Arts and Culture Commission - Regular Meeting

Today is Thursday, 05/07/2026. This is the regular meeting of the CooperTina Parks and Recreation Commission. This is a hybrid meeting, and the meeting is being recorded. For members of the public wishing to address the park and recreation commission on Zoom, the Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. And please make sure that you press the continue button so that you will be staying in the meeting.

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And each speakers are limited to three minutes. I'm gonna call to the order of the meeting. So welcome to the 05/07/2026 to Parcum Recreation Commission meeting, and I now call the meeting to order that 702. Roll call. Stand. Can I

please stand? Here.

Commissioner Stamik? Here. Commissioner Swamy? Here. Vice chair Srikin? Here. For the record, vice chair Srikin is absent.

Thank you. Now moving on to the first item of the business, which is approval of the minutes. Item one, subject April meeting minutes. And the recommended action for an office is to review and approve the 04/02/2026 part and recreation commission meeting minutes. And I'm sure that everybody looked at the draft minutes.

Yes. And through the chair, I'd like to move and approve the April 2.

Before that sorry. So any clarifying questions or amendments to the minutes? Filipe? Any clarifying questions or amendments to the minutes? But there is a looks like this. I learned this one. So I'll now open for a public comment on this item. Serge, do you have any speaker speaker thoughts or hands raised on on this?

We have no speakers, chair.

Thank you. Seeing no speakers, I'll close the public comment and invite a motion on the meeting minutes approval.

We've asked the motion to approve the 04/02/2026 parks and recs commission meeting minutes. I second it.

Great. So, commissioner, I know. I think you made a note on that one. Right? I don't have to repeat that. Thank you. So now the the the particular item has been approved, and we'll move on. What is it? Oh, sorry. That's what I said. I'm I missed one line

on Saturday. So, staff, please. Council of the vote.

Commissioner Bono?

Ah.

Commissioner Stanik? Yes. Commissioner Swamy? Yes. Vice chair Srikin is absent. Chair Kumar Palme?

Yes.

Motion carries unanimously.

Okay. Thank you. Now I think I have to go on to the next slide. Postponements. And I think this is the time I really wanted to make a motion.

And before that, I will tell you I'll give you context. There are a lot of guests here to present, which is part of the new business item. And since many of some of the staffs are in East Coast time zone or different time zones, so there was a request to really move that item to be the first one, the new business, whatever we have. That should be moved to the first one. And so I like to make a motion to move the new business item what we have being there, which is the which I'll read it out.

The presentation has the proposed public open space conceptual design for the price development project, formerly Vopco Town Center. I like to move that before the whole business so that we can get that done first, given that there are participants then folks on the call from this call just to respect

I'll second that. They don't want.

And just Claire, if I can clarify one thing, please. What we would need to do for this evening is if the you have a motion on the table, but the motion would be for after oral communications.

Absolutely.

So

Yep. We would just for

Yeah.

And just

the where. So we would do

The business first and oral business. That's the only spot. But until then, things will continue. Like, oral communication, we will have it. And then

we'll Oral communications, and then we would go into new business. We would do old business last.

Got it.

Shall we do it last? Correct.

Yes.

That's what

I heard the motion to be.

Yes.

I missed that question. Sorry. So

before the the second motion, I think there is a clarification question for the commissioner. Please.

So is this item three on the agenda? Is this under old business?

Number two. Wait. Wrong. Do we need that? Number three.

No. No. Item three.

Item three. And the new business.

Under old business on my agenda that I'm looking at.

The old business is a senior's

Maybe.

This is old business. This is new business.

Oh, new business is way down there. I didn't see it. I apologize. Yeah.

Yeah. Sorry. I think there is another question on it. So the reason why we wanted to move that before the whole business is that people who are presenting it, people are here, and then some other folks are from East Coast dialing in on the call. Oh. But just to respect their time, they're already starting at 09:00 I mean, 10:00 now. Okay. So we wanna respect them to go for Absolutely. Ten seconds.

So

I did a motion and seconded

Seconded. By Yeah.

Seconded by. And then do we have to go for a vote on this too?

Me too. Yes.

Yes. Please stand.

Commissioner Bono? Aye. Commissioner Stanik? Yes. Commissioner Swamy?

Yes.

Vice chair Sriyukanth is absent. Chair Kumarapan?

Yes.

Motion carries unanimously.

Thank you. So now we'll go on the oral communications. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the commissions commission on any matter within the jurisdiction of the commission and not on the agenda. I just wanna make it clear. And the speakers are limited to three minutes.

In most cases, state law will prohibit the commission from making any decisions with respect to a matter not on the agenda. And the commission or the staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed, and the commission may request staff to report back at some frequent meeting. As a reminder, comments can also be emailed at the same time, Chip Park and Recreation Commission, all 1word,@.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker card or raise your hand on Zoom. With that, Steph, do we have any folks?

We have one speaker in person, Susan Blomfield.

Excellent. Okay.

Good evening. I'm Susan Bloomfield, and I'm a 35 resident taxpayer, owner of Cupertino. I'm here to speak about the pickleball trial that is due to start on July 7. I don't know when or if the commission had notice of the trial or trial starting the seventh and whether or not you were aware of the restriction of hours and days of play, as well as the request for quiet paddles at all times. We just heard about it, and the reason that I'm here is to request your recommendation that the trial not go forward.

Because it seems that there are other methods that would be better for the neighbors to attenuate the noise, like sound barriers, which need to be looked at before any kind of trial. Because the trial itself would not really do much to directly solve the issue. The issue is to make less noise. And by changing the playing time, you're actually if you restrict the hours and you have the same number of people who wanna play, they're gonna squish themselves into that time, and there could actually be more problem because of that. And for some reason, they picked Mondays to totally say no pickleball on Mondays.

I don't see that that makes a great deal of sense. One would assume that a weekday, most people during those hours, or maybe at work anyway. But it doesn't seem a good solution. Now why does this matter? For the first time in thirty five years, there is so much community. Most of the thirty five years that my husband and I lived here, it's just where we lived. We didn't use the park. We didn't do much of anything in the community. Then Cupertino painted lines on one of the tennis courts, but no nets. My husband and I would bring our own nets, and we were pretty much the only people there.

And then Cupertino bought four nets. And all of a sudden, a huge community of friendship and just general good thoughts happened, and it's been going on now. It's a friendship between folks that are of all ages, all ethnicities, diverse backgrounds, people I never thought I would become friendly with because where would I have even met them? And now we socialize at the court, we socialize off the court, and it's just brought so many families and friends together. And it brings people to Cupertino too, to shop, to eat in restaurants, to add to the economy.

And I know this because we have a lot of lunches, group lunches, and happy hours, and most of them take place in Cupertino, even if people don't live there. So what we want is to work together with the city to help the neighbors.

I talked longer than I thought.

Thank you for your comment. To the chair, I'd

like to make a comment.

Yeah. Doom if I doom if I don't, but let's bring back pickleball remains a big issue in Coventino. We need to have an answer as far as are we going to have any types of sound barrier installed? Are we moving forward with any types of prototypes that eliminates noise, etcetera, etcetera? And on a personal basis, FYI, Monday is a bad day because everyone is unhappy to go to work. That's why we're here on Thursday, and the next week is Yeah. So day off.

Thank you. Anyway Thanks thanks for the comment, and we will

Actually, I want to make a clarifying comment.

Yeah. No. Something

Just for the

Sorry. We're we're in a slip right now given the nonagendized items. So for the commission to have discussion on this, we really need

I wasn't under the comment. Okay.

Was a

Yeah. Times,

I wanna make sure that we Correct. Maintain the. Agree. I know, director Mosley, you have something to add, and then we can circle back onto the

May I add add just a clarifying comment? Because there seems to be a little bit of confusion as to what the the Parks and Recreation Commission has recommended. In fact, we did not recommend not having pickleball on Monday. We did not recommend restricting time

Understood.

This is getting Yeah.

So I think just like

Thank you.

Just wanna make sure that that Yeah. The truth is out there that Yeah.

The miscommunication, Swami. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Thank

you. You. I think the comments are good. I think I saw originally that it looks like we cannot go deep into the any other comments. But but you said that Just briefly,

we will be talking about pickleball and sound attenuation with CID, which is done later.

