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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, good deal.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I call this meeting to order at 6.01 p.m.
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, first item is roll call. I'll hand that off
to Lindsay. Commissioner Deschmidt? Here. Commissioner Gao?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Jha? Here. Commissioner Johnson?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar? Yeah.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Maldoni? Here. Commissioner Prakash?
Here. Commissioner Sharma? Here. Commissioner Halambi? Here. Commissioner
Teen? Here. For the record, Commissioner Gao and Commissioner Johnson are
absent.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'll move on to ceremonial matters and presentations,
and our first agenda item, the subject is Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Education Sponsorship Program. The recommended action is to receive a
presentation of Silicon Valley Clean Energy.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Education and Sponsorship Program from, Cheyenne, I
hope is correct. Community Engagement.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And…
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Quinlan Conf Room: And…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Great. Welcome, Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Hi, everyone! Thank you so much for having me today. As I
was just introduced, I'm Cheyenne Lippe, I'm the Community Engagement
Intern with Silicon Valley Clean Energy.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And today, I'm just going to do a brief overview about
the organization and the new sponsorship program that we're providing,
and then there'll be some time at the end for questions.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Okay, if we're all ready, we can go ahead and get started
then.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, Silicon Valley Clean Energy is the community-owned,
not-for-profit local electricity provider that serves 13 Santa Clara
County communities, including Cupertino.
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Cheyenne Lippe: As a public agency and not-for-profit entity, net
revenues are returned to the community to keep rates competitive and
promote clean energy programs.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Our mission as an organization is to reduce dependence on
fossil fuels by providing carbon-free, affordable, and reliable
electricity and innovative programs for our community members. Next
slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: As the electricity provider, we purchase energy from
renewable and clean sources.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And PG&E actually delivers it over the existing
infrastructure that they have. And they deliver it to our residential and
commercial customers in our service area. We have a diverse portfolio of
power purchase agreements, which are called PPAs.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And they source energy from solar, solar and battery,
wind, geothermal, hydro, as well as nuclear sources. SV Clean Energy is
committed to decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and buildings
through our programs and services.
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Cheyenne Lippe: A large portion of our work is providing rebates to swap
out gas appliances with all-electric ones in residential homes and
businesses.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Next slide please.
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Cheyenne Lippe: The Education Sponsorship Program, is a new program that
we're launching. We've had previous iterations of grant funding, programs
for youth and students in the area, and this is kind of the next
iteration of that.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, as a not-for-profit agency, we are really able to
reinvest into our community through these programs, grants, and various
sponsorships. This program, in particular, is a funding opportunity for
youth and students that is geared towards project-based learning to
expand educational learning opportunities in clean and renewable energy,
as well as grid electrification and decarbonization.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And as they learn about these topics as a climate change
solution.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, applicants… applications are open to anyone in our
service area who work directly with students, and we've kind of
classified them into four main categories.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So this will be classroom teachers, nonprofits,
community-based organization, as well as other educators. This other
educator category is intentionally really broad in order to keep the
applicant pool pretty open.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So this is a really applicant-based process as well, so…
Each applicant will have a different implementation timeframe they're
kind of constrained to, as well as different project scopes.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, for example, classroom teachers, the implementation
timeframe is going to be the school calendar window. For nonprofits,
CVOs, and other educators, they can kind of choose between the school
calendar project window, as well as the summer calendar window, depending
on the project needs.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Now, we'll also require applicants to define their
project scope a little bit. That's student-centered learning, community
workshops, green careers.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Those are really broad intentionally, again, to leave a
lot of freedom and creativity in how you're approaching your projects, or
ideas.
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Quinlan Conf Room: the.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And then every project will also require a community
outreach portion. And this can be kind of anything in between classroom
presentations to hosting community events of some sort. But it's about
sharing your project or your learnings or your findings with the broader
community. Next slide, please.
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Cheyenne Lippe: The Education Sponsorship Program really aims to increase
opportunities and hold a space for students to engage in local climate
action solutions.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And learn or bring new ideas on how to reduce dependence
on fossil fuels through decarbonization and electrification in their
community.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And really focusing in on the community outreach portion,
and how youth and students will take their education, their findings, or
their project, and share that and promote it with their communities and
in a real-world setting.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Now, these are kind of just general categories or fields
to explore, and by no means is this, you know, an extensive list, but
just something to kind of get the ideas flowing of what you can focus in
on, or kind of gear your project around. Next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: I'll now go into some previous examples of projects that
youth and students have completed in the past. So, Compass Point
Mentorship, they're a local nonprofit. They used funding from our
previous program to purchase solar cookers for their summer camp.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So.
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Cheyenne Lippe: purchased around 9 different, solar cookers, and, you
know, had mentorship around them, you know, how…
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Cheyenne Lippe: you can use solar energy to generate heat, and then you
can cook with it. And then they also developed Halo Rise, which is a
community-based platform app that connected students in their program to
community members and trusted parents to offer carpooling rides. So this
was their decarbonization portion.
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Cheyenne Lippe: that they focused in on as well as hosting numerous green
events and festivals in their area.
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Quinlan Conf Room: just.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Silicon Valley Youth Claim Action also received funding
from a previous, grant.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And they used that to fund their Summer Leadership
Academy, where participants went through a decarbonization and clean
energy module, as well as attended numerous field trips in the area to
learn about nature-based solutions and sustainable building design.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Climate Action Pathways is another, nonprofit. They're a
statewide nonprofit, I believe, and they hosted a year-long internship
program where participants completed energy audits
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Cheyenne Lippe: on the Morgan Hill Unified School District school
buildings, and then presented their findings to the school board of
directors, as well as the Silicon Valley Community Engagement Specialist.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And then they also did some career exploration in Green
Pathways through structured interviews and networking with professionals
in the field. Next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: These are other examples of previous projects. Sometimes
the project has the community outreach portion integrated into it, like
the Climate Chronicles podcast.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So that's kind of a two-for-one, student-centered
learning to design the script for the podcast, and then sharing it with
the community in the form of a podcast. I'm not going to go through all
of these, but I believe Sonya has the slides, so you can look through
this, later on as well.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And we can go to the next slide.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Yep, and then that's my presentation, super brief, but
I'll take any questions that anyone has.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Questions?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you so much, Cheyenne, for your presentation. I
love the work that you're doing and, trying to promote sustainability. I
just had a question on whether this opportunity was more, directly aimed
at educators at that sort, or is it more towards, youth who can actually
apply?
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Cheyenne Lippe: Yeah, great question. So, the applicants have to be kind
of an educator that works directly with youth and students, but if you
have a project that you're interested in, I would recommend
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Cheyenne Lippe: finding a trusted teacher, mentor, or any other adult who
works with you to apply on your behalf, and I would encourage you to be
as involved in the application process as you want to be, or can be, and
just really having, kind of, their name on it, if that makes sense.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Got it. Great. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I just want to ask another question. Once again,
thank you so much for the presentation. It's really cool hearing all the
work that you all are doing.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Regarding, like, the organizations you were listing
at, I was just wondering, like, how many of them have you worked with in
total, and do you have, like, any measure of, like… like, how do you
measure the success with, like, before and after the organization's help
and support with their nonprofit?
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Cheyenne Lippe: Yeah, we've worked with a lot of different types of
organizations over the year. I've only been with Silicon Valley Clean
Energy for 4 months, so I only really know about, Compass Point
Mentorship, SVYCA,
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Cheyenne Lippe: Climate Action Pathways, but we also provide sponsorships
for different organizations in the area, which is a little bit different
from this program.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And that's just a one-time funding opportunity. How we
measure success, really… it really varies, because every project can be
so different.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, this is the first time it's structured in this way,
with the two different project implementation timeframes. So success will
be measured if you can finish the project within that timeframe you've
chosen, and also based on the parameters that you've indicated your
project scope is going to be in.
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Cheyenne Lippe: And, we measure impact in, you know, how many students
and youth are involved, so kind of that number count is something we're
looking for. I would say a project is successful if it's a cohort of
just, you know, 20 students.
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Cheyenne Lippe: who are, you know, going through a educational module and
then sharing that with others in their school. I would call that project
a good success.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Especially as you're counting the community engagement
portion, as the other students and youth that you're engaging in other
classrooms.
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Cheyenne Lippe: So, it really does vary.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, thank you so much.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any additional questions?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we're gonna open up for public comment. We have
no speakers. Okay, we'll close public comment. Do we have any last
comments?
