Remarks by Larry Klein
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“Thank you, Councilmember. Next up is Councilmember Sal.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Next up is Council Member Chang.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. I have several questions. First up. So I was hoping to see from a study standpoint, I understand we're talking about hours of play, but it really a lot of this comes down to how often the fields are closed. And, you know, from from the let's say the natural grass parks, maybe it's in there, but I did not see like the number of days that a park is closed because, or a field is closed because the grass is in unusable space, is in an unusable state. And this is what we always hear in the wintertime, that the fields have been closed too long from, and talking to the AYSO parents, it's…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“and how it ends today and how it continues. But tracking that data I think is critical because this is one of the key things of, you know, supposedly the values of artificial turf. And we can talk about lights and we can talk about a lot of other things, but that is often, you know, and it goes to drainage and everything else also. And I appreciate the speed that this came back to us, but there are, to me, there are, you know, that's one of the things I would have liked to seen. And then the use at home. So we kind of talk about, you know, we did polling for residents who currently have…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. And talked about the study so so there's a recommendation to kind of change like what we're doing for lakewood and or you know it's conceivably how that's operated i know we we did a lot of direction from a council standpoint to improve the quality of that field looking at drainage looking at you know irrigation and everything else um what would be the cost on top of that to go more organic than it already is. And you talk about staff, the eight staff that you're kind of talking about here in general is that if every field went organic in the longterm or, you know, and as we add parks…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I appreciate that. Okay. Thank you. Next up is Council Member Sell. Additional questions from Council? Any other questions before we go to the vote? OK.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“OK. Seeing none, let's go back to where I was supposed to be. I'll go ahead and open the public open up the public comment on the specific item please submit a speaker card to the city clerk raise your additional hand now or dial star nine on your telephone to indicate that she was to speak i will call on members of public participating in person first followed by remote participants speakers will have two minutes to speak um And I'll be reading off two names. First person, please come to the lectern. Next person, be please waiting in the wings. First up is Daryl J followed by Robert P,…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Next is Robert B. followed by Barucho M. Thank you for the opportunity to speak.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Next up is Heruko M., followed by Kitlyn S.,”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Kitlyn S. followed by Mary B. Hi.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“um and i think that's all i'm gonna say thank you thank you um mary b followed by tiffany c”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Tiffany C followed by Carrie L.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Andrea W, followed by Susan H.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Oh, there's one moment. Can you come back for just a second? Oh, hi.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Next up is Courtney J followed by. Harris Harris are curious. Oh, Marius.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Marius R followed by Zach Kay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Zach K. Followed by, I guess, Mark Riddell.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Margaret L followed by Bruce P. Hi, I'm Margaret Lawson.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And my last speaker card in the room is Manny D.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. That was my last speaker card in the room. City Clerk, do we have any remote speakers wishing to speak on the side?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to council for final input. And David, can you pull up the last slide again? And first up is Council Member Lay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Next up is Council Member Srinivasan.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Next up is Council Member Tso.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. I'll summarize just a little bit. So thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all the residents who have emailed and met with me and been here tonight. So just kind of going through the options. So definitely I'm happy to see this report is here. I wish there was more data. I'll second what Council Member Lay talked about as far as having practices about when we close fields because of heat. Going forward, we need to keep track of when we're closing fields because of rain and, let's say, broken artificial turf that's been destroyed. This is something, you know, and because usage is…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you very much. With that, we will adjourn the special meeting at 7.10 p.m. We'll take a 10-minute recess and come back at 7.20. Thank you. Good evening. Let's call the door to the council meeting of July 28, 2026 at 721 PM. This city does not tolerate disruptive behavior in our meetings. Sunnyvale prides itself on the rich diversity of our residents. We are committed to creating a culture of belonging where members of our diverse community feel included, safe, and respected. This council meeting is considered a limited public forum, which means the council can regulate the time, place,…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026