Bicycle Pedestrian Commission - Regular Meeting

Hey, I call the meeting to order at 6.02 p.m. Welcome. You're right at the end right there. Everything you need should be right at the end. You're good. Everything's in front of you. Okay. Full call, please.

Commissioner Deschma?

Here.

Commissioner Gao? Here. Commissioner Holambi? Here. Commissioner Johnson?

Here.

Commissioner Kumar?

Here.

Commissioner Molchan Downey. Here. Commissioner Prakash. Here. Commissioner Sharma. Here. Commissioner Tien. Here. For the record, Commissioner Halambia is absent.

Thank you. Okay, we're going to proceed to our ceremonial actors and presentations. The subject for our first item is swearing in ceremony for the incoming 2026, 2028 teen commissioners. The recommended action is to swear in the five incoming teen commissioners for the 2026, 2028 term. And I'm getting handed over to Lawrence Peter, our city clerk.

I'm going to have the new commissioners stand up. Raise your right hand. And we're going to make this official. You're going to become a commissioner right now. That you solemnly affirm to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That you will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and to the Constitution of the State of California. That you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which you're about to enter for the city of Cupertino.

I do. Thank you.

Perfect. Thank you. Congratulations, you guys. I have a copy of the oak that you just received at your desk. If you guys can sign and put them down to me, we'll collect them. Great.

I will open for questions on that item. If we have any questions from the commissioners. Okay. And then I will go back to the commissioners for any comments. First item. Okay, seeing none, we'll go on to the second agenda item. The subject is Team Commissioned Orientation, and the recommended action is to receive an overview of the commissioning handbook from the city clerk, Lauren Sifter.

Welcome again. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay, so this will be... quick, I think, but I mean, I'm covering a lot of information. I believe Jen, my deputy city clerk, emailed you guys, the new commissioners, the commissioners handbook, the ethics policy, technology use policy, rules and procedures of order. So there's a lot of information that was emailed to you regarding rules and regulations to being a city commissioner. So we're going to kind of drill down into that in a higher level overview this evening. But again, this is your orientation and it'll be a refresher for the Commissioner, so it's the same thing you guys received last year. So sorry for the duplication. But again, if you guys have any questions along the way, feel free to let me know.

There we go.

Okay, so everything that we're going to be discussing tonight is contained in the commissioner's handbook. So council actually makes amendments and updates the commissioner's handbook this year. So it is the newest and greatest version. So this is the guidebook for the rules of the commission. So tonight we're going to be reviewing the new organization, the commission purpose, attendance policy, the Brown Act, Rosenberg's rules of order, which is parliamentary procedures. Your required trainings as a city commissioner and city email policy. The city is, this is the city of organizational charts. So the citizens are at the top and they elect the city council and the city council elects the advisory bodies, like the missionaries, which is you, you had to get them with the council and then. The city manager is under the city council along with the city attorney and then the city staff report to the city manager. So this is the higher level overview of the city organizational chart. Commissions serve as advisors to council and make recommendations and their capacity within the municipal code. The Cupertino Municipal Code Chapter 2 states that the teen commission is to advise the city council and staff on issues and projects important to the youth. performs that other tasks as maybe expressly requested by the city council um so this is important your duties powers and functions is really important because that's what you as a body can work on so there might be things that you might want to bring to the commission but it doesn't fit with you're allowed to discuss and talk about and bring to the table at the commission meeting so Try to, you know, I always try to say, and somebody will help you, is stay within the scope of your legislative body, okay, when you want to discuss items. So the commission's attendance policy is slightly rigid in order to ensure a quorum. So a quorum is a majority of the commission. The commission is a nine-member body, so a quorum would be five members or more. So again, the attendance is rigid in order to insert form or majority to be able to conduct city business. Because a commission meeting cannot occur unless we have five or more of you in attendance. So if you as a commissioner miss more than 25% or three of the regularly scheduled meetings or three consecutive meetings in a calendar year, you can be removed from the commission. So this is based on holding, I believe there's 12 regular meetings in a year for the team commission. I think the team commission votes every year to cancel one or two of the meetings based on holidays and finals, I think, or summer break. But your attendance is based off 12 regular meetings, so you can't miss any more than the three meetings, and you can't miss more than three in a row. If you exceed that, then IT WOULD BE AN AGENDA ITEM AT A FUTURE CLIMATE COUNCIL MEETING AND COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS YOUR ATTENDANCE AND DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO KEEP YOU ON THE COMMISSION OR TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AT THAT TIME. SO TEAM COMMISSION ATTEND TARDINESS IS ALSO TRACKED AND COUNCIL WILL USE THE ATTENDANCE YEARLY. AND THIS ATTENDANCE IS BASED ON THE CALENDAR HERE. Well, for Teen Commission, I think it's based on starting today because your schedule was September to August, really. So it's a little bit different. So that's when your attendance gets reset for Teen Commissions, not on a calendar year like the other commissions. And I just want to point out, so this is brand new this year. Stefan is our new alternate. The council is moving forward with appointing one alternate to all city commissions and committees. So that means. that if somebody is not able to make a commission meeting, it's important that that person who can't make the meeting notify Sonia because Sonia will have to reach out to Stefan to see if he's able to attend in your absence. So that way we have an additional voting member on the body for that meeting. So it's really important that you guys communicate in advance because you don't want to be giving him the last minute heads up. Hey, can you make today's meeting? You know, so that's not really fair to him. and as a team member on your commission, right? So it's really important that you guys be proactive with checking your emails and putting all your commission meetings on the calendar. And I would strongly encourage you to put all the commission meetings on the calendar. You can always check in with Sonia as well. But it's so important to notify her before the day of the meeting because we want to give staff an advance warning and notice to attend on your behalf, okay?

Questions on that because it's new. Yeah, quick question, like how many weeks or days in advance would we need to know, like let you guys know?

As soon as you know, like if you're going to be on vacation or something like that, you know, and you're like, you know, in advance, you're going to be able to make that meeting, then let her know and then she can let him know, right? So it's just dependent on, you know, if you get sick that morning and you're like, oh man, like this is not going to work, I'm not going to make it tonight. email her immediately or call her with your voicemail and then she can pass it on to Stefan to see if he's able to attend. So, I mean, if it's just like, you know, oh, I don't know if I'm going to come tonight, like, you know, just try, right? Like try to email Sonia and then, so Stefan isn't like sitting duck waiting. Just to be fair to your fellow commissioner. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions on attendance?

Even if it's last minute, like if you're sick, even if it's last minute, please let me know if you're not on your way. Because sometimes we're one away from making the quorum to start the meeting. And then if I didn't hear from you either way, I don't know if we should continue to wait. Like, if we know we just wait 15 minutes and we can get started, then at least I know to wait. And as opposed to, like, they're not coming. So just communicate, please, always.

Yes, yes, that's a good call. Yeah, because sometimes, like Sonia said, if we don't have a quorum, then it's like, how long does Sonia and Lindsay, you know, wait for you guys to come before we shut down the meeting and close it, right, and cancel it due to lack of a quorum?