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, thank you so much, Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne Lippe: Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me. Have a great
rest of your evening, and please feel free to reach out. I'll put my
email in the chat really quick, for any other questions or concerns, or
if you just want to know more about the organization as a whole, feel
free to reach out. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to agenda item number
2. The subject is cybersecurity awareness. The recommended action is to
receive a presentation on cybersecurity awareness from Innovation
Technology Manager Tommy Yu.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Welcome, Tommy!
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Hey, good evening, commissioners and staff.
Hopefully you guys can hear me okay. So yeah, thanks to you for.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: having me here. So, I want to present about
cybersecurity awareness, for this year. So again, my name is Tommy Yu,
I'm the Innovation Technology Infrastructure Manager. My team is
responsible for the city's help desk, servers, network, laptops, email,
and cybersecurity for the entire city.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And this here's just a kind of quick look at the
agenda, what I'll be talking about. We're gonna…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: go over the FBI 2025 Internet Crime Report, some
notable cyber attacks on public agencies in this year, some of the top
scams that keep coming up, and really stressing that security is
everyone's responsibility. And then we'll kind of end up with some tips
and things that you can do today to help.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: improve your security posture, we'll have some
resources, and then I'll open up for Q&A.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Next slide, please. So, October is National
Cybersecurity Awareness Month. So here you see this graphic here. This is
from the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report. They list here the 16 critical
infrastructure sectors.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: that are, you know, kind of a threats impacting. So
you can see here, we're considered the city government facilities. We're
currently ranked number 4.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Previously in 2024, we were ranked number 3, so we
went down a spot, but we're still in the top 5 of targeted,
infrastructure sectors, so really important to keep up to date on
security, overall.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So, next slide, please.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So, here you can see this is just a list of the
publicly reported breaches and cyberattacks on public agencies only in
California in the past year. There have been numerous others in other
states, but we'll focus on California. So, most recently, the city of
Susan City in August, they had a malware incident during 911 dispatch.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: was affected, City Hall Services as well.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So you can see they got most of the service
restored, but took over a month. They reopened September 22nd, so you can
kind of see over a month of a lot of critical services down.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Next, you'll see in Bakersfield slash Central
Valley, their water systems were attacked. Fortunately, not too much
damage, but just the fact that the water system, potentially could have
been, you know, bad things could have happened. This is back in June.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And you may have heard this a little more locally,
City of Foster City in Bay Area, back in March, they also had a
ransomware attack. They got fully restored on April 18th, so again,
almost a whole month to really get back up and running.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And so I'm finishing up with LA Metro from March
16th to 19th. They also were under cyber attack, their dispatch went
down, took them over 11 days to restore the payment system, so people can
use the, you know, the metro in several weeks for full restoration.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Lastly, I'll end with City of Pittsburgh. Back in
February, this was more of a phishing vendor spoof, where a.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: you know, city employee was tricked into processing
an ACH payment to someone pretending to be one of the city's vendors.
Over $913,000 was paid. They were also previously breached in 2024. So I
bring all this up to just highlight this is a constant
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: issue that happens all over private and public, but
here, notably, in the public sector, you'll see other cities and
government agencies were always under attack. There was always, you know,
very, very, consequences of, you know, of a breach where
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: We lose services to residents, so, again,
highlighting the really importance of keeping up just on security.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And so we can move on to the next slide, please.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So, I'm gonna pivot here, like, the Federal Trade
Commission, the top 3 scams, according to them, right now. So, you see
this, hear about this all the time, like phishing scams, impersonations,
someone pretending to be someone they're not, trying to get you to click
on a link, or respond, or do something. That's still, of course, number
one.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Number two, scam, they talk about online shopping
scams, so this is where, say, you see something you want to buy that's on
sale, it's on TikTok, Instagram, or other social media from, like, some
small store or pop-up. A lot of times, these are scams because they don't
deliver the item, or if they do deliver, it's like a counterfeit or fake
brand, it's like a knockoff, so…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Be very careful about those. That's, a lot of
people have been scammed through that. And the third one I'll mention
here is job scams, especially, you know, a lot of people entering the
workforce, you know, people in the Teen Commission, and people in high
school, the young youth, as they're entering the workforce, and even
adults as well.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: you know, they'll get into these job scans, and the
basics of how it works is, you know, they may offer you the job, but you
have to pay a fee, they want you to buy some equipment, they'll send you
a check to buy a laptop from some website, but it's all fake. The check
will bounce. You have to use your own money to buy the laptop. You think
you'll get reimbursed by the check, but it's all fake.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: There is no laptop, nothing to buy.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And the other red flags is if you get a job offer,
usually the interviews are via text message, or it's on WhatsApp or
Signal. So just a reminder that, like, a legitimate job interview, it's
not going to happen on social media or WhatsApp. It's primarily all
scams.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And the last one I want to mention is task scams.
You think you got some kind of job, you're getting paid to, like, like
videos, or post reviews, do some, like, social media, tasks, and you
think you're making money, but you'll find out you can't withdraw any of
the money because
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: It's, you know, it's fake. You have to pay fees,
and it's… you don't get the money, it's… it's…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And a lot of it's crypto-based, so be very careful
about that.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And,
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And as always, you know, a lot of the job sites
there, there's a lot of fake jobs out there to scammers and person and
company, so again, be very, very careful as you embark on, you know, jobs
on those sites.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: The key thing here, I highlighted here in red,
never pay money to get paid. If you have to pay a fee to get a job or
start a job, it's most likely a scam.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Okay, next slide, please. So, here I want to
highlight that security is everyone's responsibility. Especially in the
public sector, and I get this time to dime from, you know, city employees
and past jobs, there's these common misconceptions. They talk about how,
they ask, why does it matter if my account gets compromised? I don't have
anything to hide, all my data is public anyway.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Or I don't have any budget authority, my job role
is only XYZ, doesn't matter, someone gets through my account, or, like,
for government employees, our information is, like, is Public Records Act
PRA-able.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: But the reality is, everyone's important, right? It
doesn't matter if you work for the public or a private company.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Everyone's important because you have access to
your company or organization's network and or email. If your account gets
compromised, that account can be used to launch phishing attacks on other
users in your company or organization. It can spread viruses, malware,
ransomware, causing breaches and frauds, so… Everyone's important, so
don't ever think that, oh, it doesn't matter. It does matter. That's why
we stress the importance of
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Keeping your account secure and being on top of
that.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Alright, next slide, please.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So here's some kind of…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: tips. Some of this might be remedial, but we had to
stress this as, you know, really important. So, always check your emails
carefully, look at the sender, the content, urgency. You can hover over
links if it seems, you know, kind of fishy. That's one big sign.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And when you're in doubt, usually your company or
organization has some mechanism to report it as official or to your IT
department.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Always take your cybersecurity training.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And don't write your passwords on sticky notes,
they're monitor or under a keyboard. Fortunately, this still happens,
everywhere.
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recognize crypto scams.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: this is a big thing that's been happening for
years. Like, a friend of a friend, or someone you know tells you that
they made a lot of money, it's easy, you know, and a lot of it's, like,
through crypto, but it's… it's… a lot of it's, like, scams, or it's fake,
so be very careful about that.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And as again, cyber good cyber hygiene has strong
passphrases, long, easy to remember, something that's unique to you, not
easily guessed.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Here's just an example, like, you know, I
recommend, like, use facts or information about someone or something
that's not close to you. You see in the movies where people try to guess
someone's password or PIN code, it's like you're…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: your mother's maiden name, or your pet's name, or
your anniversary date, or birthday of someone, but I would say don't use
that. Use something different, like a random fact about someone else, and
I'll have an example on the next slide here.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So here, this kind of, there's many different,
like, tools you can use. This is just one example of many. Bitwarden is
one of the big password security companies, like password managers, and
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: things like that, but this is just an example.
