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Quinlan Conf Room: Let's Citiko, let me know.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think we're good to go.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening, everyone. Today is Thursday, August 6th,
2026. This is a regular meeting of Park and Recreation Commission. This
is a hybrid meeting. This meeting will be recorded. For members of the
public wishing to address the Park and Recreation Commission on Zoom…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Go ahead.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, on the Zoom application, we'll notify you this
meeting is being recorded.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Before that, I should have called for order later,
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being recorded. Please continue on the Zoom… stay in the meeting.
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Quinlan Conf Room: By name, before speaking on an item. And press star 9
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Quinlan Conf Room: Speakers are limited to 3 minutes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And Commissioner Swamy, we are trying a new, I saw the
instructions. Okay, great. Can we have you sit on the other side of the
table, then, please?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, that's the reason. I thought it was going to be
valid for me. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, let me…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do you want to give her a second, so she can… No, it's
okay, you can just stop it. I can hear her.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. That's a call to order, right? So, welcome to
the August 6, 2026 Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting. I
will call the meeting order at 7.03.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Roll call, staff, can you please? Commissioner Bono?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Scanit? Here. Commissioner Swamy? Yes.
Vice Chair Schrigin? Yes. Chair Kamarapon? Here. The record Commissioner
Bono is absent.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The next item on the agenda is the approval of the
minutes, and this is item number 1, the subject is June 4th, 2026, Park
and Recreation Commission Meeting Minute.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The recommended action for us, review and approve the
June 4th, 2026 Park and Recreation Commission meeting minutes, and I'm
sure that you all looked at the minutes on it. Are there any clarifying
questions?
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Quinlan Conf Room: From the Commissioner in the meeting, okay? Oh, there
is one. Make a motion, right? I can make… make a motion to… No, no, so
you…
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Quinlan Conf Room: There's no clarifying questions. Yeah. Okay. Then I
think, no, there is a new part introduced, so now it has… it'll be open
for a public comment on this item, even on the minute.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, staff, do we have any speaker notes or somebody on
the Zoom? I have no speakers, Chair. Awesome, thank you. There are no
speakers, then I now close the public comment and invite a motion on the
minutes. I would like to entertain a motion.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, Commissioner Sheikhan? Like, I revealed it. I
would like to make a motion to approve it. Awesome.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Stanak? Second. I will second Mush.
Pause.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think it is the staff for you to make a vote. I
think the motion started with Sheila and then seconded by Commissioner
Stanek.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We can go for a vote. Commissioner Stanik? Yes.
Commissioner Sami? Yes. Vice Chairkins?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Chair Kamara-Pom? Yes. The motion carries, with
Commissioner Bono absent.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And postponements. I don't see any postponements in
the system, right? No postponements? Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And now let's move on to oral communication. So, we
are now moving into oral communication, and this portion of the meeting
is reserved for
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Quinlan Conf Room: persons wishing to address the Commission on any other
matter within the jurisdiction of the Commission and not on the agenda.
The figures are limited to three units. In most cases, the state law
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Quinlan Conf Room: will prohibit the Commission from making any decisions
with respect to a matter not on the agenda.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The Commissioner or the staff may briefly respond to
statements made or questions posed, and the Commission may request staff
to report back at a subsequent meeting. That means we are not going to
discuss on that. As a reminder, comments can also be emailed to parks and
Recreationcommission at Cupertino.gov.
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Quinlan Conf Room: If any member of the public would like to make
comments, please fill out a speaker card in the room, or raise your hand
on the Zoom.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Staff, do we have anyone?
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Quinlan Conf Room: We have… would you want to… No, let me just, like,
come here probably the APA, you know, the… Okay. Okay. Yep.
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Quinlan Conf Room: For a future item. So there's no card in the room, and
there's no hands raised in it. Speakers. Okay, if that is the case, then
I think if there's no speakers, then I'll close the order of
communications.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The next agenda and item is all business. I don't
think that we have anything to be covered under all the business.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent, thank you. And then let's move on to the
new business, and in the new business, item number 2,
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Quinlan Conf Room: It is the Cupertino Historical Society and the Museum
Annual Report.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And this is part of the partners and things. They
typically come every month to provide a report, right? Excellent. I'm
happy to do the introduction. Yeah, so the recommended action is to
receive a presentation at the Cupertino Historical Society and Museum
Annual Report, and staff, I think if you could provide a quick intro to
give a heads up on what's expected.
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Quinlan Conf Room: What do we hear from it? Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, in 2022, the City Council approved, executing an
agreement with the Cupertino Historical Society.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The agreement has a lot of different terms to it, and
one of the specific agreement terms is that the Historical Society must
present an annual report of fundraising activities
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Quinlan Conf Room: Current work plan achievements.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And future work plan items and projects to the Parks
and Recreation Commission on an annual basis. The agreement is on a
fiscal year basis, and our fiscal year just closed on June 30th.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And obviously, the Historical Society needs some time
to be able to compile their end-of-the-year results, and this is the
first meeting, since they've been able to do so. So, tonight's
presentation is for informational purposes only.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The Commission, as you saw on the agenda, is to
receive, the annual report, and we are, very fortunate tonight to have
Mike Foulkes with us from the Cupertino Historical.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you so much, Mark.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you, Mr. Chair, Commissioners, and staff. Mike
Foulkes. I'm the Vice President of the Historic Society. I wouldn't have
my treasure with me, but tonight is his, 60th wedding anniversary. And
so, his wife insisted that he not go to a meeting. Of course.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, so thank you for having me. I know you don't have
a heavy agenda tonight, but I also don't want to bore you with slides.
We,
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Quinlan Conf Room: We put everything in your report, and it's all in your
packets, my two slides, so I'm going to really highlight what I think are
the most interesting things, but please.
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Quinlan Conf Room: if I'm going too fast, let me down, ask questions, so
I just don't want to… I've sat in enough meetings where the slides just
go on and on, and so… and there's a lot of… because of our agreement with
the city, all the factual and numbers are in there, but for me, I think
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Quinlan Conf Room: for the parks, representing public and representing
the residents, it's more interesting to talk about, kind of, the
programmatic things that we're doing and what we're looking to do, and
what we… what we've tried to do this past year. So, we'll kind of go
through all of that, and again, feel free to…
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Quinlan Conf Room: to asking questions. And Mr. Folks, before you get
started, we do have a light system, and so if any of the commissioners
have a question, comment, concern, they'll just tap their light, and that
way, it'll be an indication to you that
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Quinlan Conf Room: That there is a question. Would you prefer that those
are at the end, or would you like them as a present? Oh, as we go, I
think. Okay, and I realized I didn't give you your line.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, so I will give… I will give you one as well.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So I gotta watch this slide or those? All of it. All
the lights. Anywhere. I was gonna say, alright, okay. They're moving
their fingers on all this. There you go, there you go. Oh, wow. Maybe a
quick question.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Quick, suggestion. Is it okay, like.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And not 22 slides, but can we go through the slides
first to hear it, and then we ask clarifying questions to be noted? Or do
you want to interrupt in the middle? For going along, because one
suggestion, can I?