So it's very important, though.

Yeah. Any other questions on attending? Just don't miss your meetings. You'll be good. But then we'll have anything to do. So please miss one. OK. So the Brown Act is a state law requiring all meetings be held open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting except in certain limited situations. So there are three key requirements. All business must be conducted in a session that is open to the public. Sorry, legislative bodies must conduct business and make decisions this thing, only in open public meetings, publish and follow meeting agendas. So like Lindsey and Sonya prepared the agenda, so you're going to follow your meeting agenda like Laura tonight and provide an opportunity for public participation before making decisions. So the public has a right to speak on any item on your agenda. Just like tonight, we have members of the public here, so this is an open meeting, open in person to members of the public and also open virtually, so anyone can participate virtually as well. So we are in a hybrid format here. So what is a meeting? They're wondering. So a meeting is defined as any congregation of a majority of the members at the same time and location to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item. Commissions are required to hold regular meetings open to the public at a set date and time during the year. So your guys' meetings is the second Wednesday of every month. Thank you. Special meetings are those held outside of that regular set day and time. Special meetings may be called by your chair or by a majority of the members. What is not a meeting? Individual contacts or staff briefings of less than a forum are not considered meetings and are not subject to the Brown Act. Staff may have separate conversations or communications with commissioners outside of a meeting in order to answer questions or provide information. Purely social and ceremonial gatherings are not meetings. So every year the city recognizes incoming and outgoing commissioners. That's a ceremonial event where you're gonna have more than a majority of your legislative body there, but that's not considered a meeting under the Brown Act. So it doesn't need to be noticed as a meeting. Open publicized community meeting. So, if you guys were all at the city, or you guys read all that big. The big money by pay run, you know, those are not. Meetings considered under the brown act, so they don't need to be agendas. But if you do attend the Big Bunny 5K or you attend the Indy City or any other event, and there are more than a majority of you guys there, just be mindful that there is a majority there and just you can't discuss your city business, team commission type business amongst each other. Because once you start communicating about city business and there's a majority there, then that's considered a meeting. But that meeting and that conversation wasn't noticed to the public and the public didn't have a right to participate in that discussion. So that's what we're trying to do there, okay? So when in doubt, just do not discuss any business outside of a meeting. So I just kind of briefly touched on maybe a serial meetings. So the Brown Act prohibits a series of such individual contacts if they result in a serial meeting. These occur when only part of a commission is present, but over time and space, a majority discusses, deliberates, or takes action on an item of business outside of a public meeting. And these are called serial meetings, which are prohibited. You cannot do these. But they can be easily done on accident. So we're going to go over some of these serial meetings that can happen. So the daisy chain meetings can occur when Commissioner A emails Commissioner B, who emails Commissioner C, and so forth. At the end of that sequence, the commissioner that started the email chain has no idea that a violation has occurred. So they just keep getting forwarded. And you guys have five or more of you on that thread That's a meeting. That's a meeting that the public hasn't had a way in, didn't get to hear those conversations or see those writings of that meeting. So that's an example of a daisy chain meeting. Another serial meeting that's prohibited is a wagon wheel or hub and spoke meeting is when one commissioner acts as the hub and pushes out information to more than a majority of you guys. So that's where another violation occurs, and that's when a serial meeting can happen. This can also include group text messages. So do not start a team commission group text chat because that's a meeting with a majority of you guys on that group chat and that's city business and where the public doesn't have a right to hear your discussions and your deliberations. So no group text messages, no group handwritten notes. Do not reply all in your emails because that can also constitute a form. So limit your risk by sending communications to the commission liaison with your sonia and start stating and do not state your position outside of your meetings. So, for example, like, let's say you are bringing a tobacco flavored tobacco policy to. Commission. You wouldn't want to state if you were in favor or against that, you know, in an email or to other commissioners because you haven't had that meeting yet to have that discussion. So just an example. Not saying you're going to bring that to the commission. Just an example. Old, old example. Okay, social media. This gets trickier every year, I think, but maybe it's easy. Public officials and commissioners may communicate on social media platforms to answer questions in the community to the public. Members may not use social media to discuss official business among themselves. So no responses to other members, no lights, no emojis. So you just want to be mindful in your social media. If you're communicating with other fellow commissioners, that could be city business again, which isn't an agendized meeting. So just be really careful with your posts if you're discussing anything that could be city business related. Okay.

Can I interject on that one?

Because we usually get a question about this. Whenever there's an event that if you're just trying to help promote, like, We post on Parks and Recreation, Instagram, Facebook, you know, Big Money 5K is coming up. It's okay to like that because it's not any kind of stance on that. So it's okay to like that or forward that. That's kind of the exception.

Yes. Yeah. Because you're not voting to approve the Big Money 5K. It's not in your jurisdiction as the commission. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, so we're guarding your agenda. So everyone has an agenda. So you guys were following the agenda tonight for this meeting. So your meeting agenda has to be published and posted a minimum 72 hours in advance. Lindsay actually hosts these meeting agendas with assistance from SONAP and other staff. So you'll be emailed at least 72 hours in advance of your meeting with your agenda and materials, and no more than 24 hours before any special meetings. The scope of discussion and action at a meeting is limited to agenda as it matters. So you're going to see tonight, we're going to go through your whole agenda, right? So you guys cannot sidebar and have a different conversation and amongst you guys and start talking about other team things that are of interest to you because it's not agendas. So the public didn't have a right for an advance notice that you guys were going to talk about something else. So it has to be limited to the agenda only items. So if you want to discuss future agenda items, I think Sonya can get into that later. But we're going to be following the agenda during every meeting. So it's really important you stay on task and on topic. The agenda must include a brief general description of the items to be discussed. And this is, again, to inform interested members of the public of the subject matter so they can determine whether to attend the meetings and participate. For non-agenda topics that come up in a meeting, you can schedule those to be heard as the chair of agenda. So again, the public has a right to speak on any item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and the specific items of business before or during the commission's consideration. Comments can be anonymous. The chair may impose reasonable time limits. I'm going to zoom in.

Okay.

