City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the Campbell City Council for Tuesday, February 17, 2026. We'll have a roll call, please. Council member Lopez here. Council member Hines present. Council member Vivey present. Vice Mayor Skizola absent. Mayor Fado

here. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for Um, thank you.

This evening, uh, we're recognizing the students who participated in the Santa Clara County 2025 Synopsis Championship Science Fair. Uh through this annual fair competition, hundreds of students are challenged to go beyond their classroom studies to do independent um projectbased research. They work independently in team or in teams to address questions in the field of computer science, environmental science, medicine and health, chemistry, biology and halfozen categories. So I want to uh congratulate all of you and thank you very much for your projects and your presentations. Uh these are not simple but very complex projects and um our office is preparing certificates for you individually but I would like to invite um all of you um individually if you like to come up and briefly speak about your project uh so that we might have just a little better appreciation for what you did. So, um, if you'd care to do so, um, I'd like you to come up one by one and just make a few comments about your project and, uh, anything that related to that that you would like to tell us.

Hi everybody. Um, my name is Christine Lang. I'm currently an eighth grader at the Harper School, which is around this area. I wanted to say it is my absolute pleasure to meet you all. Um I'm so honored to be here today. And my project in 2025 was on utilizing fruit peel waste in order to remove dangerous heavy metals. I tested seven different types. So lead, cadmium, copper, iron, zinc, silver, and nickel from contaminated water. And um I was able to corroborate my research through reaching out to a professional local laboratory. And they use atomic absorption spectroscopy, which is like a um specific method of analysis to show that my filters successfully removed um 10 ppm concentrations of all seven types of metals down to nearly non-detectable levels, which were able to outperform even the US Environmental Protection Agency and also the World Health Organization standards for water by up to approximately 3,000 tons.

Thank you very much. Well,

hi, my name is Sophia and I'm currently a ninth grader at the Harvard School. So, my project in 25 was um testing different types of caffeinated drinks on the environment of plenaria and their nervous systems which can be directly correlated to the human nervous system. So, I tested how different teas and coffees would affect our attention spans and reaction times. Thank you. Excuse me, I kind of lost my voice this weekend. So, but basically I'm a 10th grader at Basis Independent. Um and my project was transforming MRI data into latencies using multi head learning to understand Alzheimer's progression. So essentially I was trying to create a new data form that would allow models to get a better understanding of what was going on in the brain with patients with Alzheimer's by transforming MRI data which is essentially brain scan into um a simple dimensional space you know and using that was able to increase his performance and under like detects patients but also better.

Apologies again that's quite thank you for coming. Yes, thank you.

Uh, good evening. Uh, my name is Yash Mahanti. I'm a senior at Westmont High School and my project in 2025 was pertaining long-term drought forecasting in the western United States. uh where I compared four machine learning uh statistical models and was basically able to quantify the effect that oceanic data has on long-term drought effects in western in the western United States specifically targeting Colorado um as a target region and I guess the novelty was regarding the fact that multivariat which is um derivative of uh the southern oscillation patterns in the Pacific Ocean has an impact on drought patterns in the western United States. Thank you. Very interesting. Thank you.

Hello, my name is Kirk Kang and I'm a ninth grader at West Mall High School and last year I created a device and an app um both linked together to track nutrition data and what you eat every day and also allergy data. And yeah, thank you very much.

Oh, okay. Um, so hello. My name is Ellie and I'm a junior at Westmont High School and um, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to be recognized and for encouraging young scientists like me and um, the others um, to pursue like real world challenges. Um my project was on developing a contactless heart health monitoring system. Um and the way I did that was I used a technology called RPPG which utilizes camera sensors and computer vision in order to extract like vitals such as like heart rate and various other metrics um like in a non-cont way. So essentially I developed an AI model that was able to take in a video of a person's face just through a simple webcam and then extract um or look at the sort of color changes in the person's face and look at the patterns um and ultimately obtain key um heart health metrics that people can then use to um evaluate their cardiovascular health. And I guess the motivation behind this project was I really believe that healthc care should be accessible to all especially for people who might not be able to access you know like expensive med medical equipment. Um and so potentially this project could be used for helping um improve tele medicine in rural areas or helping seniors with at home monitoring. And I really hope that I can continue this research further and try to maybe develop it into some sort of a device that can help people and make uh healthcare more accessible.

