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CC 04-21-2022 Written CommunicationsCC 04-21-2022 Item No. 2 City Work Program Goals and Prioritization Written Communications From:winnie Chan To:City Council; City Clerk Subject:More DOLAs please! Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:32:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi, I am a dog owner of a 20 month old Shorkie(Shihtzu/Yorkshire terrier mix.). I need more DOLA so I can take my pup for some socialize and a place for him to burn some pup energy. Please give more DOLA a 5 point vote tonight so we can get more future DOLAs in place. Future DOLAs can be managed by DOLA organizations which won’t cost the city any extra money or extra employee staffs. If more DOLAs are approved, this project can be operational mode with the city staff this fiscal year and not take up any more valuable time from the council in the future. Thanks in advance for all your help. Looking forward working with the city. ~Winnie Sent from my iPhone From:radler digiplaces.com To:City Council Cc:Darcy Paul; Liang Chao; Kitty Moore; Hung Wei; jwilley@cuperino.org; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk Subject:Please keep senior strategy as a priority Date:Wednesday, April 20, 2022 12:49:13 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As the Council finalizes the priorities for its 2022-23 workplan, I urge you to keep the development of a senior strategy for the city as a high priority. As the Age-Friendly Cupertino committee has documented, older adults are the fastest growing age group in the city. Historically, their needs have not been systematically addressed. but now is the time to do this. Cupertino's Senior Center appears to be doing a good job in serving a portion of the city's older adults, but a senior strategy needs to deal with the entire spectrum of older residents -- including those who do do not use the senior center -- and deal with issues such as housing, transportation, civic engagement, design and use of (all) public spaces, social and digital inclusion. One good starting point would be to conduct a survey that looks broadly at this group and its needs and interests (the survey done by the city last year focused more narrowly on the services that it was providing). A good option is the CASOA survey, which as been used by several surrounding communities, including Saratoga. (A copy of the report on their survey results is attached.) Best, Richard Adler Age-Friendly Cupertino From:Dayna Wu To:City Clerk Subject:DOLA speaking session tonight Cupertino City Council Meeting 4.21.2022 Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:19:42 PM Attachments:IMG_74583258.MOV CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello, I’ve registered to speak tonight about the Linda Vista Little Dog Delicate Dog Group and if someone would play this before our speaking session, that would be appreciated. It’s a video shot on an iPhone as an FYI. It’s an example of the data collection highlighting what happens at our dog group organizations for an eventual DOLA trial. Warm regards, Dayna Wu -- Sent from my iPhone t From:Anthony Chan To:City Clerk Subject:Video to be played at beginning of my speech Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:11:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City of Cupertino, I would like to present this video, could you please play it prior to my speaking time slot. It is recorded on an iphone and need to be playback using IOS compatible program. This video is an example of the data that we are collecting for our dog group organized for future LindaVista Little & DelicateDogs DOLA trial. It shows a typical gathering of the dogs and owners. Click to Download video. Yours truly, Anthony Chan (510)219-8776 From:Manu Sharma To:City Clerk; City Council Subject:Request for your vote for DoLAs Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:31:05 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Sir/Ma'am, I wanted to take a moment to request you to give a 5 point vote to enable more DoLAs in the fiscal year FY22-23 as one of the highest priority items. I have a 4 month old puppy named Wally who loves to play with other little dogs. We live near Linda Vista Park and it has a nice stretch that can be used for the purpose. There are a lot of other dog owners that are interested in similar facilities. Being a working parents of two high schoolers, we do not have a lot of time to drive around into nearby areas for the same. My family and I will really appreciate you giving your vote and high rank to prioritizing DoLA in Linda Vista Park. Sincerely, Manu Sharma 1016 Cranberry Dr Cupertino CA -95014 From:Taghi Saadati To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:DOLA Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:30:46 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello, the purpose of this email is to request your approval of more DOLA. By having more DOLA in the City people can walk to a close location with their dog rather than driving to a location far from where they live. By walking to a DOLA they help reduce traffic and carbon footprint. Thank you for your support. Taghi Saadati Sent from my iPhone Download Attachment Available until May 21, 2022 From:louise saadati To:City Clerk Subject:Video to be played at beginning of my speech tonight during Item 2. Speaker Louise Saadati Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:28:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. This video is made and sent on iPhone so you might need to make some tech choices to enable it to download for you in city tech system. Thank you for your help with this. Louise Saadati Click to Download video.MOV 0 bytes Sent from my iPhone From:yaokatie@gmail.com To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:RE: DOLAS - TOP 10 Priorities for 2022-2023 Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:26:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, We would like to respectfully request putting DOLA in Cupertino a high priority. Dogs are humans’ best friends, they provide endless love, happiness, and comfort to us, not to mention their love is unconditional. This is only a minimal ask for our best friends/family members and it is so important for our mental health. They never ask for much from us humans and most of the dogs I know are well behaved and their owners are conscientious. I pray that this request touches your hearts, and that the council would consider granting more DOLA for our loyal furry friends. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Katie From:Louise Saadati To:City Clerk; City Council Subject:Video related to previous email from lwsaadati@gmail.com Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:23:08 PM Attachments:Video.mov CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Sent from my iPhone From:Peggy Lee To:City Council; City Clerk Subject:Request for more dog off leash areas (DOLA) Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:21:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council members, I'm writing to you today to ask for prioritizing the addition of more dog off leash areas in Cupertino. I kindly ask that DOLAs gain the highest number of votes in tonight's meeting. Implementing more DOLAs should be a small achievable project, since we have DOLA community leaders willing to run this effort. They are experienced, self regulated and consistently collect data required for a successful DOLA. Off leash dog parks are known to have HUGE benefits for the dogs and their owners. My dog was very shy, bringing him to the off leash area helped him sharpen his social skills. New dog owners need a place to allow their puppies to socialize with other dogs, an off leash dog area accomplishes this perfectly. Other benefits include sharing of tips and tricks with each other and even trade dog sitting services. Dogs with off leash experience is known to be better socialized and more friendly. A dog off leash area is very important for the socialization of not only the dogs that frequent it, but also for the community and neighbors. I've met many of my neighbors just walking my dog around the neighborhood. Having dog off leash areas allows for neighbors to stop and talk while allowing their dogs to play. It builds a stronger sense of community when you can walk to a neighboring park and allow your dog to run and play with other dogs while you get to know a fellow dog owner who is likely a neighbor. Please rank adding more DOLAs as the highest on your list, I truly believe that the addition of more DOLAs is very beneficial to the community. With the experienced DOLA community leaders, this project can be kicked off quickly and in operational mode before the end of the year and the city council will not need to revisit this point year after year. Thank you for your consideration. Peggy From:Maureen Lee To:City Council; City Council; City Clerk Subject:More DOLAS for small dog - Linda Vista Park Dog Group Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:19:56 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To: Cupertino City Council and City Clerk, We are dog parents of a 21 lbs mini goldendoodle. Her name is Miso. She is 1.5 years old and love both 4-legs and 2-legs. While she provides much joy to my family, friends and neighbors; I am not able to offer her a safe off-leash place to social with her 4-legs friends in Cupertino. It's much needed for more dog parks especially one that exclusively for small dogs in Cupertino. There have been way too many incidents where small dogs were hurt by big dogs (when they run, they have no idea the consequences of just one wrong step on the little dog's paw or one wrong turn knocking down the small one). Please give more DOLAs a 5 point vote to enable more DOLAS. More DOLAs can be a small, efficiently achieved project. And it can be in operational mode with the city staff this fiscal year. It is very important to put more DOLAS in the TOP 10 priorities for the 2022-2023 City Workplan. Linda Vista Park Dog Group is the first among our recommendations for DOLA trial because it is the most organized group with over 78 dogs and over 140 people and it's growing. We used to drive to Jollyman park, but we stopped going there since we witnessed a small dog being severely hurt by a big dog (just a wrong turn) and the poor dog was on dog stroller for 4 months!! I live in Monta Vista area and there are many dog parents, especially since Covid, like myself, have been hoping that a new off leash dog park is available in the neighborhood so that we can walk our dog there instead of driving. We want to do exercise and reduce carbon footprint. We would like to connect with other dog owners and build a better community. We urgently need enabling more DOLAS. We know how much our dogs have helped us and the community going thru the difficult time during Covid and it's time we address the needs of the 4-legs and the community. Thank you!! Regards, Maureen, Andrew and Miso From:Louise Saadati To:City Clerk; City Council Subject:Email for 4/21/22 council meeting Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:18:48 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mayor Paul, Vice-Mayor Chao and City Councilmembers: Thank you for your service and attention: The video shows what happens at our dog group prepared for eventual LindaVistaLittleDog. It shows an example of our ongoing data collection. We in the DOLA community have already organized and operating our dog groups in readiness for our proposed trial DOLAs, modeled after the successful Jollyman DOLA Instead of observing city staff Jollyman DOLA for an additional year, the same city resources could be more effectively used to: issue notifications to pertinent surrounding park areas observe the relevant parks, and to actually start more DOLA trials. More DOLAs can be a SMALL PROJECT by: using our DOLA community’s assistance. using our already organized preDOLA dog groups already collecting data for DOLA trials using our DOLA “leadership and Monitoring” system that reinforces compliance with City DOLA policies Our DOLA community is ready to assist the city in completing each trial with efficient use of city staff in 6 months INSTEAD OF 3 YEARS. 1- Please could each of you councilmembers give more DOLAs a 5 point vote to enable more DOLAS to have a high ranking of 5 or above amongs all the city projects. This high rank will insure that more DOLA trials will ACTUALLY begin soon THIS fiscal year. 2- More DOLAs can be a small, efficiently achieved project with the help of the organization and data collection by our dedicated DOLA community. 