You'll see here, like, seems kind of a simple password, but it's really
long, and it's really secure. So, this is just a tool. I recommend
everyone, you can try to, kind of add more of an educational resource to
see what a strong password is. This site is saved, but I would… I still,
in…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: general practice, I wouldn't recommend putting any
current passwords in here, but kind of put in, passwords to kind of see
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: for you to see what is a strong password. So this
example, I'll make up a story, like, I know someone named, Mike B, he
likes Doritos, I met him in 2008, so it's a fact about someone I know,
I'm not really close to him, but if you think about who is gonna guess
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that, right? So that's the concept, right? You make something that, like,
easy for you to remember, but no one else is gonna guess. So, that's
long, it has special characters, there's capital.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And you see here, it takes centuries for, like, a
brute force or a cracking tool to crack it. So, that's just one example,
but you can play around with this site or various similar ones to kind of
get, more, knowledge about what makes a good password.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So some things you can do today, one, of course,
repeating, you set up multi-factor authentication on all your accounts,
or two-factor.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: whatever is offered, set that up. It makes it so
much harder for bad actors to get to your account, versus a simple
username and password. So when available, I would set it up. There's
other good research… resource, have it been pwned. Basically, it has all
the
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: The major breaches, if your, e-address and password
has been, you know, on the list that's been released on Dark Web, you can
put your address in there. Safe to put your address in there, it'll tell
you all if it was caught in the breaches in the past, and from there, you
can see whatever passwords that you may have used, you should definitely
change it.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: So definitely check that out. Have I been
pwned.com? Next slide, please.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Some other things you can do, of course, we all
stress, besides your computer, your laptop, always check for updates on
all your IoT devices, Internet of Things.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Basically, anything that connects to Wi-Fi, it
likely has updates or firmware, new versions of firmware. So for those
accounts, a lot of times there's, like, web login, make sure you have a
strong password or passphrase for those.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: As well, you can see it could be, you know, it
could be a smart…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: light or a bulb, your fridge, anything that
connects to Wi-Fi potentially could be a vector point for a hack.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And other things you can do today, this is just,
again, just some recommendations, some things I do. There's a lot of
good, security subreddits on Reddit, RScams, RCryptoScams,
RCybersecurity.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: There's a lot of good wikis, FAQs on there. You'll
see, like, a lot of the common scams on there, and, you know, people keep
falling for them over and over, and it's really good to get
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: kind of educated on… aware of what's out there.
There might be one you haven't seen before, but this… a lot of the
current ones, a lot of people post on there, and
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: It's funny because people ask, oh, is this a scam?
They give you details, and if you have to post, it's probably a scam. But
yeah, these are good resources to keep up to date. Other scams to look
out for, a lot of AI deepfakes right now, a lot of sextortion, blackmail,
so very… be very careful, don't, you know.
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blackmail you, but a lot of these are fake. They basically send these,
like, emails to thousands of people, hoping someone gets secure enough to
pay them, so…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And I would be remiss if I didn't mention, I know
Commissioner Kumar had helped with this event, but recently, back on a
few… two weeks now, October 1st, we did have the city's TIC Commission
held a cybersecurity public awareness event. They're notable
cybersecurity experts.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: They kind of answer questions and give a lot of
good information. So, and there's we had some past events, all they're
all on YouTube. You can watch them at your leisure, but a lot of good
information in there for more tips. I would recommend you you catch the
the YouTube.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And ending here, these are just some more
additional resources. As I mentioned, that first link will go to our… the
city's cybersecurity event page that has the past recordings. So other
good sites, I recommend, Internet Society Online Safety Hub.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: National Cybersecurity Alliance. The Google has a
really good phishing quiz that you can take that you can kind of help…
helps you train you and spot, kind of the red flags on emails.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: And FTC link here has kind of additional resources
to protect your information from hackers and scammers, so all these are,
like, kind of mini courses and articles about helping you get more aware
and educated on basic safety and the current scams out there.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Alright, and next slide, I believe, is end of my
presentation. Short and sweet, so I'm open to any questions that anyone
has.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any questions? Commissioner Kumar? Yeah, thank you so
much for the presentation. Just, like, before that, I just wanted to, say
it was, like, really great helping organize the event last year and this
year, and I also wanted to thank, Commissioner Prakash and Shama for
also, like, volunteering for the event.
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for, like, a cybersecurity public awareness event, it was a lot of, like,
senior turnout, so I was wondering, like.
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Quinlan Conf Room: How could we make such an event, or do you guys have
any ideas on an event where it could be more youth targeted? Because I
feel like, especially all the things that you presented in today's
meeting and things went over in the panel, like, not only, like, how to
stay safe online, but also potential careers that people could be
interested in.
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Quinlan Conf Room: it could be pretty helpful, information for youth. So
I was wondering if, like.
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something like that, or have any idea for that?
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Yeah, for that, I know that I was a, you know, a
great event, and, you know, thank you for the commissioners who helped
with that. I believe there's… I was, you know, heard, like, over, like,
100 people showed up. But yeah, it's definitely, I think, that we need to
get more, you know, you're right, we need to get more people involved and
more youth, and I think potentially.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: you know, partnerships, you know, deeper
partnerships with the high schools and even the colleges, like job fairs,
right? And we can have
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: potentially people come out, or experts to… if
they're hiring, or people… representatives from different companies, and
kind of, you know, have those kind of, you know, presence at the job
fairs to get the youth and other people interested in different paths,
right? Not just cybersecurity, but other technology-related fields, or
even if the cybersecurity is, like, kind of
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think just kind of more awareness, more events, kind of getting the word
out. I know this event was…
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: You know, definitely in, increasing success every
year, getting more turnout by just kind of, getting the word out to as
many different places, you know, where people congregate, and, you know.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: hoping people come, and I think there's definitely
a lot of opportunities, and something potentially can be discussed in,
you know, future Commission meetings, either at the Teen Commission or
even at the TIC Commission, kind of as a follow-up on improvements, and
definitely would welcome, you know, your suggestions there.
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comment. Do we have any other comments?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, I did have one, question to pose to all of the
commissioners. How many of you have, activated your, email account and
have your multi-factor authentication set up by show of hands?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, so… Everybody is in, except for one. Okay, so
we're doing pretty well.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Okay, yeah, reach out, reach out to us, and we'll
make sure we get set up.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Great. Thank you so much, Tommy. Appreciate it.
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Tommy Yu, IT Manager: Alright, thank you everyone for your time. Have a
good night. Thank you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Moving on to agenda item number 3, thank you for your
patience. The subject is youth-led organization food lists, and the
recommended action is to receive a presentation on the youth-led
organization food list from Arjun Nathan.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright. Hi, everyone, my name is Arjun Nathan, and
I'm the founder of Foodlifts.org, which is a youth-led 501c3 nonprofit
organization dedicated to ending food insecurity and food waste in the
Bay Area. Next slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, the primary, goal that we're targeting is to
reduce food waste, and specifically the 11% of all food waste that comes
directly from both grocery stores and farmers' markets. And in total, in
Santa Clara County, roughly 180,000 tons of food waste comes from Santa
Clara County also, as well.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, here's a model that we have in order to run our
organization. So, we collect specifically from farmers markets, where
volunteers first visit these markets to collect surplus food. Then we,
after we finish our collection process, which takes anywhere from around
30 to 45 minutes, we will load the produce into our required vehicles for
transport, and then the food will be delivered to our partners. So, our
main partner is West Valley Community Services.
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Quinlan Conf Room: which is actually here in Cupertino, but we also work
with other pantries, specifically in Fremont, such as Salon Food Pantry
and Irvington Prevention Church, in order to donate the food that we
receive from there.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then after we donate the produce, that's pretty
much the work that we do. The produce is then served to people in the
community who need it the most.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, currently, we have two chapters of our
organization. One is at the Milpitas Farmers Market, and another one is
at the Irvington Farmers Market. And I just put a couple of, slides, just
a couple of pictures to see how the collection process runs. Usually we
get a group of around 5 to 10 volunteers, and all of our volunteers sign
up through Eventbrite, and the link to our, which I'll share later, can
be found on our website in order to sign up to volunteer.
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photos of volunteers who are, like, picking and collecting our produce.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Primarily, we tell the farmers to just fill up the
crates themselves, but occasionally they might tell us to do it as well,
and we make sure to log all of the data that we have from farmers who.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then our second branch is also at Irvington
Farmers Market, and you can see here there's groups of volunteers and
pictures that we have from there. And I mentioned earlier the two
partners that we donate to from that organization, but essentially it's
like this exact similar process. Volunteers will show up to a central
location, which we'll send out the night before, and then they will
basically help with the collection process. They'll be given details on
what to do, and then afterwards we can sign whatever hours for
verification that they
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Quinlan Conf Room: they need for volunteer service hours and the produce
is dropped off to where it's needed the most.
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Quinlan Conf Room: In total, we have recovered, to date, over 22,000
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Quinlan Conf Room: pounds of produce, and we roughly feed around 300 to
500 families per week, given by the estimate from the pantries that we
donate to.