Thank you so much. Thank you very much.

Anyone else?

Okay. Well, let me um thank you again very much and like I said, we will provide you some certificates of recognition for these wonderful achievements and for all that you've done and uh for the potential that you represent for society to help all of us in the future and uh and help preserve our planet. I also wanted to recognize and thank a former member of the San Jose City Council, Forest Williams, uh for being here this evening. and I know you helped coordinate this project for a number of years and uh I thank you very much and welcome once again to the city of Campbell and thank you for all of your service to the community. If I can just make a comment as well from uh with a science background myself and science degrees it's just uh uh what uh impressive very much the uh science and engineering engineering projects that you did but was also impressive was that your elevator pitch was very right on uh and absolutely very impressive to be able to have you uh be able to succinctly describe your project in in terms in in a short session. So, excellent work on both both fronts.

I' I'd like to um build on that and just keep at it with everything you're you're doing from I'm sure not all of you expected that you'd come up and have to say a few words before the the council, but y'all did a phenomenal job. And so just that combination of the STEM knowledge with the ability to clearly explain those concepts to an audience will just take you so far. Um uh even beyond uh I think many of uh the adults in and the workplace. So when you get to that that stage um you'll you'll be in and in in such a a great place no matter what you do whether um you keep with the the uh STEM learning and exploration or you take it in a different direction. Um, these are skills, asking the right questions, research, presenting them to an audience that will serve you for for anything you do. Um, and to all the parents in the room, I just see the looks of of pride on your face. I know you're already doing this and it doesn't need to be said, but u please keep encouraging um that spark um and and the youth that that we see here because we we we need it and uh this is truly one of my favorite occasions all year. Thank you for being here. Likewise, I want to add on what my colleagues have said and um really want to thank the students for coming to the meeting and sharing their experience with us and and the re research and the project that you worked on. Um it's very commendable and um you have a bright future and um continue to strive for the next level because um we need future leaders like yourselves in in our community and in our um world. Thank you.

We look forward to uh hearing about your projects again uh as you continue your studies. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Um, I haven't had Okay. There are no uh communications and petitions and uh I would at this point in time like to invite the city attorney to report on the results of the closed session the council had.

Yes. Uh, Mayor Fado, members of the council, as you are aware, in executive session, the council authorized by a 40 vote for my office to uh pursue a workplace violence restraining order to protect formerly employees of the city who has been experiencing some harassment from a member of the public. Um, it was four, the vote was 40 with council member.

Thank you. We now move on to oral requests. This would be the time on tonight's council meeting agenda for any member of the public to address the city council on any subject not otherwise on tonight's agenda. Do we have any oral requests? I do have one card uh from Laura Ree. Hi, I'm Laura Reese. I live on Futall Drive. I was here two weeks ago to talk about flock cameras and uh I reported that something like half of the searches from Campbell police were didn't come with justifications and I wanted to correct that record. Um I talked to Chief Berg and um I looked back at the data and there was a database artifact and in fact the number of times they had justifications was over 99% like 99.5% and all the justifications were like normal police business that you'd expect. Nothing nothing out of the ordinary. So, I wanted to correct that. And I've since had a conversation with Chief Berg and I was um and we talked about sort of the concerns of a surveillance state and being wary of that. And um I'm happy that we're on the same page with the desire to tend toward self-hosting data in local databases and not on the cloud. And I would encourage that going forward if any um policies come up before the city council that when you think about people living here and feeling at liberty and having their privacy respected that the data that's collected is like gold to people who are criminals whether they're in whatever organization. and locking it down and

protecting it and keeping it from being searchable by anybody who doesn't have legit justification for it is highly important to myself and a lot of my neighbors. So, I'm really happy that it sounds like we're on the same page and uh I apologize for that error when I was here before. Um, is that Oh, and um, that's all I wanted to say. Yeah. And I'm very pleased that you had the opportunity to meet with the chief and and discuss the matter in more detail. So, the points you raise are important ones and we likewise feel concerned about these matters as well. So, thank you.