Correct. That's all I was about to thank you. So some other portions will be touching on on the agenda. Thank you. Is there any other folks on the Zoom?

We have no speakers in person and no hands raised on Zoom chair.

Awesome. If that is the case, let me close the oral communication portion of it. And then let's move on to the the item number three. Even though we are supposed to have all business, we already just passed the motion to rule the new business. It's item number three. The subject is the presentation on the proposed public open space conceptual design for the RISE development project formerly known as Wellco Town Center. And the recommended action for all of us is to receive the presentation, provide input on the proposed public open space conceptual design, price development project. I think we have it staff. I think we have those reports, everything good to go. Right?

We do. Awesome. Please. Thank you from here.

Good evening. Chad Mowtley, director of public works. Tonight, we're presenting the conceptual designs, publicly accessible open spaces within the approved Rise development project at former Ball sites. Olin Landscape Architects, who's here tonight, has prepared conceptual designs for each of these open space areas. And in developing the concept, staff worked closely with Olin and encouraged the incorporation of elements and guiding principles in the parks and rec master plan.

We believe those considerations are reflected in the signs being presented this evening. And, while the city does not have the authority to require specific design elements due to the statutory limitations associated with the approved projects and entitlements, staff felt it was important for the Parks and Rec Commission to have an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed concepts. As a courtesy, the design team has agreed to present their work to the commission tonight. Staff will compile and share your feedback with the design team who's also here, but and they'll be considering incorporating your input where feasible into those designs. Again, given the important role of these spaces that these spaces will play as community gathering areas, staff has requested this opportunity to review the concepts and to offer the commission the ability to provide input early in the design process prior finalization of the construction drawings.

So with that said, I'd like to turn it over to Skip Grafone from Olin to provide the presentation.

Yep. Correct. Sure.

And I'm sorry. It's yeah. But before Skip gets going with this presentation, just wanna introduce myself. My name is Reed Moulds. I'm with Sandhill Property Company and a developer of RISE. And we're very happy

to present

you our vision for our park amenities and space master plan. We're very happy to hear your input and your comments and feedback on our vision. And we've always viewed the city as a partner, and we're very we know this is a long term effort. Yes. We're in our with this meeting, we're in our twelfth year of community outreach, but at the same time, we know that's a long road ahead, and there's a lot to be done. And we're very grateful to the relationship that we have with the city at all levels, including this commission and and staff to be able

to have gotten to this

point and eager for the the adventure that remains ahead. I I want you to know that this this vision reflects years of community input, and we're very proud of of what it has come to represent both for a project such as The Rise, but also for a community such as Cupertino. And Parkland and open space has always been a top priority of Sandhill Property Company in our development work. And we look we view it as having equal standing to the uses of the projects right there next to housing, right next to retail. Parkland is a big to us.

This is why it was very important to us to select a world class landscape architect such as Olin. We were inspired by Olin's work at Apple Park, where I believe they've approached landscape architecture as designed meant to be used as opposed to just meant to be looked at. It's it's it's my great pleasure to be able to turn this over to him now. He's dedicated the better part of the last decade on this plan, on this vision. And so I'm I'm happy that we've done at this point. I'm sorry to let Skip run the rest of the meeting.

Thank you, Thank you. Appreciate it. My head is a little heavier now. Great introduction. Thank you. First, thank you to the commission for bumping us up in the agenda. I do have, two colleagues on the line, Takashi Sato and Hong Liu, who are it's 10:15, and we appreciate that. Thank you very much. And I will go through this fairly quickly. We obviously can talk afterwards with questions and so forth.

But this is an overview, and it's been a pleasure to work with staff to to kind of refine this and taking their comments into into accounts. I have a bit of a delay, so I'll have to get used to there we go. Okay. I just wanna start with this image just kind of harkening back on what Marie mentioned. Where we were, you know, eleven, twelve years ago was this project.

And I think with all the input that we've received, it's gonna make an exceptional series of public spaces that we wanna have activate the community, both the residents and shoppers and workers that are there, but also the entire city. This was a destination back in the day. We hope it's a destination for being outside in this case. We also working with staff wanted to kind of situate this in the context of the general plan as well as the parks and rec master plan. And so the idea is I'm not gonna read through every one of these, but many of the guiding principles we followed were ones from the the the general plan and the parks and rec rec plan in terms of being, you know, safe and accessible and walkable, really creating a diverse series of spaces and allowing them to be flexibly used by both, you know, the residents of the city and so forth.

We're really focusing on sustainable design and the climate change and and really also making this, you know, a self contained in operations and maintenance and so forth. So all of all the aspirations that are in the general plan as far as kind of how the city sees these these elements. This is what we we're calling the mod three plan, which is the name of basically the latest plan. This shows the full build out, and this shows not only the open spaces, but also the streetscape. I think one of the things I'm really excited about is kind of the robust streetscape, Cape, which we have a chance to design from scratch with the proper solar volumes, proper spacing, and so forth.

So we're talking about the open space tonight, but, really, it's the whole the whole piece. And so the streetscape is gonna be where, you know, everyone's interacting and so forth. So just wanna make sure we saw the the overall image. Again, looking back at, again, some of the elements from the the general plan and how we looked at our vision to create this multitude of scales, having the two sides, east and west side, really anchored with this with the significant public space, and then a series of smaller spaces around that interact with the residential buildings and retail build retail shops and so forth. It's all framed with a class one bike lane, which provides a really interesting way of of getting around the entire district and working way with ways to, you know, engage children at a variety of scales, both an actual playground, but also just nature and and being in an urban environment, urban garden environment.

So this is the overall kind of three d kind of massing view of it, and you can see that our spaces, obviously, are we're gonna talk about tonight are on the ground, you know, series of spaces that run through the entire development. These just wanted to mention, these are also kind of upper level outdoor. They're private open spaces. So in addition to all the ground plane spaces for the public, the the residents also have access to these. So there's significant around of open space, and all of this contributes in a way ecologically.

So while the ground spaces are really for public access, the collective, you know, plantings and so forth really do create those small ecological patches and kind of really improve that overall kind of sustainability and resilience of of this area. Okay. There we go. So this is kind of the the plan view of the spaces we're gonna talk about. There's eight pub open public open spaces, and then there's the class one bike trail.

So you can see they're they're scattered throughout the development. This is Vaca Parkway, Wolf Road, Stevens Creek, and you can see they thread their way through the the both sides, east and west, and they alter a variety of scales and orientation. So one of the things we know from our other park work is parks generally work as a system in some ways when they're within walk distance of each other. And that's really nice because depending on the microclimate or depending on the event, you can move things around and really have a larger system that can take one space doesn't have to take the load of everything. And, also, people can find their way around and find what they want when they're outside, quiet, active, whatever.

Having these smaller spaces are actually more useful than, say, one giant space. So it's actually in an urban environment. It's it's it's very attractive, and you can use it differently each day depending on where you wanna be. This is this kind of shows some of the contiguous walking through these green spaces that you do link the the West Side and and parts of the East. We have a series of kind of inner, you know, loops of varying, you know, pedestrian walking distances, you know, anywhere from five to fifteen minutes, and people will make their own up, of course.

But there's just a lot of ways to see, you know, your way through this and also engage with that bike trail and pedestrian walking trail on the the exterior. And then looking at the so in addition to those that are living there and working there, this is also meant to be a destination. And so this is just a quick note of looking at all the different ways to access. The orange arrows are vehicular entries, which they can park in the publicly accessible garages. Obviously, they can enter on the bike trail.

There's also those yellow stops are all bus stops. So it's very it's meant to be very accessible and distributed accessibility throughout the park system. Also, one of the goals, you know, for the parks master plan was the idea of making things accessible. These are you can see the the compactness of this. It means we have a lot in a very small, you know, walking distance.

So from that corner of Wolf And Valco Parkway, it's about a four minute walk, you know, four minute direct walk, probably more like five or six minutes winding your way through the the grid. But even from one end to the other, you can get to eight different parks in about fifteen minutes, which is kind of it's a really interesting urban environment, I think. And just one thing to note too, the the total the collective area of these is about 7.94 acres about supplementary. But looking at the small parks in the parks and rec master plan, you have the category of small parks, those under You're at about 6.8 acres right now. So this one system is gonna really dramatically increase the small parks in the city in this one area.