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Quinlan Conf Room: and that roughly equates to around 18,000 meals
provided to the community.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And yeah, here's just a list of a couple of the donors
and people that we work with.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Specifically with, the Pacific Coast Farmers Market
Association, which is PCFMA, which is the main organization, that leads
most of the farmers markets here around the Bay Area, and all the rest of
the partners that we have to donate the produce that we receive.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So how you can support our organization? You can
donate to our organization, which is on the website. You can also
volunteer for any of our events. If you have a group of people who, if
you're interested in, bringing over, they can sign up, through our
website, and it's a pretty easily streamlined process once you sign up
through Eventbrite. You can also follow any of our socials that we have.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, thank you so much for your presentation. I just
had a couple of questions about, how you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Reach out to people with extra produce, do you contact
them ahead of time or just.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Come to the location on the day of and collect the
surplus.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, essentially, right, so if you look at most
farmers' markets, like, in the mall, we only collect primarily from
farmers' markets as of right now, but if you look at most farmers'
markets, at the end of the day, many… I forgot to also explain this
earlier, which is my bad, but many farmers, at the end of the day, often
don't sell a lot of the produce that they, you know, they bring to the
market, and this basically means that whatever produce that they don't
sell, they most likely either have to pack it up, and then eventually,
like, see if they can sell later.
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Quinlan Conf Room: the produce ends up lowering waste. So, it's a very
easy model for us. We will just come around 30 minutes to around 1 hour
before the market closes. So, let's say if a market closes around 2PM, we
would come maybe at, like, 1.30, 1.15, and then we will,
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Quinlan Conf Room: put out our crates, basically, for farmers to have,
and it's easy, because for the farmers, they don't have to, you know,
pack up and store their produce somewhere else, they can just give it to
us, and they're also provided a donation receipt, for their donations,
because we track all the pounds they donate, so it's like an incentive
for them for tax reasons. So, basically, yeah, they'll put the produce
into the crates for us, and then we'll take whatever crates that, you
know, the crates that we have that we gave to them, and then we'll take
it back.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Give it to someone.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Great, I love the work that you're doing. Two
questions. Is there any sort of health and safety concerns regarding if,
like, the food is spoiled, or is that kind of left more up to the food
pantries that you donate to, to kind of sort that? And also, do you have
any future plans for expansion, maybe into, like, more farmers markets,
or…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, sure, no problem. So, in terms of, the food that
we collect, it's primarily all from the pantry, because the pantry is the
one that ends up serving the food anyways. We're not, like, kind of in
terms of, like, we're, you know, directly giving food to people. We're
kind of just giving it to the pantry, and the pantry does the rest of the
job there. So, to answer your question, yes, the pantry will… there is no
really qualification, because the pantry does end up sorting everything
and giving it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then, in terms of our future plans to expand, we
definitely do have future plans to expand now that, our two chapters are
pretty much running okay, like, running well.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And I will also introduce, like, if anyone, like,
who's interested, I'm gonna put on our website as well, for starting a
chapter, if any, if people are interested to visit. So, that's something
that we'll probably introduce soon. But in terms of how, like, people,
other, like, you know, we don't collect from more farmers markets, there
would need to be, like, a system where there's
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Quinlan Conf Room: a farmer's market that's willing to, like, accept, so
not all farmer's markets allow people to collect, and then there has to
be a pantry within, like, reasonable distance that needs to, like, donate
a drop-off. And apart from that, we would probably coordinate in terms of
volunteers coming in and people getting to the place they need to come
for that to happen.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, thank you so much for the presentation. I think
it's really cool how much you guys have been able to do. I was wondering,
like, you guys were mentioning, like, ways to get involved includes some
events that you have on Eventbrite. So beyond, like, the process that you
do every week, what are some examples of the volunteering events you do?
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Quinlan Conf Room: pretty much just the ones that we have. So, like, the
two that I mentioned, I have both millipedes and everything, we were able
to collect there. We also have
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Quinlan Conf Room: In Cupertino, locally, we… there are produce that we
drop off at West Valley. We have a couple of people usually come every
week in order to help, like, like, basically just unload the produce,
because it takes a little bit of effort, to unload it.
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Quinlan Conf Room: But, essentially, though, like, the three events that
we have are every single Sunday, which you can just find on our website,
but we don't have any, any other events other than that, as of now.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I really like your organization's mission. I was also
going to ask the same question. But also, how long has your organization
been running?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Roughly around a year.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Oh, and also I just wanted to know, like, what are
your motivations for starting it? Like, what made you think of this idea
and kind of put it into action? Yeah, sure, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: I volunteered at a Second Harvest, like, distribution
event, basically back when I was a freshman, and, like, I kind of noticed
a lot of, like, the gap in terms of, you know, people needing produce,
and people need, like, people, like, not receiving food, and then I kind
of, like, I kind of, like, researched about the issue more, and then I
found, like, this initiative, and for me, it makes, like, so much… it's
kind of sad to me to see that, like.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Because, like, whatever produce that we collect is
almost, like, the highest of highest quality. If you look at it, it's,
like, roughly estimated around, like, $5 per pound. Like, this produce
that many farmers have, they often sell it at a very high price because
it's organic and it's fresh and everything, but it still ends up going to
waste, essentially. So, after I did that, I also had
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initial days on my process and what I needed and how I would kind of
execute the idea.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And… So that's kind of like how it how it came about.
But yeah.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I don't know if I missed this already, but do you guys
provide, like, tax-deductible donation receipts to the farmers that you
collect produce from? Yeah.
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away, and then do we have any last comments?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Right. We're gonna go ahead and, move on to approval
of minutes. The subject is approval of minutes from September 9th, 2026,
and the recommended action is to review and approve the minutes from the
Teen Commission
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Quinlan Conf Room: September 9th, 2026, and each of you has the draft
minutes here.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I also will give you an estimate, it always depends,
but I think we'll be…
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Quinlan Conf Room: somewhere around 7.30, 7.45 tonight. Thank you so
much.
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Quinlan Conf Room: If you want to, read and also…
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Quinlan Conf Room: text rides to give them a general idea. Would not be a
good time to use a restaurant.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I I you know what I'm doing. I'm just clarifying. It's
not to me.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Has everybody had a chance to do your minutes, and…
Text parents if needed.
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minutes?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Right? Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes?
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Quinlan Conf Room: My motion. To approve the minutes. Okay, we'll go.
Commissioner Kumar, do I hear a second? Second the motion to approve. Mr.
Holomby.
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because we have full attendance, tonight, Stefan, you won't be voting on,
any voting items tonight, okay?
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Commissioner Teen? Aye. Motion carries unanimously.
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, moving on, we have no postponements for
tonight, and oral communications, do you have anybody on?
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Quinlan Conf Room: We do have an item there. Our subject is the youth-led
organization food list.
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Quinlan Conf Room: … to evaluate for a Teen Commission Highlight Program.
The recommended action is to discuss and evaluate youth-led organization
food lists for the Youth Teen… Youth-Led Organization Highlight Program.
Okay, I will go ahead and share screen.
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Quinlan Conf Room: We will go through this. I know that this is…
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part a little bit more slowly than usual. We're gonna… we just had a
presentation from Food Lists.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Tonight, we're going to review their application. Food
List did submit an application for a youth-led organization highlight.
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Quinlan Conf Room: as a reminder, that's our program, that's just the
Teen Commission, will, receive these presentations, and then they'll
consider the organization for a social media highlight. It's… right now,
it's just a post. I kind of went through
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Quinlan Conf Room: In our August meeting, we've changed it a little bit.
We have some different tiers.
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when we get to those meetings where we go to the second tier,
speculation, then I will go back over it. Tonight, it would be for that
first tier, and that would be, are they going to get
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Quinlan Conf Room: We do have a set of criteria, and this I'll go through
a little more specifically than I usually do, because I know this is the
first time for about half of you.
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the organization, what their goals are, what they want.
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Quinlan Conf Room: What are their plans to increase engagement? What are
their plans after they graduate for, the longevity of their group? And
just to give a little background, when we had our initial discussions
about starting up this program, we wanted to kind of make sure that we
had something in place for those organizations that are, like.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'm thinking today I'm going to start a youth led
organization and I'm going to do a program and present and get a
highlight and then put that on my resume. But that's all happening within
like a week. No, we'd like to see some organizations that have
established and actually done something and have some plans for things in
the future beyond just now.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Why do they want a youth-led, highlight, youth-led
organization highlight? And most of them want exposure for their
organization, we're finding as we're going through these.
