Senior Advisory Commission - Regular Meeting

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It's now 06:04. I would like to call the meeting, the NERC meeting of 05/18/2026, to order at 06:04PM. I will now take the role. Member Chahal is not here. Member Ross? Here. Okay. Member Collins? Present. Member Mulquaney is not here and has notified us that she will not be able to attend. Member Zeng? K. Member Forgy? Present. Alright.

So since member Mo Queenie had notified us that she's not able to attend, I'd like to make a motion to excuse her.

Is there a second? Second.

Second. All in favor? Aye. All right. Opposed? All right. Passes. Okay. We generally, if somebody lets us know that they're not gonna be here, we but we make a motion to excuse them. Member Chahal did not let us know. So if somebody wants to excuse make a motion to excuse them, they can. Generally, I'm not Nothing? Alright. There's no motion to excuse him. He's in unexcused absence.

Alright. So now before we go to consent, there's been some big news in Santa Clara from Santa Clara University. So I'm gonna entertain member Collins or member Ross to make an announcement.

Yeah. Is it possible to jump to the our presentation? I've got a slide there. Maybe just jump through it.

It's on the agenda for the work plan.

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It's gonna be slide five.

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So many of you may already know, but the universities had two very large announcements in the last month. One, the first one was, due to a generous donation from a trustee to form the Cunningham Showquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential. That's this is big for us. It will, form an interdisciplinary hub for the campus community and our, industry partners to work together to find ways to utilize AI, in ways that, benefit humanity, and not just for profit. And that's just one example of the research that's being conducted at you at Santa Clara U there, but there's dozens of others where AI is being utilized.

So this is gonna formally it'll it'll make a center. We'll have a hub on campus, where people can integrate together. We'll have the technology. So stay tuned for a little more, but, it's pretty exciting for us. And, Deb Schochwist has been a great partner along the way, to get to this point.

Any questions on that one before I go to the next one? K. And then the next one, this one, which was just announced on Friday, so, this was also very exciting for us. This is we are launching with, in partnership with Sutter Health, the Mark and Mary Stevens School of Medicine. This is I did not know this at the time, but the first new medical school in the Bay Area in a hundred years.

So this is a partnership with Sutter Health largely made possible by the generous donation of Mark and Mary Stevens who have connections to the university. It'll be in Santa Clara, on Mission College Boulevard, about a quarter mile maybe a half mile away from where the new hospital is gonna be formed. So the the hospital, which was announced already over by Mission College, and our medical school, which is, adjoined with two other Sutter Health buildings, are it we'll be able to produce on we'll have a 120 students per class going through when we're at full tilt, graduating new new physicians that will then most likely move on, into their residency programs, hopefully, in the Bay Area and through Sutter to keep them here for 60% of physicians who graduate actually leave the area. So this is to really serve an unmet need, for more physicians, not around here and also within the state. So the opening date, our expectation is that we would the first class would begin in 2030.

We still have to build the facility, go through accreditation, and all the other check off the boxes, elements that have to be done to start a new medical school. So this is a new journey for us, and we're very excited about it. Thank you, Suds.

This is, very significant because we're predicting a deficit of 4,000 positions in the Bay Area by twenty third. Certainly help with that deficit, and building already exists. It's a matter of building it out and getting accreditation. Alright. We can move on to our regular agenda.

We have the consent calendar. There's one item on the consent calendar. That's the NERC meeting minutes of 03/02/2026. The procedure for the consent calendar is as follows. Consent calendar items may be enacted, approved, or adopted by one motion unless requested to be removed by anyone for discussion or explanation.

Any member of the NERC commission, staff, or a member of the public wishes to comment on a consent calendar item or would like the item to be heard on the regular agenda, make this request now. Items listed on the consent calendar and associate file numbers constitute public hearing items. So is there a motion to approve or a motion or a request to move this to the regular agenda?

I motion to approve. Second.

Member Collins and member Ross. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Vane? Opposed? Alright. Passes unanimously. K.

So now we have public presentation. Would any member of the public wish to address this committee for items that are not on the agenda? Anyone online? K. Alright. Move on to public hearing items. We have two items for public hearings. The first item is number two, neighborhood university relations committee work plan priorities discussion and creation. Sarah, staff recommendation staff presentation.

Yes. There is. Thank you, chair Jane. Can everyone hear me okay? Yes. Sounds like it. Alright. Thank you, everyone. I'm Rina Brio. I'm the director of economic development and sustainability.

As many of you who've been paying attention know that our NERC has been reorganized. We certainly have more people who are representative of different interests now sitting on this committee. And as part of that, I think there's been feedback in the past that this particular committee was just providing updates and wasn't getting some substantive community topics, university topics addressed. And so this particular item is about developing work plan priorities. And I'm gonna walk us through there was a council report, or I I should say a committee report that was created on this item.

But, essentially, jumping ahead. Here we go. So for today, really, the intention of our process is to recognize that we want to pace out the work of this committee based on really how this committee sees the priorities of what topics should be addressed, talked about. And staff requested, and and we shared this at the last committee meeting, that we were going to ask committee members to provide input on any work plan topics they had by Friday, April 17. And so staff did follow-up with the committee members and did receive input on those work plan topics.