So looking at the programming and the way those small parks are used, we think we have a lot of similarities in here in the in the way that it can be, you know, again, their play space, you know, just quiet sitting and so forth, with some larger kind of community event space as well. So but I think the the significance of this type of park and this amount of it is an interesting increase in the parks master call. Okay. So, again, conscious of time. I don't wanna spend too long on this, just going back and reordering that we did look at the seven kind of goals of the parks and and rec master plan to see how each of these spaces can contribute to those goals overall.

We looked at each one, and so I'm just gonna go through all eight quickly so you can kinda see, and we can talk about them in more detail if you want. Starting on the South. So we're oriented plan north is to the the left. So starting with the urban Paseo, which is really the pedestrian gateway to the south off Stevens Creek. And this is really a completely pedestrian focused space that interacts with retail.

So there's really kind of two zones on the edges which extend the retail out, you know, so restaurants, seating, and so forth. And then there's a central zone that's really more for the public, which is really pedestrian focused and has outdoor seating. It may have a kind of a small plaza that's a splash pad and so forth. But the idea that all of this contributes, to an active kind of pedestrian life that may or may not be engaging with the retail, it obviously augments the retail experience, but it doesn't have to be only about retail. So the central gateway is kind of an iconic welcome into the space.

These are just some kind of images of, you know, provocative images of what might go there. You can see it's focused on seating in the center. Unlike on the streets, this is you are the center in this space. So it's a a different kind of read, all pedestrian focused, and some really unique place making that I think can occur in this very dense kind of tight environment. And this is an older rendering we did, which just kinda shows the scale. You can see the retail zones and then the center that's more open, and it's really about having people occupied in a number of ways, how do they wish to use it. Okay. Jumping we're kind of moving to the North. Right connected to that is Townsquare West, which is kind of our largest space on the West Side. It's almost nine tenths of an acre.

This is meant to be our kind of community gathering space, civic space. It's focused around an event plaza, which is hardscape to have it be maximum flexibility. If you're looking at that event space alone, it's roughly about the size of the Cooper's Tino Main Street between the two pavilions and the grass plus the walkways on the outside. So it's about 7,500 square feet. So it's big enough for movie night, a small ice rink, you know, vendor stalls, food trucks, whatever.

It's it's meant to be able to handle that. You could put tenting anchors and so forth in there, but it's surrounded by green. So the idea of prospecting refuge where you're looking out from a kind of a space you wanna sit to see the activity in the center, there's a a kiosk that could know, retail kiosk that might come here that could be a kind of a an anchor for food or coffee. There's a little a lawn here that could extend the event space this way. This is more seating inside, kind of a planting area, and it's really meant to be a curvilinear kind of antithesis to the very rigid geometries we're seeing elsewhere.

So the idea is some more of a biophilic kind of disconnect from the kind of an urban grid. And looking at this is a really kind of basic three d idea, but you can face any direction with that urban park, with that central urban space. The idea is you could flow up into that lawn. You could have a seating edge here. You could extend something out from the retail kiosk. And this is another this is Block 4. It's gonna have some outside dining and so forth. So the well looked at, well, you know, kind of lush park, but with a center that's open and flexible. Again, some of the ideas of some of the programming, event programming that could happen. This shows you a 250 seat, you know, movie night, plenty of room.

And the idea is a space like this. We want to have an event that can go on, but it doesn't, like, wipe out the ability for people to move around and enjoy the edges. So it's it's not, like, all or nothing, which sometimes we see, like, at Bryant Park where he takes it over and no one else can use the space. So trying to avoid something like that. Again, some of the ideas of it's flexible, both lawn and paving, very seasonal.

But at the heart of it, you're always gonna be able to go out and sit in in planting an end of garden around the edges. So you have that that mix of things. And, again, at different times of day and seasons, it will be you know, could be really wonderful. So it's just an idea of the openness of the of the plaza with the surrounding kind of green space and the and the residential building north. K.

Just moving north of this is the urban garden that's connected to Block 5. This is really more of almost like a linear park, if you will. It's it's an interesting one because there's sidewalk here, you know, like you would in in the normal block, but you also have, like, a secondary circulation area. So this becomes like a a promenade with space to sit off, seating on, you know, wood decks and with seat walls and, you know, a flexible lawn to sit on. So what it does is it allows these there's three retail spaces here in Block 5, which can come out and have their own kind of area that's dedicated for them for, like, restaurant tables.

So And then there's but there is room here to set up market stalls and so forth for for a public event with this green space kind of backing it up. So there the retail is covered, but this is all kind of open space that can be used for events and things like that. It's meant to be really where you're kind of seeing be seen here walking on this promenade. And the interesting thing about the Paseo and the Townsquare West and this is depending on how we wanna judicially maybe close the street, you could flow back and forth across this section of the street and still have circulation out, you know, of cars elsewhere. Similar you could have so you could actually connect these in interesting ways and expand the space to a larger one.

Again, just some kind of kind of ideas of what might go there. Flexible, movable chairs, and so forth.

The next space up is

the turf playfield. This is one of the the, you know, the goal was to have some sort of kind of, like, this informal recreation area. This is just over a half an acre. It's really again, it's just essentially a contiguous lawn panel with some plantings and and people that sit around. It's just really a town green, if you will.

It's meant to be very, you know, kind of usable from from from all groups, but it's it's more of thinking of it more as the flexibility of what you would have with a with a lawn where you could use it for picnicking. You could use it for an event. You could do it for informal recreation. But it's just there's also this visual read as you're walking through, and it makes that connection between the the Block 5 kind of urban park and and some of the others leading up to the bike trail. The last one in this sequence are what we're calling the culture grounds.

These are, you know, placeholder names. It's not anything specific. But the idea these are kind of mid block linear spaces, and they come they are almost like the northern gateway that you would come down from the bike trail. So you have kind of at each end, you have these gateway elements that are all pedestrian only. So this central path has essentially small plazas at each end.

It's really a series of seating rooms and things along this curvilinear path. This is we're calling it culture garden because this could reflect, you know, kind of agricultural history, cultural history. There could be a series of, you know, displays and things along it. It could be any number of of kind of passive event elements, but the main thing is it's just a really lush, beautiful garden walk that leads you in from from the bike trail. And, again, it could be could have even this is right near residential, so it could even have almost, like, work from home spaces outside or small seating areas.

This is also a place where we can really demonstrate, I think, on-site stormwater management because we have such a long linear space. So And this is an opportunity, I think, really daylight and explain that as well as obviously being a functional aspect of highly integrated, which we need it to be. So I think this this one is really exciting, I think, in terms of complexity of planting we can do and so forth to really kind of explain the regional, you know, kind of ecosystems and so forth in here. Okay. And then the children's player at the at the far north end is connected to the bike trail.

It's it's long and linear. We think we can get probably about six stations in there with room to run around and a border and a buffer. It's gonna be fully shaded with trees. The space could have two, you know, kind of, like, the two major age brackets. And it could just be a series of, you know, simple play structures, you know, natural materials, interesting play surface, you know, trying to get the multiple age, but it's very in terms of its ability to kind of, like, be a space right off that bike trail or right off that pedestrian path, you can stop, water fountain, let the kids run around, burn off some steam, and it's but it's part of that kind of larger trail.

So it could really be a destination as you're arriving by bike. This was an earlier rendering. This is one of those little more square, but but the idea is that it is buffered on all sides, but yet it's very close and connected to the the other blocks. Okay. The bike trail. There are a couple topics that we talked with staff about. So this is this is the bike, the plus one bike trail. You can see this dash line is where, ultimately, it will go under through the tunnel and connect. But this affords a tremendous opportunity for, you know, kind of gathering people, you know, through cycling, but we also wanna look at how it's tied into the Tammu And Inu Trail. We were also asked about some of the amenities that might be along it as well as, you know, is there a a spot for a fitness station as well.

So it's a couple of exploratory things as well. So I flipped it now. Boris is up. So this is $2.80 is here at the top, and just showing that the the Tammany Union Trail will tie into both sides and potentially go under you know, will go under the road Wolf Road to connect the two. So this will have a direct connection to the trail, and we'll also sort out with the, you know, kind of Caltrans, you know, improvement project and so forth.