Uh, so, okay. Public, opportunity for public to comment on any item within that jurisdiction. Um, specific items of business. The public has a right to review non-firmance documents distributed to a majority of the legislative body. So these would be called like written communications. Uh, so if a member of the public wants to provide a written comment, they can email the chief commissioner in advance of the meeting. Then Lindsay would take those comments and they would be part of the online record for your meeting. Um, But that's another way for the public to comment and provide comments to you guys ahead of your deliberations and decision-making in your votes. So the public and comments can be made anonymous. And also because we are hybrid, the public can also participate remotely as well. So they can provide comments virtually as well. So we're also live streamed on YouTube. So a lot of different ways to participate and view your meetings live and provide comments. Okay, Rosenberg's Rules of Order. Commissions follow the guidelines on parliamentary procedure contained in Rosenberg's Rules of Order. These rules outline establishing order at your meetings, how motions are made, and how the chair runs the meeting. As mentioned, the meeting is governed by your agenda. Each agenda item can be handled by the chair in a basic format. So the chair will announce the agenda item by reading the subject of recommended action. Tonight, Sarna is acting as your chair this evening. Then the chair would invite the staff person, whoever's item it is, to invite the staff report. Members may then ask technical or clarifying questions of the report. The chair opens for public comment. invites a motion on the second, everyone is clear on the motion on the table, the commissioners can continue deliberating, and then a vote is actually taken. Not all items that are going to be on your agenda are going to require an official vote. Sometimes you're just receiving a presentation or receiving a, you know, issuing a ceremonial item or hearing a presentation. But it's really important that whoever is chair or vice chair, who's sharing an absence of the chair, that you follow these parliamentary procedures. And I know it sounds a little tricky, maybe the first meeting that the new chair is running at, but Sonia and Lindsay are both worse than Rose and Rose, I think, in helping the chair in that first meeting. But you'll wanna follow Rose and Rose's order for the item procedures. There is required training requirements for you as a commissioner. The Cupertino ethics policy was adopted by the council to preserve public confidence and the integrity of local government. It contains provisions for the professional and personal conduct of members. So this is a new document that the new commissioners received and that will need to be signed. Commissioners must take an ethics course every two years as required by state law. Your crisis commission term is only two years. You only take it once within the first six months from today. And there is an annual commissioner training that is held typically in the February, March timeframe of each year, which is put on by myself and the city attorney and the city manager. This is held in Cupertino Community Hall, where you guys have your interviews with councilmates. So that is a requirement for you to attend. If you can't attend it, we'll provide you with the video and we'll send an affidavit that you watched it and you participated in that meeting. So those are required trainings that you'll take, the ethics training, and then you'll participate in the annual in-person, all commissioner training. So please remember that you represent the city in your interactions with members of the community and other agencies. So all city commissioners are assigned a mandatory city email address after reviewing and signing the technology use policy. So just a reminder, please adhere to the network etiquette guidelines policy. You want to only use your city email account to conduct city business as a commissioner. Do not forward or reply to a city email from your personal email address. So I know this can be tricky on our iPhones. We got multiple email accounts. just be really careful and cautious of not using your personal mixing with your city business. Because your emails and communications are subject to the Public Records Act request. So please be mindful with your communications because we do get many Public Records Act requests and they could be asked. Anybody from the public could ask for all the email of the team commissioners. And then they're on public display. So it's really important that you are being mindful of what you're putting in your communications with your city email account. And again, that you're not accidentally mixing with your personal email account with the city business. And that concludes my orientation for you guys. And I know it was a refresher for the standing commissioners. Any questions on that? I know that's a high-level overview of what the commissioner's handbook goes over for you guys. So do you guys have any questions for me? Got it. Okay. The committee commission is usually fun.

So thank you. We have to open up for any public comment.

We have no speakers.

Okay, and then if there's any last comments from the commissioners on the presentation.

Nothing. Okay.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome. Thank you, guys. And then Nikita and Stefan, I don't know if you guys have already reviewed those policies or not. If you did and you signed them, I'd be happy to take them. I'll give it to Ben tomorrow. No, I just had to stop you. It's okay.

Yeah.

Thank you so much. So we'll get your email accounts created this week. You want to look out for information on that. And it was nice to meet you guys. See you guys again.

Thank you so much. Okay, we'll go on to agenda item number three. The subject is the Teen Programs Presentation, and the recommended action is to receive a presentation on the Youth Activity Board, GAB, Recreation Events Volunteers, REV, Leaders in Training, LIT, Techie Teens, and the Teen Commission from our Recreation Coordinator, Robert Kaufman.

Can you give a round of applause for Lauren here? That's a lot of talking. It's a lot of pressure. So feel for her tonight. She had to come out and present. Anyways, my name is Robert Coffman. I'm a recreation coordinator here at Parks and Rec. My main area is team programs and events. My boss here, my manager, recreation manager, Sonya Lee. is in charge of our division, which is the youth, teens, events and facilities division. So a couple other recreation program coordinators in our team that you'll hear about or either receive a presentation from throughout this year. And those who are returning already kind of know these people, but Besides me, there's Mariah Green, who's in charge of youth programs, preschool, summer camp, stuff like that. And then Christina Lopez, who's in charge of big, big, like special events and big community events. And I'll probably, I'll bring up a few of these events at the end of the meeting tonight and the staff report and kind of like, you'll get kind of an idea of who's doing what. But for now, for this agenda item, we'll talk about some of the team programs that we offer here at CU Cupertino. Obviously, you are part of the last bullet point. That's why we put you last, because you already know. You already just received like an hour of presenting on what you're doing today. But we wanted to kind of round out your knowledge of some of the other programs that may intersect with or just might need to know about whether You know, you need to reference it and talk about it with your peers or other members of the community. So kind of our second or really our first group will be talking about tonight is the Youth Activity Board. Youth Activity Board started back in 2018 as a team commission work plan item with the express purpose of helping city staff here create events, create programs that will help with teams, like engaging teams, keeping them de-stressed, providing social for your peer group. I'm afraid my artist wants to just read off the slides, so that was a little bit of freestyle for you. Okay, next slide, please. Anyways, this is an old picture. That's an old picture if you have kids. here's a kind of a list of some youth activity board events that we have throughout the year. We have our speaker series, which will be coming up in November. Um, pizza and politics will be coming up in October, our annual spelling bee in January, which is a, um, kind of an intergenerational event. It's really, yeah, runs it, but it's really for, um, youth for, for children. Um, and often is an inter, um, that's a bit of an intersection with you guys here, because if you do volunteer to be a judge or a speaker, you'll be kind of working again on that event. Um, team resource fair in March, which is kind of more of a like a booth partner event, kind of like a job fair. There's definitely some jobs there. But also we represent our our programs there as Teen Commission is actually gonna be out to that event. And then we also partnered with the school district, with FUHSD to provide some other group partners as well. And we just try to be as kind of like open and broad as we can just to provide any possible opportunities that would be interesting to the students. Pack Cupertino, I should put the Cupertino part in it, that's part of the title. Pack Cupertino is our annual teen hackathon. I know some of the commissioners here know this event very well, having volunteered last year, looking at some of you. Do I need to say any more? It's an overnight hackathon here at the Quinlan. It's kind of like a big just marathon of coding and video games and Taco Bell. And then, you know, at the end, there's prizes. And it's a fun time. It's quite the onslaught, but it's also a very fun time. Um, young cafe is kind of our, our, um, like just open study hall event. And then we have our various team movie nights. Um, we can move on from this. I think I talked to us about this. That does include all of our events, by the way, there's plenty of other events. I don't know why we went with this picture for this slide, but that's okay.

That was me.

