City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the Campbell City Council for Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. And we'll start with roll call, please. Council member Lopez, here. Council member Hines, present. Council member Skazola, Vice Mayor Bby present. Mayor Fado

present. Just before we do the pledge of allegiance, the city clerk has asked me to make the following announcement. the public hearing to consider receiving theformational report on the city of Campbell vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts pursuant to government code section 3502.3 as noticed in the metro will not be heard tonight and will be brought forth at a future meeting of the city council. Um if there are any members of the public who are here tonight to because they had planned to speak on that item in particular, we nevertheless will take your public comments uh under the oral request portion of the meeting. So in case anyone came here with the intention of speaking under that item, even though we're going to hear it at a future meeting and of course obviously you'd be invited to come back at that time as well, but if you wish to speak tonight since it was noticed, um please do so under oral requests. And now I would like to invite uh our police chief and members of the Campbell Police Department to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. had somebody else too. Chief Berg, if you'd uh wait just a moment and have your officers as well. I'm would like to um take note of the

fact that uh during his presidency um in 1962 then President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Police Officer Memorial Day and it happens to fall during the week that is known as Peace Officers Week May 10th through 16th. So um I have a proclamation uh to present to the chief and to members of the department. Um our police department is uh very well trained. They work very hard to protect our city and also to provide a number of services. You may not be aware of the fact that all of our police officers are trained in medical uh emergency response. We carry uh automatic external defibrillators in all of our police vehicles and um oftentimes the police officers are first on the scene and actually have used the defibrillator to resuscitate someone prior to the medical rescue personnel being there as well. So they do a number of good things for us. Uh we have a number of advanced programs in the department um that the police chief and the department have worked on and I want to thank all the members of the police department this evening who are here um to commemorate National Peace Officer Weekend. I have the

I know I know They're all going to run out right away, but I just want to my thank you and really appreciation for the excellent work that Gamble PD does. So, just fantastic uh to see you all here. Thank you.

Okay. It's also my pleasure uh to proclaim um the month of May as um water safety month and um there are a number of drownings that continue to happen um in the United States every single year and uh water safety is extremely important and so I would like to invite our aquatics recreation specialist Liz Simonovich uh to receive the um proclamation for that purpose. The work that you and uh provide instruction and uh you know it just probably takes a few simple instructions that someone can learn to track water and avoid drowning. So I think it's important to do that from an early age for our children. Sometimes nobody realize how deep the water is. They think they're safe and they're not. But I'd invite you to make some comments. Thank you.

I forgot to stay there.

Um thank you city council and thank you uh mayor for this recognition. Um, as I shared in my staff report, uh, drowning is preventable and we take steps with our own, uh, recreation community services department, uh, to bring awareness to this fact along with, uh, we do a social media campaign, uh, that you can follow along with our Campbell Recreation social media. Um, and we also have lots of youth and adult swim lessons that are available uh for our community members uh both inside of Campbell uh but also outside of Campbell to uh take so they can improve their own swimming uh so that in the event uh that something happens they hopefully have the skills to be able to uh keep calm and and get themselves to safety. So, thank you so much. Um, and I would recommend that everyone follows our Campbell Recreation uh Instagram so you can see the fun things we'll be talking about uh this May. So, thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Yeah. Get my microphone turned on here. I'd like to proclaim uh May 3rd through 9th as um the 57th annual professional municipal clerk's week. And I'd like to honor our city clerk uh Andrea Sanders and the members of her staff. Um the city clerk in in a city plays an extremely important role is responsible for uh maintaining the official city records uh maintaining and uh making sure that council meetings are conducted according to the standards and rules and laws of the state of California. And um um the city clerk is often the person that people first see when they come into city hall and uh provides her staff uh she and her staff provide a number of um answers to a number of questions and direct traffic properly. Um she's responsible for conducting the um elections that occur in the city every two years. And so Andrea, to you and your staff, I thank you very much for all that you do for all of us. Uh, and I'd like to give you a proclamation as well.

Thank you very much. Yeah, I'll just add a comment to both the uh the swim instructing. It's just a fantastic for I'm a big believer in that and the the family is we're all we're all fish in the family. So, because of early early work like that and just the clerk's office is always very pleasurable to walk in and uh see that and and oftentimes get food too. Thank you very much.

We now move on to item 3.4. This is a presentation from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Um the uh local investment plan update. Um pleased to welcome tonight um members of the uh local Santa Clara Valley uh transportation authority staff. And uh we're also privileged to have the chair of the BTA uh board who is our own council member Sergio Lopez uh of course this evening and I'd like to ask him to make some opening comments.

Thank you. I'll just make some brief remarks to provide some context for tonight's discussion. So um uh it's my honor to serve as uh chair of the Valley Transportation Authority. And one of the things that was a major priority um for me when I came on as chair, I'm in my second year now uh was to make sure that we got out to all the cities. Um I I didn't know it would be in quite this context and uh you'll hear more about this, but um thanks to some state legislation that uh VTA uh joined in uh the county of Santa Clara has an opportunity um potentially to receive uh future funding. And so the the work now that BTA is doing and and thank you to to staff. They've been out um and at this point uh well over a dozen community meetings and we're trying to get to every city and the county um and dozens of community based organizations to really try to solicit input, thoughtful ideas uh and new thinking uh to challenge and push us on um how we can uh not just have more of the same but really transform uh our regional transit system especially uh here in Santa Clair County to serve our writers. Um, so you'll hear more about the specifics of that, but that is really um the goal and I would welcome feedback, input, questions uh from my colleagues as well as for many uh members of the public who may be interested um because this is really your investment plan and your opportunity um to weigh in and certainly other opportunities in the future which you'll also hear about. Thank you.

Thank you, Sergio. The presentation today is by Sam Sergeant. Good evening, Sam.

Good evening. Thank you very much, Mayor, Chair, members of council. Thank you uh for the opportunity to come and present to you this evening. Uh my name is Sam Sergeant and I serve as the director of strategy at VTA. Tonight, we're going to talk about, as uh Council Member Lopez said, about the regional transportation revenue measure um and specifically Santa Clara Countyy's portion of that. We've got a very unique opportunity here certainly relative to the other four counties that are involved in this measure uh in that we have other money to program beyond just keeping the lights on. And so what we are calling this is the draft local investment plan. And I want to walk you through some of the work we've done to date and uh and invite input either here or provide you with some uh future and ongoing opportunities for input into this plan. So VTA, as you know, we've got a big presence here in the city of Campbell and I think most people know that we are uh we operate buses and light rail. We operate par transit, VTA access for folks with disabilities. We also do a lot more. VTA is a very unique entity in the state of California and nationally in that we operate transit, but we also deliver things like highway projects, express lanes, bike pad improvements, and a pretty large transit oriented development portfolio. But in terms of transit, because that's really at the heart of the regional measure, you can see here we've got a lot of local bus routes in the city. We've got frequent bus routes, which means 15 minutes uh or better, as well as the light rail service. And then over the years, uh sources of funding for capital projects, whether it be measure A, which was passed in 2000, or 2016 measure B, which you see up here on the slide. And that's money that's gone into about $8.8 8 million at least programmed uh for local streets and roads as well as bike ped programs and uh studies for some of the highway projects mainly focused on 17. So the what of the regional measure so SB63