Thanks. Uh, does anyone else wish to address the council under oral requests? And there's no one online. Okay, thank you. We'll move. We now move on to uh council announcements. So, I'll provide the following um information. Um, our city is seeking us community-minded individuals to serve on either the bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee um or the planning commission. These groups help guide how Campbell grows and moves and uh also reviews projects um and helps us to support safer and more connected neighborhoods. Uh to learn more or apply, please visit uh the city's website.gov/boards. GV/boards-commissions or you can contact the city clerk's office at 8662117. The city is offering grant funding through the neighborhood association uh assistance grant program. It's a it's a topic we've mentioned once before here. our Campbell neighborhoods. Uh the Campbell neighborhood associations are encouraged to apply and the applications will be open until Monday, February the 23rd. More information can be found on the city's website. The Campbell Police Foundation is holding their annual fundraising breakfast on Saturday, March 14th from 9 in the morning till 10:30 a.m. at the home church on Winchester Boulevard. And the tickets are $30 per person and can be purchased on the foundation's u website online campbell police foundation uh.org.

And finally, the um AARP Foundation is offering free income tax assistance through uh April 14th uh at our community center in room C34. Uh this service is available to low and moderate income adults and families um with uh who are 18 years of age and older. Likewise, you can contact u the city's website for further information. Those are the council announcements for this evening. The council will now move on to the consent calendar. These are items 7.1 to 7.5 on tonight's agenda. The council will address these in a single motion. Um unless a member of the council, a member of the staff or a member of the public public would like us to pull an item for individual and additional discussion. Does uh any member of the council wish to pull an item? Yes.

Oh, um I'm sorry. I don't need to pull it. Can I just May I just make a brief comment? I just want to express my appreciation for the Bonet Trust for the um $10,500 donation to the historical museum at Anley House. Um and I'm happy to move consent if there aren't further comments.

I'll take some more comments, but um likewise, thank you for making note of that. Um Joan Bernett was a very active community person. Her family was as well uh in Santa Clair County and uh it's very nice of her trust which she left uh and in this case $10,000 for our Campbell Museum historical. Thank you for the comment and we do recognize and thank the uh the trustees of the Joan Buddat Trust. Um would anyone else like to pull an item? Any member of the public or staff? Seeing none, we will consider the consent calendar now. Um as a whole, item 7.1 to 7.5. I could have a motion.

So motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. I'll second. Second by council member. Um roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Council member by Hi, Mayor Fado. Hi.

Thank you. We now move on to public hearings and introductions of ordinances. This is item number eight. And we have one item 8.1 a public hearing to consider the adoption of a resolution directing the community development director to proceed with the abatement of hazardous vegetation. And uh I believe um our building official Bob Lynon will make the presentation tonight.

Good evening. Uh I'm Bob Lennon, the building official for city of Campbell. Um, there's not going to be much of a presentation tonight. I'm going to read something and we're going to understand what this is. This is a public hearing to hear objections from property owners regarding removal of hazardous vegetation on private property or public streets or alleys. Following the public hearing, it would be appropriate for the council to adopt a resolution directing the community development director to proceed with the abatement of hazardous vegetation by the county of Santa Clara uh Santa CL County Consumer and Environmental Protection Agency. And Garrett is here representing the county someplace. Is Garrett here? Garrett is there and he's very familiar with the program. So any direct questions he can answer them.

Thank you, Bob. Um questions by members of the council. Seeing none, um I will open the public hearing and invite any member of the public to comment um on this particular topic or u any of the homeowners who might be present that wish to make a comment. Welcome, please. Evening. My name is Lean Knight. I live at 904 Hazel Avenue Campbell. Um I received a letter from the county about a notice to abate weeds and uh made reference that uh was being put on that I could be put on the list. I was here last year. I thought that it was specifically voted on that this prop on my property was being exempted from that list. So I'm not sure why I'm getting it again. I maintain my property. I've just spent a considerable amount of money to do yard cleanup on my property. um getting rid of the weeds that grow like crazy over the past rainy period with the sunshine and so the thing is back to its clean and neat um certainly less than six inch weeds. Actually they're at ground level and um trimmed away all of the hazardous uh you know trimmed back branches that might have been approaching my my um roof uh under the eaves. I've done everything that has been outlined since last year. I'm not I'm not sure why I'm getting this again, but I object to having my name on this list.

