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah.
1565
02:56:36.835 --> 02:56:37.575
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1566
02:56:37.580 --> 02:56:38.330
Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): They live…
1567
02:56:38.335 --> 02:56:44.364
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Spreadsheet, we fill it up at home, and
come here, and when we give you the number, to be honest.
1568
02:56:44.365 --> 02:56:50.405
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): with you based on… all of our comments
tonight, you can select those, and then.
1569
02:56:50.405 --> 02:56:51.205
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): and for…
1570
02:56:51.205 --> 02:56:54.564
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Those in the middle, and you can start
classifying by order.
1571
02:56:54.905 --> 02:56:57.224
Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that's what we're gonna try to
come out next.
1572
02:56:57.230 --> 02:57:01.479
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): next month as well, based on the
challenge that Jewel Pembark does.
1573
02:57:01.660 --> 02:57:04.829
Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): Why don't we planning to send out the
spreadsheet?
1574
02:57:07.580 --> 02:57:09.440
Quinlan Conf Room: Bend that out.
1575
02:57:10.340 --> 02:57:13.230
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): The earliest, the better.
1576
02:57:13.235 --> 02:57:16.195
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Totally, yeah.
1577
02:57:17.250 --> 02:57:23.779
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Good. Perfect. Is there any more
conversations to be had on the item? All right, perfect.
1578
02:57:23.785 --> 02:57:31.255
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm sorry, the shadow rows in it, so if I
want to sort it at home, I just, like, messes everything up.
1579
02:57:33.435 --> 02:57:35.574
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I believe those ones have long.
1580
02:57:35.580 --> 02:57:36.910
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): unless I chew it.
1581
02:57:37.200 --> 02:57:40.570
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I think you can sort only one of the
rows.
1582
02:57:41.450 --> 02:57:47.630
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I just take it out of the format, do
my own thing.
1583
02:57:48.520 --> 02:57:50.949
Speaker 46 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oops, sorry, one…
1584
02:57:50.955 --> 02:57:51.365
Speaker 33 (Quinlan Conf Room): had.
1585
02:57:51.365 --> 02:57:52.525
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just moments.
1586
02:57:52.635 --> 02:57:57.464
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, in case in the middle, if those, any
of those fine.
1587
02:57:57.685 --> 02:58:11.875
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Have you notified them that they're not
met eligibility and they're responding to you? How do we know the latest
update from those five, ineligible at this point, organizations? How do
we get the…
1588
02:58:12.065 --> 02:58:26.995
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): the information, either you might see
that, oh, they provided information, they're eligible, or these are
additional information they are provided, still are not able to
determine. How do we get those additional information than what you
already provided?
1589
02:58:26.995 --> 02:58:27.765
Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): pending eligibility.
1590
02:58:27.765 --> 02:58:28.865
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Libby?
1591
02:58:28.870 --> 02:58:30.020
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): That we categorize as.
1592
02:58:30.025 --> 02:58:35.185
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not because they're missing information,
it's based on the criteria that…
1593
02:58:35.185 --> 02:58:36.755
Speaker 46 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, I assume. Oh, I see.
1594
02:58:36.755 --> 02:58:38.115
Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): information needed.
1595
02:58:38.680 --> 02:58:41.969
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): last organization, they're eligible
1596
02:58:42.310 --> 02:58:54.449
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, except they submitted past the
deadline. So, up to you if you want to accept that, but per the policy,
deadline is February 1st.
1597
02:58:55.510 --> 02:58:59.879
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then another example, was regarding
the…
1598
02:58:59.880 --> 02:59:00.550
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): project.
1599
02:59:00.550 --> 02:59:01.300
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): Programming.
1600
02:59:01.305 --> 02:59:09.994
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Med dates that were specified in their
application, and that wasn't clear if it was… if the project was started
already, or completed already, or…
1601
02:59:10.665 --> 02:59:18.145
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): not going into the new fiscal year. They
had a chance to come to the presentation today and clarify that, and.
1602
02:59:18.145 --> 02:59:19.395
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): If they didn't,
1603
02:59:19.395 --> 02:59:23.035
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can use your judgment to score
accordingly.
1604
02:59:24.860 --> 02:59:37.960
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, it's okay, we'll do it, but I think
if they pass the deadline, if they haven't, it's automatical, it doesn't
matter how things are, right? That's what… because you're a system. What
do we really include and do that we have to re-estimate what
1605
02:59:38.080 --> 02:59:52.090
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, that seems to be very basic, Don. If
there are deadlines, and if it is, many people can come and ask
questions. They can even submit it tomorrow and say, hey, you allowed one
to evaluate, why not me? We are giving… we are giving a more…
1606
02:59:52.400 --> 02:59:57.660
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): loopholes for them, so that's what I… I
don't want to be in that kind of a decision.