And when we received those topics, staff also analyzed them to make sure that, one, you know, they are in the scope and purview of NERC. And quite frankly, also, you know, this body doesn't have the ability to create new topics or work that would be adding resources. Right? That's a decision that our full city council would have to do. So what are, if anything, things that could fall into that bucket?

So staff reviewed the proposals for both, hey, the the the scope as well as sort of, you know, the realities of what our budgets and staff work can do to accommodate that. And so, really, I'm gonna share with you in the next slides different topics. But wanna point out at this moment, of the topics that we received, they're really just, like, three that need a little bit of additional discussion. First, you know, wanna recognize that Santa Clara University is voluntarily participating, and we need their cooperation for a lot of things. So this isn't something the city has purview on to, like, force Santa Clara University to to take on things.

I just wanted to to share that. That's broadly applied. But things relating to the evaluation of Santa Clara University's expansion. Right now, the university has a use permit. So if we are interested in evaluating the use permit for things that we wanna look forward to in the future, that could be useful.

But once again, as long as they're operating under the current use permit, it's not like the city can actually impose changes at this time. This would be more for discussions so that if a future use permit came forward to the city, we recognize the topics that may wanna be addressed by the community ahead of time. The other thing to kind of be conscientious of is, you know, there's gonna be topics in here related to housing and and supporting housing around the area to take pressure really off the neighborhood in providing for housing. And that's a great, you know, idea. Definitely want, though, to people be looped into two different planning efforts that are kind of going alongside near the university, and we'll certainly be adding housing, which is, you know, our station area plan efforts as well which are is a plan that's being undertaken right now, significant community input, a task force involved, and it's a large planning area surrounding and inclusive of the university that is trying to determine what the long term strategy is for additional housing capacity in that area as well as, you know, for office and other uses, really the the re redevelopment of those properties.

And then also our city's downtown precise plan. So that plan got adopted. We are going to be undertaking a RFP to get interest in a city property that's about five acres in site. We know that there's gonna be housing there. So just definitely wanna recognize that there are other groups and community members who are involved in discussions on those two things and don't wanna have too much of a disjointed conversation on housing, but recognize it's in the context of those two two major things that are happening around our university already.

And then, the one thing that was given in terms of a potential topic that did sort of flag as maybe this would certainly require more city resources was the concept of having smaller areas where we would analyze and focus, like, how the city could serve different parts of the old quad better. And I think that certainly in the context of as we go through the topics, we may learn of patterns that are happening in the neighborhood. But that topic in and of itself where the city would do or the you know, there would be, like, a comprehensive analysis. That would probably be something that would require additional resources across the board. So I wanted to flag that.

There's certainly so many topics here, but I that was just the one of all the topics here that I felt like, you know, could there could be scope creep that would certainly be outside of the resources we have here. So with that, also wanted to point out, right, this intended work plan exercise, you know, normally, you would maybe do a work plan exercise every year. In this situation, I am recommending that we try to build out a work plan till the 2027 because this committee actually meets three times a year. We're at the almost we have one meeting till the end of the year, and then we have three meetings left. So let's get four meetings under our belt that are planned for before we do another work plan.

I don't want, like, every year we spend one meeting talking about what we're gonna talk about. So just suggesting that today's exercise would carry through December 2027 and that staff also recognizes, you know, I think the frustration people have that we have this standing agenda item where updates are provided, but also recognize the value of having the pulse of what's going on in the community for community members and for the committee. So we'd still recommend as a standing item to do these kind of, like, as as you know, for those of you who've been following NERC, you know, and we're gonna have it later on today, the standing updates. So not proposing to take those off, but just, hey, for each meeting going forward, can we make a progress on these individual topics? So today, what the prioritization exercise is so when I say you have four dots, hopefully, you have a pen in front of you, and you will be placing dots.

You know, the way that we we show this meeting online, it's rather cumbersome to have a whiteboard and have everything. So we're gonna do this in a transparent way where the committee members actually have the different prioritization topics, and we're gonna show them on the slide here. And gonna ask the committee members ultimately to put four dots indicating their top items. And then what we'll do is that each committee member will go through and talk about what those are. I will tally them, and then we will know what that priority list is. We will keep those items that are at the very top. We know that we'll be able to discuss those. However, the other items will not fall off the list. They'll be return you know, retained for future reference. Right?

So on to the next. So prioritization topics. So what we got back from the committee members, a few of them fell into the same topic. And the ones that you're seeing here actually were ones that had multiple variations of this topic. And instead of and I've seen prioritization exercises done before, and I wanted to make sure that we didn't lose, if you will, dilute the fact that, you know, if somebody said decrease garbage and then somebody else said decrease litter, that's just an example, that if those were two topics and they both got a dot, that somehow they would not actually filter up to be like, oh, that topic actually got two dots.

So in instances where there was a duplication of generally the same subject matter or topic, we we actually rolled that up into one topic. And in the report that was provided today, we actually have those spelled out. So just in the interest of time, I won't go through all of them, but for instance, decreasing garbage and litter in the neighborhood. Right? Two things that came in is somebody said garbage and litter, and then the other person said allowing curbside bins in specific areas such as Bellamy and Washington to mitigate garbage accumulating in high student population zones.