I think I meant to replace this picture. Couldn't find anything better. What is RAD? Recreation Event Volunteers. This is a newer program, started a couple of years ago. Our previous leadership's actually former kingdom missionaries. The goal of this program is to deepen our relationship with volunteers. Over coming out of the pandemic, Rupertino Parks and Rec became more and more, collaborated a lot with volunteers at our events just to help kind of pull them off, but also provide opportunities for students to get those hours in, get engaged with their community. And we had some recurring one day volunteers that we just kind of inspired us to create this program and provide a more formal organization for those teams that really want to spend a lot of time volunteering with us. A couple of your fellow commissioners here are current and or former REV members at the BOECs, very valued REV members. Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure we'll talk more about REV at some point, and I'm sure I'll put them on the spot and make them talk about it a little bit. We'll move on from REV. So this isn't even, I don't think this is all of our events throughout the year. So to kind of put it into a little more perspective, YAB has specific teen events that they help plan and run. Cupertino Parks and Rec runs a lot of events throughout the year. For example, Monster Mash in October, Tree Lighting Breakfast with Santa and all the Santa stuff. in December, Big Bunny in the spring, Earth Day also in the spring and April. Like I said, these are not even all the events. These are just some of the bigger events that we definitely utilize REV for and need volunteers for. But REV events come from all divisions of Cupertino Parks and Rec. So while I have a handful of events under my purview that I run, We have four divisions that all have events that need help. It's a great way to kind of get to know our department better. It's also a great way to see different types of events, different, you know, parts of your community. So leader in training is our next group. And don't be surprised, but there's also other fellow commissioners. I have been like, he's before looking at one of them. There's actually one that's not here. That used to be, you know, I think leaders in training are a summer only volunteering program that centers around our summer camps. You help our paid like older part-time recreation leaders working with kids. You're running, I mean, I like to joke that it's, you know, you play dodgeball with kids all summer, but it is actually like a lot of work. It is a lot of work learning how to facilitate and run camps and work with children. It's a long day, a lot of energy, but a lot of energy required. But it's a great first opportunity, first, second or third opportunity for, you know, getting volunteer hours, but also kind of like seeing what like. working a job is like, being responsible for some of these things, and showing up to a place on a daily basis. What does that feel and look like? How do you do that, right? Yeah, LITs are great. There's three camps that LITs support, three camps, two different campsites. So two of these camps are here at the Quinlan and Memorial Park, which is just out back here. But Adventure Camp is actually classic summer camp. That's dodgeball, that's sharks and minnows, sneaky statue. We have a picture of Water Day here.

Yeah, I think that pretty much is.

And then we have preschool adventures for the little tights in the preschool room down the hall. That summer camp for the little ones, just a lot of playing with, like, Hot Wheels and building stuff and crafts. And then our third one's over at McClellan Ranch. Does everybody know where McClellan Ranch is? So our third one's at McClellan Ranch. That's Summer Science Fund and or Nature Camp. They alternate from week to week. The first two are ran by Mariah Green, and the second one is ran by DeMiles Salmon. I know you're not going to remember those names now, but at some point you'll hear them. You'll hear them enough, you'll see them. And between these three camps, we have Like, 3 kind of areas that get to participate in with Cupertino Parks and Rec. It's actually nice. We kind of during the application process, we asked them, like, what are you. What kind of what do you gravitate for is between these 3 and. That's been fantastic because I feel like teens really get a lot out of the ones that they want to participate in. Some teens really want to participate in preschool adventures because they just love the little littles. They find them adorable and they just like the games and the crafts are really fun for them. And then of course there's some some of you are nature nerds. So you love going to McClellan and you love like hike, you know, trails. You love bugs. That can't be me, but you love bugs. Yeah. And then of course there's like some, some, some of you are more sporty and just love throwing, just launching dodge balls at kids. Talk about that.

Our fourth, our fourth and kind of

Final, we'll talk about team commission very quickly. But our fourth program is techie teens. Techie teens is another kind of like intergenerational type of program. In this program, a handful of techie teens, if you will, are selected to provide tech support for our senior center membership throughout the summer. Yeah, I mean, Apple Genius Bar for our Cupertino seniors. You get a lot of kind of like leadership experience, a lot of like responsibility in that program. Okay, I'm getting played off of that slide. So I'm going to go to the next slide.

It takes a while to change.

So T Commission, that is you guys. T Commission, I've had our final, our formal commission group that has been appointed by our city council. So a little different. You know, the role of your body is to advise us and, you know, us being staff and city council on, you know, issues that are important to you and projects that are important to you, but also, um, you know, help us, um, kind of develop our programs and, you know, give us some direction on what you want to see. Um, you're kind of our important representatives. You're the representatives of your peer group.

Um, is there another slide after this?

Um, you know, actually, before we go to this slide, um, So like I said, you're a very important representative of your peer group, and that's kind of a two-way street for us. So it's important for us to, you know, to receive feedback from you guys about what's important to your peer group, but it's also important for us to, like, you know, you kind of represent stuff that we're doing to your peer group as well. I think a lot of team commissioners come here and think, like, I'm showing up for the month, get my gold star, you know, like safe level things. And then check out for the month, right? And then, you know, there's no, you know, may not have any homework, right? This might be the one like curricular where you don't have any homework or at least team commissioners think they don't. But think about city council, think about what other commissions do. This is supposed to be more than just a monthly meeting. we expect you to do a little bit of work in terms of representing our programs, representing the city. You know, it's not just being professional, but it's also kind of spreading the word, you know, and like I said, that's a two way street, right? You're kind of like, you're kind of a connecting tissue between us and teams at Group Retina. Okay. Sorry, there's a whole slide. Participation, we often also ask for y'all to participate in our events, too. This is kind of, on one hand, you know, you're all usually, you're all pretty good public speakers, and so, and then you're also kind of our dignitaries, if you will, and we kind of recognize that and we like to highlight that and put you in positions where you can utilize those things. So for example, pizza politics come out in October for the spelling bee coming up in February needs an onstage moderator or MC, if you will. So we call on you to to be one of those. I'm not saying it's gonna be all of you. But usually we throw it out and see who's interested. And yeah, so there's plenty of events that we've identified that where we need team commissioner participation, team commissioner, like representation. And we'll bring those up. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Do you want me to add? Sure. So I think the other part of this that Jerry explained, YAB really is the organization that is like running the teen events. And so you might see in other cities that they have like advisory organizations. Ford, or even that they call it a youth or team commission, and they're doing some of the same things that our board is doing organization is doing and we run as like a formal commission. So that really prohibits you from like. meeting separately and planning events because we already heard about how that works. It's not an agendized meeting. So we run very formally. And so that puts your role when you're here as team commissioners as being advisory mostly to staff. And I believe it even says if you're going to work on a project to advise to council, it's something that the council has asked you to work on. So it puts you very in these meetings. And where we've tried to expand is we've tried to get you out into the events. Even though YAB is running most of them, we're trying to still have you have a very strong presence at a lot of these events. And so we bring you in as the moderators. So you definitely still have a face out there, but you're not the organizers of those events. You show up and you do the emceeing, the moderating, whatever it is.

Yeah, some of these events we've shown before on the screen. I'm going to also talk about them in my staff reports and also email them out to you guys too. Because it is important that we kind of get like commitments to these things. So the more we communicate, the better, just to get kind of a dialogue for some of us.

