Written Communications (Updated 05-02-2025)
PRC Meeting
May 1, 2025
Written Communications
From:Santosh Rao
To:City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Colleen Ferris; Alex Corbalis, CPRP; Rachelle Sander; Tina
Kapoor
Subject:Table tennis dedicated area at CSC.
Date:Wednesday, April 30, 2025 8:57:02 AM
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[Writing on behalf of myself only, as a Cupertino resident and CSC member]
Please include the below in written communications for the 05/01/25 parks and rec meeting.
Dear Chair Swamy and Parks and Rec Commission,
I urge you to direct parks and rec staff to explore a dedicated table tennis section in the
basement area of Cupertino Sports Center.
Table tennis is an extremely popular sport in the Asian and Indian community. Evidence of
this is found in the Cupertino Senior Center where one can see the crowds that the table tennis
section draws. We have limited table tennis in the basement area of CSC. However we do not
have the full potential of the space utilized.
I urge the parks and rec commission to work with staff to fully utilitize the basement section
of the Cupertino Sports Center to maximize the table tennis usage in the area. I further
encourage you to start up table tennis classes for kids and youth in the section at certain times
like weekends and weekday early evenings.
I further encourage the commission to consider working with economic development to
encourage the opening of table tennis zones in vacant retail and/or hotels that could use retail.
Table tennis is extremely popular. I urge you to visit ICC Milpitas table tennis center to
witness the tremendous draw of table tennis as a sport.
Thank you for making a concerted effort to expand table tennis in Cupertino and at the
Cupertino Sports Center and potentially other locations in the city via economic development.
Thanks,
Santosh Rao
PRC Meeting
May 1, 2025
Written Communications
Item #3
Parks and Recreation
Department Indoor Facility
Rentals
From:Santosh Rao
To:City of Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission; Rachelle Sander
Subject:05/01/25 Parks and Rec Commission - Fees for facility rentals.
Date:Thursday, May 1, 2025 9:37:40 AM
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[Writing on behalf of myself only, as a Cupertino resident.]
Please include the below in written communications.
Dear Parks and Rec Commission and staff,
I am writing about agenda item 3 on the 05/01/25 parks and rec commission meeting
on indoor facility rentals.
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I urge the commission and staff to lower fees for residents and offset by raising the fees on
non-residents and non-resident non-profits. I further urge the commission and staff to do
likewise on all parks and rec programs, classes and memberships. The premium charged to
non-residents is minimal today. The city is under no obligation to be subsidizing non-
residents. Fee increases have been passed on equitably to residents and non-residents. Parks
and rec popular offerings have seen increasing surge of demand. Please ask for metrics on
residents vs non-residents for all usage of facilities, memberships, classes, camps. Perhaps you
might observe a large % of non-residents consume our resources and facilities while paying a
negligible premium.
I urge you to make residents the first and primary mission, priority and focus of parks and rec
and use non-residents to subsidize residents and resident non-profits.
Please raise prices on non-residents and non-resident non-profits steeply and lower prices on
residents on all parks and rec offerings, not just indoor facility rentals.
In particular the city should not be under any obligation whatsoever to subsidize all the
non-profits from any address how so ever far it may be outside Cupertino and offer them
significant discounts compared to Cupertino residents. There are no limits on these non-
resident non-profits such as within a 3 mile radius outside the boundaries of Cupertino city.
Why should the city offer steep discounts to, say, an Oakland or Richmond or Hayward or
Fremont or Sacramento non-profit at prices steeply lower than for Cupertino residents.
I urge all of you to act swiftly with urgency to immediately lower prices on Cupertino
residents and raise prices on non-residents and non-resident non-profits.
I further implore you to re-order your priority groups. Group 2 should be Cupertino residents.
Group 3 should be non-resident non-profits.
Nowhere is this pricing and non-resident overload on city resources more egregious than
popular parks and rec events such as the Halloween and holiday events the city puts up. These
are inundated with non-residents and residents cannot get in. I know plenty of families
including mine that could not get into the Halloween event last year because it was overrun by
non-residents.
Let’s also please keep advance bookings open to residents only on popular events like
Halloween and holiday festivals and open to non-residents only a day or two before the events
or only as walk-in if available and if not already fully booked up by residents.
Thank you for making Cupertino residents the first and primary focus for parks and rec and
non-residents should bear a steep premium to subsidize residents.
Thank you for reading and acting on behalf of the interests of Cupertino residents primarily
rather than subsidizing non-residents.
Thanks,
San Rao
Cupertino resident and voter
(Writing on behalf of myself only)
PRC Meeting
May 1, 2025
Written Communications
Item #4
Commissioner Discussion on
Senior Services