Those are two different things, but they kind of fit under this topic of garbage and litter, and we could talk about them as a topic. So I I can go through that with each each of these, like pedestrian safety, for instance. Somebody submitted painting more red curbs for daylighting, and then the other person submitted proposed installation of stop signs and crosswalks at key intersections. Once again, rolling that up into the topic of pedestrian safety. Preparation discussions for any potential SCU expansion in the future.

So the two things that rolled up there is SCU's expansion plan and medical school, and then SCU's use permit review. The other topic, which is improving resident relationships with collaborative events, two things that kind of fell up fell in to us from that is better relationship with residents, Halloween, picnic in the park, tours of campus, cultural events. And then someone else submitted, explore organizing an SCU supported neighborhood claim up day. And then next was lease standard recommendations for non SCU housing in the neighborhood. We got two that fell into that bucket.

Model lease for non SU owned mini dorms. And then the second one was development of voluntary standards and agreements for owners and property managers based on the model developed by SU for their neighborhood units. And then reviewing parking surrounding the university. The two things that we got were permit parking pilot program and review of parking issues in the SCU area. And then the last item that had a couple people submit ideas for, the roll up topic, assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students.

Somebody specifically submitted support higher density housing for students near campus but away from neighborhood. And the other one was development of plans to to manage increasing SCU off campus housing demand. And so then we have other topics. These were ones that they our topics, they didn't roll up because multiple people said the same thing. Quite frankly, a lot of these topics have overlap.

But this one was specifically about the year end of year cleanup campaign and the trash pickup. So this is actually talking more about the ongoing the city program versus the ongoing litter topic. Then there is a topic on reviewing of neighborhood ambassadors program, the achievements, and the plans, updates on the impacts of the new zoning code for the 25% common space requirement that was recently added. And then better relationship with the city. So you saw one better relationship with Santa Clara University in the Uni This is specifically focused on the city.

So internships, jobs, capstone projects. And then the reinstatement of the campus safety neighborhood drives. So, you know, how have they documented reported problems, problem properties? There is also something submitted on the Cunningham Choquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential, the SU graduation, SU summer orientation, the concept of progressive code enforcement fines, recommendations for prioritizing city resources by identifying and focusing on smaller areas with the most issues. I did want to say, because I omitted it as I was describing our process here, we did utilize all the feedback we got from the committee members that we received.

We also did add in here the ideas that Mr. Mark Kelsey, our community member, submitted in advance. So those are embedded in this priority list as well. And so at the end of this exercise, the staff's recommendation is that you guy that our committee accepts the work plan for the NERC for 2026 and 2027 that arise from this exercise. And first, what I would suggest is before we go into the priority setting I mean, I should say the prioritization exercise, one, the committee members share any feedback or thoughts they have on these topics.

Many of them came from the committee members. So if there's any more elaboration beyond what I've said, you know, feel free. And then I would suggest, you know, chair Jane to open it up to the public as well at this time just so they provide input before you actually do your exercise. So with that, you know, if the committee members would like to share any anything on the topics that are in front of the committee today related to the prioritization exercise.

Okay. So we'll start with discussion of committee members. Would anyone like to discuss any of these topics or try to get clarification from staff?

So, Member Zeng, I think your your comment is when I mentioned that, for instance, the topic of decreasing garbage and litter in the neighborhood had a couple things under it, yes. We would bring those two item those things in the broader discussion of garbage and litter on the agenda.

Anyone else? Okay. Oh, yes. And before

Will we have time to kinda clarify these as we discuss tonight to as we maybe get a little clearer in terms of scope? Or at this point, we're just top of the funnel. We're just trying to get kind of our overall direction, and then we'll clarify as we move on.

This is your opportunity to try to clarify. If have any questions, we're gonna have the members of the public also ask questions to try to clarify what these mean. I'm gonna just give you an example. So for model leases, I know that Santa Cruz uses model leases, but we're not we can't force a private landlord to accept model lease. But and we do we have, like, a housing list, and we just won't list that that landlord on a housing list at the university? Is that something that we could do to try to encourage people to accept model leases?

So something I was thinking about on that topic, and you're right, chair Jane, There are limitations we have as government to implement, things on private property, such as leases. They violate very diff various different laws. But, certainly, we can, one, bring some best practices for discussion for for folks. We can make individuals aware of what Santa Clara University's model lease includes. And three, if the committee said, hey.

These are great standards. We want our private property owners to be doing it. There could be some outreach that's done to those property owners in that neighborhood not to force them to do anything, but rather to communicate that these are good standards, and the city would like to see them included from a voluntarily basis. But things like that could arise from a discussion like this topic where the information is presented, there's some dialogue and discussion, and then, hey. Some meaningful action could arise from it, obviously, within the meets and bounds of what resources the city has on that.

I think certainly sending information to property owners and engaging with these property owners on a discussion like that would would be absolutely within the realm of what we have the ability to do from a resource standpoint. But, you know, that would be a whole meeting to talk about the details of that. But that's something that I would just, like, share is, you know, a good example because the city can't do exactly maybe what some people would like us to do, which is impose certain things. But that doesn't mean that we can't do anything.

But do we have experience trying to encourage property owners to accept a model lease? Do we have a model lease?

The city doesn't have a model lease? No. It's yeah. The university does.

And have they tried to get landlords to adopt those model leases?