um as uh as council member Lopez mentioned this was the legislation that set this regional measure in motion last year. In August, the VTA board voted unanimously uh to join this 5count uh regional transportation sales tax measure along with San Monteo uh as well as San Francisco, Contraosta, and Alamita who were already uh opted in. And that was in large part because for them this funding is going to be uh to fund BART and AC Transit and MUN and Cal Train. But we have a different opportunity because of the financial state of VTA, which is much more positive. So, this is a uh proposed half cent sales tax rate, a 14-year term, which is shorter than uh the other sales taxes that VTA's put out there and shorter than most sales taxes out there. um it would provide us with 10.38% of the total back to Calr and that's to cover our obligations as one of the three member agencies of that quickly growing especially with the electrified service uh commuter railroad uh that is in some pretty dire straits in the coming fiscal years and so this is an obligation of ours that you can sort of take off the top along with 5.25% 25% to MTC for both administration of this 5count measure if it's successful. Uh but also some regional what's called the transit transformation action plan projects. This is regional wayfinding. This is discounted uh passes for low-income folks and seniors as well as some of the technology behind things like Clipper 2.0 which is meant to uh uh allow people to use credit cards and debit cards to ride transit in the Bay Area. At the end of the day, uh, this is projected to bring in about $264 million annually to Santa Clara County after those other obligations. That's an FY31 estimate, but over the life of this measure, you would be moving somewhere between 240 million into the low to mid30 millions. So, what are we going to

do with that money? Um, one other important thing to note is that this is a citizens initiative. I believe that the signature gathering which BTA has nothing to do with is is coming uh to a close and that would mean that once certified this would be a 50% plus one measure not a twothirds measure and it is also 50% plus one in all five counties. I think that's a that's a an interesting and important caveat. So what can the money be used for? So under SB63 uh regional measure funds could be used for quote public transit expenses and roadway repavement projects on roads served by fixed route transit. So this means transit operations, transit related capital and road projects if it's got a VTA bus or a train on that corridor. And we also are taking a broad view of that and uh and would like to see these be complete streets type treatments where appropriate. So, we would have the opportunity to talk about repaving, but also potentially redoing or installing sidewalks in close coordination with our cities and with the county. It is a little bit different as you can see from this than measure B, for example, in that this would not be funding highways, express lanes, bike ped uh standalone projects. We've had two um very good workshops with our board um and that was in February and April where we walked through what is the future of ETA and that could be in the context of this regional measure and potential new revenues but also just generally what what do we want to be going forward? How do we want to make sure that we are the most relevant and useful agency to the people and taxpayers of Santa CL County? And we focused on three primary outcomes. growing writership, increasing productivity, which means being far more efficient in the uh transit operations side of the house. And then enhancing our customer experience, which means providing the best, cleanest, safest, most secure uh customer experience possible, both for the customers of today and hopefully to entice future customers onto the system and making sure that we do so in a way that's

financially sustainable. whether that's over the life of a 14-year measure because 14 years will go quickly or just generally to make sure that we're not living outside of our means. We also walked our board through what we called uh the three strategic areas and when I get to the draft sort of framework of an investment plan, you'll see that the investments are grouped in this way. So foundation was investments that reinvest in the core of our transit system. So kind of a back to basics approach reimagine which is how do we modernize our business model and improve the delivery of service so that we can run more frequently more reliably to more places in the county and for a greater span of time throughout the day and on the weekends and then transformed. We're here in Silicon Valley. We're the transit authority for for this county and we want to make sure that we are leaning into innovation. So, how do we uh advance the use of new technologies in mobility and develop strategic partnerships potentially with the private sector to improve the customer experience? And that could also mean improving first mile last mile connections. There's a lot of places in a county this size where it doesn't make sense to run a 40 uh foot bus uh into a neighborhood or into a more rural or or semi-ural area. So, how can we pull people either to their final destination to places they need to go like school and healthcare or just into the rail and bus system? So, as we've been uh taking input uh from our cities and I'll I'll run through the cities that we've spoken to as well as some of the community- based organizations and the public. The feedback we've gotten has led us to uh to to seeding some types of projects that we think should be considered by the board. And I'll I'll also walk through the timeline for for the board's approval of this framework. But when I mentioned bus corridor improvements, we're talking about pothole and road repair, complete streets like I mentioned. And obviously for every city that we've presented at, this oftentimes ranks high on the list. And if there is a corridor that's got one of our train lines or a bus route, people are

certainly interested in in that investment. Upgrading our stop stations and vehicles, passenger amenities, improved seating, shade, shelter. you know, our bus stops and our train stations are the front door for the system and and we want to make sure that it looks like an enticing place to go and to get on board and vehicle upgrades to do the same thing. Safety and security, that's huge. And our polling that we performed back in November and December and also just um you know, common sense tells us that we've got to make sure that we invest in the infrastructure to make sure that it's safe and secure system for everyone who is currently riding and hopefully rides in the future. That could includes replacing and expanding our CCTV system, but also systemwide accessibility enhancements to make sure that it's safe for everyone regardless of uh of their mobility needs. Transit service stabilization. This is a carveout uh that is for in the event in the future that there are any kind of operating deficits or if we need to make sure that we maintain our operating reserves uh at at a certain amount that we could move uh money into that. But we unlike the other counties uh this is not going to be uh this is not going to be the main headline of of this uh of this investment plan. Moving into reimagine uh so the visionary network um is uh is sort of our northstar in terms of service planning for the transit network. This went through u an engagement process and through the board in 2019 and then sort of launches into the pandemic and so it has been slower to be implemented and at its heart it is how does VTA's bus and rail system get itself from 30 minute frequencies down to 15 or if you've got a place that's got 15inute frequencies how do you head towards 10 because frequency in the transit world is freedom. It fundamentally changes how people experience this system, especially if you have to make a transfer and especially during different times of year, whether it's wet, cold, warm. Thankfully, we've got great weather here in Santa Clair County, but still it it will transform what this system

currently is into what I think it it should be. And I think we're getting a lot of input that others believe the same. And doing so in a phased way to make sure we don't get ahead of the funding uh that's available to us. And that would also include coordinating with uh our cities on transit signal priority where appropriate. Also expanding programs for seniors, uh disabled residents, and students. This is something we've heard loud and clear from a lot of different corners in including school boards, but also city councils and the public. We've got about 21 individual agreements for uh youth passes with either school districts or high schools. And they're very popular, as you can imagine. Creates independence for for the students. It takes some of the burden off of parents and hopefully creates the next generation of transit customers because they've made that first step. It's no longer something strange and foreign, but it's something that hopefully works for them. So, how can we subsidize those more and make this far easier and far more uniform across the county to get young folks on board as well as seniors? There's already discounted programs there, but how do we how do we expand those uh customer technology, more real-time arrival information? You can imagine if you're not at a light rail station, you're at a bus stop and you can see when the bus is coming either on some kind of e-aper type tablet, for example, on a bus pole or just a more improved VTA app, it really changes how you think about that weight and especially if we're running more frequently, it will hopefully make it feel even shorter and like a more pleasant journey. Uh, expanding bus stop lighting as well. That's very, very important across the country and I think would be a big help in terms of safety, security, and customer experience for us. And then I mentioned transform. This is looking one step beyond and how do we prepare over the course of these 14 years to be ready for future technologies um and also ready to potentially join in on some uh projects that are that are in the works around the county. Things like better connections to San Jose airport, first mile last mile connections. Like I