In addition, some of the the stations and things are typical, which you might find in a classroom bike trail, water filling, repair, rest stops, so forth, which we were able to, you know, kind of place at key moments where you're slowing down to make turns. There's a stop. And so you can see this distribution of those amenities throughout. And then in addition and this was just kind of one of the renderings that showed it backing up to one of the housing blocks so you can get quick access to the to the bike trail from that. The idea of doing a fitness station, as we talked with staff, is could we add this in there?

And I think it actually looking at a very inclusive one, have both kind of, you know, those with various abilities could all use this space, But looking at it as potentially augmenting the children's play area, so the idea that, you know, the adults can break a sweat as the kids are breaking a sweat, and it's right on the bike trail. And so the idea of those things collocated seemed like a nice kind of serendipitous connection there. And you can see there's bike parking. There's bike amenities. There's the fitness, and then the the play area. So this is based on your comments. We think this is actually a really nice location for it. It's not huge, but it definitely is it's something, and it's a significant moment in the trail system where you would likely wanna stop. Right? Okay.

Jumping to the the east side of Wolf Road. Our other big kind of public space is Town Square East. So, again, we wanted a spot to bring community together of a larger size that could have events and things. This is also a mid block crossing between Valpo Parkway and to be named Street 5 is is the the other end. So there you can have this garden floor that kind of connects to.

You can walk along. There's plazas at both ends that could be just, you know, for seating, or they could also be part of event space. There's a pretty large event lawn here, a fitness court area, and then in between is this boss trees where you can have outdoor seating and dining and so forth. So this is meant to be active throughout the day, but also could be used for events. So this, for example, is let's say there's a summer festival. You can do, you know, market stalls on the lawn. You can set things up in the kind of seating area, but you can also do food trucks. This is on this side, just like we did with Townsquare West. You can also it's designed to be able to bring food trucks in significantly out. So if that was desired, you can get them in there.

Of course, can also park while on the street. But this play surface can be, in addition for kind of informal recreation, can also be used as event space. So it's doing double duty. And the idea is that the kind of receiving both ends is the flexible plaza, and then there's the fitness court kind of event space and then the event lawn. So this is really, again, a major gathering space.

And if you look at using both Townsquare East And West, you could really have a significant, you know, celebration here. You'd have to cross wolf, of course, which would be you know, would have to happen. But I think the the one on East is is now being neglected in terms of, you know, event space and just day to day activity. And then finally is the East Recreational Park. It's 1.28 really the biggest green space here, and it's just an open playfield, technically.

And I remember from the parks master plan, you all had noted that, you know, open space is not being created. Right? So out of the VAALCO impervious surface, you know, we're finding some open space here. And so I think this it it open kind of players that are large enough to actually engage in activity is rare in a city. So I think the idea of having this space there, it's it's surrounded, you know, by either commercial office or the streets and so forth, but it having a recreational play field.

Again, it could be used for a movie night or or events, but it could have some, you know, kind of small scale active sports, active recreation on that. Again, you can see the size of the space. It's it's good size. So I think it would be an amazing amenity in a city that is often trying to fall hard to find green space. And I'm gonna come to a stop after going really fast. So thank

you for

that massive we're seeing that massive dump of information. Oh,

that's good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation.

Yes. Thank you.

And I think it's in you really want to have faster, and we could able to ask many questions as we can. Thank you for keeping us at the pace. That's good. And now I just wanna make sure that for commissioners for any clarifying questions. We'll come back to the discussion later. But if there are any clarification questions on what that the architect presented, please. Any clarification? Yeah. Commissioner's not

if this comes in a clarifying question, we'll let me know if it isn't. The fitness area you talked about, the open space area, the specific terminology was did you say fitness code area? Open area you were talking about?

The big one

or the Yes.

The kind of quadrangular one.

I think we just called the East Recreational Park was our name for it. Yeah. And these are very is that what you meant?

No. It was just like the concrete in India. It will

Oh, oh, yes. Okay. Got it. Yes. So the idea that this could be so the it's just somewhat irregular shape here. The idea it would have, like, a hard surface, like a basketball court or a pickleball court or something. So it could be used as and I know this could be a hot button topic, you know, for the

so I thought it's that.

So these sports that shall not be named no. But the idea is that it having a hard surface does allow that ability to we've worked in cities where sometimes they will actually bring, like, basketball groups in. Right? And you can do this with some of that quiet pavement that's that really muffles the sound, or you could bring in pickleball, or you could do a exhibition, you know, basketball game, you know, or something like that. The idea is that it's a hard surface that could just be there with tables and chairs, you know, otherwise. So but it's but it's rated as a fitness surface rather than just concrete. So it's it'll be more comfortable to plan. You don't have to do it, but it it's there. And it's just a way of extending kind of the range of activities that could go in there.

Okay. Awesome.

Thank

you. Thank you.

Yeah. Sure.

Any other

questions? Clarifying question, especially for those watching this. And I've been here twelve years. It's been going on as much as this what's being proposed tonight has been approved by the city of Laguna. I know it sounds crazy question, but or does it still have to go back to city council for approval? Because I'm after twelve years, I'm confused as to what's happening.

Yeah. My my understanding is this has been approved by the city. Okay. This does not need to go to city council for approval. This is part of the the s b 35 package. I do a directly, but that's my understanding. Ask the city attorney for something more specific than that. But the the project has been, entitled and for building. So that's the next approval, but that's that level of Thank you.

It's coming soon.

So hi. I'm Carol Stanick. Thank you very much. On the I'm really happy to see the nature play areas. I was actually part of creating that master plan. I think I made one of the few, but it's still around. And that was a a very important aspect of that, that that our parks have a natural feel. So children understand that nature is where they can play, that nature doesn't have to be something that's painted pink and blue. Right. And so I was really happy to see you incorporating in that.

My question was for the adult areas, like the fitness court. All of a sudden, it's painted well, what you what you've shown here is bright bright colors. So can we incorporate those same thoughts into the adult fitness areas to make it be consistent and to give it that nice natural feel of thoughts?

I think don't see why not. Yeah. I think that was again, part of that was just so you could see the slide if it showed that thing. And it sometimes sets a thing, and it's not like, you know, your plaza space. So it was meant to just indicate that it is a fitness surface, which is, you know Mhmm. A little more resilient and Right. Falling down and so forth. But no. Absolutely. I think that we want this to feel like you're immersed in nature in any of the spaces. And so, again, the idea that one can have a slightly different experience, but it's all grounded with planting and local ecology and so forth. So

yeah. Thank you.

Thanks. And just one more question. And, you know, this isn't this doesn't have to do with the architecture, so this is more of a a maintenance and a management question. So when you talk about event spaces, who will manage that? Is that mister mister Paul? Yes. Okay. So that is not the city. So you will have your own management group or office that will Gotcha. Take applications if somebody wants to have an event or a festival.

And let me Okay. Be clarify. There will be park agreement kinda similar what we have with Mainstream. But the city will have the ability to utilize those spaces. This development team will be managing those spaces. City will have the ability to work with the development team.

One final clarifying question. So these open spaces, aren't they primarily for residents of the RISE, or is it open to the entire Puppetina public?

It's it's all public. Every the ones that we're showing are all Yeah. Yeah. All for the all the ground level ones are that we talked about are

The 7.948.

Yeah. Are all

Open for the public.

Public open space.

And they will have to work with you if they want to have any events potentially on that open area. Right. Okay.

Through the chair, just clarifying question. It says here to provide input on the proposed public. We're talking right now clarification. So when do we start to put our input?

No. That will be coming after the Okay. I just wanted to

I don't listen.

No. No. No. Is.

It's gonna come. Yeah.

So Because after clarification questions, we need to open to the public for any comments if any of that, then we'll come back for comments and discussions. Absolutely.

Okay.

So so do you have

one more clarification? One more question or clarifying question. On the East Recreation Park, one point one one point two one acres, how does that compare to a regular soccer field? I think you said a small scale, so I was just curious about how that compares to

idea. I knew there was gonna be a math question. They it is not a full size field. It's it's a little bit smaller. But in many cases, for, like, kind of youth soccer, a lot of times, they'll play six on six or five on five. Maybe it's that you could get a couple of those in that space. It's it's

So maybe, yeah, hot soccer or

Yeah.