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Quinlan Conf Room: You said that you didn't want to go through the
slides, but we have a light agenda, you have all the time, we have the
floor, and I'm sure you'll be a great speaker, so please go ahead. Okay.
Yeah, whatever is convenient. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, so if we can go to the next slide about the
agenda. So we really wanted to, as mentioned, hit the summary.
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Quinlan Conf Room: the achievements, the newsletter, which I think is
helpful, because that goes out to a fairly…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Group of people in the community. And then, as
mentioned, what we're looking to do for this coming year, and where
we're… our budget, is looking.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, if we go to the next slide, the city grant is
$40,000, which is… which we appreciate the city's, trust and belief in
our organization, and we try to be very good stewards. We…
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Quinlan Conf Room: And this is how that breaks down in terms of the
grant, what grant application was for, and then obviously what the
actuals were for the last year.
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Quinlan Conf Room: You know, we are, like many nonprofits in Cupertino,
running a bit of a deficit. We try to make that up with fundraising, with
grant, grant writing, etc, and
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's… for all historic societies in Silicon Valley,
it's difficult because, you know, people are busy, and there's not as
much of a focus on history, and I think Cupertino has a unique
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Quinlan Conf Room: Opportunity that we're working on, which is
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Quinlan Conf Room: so many people are from other parts of the country,
from other parts of the world, they are here, and we're trying to make
history relevant to them. One of the things, and I'll get to this, but my
push, I ran Apple's nationwide
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Quinlan Conf Room: government community affairs for 25 years, so, so I
work in a lot of communities. I have worked in a lot of communities. But
I've been on this board for about 25 of those years.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Because I do think there's a real opportunity here,
especially with students, and we'll get to that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: It looks like… I'm sorry, I can't see that one. No, I
gotta move… I will think of it, and I will… The laptop that is blocking
this, I will… I will…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Prompted. Thank you. So I'm just wondering how you're
funding your deficit.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, we have… so, this is on the specific programs that
the city and we agreed to do together. In general, we have an endowment,
and so we take some off the endowment. We're trying not to eat the seed
corn of that endowment.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But, we certainly do take 4% a year, which helps. And
we get grants,
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Quinlan Conf Room: that often can bridge a couple of years. We got one
recently from a small tech company that's very central in Cupertino. So…
so that kind of helps balance it. Okay, so this is just a piece of your
activity. Correct.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I guess, yeah, at some point, I didn't see it in the
package of what is…
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Quinlan Conf Room: the full scope of the Historical Society from a
financial perspective? Yeah, so the answer is, I think this would be
roughly… depending on the year and depending on staffing, we've had some
staffing challenges this year.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Our executive director couldn't afford Silicon Valley
anymore and left the area, and one of our staff members died.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Unexpected. So, so in this year, we've been struggling
from a staffing perspective, but obviously.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Because of those expenses. You know, our budget is
smaller this past year than it would have been, but I think on a…
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Quinlan Conf Room: on an average year, about a quarter, what the city's
giving us about the quarter of the budget. That's what I want to
understand. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So let's go to the next slide,
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, this is just to give you the broad brush, and
we'll go into details of this. Again, we divide things up into collection
management, yeah, curatorial exhibits.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then community outreach, and we'll talk through,
and you can see, kind of, we… we try to have an event, a kind of a
significant event per month.
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Quinlan Conf Room: For our members and for the public.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But to some degree, that also fits with the city's
calendar, because a lot of city events, since we're… the museum's right
here across the hall from you, we piggyback on those events. You'll see
when we have our festivals, that's going to do a lot of our work, or
Christmas time, you know, because
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Quinlan Conf Room: week, we may have, you know, a handful of people come
to the museum, even though we have doses staffing it, but in a cultural
event, we get a thousand people come through. So, it really… we really
try to focus on those.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So… Again, the… the… just to give you an idea of… of
how we divide this up,
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Quinlan Conf Room: there's a lot of work in collection management, which,
you know, before I got on this board, I didn't quite realize how
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Quinlan Conf Room: Just knowing what you have. There's a whole lot of
rules that museums have to follow in terms of
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Quinlan Conf Room: How you treat your exhibits, one of our biggest
expenses is storage, because we have to… we have to climate control the
storage, and we have a lot of stuff.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And if you don't treat yourself well, you have to give
it away to other museums, which we don't want to do. We don't give away
our collections. But we don't… we have a very small space, so most, you
know, 90% or 100% of what we have is really in storage.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, so that's a lot of work, and it's kind of behind
the scenes. But part of that is digitization. We've, over the last
several years, said, look.
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Quinlan Conf Room: You know, there are a lot of places where… in museums
where people have dated,
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Quinlan Conf Room: So without giving it away, does it make sense to
actually give it to Tech Museum or other places, and when you want to
swap it, you don't have to pay storage costs, but at the same time.
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Quinlan Conf Room: resource, so to speak, and also more visibility of
your artifacts. Yes, I… so I'm learning, kind of the hard way, how
there's a lot of Byzantine rules with my word.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So… so yes, we're trying to do that, frankly, the
opposite way with exhibits, because there are museums that will do a lot
of work to put an exhibit together, but let's say that… and that exhibit
may be on.
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Quinlan Conf Room: early farming, which is as relevant to Cupertino as it
is to Sacramento. And so, if we can…
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Quinlan Conf Room: get, you know, borrow their exhibit and have it come
here, or likewise with our exhibits, right, a lot more eyes get to be on
it. So we're doing a lot of that. Okay. Yeah, and it's… and it's very
helpful, yeah, because then you don't have to have… and we'll get to
that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So the… the exhibits, and really when we talk about
exhibits, mostly the museum, although we'll talk about a couple other
programs. The Kelly Truck, which, thank goodness the city has now given
us space. It's a beautiful old historic truck, but we have no place. It's
a big truck, so it's actually at Stockmeyer and one of the barns at
Stockmeyer, which is great.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And we'll… Stockenmeyer is another project that I'm
working on with the city to see if we can do something.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Which we've worked on for a long time, but that's
still, you know… most cities…
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Quinlan Conf Room: around us, almost every city around us, has some
historical building that has been restored and can be really used for
public use. Cupertino is one of the only cities that doesn't.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And Sakamire, in talking to the staff, talking to the
mayor.
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Quinlan Conf Room: a lot of reasons, right? So, and then the community
outreach. You know, we really try to be relevant, to the community. I
mean, historical sighting without something that gets students excited,
seniors excited, and everyone in between.
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Quinlan Conf Room: you know, you're not… you're not creating a product
that people want to see. So we really focus on… on getting that out on…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Getting volunteers to help us so we can show off our
things better, to work on more creative things, and we'll get some of
those programs.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And one of them, which we'll talk about, is a tavern
talk, which was… prize for us.