mentioned, this could be in partnership with lifts, Ubers, Zuks, AVs. We'll we'll have to wait and see. But if we have a a pot of money that allows us to work on those pilots, we can at least get good data to drive better decisions. Then advanced vehicle technologies. We've got one of the older light rail fleets in the United States and they're coming up upon their Federal Transit Administration uh end of useful life. And so we are going to need to reprocure those vehicles at some point. And I also think you can look at the Cal Train example and I I used to work at Cal Train actually. um that's changed, you know, night and day what that customer experience is like along with schedule improvements. And so how can we do that so that yet another one of the front doors to our our storefront so to speak for the system is far more techn technologologically advanced and and just a lot more tempting for folks to get on board as well as transition continuing to transition our bus fleet and uh and like I said looking into potential AV pilots and then also some major capital investments um like Deiron station extending um extending some of our light rail lines uh including uh green line as well as double tracking so that we can get more frequency there and then some of our transit oriented development and station area projects. At the end of the day, um what we will present to the board will be something like this and it will have a lot more detail in it uh including this Thursday and we should be posting probably tomorrow morning our backup for this Thursday's VTA board meeting in the evening 5:30 p.m. Um and what we want to show is the three categories. We want to show these types of projects and we want to get the board thinking with input from from the public about what percentages should be applied to these different categories. And then you can see here the three outcomes. We want to make sure that everything we think about investing in has at least one of those boxes checked. Um including a likelihood of high results, medium, low, and hopefully multiple boxes. And then

ultimately we'll also have key performance indicators or KPIs that our planning team is working on right now so that we can have public facing dashboards if if this measure winds up being successful. But either way, we want to have dashboards that allow the public and taxpayers, city councils, everyone out there to look and say, well, the ETA said they were going to do this and they thought it was going to drive wrership. And if it is driving writership, then maybe we can entrust them to to do more of that. And if it's not, then we've got to go back to the drawing board and figure out what's going wrong because I don't think that we can manage uh things that we we can't measure. And so we want to get a lot better at that and have a lot more dashboards for that. And then finally, I think this is really important especially as we come to our city councils and to the public is that this is really the beginning of a journey and not not the end. And so we are looking for input in the here and now whether it's from the DAS or or through email or through any other avenue that that you may think of. But the plan here is that because unlike measure B, for example, you're not going to see this local investment plan on the actual ballot because the ballot language is standard across all five counties. Um, this gives us the opportunity through the VTA board and through the advisory committees of the VTA board to address the specific projects, specific dollar amounts through our bianial budget process. And like a capital uh investment plan, we propose a four-year rolling program so that we not only are looking at the current two years that are being funded from these new source of funds, but also what's coming two years after that. And then we'll have sort of an unprogrammed horizon uh that has some of these projects that we see here. So it gives us multiple checkpoints. So what gets voted on potentially in November is not locked in for 14 years. And I think that we're we're fortunate to be in that position. And like I said, using the the key performance indicators to track performance. Ultimately, we'll do an information item uh that I'll present on this Thursday. And then the board will vote on that framework uh with details

filled in at our Thursday, June 4th meeting. And I would expect um as we move forward that you would see um if money were to start uh flowing from a successful election that this would be a large part of our public facing engagement and city and county engagement going into the FY 2829 budget cycle which would be uh at the start of next calendar year. So um hopefully that provides you with an overview both of the regional measure and the process that we've undertaken. I think that we've now been to uh 10 10 or 11 of our city councils through the board of supervisors uh to about 15 uh of our community- based organizations who have their own networks that we've been able to access and we are scheduling a community- based organization nonprofit roundt in the coming weeks um as well as additional uh public engagement. and then we would like to come back if if the city councils will have us for some kind of educational updates potentially in the fall so that we can keep the conversation going. So with that uh I welcome any questions or comments the council may have. Thank you

Sam. Thanks very much. I appreciate that especially the level of detail um for the proposed use of funds should that measure pass and how how practical it uh it will be to implement here within our own county. So invite any of my comment uh colleagues to make some comments if they like.

Yeah, I I famously have described to the disas up here about my uh my personal appreciation of public transportation and uh uh like I said, I walked to Costa Mesa. I I walked to the VTA, the VTA to Amtrak and Amtrak down to LA and then uh another one down to Costa Mesa and then uh so uh I'm a I'm a big proponent of uh public transportation and I I use it often whenever the Cubs are in town too. So uh so uh definitely am a big supporter of public transportation. So thank you for the excellent presentation. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you very much.

Um, can I just ask procedurally, do we have public comment on all the presentations if there is interest?

Well, if any member of the public would like to speak, I don't call for public comment on each item, but any member of the public can speak on any item um that as it comes before the council. So, if anyone would like to speak on this measure or any of the other measures leading up to the official public comment, you're more than welcome to do so. Thank you. We now move to um item 3.5. This is the Campbell Youth Commission 2526 work plan review and accomplishments. So, um the member of our staff, Lauren Council, staffs this particular commission and uh I thank her, other members of the staff as well. And uh so I would invite the members of the youth commission. Seems like we just uh spoke to you not too long ago and you were outlining what you were planning to do for this year and uh it's already gone by very quickly. So um please come forward.

Uh good evening honorable mayor and members of council. My name is Jay Phillips, recreation coordinator. I am here tonight to introduce our youth commission. Tonight, they will be providing an overview of their accomplishments of the year. I would like to introduce our chair, Sophie Torm. To introduce the commissioners and highlight this year's accomplishments, Sophie.

Good evening, mayor and council members. The commissioners are Campbell residents representing the following schools. Archbishop Midi High School, Bellereman College Preparatory, Notre Dame High School, Rolling Hills Middle School, Westmont High School, and Lee High School. Tonight we have 12 commissioners with us here, and I'd like to introduce them. Commissioners, please stand when your name is called. Aiden Medina, Eden Tafari, Ashley Bridgnell, Kirk Kang, Brandon Kang, Leo Fu, Sahana Manivan, Amomar Ralph, Mason Johnson, Hora Conway, and Sarah Kongi. At this time, I'd like to invite our vice chair, Sarah Kongi, to present our accomplishments. We are excited to be back for our final presentation to share what our commission has accomplished this past term. We wanted to provide a curriculum refresher on the ad hoc groups that we had established at the start of our term and highlight how we have driven our efforts throughout our year. The ad hocs included team wellness, fitness and recreation, teen life skills, civic engagement and career building, and finally teen community and leadership. The teen wellness group focused on promoting both mental and physical health. They planned and facilitated engaging activities at the Campbell recreation open house which included dodgeball, crab soccer, capture the flag along with a gift card drawing that encouraged participation and community partnerships. The team life skills group supported personal and professional growth. They created a social media campaign with study tips and goal setting and worked alongside the Campbell recreation instructor with a nutrition background to facilitate a cooking class at the open house featuring simple recipes like cucumber sandwiches, guacamole, and bruschetta.

The teen community and leadership group focused on increasing youth involvement. They shared information about local opportunities like lifeguarding camps and the youth commission at the open house while facilitating interactive activities including face painting, bracelet making and trivia with prize drawings. In addition, recently we worked with West Valley Stormwater Authority where they created a video for social media to promote their adopt a storm dream program which they would like to share with you today. Apologize for the sound. In addition to the openhouse event, the youth commission supported several Campbell Recreation events, including the October Fest fun, storytime with Santa, and the Valentine's Day fun run. At this time, I'd like to invite Jay back up.

All right, folks. This concludes our update. Thank you for your continued support. We're proud of the impact that this group has made and look forward to future commissioners continue their work. We're happy to answer any questions. Well, first of all, I thank you very much for your presentation and for your work this past year. Um, I think you play a very important role within the community. Um, you provide help and support to your peers, but also advice to us. And, uh, it gives uh, young people like yourself to experience a few things about local government and what we do and what can be done in the community. Uh, oftentimes with volunteers um, generating their own ideas and projects and moving ahead with them. So, I thank you. Thank you so much.