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Quinlan Conf Room: what's the impact on Cupertino? That doesn't mean it
has to be on Cupertino, keep that in mind. If, if it's something that's
valuable for the region, and that might then affect Cupertino, or it's
just something super phenomenal for teens.
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Quinlan Conf Room: then that's okay, but we would like to have that, if
it's something that's just super specific to, say, a Mountain View Teen
and Mountain View Teens in the area, you might say that that's great, but
that doesn't necessarily mean we should be highlighting you.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then what made them want to start the YLO? So,
many of you read through the criteria and asked questions appropriately
to answer those questions.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we also take an application, so some of those
questions will, if you didn't have a chance to ask them, will be answered
their answers on their application. So here's the basics about the
organization.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, their basic, brief description, they are a non-
profit, they're, about reducing food waste in the Bay Area.
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Quinlan Conf Room: The basics are that they collect and transport surplus
produce.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And they have two chapters, and West Valley is one of
their main, donation sites.
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Quinlan Conf Room: that when we're kind of doing the check, like, did you
start this last week? So, they've been around for a little bit.
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Quinlan Conf Room: How many people they serve, close to 200 families
every week, and then, it sounds like he may have gotten some numbers from
West Valley Community Services of that, that's actually a little higher
than that, I remember him saying.
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Quinlan Conf Room: How many events? So, 2 events every week, and so far
they've done 30.
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Quinlan Conf Room: How do they engage participants? Through volunteering
opportunities and recruiting them to help them to collect the, produce.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then, obviously, they're seeking a social media
highlight.
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Quinlan Conf Room: plans after graduation, so he had sort of a slightly
different answer than what we've seen in the past, but that he has term…
term limits on the people that are coming in and being responsible.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hey, if you'd like to come in, you're welcome to come
into the Teen Commission.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Is there a question about freebies?
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Quinlan Conf Room: The presentation actually happened, this is the
evaluation. You're still welcome to join if you wanted to sit in this.
Yeah.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and then, Plans for new leadership to continue
to flow, so that he is making plans for longevity.
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, I think that he did speak to that, that, the
produce that they're collecting isn't really the bottom of the barrel
produce, it's the produce that's being sold for an average of $5 a pound,
so that organic, high-quality food that is left, and they are taking
that. And then
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Quinlan Conf Room: Having access to that through collecting primarily
from farmers markets.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And why should we highlight them? Because the work
they do for the City of Cupertino through West Valley Community Services,
which does serve
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Quinlan Conf Room: primarily Cupertino and is based in Cupertino. And
then they gave the amount of food that they are collecting, and
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, having… they've actually made a difference in that
they have given access to roughly twice the amount of produce, to the
people that West Valley Community Services serves.
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, I'm gonna open that up for questions about
the presentation and the organization that I would only be able to answer
through the application at this point.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I just wanted to, like, one thing I also wanted to,
like, ask as well is, like, what is their plan for expansion? Like,
they're already very well established, but I don't… I didn't really,
like, catch what their plan was, if they… how they wanted to expand with
Libertina RVL.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I mean, I think he spoke briefly to that, that,
you know, he needs to be able to
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Quinlan Conf Room: find additional farmers markets that are willing to
have them come in and, collect the unused food, but it sounded like he
was planning that he… there's a set of criteria, right? They've gotta be…
he's targeting farmers markets, and then they have to have a collection
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Quinlan Conf Room: point that's not too far away. So, I think he spoke to
that a bit.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I have a question more related to, like, the process
of the tiers for the YLO. I know it's not, like, completely fleshed out
yet, but I'm wondering that after the social media highlight.
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Quinlan Conf Room: If I recall, it was something related to, like, a
certification or, like, a double highlight. I was just wondering what…
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Quinlan Conf Room: In theory, we could have, like, one every meeting, one
or two. Sometimes we've had two. And when we hit, sort of, like, the
midpoint way of your term, then we'll go back and we'll look at, like.
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say, of those that we've received so far, and that we've approved for a
highlight, do any stand out more than the others? And then the second
tier would be more of a video, highlight. Right now, it's just a posting,
and, it's a static post. It's just picture, usually the founder, and a
little bit about what they do, and
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Quinlan Conf Room: Teen Commission highlights them. But the next one will
be a video. The last tier would be evaluating all of them that you've
received over a year, and then, the last tier would be, like, who stood
out the most of everybody that's, we've received. And then they have the
opportunity to receive a certificate signed by the director and the
chair.
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like, I'm gonna have to go remember that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, any other questions?
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Quinlan Conf Room: We have no speakers. Okay, and I… we didn't get a blue
card from you, okay? So I'll close public comment, and we'll just go on
now to discussion, in regards to any additional discussion before we go
to a vote.
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Quinlan Conf Room: from what I saw from the presentation. I think it's a
very like good candidate to be part of the Y organization, because, like
they know what they're doing, and they've been established for a while,
and they do have, like the numbers and advocate statistics to support it.
I think another thing that also makes it super unique is
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organizations were very, like, tech-based, and I think this is a good way
to show, like, kind of
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Quinlan Conf Room: how City of Cupertino supports, like, a diverse amount
of things, because, like, I know definitely, like, Cupertino is a very
tech-oriented place, but I think this brings light to an issue that could
be pretty much… that could be overlooked a lot of the times. So I'd say
I'm in favor for promoting it to the right one.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I definitely agree. I think that, I really like
the numbers that he had, and how they're very specific, and that they're…
it looks to be increasing, and the fact that he's able to recruit
volunteers and have a
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Quinlan Conf Room: consistent amount of people who are wanting to show up
and come out and do all this, and also there's… I think there's, on both
ends, like, the farm… the farmers are able to get tax deductions, and
people are able to get food, like, I think there's pros on every side.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I'm in favor of, like, approving this
organization. I really like its mission, and it's definitely a lot
different from things I've seen over, like, the past year, and like you
said, they have, like, actual, like, more statistics, and they feel like
they actually have, like, a mission that
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it, so I really do like it, and I think we should.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I mean, obviously, this is definitely a breath
of fresh air.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Compared to some of the orders that we got last year
in terms of.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I feel like overall it was a very well-built
organization and the fact that we have
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Quinlan Conf Room: A lot of people that I see there go to, are in the
city and go to Cupertino High Schools.
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Quinlan Conf Room: it's great that they're able to bring out so much of
our community out there. I guess my only issue was that.
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application, but other than that, I thought it was…
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's definitely worth a while, though. Shout out.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Wait, this is a question for you, but do you know,
like, when the application was submitted?
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think it was a few weeks ago, maybe 3 weeks ago, so
he may have had a recent conversation to verify that number, which could
explain
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Quinlan Conf Room: I also think that this was, like, a really good, like,
application, like, adding on to what Rashil said. Like, last year, I
don't even know if any of the…
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Quinlan Conf Room: the YLOs we got were… or any of the non-profits that
were YLOs, I don't even know if they were a 501c3 registered formally,
right? This one is, they have their own website, and…
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Quinlan Conf Room: They are… they have already done 30 events and have
been active for around a year, and I think that's really good, because
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just starting out and hadn't had any real progress, so I think this would
be a really good one to give a shout-out to.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Great. I also think that a shout-out would be
beneficial for them for, like, getting more volunteers and things like
that, so I think that with highlighting them, we can make a difference in
the organization, which is, like, one of our main missions with this
program.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I think adding on to Sonya, like, another reason
why I, like, really liked this, like, this nonprofit is that it has,
like, a lot of really good potential to grow as well. Like, I think they
could do so many different ideas, not only with, like, you know,
volunteering at the weekly things, but maybe they could do, like.
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awareness, maybe, like, expanding to California, beyond California. I
think, especially with a topic like this, there's so much… or, like, even
they could start reaching out to schools, like school lunches. So, yeah,
there's a lot of potential to grow, and it'd be really cool if we could
help support.
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Quinlan Conf Room: One thing I did kind of… I, like, realized after the
presentation I should have asked is, like. I should have asked, like,
how, like, on average, every week, how many volunteers go to each event?
Because.
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many volunteers he plans on putting in each, like, chapter, because,
when… if, he expands, and we have, like, the…
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would that work? How much would that help each chapter? Or, like, is it
too many volunteers for one chapter, or something like that?
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and ask about that as well, right?