Yeah. I can speak on this. It's been shared with us, some of the sections of it. And, frankly, a lot of the lease language is the same. The reality is a lot of the off campus housing around, that's not just the core university housing. The students choose those housings for lack for the lack of restrictions. That's kinda what makes those houses more attractive. The other problem is enforcement. I have one staff member whose part time job is and Tempest has one person assigned to it. So it's you never wanna be in the position where you can't enforce what you say you're gonna enforce because it builds a poor standard, I think, where the university has some more resources regarding those things.

So that's we've included some of it, but we've ran into issues a on enforcement and then b on the attraction of some of our the core Bellamy Market Washington locations are that students enjoy a little bit more freedom than is allowed at the Santa Clara.

And I would add we've had smaller landlords, maybe with, like, a property or two reach out to us to say, hey. Okay. What is it that you all are doing? And so there is that sharing of information and relationship building that does happen.

It would be great if we could get the students that live in those places to attend, like, OCHA presentation to talk about your neighbors and such. Find those to be valuable. But I guess what I'm saying is that we don't have a lot of formal leverage on private property owners, but does the the university clearly has a housing board. Right? Can we take properties off of that housing board, or how how do people get on that house?

Is it we're currently in the process of looking at that right now and understanding and and really really what it comes down to is our our process right now is to ensure that there aren't scans up there and making sure that students are available and aware of what's available. It's something that we can definitely talk through about if there are any qualifications beyond the making sure this isn't fake to get on their housing board. But for right now, we don't have, like, a you have to meet a certain requirement or your lease has to look a certain way. Part of that is that relationship building and then trying to make sure we have good relationship with the property managers. But it's something we can consider and would have to bring back the conversation.

Any other questions for staff or member Zhang?

Yes. And what I would say is that's probably more instead of it being collaboration with other committees, that would be bringing in our Department of Public Works' transportation division to talk about the work that's planned, the areas they've studied, to provide a comprehensive overview of that topic, and to get feedback.

What else?

Is this our only opportunity to kinda, like, clarify these, or as we go through them, we'll have a chance to discuss?

No. We'll have after we listen to the hear from the public, you might might emulate some ideas or thoughts. Okay. I'll open up to members of the public. Anyone wish to speak on these priority topics?

Come forward, Mark.

Hi. I'm Mark Kelsey. I'm a resident here in Santa Clara. First first of all, I would say, I think we all recognize that there probably isn't a lot of legislative activity that the city can undertake to address some of these issues. We've been at this for over thirty years and haven't solved it yet.

So I would hope that the opportunity to collaborate and work together on some of these ideas is what NERC could could model for and so I I think that the more discussion we have of the various issues here, the the more that comes to light and more opportunities, I think, that we will see. So I I do wanna say that I think that my highest priority is the growth of SCU and the demand for housing that that growth has created. I mean, the use permit has come up a couple of times for discussion. When that use permit was created, the university envisioned an undergraduate enrollment of 5,500 students. Santa Clara just announced that they have 7,000 undergraduate students.

Where do all those students live?

It's not accurate, actually. So we are operating within the terms of our use permit.

Well, in the announcement for the medical school, it said we have 6,690 6,995 undergraduate students.

And that includes our online students and our overseas students, which is a sizable portion of that.

Member Collins? Just sorry. We're all learning here. We're all learning how to be in a committee. So, we're just gonna let the member of the public speak. And then if there's any clarifications people wanna make, that way we don't go back and forth, that's okay, if that's okay.

I certainly like to see what the actual undergraduate enrollment is and understand that last year, Santa Clara admitted its largest class ever. I'm sure that the class that has just been admitted exceeded that. Santa Clara's on pace to hit 8,000 undergraduate students in the not in the near future. Now the fundamental issue here is that Santa Clara fortunately now hot houses students for two years. That means half of that undergraduate population has to live off campus.

And more and more, that student population has displaced other neighborhood residents. Naturally, the fundamental issue that we've all been dealing with for a long time. So I hope that we can't tell you I'm I'm not here to tell Santa Clara how many students they have or not to have, but to hopefully create and that this committee could have an opportunity to discuss where is the growth going, where are the students gonna live, what opportunities do we have to encourage off campus housing or on campus housing that will sustain that growth and not displace more people from the neighborhoods around Santa Clara? That, I think, is my fundamental issue. But I think there's a in the meantime, whether we if we can't address that, there's lots of things we can do to make improvements.

We work with code enforcement regularly. We work with the police department regularly. The lease issue seems like it's one that's worth working on. I wish we had more landlords here. I wish we had more property managers here.

Colin is a great representative and a great partner on this. But Santa Clara or its homes that it's owned in the neighborhood, if you don't behave, if I can say that, if you don't live up to the lease terms, you no longer live there. Private landlords have a much more difficult process with that, but I think that we could create an expectation and a standard that would help private landlords address problem residents. And Colin is certainly right. One of the reasons why students wanna live off campus is because they don't face the same restrictions as living in official housing.

Nonetheless, that's a problem for us. Sergeant Mutiko, know you know that for the last two weeks, I've written to officer Duran and officer Petulian almost every day and to you, Steve, almost every day about parties that have been occurring on Benson Street. If those were SCU houses, those students would be out of there. They're not SCU houses. We came to find a way to help the residents, the landlords, the students live in good and respectable neighborhoods. So I'd love to get into all of these. You know, I have an opinion on all of them. I'm sure you know. So but for my my two cents.

Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Any other member of the public wish to speak on any of these items? Anyone online? Okay. We'll come back to the committee. Anyone number four g, did you have a comment?

Not at this time. No.

Hey. We're we're at voting. Can I Sure? Go ahead, Mark. Yeah.

Just want to advise the committee, right, because we're all learning here, that the public typically has two minutes. But but I recognize that, you know, if the chair wants to allow Mr. Kelsey to speak because he's the only one who's spoken, you know but I did want everyone to know I I should have had actually the timer going, so I apologize. But just wanted you to all be aware that the public usually only gets two two minutes each.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Go ahead. I know I exceeded my two minutes. And, this is more informational, and perhaps I should have used another opportunity, but I've had an opportunity to meet with Ajmal Puyar from the traffic engineering division, over the last couple of weeks. And in fact, he called me just before the meeting tonight to give me some additional information as a follow-up to our meeting. I just wanna inform the community. This may be an example of how things can work. After the last meeting, I met my neighbors and I met with the traffic engineering staff. We reviewed some of the intersections on Alviso Street.

We talked about the improvements that they plan to do. There's repaving plan for Alviso Street and for Poplar Avenue in the next Poplar this year, Alviso next year, which will result in crosswalks being improved, more red striping around those intersections, and they're continuing to look at the opportunity to add additional safety measures at the various signals. And we also talked about well, and he, said, be sure you tell the the committee because there was a question. They paint 8,500 linear feet of red curbs every year in traffic engineering. And they also have met with SCPD to talk about parking enforcement, and in the last week, have issued 10 parking citations in the Alviso and Market area, and we'll continue to follow-up on that.

So that's an example of topic came up. We met with staff, and, you know, it appears some positive outcomes are happening. Thank you.

Okay. Yes. Come forward. Yeah.

Name Could you tell us your name?

Yeah. My name is Tom Randazzo. I am a property manager around the university. And so this is my second meeting. I was here last time, so I am new to this. But I would absolutely be interested in learning about what these standards or recommendations you guys would be interested in putting in these agreements. I mean, this is something that when I create the lease agreements I use some standardized forms from the California Apartment Association, but I have additional stuff like property rules. So just wanted to say that would be something that I'd be interested in.

Tom, I can send that to you.

Okay. No worries. I'm running this pretty informally because we don't have a lot of speakers. We had a lot of speakers adhered to the time limits and things, but we have time. Okay. So now we're to the point where unless there's any further discussion

Right. So, Chair Jane, I would just say so what this exercise is is if there aren't if there isn't additional questions or discussion by the committee, really want you to take your pen and find four items out of the three you know, there were three slides here. But put pick your four items, and then I'll ask each of you to read them off to me so I can make note of them. And then we can share broadly with, you know, with everyone about what the committee thinks are the top things to discuss. And once again, everything on this list stays on a list.

It's more what do we think that we'll have the bandwidth to discuss in the next, really, one meeting plus the next year.

Okay. So we'll take a few minutes to do our voting. You have four dots. Right?

Correct. K. Four dots, four meetings, ideally a topic, a meeting. I will add if we end up having ties, we'll have to do a tiebreaker of sorts.

I guess what you would propose was that we go around and everyone will list their four and maybe explain why they

Yeah. If if you would like to explain, that would be great. But you no need to you don't have to explain, but certainly wanna make it transparent what people are voting on.

Okay. We'll start with member Collins.

I picked the only four right answers. No. I'm just kidding. I selected pedestrian safety. That's just something that I think benefits all of us, and we have made some good discussions since the last I don't know if Ajmal told you, but we've been in active discussions with them on a range of intersections.

So I see some progress, in the near future on those. I also selected lease standard recommendations for non SU housing in the neighborhood. That's not my side of the house within the university, but I do I, at least from where I sit, don't see much harm in at least having, some model standards for landlords to use to try and standardize, if that could help. I have assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students. We know that, our students would benefit from more housing, so would the community, and, efforts to there are a lot of housing developments in in progress around the university or planned for the university planned around the university and surrounding areas.

But there's also other opportunities such as, Rina said, with the stationary plan and the downtown plan. So some smart some smart planning both on our part and working with the city on that. And then the last one was recommendations for prior prioritizing city resources by identifying and focus on the smaller areas with the most issues. It seems like in these meetings, we continually hear about certain hotspots. And, I'm not saying we don't have adequate resources there. We may very well, but let's let's evaluate that.

Alright. Members Right. And member Ross.

Actually, I had some different choices from everybody else. So my first one was improving resident relationships with collaborative events. The second one is lease standard recommendations. The third one is viewing parking surrounding the university. And then the last one is a better relationship with the city, internship shops, capstone projects.

Okay. I will go to member four g.

Yeah. So I had some similar ones as well. My first one was pedestrian safety. I feel like that's the that's the greatest harm if we don't fix it. That that has the the worst intended consequences by not addressing it. So I think that's that's a a good area to put priorities. I actually selected preparation for discussions for any potential SU expansion, but I it is within keeping the more off campus housing opportunities as we gauge demand, you know, units going up. I kinda see those as two in common. Right? Because if the school's not bringing on as many people, then, you know, maybe it's a it's a supply and demand issue.