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Quinlan Conf Room: a great program. So, we go to the next… Line, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: And again, just… just talking about the different
things. We're going to go into each of these,
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think, in more detail, so we can go ahead, go to the
next one. Just how you know how we break it down. So this is going to be
a fairly exhaustive set of slides on, just month by month, what we're
doing. Again, very limited staff. Right now, we have no full-time staff,
it's all partner staff, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: And it… and it really is hard for nonprofits, because
you can't…
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Quinlan Conf Room: full-time in this valley, you need to have benefits
and other things that we can't offer.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do you get volunteers to come and support you? Yes, so
we have, most of
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Quinlan Conf Room: The people who staff the museum are volunteers. We
have…
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Quinlan Conf Room: we have an active board that helps with… helps staff.
A lot of times, if you're here on Fridays, or with Fridays when our staff
is here, but it'll usually be half volunteers and half staff working
together. A lot of people who grew up in Buena Vista, who have been here
for
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Cupertino, so they're really helpful, but they're not, you know, they
don't understand technology as well as, you know, even I don't understand
as well as younger folks. So, so trying to really, you know, bridge that
gap so we can have,
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people who can say.
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website.
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take forever if you put it on YouTube, right? It's free storage, and you
have instant content, and you can put a hyperlink on our webpage, and
it's there, and it's, you know, things like that, which we don't even
think about in terms of the backend of how the technology works.
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you haven't, gone down to the… to, to see the McClellan Ranch Park, I
recommend it's a great, community thing. It is one of the few restored
buildings that we do have where it's hands-on, and kids love it, adults
too.
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exhibit here, which is hugely popular, and we'll talk about that. But
also, we do a party for donors, guests, members, to try to, you know.
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all our people. That's… so, no, that's great. Go to the next, then we'll
get a good detail, so…
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this is very labor-intense, but we sent an actual physical newsletter.
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supporters, but we do physical newsletters that we give out, not just in
Cupertino, but to other historical societies in the area that might be
interested in reading the articles that we're putting out. So, it's a
great effort, but again.
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having the paper inside, right? They don't like scrolling on.
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Cupertino 70th birthday, which is funny, because I… I just pulled out a
t-shirt from our 50th birthday the other day, and I'm like, well, I've
been here a long time.
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limited space, but we can pack a lot in there, and really trying to put
pictures, articles, videos, so, talking about Cupertino's past, and
again,
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an oral history project, so we helped her on that project as well, so we
did several things for… for Cupertino 7.
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great for students. We had a lot of students, come by for this, so it… we
did a beekeeping exhibit, and this was both historical beekeeping, right?
So we had a lot of really old equipment that used to be used that, you
know, that we got from various beekeepers, but also
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honey and things that kids could taste, and we could… and people could
buy it, the local honey, and so it was a really popular exhibit, and I
think, you know, obviously.
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else besides the bees. So that was fun, and again, a lot of your support
goes to, if you look at just putting up all those artifacts.
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writing up all the staff time to write everything up. I mean, this is
one, because we're doing it ourselves, that we can't just borrow from
somebody else, so it's all kind of our work.
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this is… this is our museum right here. That picture makes it look a lot
bigger than it. Yeah, I think, wow, it's so bigger, and that's how… Yeah,
we cram a lot of this one, please.
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see this with the Cherry Blossom Festival, too.
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People love to have their picture taken, especially with the tree. So we
do the tree every year, we do the railroad that actually runs around it,
and we time it
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the tree, so it's… it's a really… it's a really great opportunity.
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and put all that together.
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had to take down and get this up, but we only had a week to… to do the…
but it worked out.
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beginning of the year. So this is one I mentioned that we, rented slash…
rented, but at minimal cost, from another museum that basically
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to put it together. But this was about gadgets, so it's a whole bunch of
things, and we actually had a
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guess what each item is, right? Because we covered up what they were, and
then revealed them. Because a lot of these things, which are commonplace
things, whether it's to wash clothes, or whether it's to
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things, you wouldn't really know what they were, right? You know,
something to store your butter in, etc. So that was a fun one, and
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to March, we try to turn the exhibits every 3 months, again, depending on
staffing, you know, but we certainly
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in the museum, so people come here, they're not just looking for sanctum.
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museum now, because, of the,
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bunch of De Anza stuff, which, who knew? So they actually sent us all
sorts of really interesting materials and brochures and things about De
Anza, so… so it was kind of a nice, nice freebie. You don't get lots for
free from federal government at this point, but it's great.
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of… this was the creation of Cupertino, which was this exhibit. So as
mentioned, we had,
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kind of, the narrative, we had some audio-visual,
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so we try to make it, again, it's a tiny museum.
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text, it's very boring, so we're trying to do more things that are… that
are interactive, or that are… that are visual that you can watch, right?
Little clips and stuff like that.
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Cupertino reenactment, where they reenacted the De Anza,
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Cupertino, they still had that collection, so we were able to put that
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and this is where we rely on volunteers. We've done this for over 50
years. It's a traveling trunk, and this is because
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sets of trunks that go around the community, and we can do a 45-minute
presentation,
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with the schools, and they say, hey, you know, we're studying this, do
you have something relevant to that? We'll go and do a, you know, a
period. Which, which is, you know, which is great, and again, gets it out
there as part of that community.
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get them to our museum, so let's move the museum there. Very successful,
we need younger
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because those trucks aren't light, but, but we have great people working
on it, hands-on. And one thing that the last two years we've started to
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because there was a person who was kind of just staring at the wall, and
got involved, and was touching and things, and said a couple of words.
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heard that person say anything for months. So… so that's something we
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the structure like a school does that may have a really, you know, tight
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this coming year. It brings back the memory to you for them. Exactly.
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how, if they look at something, it's one thing, if they put their hands
on it, because everything is touched. Mike, we did a study last year to
look at seniors and how
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part that can actually fit into that program, Marupan. We were talking
about intergenerational things, and the loneliness, and feeling left out.
It's just so wonderful to hear you come alive with that.
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and we really want to roll that out. We've, you know, we've been doing,
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senior communities up on the hill, right? And trying to figure out, can
we do more programming up there? Can we do some events up there? Because
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DMs exhibit. We could dismantle that and put the cherry blossom up just
for a weekend, so we basically kind of figured a way to put one in front
of the other. But I volunteered at this one on Sunday, which was not the
biggest day. We probably had
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numbers right now, but it was amazing how many people came. And they
didn't just come to see the kimonos, which was a big draw, because they
were right in front. But then they walked around and looked at all the
DMs of things, and took pictures with the kimonos, and it was a great
partnership with Assist City, and we've done it for many years, and so…
and that's really, for us.
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contest. This is where some of your friends have gone to to help just
with the… with the advertising and getting out to the schools. So this is
the first one we've done.
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going to be a history essay contest, and then we switched it, we talked
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more… more creative, it fits more with our curriculum, and so we said,
great. And so, did it on a weekend, we got a lot of interest, the kids
who came loved it, the content was great. All the content's always great
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because I think if we can make history relevant to kids, the parents will
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with three kids, and we're trying to say, hey, you should be volunteering
as a dose in our museum, they're going to say, I've got no time, right?