1607
02:59:57.665 --> 02:59:58.404
Speaker 46 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's completely fine.
1608
02:59:58.430 --> 03:00:00.540
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): This would be… yeah.
1609
03:00:00.545 --> 03:00:03.794
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm gonna encourage you to,
1610
03:00:03.975 --> 03:00:08.065
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): because you're moving into discussion on
evaluation, so I'm going to encourage…
1611
03:00:08.065 --> 03:00:08.825
Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right, oh, I'm sorry.
1612
03:00:08.825 --> 03:00:10.735
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, okay, so, so minus, mine is more.
1613
03:00:10.735 --> 03:00:29.714
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): of a general comment for us, and that is,
something we did last year that we hadn't done in previous years, because
the funding is so low, that we did start, you know, I think we ranked
first, and then we decided, okay, how much would we want to get based on,
you know, these are the top ones, oh, but they…
1614
03:00:29.875 --> 03:00:38.875
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): first one's going to take 50% of our money
or something, so… Yeah. I think we do need to be thinking about that,
like, how much would we want to get partial amount.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're gonna…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): do fine.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you. So, I will close this,
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): the comment section.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Here, and now we're going to move to the
next.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): item of business on the agenda, which is
the staff and commission report, and so the staff… we have a.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, report this evening.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We do, Vice Chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We are gonna try to get this going. There
we go.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll go as quickly as possible. I have my
liaison update for tonight.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I have a reminder on the annual
commissioner's training, which will be Monday, March 30th at 7, at
Community Hall, and that is a mandatory training session.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): All of that goes straight.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have Big Benny this coming Saturday,
March 7th, at 8.30 is when the main run starts, 9.30 is when the kids'
fun run starts.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's at the Tino Civic Center. You can
still register, although, we actually did have to close online
registration a little early, just because our numbers are really close on
the, shirts, and so, we were well on our numbers, but now registration is
in person. Pickup for shirts is tomorrow from 4 to 7 at, Civic Center
Plaza.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we also will take registration as
we can, tomorrow and in the morning if we still have spots.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, we also have our Teen Resource Fair
coming up on Saturday, March 21st, from noon to 3 at Main Street
Cupertino. Just a reminder, that event is, all of our part-time job
opportunities through the City of Cupertino, our volunteer job
opportunities through the City of Cupertino, and then we also partner
with the IDC, which is the
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can't remember what the acronym is, of
course, but it's the independent commissions within Fremont Union High
School District, and they have a committee on mental health awareness,
and so we partner with that particular commission. They go out and find
the,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): the resource booths for the mental health
awareness portion of that event, so we do that through a partnership with
them, and it's, on its third annual, so very cool event.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have our 50-plus golf tournament coming
up on Wednesday, April 1st, 10 a.m. to noon at Blackberry Farm, and you
can still register at Reg4Rep online for that event.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our second year for.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Parks and Recreation Coordinating Earth
and Arbor Day Festival, which will be Saturday, April 4th, from 11 to 3
at the Cupertino Civic Center Plaza. There is actually going to be a move
back into the plaza. It was done there years ago, but it will be in the
plaza rather than on Library Field to bring some cohesiveness back to the
event, the stage closer into, the booths.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): and kind of engage everybody. The street
will also be closed, on Torrey Avenue to provide space for more booths
there. So we're excited about seeing a new format, and, hopefully that
will be a great day for them.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would like to officially introduce
Carolyn McDowell, our new Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation, and
Carolyn will also be your new liaison for the Parks and Recreation
Commission moving forward, and I will… Welcome.
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Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will be back for my division update
coming here, and I'll be returning to,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): still continue with Teen Commission, so I
still do have a commission, so I will be back around. And then I'd also
like to introduce… she's not here, but I'd like to introduce her here,
Zoe Keeley, who is our new Recreation Coordinator in the Senior Wellness
Division. Really excited to have her on board.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Reminder on City e-notifications that you
can sign up to receive the updates, and how you would get to those
notifications is through Cupertino.gov forward slash e-notification, and
then you can just choose which notifications you would like to receive.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That we do have Cupertino 311, where, the
community can report community issues. It's at cupertino.gov forward
slash 311, or you can download the mobile app.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that's a good way to report any issues
that you see in the community. And then, reminder to all commissioners,
if you have international travel, to make sure to email the helpdesk at
cupertino.gov with your travel dates and locations, so that they don't
lock your account on you. Then they know, and they will make
arrangements.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Also, to let you know that our spring
recreation schedule is out for 2026, and activities start on Monday,
March 30th, so we're currently taking registration at Cupertino.gov
forward slash.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): rec schedule.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Our city offices and facilities will be
closed on Tuesday, March 31st, in observance of Cesar Chavez Day.
However, we will have normal operating hours at Blackberry Farm Golf
Course and the Sports Center.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that is my liaison update!