So I I see those two as being linked. Parking was another one I chose certainly for our higher dense houses. Right? We're having a lot of people push into the neighborhood. And, yeah, I think that's that's causing a lot of frustration for students and residents alike.

And then lastly, I had recommended for prioritizing city resources by identifying and focusing on smaller issues with most or smaller areas with the most issues. I think a one size fits all isn't gonna work because the dynamic of the off campus housing is ever changing, right, based on the street and location and type of houses and type of tenants. So I think we're gonna need to be a little bit more pragmatic in in how we address things, and we can't just do a blanket one thing.

So my top priority is progressive code enforcement. I think we have a number of house that are repeat offenders, and the rents are so high that the current fines are not enough to be able to dissuade people from being. And I like the idea of lease standard recommendations for non SU housing. We had a member of the public who wasn't aware that there is a model lease, So we need to do a better job of advertising that there is a model lease. Member members in the community, everyone is crazy about parking.

Parking is just something that people complain about all the time. So reviewing parking surrounding the university. And then I'm gonna cheat on the next one because this one actually encompasses three items, and that is you know, I've complained numerous times about sort of a town gown divide that I see the university as a tremendous resource for the community, and I don't think we take enough advantage of that. We have graduates that could fill city positions, you know, highly skilled people that could do internships. They could do some free research for the for the city.

So that's the better relationship with the city, but, you know, we have collaborative events. You know? So we, you know, we have the Halloween party where the university contributes quite a bit to that, and so we we do have collaborative events. But I think, actually, a real I'm very concerned about the impact of AI on society, and I think the Jesuit philosophy of Santa Clara University, making research human centered, is going to be tremendous, and I hope that there are gonna be lectures on campus where residents can come and hear about impacts of AI on our lives, on our kids. I mean, just, you know, some of the social media, some of the AI stuff has become destructive.

I mean, AI, you know, recommending people in their lives and crazy stuff like that. So I would like to see the Choqua Center to be a resource for our resident.

So is that where your dot is going? No.

My dot

is actually Where is your dot going?

My dot is actually better relation

Okay.

City. Okay. But that and that's, I guess

You're trying to provide connections of all these to Okay.

Trying to sneak them in there. But

I I just see the the university is a tremendous resource. I don't think we've tapped as a community well enough. So

Okay. So I'm gonna you know, you guys can do that Jeopardy music right now. I'm gonna tally up our our We do have a lot of ties, maybe. Yeah. So the clear winner in terms of every like, it's the highest number of points is the least standard recommendation.

We had one two three four people say that that was important. And then next was clearly pedestrian safety. That's with three people who voted that. And once we get oh, sorry. And review of parking surrounding university also had three.

So those are are clearly the top three. But the last one is harder because, we have one two three four topics that each got two. So I would like trying to figure this out here. I would like feedback from the committee on those four topics. And if each committee member could pick which one they think is the most relevant for them or the one that they would like to prioritize more, It's, let me find a way how I can do this because it's kind of hard to show you all.

If you can underline it as we go on so you know which options I'm gonna ask you to vote on. So it's assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students. That's one of the ones. The other one is better relationship with city. And then the next one is progressive code enforcement fines.

And then lastly, recommendations for prioritizing city resources by identifying and focusing on smaller areas with the most issues. So I will provide a little editorial on this because I think when before we started, I did say that that last item is one that gives me pause. I would rather, honestly, the committee take this up not in the first few meetings that you're doing because that's gonna take a lot of resources to do analysis and work. I would recommend that the committee instead pick these topics, understand that there are patterns, and maybe later put something like this on where we have some information where we think it's anecdotal information, and we would like more city resources to go into an analysis like that. So I just wanted to editorialize once again that I think that's a particular subject matter that requires a lot of interdepartmental coordination analysis, things that are not readily available and probably is better for a later term topic than, like, hey.

We're just starting this committee off, and we want to see some quick wins. So that's that's just me editorializing, but you can obviously so if of those four topics, if you could tell me, each of you, what you think your number one is of those four, then, hopefully, we can get to, you know, what's the top four topics.

Hey. We're gonna go in reverse order. Oh,

yes. Okay. Once again, assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students, better relationship with city, internships, jobs, capstone projects, progressive code enforcement fines, and recommendations for prioritizing Citi resources by identifying and focusing on smaller areas with the most issues.

I'm gonna go last. So we're gonna go with member four g.

Okay. I'm gonna go with assessing more off campus housing. And then I would like to say that there is progressive code enforcement fines. So they do go up as they go along if it's so but I understand that you might be wanting them to be higher, but they are progressive at the moment.

Yes. I I realize they're progressive. Yeah. It's I think, as I had said in my comments, I don't think they go high enough. Not enough of a deterrent. Anyway, we'll proceed. Member Ross.

Better relationship with Citi.

Member Zhang. K. Member Collin.

Assessing more off campus housing opportunities.

We're gonna

have another problem. I'm going with progressive code enforcement. Oh, okay.

So let's see here. How do we do

this? Well,

we're we're we're into the narrowing down four to one, four to one topic that'll be in our top topics that we'll be able to cover certainly with time. So now we have the two top ones from that smaller group is assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students and recommendations for prioritizing city resources by identifying and focusing on the smaller areas with the most issues. So we do have five people here. So in theory, we will be able to get to one topic that is gets the majority. So if you can think about those two topics, once again, it's assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students.