Thank you. You know, I do remember you coming last year. As a matter of fact, I do thought that we did resolve it at that time. So, I will refer the matter to our staff uh to look at one more time here and see if we can address this matter. Thank you for coming once again. I'm sorry you had to do that. You have photographs, etc. Thank you. Sure. So, I'll refer to the staff to take a look at this. Does anyone else Yes, please.

Yes. My name is Ron Dean and I was shering believe last year and within a month I got a letter from the county threatening to have a warrant sent to me to force me to have their contractors take care of my front yard of which I had taken care of by the time I got that letter. Now, I don't take well to threats, especially when they want me to pay the $3,000 for the warrant and whatever cost it is for their contractors. And I got another one of their little blue letters earlier, or I should say last month. I just want to make it clear I do not have any hazardous vegetation in my yard at all. If they say what is I would like to know what is considered hazardous vegetation as far as a fire hazard then they will have to basically send letters to every single person pretty much 80 to 90% of the Campbell homeowners. I take a walk on a weekly basis around approximately one mile of my house. I have counted approximately 12 yards that have vegetation as as far as let's say Oxalus and um I don't think Oxalus is basically hazardous vegetation. There are two properties on the intersection of Virginia and Connie Drive that are abandoned whose entire yards are full of

vegetation including dried bushes. I drove around coming home from my house yet, you know, from the store yesterday. There are so many yards that are full of oxalis. It's not funny. And I just want to say at this point I feel I am being harassed by the county um in which they are harassing a disabled senior widow. I suffer from fibromyalgia. I've got arthritis in the lower spine along with spinal stenosis. I have uh arthritis of the hips. I've had both knees replaced. I also suffer from anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and PTSD. And to get these letters from the county saying they want to charge me if I do not take care of the stuff that they say I need to take care of, which I did by the time I got there, which I was going to have by the time I got there.

If we have your contact information, I will refer the matter to our city staff and to the county to review this and we'll get back to you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Ma'am, can you give us your property location again? 815 Maryland Drive.

Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone else wish to address the council on this matter? Any further comments? ask the council for any comments he'd like to make.

We have a county representative here. If uh um if there's any comments that uh we could ask the not representative. Did you want to make a comment? I'm sorry. Normally, we have to do this during the public hearing. That's why I asked for it. So, if you have a comment Oh, I'm sorry. No, I'm from the county. Yes. Yeah. I was just here to offer to answer any questions and respond to the concerns raised by the Okay. So, hopefully our staff will refer to you the two people that were here tonight for further review and between our staff.

Mr. Mayor, if I can perhaps um uh this gentleman from the county, he's in the weed abatement program. So maybe he can address the two properties that raised tonight. Um if that's appropriate at 904 Hazel Avenue and 8:15 Maryland Drive, I can address both. That be okay. Oh, of course. Yeah.

Okay. Good evening, mayor, members of the city council. My name is Garrickki. I'm the manager for the weed abatement program for the county's consumer and environmental protection agency. I just wanted to uh give some clarity on the two property owners who came tonight to um speak to you. Uh the first uh person, Miss Knight over on 904 Hazel, um she did come to the city council meeting last year and the city council did approve to remove her property from the list last year. I mistakenly did not remove her property from the list and she remained on the list and um it was to her and a few other properties that were in the same situation. I've now recognized that and I have gone through and removed them from the list and I will be going through the next step of the process to issue refunds to those property owners including herself to uh make sure that their um property tax assessment for the inspections conducted are going to be reimbursed. So that's my statement for the first property owner.

Okay. Um, the second one on 815 Maryland, Miss Nunan, last year she did also attend the the meeting. I was instructed by the city council to reinspect her property during the season and if her property was found to be in compliance to remove the property from the list. On April 1st, our inspector did visit the property and observed that she did have grass and weeds on her property that were at least a foot high. And I have a photograph to show that. And so she failed the inspection that year. She did call our office on April 9th and she spoke to my staff and to myself. Um she was very displeased with the fact that we went to a property and sent her a notice. Uh I spoke to her and I told her that if she were to correct the violation by April 21st that I would not charge any additional fees beyond the initial inspection fee. We did reinspect the property on April 22nd free of charge. It was in compliance at that time and so there were there was no further action on that property. But the fact is that we did observe a violation of our minimum fire safety standards on her property on April 1st.