Just a fantastic work. One of the survey studies that I just heard uh recently at Stanford was that two the two main priorities of uh of youth are uh AI technology and conservation. Uh you are representing just a fantastic contribution to conservation and the leadership uh that you're doing around that and and giving uh guidance to the rest of the city is fantastic. Great work. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. I have one. Yes. And I also want to mention that um we as a city council always have opportunities to work with other agencies and uh collaborate and it's nice to see that that's happening at the youth commission level um with the storm water um authority and and the video that was created um very unique and and I hope that um in the future that that um outreach is is continued with with some of the goals and objectives of the of the youth commission. Thank you.

Sure. I I just had a question. What thanks for um all the the update on the work you you've done to date. Um what are maybe just each of you um what are you most looking forward to for for the rest of your time? I'm looking forward to ending my final term here with all of my awesome commissioners and we're really looking forward to just seeing how our events have continued to impact the community whether it's contin continuing to share volunteer opportunities or setting up for next terms making sure everything's prepared.

Yes, like Sophie said, um I think we just want to take everything we've learned this term and put it towards next term and make next term even better than this one. Great. Well, you thank you both for for your leadership and congratulations on on your final term and thank you all for your service and leadership. Thank you. Thank you.

We have uh no no communications and petitions. And so now we move on to oral requests. This is the time on this evening's agenda for any member of the public to address the council on any matter not on tonight's agenda. Um if you'd like to um speak before the council, you're welcome to do so. I request that you fill out a speaker card. You're not required to do so, but I have several speaker cards which I'll go through first. And um each u speaker has two minutes to speak. So, first I'd like to invite uh Ellen Pronover,

mayor, council people. On April 13th, I met with Rob Eastwood, our community development director at his office. I asked him if there was any possible roadmap for the starter home application at 1170 Steinway not being approved. He said it was unlikely, but if the developer handed in their SB330 application, then it would be over for sure. The SB330 protects a developer's bane development application by locking in state laws for 180 days. He said he didn't know if Alpha X had done that or not. So I left his office with a glimmer of hope. The good news is that on April 14th, the day after I met with Mr. Eastwood, there was a planning commission meeting. The result of this meeting was that Mr. Eastwood put together a revised version of the interim ordinance 2344 that closed the demolition to render vacant loophole that was in the original city ordinance. The bad news is the next day Rob tipped off Alpha X and let them know they needed to get their SB330 in to protect themselves. This was just six days before the city council closed the loophole. How do I know this? I had a conversation with him on the 23rd of April. 2 days after the April 21st city council meeting. In that meeting, I asked Rob if someone had tipped off Alpha X. In our phone conversation on 23rd, Rob brought the subject up and said I had accused him during the city council meeting. I said, "No, Rob. I simply asked you if someone tipped them off. He then told me that in fact he did tip them off. I was flabbergasted. I asked him why. He said I thought they needed to know their rights. I didn't know what to say. But after that phone call, I did a little research and discovered that as a community development director, he's under no legal mandate to educate or advise the developer to exercise their SP330 rights. It is solely the developer's responsibility to know and exercise their rights. In my opinion, he stepped out of his role as a neutral city building official and the enumerated responsibilities of that position and stepped in the role as an educator and adviser to Alpha X. He may have wanted

to protect the investors from a financial setback which is admirable, but he should have remained neutral. This would have been an answer to our prayers because the starter home application for 1170 Steinway would not have qualified under the new city ordinance. Thank you. Thank you. and Heath. Yeah, I'll be uh continuing the statement.

My trust level with Mr. Eastman was very diminished after that. So, I started questioning everything. I emailed him on 428 and asked him on what date did you or your staff reach out to HCD regarding SB123. He responded that he did not that he did not read out reach out to HCD until April 16th. Personally, if I was going to write a city ordinance, I would have reached out to HCD while I was drafting it to make sure it complied with SB123, I certainly would have run it by them after I wrote it to make sure it was compliant, or surely when the neighbors all started pushing back, I would have checked with HCD to make sure I was on good footing. Rob chose not to do any of those things. It wasn't until after April 14th planning commission that he knew that this loophole was going to be closed, which was when he decided to reach out to HCD for clarification and guidance. It sure would have saved us a lot of grief if he had reached out earlier. Again, why didn't he ask the HCD? Well, maybe he didn't want to know. Maybe he had his own agenda. Unfortunately, it turns out that whatever the motive, his actions have not been in the best interest for the residents of Campbell. Maybe Rob is a big probuilding guy, and we can understand that. But it should never be at the expense of people that he's supposed to represent. His original explan explanation for the demolish and render vacant clause was to avoid blight. Will the 10 townhouse homes going in, if you look at the plans, look like shoe boxes stood on end without any art architectural articulation. This is a lose-lose for everyone. These homes will be terrible to look at, and more importantly, they will be terrible to live in. We would love for there to be entry- level homes here, but they need to be homes that fit into the neighborhood, not 35 foot shoe boxes created by a greed-driven developer that degrade our neighborhoods. Thank you. Chris Lindsay.

Hi. Uh Chris Lindsay. I'm at 322 Investor Street. Um so I was at the previous meeting uh about starter homes. The whole discussion just have some followup like to offer. Um first it was often claimed during the meeting that uh developers responsible for driving up the home prices. Uh I don't think that's the case. there were houses would be expensive everywhere. Why is it that houses are only expensive here in the Bay Area? Um myself and some others made the point that I think it's really just a matter of simple economics. We have constrained supply, increase in demand, prices go up. We to increase the supply, prices go down. Um so I don't think the high prices are the fault of the developers. I think it really is the fault of past decisions, policy decisions made that constrained housing supply. Um, and I think it's helpful to think about what community we want to have here in Campbell. There's a comment made in the last meeting that uh only tech bros can afford the high prices the house has been charged here. Uh, I agree with that point. Um, and the argument that myself and others are making is that in order for families and others to be able to afford and and be able to live here in Campbell, we need to increase the supply of housing in order to bring those prices down. I did not hear really any other counterp proposals or ideas about how to reduce the h the high price of housing. Um I did hear a lot of complaints and concern about the high price. Uh but also heard a desire to curtail further housing development. And frankly I think that logic doesn't hold water when confronted with the economic realities of the housing market. So, I ask that the city council is think about the decisions you're making now. What is the actual result of those decisions and how does that square with the community that we want to have here in the future? We want Campbell to be accessible to families to live and live and work and raise their families here. Uh, or do we just want to be a dorm for people to work in the peninsula?

Thank you.

Thank you, Travis Sculderi. Hello again. Uh, first off, want to say thank you to the council and the mayor for signing the updated ordinance two weeks ago to match state law. But there are two unfinished pieces of business that I'm going to ask you to sit down and talk to planning department about. The first is grandfathering. The planning department believes they must grandfather and that they need to wait for HCD to tell them otherwise. Have any of you sat down with the planning department and asked them what would it take for them to believe that they don't have to grandfather? And to walk you through some of the arguments that myself, our attorney, and others have made as to why grandfathering is not a legal requirement here. There are options. Second is around writing a new demo ordinance. I rewatched last week's recording and Mayor Fado to to paraphrase you said that the city should pass a new ordinance and then revise if HCD weighs in. You then said, and I quote, "Ask for forgiveness rather than permission." It's a phrase I use at home myself sometimes. Uh, Council Member Scazola is not here. He doubled down. But when the planning department said they must wait for HCD guidance, that was the end of it. But why? Let's revisit the history here. In July, the planning department held an emergency meeting on 1123. This was done without HCD guidance. The reason was blight concerns. Today, they're concerned about blight from demolition. Same concern. So, why does this version of the same problem suddenly require HCD guidance and quote take up to two months to re write a new ordinance? Berkeley and PaloAlto already have a demo ordinance and sure they may have been written before SB1123

but it serves the same purpose to reduce blight. So my ask for the council today is pretty simple. Let's move faster. First please sit down with your planning department ask them about grandfathering. Second follow your instinct that you already had two weeks ago and ask them to get a new demo ordinance on the books in this meeting two weeks from now months. If HCD weighs in later you can adjust. Thank you. Thank you, Bunny. Uh Harper, I believe it is.