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Quinlan Conf Room: If we can, I think you can, just consider if that
really makes or breaks you wanting to give a, a shout-out, through the
highlight program. And then, also, you probably can see he had an average
in the pitchers, but that was, like, the full group of, you know.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And they're doing it every week. So, the frequency
that they're doing it, any of you that have been involved in anything
that they're doing on a regular basis, it's hard, probably, to keep a
volunteer base. I know we see that in the city a lot, anything that's
consistent.
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Quinlan Conf Room: You need them to keep coming back, and so, probably
the more the better that they can find spots for them.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think I heard him mention something about like five
to ten people show up, but also that he puts his events through
Eventbrite so in the evening, like he doesn't have like like constant
volunteers, but people can sign up and then show up. But I'm not 100%
certain about that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, any other comments?
375
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, do I hear a motion to approve, food lifts,
for a YLO highlight?
376
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, Commissioner Halambi? I motion to approve the
list as a… Teen Commission highlight.
377
01:01:37.750 --> 01:01:39.310
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, do I hear a second?
378
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, Anya Mochidani, Commissioner Mochidani. Yes, I
can.
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, and we'll go ahead and put that to a vote.
If you vote yes, then you are voting to approve them for a highlight.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'll hand that over to Lindsay. Commissioner
Deschmuck? Yes.
381
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Gao? Yes.
382
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Jha? Yes.
383
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar. Yes.
384
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Mulchandani? Yes.
385
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Prakash? Aye.
386
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Sharma.
387
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Malambee. Yes.
388
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Teen? Yes. Motion carries unanimously.
389
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Quinlan Conf Room: 8.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That's exciting. We haven't had a highlight in a
little bit. For those of you who are new, what happens now is that I will
contact, Jean, and I'll get some information for the highlight. Usually I
get a picture, and we… I do work with our marketing.
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Quinlan Conf Room: coordinator to make sure that we prepare a post, and
then we, he will schedule it, and I usually let them know, look on this
day for the post to show up. And so it's pretty simple right now. Again,
we'll have that second tier opportunity, so we at least have one we'll be
considering at the halfway mark.
392
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we'll move on.
393
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Quinlan Conf Room: Get my subject. Read it.
394
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do this. Okay.
395
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Quinlan Conf Room: Our next subject is the 2026-2027 Chair and Vice Chair
selection. The recommended action is to select a chair and vice chair for
the 2026-2027 Teen Commission term.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay? We have everybody here tonight, so we're ahead
of the game now on having a full attendance. Again, just to remember.
397
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Quinlan Conf Room: We all have 9 of you voting tonight. Last meeting, we
did do a really quick introduction. I'm just gonna have you go super
quickly around the table and.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Introduce… say your name, say your grade in school,
and, which term you're on, first term or second term. And we'll start
with Commissioner Prakash.
399
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Quinlan Conf Room: My name is Vinay. I'm in the 9th grade, I go to
Cupertino High School.
400
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'm on my second term. No, no, yeah, second. Yes,
you're on your second term. Okay. I'm Shu, I'm a sophomore at Monte
Vista, and I'm on my second term.
401
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Quinlan Conf Room: My name's Nikita, I'm an 8th grader at Challenger
School, Sunnyvale, and I'm my first term.
402
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hi everyone, my name's Sumayla, I'm a senior at Mona
Vista, and I'm on my second term of the Teen Commission. Hello, I'm
Sonvi, I'm a junior at Fremont High School, and this is my second term.
403
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hi, my name is Jonathan. I'm a senior at Basis in the
Silicon Valley, and this is my second term.
404
01:04:40.270 --> 01:04:45.840
Quinlan Conf Room: Hi, my name is Anya, and I'm a freshman at Cupertino
High, and this is my first term.
405
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hi, I'm Pashu, I'm a sophomore at Bonavista, and this
is my first term. Hi, I'm Stefan, I'm a junior at St. Francis High
School, and this is my first term. Hi, my name's Isabel, I'm a junior at
Sacred Heart Club, and…
406
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, great, thank you.
407
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, before we move on, we're first going to start
with the chair selection, and, just briefly to give you some information
about the chair, the chair should have some experience with Teen
Commission, and be comfortable running the meeting. The chair will also
attend the monthly, mayor's meetings as the representative for the Teen
Commission.
408
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, you'll have not only our monthly meeting, but
another meeting that usually starts At 5 o'clock.
409
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Quinlan Conf Room: It's mid-month, but it usually is at 5 o'clock here.
410
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, so how we're gonna do this, the process. We'll
take nominations, and, first.
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'll get the nomination, I'll verify with the nominee
that they accept that nomination, then I'll ask for a second.
412
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then each nominee who receives a second will
receive two minutes. We might bring that down to one minute to keep
things quick. Okay. We're going to make it one minute. I'm the chair
tonight, so I'm changing it.
413
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Quinlan Conf Room: to talk about why they should be chair, and then
you'll have, a chance to have questions and discussions before you vote.
414
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Quinlan Conf Room: You may nominate yourself, and you may vote for
yourself, but you can only vote for one person, okay? And then for the
sake of…
415
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Quinlan Conf Room: making this kind of move along. I'm gonna open public
comment first, so we're gonna do a little bit out of order.
416
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Quinlan Conf Room: So I'm opening public comment. And we have no
speakers. Okay, I'm closing public comment. All right, and now I will go
to asking for nominations for chair.
417
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Quinlan Conf Room: I nominate Sume the chair.
418
01:06:56.820 --> 01:06:57.680
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
419
01:06:58.090 --> 01:07:00.819
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar. Excellent.
420
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and do I hear a second?
421
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Quinlan Conf Room: We'll go right here. Okay, so we have…
422
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kamar, okay. Any other nominations?
423
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Quinlan Conf Room: I don't want to eat myself. Okay. Commissioner Lambie?
424
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do I hear a second?
425
01:07:23.680 --> 01:07:26.379
Quinlan Conf Room: I second the motion. Okay.
426
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Quinlan Conf Room: Assuming you accepted, you seconded, alright?
427
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Quinlan Conf Room: Any other nominations? I nominate myself.
428
01:07:35.410 --> 01:07:37.349
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, do I hear a second?
429
01:07:37.650 --> 01:07:40.910
Quinlan Conf Room: I can… Okay.
430
01:07:47.240 --> 01:07:48.110
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay?
431
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:50.570
Quinlan Conf Room: Any other nominations?
432
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Quinlan Conf Room: All right, I'm gonna end the nomination process, and
I'm gonna, give you approximately a minute. I don't think we need a
timer, I'll just give about a minute. Okay.
433
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Quinlan Conf Room: kind of get tricky. And we'll start with Commissioner
Nish. We'll have you speak for a minute about why you'd like to be chair.
434
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Quinlan Conf Room: And you're gone, you're it.
435
01:08:18.080 --> 01:08:25.739
Quinlan Conf Room: Yes. Like, is my prep time, or just… No prep time,
just talk to why you would like to be chair.
436
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hello, everyone, my name is Rachel Deshmuk, and it
would be my pleasure to serve as your 2026 to 2027 Teen Commissioner
Chair.
437
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Quinlan Conf Room: I've spent over 9 years living in the city of
Cupertino at 2 different residencies.
438
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Quinlan Conf Room: And through the time that I've spent here, spent here,
it has greatly allowed me to increase my perspective.
439
01:08:46.229 --> 01:08:50.899
Quinlan Conf Room: of what the average teenager and resident of Cupertino
needs.
440
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:58.380
Quinlan Conf Room: I've gotten to interact with many of our public
services that we discussed here at the Teen Commission as well as in
other meetings.
441
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Quinlan Conf Room: Including but not limited to the Cupertino Sports
Center and Safe Routes to School.
442
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:14.340
Quinlan Conf Room: In relation to a… In relation to, my work outside of
the Teen Commission, I've also, promoted
443
01:09:14.890 --> 01:09:20.350
Quinlan Conf Room: Healthier e-bike usage at Montevista. I've informed
other people about
444
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Quinlan Conf Room: The differences between e-bikes and e-motos.
445
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Quinlan Conf Room: how that can be better implemented into Monte Vista,
and I've worked with Monte Vista's ASB to get certainty and commission
programs incorporated
446
01:09:33.620 --> 01:09:38.589
Quinlan Conf Room: Into Monte Vista in the forms of billboards, posters,
or or notifications.
447
01:09:39.990 --> 01:09:41.259
Quinlan Conf Room: Great. Thank you.
448
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we'll go down the line. Commissioner Kumar?