So we're not having you show up to, say, Big Bend and 5K as teen commissioners to volunteer, although you can still volunteer as teen commissioners. But as your role as teen commissioners, where we're asking is we actually have two people that will be the emcees for the whole event, and that's a big role. Because you're up there on the microphone for the entire time.

Yeah. We've had both. We've had other commissioners that also just like to volunteer too.

Yeah.

We're never going to turn away commissioners from volunteering. But first and foremost, and most formally, we'll be inviting four moderator positions . Is that our last slide?

Yeah.

So, kind of our last function to talk about today within Commission is the Recognizing Youth-led Organizations program, a program that this Commission and this is the over here started a couple of years ago now. I think we're at two years ago. This is The kind of the purpose of this, this function of team commission is that we have plenty of youth led organizations that reached out to, well, first of all, us all the time, but also you guys as well in terms of like, wanting recognition or some kind of support. And so this program was started in a way to kind of give a formal process for key commission to review and discuss and then highlight some of these groups. So this is a monthly, potentially a monthly thing. The application for the YLO program is open year round. And then there's usually, they apply, there's a little bit of discussion with Sonia and myself and them. in regards to like what meeting they can present at. And then I believe the next meeting, they go over the applications. We've been doing it the same for like the last year, yeah. So usually in the same meeting, it'll be you guys will kind of go over the different applications and then receive the presentation from the YOLO group themselves. You'll give them feedback on what they presented. And then in that same meeting, are they choosing who to highlight? Yeah, and then I say meeting your choosing to highlight. You don't necessarily need to highlight anybody. You also don't necessarily need to reject everybody as well. It's kind of, you know, it's kind of up to you guys, your scrutiny and your evaluations. Anything else going on?

Yeah, I mean, this is one, too, where I would love it if, those of you who are out at multiple high schools in Cupertino really promote this because we, every once in a while we'll just get the question, you know, can I work, can I partner with the city? And we don't really partner for programs with most teen organizations. But we have a lot of people asking, and that's what this was born from is that they'd like to have some kind of recognition and some kind of formal relationship. And so this is a chance just by coming and presenting whether or not you choose to give them a highlight spot on our social media, just by coming and presenting these meetings are formal and these meetings are live streamed. And so It gives them a platform to come and talk about their organization. And then it also gives you the opportunity to say, Hey, that's like a really cool organization. And we've had some amazing groups that have presented to us. And then is that opportunity for you, even if we give a highlight spot or not, but to go back to your high schools and to your fellow team, like there's some, Pretty cool things that you should know about that are happening that are resource for you. So it's trying to get that going that 2 way street, but I'd love to have our team commission really getting out and promoting that. This is available to team organizations and it can be. a high school teen organization, or an outside organization just started by somebody and there's parameters on our website of like what we're looking for. And we'll go over those before you receive one. But anyway, just it's kind of you need to sort of self promote it, but it is a cool thing going.

Yeah, I will say, um, I think it's important to judge everybody, like give a good evaluation of each group, give some good feedback. And this kind of goes for just in general, but like really if providing input, please provide like valuable, right? If you're giving feedback, give some valuable feedback. Don't tear a group to shreds just because you feel like that's the input you need. It's like, like give them constructive feedback. or if you think they're awesome or you're doing something that's great like you know really um provide that um but also kind of going on to like kind of adding on to the hitter shreds bit we did have a surprisingly lack of uh recognized groups last year and so just kind of try to find a way to like you know find a good balance of like you know, feedback, criticism, but also kind of like really evaluating like maybe there are some groups that might actually be worth recognizing this year.

Yeah. We had a little bit of a shift from established groups that were presenting to groups that were kind of just starting out, but they decided to come and present anyway. And it's those ones that they maybe don't meet the criteria right off the bat to have a highlight on their social media. But I think we probably need to still be like come back and be as a as a group we need to be a lot more um inviting for them to come back and to tell their friends about their organizations if they're a little further along to come back and you know just present it's in the presenting the highlight should be kind of like yeah secondary so yeah yeah that's it i guess yeah so you good All right, I'll open it up to questions from the commissioners.

Yes. Oh, I was a little confused about what the highlight is, like a social media post, or what does it quite look like?

That's a great question. And I know those of you who are new to the commission haven't had the benefit. We just did a presentation and we made a few changes to the program. But in essence, they come, they present, they turn in an application saying, I want to come present as part of the YLO program. And the application is online on the teen commission page. And so they can read a little bit about the criteria there of what we're kind of judging if they're able to get a highlight spot. But the highlight itself is now just a tier one recognition. And that tier one recognition is just pretty much they'll get a post on our Facebook and Instagram, I think. Yes. Facebook and Instagram. And it'll just be like, here's the Teen Commission YLO for the month, and here's the organization, and this is what they do. And it's just something to kind of get their name out there. For, frankly, a lot of kids, they're sort of trying to get their organization on the map and to get like a little traction. And it gives them something formal that they can point to. Obviously, when you get to college applications, you know, if I started an organization, And at one point I had a, you know, highlight from the team commission. So you're making the call as to if they get that highlight spot. And then we've made a couple of changes that there's like a two, that's a tier one now. And then every six months, I think now we'll have a tier two recognition. And if they're, let's say we heard from like three phenomenal organizations in the first six months. At that six month mark, you're going to look and go, do any of these really deserve a second tier recognition? And if they deserve a second tier recognition, then we're going to sit down and figure out how to do like a quick video. And that's probably on our end. We're starting to just kind of just jump into doing a little bit more video on our social media. from feedback from you, I might add. So we'll put together some kind, we'll work with them to have some kind of video recognition, not just a post. And then at the end of the year, when we've heard from all of them and, you know, who knows how many that might be, if any one person or two or three really stand out that they were just super phenomenal. They'll also get a certificate and a picture from our director of Parks and Recreation, just recognizing them. And we'll see where we can, we'll put that on the website, I think is what we said. So just opportunities to get their organization recognized and get them out there. Sorry to get so into that, but kind of get to know what we're talking about. Great question.

Any other questions from the commissioners?

Does it make sense to everybody as to like where you fit in within all these teen organizations? Okay, good. Let's open it up for public comment.

We have no speakers.

Okay. Do we have any last comments on the presentation? Okay.

So much.

I definitely can clap for people at the end of presentations. I know it's the first night. It's like, what's appropriate? And clap. Nobody ever clapped for Lauren.

It's cohorts clapping for like literally everything. So I was trying to be reserved. I appreciate the clap. Thank you.

Okay. Let's see. We will move on to the approval of minutes. And everybody should have a copy of the minutes. Now, understand this is a tricky one because we have half of you that are new. You are able to abstain when we go to the vote, but you don't have to abstain. So if you read through them and you feel comfortable voting to approve, and also can Stefan, do you call my Stefan or Stefan? Stefan, thank you.

And then step on and vote because Bobby is not here. Yes.