So… but if the kids are interested and have… and want to get more
involved, and we have more programming for kids, I think that… that can
help. That's kind of our goal. This is our first kind of…
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coloring contest, at the festivals, but now, frankly, the festivals have
enough demand for booths, you have to actually pay for the booths, which
are fairly expensive, so we said, well, we're probably better off
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right? Not being part of a giant festival with a lot of competing
activities, right? Coloring is fine, but if there's a slide right next to
it, it's…
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Monta Vista is our most historic part of Cupertino, just in terms of its
age and history, and so we have a lot of
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to digitize those. I used to chair the Historic Preservation Board in
Campbell.
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down King Campbell, and you just, you look at the house, and it's boom,
and you click on it, and it's that whatever. So we're trying to do that
for Monta Vista. The same idea.
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could give us to do the apps, which is why we got one down here. Here, we
don't have that… that, you know, luxury, but…
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and there's so much history there, not just what's still there, but what
used to be there, right? The Hoo Hoo House, and all these other things
that I just hear stories about, right? So…
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still have some People alive who are…
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really great to act. I mean, they're in the 80s and 90s, but they still,
you know, they're sharp as a tack, so we're getting a lot of really good,
you know, information to kind of build this out and make it more robust,
so…
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Since you guys are funding us, we want to make sure that you know where
the dollars are going. So, and as you see, some of these are multi-year
projects, right? The speakers programs,
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software program.
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tires on this a lot, but basically.
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outside world, which is nice, but if we're only seeing our stuff, that's
what this… the upgrade is going to give us the ability to have multiple
people work on the same file and be able to push it out, right, on our
website. So that's a big…
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ongoing. We continue to look for better alternatives. I've talked to city
staff about some ideas. City space… no, city space is preciousness, and
we…
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not like we're, you know, we're holding the seed bank or anything, but we
can't just put it in the chains, right? So, and then as you see,
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some things that are new. One thing I didn't, the speakers program, which
is… which you see a fairly large,
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of the speaker series has been our Tavern Talks. This was one of our
board members who…
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He's a local, he's a local teacher, but he had this idea that we don't
have a lot of
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some historic tablets. And so he started this, we started with Paul and
Eddie's, and basically inviting our members, plus donors, plus active
community folks, to come out.
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then have a lecture, and have a lecture about the… about Polandetti's
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lot of people for us. And that continued, and so… and now we've…
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you know, and so we're still calling it a Tavern Talk, but the idea is
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around for 40 to 50 years or longer.
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story is relatively short, then we've added on another speaker to talk
about. So, for example, we've done a couple now with the Blue Pheasant.
The first one was all about the Blue Pheasant.
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knows about the pheasants, so we had a talk about DNs. We had two of the…
of our docents give a long talk about… about DNs, and since we're right
in the middle of… Sorry, I said…
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and so it's nice to be able to say, okay, two blocks that way, this
happened, and two blocks this way. So… so those have been really popular,
and again.
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or may not, you know, may not have little kids and want to go have a
picture with Santa, but it's something that… it's a nice evening thing,
it's a lot of our community members, a lot of our electives come, and
it's just a fun, you know, a fun way to have an evening activity. So
that's been…
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out, okay, we're running out of places in Cupertino, can we go… we did
one in Saratoga, just over the border, you know, we're doing it Cupertino
adjacent, right, if we can't do it in Cupertino. So that… I wanted to
mention that, because that's, a significant part of our program.
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their
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get things here, and also us having exhibits that can go out to the
community. The traveling trunk, it's doing things in schools.
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program is an ongoing thing. We have a lot of really good videos
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we need to put them up on the web, because right now, they're still in
our archives, and they serve no purpose sitting there, but nobody's going
to want to sit on
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could be down to 15 minutes of, like, zippy kind of dialogue. So it's
having the staff to be able to do that, video edit, getting down and
getting it up on our website, getting on YouTube, where we can link to
it, and getting that constantly.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Couple of quick ones. One is, speaker programs, when
it says VDF for 30K, is it the speaker? Is it the expense towards the
speakers, or when you say that you give a refreshment for the people who
come? Yeah, so it's essentially the, the, the,
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the place. Right, because, so we've had a lot of, authors who will write
a book, and they'll come to speak for free.
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room here, or a room someplace in the community. Or, for example, the,
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minimum food and beverage or something, and if we don't quite meet that,
because they work… they're getting up a big part of their revenue for
that evening to give us space, so that… and that's assuming a monthly
program. Obviously, if we don't have a monthly statement, then that goes
down. Next question is, on the Steven's Creek signage, it says one year
10K. Is it every year, or just for one year? It's one time? So, that's
where budgeting
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along the trail, right, the, you know, all the way along from the Bond
Ranch to Stockton Miren.
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put in, but
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year, right?
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of, as you can imagine, red tape when you're putting something on a
public right-of-way, so we have to… so… so that's what we plan on doing
this year, but again, it's… it's really… one is…
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permanent and something that's not going to be revitalized, etc, so…
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in our last commission meeting.
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is putting a story walk in the park, right, with the signages, kind of.
So I think it looks like this is similar to it, right, when you go and
exhibit, and…
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with some, programs called, Story Walk.
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it, on the walkway, they'll put some of these exhibits coming up. So
maybe there's an opportunity, you can work with them and see whether… how
they are, because they are doing it at a big scale.
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partnership. Oh, yeah. Always do it, and there's an opportunity, so
that's good. No, no, I will follow up, because that's great. I mean, we
don't…
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County Library District, and our library is only there doing it, so you
may want to just check it out.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Kelly, I would like to say that, you know, the history
have honed it down.
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really don't know about the history of Cupertino, about De Anza, about,
you know, Monta Vista, that you talk about with such passion, and we,
miss the shared language, the common ground.
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seems like a daffle town, an extension of that, and some of the great
parks that we have, but you can absolutely perhaps utilize the parks we
have
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helpful. One other thing I have to… wanted to ask about is the speakers
program. Just because
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have you explored if you can use the Quinlan Community Center for free,
or a really low price, or can you… because it's all within the pro…
within the overall arching, or the overarching issue? I have no idea. I'm
just…
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and we, you know, the city works well with us,
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they treat everyone else, like they treat Rotary Lington, so there's a
little bit of a, you know, a favorite child, so… No, but you have a house
here. Yeah, yeah, that's true. No, and we, you know, and again, you know,
I think… I think we're…
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the Tavern Talk has been one that, you know, has cost us a lot less than
what we were doing before, just because of the cost of the location. So
that's something we're looking into. And, you know, I think we're,
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Yeah. …is… We all came from farmers.
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that we're really trying to push, because we grew up in
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at one point, right? Yes. So…
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Quinlan Conf Room: So… and we have a lot of that, because we're such a…
we were such an agricultural town, so I agree with you. Now, it's the new
TV show Cupertino coming out, which people are going to think about… but
back… but for history, and kids love to… so I've volunteered for years
at, my local kids' school.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And I do around the guard. And kids, if they can get
their hands dirty, so just doing, like, orange picking, right, at
Stockmeyer Ranch, or something like that, with a lecture on why is this
orange orchard here, and how did it come to be, and was it… well, the
kids can then slice open and have an orange section. I mean, things like
that. Yeah.
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because again, everyone's
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Quinlan Conf Room: everyone's great-grandparents were home. So we're
looking into things. I have only one last quick note, and I know we are
running out of time, but because this is so important for the environment
and everything, the bee section that you're talking about, a lot of
people have fear of the bees.