Hi there, council. I'm just following what other people are saying about the grand bothering, but I want to show you everything. I live on Lucot Way. It's a beautiful It's a beautiful culde-sac in Campbell. It's great. We can park in front of our houses. We love this. That's what we see when we enter Lucat Way. This is what we see when we come out of Luc. This is a I think um it's not a starter home, but it's to code. Nobody was notified. Just Just think just picture on here. five units, 10 units, 10 town homes on this site. Notice the 4 foot easement between the the the house next to it and the new town homes. The design aesthetics, they're boxy and cheap. Property values, they're going down. The neighbors sunlight, it's blocked. The neighbors privacy is invaded in their backyard, their bedroom windows. Parking, the people that live here, where are they going to park? They're going to park all over here. And you know who walks on this street? Right behind these towns homes is Capri. All the kids, they walk here with their families and ride their bikes. And again, none of us were informed about this. No transparency. So, I just wanted you to see what's happening right in the neighborhood. But it's worse than that. And hopefully enough is enough. Um, I just want to ask you to um to bring this item to a form of vote as soon as possible. Thank you.

Thank you.

I have no other cards. Is there anyone online?

Yes. Ralpho, would you like to speak? Okay, can you hear me? Yes.

Okay, great. So, mayor and council members, uh, you know, the city has now revised its ordinance to require vacancy at the time of application. Uh, this is obviously a fundamental correction. This is not a small correction. The unresolved question is whether the applications filed under the prior demolish to qualify interpretation can continue to proceed, which is what we're all here about. Our position is straightforward. We don't think they can. SP1123 creates a ministerial path only for projects that meet state eligibility requirements. Vacancy is uh not just a local development standard. It's a threshold state eligibility requirement. If a property was not vacant at the time of application, it should not qualify for 1123 treatment. The city is relying on SB 330 to protect those pending applications. But SB330 does not solve the problem. First, SB 330 cannot vest a right that never legally existed. A local ordinance cannot override state law. Second, SB330 protects development standards. It does not decide whether a project is eligible for 1123 in the first place. Eligibility, as you know, must be determined at the time of application under the correct interpretation of state law. And these are all serious process concerns that we have here. Um the ordinance 2334 bypassed the planning commission. Uh even though commissioners later questioned why this was treated as an emergency, they they asked uh about what the commission's role was in an issue of such significance. No answer was given here to the planning commission. Uh HCD guidance was not sought before the ordinance was adopted in July. It was sought only after the loophole had been uh already been created. And these are not minor administrative issues. They go uh directly to transparency, neutrality, and proper public process. uh residents here should not have to spend significant time and personal capital litigating an issue created by the city. So the request tonight is simple. Add you know to the council's agenda the treatment of applications in

progress in light of the revised vacancy standard the need for consistent application SB1123 and 330 can lawfully protect ineligible applications. The city created the loophole. You guys have the ability to fix it. Please help us. Would anyone else like to speak on this on any item not on tonight's agenda?

Uh I will say for those of you who did speak tonight, I first of all I thank you very much. Um the issue is not closed as far as we are concerned. Um we do continue to work with our own attorney and explore the uh issues. Uh, with respect to the last speaker that spoke, any item that's an urgency ordinance comes directly to the city council. So, it could go into effect immediately if we send it to the planning commission, it needs to be noticed uh and then the planning commission has to schedule a hearing and uh then they weigh in uh with their advice and then it comes to the council. So, it um it does delay the process for quite some time. So, that's just a fact. And um as I said, we are uh we're not overlooking, you know, your comments even though it's not on tonight's agenda. We do continue to work on the matters.

Thank you. Thank you.

We now move to um item number six um council announcements. So, I have a few announcements tonight. Uh, first of all, uh, tomorrow we will be hosting the Campbell Multimotal Transportation Plan. Uh, join us at the Campbell Community Center from 6 to 7 p.m. to learn more about the plan and to share your input and draft recommendations. If you cannot join us, you can add your comments online um to our interactive map. Um, you would visit campbellca.gov/multimot GV/Multimodal. The next item is that the Boogie Music Festival uh draws over 45,000 attendees from across the Bay Area to downtown Campbell each year. Uh this year's event will take place uh over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, May 16th and May 17th. Uh it's a an event traditionally and has been for some time sponsored by the Campbell Chamber of Commerce. The executive director Ken Johnson is here. So, Ken, you're welcome to speak if you like. Um, there are many ways to be a part of this excitement. Um, you can volunteer at the festival. Uh, showcase your businesses with a booth, apply to become a food or artisan vendor, or join as a festival sponsor. To find out more, uh please visit the Chamble Chamber Campbell Chamber of Commerce uh website at info@chamble Oh boy. Try this once more. uh info at campbellchamber.net. The next item is that uh we invite you to join the Campbell Veterans Memorial Foundation in honoring the men and women um who have given their lives while serving in the United States military on Monday, Memorial Day, May 25th from 9 to 10:00 a.m. It will take place at the Orchard City Green, which as you probably know is immediately out back of

the council uh in the green area there uh separating us from the new library building. Um the next item is that city offices will be closed for business on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day. Police and emergency services will remain open. So this concludes the um council announcements. We now move to the consent calendar. Uh these are items uh 7.1 to um 7.11 which the council will take as a single item of business unless a member of the council or a member of the staff or a member of the public would like us to pull an item for uh additional discussion. Uh does any member of the council wish to pull an item?

I'd like to request to pull items 7.7 and 7.8. 8 7.7 7.8 Would anyone else like to pull an item for future discussion? Seeing none, I would request a motion to approve items 7.1 through um 7.11 with the exception of 7.7 and 7.8. So moved. I'll second. Um motion by council member Hines, second by Vice Mayor BY. Uh roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Vice Mayor By. Hi. Mayor Fado.

Hi. We now move to item 7.7, the monthly investment transactions report uh for March 2026.

Yeah. I just want to uh point out the uh uh we're all concerned about stock portfolios, our personal portfolios. Uh I just want to point out that uh on page 48 of the uh uh the asset uh portfolio there's it shows a favorable performance above the benchmark uh with a uh four plus 4% uh annual return. Uh very uh very conservative uh but also very favorable uh for the management of our assets or and that's uh you can see that in the report. Um on uh item 7.8 we are all very focused on measure K sales tax revenue. I want to uh point out on uh uh the uh the pages that are listing the cash flow projections that shows the collection of the measure K sales tax and the movement of that measure K into the Campbell tax campbell escrow account uh that is being held and managed by the city pending litigation. So, I just want to emphasize the the management and ongoing management of the measure K funds that that are held in escrow right now. Thank you. And with that, I'd like to propose a motion to uh uh move forward with items 7.8, 7, 7.7, and 7.8.

I'll second. Thank you. Motion by council member Hines, second by uh Council Member Bidy. Uh roll call, please. Just a point of point of clarification. Um we can do both of those items together. Yes, that's what I was doing. We're doing we're suggesting both of them together. Okay. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Vice Mayor Bbey. Hi. Mayor Fado. Hi. Let me just add um Terry my thanks and appreciation to the city manager and the finance staff for our investment report and uh it's favorable. It's it's good to have that. So, thank you for the due diligence that you performed in that regard.

