Remarks by Sudhanshu "Suds" Jain
56 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 12:55
“Thank you for applying, Jonathan. What development in Santa Clara is a good example of planning and why?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 25:14
“Thank you, Jeff. Do you have any thoughts about the El Camino Real specific plan?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Nicholas, for applying. Santa Clara continues to face significant pressure for new housing and development, while residents are concerned about traffic, infrastructure, neighborhood character, and quality of life. How will you approach balancing these competing interests when considering a development proposal?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 48:38
“Thank you, Sean, for replying. Sorry I missed you yesterday.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 48:46
“Planning commissioners are sometimes faced with strong opinions from residents, developers, organized stakeholders. How would you evaluate a project fairly and independently when there is significant public advocacy on both sides?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 53:25
“I believe the instructions that were given to us is if there's more than four candidates, we do two votes.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:10:05
“all right we're going to take council questions and let me see here council member jane um yeah um i'm gonna make a few comments before i ask my questions to set the stage for my comments The VTA's project, the BART, Silicon Valley Project, which this refers to, is a very long-term project. It's over 20 years in the making, and one of the things that the grand jury proposed is interested in is having longevity with the commissioners, the committee members, because the project is so long, you lose a lot of institutional knowledge, you lose a lot of history if you keep changing members, board…”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:16:04
“So, my question is that I don't really have a question, I just have the comments. My question is that is there any way that the city can try to advocate to change the governance of VTA? That's my only question.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:24:38
“Yeah, this is actually the third grand jury report concerned about the governance of ETA. So this has been coming up year after year about the governance of ETA. And unfortunately, staff and the board have basically ignored these grand jury reports year after year. So I firmly believe that the governance needs to change somehow. And I agree with the grand jury report on that. Thank you.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 43:01
“What development in Santa Clara is a good example of planning and why?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 55:18
“Thank you, Jeff. Do you have any thoughts about the El Camino Real specific plan?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:07:45
“Thank you, Nicholas, for applying. Santa Clara continues to face significant pressure for new housing and development while residents are concerned about traffic, infrastructure, neighborhood character, and quality of life. How will you approach balancing these competing interests when considering a development proposal?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:18:42
“Thank you, Sean, for applying. Sorry I missed you yesterday.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:18:50
“Planning commissioners are sometimes faced with strong opinions from residents, developers, organized stakeholders. How would you evaluate a project fairly and independently when there is significant public advocacy on both sides?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:23:29
“I believe the instructions that were given to us is if there's more than four candidates, we do two votes.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:47:19
“Yeah. I'm going to make a few comments before I ask my questions to set the stage for my comments. VTA's project, the Bart Silicon Valley project, which this refers to, is a very long-term project. It's over 20 years in the making. And one of the things that the grand jury is interested in is having longevity with the commissioners, the committee members, because the project is so long, you lose a lot of institutional knowledge, you lose a lot of history if you keep changing members, board members. But that balances against expertise and interest. So this project is, you know, I've been very…”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:53:07
“So my question is that I don't really have a question. I just have the comments. My question is that is there any way that the city can try to advocate to change the governance of VTA? That's my only question.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:01:41
“Yeah, this is actually the third grand jury report concerned about the governance of ETA. So this has been coming up year after year about the governance of ETA. And unfortunately, staff and the board have basically ignored these grand jury reports year after year. So I firmly believe that the governance needs to change somehow. And I agree with the grand jury report on that. Thank you.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 24:59
“Thank you, Terrell. You've heard this before. Civil service commissioners may be asked to make decisions involving employees, management, labor organizations, and city policies. How would you ensure that your decisions are fair, impartial, and based on the facts rather than personal relationships or outside pressure?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 40:17
“Thank you, Timothy. What do you believe is the most important role of a civil service commissioner, and how would you balance protecting the rights of city employees with the city's responsibility to maintain accountability, high performance, and public trust?”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:01:18
“As we gather, we humbly seek blessings upon this meeting. May we act with strength, courage, and will to perform our obligations and duties to our people with justice to all. Let us seek wisdom so that we may act in the best interest of our people, our neighbours, and our country. All this we ask so that we may serve our community with fairness and respect, putting their needs before all.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:06:31
“Yes, I'm requesting that we move item number 10. That's my 030 on the sustainability manager.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:07:26
“Yeah, I'm requesting that we move item number 10, that's my 030 for the sustainability manager, to after consent. We have a number of high school students here in the audience, and we have some online that need to go to school early in the morning, so we don't want them to wait till 11 o'clock to hear that item.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
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“It's not gonna take very much time as our previous 030.”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I've actually been advocating for this for 15 years now, before I was on Planning Commission, before I was on City Council, and I'm just gonna read from the 030, which is a request to have this agendized for a future council meeting. The city used to have a sustainability manager who reported to the city manager. That person ended up working on other issues, like public relations, while still being in the role of the sustainability manager. We now have a management analyst who is supposedly dedicated for sustainability but is working on a number of issues like supporting the…”
City Council and Authorities Concurrent · Aug 25, 2026