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that. In fact, I would love to learn more about it. Is there a way you
can kind of make that a little bit more widespread? Because we need more
bees to pollinate. The bee population is shrinking rapidly. So anything
you can do to be more creative to make sure that you're expanding
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Quinlan Conf Room: Awesome. Yeah, just doing time check, how many slides
we still have? No, this is one more, but it's not… One more? Awesome.
Just gives you the categories.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Well, then she wrap up, and then I have one thing to
add, but go ahead. Okay, yeah, so anyway, thank you for your time, thank
you for your questions, and being so interactive, this is super fun, and
again, we're across the hall, and we have people here every Friday, so if
you ever have questions, things that come up, you know, feel free to come
over and visit us, and again, appreciate the partnership with us.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you so much. Just to piggyback on the question
that Commissioner Swamy brought up, you guys all have a copy of the
current agreement, and it does note that the Historical Society does get
a certain number of free uses of the room, and then anything above that
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as long as the space is available, at a very nominal rate, can use our
facilities at that rate. So…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do you have it in your packet? Supplemental report and
the others, right? Correct.
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public comment, too, on this side.
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anybody's on the speakers? Excellent. That's the process I need to check
it out. Thank you, then I'll close the public comment. I think all the
clarifying questions will be asked in between, so I don't think that
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anything, that's good. So we'll move on to the next item. There's item
number 3, the subject is fiscal year 25-26, community funding grant
program written reports, and the recommended action is to receive an
update.
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Program written reports from the staff, and, police.
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fiscal year, and
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wrapped up for the 2025-26. It's hard to reverse in your head. We're
already working so far out, excuse me. The 2025-26, Community Funding
Grant Program Report. Jacinta Liang was going to be presenting that to
you tonight. You guys are all very familiar with her, and I think you'll
be very pleased with what she, shared today.
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tonight's meeting on community funding, I'll be providing an update for
the 25-26 awarded organizations. And just a reminder, this is not for the
26-27 organizations that previously were brought to you in March and
April this year.
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26-27 isn't due until July next year, so July 2027.
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awarded $35,500 in community funding to 13 organizations.
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Friends of Deer Hollow Farm said that their project was already complete
before the award.
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so the grant funding wasn't sent out to them, and an annual report was
not submitted. So the total funding that was sent out was $32.
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grant policy, grant recipients need to submit written reports to show
that their grant funds have been spent in the way that was stated in
their application, along with receipts and other types of financial
statements.
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organization.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So first, we have Active Circle. They received $2,000,
and their funds were used to purchase food, materials, and entertainment
for their all-inclusive picnics. They said that they served 80
individuals, and 50 of them were from Cupertino residents.
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used the grant funding towards materials and equipment for their free
vision care program. So this program is, providing free eye exams and
prescription glasses to, underserved students.
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their program, and out of the 26, 15 of them were Cupertino residents.
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received $3,000, and their funds were used towards their AAPI
Multicultural Festival, which was held earlier this year in May.
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those were Cupertino residents.
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$1,600, and they used their funds towards purchasing meals for their
Thanksgiving meal sharing program.
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of those, 15 of those are Cupertino residents.
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$3,000. Funds were used towards rent, venue rentals and programs and
sheet music for their concerts.
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attended, and 500 of those were Cupertino residents.
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funding, and funds were used towards their background verification
integration within their Elder Aid app. And then this application was the
platform that connected seniors with volunteers that needed help with
daily tasks or running errands.
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they returned the amused funds, to the city. And there's…
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funding was used towards materials and room rentals for various STEM-
focused workshop and events.
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then they had a lot of math and physics seminars.
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out of those, 1,000 were Cupertino residents.
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in grant funding, and the funds were used towards their Feed in Need
program, which would cover surface, extra food from grocers, hospitals,
and restaurants, caterers.
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shelters, food pantries, and churches.
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34,399 were Latino residents.
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received $1,000, and their funds were used towards their, dental
treatment program, and then they used these for materials and equipment,
and also, dentists and doctors that helped do the dental cleanings.
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total individuals, and 78 were Latino residents.
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California. They were awarded $5,000, and funds were used towards, venue
rental costs at Homestead Bowl for their bowling team program.
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adults with intellectual, disabilities.
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12 were Cupertino residents.
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$1,000, and their funds were used towards, program materials for their
STEAM and outdoor education camps.
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were Cupertino residents.
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Funds were used to purchase gift cards for families during their annual
Give to Hope event that's held during the December holiday season.
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were Latino residents.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so that's, thank you. Thanks for the
presentation, and I think there's a good format you put in there, and we
can just focus on.
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clarification questions, Commissioner Aswamy? I have one question on the
dental…
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ROI. It seemed… am I wrong in thinking it was $10 per person or
something?
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Absolutely, it's like, wow. Right? How are they doing? $10 per
individual? Believable.
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partnered with local professionals.
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stuff.
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pupil.
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to provide… That's good, very good. That's wonderful, yeah. So we should…
more of these kind of things, that kind of an ROI? We actually awarded
them for 26-27. I know, we did. We should have done.
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the $2,000, that was never used by, the first cause.
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be allocated
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It just gets even back to the…
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to Deer Hollow Farm, but the $944 will just go back into the general
fund. Okay, and even the $2,000, it was never given, so it still stays in
the funds?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent. Thank you. I have a quick question. Do you
have anything now? Okay. So, one of them is that, if you could go back on
the slides, you said.
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Quinlan Conf Room: No time to waste.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And it says the number of Cupertino residents.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Benefit is $34,000.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I am… Can you go back? I think they put all the… Oh,
fuck. So…
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Quinlan Conf Room: How… I'm still trying to find out how they serve the
34,000 clients on this. They calculated by the number of meals, so it
could be the same resident over and over.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Oh.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I know they explained it one year.
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Quinlan Conf Room: When, they came. Because the reason I ask is to
connect with West Valley.
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Quinlan Conf Room: the people in the residence served is around 300-
something. Then even Coop, Rotary Club is, whatever the…
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Quinlan Conf Room: The Thanksgiving one, it's only 15. So what I'm trying
to say is that the need for this kind of a meal and others seems to be
definitely not 34,000.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's… Oh, sorry. That's what I heard, so please…
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Quinlan Conf Room: So… I don't know how this is… the basic difference is
the other programs are a one-time shot.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So Gift of Hope is one time. Oh, makes sense. So that
many people come in, right? The Cupertino Roadie is Thanksgiving, they
give those a long time.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And the No Time to Waste is that… that is an ongoing
program, so they are delivering meals throughout the year.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And so… so maybe it's a… it's, you know, maybe the
number of times Cupertino residents have been served, maybe that's…
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's a little… the words that are chosen, I think, is
the way it's… Yeah, I'm happy that it didn't serve so many, but I'm
trying to find out that much need?