Okay, we now move to item eight on the agenda. Public microphone. I always hit it, but it doesn't seem to go on. Um, item eight, um, public hearings and introduction to ordinances. We do not have any this evening. And item number nine, a new business. We have new new business. So now we move to item number 10, uh, unfinished business. Um, item 10.1, the prohibition, uh, on the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement actions. And, um, our deputy city manager, uh, Angelique Gada, will make the presentation. Thank you. Good evening.

Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the council. The item before you is actually a return of an item that you asked the staff to work on the last time we were here on April 21st. Specifically, it is a policy prohibiting the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities. When we met with you last time, we reviewed the um policies from three different cities, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyville. And the direction from the council was that we model our policy after that of the city of Santa Clara. So the attached policy for your review and consideration does just that. There are a couple things that we actually did um add to um that sample if you will, which is a definition of property so that it was inclusive of all types of properties that the city owns or controls. Um there's also the um exemption for existing um agreements and contractual relations or restrictions and we added language unless otherwise agreed to by parties to the existing agreement. So um it pretty much tracks everything that's in the city of Santa Clara policy. Um two other items I did want to address with you that were raised as concern when we met last. One was the issue of the library lease agreement since we have the our new renovated library coming online this weekend. We did um finish the um negotiations for that lease agreement and we were able to include in that lease agreement language that recognizes all city policies and procedures with this policy in mind. Um, so it would be subject to this policy as well in that that property could not be used for civil immigration enforcement activities. With regard to any of our properties that are controlled by Santa

Clara County Fire, Santa Clara County Fire is under the county and the county has its own um policy similar to the one we're bringing before you tonight which prohibits the use of county-owned or controlled property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities. So, both of those concerns that you raised are covered. Um, just wanted to make sure you're aware of that. Even though it's not spelled out in the policy itself, those were tech taken into consideration and are um, included in the staff report. Um, and before I take any questions, I did want to invite our chief of police up to um, the podium. He wanted to add some additional comments to our uh, report this evening.

Uh, thank you uh, Mr. mayor and uh council members. Unfortunately, I wasn't uh in attendance at the meeting on April 21st. But during that meeting, there was uh a comment made that was attributed to me that I wanted to make sure was clarified both for council and for the public who may have been listening to that. Um during that meeting, Council Member Scazola made the following statement regarding ICE. And I quote, "They can do whatever they want. It's unprecedented. These guys are thugs. They're very poorly trained. This is another thing the chief can tell you is that these guys are just right off the street. They do not go through ple the police academy. They do not get FBI training. They just they're just random hires off the internet. End quote. I want to be clear that I have not had any conversations with council members Cazola about ICE and the comments he made do not reflect my beliefs or um what what I believe to be true. Um I don't agree with his characterization. I think federal law enforcement agencies um have very different policies and hiring practices than than we do here in Campbell, but nonetheless, they they do have their own very uh strict hiring policies. I think it's important to have conversations that are grounded in fact and whether or not there's agreement or disagreement, I think it's really important that those conversations uh are are based in in the reality of what's going on. So, I wanted to make sure council and the public was aware that uh that those statements uh made by council member Skazola at the previous meeting do not reflect my beliefs and uh are actually uh quite different than what I believe to be true regarding ICE. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Um first I will ask um if members of the council have any questions about um the presentation so far. So just questions from the council. Oh, okay. Yes. Um, we've re maybe you're planning to get to this. We've received a number of uh questions regarding uh signage. Um, and it's briefly discussed at the previous meeting. Um, I I I know those have been uh included as part of um the packet for tonight's discussion, but just wondering if you could address that.

Certainly. So, um, we did receive the same, um, uh, emails that you're referencing and had a chance to review them. We did make sure that we went back and were clear on what council's direction was. And on April 21st, the council's direction was that we not install signs on our property. And so, what we brought back to you was a policy and a plan that was consistent with that. Totally clear on that. That's not what I'm asking. I'm just wondering if you can reference the the the points, questions, uh, concerns raised in the emails. I I know that wasn't part of the direction. So, are you asking that I go down each point that's made in the email regarding signage? Have

I I don't have the email in front of me, so I'd have to have a copy of it to know what it is that you're asking. Okay. Well, some some of the commenters, and this is for the public, this has been included um in the packet, but included things like saying um that the um uh ability to um enforce uh legally may be stronger um that uh we if uh there be language included on signage um that property is not for um staging of enforcement actions. Does that ring a bell? Uh well, I would have to defer to our city attorney on the strength of a legal claim if signage is or is

Yeah. Or city attorney, whoever can speak to that, assuming that the you've reviewed the I I would just say that uh the enforcibility of the uh proposed policy is not dependent on signage. Thank you. Um and what about from a staff concern? Were there concerns with um uh with with costs of signage? Um the concern was to follow the direction of the council. So that was not taken into consideration because it was not something we were asked to do. Okay. Um what we were asked to do was to identify all the city properties and track them that way. Okay.

I'll hold questions for now, but I may have more after the public comment. Thank you so much. Uh thank you. I will um actually um invite public comment at this time on this matter. I have several um cards here and if you'd like to speak on this matter again I request you fill out a speaker card. You're not required to but I'm going to go with the speaker cards first and then if anyone is online. So first I'll invite Karen Martin please. Uh, thank you. Committed to supporting and welcoming all people. Thank you for your leadership and commitment to making Campbell a safe and welcoming city for all members of the community. Thank you also for taking the time to carefully consider the policy on the prohibition of use of city property for civil im immigration enforcement activities as initiated by council member Lopez. I've chosen today to focus on two items. The need for signage about this policy and the need for the policy to apply to all city properties without exception. Please imagine for a moment that we're in June of this year, just a month away, and that federal agents have come to the South Bay area in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. Imagine a team of agents is looking for a staging area and chooses the parking lot of the Campbell Heritage Theater, a Campbell City Community Hub. Without signage and without a clear policy applying to all city properties, city employees might be uncertain about how to apply this policy. They might wonder, do we need to go look at every contract for every community group that uses the facility to determine how to apply the policy in a in a tense moment, right? In a moment where agents have arrived and are starting to use the parking lot, this

could lead to uncertainty, ambivalence, and lack of enforcement in the policy. Imagine instead that the policy is consistent throughout the city and signage reinforces the policy. In this case, those agents, those federal agents might notice the signs and choose a different city or strategy for their staging activity, avoiding the difficult situation altogether. If we have a policy that has too many caveats to understand or is not clearly communicated to all constituents, then it will not be effective or enforceable. I urge you to approve the policy on prohibition on use of city property for civil immigration enforcement activities and enhance it by including signage and removing the exemption for current contracts so that you make a clear, consistent, enforcable policy in support of all members of the cam uh the Campbell community. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Louise Arhon. Thank you. And hello again, Mayor and Council. Luis Houran. Um, I spoke earlier on wage theft and I stayed for this item too because it affects much the same people, the workers and families who are the heart of our community, Silicon Valley, the valley of hearts delight. So, I want to thank you all for moving this issue forward and to trying to help make Campbell and our South Bay a safe place for all of us and for all of our families. I urge you to adopt this policy um and to include signage. Um signs are literally they send a signal. That's what signs are for. And putting up signs um even as a small gesture really sends a signal um to all community members, immigrants or non um that this really is a place for all and that this you know the city property is a safe place for everyone to be and gather. Uh and that's really

important as a visible signal um of what this community stands for. I also urge you to include all cityowned property. Um, it was good to hear the library lease is now included. Um, especially surrounding parking lots. Um, in my personal time, I volunteer for the rapid response network, which means we get calls from folks who see ICE activity and staging in parking lots is incredibly common. It's it's kind of their MMO. um either staging or sometimes even um grabbing someone and then bringing them back in the van to the parking lot. Um you don't want your city parking lots u yours or least used for that. Um and finally, I just urge you to make sure that this is in place and implemented before the World Cup because we always see a huge increase um in all sorts of issues including wage theft, trafficking, and this year probably ICE enforcement um or other intimidation as well. So again, thank you and hope you'll consider those small additions.