Okay. I thank you very much for your comments and presentation. That's helpful. Thank you. Can I just ask a question? What what is the status of that property then as of now? If it's the one on Maryland Drive. Yes. Uh it is still in the weed abatement program and we through our process will be continuing to inspect it annually to ensure it's being maintained unless the council decides tonight to have the property removed from the list. Is there are there any fees associated with the uh that process? Yes, for our entire process for doing inspections and any other follow-up work necessary, there are fees that are charged to the property owners.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Do you want me to stay up here to answer any additional questions? Um well, this lady has a question, but she would have to talk to you afterwards now. Um not during this meeting because I've closed the public hearing. Um, what is the pleasure of the council? Well, we would need Well, it would be appropriate to make a motion if you so chose.

Okay. I um I just wanted to make one comment that there was a property that had uh approached um us um and we had actually uh interacted with uh Mr. Garrett and he had resolved that that issue as well. So there's um there is a resolution process that uh that they're very responsive to from a county level. I'd like to propose a motion uh to uh any other you have any

Well, I I just have a question that if we move forward with the recommendation that this property at Maryland Drive is still going to be on the list and the property owner is going to be subject to um additional fee this year. If if in fact she's in compliance, can we wave that fee? I think the way to do is just remove if she's in compliance, just remove off the list so they wouldn't be spending time to go inspect it. They um I think that would be the best course of action,

but a year ago she wasn't and was given an extension in a courtesy waiver of fees to to get in compliance. So, I just want to make sure that she's in compliance. We could certainly request the county to do one final inspection of that to ensure compliance and so from

so I'll propose a motion to uh um proceed with uh the the weed abatement um and consider the uh the adoption of resolution directing the community development directed to proceed with the weed abatement of hazardous vegetation. Um with the final inspection of the what's the property 815 Maryland 815 Maryland drive one final inspection of the Maryland drive to uh uh and if that's in compliance to remove it from the weed weed abandonment. That's my

I'll second we have a motion and a second further discussion. Um we'll have a roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Council member By. Hi. Mayor Fado.

Hi. 9.1 city polic. Excellent. Thank you. Um me again. So happy to follow up. So this is a followup from a proposed modification that was approved by council last November. I brought before city council um revisions to city council policy section 10. In that policy, there was a a large section um of information about our Campbell Historical Museum in Anley House. Um and the Campbell Historical Museum in Ay House had a separate section within the council policies titled council policy section 21. Um so during that presentation, I assured you I would bring that policy back to you for the revisions um because we didn't have them done at the time. Um so since that time, we've gone through them. We've cleaned up Council policy section 21. The information that's included in there has everything to do with the historical u museums that are included within the city of Campbell, the Easley House, the carriage house um and the historical museum in the garden areas that we have. Uh we made some changes and updates to the descriptions and accessibility. We cleaned up some clarifying language. Um and we just made it all very concise um and put it all together in there. Um I do want to say um a it's a little it's formatted a little bit differently than some of our other policies mainly because these become one-page um policy pages that get um added to our permitting process. So there'll be one specific to day of rules and regulations

and so we just made it a little bit easier um for staff to kind of print out um sections on a one-page thing. Uh I do also want to clarify that it was brought to my attention in the red line that under reservations and cancellations in section three the subsection two um the first item it referenced forfeiture of fees it should only be the security deposit that's forfeited in the event of um that for cancellations that that would be always forfeited. The cleaning fee needs to be removed. So in the clean copy moving forward um that will not be included. So, um, tonight's modifications are simply just to clean up this section, have um, clear policies for rentals of the ANC garden and other, um, museum spaces, and I'm happy to answer any questions from council.

Thank you, Natasha. Um, questions by members of the council. Yeah, I just add uh one one question going through this on my annual company insurance, but the um are the insurance requirements up to par specifically on liability? Uh is that part of what you're looking at? So, so that's all done through the attorney's office and they're pretty standard for all of our rentals that we have um that they have to have the liability insurance and stating us as additional. So, yes.