Or adaptive soccer. So there's

and it despite there's all the great things that come with having play fields at the same time. When you get to the full size regulation, then you start to attract All different sorts of Okay. Interested parties.

I I think it's when I did the measurements, it the green area is slightly over the size of the soccer fields, but you wouldn't have the necessary out of bounds.

Right. Right. To be played out of the softer zone is definitely

Yeah.

It's

yeah. It would be Thank

you. Soft white. Thank you. Yes. I do have one question, which is kind of connected with the what comes from Stannacast. So you said turf playfield on the West Side, I believe. And then there is an East Recreation Park. Both looks alike. Is it a similar? Because it's the same playing field. The turf play field.

They're they are basically the same.

The idea

is the nurture. But what you know, again, it was to distribute the program on both sides of Wolf and so forth just so

So both are turf. Yes. Both are turf plays. Correct.

Yes. The idea of we felt that the one on the West Side, because it's, you know, smaller and it's kind of in the midst of buildings and so forth, was more likely to be kind of a passive, know, green lawn space. The East Recreational Park,

we thought would have a

hit and do your use

for, you know, organized play in some way, shape, or form. But it doesn't mean you couldn't do something, you know, informal, like throw a frisbee or something over there. But it's not and it the the one on the East is likely to have the the bigger load. It's larger. You got parking on both side, you know, right next to it and so forth. So

So Alright. Thank you.

Grass or nat natural turf,

or is it It's artificial. It's artificial. Our our it's not artificial.

It's not artificial.

Our our Okay.

Thank you for a clarification.

Our was a

is to have natural grass. Natural

grass. You.

Yes. I appreciate it,

but can you elaborate on the reasons why I agree with you? But just for the record, why?

Why? Natural? Yes. We the

And I'm with you on that,

by the way. Yeah. No. No. It's it's interesting because, you know, again, I would say that a lot of decisions that are at least in our experience, are due to maintenance and operations. Right? It's just easier to think about. Fortunately, you have this person who's going to be keeping up all the landscape in the parks and open space, which the turf is just a more pleasant thing to plan on. It's it's not as hot. You don't have issues with pets and all that kind of thing on it. And even though it's, yes, it's higher water, you should say a native plant, it certainly got some stormwater capabilities and other elements that make it beneficial. Plus, it just in my mind, it looks a little nicer in this cooler. So

it would

be our preference to do that, but it does require more maintenance, obviously, than our official turf condition.

My clarifying question was, do you have any open area that is strictly for the residents of the RISE, or is every open space completely open to the public? The the ones up on the on the building chairs That

was one. Are private. So the these, for example, like, on these, like, 3rd And 4th Floors or whatever, those are private for those individual buildings. The residents can definitely use the lower level as a member of the public.

And how big is that space?

The these upper ones here?

Yeah.

They vary. I mean, some of them are you know?

We have roughly an an equivalent amount of acreage at the

podium level as we do.

Oh, about eight acres? Yeah.

Particularly, you know, this one is a quite quite a large one here and same here. So but these are often I mean, they're on structure, so it means they have, you know, depth limitations and so forth that can make it a little more challenging. So we have even where we have garage in the lower level, we have depth to get the trees and things in on the upper deck. Kinda being judicious about where you might put them. So it had to be and they also have while this even though they're drawn green, they may have swimming pools and things like that up there.

So Which is not open to the public?

Not open to the public, and it's not really green, but it is outdoor, you know, space for the for.

No. None of it is green. Okay.

Well, some of it is. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh-huh.

Since I think we have finished with all the clarification questions, I'll now open this to the public comment. Let's tap. Do we have anyone on the Zoom?

We have no answer. It's on Zoom

chair.

Anybody in the room? No? Okay. If that is the case, I'll close the public comment. Now let's move on to the function is open discussions and comments. No. I think function. Sorry. I already have it. Okay. Please.

I you know, I really I love the bike lanes and how extensive it is. I also know that there are lots of people very passionate about walking. Brisklya. Can that space be used by both these groups of people, or is it strictly just the bikers? Both.

Tend to be both.

And so how do we balance safety? Because as people are walking and there's bike, because it can be dangerous if they're Right. And So is there any kind of area that you're cordoning off? This part is for the bikers, and this part is for I mean, basically splitting that into a bikers and walker's lanes.

You wanna I mean, it's this is a class one bike lane, so it'll have enough width for pedestrians and bicyclists. And, yes, bicycles should not be going at 30 miles an hour down this lane because it

is a shared path. Okay.

There's enough space for passing and something to walk.

So And do we put some notification, please meet a certain speed limit? Or because some of them are very perceptive. Right?

And we can you know,

we will evaluate that when

it comes up as people line

lines, but we will be should remain safe, and we'll be working closely to develop around that

as well.

And how wide are these lanes again? Just to remind

They're 12 feet or 12 feet plus an additional two foot on each side for, like, a

Step a shoulder.

Yeah. So that's really about so

on the shoulder, pedestrians can walk, I take it.

Yeah.

So that's about roughly 16 feet Yes. Uh-huh. Per the toe.

Right. So

the idea we can

get two way plus, you know, pedestrians can be off to the side. I also will just point out too that at least in our section of the the glass one, there's some significant 90 degree turns, which definitely helps slow down, you know, bikers Yes. Of those to those turns.

And my second question was about the food trucks that you have. You have I saw three, but I'm assuming is it just space for three, or are you saying that you're just showing it in the picture at three?

Had I mean, we had shown three just because we didn't want the space to be too enormous, plus they also can park on the street. So but we did wanted to show that they can come into the public space in that case if that was part of the event. So the idea is that you can there's a way for service and trucks to come through without disrupting the park design, so there's enough room for them to maneuver, come in, park, and then drive away. Same thing for setup. So we wanna allow for that.

And so what is the procedure for selecting food truck food trucks? Which what is the basis for them to come in, or is that, like, a round robin x amount of time? These trucks can be there. Have you guys thought about it? Who's gonna manage that

space? I think that's probably more

as we get closer to opening project for So

we haven't really gotten into

the details of it. Programming.

I'm assuming money can play a role in it. How much they will need to pay? Or is it for pay, or is it just free?

Really, we we haven't thought about this as a revenue source. This is really just a way to create a twenty four hour destination and create vibrancy, create a reason to come to what we think is this new town center. Do you know? So that's just one one one idea, one reason for me

to to come because there's a cultural dining and

nature experiences. And I think that

the food trucks will you know,

could be an idea that happens. We know that there are other places as well. We have Main Street and Cupertino, and that's also a highly programmed place. So just as an example of what this might be, you can you can look at how Main Street Cupertino has been operated. This will be an extension. Probably a broader extension, but just as an example, that's a precedent that you can move to to understand what went down.

It's a good idea. Thank you very much.

Yeah. Thank you. Also, just one other thing on the bikes is the the streets are all shared bike, like, bike car as well. So in addition to the bike, you know, the their typical kind of, you know, like, residential street where you can ride them. So, like, bikes can only be on the bike trail.

Oh, it can be cars going, you said?

No. They're they're in the in the blocks. Uh-huh. Bikes can will be riding on the street as well.

So

yeah. So they in addition to

Oh, in addition to that,

we Right. In addition, they're also able to kind of move through.

That's good to know.

Yep. So it's not just there.

Yeah. The portion of the bike pedestrian trail will be dedicated as apartments roughly three quarters of a mile in in length. This entire project has almost 2.75 miles of bike trails,

which is

class one, two, three,

four bikes. All of them are about 16 feet wide, 12 feet plus two and two.

These are different types of bike trails. But to Skip's Point, they go throughout the block system of

so there will be other ways for cyclists to move across the site and

through the site, not necessarily

around the park. Okay. Thank you.

Alright, Emily.

Thank you.

Commissioner first. Amy, do you want to Oh,

sure. Commissioner, ahead, please.

Yeah. I'll just reiterate my point about the nature play and incorporating that. On the culture gardens, I don't know if it's it's possible because it would look very linear. But I know that one of the other things that the public was very interested in at one time was healing gardens. So if there were plants that were associated with, you know, healing different, yeah, in different cultures. Yeah. It was a culture garden too. So in different cultures, different plants. Mhmm. Something identifying, you know, this is kind of plant. This is where how it's used in different Right. World. I think yeah.