And do I have this correct? No. I got it wrong.

No. No.

Progress

It's code enforcement. I'm sorry. I said the wrong one. It's code enforcement. So it's a progressive code enforcement fines. So that was Jennifer. And then who else said that? Oh, yeah. And it's Jane. There we go. Sorry. I had that wrong. Okay. So the two again, assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students and progressive code enforcement fines. So however you want to facilitate that.

Member Zhang. Member Ross.

Assessing more opportunities or more off campus housing.

Collins.

No worries. Stand assessing more off campus opportunities. Okay.

Number four g. Should I mix it up?

No. Assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students.

Got free for that. I don't have to vote.

Alright. So so our list here is the least standard recommendations for non SCU housing in the neighborhood, pedestrian safety, reviewing parking surrounding the university, and assessing more off campus housing opportunities for students. And we will then utilize the next four meetings. And my request for the committee is a little bit of feedback and maybe discretion. As staff, we would like to spend a little bit of time to figure out the timing of which topics to bring forward when.

If there is a specific topic that you feel I'm I'm kind of hearing there's a lot of movement around pedestrian safety, and that probably is the topic that we would bring forward in the fall. But the other the other ones, if there is a specific, hey, this is the burning topic that should be second, third, or fourth, please provide feedback. Otherwise, staff will kind of look and, you know, analyze what's on the horizon and and best plan that out.

I have some feedback on that. So most leases are already signed for next year just from a lease scheduling. So best time to do that would be before leases that are signed, which is typically November. So that would be if you wanna get that stuff out, you'd want that. I can summer. And then I that also pairs well with the off campus housing opportunity. I think maybe the meeting after, once we know the demand that's filled in the current off campus, then we can explore options outside of that. So I guess that would be the structure that makes most sense to me.

Member Fogury, if you can just let me know what you meant by the lease, the standard lease, and the timing of that. So for people's reference, we have a meeting in the fall, and then we have one in the winter, usually in the February time frame, and then we have one in May. And we do these three meetings to make sure that students can attend. And so I'm trying to understand and unpack what you said about the leases. Obviously, they've been made for next year. But to be most impactful, are you suggesting that it should be at the fall meeting?

I am. Yep.

Okay. Okay. So that's that's helpful. Is that something that others would would be okay with rather than moving pedestrian safety forward first?

Member Collin.

Yeah. I think so. I think pedestrian safety is we can bring updates at the meeting, but that's one that's gonna folks in this room don't necessarily drive the schedule on that

one. K.

Oh, and I could also see that being something we needed more research on or at least time to gather

data. Great.

Yeah. It would be good to get feedback from the community and members of intersections that they think might be most critical, and improve with you know, we could have speed signs, or we could have bumps, or we could have narrowing, lots of things that Alright. So I think what I'm hearing is that we wanna do the lease standards in the fall.

Correct. That's what I've heard.

K. I think that concludes this item. We can move on to the second item on our agenda. From community development department, Santa Clara University, and the police.

We do. I am going to ask, community development to go first. I know they have short and sweet.

Next slide. Alright. Thank you, Irina. So this is our update on code enforcement activity since our last meeting. So this is between February 27 to May 10.

We had 40 violation notices that were issued. Those were for discarded furniture, mattresses, beer pong tables, trash litter, and parking on landscaping. For every notice that we issued, there was a corresponding reinspection. And then we did have nine citations out of those violations that were issued. Previously, during the last reporting period between October and February, we had 51 notices of violation and only one citation for reference.

Our environmental programs division, so our our trash folks, they had 10 violation notices that were issued and six citations during this reporting period. Those violations were for overflowing bins and trash cans left in the right of way. Previously, during the last reporting period, they had 11 notices of violation and zero citations. Little bit of an uptick. Any questions for code enforcement?

I have a question. At what point do we force a landlord to upsize a bin?

That is a good question. It is up to our trash hauler who at what point that they require them to upsize. So it's usually when their bins are consistently overflowing, they will require them to upsize, but I could get more information on if there's an exact number of times or they decide where it needs to

be upsized.

Yeah. I mean, I go on Bellamy a lot, and there's trash. We're going all the time. I made a complaint. The other yes. Member of the public come forward.

Just like to add a comment about environmental programs. My thanks to them for the work that they're doing. Your mention, councilman or chairman Jane of Bellamy Street is a good example. I sense a a high level of frustration from staff, their inability to have either landlords or residents comply with codes in spite of multiple citations and multiple repeated visits. So this is an area that, deserves additional attention.

It seems like a pretty easy thing would be to just force the landlord or bin.

I'll follow-up

on that.

Find out about. It.

Yeah. To be so we have a couple properties on on Bellamy that, you know, we're we're we make up a decent amount of the citations listed up there, sadly. And a lot of the times, it's the inability to push the bins back in because of the density of the housing and the location of the house on the lot. So all those houses have they take up most of one side, and you have a long driveway to the back of the property, which the tenants use for parking. And the bins can't stay in front of the house, so they don't get pushed back.