Okay. Thank you. Um Natasha certainly isn't my um biggest priority in this, but just to make sure I understand the recommendation. Um could you explain a little bit of the reasoning behind um prohibiting not just hard liquor which I certainly support but um um also other kind of um uh like high noon and uh

sure because the only reason I ask is because those tend to be low ABV um uh generally speaking um so I just want you know I'm not on the hill but I just want to make sure I understand we we have a beer and wine only and those are not be wine. Um they become problematic because um they can be snuck in easily. They look very much like a beer can. Um it's hard to tell which ones have high alcohol content and which ones don't. Um and if we allow a high noon, then they're going to say, "Well, can I have vodka?" And so it becomes a slippery slope for us to enforce. Uh and it it's not something that we want to deal to deal with quite honestly. Um

so just for staff resources, I across the board at all of our facilities. It's a beer and wine only. Um it seems to be a little bit more manageable when you're dealing with large crowds of people and you're having staff monitoring those events. Um you know and and yeah, so we did this with our building use policy because we were we've always had beer and wine and champagne as the only things allowed and we were finding people kind of bringing this in or it was unclear. So we wanted to really spell it out that these things are not allowed. That makes perfect sense. Thank you.

Um I have a few questions myself. First of all, thank you for removing the cleaning fee language there on that. Thanks for the catch. Yeah, that was good. Um the other thing I uh wanted to ask you about um people are allowed to have caterers come in and prepare food and so on. Um during that process, do they have any access to the sink that is in the carriage house? Um I'm not I would assume that they have access to it. Most caterers because there is no like kitchen facility. They come pre-repped. So it's really just farming stations. They're not cooking on site.

The reason why I asked is um I just felt that they needed some access to water. uh some sometimes things spill or they spill something on their hands or uh you know they just need a source of water and I just feel that we should provide something so that they could wash their hands in the sink or something well they're using it too to fill their chafing dishes with the hot water too because they're not bringing that in for sure. So there is some accessibility. They're just not. It's usually through the side. Um there's that um kind of where the shed is and things and that's where generally the caterers will go in and out of to access the kitchen. They're not accessing through the carriage house. Okay. Well, they do have access to water though for that purpose.

But there's not like it's not like a kitchen for them, but yes, they have access to wash hands and do all those things. Right. And then I I noticed that uh and obviously you're correct. you indicate that if it's if it rains there are no alternate interior spaces to so but in that situation um where if the storm is significant enough that they have to cancel the event um it seems to me that that's kind of a an unpredicted thing and that we should refund their fees at that point in time as well.

Yeah. So we only book May through October and October is is iffy. So, it's generally May through September and kind of an October thing. So, rain on those during those months is highly unlikely. Um, in that instance, it would probably be a discussion if it was like a complete downpour. Otherwise, we would advise some tenting of some sort or um canopies and things like that for them to offset. And I realize that in situations like this, there is some discretion for the city manager to wave some of those fees.

Yeah. Finally, um, one of the concerns I have is, I know this would rarely happen, but if we, the city, um, within two weeks, uh, written notice, uh, cancel the venue because of some special city need, you know, and hopefully that's very rare. I'm sure it is, but that kind of leaves people out on alert. I mean, if they've planned a wedding reception and so on, to try to find a substitute location at such a late time would be very difficult, frankly, besides refunding all their fees, which I know is provided for, I really think we should pay a penalty. Uh, I mean, I think we should pay a stipen. Uh, if we choose to cancel u, you know, a perfectly good facility because something came up to meet our needs, um, it seems to me that

we should reimburse them with, you know, like a $500 stipen because of all the problems they're going to suffer notifying everyone or changing the date or whatever.

I think ultimately what would happen in an instance like that is um, you know, god forbid something happened and you know there was complete utter damage to the garden facility, car accident comes through the fence or something, it's unusable, we would work to provide an alternative opportunity, you know, whether it's um the reception's held on the green and the uh reception is held the ceremonies on the green and the reception is at the banquet hall, you know, and we would be moving things around. Um it's not the first time we've, you know, we've deal with very infrequently, but we have double booked our our community center before. You know, we've had to work with people to kind of move events around on our campus to help accommodate. Um I think in an instance like that um where there was significant damage to the the location, we would do our best. Um as far as paying a member of the public with public funds, that would not be within my scope of of where I, you know, have allowance to do.