3- if council votes a high rank for more DOLAs, this project can be in operational mode with the city staff and NOT continue to take up the council’s valuable time year after year. Thank you for your service and high vote to more DOLAS! Louise Saadati PS- I’m sending a separate email with the video . Sent from my iPhone From:louise saadati To:Liang Chao; Hung Wei; Darcy Paul; Jon Robert Willey; City Council; Kitty Moore; City Clerk Subject:Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations Date:Thursday, April 21, 2022 2:31:27 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. The agenda for 4/21/22 does NOT a show the corrections as as outlined below in previous emails on this thread in either the staff report on DOLAS or in Attachment A. The corrections are completely MISSING in Staff Report. In Attachment A the words “at least” 6 months still has NOT been deleted from the project description for DOLAS. Please ask that the corrections are made BEFORE a the council meeting to vote on these projects tonight. Thank you! Louise Saadati Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2022, at 3:14 PM, Liang Chao <LiangChao@cupertino.org> wrote:  Get Outlook for iOS be Liang Chao​ Vice Mayor City Council LiangChao@cupertino.org 408-777-3192 From: Liang Chao <LiangChao@cupertino.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 9:17 AM To: Louise Saadati Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander Subject: Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations Here is the image. Thanks for letting me know ahead of time so that the staff can go back to check the meeting recording and make the correction before the 4/19 Council meeting. Liang Chao​ Vice Mayor City Council LiangChao@cupertino.org 408-777-3192 From: Liang Chao <LiangChao@cupertino.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 9:14 AM To: Louise Saadati Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander Subject: Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations The staff wrote: “Our apologies and I thank you for your follow up and understanding. “ And they will make the following corrections. Image Liang Chao​ Vice Mayor City Council LiangChao@cupertino.org 408-777-3192 From: Louise Saadati <lwsaadati@icloud.com> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:42 PM To: Liang Chao; Darcy Paul; Hung Wei; Jon Robert Willey; Kitty Moore; Cupertino City Manager's Office Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander Subject: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. The agenda was just posted for City Council Meeting for April 19, 2022. The video of the City Council Meeting for April 5, 2022 was posted. The staff report and Attachment A was included for item 27 regarding MORE DOLAS. The correct wording should be “two new trials should start as soon as feasible, and the new TRIALS should last ABOUT 6 months unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field or playground" https://youtu.be/0XeUT606KCk?t=1738. This occurs 28:34 minutes into the April 5, 2022 meeting. As the video recording starting at 23:34 shows: 1-Vice-Mayor Chao never said that the new trial should last “at least” 6 months. The addition of “at least” indicates that trials will be a minimum of 6 months rather than about 6 months. 2- Vice-Mayor Chao said unless the trial is adjacent to an “athletic” field... The deletion of “athletic” from athletic fields, indicates that all DOLA trials on fields will be LONGER than 6 months since ALL DOLA trials will be on fields (versus athletic fields). 3-Vice-Mayor Chao stated that staff statement under Staff Justification/Consideration……” Trial ended October 2021. The on-going program is to be observed for one year” was unnecessary and should be deleted since Jollyman DOLA is already successful”, has been completely ignored. The unnecessary statement is still there in the Agenda for April 19, 2022 Council Meeting; Attachment A Item 27 under Staff Justification/Consideration. The staff seems to intend to observe Jollyman DOLA for a third year; though their staff time is so limited. 4- https://youtu.be/0XeUT606KCk?t=10471. This occurs at 2:54:3/7 into the video of the April 5, 2022 meeting. At this second point in the video (at 2:54:3/7) Vice-Mayor Chao said “about 6 months” ; she never said “at least”. She again stated that she wanted the statement “The ongoing program is to be observed for one year” deleted. It is still present. She also again stated that …”trials should last ABOUT 6 months (NOT AT LEAST) unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field (NOT FIELD) or playground or there are other unexpected considerations.” Again the wording “at least 6 months” was substituted for her words “about 6 months”. Again her words “athletic field” was changed to “field” which since all DOLAs are on fields will mean MORE than 6 months observation on all future DOLAs It seemed the purpose of Vice-Mayor’s comments was to make DOLA formation more efficient without prolonged observations as occurred at Jollyman DOLA for 3 years (with an additional year intended now by staff). The word changes could lead to major delays in MORE DOLAS with required prolonged observations of DOLA trials beyond 6 months especially if they are on or next to a field (which they all will be.) The CORRECT WORDING carefully following the specific wording read by Councilmember Chao TWICE during the meeting and accepted by city council would help to avoid confusion leading to prolonged delays and unnecessary prolonged use of city staff time for MORE DOLA trials to start and to achieve permanent status. The correct wording should be “two new trials should start as soon as feasible, and the new TRIALS should last ABOUT 6 months unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field or playground" IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF THE CITY STAFF WORDING COULD BE CORRECTED (FOR ITEM 27 IN THE STAFF REPORT AND ATTACHMENT A) and WOULD CAREFULLY AND EXACTLY FOLLOW VICE-MAYOR’S CAREFUL READING TWICE THAT WAS ACCEPTED BY COUNCIL Thank you to Councilmember Chao for twice reading her statement and to the mayor and city council for accepting it. Thanks to Mayor Paul for accepting Vice- Mayor’s Chao’s motion. Your help with the city manager in correcting the wording for Item 27 would be tremendously appreciated by all of us that are advocating for MORE DOLAs in Cupertino. Respectfully, Louise Saadati