449
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, hi everyone. So I think one of the main reasons
I wanted to run for chair is because I've made so many, like, really
positive memories in the Teen Commission. For example, with, some of our
Teen Resource Fairs, Earth and Armor Day, and Teen Speaker Series, I got
to work a lot alongside all of my other fellow commissioners, and I
really want to make sure that you guys also have that sort of positive
experience in making your voice heard.
450
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Quinlan Conf Room: So some of the things I hope to do as commissioners
maybe like collaborate a lot more with other commissions and especially
within our school's ASB to really promote all of like the incredible
initiatives and programs that are happening in the city of Cupertino and
making sure you guys have more of a say in like what we go over each
month.
451
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, in terms of some of the stuff I do outside of
school and, like, community service and leadership, one of the main
things I learned is it's really important to make sure, like, other
people have that opportunity to collaborate as well. So, some things
outside of the Teen Commission is, for example, like, as presented, I
helped with TIC's Cybersecurity Awareness Fair, and helped also recruit
Vinay and, Nikita, which was really great.
452
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Quinlan Conf Room: I think also with FBLA state projects and also running
my nonprofit, Alderate, the city of Cupertino has given a lot of
different support for us in terms of giving us really great grants and
also recognition through Congressional Up Challenge.
453
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Quinlan Conf Room: So this is kind of like a really great way to give
back.
454
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, yeah, that's… Okay.
455
01:11:06.580 --> 01:11:07.490
Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
456
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Quinlan Conf Room: It should never not be.
457
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Quinlan Conf Room: Hello, my name's Sonja. I haven't met all of you yet,
so I wanted to start off by telling a little bit more about myself. I
play field hockey both in and out of school and I'm also a member of
Scouts BSA where I'm currently working on my Eagle Scout project.
458
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Quinlan Conf Room: On my free time, I love to sew and bake, and I'm not
very good at baking, but I still try to do it, because maybe one day I'll
make something that I can actually eat. I've lived here my entire life,
and I've been able to experience a lot of the different events that we
do, either as a recreation event volunteer, as a participant, or even
emceeing things as
459
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Quinlan Conf Room: a Teen Commissioner. I think one of the goals I have
for Teen Commission is really working to improve our advertising. I think
a lot of what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to take all the
different programs and organizations that
460
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Quinlan Conf Room: present to us and really distribute it out in our
community and to our teens. So, as a member of Fremont Union High School
District IDC, I would also like to maybe make it more so that everything
that we learn goes directly there to the schools so we can present it to
them.
461
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Quinlan Conf Room: I just would really love to give back to Teen
Commission as it's really helped me grow.
462
01:12:26.830 --> 01:12:28.199
Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you.
463
01:12:30.970 --> 01:12:40.730
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, I'm gonna open it up for questions for our
candidates, so if you have any questions, you can ask now.
464
01:12:44.010 --> 01:12:45.040
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
465
01:12:45.570 --> 01:12:50.980
Quinlan Conf Room: Dean, no questions. I'm gonna open it up for comments.
466
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Quinlan Conf Room: From the commissioners.
467
01:12:55.270 --> 01:12:56.120
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
468
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Quinlan Conf Room: We're moving along. Might be closer to 7.30 tonight.
Okay, and then finally, I'm just gonna remind you, we'll go to a vote, so
I believe Lindsay will do it.
469
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Quinlan Conf Room: commissioner at a time who has been nominated, and
she'll state the commissioner, and if you give a yes vote, you're voting
for them. You may only vote yes one time. That's the most important part
of this. May vote yes one time.
470
01:13:25.190 --> 01:13:32.329
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and I'll hand that over to Lindsay. Do you have
a… Okay, this is for Commissioner Kumar.
471
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Deschnack?
472
01:13:34.050 --> 01:13:35.240
Quinlan Conf Room: Yes.
473
01:13:36.250 --> 01:13:38.460
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Gao? Yes.
474
01:13:39.050 --> 01:13:41.050
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Dodd? Yes.
475
01:13:41.530 --> 01:13:43.730
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar? Oh, yes.
476
01:13:44.090 --> 01:13:46.730
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Mulchandani? Yes.
477
01:13:47.200 --> 01:13:49.170
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Prakash? Aye.
478
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:51.540
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Sherman. Yes.
479
01:13:51.700 --> 01:13:56.990
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Halambi? Yes. Commissioner Teen? Yes.
Motion carries unanimously.
480
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. Congratulations.
481
01:14:00.240 --> 01:14:01.340
Quinlan Conf Room: We have…
482
01:14:03.130 --> 01:14:19.000
Quinlan Conf Room: I'm gonna ceremoniously come and give this in front of
you. Oh my gosh. But I am going to continue to be your chair until the
end of the meeting, and we'll start fresh next time. Can I hit the gobble
at the end of the meeting? You can. I'll let you… I'll let you end the
meeting.
483
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Quinlan Conf Room: because Indian.
484
01:14:26.060 --> 01:14:27.110
Quinlan Conf Room: All right.
485
01:14:27.550 --> 01:14:37.650
Quinlan Conf Room: All right, we are now going to go through that same
process for the Vice Chair. The Vice Chair to review.
486
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Quinlan Conf Room: the items that you would be handling. If the chair is
ever absent, then you're the first to step in as the chair, and that goes
for our meetings and for the mayor's meeting. So…
487
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Quinlan Conf Room: the chair is always to go to the vice chair first, and
if the vice chair… if you couldn't attend a mayor's meeting, and the vice
chair can't attend a mayor's meeting, then the chair would choose who
they send. So.
488
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so we'll go on. Do I have to open public comment
again on my circuit?
489
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, we'll go straight to nominations. Do I hear any
nominations for Vice Chair?
490
01:15:21.500 --> 01:15:25.989
Quinlan Conf Room: I'd like to nominate Commissioner Picosher as Vice
Chair. Okay.
491
01:15:28.080 --> 01:15:30.120
Quinlan Conf Room: Do you accept? Yes.
492
01:15:30.620 --> 01:15:34.269
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, do I hear a second? Second the motion. Okay.
493
01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:38.970
Quinlan Conf Room: I would like to nominate Commissioner Holombi.
494
01:15:39.530 --> 01:15:40.300
Quinlan Conf Room: Right?
495
01:15:40.420 --> 01:15:43.780
Quinlan Conf Room: Do you accept? Yes. And do I hear a second?
496
01:15:45.400 --> 01:15:46.220
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
497
01:15:48.060 --> 01:15:50.240
Quinlan Conf Room: All right, other nominations?
498
01:15:52.050 --> 01:15:54.889
Quinlan Conf Room: I would like to nominate all Commissioner Teel.
499
01:15:55.130 --> 01:15:55.890
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
500
01:15:56.820 --> 01:16:02.770
Quinlan Conf Room: Do you accept? Yes. And do I hear a second? I second.
501
01:16:03.940 --> 01:16:05.130
Quinlan Conf Room: Get everybody.
502
01:16:05.480 --> 01:16:06.220
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
503
01:16:07.300 --> 01:16:08.320
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay?
504
01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:10.500
Quinlan Conf Room: Any other nominations?
505
01:16:13.090 --> 01:16:29.119
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we'll go ahead and do the one-minute process.
Commissioner Lambie, would you like another minute? It's okay. Okay. So
we'll go… Commissioner Prakash?
506
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Quinlan Conf Room: You have one minute.
507
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, correct. Just to start off, I'd like to say
that the main reason I want to be Vice Chair is because, like, you know,
my name starts with a VI, and then Vice Chair also has, like, it also
starts with a VI, right? So I think that would be really cool, right? You
know, like, Vice Chair, Vinay Fatash, yep. Just think about it, right?
And also, like.
508
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Quinlan Conf Room: I love Cupertino, right? You see Creekside Park over
there? I grew up with Creekside Park. Like, Creekside Park is my home. I
live right next to it, actually. In addition to that, that's really it,
you know.
509
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. Commissioner Teen. Kind of hard to follow that,
but, even though I'm new to the Teen Commission, I've still been
introduced to a lot of opportunities, including, attending a Library
Commission meeting a few weeks ago, and also doing Peace and Politics,
emceeing, so a lot of great opportunities that I've received just from
being in Teen Commission for a month, and I really would love to carry
that forward for everyone else.
510
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Quinlan Conf Room: And also there's a lot to learn from Commissioner
Kumar that I think I could really pick up.
511
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Quinlan Conf Room: And just in general, getting more exposure to city
events and, growing in my role as Team Commissioner.
512
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
513
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Quinlan Conf Room: Did you have anything you wanted to add?
514
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Quinlan Conf Room: quickly.