Well, well, at least it's good to hear that we would actually work with them and make another space available should that be available, say more than likely at the community center, one of the larger rooms or the banquet hall or half the banquet hall or something. And you know, we have park spaces where we don't normally allow tables and chairs to come in. And those are opportunities for the city manager to say, "Okay, we can do an alternative location. It's not exactly what you were looking for, but we would probably do our best to to make those accommodations as as best we could. Okay, thank you. That uh concludes my questions. Uh yes.

Um just very briefly on the last point if if it's helpful. Um I just have this in mind because this came up a number of times during city events the past year as mayor and um I just know if uh there was an existing reservation, we just looked at that data as being unavailable for generally speaking for city events. So I think it would be pretty rarely that it comes up and probably in just truly unanticipated circumstances, not because we're just deciding to cancel. It would be for something catastrophic. Yeah. You know that like something happened to the facility. Not in the sense that the city needed the space for an event. For sure. Yeah. Which makes me more. Thank you.

Thank you again, Natasha. Does any member of the public wish to address the council on this matter? I don't see there's nothing online. Uh what is the pleasure of the council on this matter? I'll move to uh adopt the proposed modification to city council policy section 21. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Council member By.

Hi. Mayor Fado. We now move to item 9.2 resolution adjusting the rates for Aterson um Barrison and Kandady and approving a one-time payment to the law offices of William Seligan for costs incurred. And I believe um assistant city manager uh Angelique Gada will make the presentation.

You honorable mayor and members of the city council. Um as the mayor indicated, this is a um staff recommendation for the council to adopt a resolution to adjust the rates of Aerson Baron and Kandati as well as make a one-time payment to the law offices of William Seligman for $11,946. Um the reason behind this recommendation is that in uh fiscal year 2526 um Aerson Barrison and Kandati um increased their rates and during that period of time um provided supplemental legal services um to assist um our city attorney and um our city attorney in turn covered the increase in rates. Um so the um resolution is to not only um increase or adjust the rates for the uh law firm that's providing supplemental services but also to reimburse um our city attorney for covering those uh fees in fiscal year 2526. Um the uh city attorney's fees will not change. they will remain the same with this resolution um as they were set by the city council on August 20th, 2024. Um so the retainer that was established on that date will remain for the city attorney and that's the monthly retainer as well as the hourly rates that he would be charging uh the city of Campbell. And with that I'm happy to take any questions.

Thank you. Questions? See none. Thank you. Does any member of the public wish to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll ask the council u for recommendation or resolution. I'll propose a motion to uh adopt the resolution adjusting rates of Barisone and Kandati and approving onetime payment to law offices of William R. Seagelman for cost incurred. I second. We have a motion and a second by council member Lopez. Uh roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Council member By. Hi.

Mayor Fado.

Hi. I don't specifically have any um reports on meetings that I attended, but I did want to bring up an item that um I I feel um is owed a response. And um that that being at the last council meeting, a public speaker addressed the city council regarding what he witnessed as inappropriate behavior by Vice Mayor Ola. Unfortunately, the vice mayor did not respond at that meeting and he chose not to attend the meeting tonight. So, I believe the speaker is out of response and um would ask that I'm proposing a motion that this matter be agendaized for the next council meeting so that um the vice mayor can either address the um um comments that were made andor the city council can discuss the complaint.

Do we have a second to the move? I'll second that. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion on this motion? We'll take a roll call vote, please. Council member Lopez, I. Council member Hines, hi. Council member, I may fado. Hi.

Thank you. Other council reports. Well, um yeah, I'm not to continue um being deviating a little from our usual u uh reports. Um I I did want to wave my reports today um in because uh there's another issue I wanted to um uh speak to that we've been hearing about getting a lot of um questions about and I know staff has been working hard on but I do think we're at a point where council policy would help clarify and just put us on better footing um and that specifically the issue of uh city policy with regard to ice staging potential actions um on city facilities. I propose agendaizing this for discussion um at a future meeting. I've shared with city staff relevant policies that have been passed by other councils that they have looked at. Um and I believe we should speak to it on a future agenda.