No. I think that's exactly purchase. Cultures, any number of ways to display kind of elements, either historical kind of planting or, you know, medicinal planting is a great idea. I think it's this is meant to be kind of a really interesting complex, almost like a botanic block, if you will

Yeah. No. Section.

You know?

Think that was

a great idea. Yeah.

How rewarding it is for me to sit here and be able to bring that perspective to you. That's great.

I will reiterate that they did do a very good job of reviewing the Parks and Rec Master Plan.

I can tell. That's It comes across.

Yeah. Well, it was easy to review.

So Oh.

Hold on. Oh my gosh. It wasn't easy to

put down. I can only imagine. Thank you for doing that.

Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, I just had a

a quick question. And picking back on what you're saying as far as you mentioned that it's a good reason to to the conflict or anyone else not living there. But one, would you consider a garden rental area, a communal pickleball court, all of those things that could incorporate because you do have the space. You don't what would be the the the noise factor? I'm just saying, if you want to marry resident outside of the the space and people from the inside, you know, people love to garden, you know, the space area, and and seeing all the numbers of you have all those EMR and apartments and all of that, blah blah blah.

It might might be something that can help to actually, you know, kind of go together. Now, also, on top of some certain buildings in Cupertino, I'm not gonna tell you who, but they do have bees.

Mhmm. Oh, yeah.

Are we plan are you planning to have some on top of some of the buildings? Because we have have tremendous amount of different types of bees in Cupertino. Yes. Even the museum here is bringing out tons Mhmm.

Of of Yes.

Honey that can be purchased. Right. There's an opportunity to help the ecosystem here.

Mhmm.

And it's a once in a lifetime opportunity since that build up. So and, honestly, with all that space, I'm wondering if we cannot have a, you know, pool for everyone else to do.

Okay. I think

they're all very interesting suggestions and ones we can definitely look into for sure.

What's up? I was going to ask about the perf. Obviously, now it's we know it's not synthetic. And, obviously, I'm sure you will in case we go back to drought and this and that as

far as the plan. Yes. It's a to do.

Because it's gonna be a month to undertake, but it's a massive.

Yes. And

I'll just say it's well thought out. It's really fun. I can't wait for it to come.

And it's on like, commissioner's time, I guess, one more.

I also noticed that you put up their inclusive play. Yeah. And I hope that that's not just a but word, but it really gets incorporated into how you're designing the play space.

That was the goal.

Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's awesome.

Because too much. So that we have had a really moving presentation in past about inclusivity. And I think Century High's elementary school was the first one.

Mhmm.

And a lot of parks have it apparently. I mean, wonderful. Thank you. Right. The cost is very minimal when you plan it from the beginning. Mhmm. I think it's much more expensive to do it after

the Yes.

Yes. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. And I think I have just one or two comments. One is that I was talking about the inclusive. So you have a children's play area that's separate, and then you have an inclusive or inclusive play area. Is it there are two or only one? In in your plan, you have a children's play area.

That was meant to be the same. Same.

It is

the same.

Okay. Got it. So, yeah, that's only one question I got. But the other general question is that I know the for the construction of all of them, they'll be working with the public works. Similarly, I'm sure for the gardening, the to align with our master plan. Because of park and recreation, department will also work hand in hand with them when they set the item. Correct?

We'll be involved with the negotiation process of how the spaces and how the like, similar to Main Street. Right? We came to you, I think it was last month where we talked about the Teen Resource Fair was amazing because they got an agreement with with the developer there to be able to use that space for some of our programming. Right? We haven't started the negotiations yet, but it is the full intent that we will be able to use some of these spaces and have complementary programs, you know, throughout the community. So

And that'll be awesome.

And I will indicate too that we've already kinda rolled parks and recs into the review of these plans. They got to see this before we presented it here, and we'll we'll continue to include them as these designs come through.

Awesome. Thank you. First of all, I think as the commissioner said, I was also part of those coming up with a master plan many years plan for the part. And looks like put on a time Okay. Just seeing everything and trying to incorporate. Truly, truly appreciate. And I'm sure that we we we don't know how many years we'll take those master plan to come to do that we're talking about, but looks like this might bring in many things to the quick conclusion of those ask for it. So truly appreciate it. And, yeah, in future, if further once it gets developed, I'm sure that we are gonna wait for many more years. So hope to get some more updates once the progress is made, and we'll love to get some more inputs in the future.

Yes.

Thank you. Thanks for taking the time, and especially the folks on the phone who are sitting there. Oh my god. It's now eleven plus. You may be on a dozing off now. Please get back to sleep and Thank you so much. Really appreciate your time.

They're laughing online. Yeah.

Thank you so much. Thank you very

much for your time and really great conversation. Thanks for your input. Appreciate it.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you so much. Yep. Good to see you over there. We need one minute just to go ahead and do a quick transition and allow them to step out as well that we were not trying to talk over them.

Okay. So we'll be great for a couple of minutes?

That would be great. Why don't we shoot to come back at 08:08? Does that work?

Yeah. We'll take a five minutes break right now. We'll come back at 08:08.

That would be helpful. Thank you.

Thank you.

Alright. Because I've been

bouncing the

nails from you.

You're on mute, Caroline? Yeah. Help me. Not

not yet. Oh, I got the.

We're we're good to go. Can

we make sure we awesome. Okay.

We are we are back.

So I believe we're

back online. Is it like we can hear from that? Yes.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

So Alright. I feel great we are back here. And let's go back to the old business, item number two. Subject is senior services subcommittee update, and then receive an update of the findings from the subcommittee. And both commissioner Swamy and myself were there together and worked on it, but I would like commissioner Swamy to present it.

If you can give me one second, we were staged to do the CIP presentation. So if we're gonna make that switch, then I just we need to redo. I think it's fine.

Do we need another motion?

Make a

let's make a motion to to stay on new business and move with agenda item number four.

It's fine. Go for it.

They already have a Second. Alright. So we have a Thank

you so much.

We're happy to vote on this? Then we go to need to we don't need to vote. Need to vote.

Right? Sorry.

Are

You to fight. You know what I said? We have everything staged.

We're ready either or.

So thank you so much for your flexibility.

Great. Commissioner Bono?

Yes.

Commissioner Sanik? Yes. Commissioner Swamy? Yes. Vice chair Srikant who's absent. Chair Kumar? Yes. Commissioner Kraizunam. Okay.

Let's go ahead on that one. Let me read out that to you. Wait. We are going to item number four. It is a capital improvement programs, fiscal year 2026, 2027 and a five year plan. The recommended action is to receive the presentation to provide input on the development of the proposed capital improvement programs for the fiscal year 2026 and '27 of the five year plan as related chief part and the creation. Thank you. Thanks.

I am going to quickly reflect to our capital improvement manager, Susan Michael, and she'll give you the full

Awesome. Good

evening. I am Susan Michael. I am the CIP manager. And tonight, we're here to introduce the proposal for the fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven program. So I wanted to note that the action tonight is to receive the presentation and provide input on the development of the proposed capital improvement programs fiscal year 2026, 2027, and five year plan as related to parts communication.

So the takeaway there is actually we don't need to vote on anything. We will review the CIP and the twenty twenty six twenty six, twenty seven proposal and answer any questions that you may have. If you wish to provide support on the projects informally or formally with a vote, you can do this, but it's not required. Next page. There is a CIP web page that I want to bring to your attention. It's on if you go to Citi's website, navigate to the public works, you'll find it on the right hand side. There's a lot of information about existing projects. Next slide. Did a last minute switch of who was gonna

do it.

So I wanted to show there's these next three slides are slides that I basically copied from my presentation in March to the council. And this gives a look at current CIP. So one of my you know, reasons for being here is to say here's where the CIP is these days. We do have 22 active projects right now, and four of those are parks projects, so both of them are the green. Two of those projects are presently quiet. One is the habitat monitoring of one of an older project, and the active project is Lawrence Mehdi.

Next slide.

We also reported on our achievements for the year. We did complete the all inclusive playground, which is fantastic. And we also completed the upgrade of the fire alarm system at the senior center as part of the facilities condition assessment project. And the next slide. So this is a list of projects that were scheduled to be complete by the June, by the end of the fiscal year.