515
01:17:50.310 --> 01:17:52.000
Quinlan Conf Room: Like.
516
01:17:52.490 --> 01:17:58.270
Quinlan Conf Room: I don't know, like, any questions? I haven't met all
of you guys yet, so…
517
01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:06.969
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, we'll go on to questions in a second. Okay,
alright, then I'm gonna open it up for any clarifying questions that you
might have.
518
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, with that, we'll go on to any discussion that
you may have.
519
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Quinlan Conf Room: Discussion or comments?
520
01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:26.640
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and then we will go to the vote, right? Okay,
Mike.
521
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Quinlan Conf Room: I have to get a second to go. No, I'm okay. And just a
reminder, you may only vote yes one time, and I will turn it over to
Lindsay. Okay, so this vote is for Commissioner Prakash. Commissioner
Deshma? No.
522
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Gao?
523
01:18:44.780 --> 01:18:46.070
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Jha.
524
01:18:47.260 --> 01:18:49.369
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar. Yes.
525
01:18:49.870 --> 01:18:51.820
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Mulchandani?
526
01:18:51.990 --> 01:18:52.770
Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
527
01:18:53.180 --> 01:18:58.090
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Prakash. So Commissioner Sharma? Yes.
528
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Holombi?
529
01:19:01.410 --> 01:19:03.230
Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Tehan.
530
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Quinlan Conf Room: The motion fails with Commissioner Kumar and
Commissioner Sharma voting yes.
531
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, 49.
532
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, our next Nominee we'll be voting for is
Commissioner Halambi.
533
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, Commissioner Deschman? Yes.
534
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Gao? Yes.
535
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Job. Oh.
536
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Kumar? Yeah, oh wait, I told him to vote.
537
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Quinlan Conf Room: Am I only allowed to vote now?
538
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yes. Yes. Okay, then, no.
539
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Mulchandani? Yes.
540
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Prakash? Yes.
541
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Sharma, so… Commissioner Wambi? Yes.
542
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Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Teen? Yes.
543
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Quinlan Conf Room: The motion carries, with Commissioner Jha,
Commissioner Kumar, and Commissioner Sharma voting down.
544
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Quinlan Conf Room: Congratulations, Vice Chair.
545
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Quinlan Conf Room: I'll just make an extra comment. I'm very proud of you
guys for… that's probably the smoothest that's gone, so thank you for
that.
546
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, now I had to find my agenda.
547
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Quinlan Conf Room: There it is.
548
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, we are moving on to staff and commission
reports. I will start with the staff report. I don't have anything
officially from Robert Kaufman tonight, so that's going to be pretty
quick, except for…
549
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Quinlan Conf Room: Next, not a week from this Saturday is Monster Mash.
550
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Quinlan Conf Room: Who is interested in being a, MC for Monster Mash?
551
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
552
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Quinlan Conf Room: Whose hand is really raised? Is that a raised hand?
Kind of, sort of? Okay, I see 4 people. Okay, let me see if… let me just…
553
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Quinlan Conf Room: I may have.
554
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Tomorrow, I will, touch base with Mr. Kaufman, and
then we'll send out an email to let you know. And it's an evening event.
4, so it would be from 5 to about at least 8 that you'll be on
microphone.
556
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Quinlan Conf Room: And you better be ready to make some jokes. You are.
Because it's definitely about, informing them of what's happening next,
but also kind of playing off of each other, to kind of keep people
entertained, and sometimes we have you tell, like, spooky jokes. So,
should be fun.
557
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, and then, We have Peace and Politics tomorrow
night.
558
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Quinlan Conf Room: How many of you are planning on attending?
559
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Quinlan Conf Room: A few of you, alright.
560
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Quinlan Conf Room: And are you moderating? The three of us are
moderating. You're all moderating. Okay, like it. Okay. So I will be
attending, so…
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Quinlan Conf Room: ready. And, so that's the next big thing that we have
going for teens, is the, pizza and politics tomorrow night. And, yeah, I
think that's pretty much for staff reports. I was gonna hand it over to
you to start. You're gonna give an update on your library commission.
562
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Quinlan Conf Room: visit. Yeah, so, me and I think two other
commissioners went to the Library Commission meeting, the other week, and
we discussed, some team programs that we could implement, like maybe
having workshops surrounding financial literacy, marketing skills, I
believe we talked about, AI usage.
563
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Quinlan Conf Room: college, college prep, things of that nature. It was
quite a productive meeting, and I think we had some good conversation on,
how exactly we should be able to implement these programs, and how to
kind of balance things that are offered at a lot of Cupertino schools,
and things that we could offer at the library specifically. So yeah, if
any of the commissioners who are there want to chime in as well, feel
free.
564
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Quinlan Conf Room: No, we pretty much summed it up.
565
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, great, thank you.
566
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Quinlan Conf Room: And then… Do we have… you were at Mayor's meeting last
month.
567
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Quinlan Conf Room: Do you want to give a quick update on that? So.
568
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Quinlan Conf Room: Basically went over the guidelines and rules to apply
for the Crest Awards and to receive
569
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Quinlan Conf Room: And to be eligible to receive one of them. One of the
big changes was for Teen Commissioners in particular. Like, if you're a
Teen Commissioner, then you can't apply to get a Crest reward, one of
them, one of the Crest rewards, which is for some volunteer hours. And
they said it was because
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Quinlan Conf Room: they want to keep that position open for, people who
aren't already on the Teen Commission. So… and they… one of the reasons
was, I think, for college, because it's… it really helps with your
college application, but they want to keep it open to people
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Quinlan Conf Room: who… more… who help the city more than just Team
Commission Rig, because Team Commissions already get a lot of
opportunities. But more than that.
572
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Quinlan Conf Room: we just went over the guidelines, changed a few, I
think, and that was basically
573
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, great. Just to maybe add a little bit to that,
just from seeing some notes on that discussion, I think it's also about
that, it's difficult to be on the Teen Commission, so you've already
achieved something that is.
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Quinlan Conf Room: very noteworthy within the city, and so they want to
have that open to, others that haven't had that opportunity that maybe
didn't get onto Teen Commission. So…
575
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Quinlan Conf Room: Does that kind of capture it a little bit? Yeah,
that's basically what it was.
576
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Quinlan Conf Room: Good. Okay.
577
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Quinlan Conf Room: Great.
578
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, we'll go on to future agenda setting, and I
know that we talked about
579
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Quinlan Conf Room: you having a suggested item. Oh, can I talk about it
now? Yeah. So, also at the Library Commission meeting, they wanted us to
kind of collaborate together, and since it was only the three of us last
time, we didn't really have the full Teen Commission, to collaborate
ideas and brainstorm what are some potential action items they could
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Quinlan Conf Room: That, like, surrounding teens that they could, put
into action, I guess. So, I wanted to propose that for next meeting, just
have discussion about some ideas that you think
581
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Quinlan Conf Room: Could be implemented, and what would be helpful for
you all as well.
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Quinlan Conf Room: And, just to add on to that, that item would be that,
the discussion would…
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Quinlan Conf Room: gather, basically, some feedback and ideas, and I know
it was maybe proposed to you that we would give an official team
proposal, but that's not really our, within our purview, so, what we
would do is we would just
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Quinlan Conf Room: take notes on the recommendations from this body, and
then, probably we would have our new chair pass those ideas along to the
Library Commission Chair. So, but we can certainly put that in as an
agenda item.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, any other… Can we get a second for that? Sorry.
Perfect, thank you.
586
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Quinlan Conf Room: I have a quick question about, like, the Library
Commission thing. So, the way you were, like, describing, like, the
different, like, events we could do at the library, I noticed it sounded
very similar to something that we already do, which is the Teen Speaker
Series. So, essentially, it's hosted by YAB, but Teen Commission kind of
collaborates and pitches in to help moderate and host the event.
587
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Quinlan Conf Room: So, for example, we did last year, it's like, we had,
like, college counselors… I'm gonna stop you, because that's really more
discussion about it, so I think it's okay to bring up all of those points
when we have an agenda item, and I can talk to you separately about that,
but because it's not officially an agenda item yet.
588
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Quinlan Conf Room: So we don't want to discuss.
589
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Quinlan Conf Room: Sorry, sorry to cut you off. We can… but we will go
back to that.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah.
591
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, any other new agenda items?
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Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, given that, I will turn it over to the new chair
to adjourn the meeting. All the time, and…
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Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, guys, so at 7.28, 33 seconds, I would like to
adjourn.