Okay. So. Define you are able to vote if you so choose. Okay, so I'll give you a few moments usually at this point. I also usually at this point, we'll give a estimate of about how long we think we'll be in the meeting total because I know a lot of you have rides here to in front of the meeting. So it gives you a chance to kind of stop and text. I'm going to have a harder time predicting that tonight because one of the items could take a very long time. And so we're just going to have to see when we get there. So I might give that estimate and just take a brief pause for you to do some texting later. But for right now, go ahead and read minutes.

Mm hmm.

Yes, I can see them. I stopped sharing. And we can also do . Yes. Yes. Yes.

Okay, how are we doing? Just through it? Okay, do I have any questions on the minutes? Okay, do we have any public comment? We have no speakers. All right. At this point, I will call for a motion to approve Sorry, I didn't, I'm going to go back. The subject is approval of the minutes, August 12th, 2026. The recommended action is to review and approve the minutes from the team commission meeting on August 12th, 2026. Everyone has now reviewed those minutes. We've asked for questions. We've opened public comment. So at this point, I'll call for a motion to approve the August 12th, 2026 minutes. And if you do choose to do that, just use the say, I move to approve. So do I hear a motion to approve them in?

Okay, thank you.

And do I hear a second? I second the motion.

And that was Commissioner Johnson seconded.

Commissioner Schill.

Okay, and then we will vote. Commissioner Dushman?

Aye.

Commissioner Gow?

Aye.

Commissioner Jha?

Aye.

Commissioner Johnson?

Aye.

Commissioner Kumar? Aye. Commissioner Mulchandani? Aye. Commissioner Prakash?

Aye.

Commissioner Sharma? Aye. Commissioner Tien? Aye. The motion carries unanimously.

Great. Moving on, we don't have any postponements. Do we have any oral communications?

We'll have this one.

Okay. And moving on to old business, we have no old business. Moving on to new business, agenda item number five, the subject is the 2026, 2027 chair and vice chair selection. The recommended action for the agenda is to select a chair and vice chair for the 2026, 2027 commission term. However, I'm going to put out a, recommendation based on other commission meetings that we could wait and I could recommend to postpone this item to the next meeting where we might have all of our commissioners present. We have one person missing, but I would need a motion to postpone the item. Do I need to open that for discussion? I'm leaving you questions on the recommendation or do we need a motion to approve that?

We would need a motion after the end of the sequence.

Okay.

See what I'm saying?

Yeah, because the agenda item is on the agenda, so yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, questions, public comment, discussion, motions. Okay, so questions on postponing the item. Okay, do we have any public comment on postponing the item? Can we have no speakers? All right, and then now I would call for a motion, if you so choose, to postpone the item to the next meeting.

I motion to postpone the 2026-27 chair and vice chair selection to the next meeting.

Okay, do I hear a second? Second. And then we would need to vote on that. Yeah. All right.

Hey, Commissioner Deschamp.

No.

Commissioner Gow.

Aye.

Commissioner Jha.

Aye.

Commissioner Johnson.

Aye.

Commissioner Kumar. Aye. Commissioner Mulch and Donnie. Aye. Commissioner Prakash. Aye. Commissioner Sharma. Aye. Commissioner Tien?

Aye.

The motion carries with Commissioner Deschamak, Commissioner Kumar, and Commissioner Sharma voting no.

Okay, so we will postpone that. That's Lindsay, I need you to repeat, sorry. Yeah, what's up? So as part of that, we usually just do the introduction. Can I still do that portion with the agenda item or probably?

I've been in meetings where they did introductions and it wasn't agendas.

Yeah, I think we're just going to go ahead and move on with that portion of it. So as part of this item, we usually just do an introduction around the table and just you introduce yourself, your school, your grade and anything, anyone or two things that you want the Commission to know about you. And we'll go ahead and do that part tonight. And then we'll move more quickly through when we get the agenda item next meeting. So I'll just have you go around with you.

Hi, my name is Nikita Sharma. I go to Challenger School and I'm in eighth grade and I do competitive swimming.

Hi, my name's Ashil. I go to Monta Vista. I'm a sophomore and I play football. Hi, my name is Stefan. I'm a junior at St. Francis, and I do track and field, shop and discuss.

Hi, my name is Jonathan. I go to Basis Independent Silicon Valley. I'm a senior, and I'm struggling a lot with college apps.

Hi, my name is Isabel Tinn, and I'm a junior at Sacred Heart Prep. Something about me is that I play tennis and gymnastics all day. I'm a freshman at Seahawks, and I do speech and debate. I'm Pranshu. I'm a sophomore at Monta Vista High School.

Hi, my name is Sumeda. I'm a senior at Monta Vista High School. I'm not too athletic, but one thing I really like doing is doing the playoffs in my free time.

Hi, my name is Anya, and I'm a ninth grader at Cupertina High School. And one interesting fact about me is I'm a fencing referee.

Great, thank you so much. I think that that is definitely worthwhile for us to meet each other. I will just add, I'm retaining the chair position tonight and because we don't have chair, they've finished their term. So I'll retain the chair position, but we will, once we vote that person in, then they'll be running the meetings and I will always be here as the liaison. Robert will be here periodically when he presents he'll be here and sometimes he's got a lot of other evening meetings so we want him to every single one but he is our team coordinator and then we have Lindsay Nelson who's our admin assistant and she'll be here for minutes and running all the online information so thank you for coming okay um Let's see, going on, we have item number six, Subject Team Commission 2026-2027 Meeting Topics. The recommended action is to review and approve the list of potential meeting topics for 2026-2027 term. And I need to share that, so that will be me. That will have that item. I'll just need a second to get up and going here.

There we go. Okay. Here we go.