Thank you, John Richards. Thank you. My question will be very brief. Has there been specific ICE activity on Campbell City property? If so, when? And how broad will will this resolution cover all all city property? Thank you. Thanks.

Um Nian Arbok uh Brinerman. I'm sorry I may have mispronounced that. Um, hello Mayor and city council members. I'm a Campbell resident and I love our town and the community we have. I want to keep our community safe. Federal immigration enforcement will not help keep our community safe. We have all seen their actions since cities like Minneapolis. ICE hiring policy is not strict and they hiring people with little to no background checks. You can look up independent journalist Laura Chadid who was hired with no background check. I'm here to support a prohibition on use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities. I'd urge you urge you to adopt a strong policy as initiated by council member Lopez to protect the safety and well-being of all community members and city employees. This is important to me because we must take care of our community and neighbors. Please seriously consider including the following to strengthen the proposed policy. First, add signs to city properties to clearly establish legal boundaries and accountability. Second, include all city- owned and controlled property. Third, provide resources for businesses and the community so that they know their rights and how to assert their rights. Please make sure this policy is strong and clear to assure community members, employees, the city of Campbell is committed to the safety and well-being of the community. I also look forward to supporting your future vote on an ordinance requiring law enforcement to identify themselves and not wear masks. Thank you. Thank you Flynn.

Hello Mayor and council members. Thank you so much for your leadership on this important policy. Um my name is Ami. with the Immigrant Protection and Empowerment Network. We are a cross- sector collaborative across our county working with many cities and so we are really happy to be here with you and Campbell and um the people who spoken before me have brought up the issues that we we also want to emphasize the um the signs, the inclusion of the properties such as the uh Campbell Heritage Theater, Community Center, etc. and and the timeline. I know you talked about this last time and so I believe that you're fully committed to having this in place um in fully prepared before FIFA World Cup. And I'll just add um that we also really encourage you to think about using the Santa Clara model. Santa Clara um as the other cities in the county include signs and Santa Clara also has a website that has the know your rights information, the information about the policy including downloadable signs that businesses and organizations in the city can utilize. So that shouldn't be a big expense and we hope that that will be something that you will consider including as well. And lastly on the signs, the just using the city of San Jose signs, it's only $62.25. So some of us were even saying uh rapid responders etc saying we'll take up a collection we don't want the the budgetary um those small budgetary issue to be a barrier. So thank you very much.

Thank you uh Abigail Brenamman. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and vice mayor and city council members. My name is Abby Brenamman, and I'm a Campbell resident. I'm also a local teacher. Um, thank you for your leadership around providing a safe community for all and for prioritizing this issue. Um, and I'm encouraged that we're here talking about it. Um, I support a strong policy to pre prohibit federal immigration enforcement on city property. Um, this is important to me because I've been thinking a lot about and talking to my students a lot about what it means to be a bystander versus an upstander and how do we visually show what's important to us? Um, and how do the things that we say and do show our values? Um, and it's important to me that all community members feel safe and that everyone is confident and knows that the city of Campbell is doing everything that they can um to provide that safety um and protect us from the harmful actions um that we've I've seen on the news that ICE is doing um to immigrants and citizens alike. Um and so please include the following to ensure that policy is strong and reflects our values. um signage. This is an important visual. Um and I know students like just because it's in the rules, if they don't see it and hear it, who knows if it's happening. The same thing for adults. Like if we don't see it and hear it, who who knows? Um and so that signage can really help people feel confident and like know that Campbell is here to protect them. Um and then the same thing for resources for businesses and community. if that signage is visible everywhere in Campbell as a community come coming together um all of our

values are really clear. Um and then another part of that consistency including all of the city owned and controlled property including the existing um leases, the community center or the heritage theater um can help show that the whole city is on the same page. Um so thank you. And then for timing make sure it's before the end of May. Thank you. Thank you, Matt Hammer.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, city council members, and city staff. My name is Matt Hammer. Live near here and sent my children to public schools in Campbell. I'm working with the immigrant protection and empowerment network in the county. Thank you for your leadership and commitment to serve all members of our diverse community. I'm here to urge you to adopt a very strong policy to protect the safety and well-being of community members and city employees. I know so many children and parents who wonder if this will be the last day that they'll see each other. This trauma is widespread and won't go away anytime soon. With the federal administration doing all it can to make immigrants feel unsafe, there's so much that we can do here to counter that and make our city a model for for being welcoming. Like some other cities in the county have already done. Please approve a strong policy here that will limit DHS's use of city property for its terror campaign. At the last city council meeting, there was some concern about the proposed public signage could possibly add to the fear. I've seen the signs the city of San Jose is using and will actually be very reassuring. It says, quote, "Notice, this property is owned or controlled by the city of San Jose. It may only be used for city purposes and may not be used for civil immigration, enforcement, staging areas, processing locations, or operation spaces. This is very clear language and sends the message that the city is concerned and cares for its immigrants. Likewise, there is some concern, as others have mentioned, about the cost of signage. Given the tight budget, of course, you have to be worried about that. Thankfully, these signs are cheap, about $65 each. And like my colleague and friend at Kem said, we'd be happy to help do a collection to meet that very small cost. So, thank you very much.

Thank you. Do we have anyone online? We don't. This is These are all the speaker cards I have. Does anyone else wish to speak to this matter? Okay. I'll close public comment and I'll ask city manager if you had some comments, please.

Thank Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to address a few things. There was a question about the the um uh previous or existing use of city properties by federal immigration officers, and we're not aware of anything on city properties to date. So, I wanted to make sure that was clear. Uh, and it's not in response to anything that's happened on city properties. Uh, the the uh other question, maybe it wasn't a question, but statements that I heard about all city properties. I wanted to clarify. I'm not sure how uh community center uh and the Heritage Theater got excluded from these discussions because the city's proposal before you this evening includes all properties, which would include the community center and the Heritage Theater. And what was clarified by assistant city manager GA uh a few minutes ago uh was the remaining properties that are under leases by Santa Clara County, which includes the library on city hall property uh and the two fire stations on city hall property would already fall within our policy and be compliant with our policy. So I just want to make sure that was clear to the public. There's no other properties that would fall outside of this. the community center, the heritage theater, the library, and our fire stations would all comply with the same policy.

Okay. Thank you. Can I ask city staff to uh add one other clarification about the communication that you've given to all staff associated with uh should any of this be observed. If you could uh Yeah, maybe just uh in clarifying and comment uh that signage helps our staff understand enforcement. Um, we've already given um, direction, training for all of our staff to understand what to do when immigration officers appear on city property. Our staff is wellversed on what is city property and what isn't. There's no confusion at the heritage theater, the community center, the library, city hall, and any of the the parks or city properties. Uh, and they've been given specific training on how to handle those situations.

Thank you. Uh, so now I'll open this up for council discussion and potential direction.