So they were nearly complete. So I can say pretty confidently HVAC work and the roofs at SportsCenter and Quinlan will be complete in June, but the steep Stevens Creek bikeways won't be completely done. And as you can tell by the parking lot, the photovoltaics project has a delay. So the next slide gives a little bit more detail. So we did complete the installation of the PV prod PV modules on the roof community wall.

And the next slide shows sports center, which is a nice build out. It gives some shade for the parking lot. And so that's all done. And then the next one is the Quinlan. So back here in the rear parking lot, right now, you can see the columns.

We are paused because we're trying to get a permit for a sprinkler system that we were required to add to go under the carport. So we still believe that the project will be completed in September or early October, and we're still gonna hit our name two goals. It was this weird part of the code where this they said that we had another year to do this particular project because it's an aggregated site, all the things. But, anyway, we're still on target. So we hit our target for the first two sites, definitely.

We're file filing our paperwork now. So that's exciting. Next slide. And I also gave an update in the council meeting just on the Lawrence Mini Park project just because people do ask about it. We are continuing to progress on what we call the regulatory permitting.

We're working with the Department of Environmental Health, Fish and Wildlife, that kind of thing. So we're working on that. We're still hoping to get construction drawings done by the end by the end of the year and start construction early on either in in December or January. So next slide. So the this is the for the new project.

So now I'm gonna go over the proposals that we did to council for the CIP that are the four new parks projects. Next slide. So there's four slides. You can see that it's about half $1,000,000 for those four projects, at least presently. And go to the next slide.

The first project is the Blackberry Farm golf course pro shop, and it's in obvious need of an upgrade. We've got great deals with traffic, and it generates about a $100,000 in revenue. And it needs electrical and accessibility improvements in addition to the facelift. We'll have to submit for building electrical and sanitary permits at a minimum. So we that project is short and sweet.

The next project is the blessed property improvements. This actually came at the following council meeting, but this project that council is in favor of, this project proposes to demolish the existing residential building and basically replace it with native planting and perhaps a pathway and a bench, something very simple. So we will get that confirmed when we go back for final approval. That's the direction that we're heading. Next slide.

Memorial Park Pickleball sound attenuation. The pickleball community and the nearby residents have requested that public works move forward with sound attenuation improvements at the Memorial Park Pickleball Courts. Public works is evaluating options. Preliminary review indicates that sound panels and a new structurally improved fence will be required. That's the whole project. Next. And we're also planning to resurface the sports center courts. This is a maintenance project, but it has an engineering component. So that's how it got kicked into CIP. The court's floor resurfaced ten years ago, and it's supposed to happen every six to eight years.

Doing this project lessens risk and liability and provides a safer, more enjoyable playing arena for the community. That's all the new projects. Next slide. I just wanted to end with a note about the five year plan. Typically, every year, we have a $2,000,000 budget to plan for, and these projects work into that $2,000,000 budget.

But this is just the parks projects, though. And so as I mentioned earlier, the four projects five projects are presently at just under a half $1,000,000. We don't have a budget yet for flush. And the next big project is to hopefully go back to the golf course, and we agreed to do the upgrades to the irrigation system there. You know, at least a $1,500,000 project.

Excuse me. It'll have some upgrades to the book golf course that are safety, not so much we won't be redoing the golf courses. Then in our fourth and fifth year, we have to attack the shade structures at some of the parks. And five year plan isn't approved and funded yet. It's the stated direction that we're planning on now. For example, last year's five year plan didn't mention tennis courts resurfacing. So things come up that rise to the top each year. So but that is the plan for now, and that is my position. Thank you. Excellent.

Okay. So commissioner, any clarifying questions? Oh, wow. So many clarifying questions. Before you open to public comments.

So commissioner Bono, please. Just have a very easy

question in regards to resurfacing for the fence call area. Will it be ongoing? Meaning, is it gonna be all shut off and work at once, or will it be one section closed while it's resurfaced and reopen the other one where we're still doing the you know what I'm saying?

So it's

still continuing to get to it.

Thank you. Good question. I don't I don't know that till we get a bid package together. I would say that, typically, when you do this kind of project, sure, it's easier to close everything at once, but we don't have any interest in doing that. K. So it would probably be it I'm almost a 100% sure it would be spaced, but I can't say how much. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. So did you say the Blush House is still coming to counsel?

No. We had a follow-up meeting. I don't know. He was the champion of that project.

Well, I I should explain. I mean, what we

talk about is it's coming back to council with the CIP budgets. Right?

Okay.

We had talked about the entire CIP in March. Blesh House came afterwards, so we added the Blesh House into the CIP at this point in time. And that and when council sees the entire CIP with the budget, that's when they'll

So you'll have an estimate by then? Because I see it's TV

up there.

Because we've got 480,000. Doesn't include Blush House.

Understood. We will probably be coming back for with an estimate after we do a little bit more digging into it. We've got some rough ideas on our own, but we wanna get somebody who does this for a living to get us something better.

This is shit in anything. We don't wanna go out and contract with a a design concept to get us a price until we have confirmed commitment from council. So probably just gonna do that in July. We we have some people lined up. We've already gotten proposals. And

how did the priority of Lush House come up? Because then you've got Stockholmire House right next to it that is just a mess.

Yeah. There was a specific request to move the blush forward Blush house forward. We still have

By council?

I believe it was from council. And we do have the city work plan that does have us looking at both the Blesch House as well as Stauffenmeyer. So Stauffenmeyer will be coming a little later, but Blesch was asked to be pushed forward.

Okay.

I stopped at my.

It's just the blow being. Yeah.

Very interesting. Excellent. Any question? I have a question on that. I think overall, you said for the five year, it's 2,000,000. Correct? For the whole five years, the CAP?

Typically, this year, the the goal budget is $2,000,000.

For each year?

Have we have a roughly $2,000,000 annual budget for the

chemical program.

For the park contract?

For

For the

entire Oh, CIT program.

Be very Yeah. Judicious with the projects that we bring forward.

Okay. Yeah. Because I was wondering if there is a case, then I think BlackBerry Golf Course, I think that third year, you said it's 1,500,000 irrigation. That means you'll lead away 75% of your whole budget on that CAP at the top. But that's only a proposal. Right? Is it all just a proposal?

Right now, it's a placeholder

and Placeholder. But does it then will it go every year for the council to approve for every year?

When we're ready to propose the project, we'll we'll bring it to council that something No.

Yeah. My question is that is that will it go by year by year approval by the council?

Yeah. So this year, they're approving the 2627.

Got it. Okay. But they will have on a bird's eye view on, oh, what's coming up? That's why you are giving us some idea.

The the first year is the year that we're funding.

Got

it. They are approving the five year plan, but it's not funded. Only the

Oh, I see.

Year is funded.

Got it. Okay. Thank you.

Sorry, I just do have a clarifying question. When the CIP project is approved by the city council and you as you rightly pointed out, it's a five year project, for example. And if they just approve one year and let's say there's a budget crunch and they're not able to approve the sum years in the five year period, that is what happens then?

To a certain extent, that's why it's a plan. We have a plan to spend this, but if the budget comes in and we're like, we can't we're not gonna give you $2,000,000, well, the plan changes. So we actually went through that a couple of years ago at CTFA. We had a plan, and we actually didn't fund the capital improvement program for was it a year or so? Two years. Two years. Two. So that we could take those dollars, place it towards other items. We had plenty of projects at that time, so we continue to work on projects. But, yeah, it's a plan, and it can change.

So this budget for the photovoltaic project that you showed, it has stayed within the budget? Because I know that when you had presented to us, it was very heartening to see that you had made provisions for in case it goes over budget. So you had made all of those provisions. We stayed within it so we didn't have to go back to the city council. Correct?

Yes. We have a approved budget for the project, the overall project of 6,300,000. Yeah. And I believe we've contracted for closer to 4,000,000.

So you are coming way under budget? So far.

It's not quite done yet.

Don't Yeah.

Excellent. That's really heartening to hear. Thank you.

I'm sure that there will be ways to spend that

money. I'm sure.

Oh, yeah. Thank you. But you have one more question. Please. I'm so standing.