Okay, so what we call this is the work plan. And this is new from last year. But what we do is we're kind of laying out the entire year as the Basics and there's another way that I kind of look at this too, is I take each of these and I put them into a calendar. So you sort of know everything you're hitting every meeting. Um, but. This is the format that we have it in to see, but every meeting, um. We'll have Parks and Recreation, basically every meeting, Parks and Recreation Department presentations. So because one of your primary roles is to advise us on our programs from the team perspective, What we do is we spend the year making sure that every aspect of our department comes and does a presentation and then they can receive feedback from you. So it's not always just the team programs that we're looking for your feedback. There might be outdoor, the outdoor division will come to you and you might add something like, hey, you know, it would be so much easier for us to access whatever program if that back gate at McClellan is whatever it is. And so you give that team's perspective. Like a lot of kids ride through to go to Monta Vista and you might know that. So we're looking for feedback always that's going to help us in our programming of programs. So you'll see All the months on the right hand side, the estimated timeline will show when you're going to have those division presentations and they're already kind of laid out as to when each division is presenting. The youth organization highlight program, which we just talked about a little bit. Um, is as needed and then, um, because we added some tiers to that program, then we also put like, in February in June, we're going to evaluate. However, maybe we've seen so far, but that's already laid out when we're going to be doing that. And and then I remember 3. So, small for me, by the way. Yeah, I'm like reading up here and I need to go here. Um. So seasonal presentations on seasonal programs like our holiday events, our spring events, our big Earth and Arbor Day festival that we ran, golf events. So those are all, again, like laid out because we know exactly when those events are happening. And we have the month that you're going to have somebody come and talk to you about those. And then the next one is... Team program presentations. So tonight we have the overall team organizations presentation, but in tonight and in October, we'll be talking more about speaking opportunities throughout your term. And we kind of already know that we're going to look for a team resource fair, which will happen in March. But in January, we're going to be talking to you, like, from especially people that participated in the last year. They might have a lot of feedback and say, you know, I think it's really important that A, B, and C. And that gives Robert a chance to actually incorporate some of that feedback if he can. Okay. Yeah, so anytime that lines up, speaker series review in February. Our speaker series happens in November, but we have taken our topics for the speaker series directly from the team commission, giving us all the ideas of what topics they would want and then prioritizing them, and then Robert works right off of that list. So we are trying to take your feedback and put it into action. Okay. And in June, we go through all of our team programs again and review and get feedback on them. Okay. And then there's more. So participating as speakers. So again, we like layout. We know exactly when we're asking to confirm for events. And we just put that in the timeline. And team organizations and team commissioning. That happened tonight. You had that particular presentation. And our selection usually will happen in September. So keeping in mind this is a structure, but if we choose to postpone it, we can postpone. The cybersecurity and city email account use, usually in October, you'll have somebody from our IT department come and they do a presentation about what that means for you to have a city account and the things you can and can't do with that city account. Transportation events is a different, so we're kind of getting into presentations from other departments in the city. So IT we know comes every year in October. Transportation usually comes in August because they want to talk about Bike Fest, which will happen at the end of September. And they like to make sure to put that out to you to be able to participate and give your feedback. So they usually come in August. And then CIP Capital Improvement Program, that's one that we're just going to try to get them whenever they can or whenever they have a lot of projects that would be interesting to get your feedback in. It's been a couple years since we've had a CIP presentation, so I'm hoping for this year that we'll be able to get them in. community development presentation, especially discussion on like housing from a team perspective. And I know we have been out this last year. We'll see whenever anything interesting comes up that they could get your perspective. We'll try to get them in. Community development. Sorry, we already went through that. Economic development. That's one that I'm working on trying to get our economic development manager out to talk to you because that's very citywide. And again, something very important to get your perspective on. And then sustainability presentations. It's been a while since we've had them and this organization gave some really great feedback last time they were out. And like, I think a few, since this was before your terms, a few participated in like a pilot project with like reusable cups. And so anyway, we try to get them out periodically. So yeah, Kind of putting this all out there. Do we have another? Oh, yeah. Emergency management presentation. Hoping we have a new manager there. So I'm hoping to get him out this year. And then finance presentations. They usually once a year do a segment budget invites. And it's kind of like an online video. And... I'm hoping to maybe coordinate a little bit earlier. Last year, I think they gave us like a week's notice and a couple people tried to put a video together for them. It just got too tight on the timeline. So I'm hoping to kind of get them out and say, if you guys want to do the budget invites with team commission, then let's get an early start on that. um and then our general meeting schedule is always um the second Wednesday of each month and so when you get your um city email accounts up and going I also recommend that you like put those in your city calendar because I think I don't have access to that um put that right in the city calendar and um We also, because we're gonna laying out the whole schedule, we will cancel the following months. For this one year, the November meeting on November 11th, it will be canceled because that's a city holiday, Veterans Day. And we've already rescheduled that one to November 19th. So when we get tonight to approve this calendar or this work plan, then you're approving that particular reschedule at the meeting. December will usually be canceled due to finals, and May is usually canceled due to AP testing and finals. And then July is due to summer break. So you have three that are canceled almost every year. We're just going to put that out there this year that you can kind of count on those months being canceled instead of waiting until we get closer to them. And then every September from here on out, we'll do this, which is our kind of calendar review and work plan. So this is the structure. It doesn't mean that things can't be added and things can't be changed, but it gives you an idea or then those who are returning, you didn't really have this kind of laid out for you. So you sort of didn't know what was coming. This time you can sort of plan for those months off and you can see some of the organizations that we're going to try to get in front of you. So we do pack a lot into the meetings sometimes that we have. Some meetings are shorter, some meetings are longer, and it will be longer next meeting because we'll go back to that agenda item. Okay, so I know that's really detailed going through, but you were sent the whole agenda packet, and I do recommend that you take this and kind of put some things into your calendar so that everything's on your radar. All right, given that, do you have any questions for me on the work plan? Yeah.

Um, wait, so since, like, for me and also a lot of other commissioners, this is, like, our second year coming around, there's a lot of, like, returning organizations that present, like, safe routes to school, parks and rec. So is it, like, the same presentation recycled, or is it, like, more of, like, updates?

Yeah, usually they'll go through it again, because they'll kind of put it all out for you to give your feedback. And so and then obviously, if there's any changes or anything new, they're going to highlight those things for you. But generally, you're going to see some of those organizations are going to give like a similar presentation. It won't be totally brand new.

Good question.

Any other comments or questions? We're only doing questions right now. Okay. Do you have a comment? All right, any final comments on the work plan? All right, then if I could get a motion to approve your team commission work plan for 26-27 meeting topics.

Okay, and then do I have a second?

Second motion.

All right, and then we will get to a vote.

Take it to a vote. Commissioner Deschamuk?

Aye.

Commissioner Gow? Aye. Commissioner Johnson?

Aye.

Commissioner Kumar is absent. I'm right here. Oh, sorry. I'm right here. Commissioner Mulchandani? Aye. Commissioner Prakash? Aye. Commissioner Sharma? Aye. And Commissioner Tien?

Aye.

The motion carries unanimously.

Very much for that. All right, we'll move on to the next agenda item, which is staff and commission reports. Actually, let me stop before you start talking. Let's take a quick moment. I'd say we are 10 minutes away from ending. So if you have people close that are going to come pick you up, go ahead and take a moment to fly your phones and you can text them.

hungry.

Pick it up a little bit.

It's not going to make him talk any faster, I promise you.

Or more concise, it won't be.

Okay, are we all good? You can finish up your text while we move it to this item. Staff and Commission reports.

Okay, guys, since we are on. Okay, staff reports, these happen at the end of every team commission meeting. Usually they're a lot more brief and they're not an agendized item, so they don't come with a presentation. But it's usually just things that we want to either recap for you that happened recently or kind of preview for you that are coming up. A couple of things to talk about with you guys tonight before going into kind of upcoming events. That's kind of the main thing was just upcoming events. But a couple of things I wanted to kind of talk to you about. Especially before we get into the events is one. Check your email often. That's where our communication is going to be with you. Which I know email is often like kind of a. like a secondary, if not tertiary, like communication format for you. But here in the city world, here in the working world, working adult world, we use email. But also, that's just kind of like our formal way of contacting you. Okay, so please check your city email often. And If we send you like calendar invites for stuff, please accept those. Especially when it comes to like events and stuff like that.