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Quinlan Conf Room: by all, or only a set of people, maybe 500 people, or
someone they need, they are repeatedly getting it every week or every
month, and together, I think it's a… so the representation could be…
it'll be number of residents served how many times, kind of, but I don't
think that… I don't know whether they have that kind of, because they're
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Quinlan Conf Room: They're going to just count people. They're not going
to say, are you the repeat customer? They're not going to do it, I
understand. That's why it is a number of… I would consider this number of
people, sir… number of, sir…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Whatever, meals served is 34,000. I don't think it'll
be… the reason is, somebody, if you looked at it, oh my god, Cupertino
residents have so many people need. The reason, because otherwise, they
will look at it differently. That means the city…
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Quinlan Conf Room: We have so many people in need of this, then what are
we… it gives a different perspective.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's what I… I felt that it is… It's not unique
users.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, it's not unique users. Number of meals served.
For Cupertino, it is 34,000 meals. That's great. Yeah, so it is an annual
program. They're delivering, meals over 12 months, and with their
calculation, they're probably… I'm pretty sure they're measuring by
pounds.
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Quinlan Conf Room: When they collect their food, and then they probably
have some type of calculation
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Quinlan Conf Room: You know, how many pounds of food per month, and then
how many times it goes to, like, a casino, and then just buys it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The amount of meals that goes to Cupertino or
something like that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and the other question, quickly, is that when do
they do it? How do they do it? What place? And because it's in Cupertino,
is it city permitted, or how do they serve these residents, our
residents?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Work with, West Valley.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But they also go through this one, is it? Yeah, I just
wanted to understand, because where do they serve? If we're on a regular
program, either Titi should know, or any of us will know, where do they
do this one? I just want to see it one day, I want to go and just look at
it, how do they do it, just to get a feel of
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Quinlan Conf Room: what kind of our citizens are going there, and what is
in need, just to have it. Again, if you don't have answers, no problem,
just a question, and if you could get, and maybe later, if you all know,
that's great. Where do they serve, and how they manage it, and is there
any city
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Quinlan Conf Room: staff is helping, or any program is attached to it, I
just wanted to know. Because it's a huge thing, it's good, but I wanted
to know. That's it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, but don't worry about it immediately getting
answered, that's okay. I actually have it. So they,
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Quinlan Conf Room: deliver surplus food to West Valley, in Cupertino
weekly, and then, They also… sec… It's a weekly.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And… this was in their application, it was in,
attachment C. So then,
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Quinlan Conf Room: They have 33 food donors in Santa Clara County.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then… that they collect food from, and then they
deliver it to 22, outreach program partners in the county.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, but for Cupertino, they only give it to West
Valley, and through which we get it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, in Cupertino, in their application, it just
states…
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Quinlan Conf Room: West Valley, I'm not sure if they deliver it to the
other…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Maybe later, not right away, but I would still like to
understand
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Quinlan Conf Room: The number is so big, and I wanted to understand How
do they do it?
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Quinlan Conf Room: How do they serve it? Where do they? And if it's West
Valley, is our people going there? Somehow, the number seems to be so
big, and I wanted to understand. That's it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: No, thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hey, sorry, what's your… Yeah, the $2,000, that was
never utilized, which, cause was that? Friends of Dare Hollow Farms, so…
Friends of Dear Hollow Farms. So what happened was to renovate the… Yeah,
I remember that, yeah, yeah.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That, and I don't think Elderide never came back last
year. I don't remember seeing both of them, but I feel that, in future,
when they come back.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We should be, we should consider whether it is really
going to be helpful, otherwise we could have allocated that funds to
somebody else, right?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so the applications were due in January, and
then…
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Quinlan Conf Room: the organizations don't know if they're awarded until
June, so I think Friends of Garrett Hall Farm, they said that their board
was pushing them to the project ASAP, so they ended up finishing in April
or May. Okay. And then they asked if we could use the funds for something
else, but, you know, Council already went through commission. Yeah, yeah.
Council approved that specific project, so we told them.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Can't, apply for a different copy.
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Quinlan Conf Room: back to apply next year, but then… Okay, that makes
sense. Yeah, totally. But with the elder aid, probably they over-
estimated their cost, I think. Like, said they had a delay in their,
like, marketing or outreaching. Okay. They asked if they could, I think,
use it in July, you know, but then their term ends June 30th, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. Said if there's any way that you can use it
towards what you applied for, you can use that, but they said, well, we…
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's a very nice option. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Makes sense. Okay, thank you. Excellent, thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think if there's no more clarifying questions, I
think we kind of did the comments as well. So, are there any public
comments, Steph, do you have?
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Quinlan Conf Room: We have no speakers, Sharon. Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. If that isn't the case, then I'll close the
public comment and just open it up for final comments. Is there any final
comments from our commissioners?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Then, thank you all. I think then that's good, and
we'll move to the next item.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Should I do that one? Yeah. Nx1, when they first came
to us for funding, their ROI was very low. I mean, very high in the sense
their cost per pair of glasses was ridiculously low. But then I'm
certainly seeing a huge, increase in their operational costs.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We never quite ask them that question, but it just has
been in the back of my mind, especially when I recognize it's being just
$10 per child for the dental one. Can we ask them to give that
justification when they actually… when they come for a presentation of
how they spent the money?
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Quinlan Conf Room: So you're asking for…
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Quinlan Conf Room: So you're asking for $25.26, right? $25.26, just
casually, what caused this huge increase in the pair of glasses cost?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Because it used to be… I remember… I don't have the
exact numbers, but I really remember being super impressed.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And we had even told them to ask for more because of
how much they were doing. But I could be wrong, but I think… I remember,
if I remember it correctly, the cost per pair of glasses has gone up
significantly than for the first time when we gave them the funding.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I think when INAP came for the 26-27,
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Quinlan Conf Room: funding. She did mention that there were increased
costs towards the classes, but… Everything's…
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Quinlan Conf Room: They weren't awarded the full amount, so they weren't
able to…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, anyway, you can, if you get
information, you can pass it on to us through this time. Any other
suggestions you can give them for the future to get more of these things?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Temu.com and India, these are really great resources
to cut down the cost to a really minimum. I've been totally impressed how
cheaply they can actually give us the glasses. And that's my last
comment. This is just a suggestion to pass on our message to them if we
can.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. And I
think, with no more comments on it, we'll move on to the next item on the
agenda, which is the staff and commission reports. So, this portion of
the meeting is up for staff to provide any updates on matters.
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Quinlan Conf Room: pertinent to the Commission, and for the Commissioners
to report on the Commission-related activities. I think, staff, we have
the report, right?
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Quinlan Conf Room: I was just thanking her for her presentation and
making sure she's set for this evening, so thank you. Oh, thank you. No,
yeah, as I said earlier… It's a lot of stuff to compile, as you can
imagine, between all… That's why I said initially, template.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think the template is so clean, neat, and we just
focus on one and the item. That's all it is. That's fantastic.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening, everybody. Thank you. We're on the final
stretch.
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Quinlan Conf Room: To piggyback on what, Jacinta was just presenting, the
City Council, at their June 16th meeting, adopted the 2026-27 operating
budget, and it included the Parks and Recreation Commission's
recommendation for community funding grants.