Where

do the park amenities fit in with all of this? Because I know you mentioned it there.

It is one of our active it is one of our projects. We aren't doing anything there right now. Okay. And it's not for well, there's no good reason for that other than you don't actually have the staff to

do it. Resources or staffing resources aren't limited at the moment. So we're focusing on PV project, which is time sensitive, and a couple of other projects that have grant associated with them, which are time sensitive. We know it's important, but we only have so much power we can throw at that the project we still have a list of some 20 projects, and we have basically two project managers, and it's just it's

a heavy lift.

So we are working on it, though.

Oh, yeah. We need to work on, like, getting more hours in the day for Susan. Then I'll be Cloning Susan or something. But so the park amenities, they're funded. We just have not been able

to We we've done

some work over the last few years. We just haven't we haven't had a lot of time with our CFM division to focus on its we've gotta pick some of the lower hanging fruit and and done that. And some of the bigger stuff, we're

That's that's good. Thank

you. Thanks, Anna.

Since we don't have any more clarification questions, I'll open this too for probably comment on this item too. Anything?

Yeah. You had my card. Right?

This card is there. Okay.

I might might have put the wrong number on there if this is for whatever. This is what I want.

So we have one speaker, Chris Saturn. And let me bring up this.

Okay, guys.

Yes. My name is Chris Satterley, and I've been a Cupertino homeowner since 1993. And my Jollyman Park, the new playground is, like, right out our back bedroom window, and and my grandkids love it. And I hey. So I just wanna give kudos for everybody that was involved in making that happen.

But I'll make this brief, and I think I'm pretty much preaching the choir. But Memorial Park sound attenuation project is a huge win win. The neighbors win because they get this long awaited and long deserved relief from the sound of pickleball. And the pickleball community wins because it will make it unnecessary to implement restrictions that exclude virtually all working people or require the use of expensive equipment that alters the nature nature of the game. With the sound barriers, there'll be no issues with clients or enforcement of new restrictions. Pickleball players will be able to fully enjoy this wonderful game. It has been proven to improve mental and physical health without torturing our dear neighbors. Thank you.

Thank you, guys. Appreciate it. Any anyone on the Zoom?

We have no answers. Awesome.

If that's the case, let's close the public comments, and then we will open it for commissions for any other comments and discussions, not the clarification. So any comments on Comments on what was CAP. Yeah. So this is now you you had a clarification question. Are there any comments? Yes. Comments or suggestion? Yes. Any discussions?

Susan, did we know is this a new requirement to have the sprinklers for the photo photovoltaic issue, or is it something that came as a surprise to us? Because I know that's a home built up, and I did. I was sometimes a bit surprised at knowing and learning about requirements such as this. Was this just out of the field for you guys?

Yes and no. Okay. It is a very Cupertino requirement. It's in the building code.

Yes.

It's in the

fire code.

Yes. Because

of the Cupertino municipal code. And it's being triggered because of the size of the cardboard. So that, yeah, that was news to us, news to the designers on the project. So it wasn't properly accounted for in the original working schedule. But like we said, luckily, it doesn't affect our timeline.

How much more did it add to the budget? I can't imagine it being significant.

Well, it's a design build contract. Yes. So in some ways, we're covered. I don't think I've been hit with proposed change order yet.

Thank you.

But right now I think it all good. Yeah. So as far as we know, it's covered because it's part of their requirement to deliver.

Thanks.

Thank you. But okay. There's no more comments or discussion on it.

I'll just

Oh, you have questions, Dan. Please.

Just a comment. When you start going on

for communities, we appreciate seeing it.

Thanks.

Great. Thank you. Thank you, Suzanne.

Thank you. You. Good hearing.

So let's move on to the next one. I think right now, can come back to the world business, I believe. That is number two. Subject is the senior survey committee update, and the recommended action to receive an update on the findings. Yeah. I'll leave it to Kashmir Swamy. The presentation is there. I believe staff, he was taking the presentation. And just to remind, this is an update, so there's no motion back right on this. This is an update on the Okay.

Yeah. It's here.

Yes. Excellent. Thank you.

Thank you, Swami. Sure.

Thank you, chair Kumarabhat. Can we actually go to the next slide?

Thank you. Thank you. You. Bye.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Sima Swamy. It was such a pleasure working with the chair of Kumarapan on this project. I'm very excited to present our proposal, improving Cupertino senior citizens' quality of life through intergenerational interactions. The core mission is when we talk about quality of life for our seniors, we often focus on basics like health care, transport, and, you know, physical safety.

While these are vital, they are pretty foundational and absolute requirements. But what makes life worth living is also a connection, a human connection. As you can see on this slide, it is quite startling when we found that there are forty three percent of the seniors within Cupertino who live alone as as compared with the general population, that's only about less than twenty percent of them. So some of the key issues, as you can imagine, include feeling lonely, feeling cut off, feeling a sense of alienation, and feeling that they are not part of the general construct that we have social construct that we have out there. Added to that, if you can go to the next slide, not only do we have digital literacy gap, we also have language barriers, as you all know, about half of our senior citizens are foreign born and 20 sorry.

49% are foreign born, and 27% of those are 65 years plus. And they report speaking English less than very well, and this is based on the senior senior's survey, the the age friendly Silicon Valley, which is we have sourced that. In addition to that, many of them also have mobility issues. Right? So let's go to the next slide.

How do we address this? One of the key issues in which we can address this particular gap is to have illustrations to for for seniors to combat the silent epidemic of loneliness. It would be great for them not to just speak to other seniors and talk about limited topics, how lonely we are, how what are the health issues, what's happening here, what's happening there too, instead actually become more socially vibrant and also get the help that they need. For example, if we have or if we develop a program for intergenerational interactions, we would have the side we would be able to combat the silent epidemic and also of loneliness. And having a young person to talk to and teach provides a renewed sense of purpose.

And can I can I may I dare say social vitamins That improves their cognitive health? Not only do they learn about more issues, it is also really good for them. And for the youth, it provides a different perspective. They're just talking to their fellows fellow youth, other young people, and they're just talking about limited topics. But here, when they're talking to seniors, they're also learning about different issues altogether.

It's a high in a high pressure environment like Cupertino, spending time with someone who has seen it all can provide an emotional grounding, mentorship, and a living history that no textbook can provide. So behind the data, there are faces, and we spoke to members of the of the community, and here's what they told us. Some of the seniors see, when youngsters when we interact with youngsters, the it feels like we have a new pulse altogether. Right? I don't want to be cared for per se necessarily.

I also want to be useful. So it's not just getting services from them, but also having this vibrant interaction. We can also talk to teenagers about how things work and learn from them how things are and have discussions on how things should be, which is fantastic. There are some of the other seniors also talk to us about how they have lost a sense of community in this high-tech world where everyone is just rushing off to work doing their homework. So when they have the structured or unstructured time with youngsters, it is really, rewarding for them.

And it's not rewarding just for them, but it's also, you know, when you do something good for others, you get a personal high and a dopamine pitch, and that is very, very much medicinally backed, which is why altruism is a great thing. Because when you are altruistic, you're not just helping the other person, you're helping themselves as well. So here's the opportunity we have. We have a substantial population of almost 10,000 students in the in the great in the Fremont FUHS. Right?

And that is actually 16% of the Cupertino residents. The students are really struggling to get volunteer hours because they're all focused on getting into colleges as well. So while they may start with, I need opportunities, I need to make my resume look great to be accepted in my target schools, they're also struggling to get the volunteer hours. So bringing this win win situation, which is mutually beneficial for them, would be fantastic. Let's go to the next slide.

We'll elaborate on this a little bit more down the road. So specifically, what are the key things that students bring? They can make a meaningful difference, not just for the seniors, but also to themselves. They get their volunteer hours, which is critical. Next, they have a direct impact.

They can help reduce loneliness and also tech anxiety. A lot of people of the dense of the older generation really think AI or Zoom and all of these things are quite challenging, and there are that many people that are very tech savvy. For them, it is a route in which or means by which they can connect to their grandchildren who don't live in the same geographical vicinity. And it's also skill development for the youngsters. It helps build leadership, patience, and communication skills, and also expands their social skills, how to speak to others, what matters to other people, which is certainly far beyond what they need?