In fact, we cannot, I will not communicate and will not communicate by your personal emails. you got to get your city email up and going pretty quickly and then we're not allowed to contact you by your personal emails for just general communication about team commission so please please get that up and going and then check it a lot um and then kind of an additional thing in the last year uh Cupertino Parks and Rec um was approved and created our own um our own Instagram

We used to share the general City of Cupertino Instagram with everybody. But, you know, parks and rec programs are very different from, like, sustainability programs or public works news. Like, so we kind of... We have our own Instagram account. That's where we're going to talk about. That's where we're going to like market our programs and events, but also kind of like tell our story. So like pictures, you know, tonight I've been taking pictures of our meeting. We're probably going to make a post that's like, hey, team commission starting back up. Right. I think we did like a rev or a youth activities board. Like a summer camps recap. But it just started last year. And so we're really trying to get that. Um, that account going our social, like, our outreach specialist wants to, you know. It's pretty much championed us to make sure that, like. You know, yeah, you guys kind of on that. So, um, I implore you please follow the Cooper, see the Cupertino parks and rec Instagram handle. I think it's Cupertino. I should why don't you check. I think it's Pupertino Parks and Rec, whereas the official city, like the overall city one is City of Pupertino. Please follow Pupertino Parks and Rec, IG, and more importantly, after you follow us, please share our program stuff. That really helps. I think our, you know, engagement, engagement, whatever, all that, right? We need to just kind of build that, and you guys are definitely a big part of it. Being more kind of like our netizens, like definitely netizens first, right? We are heavily relying on you to help us build our social media presence. I think our YAB post last week did pretty well, actually, and I was like, oh, that's probably all the YAB kids, too, but... That's kind of how it works, you know, same thing with the commission, same thing with our other programs too. Okay. But I'm going to be talking about that with, like, all of our groups, which is just like, guys, follow us share. Like, comment, if you will, you know, even if it's like. Oh, hey, food, you know, stuff like that. You know, I know, I know you're trying to be nonchalant, but so it helps if you can. Okay, so I said, I promised it was gonna be 10 minutes and I just jumped right out of six minutes. Okay, so we're gonna quickly go over some events. Most importantly for me, at least tonight too, is trying to get some of you dedicated to or committed to being moderators for some upcoming events. Some of them are coming up pretty quickly. But I'll point out when it's speaker opportunity. First of all, this weekend, we have the Rotary Fall Festival here in Memorial Park. It's kind of like a media mesh festival held by the Cupertino Rotary Club. That's really all I have to say about the Rotary Fall Festival. My fellow REC coordinator, Cristina Lopez, will be out there kind of supervising it, but it is a community event. You're free to join us or free to join, like come and participate. It's open to the public and the more the merrier, of course. On the 25th, on Friday, the activity board and myself will be having a teen movie night. We are going to have Jurassic Park 1993. I know that's like a really old movie to you guys, but that was like my childhood Jurassic Park. Okay, so a little bit of a throwback night for that one. And then in mid October, Pizza and Politics is coming. It's a kind of every other year event. We're gonna have the mayor there for that one. That one is a little more formal and That one's a speaker opportunity in which I need like a really strong public speaker for from the team commission. That one's going to be October 14th and 15th. I'm actually, I am like very quickly trying to commit someone to this event right now. So is anybody interested? Can I get like a show of hands? Oh, it's like half the group. Okay. Okay. I'm just going to say right now to probably going to. There's other opportunities I might. Prioritize a 2nd, year commissioner like Samita here just because I've also seen them. Do some of these things. Okay. I'm just gonna let you guys know, but there's plenty of other opportunities. I'm gonna try to, like, you know, commit you guys. As we go, so that, you know, we're not just having, like, 1 or 2 commissioners represent key commission for the whole year.

Okay, guys.

Monster Mash is going to be at the end of October. That's also going to need a moderator. That is our, and that one's more out here in the quad, and that one's kind of more of like a, you know, commentary, call and response kind of thing with potentially two moderators at it. That's going to be on Saturday, October 24th. Can I get a show of hands of who's interested in that one? Monster Mash, that one's like fun, colorful commentary, like, whoa, Buzz Lightyear to the rescue, you know, stuff like that, okay? Bees in Politics could be more of like a scripted, very formal, like we're talking business, like attire, you know, kind of event. Monster Mash could be a little more fun. I'm not trying to undersell Bees in Politics, but I'm just trying to kind of like characterize these two.

Okay.

And then in November, Team Speaker Series is coming back. We're going to do two dates. That's going to be November 14th and 21 and November 21. Anybody interested in those? Saturdays, 14th and 21. Pretty much the whole team commission. Thank you all for being so excited to participate. Yeah. Anyways, and then there's the Santa events in December, which we'll talk more about next meeting. But yeah, just wanted to kind of give you kind of most of the fall in, in preview, and then we'll talk more about Santa next meeting. And then I think we go into we talked about spring in November or December. I already forgot what the calendar is.

Sorry, I have to look it up again.

We'll talk more about those things, but besides speaker opportunities, these are also just kind of to put these events on your radar, too, okay, just so you know what's coming up. I'll do my best to keep you guys in the loop by sending you emails of this stuff, too, but in terms of where we formally are going to tell you, it's going to be here at these meetings for the most part. Yeah, anything else?

Quick question on the Monster Mash people that have raised their hand.

Of the people that raised their hand, how many have been at Monster Mash before?

Has anybody been to Monster Mash before? No.

Okay, awesome. And then I have one that I'm going to need to fill since we postponed. On May 16th at 5 p.m., and this should be a returning commissioner, I need somebody to attend the mayor's meeting here 5 p.m. and mayor's meeting. And you basically just give an update on what the team commission has done in this meeting. And you listen to any returning that are interested in being here for that. Okay, so.

Wait, are you saying like May 16th, 2027? Yes.

I don't know why I'm saying May 16th. The 16th of this month.

So sorry.

I have no idea where it came up with me. In fact, I'm going to double check my calendar to make sure I had the right month that I was looking. September 16th. I'm so glad that you asked that. Okay. September 16th. Okay. So I have three. Okay.

So far, I was like, I don't know if I'm going to be the same person as me.

Yeah, okay, so I think. I'm going to because you've had a lot of speaking opportunities. I'm going to. Talk to the both of you at the end of the meeting really quickly. Yeah, okay. All right. Any other things? Nope. All of our reports. Okay. We'll move on to future agenda setting. Quickly, I'll just say we usually will put the next meeting as anything that came from that work plan. We'll have on that link that you just look at that. And then This is an opportunity if there's something that is pressing that you want to add to the future agenda. But I will vet those things because if they are operational, sometimes we'll say it's not the appropriate place to bring it to. We don't tend to be like a legislative body. And so if you're like, I want to put something on to vote on an initiative for council to promote this legislation, we don't usually do something like that so just keep that in mind we're very very much advisory um but given that um are there any future agenda setting items anybody would like to bring up okay we do have things kind of laid out for us so that's not a problem all right um so moving on to the last item adjournment we will adjourn in one moment before you take off Please do stay so that we can take a photo of everybody in the lobby. And then also, it's super helpful for me if you can always grab your name plates and I'll put my life in. And if everybody can put their name plate in there, that's really helpful too.

And we'll clean up the fact that all take a picture out of the lobby together before.