Is that a motion? That I would propose that motion to bring it back. I'll second that motion in a second. Um we'll do a roll call again, please. Thank you. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi, Council Member BY. Hi, Mayor Fado. Hi. Other council reports. Yes,

I'll do my council reports. So, um the uh uh we've got the DCBA and chamber. Uh the dates are all set. Uh there's a a wide range of uh events that we all love that are coming and the the dates are set. Uh thank you to staff on being able to work with the DCBN chamber to uh to get those uh get those accomplished, but get them on your calendar. So uh we got some activities that we're going to be asked to do on those. We had the West Valley storm water chair. Uh I attended that and the chair is now Brian Mechachuk. Vice Chair Chuck Page and the West Valley recycling uh I also attended and the chair is now Chuck Page and uh with the vice chair Brian Mcich. Uh there is in the there is going to be in the planning stages with the West Valley recycling a one-time annual hazardous material collection day. Uh I know I've participated in those in the past and and they're they're very helpful for those. Uh so as I tell them, I've got a uh a quart jug of antifreeze that been sitting on my workbench for a year or more and I look forward to being able to get rid of that. Uh there was a Valentine fun run with 900 participants. It was uh phenomenal uh to be able to to see that and I I couldn't limp along to participate but I will next year or October Fest. That's right. They told me to get there for October. Uh there was a cert annual work plan that was put together maybe 100 or 200 that attended that and uh that was uh excellent to be able to see the work plan for the uh the C team. I had a great tour of the finance department and then uh uh I continue to engage with San Jose, particularly D9. I went to the San Jose D9 community leader community leadership breakfast and it was quite an informative conversation that I had with the the community leaders and the San

Jose leaders and and I'm getting the sense they're quite appreciative of uh of that. They're still gonna they're still the the big girl on the on the block and but we have a conversation work with them. Then I want to do a shout out to the Country Women's Club of Campbell. They had uh 300 participants at their annual uh FrabFest and uh it was just a a tremendous fundraiser and and certainly a lot of fun. So great work by the uh the country women's club of camp. Thank you. Thank you. I might add that uh that annual crab feed uh fundraiser uh raises money for their endowment program, specifically their scholarships for art and music students. So, it's it's a it's a great cause and they've been doing many good things in our community for years. I had the opportunity to attend uh and speak uh briefly at the 134th anniversary of the Campbell Heritage Day, now sponsored by uh the Chamber of Commerce. And uh the principal speaker there was our museum director, Carrie Perkins, who gave an excellent presentation uh on the water tower, but not only the water tower itself, uh the symbol of our city, but also previous water towers that existed that no longer exist. and the whole issue of water uh and of course we live in a in an environment where water is always a concern and it's very important and in the early days of the city of course it was very important to farmers as well so her presentation was outstanding and I uh always learned something new uh there and then I had the opportunity to um take the place of council member by uh attending the city's association um monthly meeting uh it was a good meeting uh they always have a very robust schedule. Uh one of the discussions there talked

about the efforts being made to address human trafficking um which uh they are very concerned about. They were during the Super Bowl time. Uh they also have that concern during the NCAA playoffs, basketball playoffs as well in particular for the upcoming FIFA meetings. So there are projects uh in place to address this. a number of community volunteers and so on and the city's association apparently and you can correct me and uh at one of the earlier meetings I guess solicited members to uh indicate what they thought the two or three most important items that they felt the city's association should address during the year for further discussion and uh they presented the results of that at the meeting. Um the top results were uh disaster preparedness. They also wanted to talk about um the uh flock cameras um and or any other license plate readers uh in other cities as well as public safety. And um uh the third um topic slips my mind here.

I'm sorry. Eter. Oh yes, e- scooters and ebikes. There are state laws and regulations about that, but uh oftentimes uh the e- scooters and ebike drivers do not observe traffic rules, dart in and out of traffic, don't obey stop lights and so on. And so the city's association wanted to discuss that as well as one of their priorities. So those will be future discussion items and I'm sure you'll report on them back to us. Um with that um I think that concludes our business for tonight's meeting. I thank everyone for coming and I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you.