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Quinlan Conf Room: For many organizations, totaling $28,500. They did
have some changes to the Commission's recommendation. Specifically, they
did remove the Fremont Union High School District,
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Quinlan Conf Room: a line item for $8,500, and the rotary line item for
$3,000 for a total of $11,500. But then they did add in,
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Quinlan Conf Room: funding the Cupertino Host Lions Club for $2,500, and
the American Legion Post 642 for $5,000. They also, at that same meeting,
reaffirmed their interest in establishing a subcommittee to review the
community funding grant policy.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And for future cycles, obviously, this one moved
forward, as I just stated, and that will include not only Parks and
Recreation Department Director Rochelle Sander, but, Mayor Kitty Moore
and Vice Mayor Liang Chao. So, that, subcommittee has been meeting, and I
don't have an update.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But when we do, we will make sure to share that with
you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Next, at the same meeting, the Council approved the
Capital Improvement Project
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Quinlan Conf Room: budget, with a couple modifications, specifically,
related to some of our stuff here at Parks and Recreation Department.
They also took action during that CIP, line item to take several
coordinated steps to better understand and manage pickleball impacts.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, specifically, they did ask staff to move forward
with the pilot program, or the trial as we're calling it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And we'll be coming back to the Commission in about 3
months to talk more about that. They've also asked staff to talk about
some municipal code restrictions on the placement of pickleball courts.
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Quinlan Conf Room: near sensitive areas in the community. They did
allocate $15,000 for a professional acoustic study, which, is being led
by the Department of Public Works for the pickleball courts in Memorial
Park.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then they did remove that $150,000 that was in the
CIP project proposal, until there's additional information, and they'll
provide additional direction at a later date.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, with that being said, the pickleball trial did
start on July the 7th, and will run through February 7th of 2027.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Staff has created… Sorry, sorry, Kellen, interrupt. If
you go back, you… I think the second one, you didn't…
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Quinlan Conf Room: I just wanted to make sure.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Previous slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'm trying.
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Quinlan Conf Room: What's going on here? Hold on.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Oh, I'm sorry, the Commission's role. So, in about 3
months.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Once we have the acoustic study and we've done a
preliminary analysis on the, pickleball trial, then we'll return to this
body. I sent you an email on this.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Immediately after the Council action, trying to
articulate what staff's role is versus what the Commission's role will be
moving forward. And, when we get closer to that, I will definitely have a
lot more detail and a lot more information, not just to share with you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But for your consideration, but at this point, we
don't have anything. We're 4 weeks into this project.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: With that being said, we are still having free,
pickleball drop-in play in Memorial Park. It is taking place Tuesday
through Sunday from 9am to 7 p.m, and we are closed on Mondays.
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Quinlan Conf Room: There is an incredibly detailed webpage that we've put
together, with a lot of information about the trial details, kind of an
FAQ sheet, also listing where additional places may be, playing, and
that, website is Cupertino.gov backslash pickleball trial.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So I encourage you, if you haven't gone to that, to go
to that already, or go to that to get more information. Like I said, the
Commission's focus will be to receive a report on the acoustic study, and
to receive a report on approximately 3 months of the trial.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Staff is implementing, the bulk of the rest of the
pieces of this puzzle, and we'll be putting it together as a really
comprehensive packet for City Council consideration, in 2027.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, 4th of July. It seems like it was a long time
ago already, but it doesn't get any better than this. Talk about history,
250 years, and…
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Quinlan Conf Room: We definitely had a huge turnout. If you were in the
park at all, starting with the pancake breakfast, to the flag-raising
ceremony, to the children's parade. It really was hometown goodness. The
afternoon included a concert, in Memorial Park with Fire Peach. We did
have Blackberry Farm Pool open all afternoon, with some food trucks.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then, in the evening, of course, the fireworks
display, which is well attended by, residents and people, you know,
throughout our neighboring communities. So, really, really heartwarming,
and patriotic, full day.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We actually have a concert going in the park right
now. I can't read the screen. The sound project, R&B Funk, is playing out
in the park until 8 o'clock this evening, so they're just wrapped up. But
with that being said, we have a couple more weeks of our summer concert
series.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And I know I'm enjoying them, hopefully you've been
out to check one out, but I would encourage you, if you haven't been out
yet, to,
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Quinlan Conf Room: to take advantage of either Get Lucky Band next week
on the 13th, or Smoke and Slice of Mojo on August 20th.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Also in the park, we have been having, the free
Shakespeare in the park. It is Saturday and Sunday, of this coming
weekend, August 8th and 9th, and it's at 6 p.m. So, whoops, I'm sorry,
this slide didn't advance.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But it's sworn.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Sorry about that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: There we go, Shakespeare in the Park. And so
hopefully, if you didn't go last weekend, hopefully you'll, have some
availability in your calendar to join this weekend.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And this Friday is our first movie in the park.
Different park, though. This one is at Creekside Park, whereas
Shakespeare and the concerts are here at Memorial. The first movie is
GOAT.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And it's going to take place at 8pm, because we do
need to wait for it to get late and… or dark, and it'll run from August
7th to August 28th.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Little plug for the Senior Center, and Hidden
Treasures, which is coming up, in October, which isn't that far out, but
we are starting to accept, donations for Hidden Treasures. So, we will be
accepting donations through the 2nd.
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Quinlan Conf Room: of October, and then Hidden Treasures itself is
Thursday, October 22nd. You can donate gently used items like jewelry,
crafts, knickknacks, and more, and if you'd like to learn more about that
event, it's Cupertino.gov backslash hidden treasures.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The staff is working really hard on a Senior Center
open house. It's gonna be in 2 weeks on August 21st. It's taking place
from 10.30 a.m. to 1230 p.m. It's an opportunity for the socials, to
highlight the programs that they offer, but it's also a chance for some
of our instructors for either new programs, growing programs, new
instructors.
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Quinlan Conf Room: to highlight and do a free demo. And then we also are
doing a membership workshop where people can learn, how to use ActiveNet
software.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, either how to establish an account, or how to
register online, so that way, when it comes to the registration dates,
they have a little bit more ease and familiarity with our registration
software.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But there's a lot of activities planned, during that
day, and if you would like to join us, again, it's a Friday, August 21st,
from 10 30 to 1230.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then my last update for this evening is that the…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Fall Recreation Activity Guide. I know it's hard to
believe when it's 90 outside, right? But the Fall Recreation Activity
Guide is out, and our fall programs do start August 31st. You'll see in
the activity guide that it's got, programming through the holidays.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, everything, that you may want to do to either
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encourage you to take a peek. The numbers are very strong so far for the
fall session, so if you haven't registered for the classes that you
normally take, you might want to do so. And then I also wanted to remind
you we have a couple holidays coming up. The next one for us is Monday,
September 7th.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And we'll be closed for Labor Day, with the exception
of Blackberry Farm Golf Course and SportsCenter, which will be open those
days.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So that concludes my presentation, and thank you so
much for allowing me to share. Awesome, awesome. Thank you. Thanks for
the quick presentation, and…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any clarification questions or any doubts you have on
any of those?
510
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Quinlan Conf Room: Awesome. Thank you. Sorry, sorry, Commissioner
Stranek, please. When you read the URLs.