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect, and we're going to move into
Commissioner's report. No, if you want to have a question, yes, let's do
it.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): questions. On the teen,
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): The resource center, is it mainly for the
Copatino teams, or any other outside, outside canvassing?
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Speaker 45 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anybody can.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): visit, the, the options that are available
for volunteer and part-time job opportunities are within the City of
Cupertino, and then the mental health resource boosts are for the
community teens, so that could be somebody outside of Cupertino as well
that could benefit.
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Speaker 36 (Quinlan Conf Room): I saw that…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): teams approached me recently, and they
said, is there anything they can do? But I can ask them to come and check
it out. They can find out.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): about everything of… For them, as a teen
in the community. Awesome, thank you.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Vice Chair Bonomes?
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Say a quick hello?
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, thank you so much, for making a
warm welcome for me this evening. I have joined the city as of the first
of the year, so I'm a seasoned veteran here in Cupertino.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I do have an extensive parks and
Recreation.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): background, but I don't have a.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): linear path, so I also have some law
enforcement in me, which makes my path pretty unique. We'll learn a
little bit about that as we get to know each other a bit better.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I do want to acknowledge Sonya, who
has been doing this role in her own capacity, and I believe doing, you
know, a bang-up job in serving Commission Chair,
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): staff liaison, right? So, kudos. Thank
you.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Jacinta put a ton of work,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): into tonight's.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): presentation and working with the groups
and stuff, and I wanted to acknowledge her real quick, even though she'll
probably watch it tomorrow on.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): online, but, it's an.
1669
03:08:09.580 --> 03:08:13.719
Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): impressive staff, and there's a lot of
good things going on here in.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bertino, and it's exciting to be a.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): part of it. So, I did bring my cards
tonight. I'll pass those out. I don't want to take any more of our time
tonight, but I'm happy to connect with you, whether it be after this
meeting or at a subsequent day and time, just to get to know you a bit,
and look forward to working with you in the years to come.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): And likewise.
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Speaker 12 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for coming to one of the
busiest.
1674
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh my god.
1675
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Speaker 11 (Quinlan Conf Room): You should name it.
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Speaker 35 (Quinlan Conf Room): Absolutely, so…
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03:08:42.205 --> 03:08:48.774
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Alright, perfect. Any more questions from
any Commissioner? Can we move into Commission, reports, which should be
very…
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Stanley.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): pleasure of attending the Cupertino Little
League season opener. It was a great event, lots of people, lots of
families, they really… and they're growing, and, so that's a really good
sign for them. And so it was very nice.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): We should verify?
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, perfect. All right, perfect. Now
we're going to move into, future agenda settings.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can jump in there just a tad.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, at the next.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): meeting. We Right. At the next meeting,
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): We will obviously.
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): Obviously, be bringing.
1688
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): Moving forward, the chair and vice chair.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, it was pissed.
1690
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): phone tonight.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, no, guys. Okay.
1692
03:09:38.770 --> 03:09:39.519
Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): Make sure that that one'.
1693
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): medical issues or anything. Okay, so we
will obviously be bringing that forward, but we also.
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): We also have a proposed calendar.
1695
03:09:46.760 --> 03:09:47.220
Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): That we.
1696
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Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): We plan to bring forward.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): through this calendar year, so we'll be
sharing that with you, as well as anything else that you'd like for us to
consider. But it will be, foundational in our discussion.
1698
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): on that topic. So, just wanted to give
you a heads up.
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Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): Except that that's tentatively on the
agenda for April.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): also.
1701
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): with our dose.
1702
03:10:08.235 --> 03:10:13.035
Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): future adjusted settings part of our wish
list from last year. It is.
1703
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Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): As well as routine items that we're just
gonna dock.
1704
03:10:17.080 --> 03:10:18.800
Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that way, we have, like.
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03:10:18.805 --> 03:10:22.544
Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): and there's somebody like myself coming
on board, a clear understanding of.
1706
03:10:22.550 --> 03:10:23.249
Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): kind of what general.
1707
03:10:23.250 --> 03:10:25.099
Speaker 44 (Quinlan Conf Room): takes place each March.
1708
03:10:25.525 --> 03:10:26.265
Speaker 41 (Quinlan Conf Room): February.
1709
03:10:26.270 --> 03:10:29.119
Speaker 47 (Quinlan Conf Room): you know what I mean? What needs to take
place seasonally.
1710
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, our meeting is coming to an
end. Just wanted to thank everybody for coming tonight. Our next meeting
will be April 2nd at 7pm. It is currently 10 to 11 p.m, joining the
meeting.
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Speaker 22 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
1712
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Speaker 27 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's supposed to be even longer.
1713
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Speaker 46 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is, like, pretty good.
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Speaker 31 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, next week will be… I mean, next week.