Well, I'd like to once again, as I did at the last minute, express my appreciation to staff for all the work on this in a a short amount of time when there are many competing demands. Um, as well as my council colleagues for for taking the issue um uh very seriously. It does not go unnoticed and and it's deeply appreciated. Um and I I feel fully confident that um whatever we pass um along with the training that already has happened that all this will be in place um before the the the World Cup. So um absolutely think that we we are rising meet the moment in that regard. Um and and thank you for for clarifying that all city properties are are covered under this at this point. Um the the only thing I would add if uh my colleagues are open I I I would include the signage just because it seems like such a nominal cost that just to communicate um our policies to to the public um seems like a positive step in terms of uh transparency. But I appreciate the the reassurance that even without the the signage that the that's not what the um legal enforcability u depends on if if I'm not putting words in your mouth, Bill. Um, so, um, I I think whichever version we move forward with, uh, will will be strong and and we'll be protected and building off that work. But I I would gauge the temperature of of my colleagues to see if there's any desire to include signage within that.

Yeah. I want to really emphasize and uh appreciate Council Member Lopez's leadership in this that um really, you know, I'm going to read it right off of the resolution. a prohibition of the use of city-owned and city controlled property for civil immigration enforcement activities is uh uh that component is uh a key fundamental part of uh what makes our community a successful community in in uh uh accepting and uh um protecting um all uh all people of every uh immigration status, race or or otherwise. So, um I uh I really want to emphasize and I I do want to emphas also emphasize and appreciate the importance of getting this done tonight u for uh for going forward. And um I uh I would support the signage uh as well as long as we could agree on it the resolution tonight. I think it's an important thing to be able to make sure that uh uh we get it um uh we get it going in light of the activities that are coming in very quickly.

Yeah. So, I want to thank staff for bringing back the policy that was reflective of our council direction without the signage. I don't support the signage. Um, I think it's an added cost that's unnecessary and um, also places a burden on staff to have to install those signs and um, our our resources are limited, time is limited and so I'm would be supportive of the policy but not the signage

and and likewise I support the policy. I I think I many people have been appalled by the tactics that ICE has used in other locations. I think it's sad. Um with respect to the signage, I know that's the most um pressing um issue here regarding that. Uh that is not a small cost actually if each sign cost $62. Um we have several locations and then there is also the employee cost of um actually um taking the time to put those signs everywhere. Then there is an additional cost of maintaining the signs. Um, inevitably you have graffiti and people spraying over it and doing other things. You know, there's it's a very unfortunate it's a very political issue rather than what should be a a justice issue. Um, and so I I'm just concerned we're already spoking speaking earlier tonight about the uh uh the impingement on our budget and uh how we can sort of meet some of our expenses and some of our def deficits at the same time. treat our employees fairly as well. So, um that would be a problem for me. Um the cost and the maintenance uh of this issue even though I definitely support the policy. So, I I guess with that, if there's no further comments and and I appreciate the very clear statements um and respect everyone's opinion, with that, I would move the staff uh recommendation to adopt resolution adopting a city council policy prohibiting the use of city-owned and city operated property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities.

I'll second. Thank you. Have a motion and a second. Discussion of the motion? No. Okay. Roll call, please. Council member Lopez. Hi. Council member Hines. Hi. Vice Mayor Bbeby. Hi. Mayor Fado. Hi.

Thank you for now to council committee reports. Don't leave yet. It's still more exciting. What's that? Everybody's out. Okay. Uh, council committee reports. Uh, members of the council have reports to make. Vice Mayor By,

I have a couple. I attended the library JPA meeting last week um the Arbor Day celebration. Thank you to Amy and your staff for the um great event and for the um student involvement in that and including them. It's nice to see th those students learning about trees and oxygen and and and um preserving our future. And um I also attended the DCBA wine walk which was a very seemed to be a very successful event.

Uh sure I'm happy to go. So um thank you to my colleagues for um bearing with me when I was remote last week. I was in attendance um in Sacramento at the uh League of uh city cedar uh city leaders summit and members of the peninsula division met with um I have the list here but I think it was eight or 10 uh different say legislators and we split people um up among uh the their representatives. Um, and speaking on the um the the top uh priorities um and um as as I shared previously and and also from just having uh been up there mostly on uh VTA related business in Sacramento, I've had the chance to hear a number of the um hearings actually for the ebike bills. Uh I wasn't specifically there for those, but it just happened um to be around and it's it's interesting. There's a lot of debate on both sides. um the bicycle advocates are kind of in sense and saying that um it it's going to um lead to less people being able to bikes and you know all the health benefits all these things um but uh the the general sense that I got was that the authors are willing to consider uh amendments incorporate some of the critiques and so I do feel that this is going to be um probably more so than than housing to be honest that one of the biggest things we're going to be seeing is movement on uh ebikes whereas it doesn't seem like there's big housing bills that seem to be mo moving forward. So, just kind of my layman's take both from the um the city leader summit and then um again I've u spent about four or five days in Sacramento on BTA and other related uh bills. Um so that was what I was able to do.

Yeah, thank you. I don't think that was a layman's take. I think it was a uh very uh very appreciative to be able to get that perspective. Uh thank you. And I too attending the the Arbor Day plant tree planting. I learned a lot. I learned the genesis of it as where I got my u my master's degree. So uh interestingly enough uh and or at least the state uh I attended a uh a very good summit a very interesting one and basically because of my technology background put together by Mayor of Peloto in coordination with Stanford on data center sustainabil sustainability and the building of the sustainable data center. So quite interesting conference that they had. I attended the uh San Jose District 9 Music in the Park by Pam Foley. I think this was her last one, at least in the current vice mayor role. Uh so that was that was really fun to see that. And then uh I uh Mary and I put together a Campbell Village neighborhood block party and openhouse uh and uh uh we had over 50 neighbors uh joining us for that and another 15 had RSVPd that could not make it. So, uh, a lot of great conversations, a lot of great communication and, uh, a lot of great questions to me and and one person actually admitted reading the whole, uh, uh, general plan. So, I was, uh, was quite impressed. Yeah, quite impressed with that. And he was quite familiar, quite knowledgeable in it. So, I want to do a shout out to the Silicon Valley clean energy and the East Earth Day outreach programs that they did. Uh I joined them at a celebration uh at Saratoga Saratoga Elementary School where they they had taken and gone around to couple of places. So they just was a tremendous outreach to um teaching the kindergarteners to fifth grade or TK

to fifth grade on clean energy components. So thank you mayor. That's all my

Thank you. Yes, I attended Arbor Day. Uh very nice event. Council member Hines was there as well as Vice Mayor Bbeby and was very pleased to see the young students from the Da Vinci Academy, the elementary school that rents the space over at the Campbell Community Center. Uh they're always wellprepared. Several three children uh read um some comments about Arbor Day. They're very articulate, very well prepared. They did such a nice job. and our parks and recreation uh park staff um was kind enough to uh plant six trees and had shovels there for the students to help so they understood uh sort of the A's, B's and C's of planting a tree and how to do it and uh and what to do. So, it was a it was a nice event. And uh I I should have mentioned during the mayor's announcements earlier that uh the grand opening of the library, of course, is this coming uh Saturday at um nine o'clock. At 10 o'clock,

10 10 o'clock. Yeah, I'm sorry. 10 o'clock. uh over at the library itself. Um there will be a few welcome speeches, ribbon cutting, and uh then there'll be a great deal of entertainment and fun and the library will be officially open uh for people of all ages from young children all the way to senior citizens. So look forward to that. City's moving ahead. So it's great. With that, uh I think that concludes the council business. Thank you all for staying and for your participation. and we'll adjourn the meeting.