511
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, you said backslash? Is it forward slash? Forward?
Darn. I'm trying… It's so easy to roll off your tongue with a backslash.
I tried the URL, it works as a… It does? Thanks so much. I just wanted to
clarify that. If anybody's listening, I don't know, but anyway… Correct.
I will hurt my tongue. Awesome.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
513
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, now it's time for the commissioner reports.
514
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any, Commissioner, any other reports? Commissioner,
please? Thank you.
515
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes, ma'am.
516
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Quinlan Conf Room: a busy summer. I thoroughly enjoyed the 4th of July
activities at Memorial Park. Brought the whole family, we rode over.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, the music was great, we had a good time, lots of
activities. My grandson, who happened to be here, so that was very nice.
Summer concerts, been enjoying that.
518
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Quinlan Conf Room: Husband's out there tonight, although that's probably
done now. No, it's fine. Join him tonight.
519
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Quinlan Conf Room: I haven't taken Pilates classes here at Quinlan, and
so, luckily, I have not had any trouble with any registration for those.
I kind of go month at a time, which is really nice, actually, to be able
to register for just one month.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Because, you know, you just… especially if you're
going to be gone for a particular period of time, you can… not for a
month, so that's… that's really nice.
521
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Quinlan Conf Room: So I did want to make a comment on the labyrinth.
522
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Quinlan Conf Room: our lovely McClellan River Labyrinth. It was getting
kind of weedy, And, and… So I…
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Quinlan Conf Room: it did get cleaned up dramatically, and it looks
beautiful. And as I walked by.
524
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Quinlan Conf Room: I saw an individual with a backpack, and he was
placing some rocks.
525
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Quinlan Conf Room: And I asked him, I said.
526
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Quinlan Conf Room: Did you clean this up? And he said yes. And he said,
what happened was, when they did the weed whacker, it messed up the
entire level.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, I'd like to get it into the procedures that when
they do the weed whacking.
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Quinlan Conf Room: that it's part of their… their cleanup is to put the
labyrinth back. I mean, he did a beautiful job, and I… I do remember
there was one time that I thanked
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Quinlan Conf Room: one of the Public Works folks, the rangers, whoever
was out there with their weed whacker, and she… and I was like, thank you
so much for doing this, and this was probably a year ago.
530
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Quinlan Conf Room: And she… and… And I thanked her, and she asked me, she
says.
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Quinlan Conf Room: well, do I need to put the rocks back? And I was like,
yes, please! Yeah, you shouldn't have to ask me that. So it sounds like
this should… maybe it's not part of the procedure. They, you know, go get
rid of the weeds. Maybe they were going to do it, but I have to say, I
met this resident, his name is Andrew.
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Quinlan Conf Room: what a nice guy, and it… it looks better than it ever
did, I have to say. So… so it's really nice to see that the labyrinth is
there, and it is being maintained, sort of, at least between, staff and
residents.
533
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, hopefully we can make more…
534
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you so much. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you,
Commissioner Strand and Commissioner Swan. I wanted to actually really
congratulate the city staff for the 4th of July. This has been the very
best one that I've ever seen.
535
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Quinlan Conf Room: And the crowd in Sedgwick.
536
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Quinlan Conf Room: That was stunning. And we all… we live just around the
corner, so I always leave the space in front of my house and park inside
the driveway. Oh my goodness, the number of people, and it seemed to go a
little longer than usual.
537
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Quinlan Conf Room: I know it used to be about 20 minutes before, but it
seemed at least 3 to 5 minutes longer. And what a finale it was!
538
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Quinlan Conf Room: I don't know, what is it that you guys have done, or
has the cost remained the same, and somehow the performance of the
fireworks has gone up so much more? It was absolutely stunning. I want to
put it on the record. Everybody was great. The city staff was there,
yeah.
539
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Quinlan Conf Room: Son, no worries. Thank you. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you, Commissioner Snowman. Do you have anything
on it? Okay, I do have just one update on it, mainly on the 4th of July
one. In the park, and participated in the parade with it, and it was
phenomenal. And especially then I connected with the person who was the
National Anthem.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And she… she was unbelievably, like, I was… I was just
stunned to hear it, like, that's a Cupertino High student.
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Quinlan Conf Room: It was fantastic, and then talked to many people. So,
overall, kids enjoyed it, and the staff arranged, I think, a lot of
volunteers. I think Team Commission, I don't know who were, all of those
teams were there everywhere with small booths, and it is like a huge
carnival time. That's how they made it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Fantastic. Yeah, it's great volunteers. So, they did
an amazing job.
544
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Quinlan Conf Room: Unbelievably. Their energy is just incredible. Yeah,
so please pass on to our… from the Commission as well, that is fantastic.
So that's pretty much I have. If no other reports, then I think the next
one is a
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Quinlan Conf Room: Agenda is a future agenda setting. That's item number
4, upcoming draft agenda item. It says it's attached on it, right? It is.
It was attached to the agenda. I can go through it, briefly, because it,
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Quinlan Conf Room: fairly, short at this point. So for September, I do
have, the Department of Public Works coming back to talk about CAP
specific to the park amenities improvements.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes, so, they are putting together a presentation, and
we'll be coming, to talk with you about, the
548
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Quinlan Conf Room: projects that you've already approved as part of the
master plan, and you're very familiar with all of that, but, to provide
an update on that. And then, in October, right now, the way we have
things scheduled is Parks, Public Works will come back.
549
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Quinlan Conf Room: To talk a little bit more on a high level with
facilities, grounds, and trees. You'd requested that that be… take place
on an annual basis.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So that's tentatively planned for October, as well as
our youth, teen, events, and Facilities Division. In November, we
tentatively have our Outdoor Recreation Division coming, and in December,
we tentatively have the Sports and Fitness Division coming.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, we have other things that have not been
calendared, so, for instance, the Senior Wellness Division, we have our
pickleball trial that will come back to you, and then reports from any
other partner agencies. So those will get calendared as I continue to,
hunker down and put some more work into those, but the other ones are,
are fairly,
552
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Quinlan Conf Room: They're tentative, but they're a little bit more
secure.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Awesome, thank you. You're welcome. And also, I think
this portion of the meeting is, as stated, is reserved for the chair or
any two commissioners to propose future agenda item.
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Quinlan Conf Room: within the jurisdiction of the Commission, a proposal
to add a future agenda item shall be brief and without any discussion by
the Commission. Is there any future agenda item any other commissions
want to propose?
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Quinlan Conf Room: on it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, looks like it looks like what you have is where
you're going to have it, so that's awesome.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, with nothing else, I think we are at the tail end
of it now, so our meeting is coming to an end, and I want to really,
really thank you, the staff, and everyone you presented it, and it is
great, and I know it's short, but I think we made… you made it really,
really
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Quinlan Conf Room: Active now, so,
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Quinlan Conf Room: The next Park Under Commission meeting will be on
Thursday, September 3rd, at 7pm, here, the same place, the same setup. I
think the new setup, I hope you all liked it. With that, I think I now
adjourn the meeting at 8.29 PM.