And then when they stay on the street, it becomes public dumping for the rest of the community. So it's I think it's a little bit of a nuanced problem. I'm curious if having the bins out in these certain areas isn't helping by at least giving them a place to put the trash. So it's I think it's a little bit more nuanced than just, like, let's just increase the bin size because it's the bins aren't getting put back, and that's why they're overflowing. And that's not a easily fixable problem.

I imagine that you could prevent the students from parking in the you have a reserve bin spot. And if students park there, they get towed. Okay. We won't go into a long discussion on this. We can move to the next presentation, I guess, unless any other member of the public wants to come.

And I do just have one other announcement for the committee. Tomorrow night, the El Camino Real specific plan is gonna be heard by the city council, and this would be for their consideration and adoption. So that has been brought to this, maybe not this specific committee before, but we did it last time. Just an update on where we are with that. But the agenda is posted online if you're interested in in joining, and the draft plans on our website.

Thank you. Okay. Next is from public safety. Who's next?

Yes.

K.

We'll have PD come up. Hold on one second. Just pulling up the presentation. Sergeant Otico, when you're ready.

Thank you. Thank you to the NERC committee. Thank you for those in attendance. My name is RJ Otico. I'm a sergeant with the Santa Clara Police Department. I oversee the community response team. Go to the the next slide. So I'm just gonna open up with our mission statement. Ultimately, this is our purpose. This covers essentially everything to follow in my presentation.

This is what sort of we as a department aim to achieve. This guides our decision making. This guides our communication both internally and externally. It kind of is the framework for our goals and objectives. And I'll just kind of leave it up there for you all to read sort of broad overarching painting with a broad brush, and I'll dive into NERC specific.

So the community response team, when I'd first made this slide, we just did the new restructure of the NERC and wanna give perspective on what exactly the community response team or CRT is what, we call it, actually does. So the photo there is the makeup of the team. It's a outdated photo. The person on the left, his name is officer Adam Baker. He's no longer with us. He's now been rotated out in patrol, and we now have officer Richard Volusian who's joining us in the audience there. But the rest of the members are still the same. There's myself. There's four officers, one mental health clinician who's standing in the middle. Her name is Carrie Wood.

And then we have one community service officer who does all our permitting and regulated business throughout the city. She's not depicted in the picture. Obviously, we the scope of my work covers the NERC. However, there's a lot more that the community response team does in the broader sense of public safety. Some of our listed there, such as the nuisance and quality of life.

These are our high utilizer locations that are constantly drawing police resources. We have a great working relationship with Santa Clara U. We, along with our clinician, with two officers, have a co responder to respond to acute crisis and mental health related incidents. We do a lot of community engagement. We also are involved in vice.

We've that includes, like, gaming, prostitution, human trafficking, and then criminal abatements, which sort of kinda have some overlap with our nuisance homes as it relates to the NERC, as well as we have ABC and tobacco grant operations, which I'll tie into and how that relates to the NERC. Next slide. So for context, this is the geographic area that we're going to be referring to. This is where all of our data is drawn from. Although we respond to similar calls of noise complaints, pedestrian safety, etcetera, traffic safety, we're just narrowly focusing on this area here for the purposes of the K.

Some of the common concerns based on my notes from the last meeting, a lot had to do with parking slash pedestrian safety traffic, noise, and drinking alcohol in public, underage drinking, alcohol consumption, and the party the issues related to that. So I just kinda summarized some of the issues and concerns that I saw relevant to our role in public safety. So, ultimately, our role is enforcement. We do a lot of education, but primarily, it's gonna be enforcement and accountability. And there's really two approaches that we do.

There's proactive and reactive. When it comes to traffic safety, pedestrian safety, we can be proactive by going out there, issuing citations for par parking violations. We can look for speeding vehicles, and we're proactively enforcing that. We can also be reactive in that. And if we get reports of a concern, say there's many speeders in this area, maybe we'll do we'll put a trap traffic officer there, and then their sole job is to be identifying violations and conducting enforcement.

However, sort of separated down there at the bottom, when we receive noise and disturbances issues, we are not proactive in that. We're only going to be reactive. So if I am just on patrol and I'm driving down and I see a group of people having fun and they're playing their music, loud, I am not going out of my way to just proactively contact them and telling them their music is too loud unless we get a complaint. So, we are only reacting to, complaints that are documented by, citizens calling in that will be relevant to, some of the data, to follow. Next slide.

So we have adopted a progressive enforcement model. Some of the things we voted on with the, progressive, scale, as far as harassment code enforcement fines, the fines increase. But this is a very at a basic level, this is how we do our enforcement. We always start with outreach and education. Some examples up there are listed as the off campus housing orientation.

We're all familiar with that. We participate in that. We've kinda educated the students on expectations, where we draw the line, how to be a good neighbor, hear the rules, etcetera. We do the walkabout, proactively meeting with them, open lines of communication, and sort of having the same thing, face to face contact. We assist them with the move ins.

And then we we just have discussions on not just, like, the issues stemming from the complaints, the parking. We're just talking general safety. We know that crime can happen anywhere. We do get, on occasion, crimes such as prowling, burglaries in the university footprint, car break ins, and we just educate on, just in the broader sense, general safety, how to remain vigilant, how to report crimes. But it starts with the outreach and education piece.

With that outreach and education, we give very specific guidance on what a violation is, what kind of conduct would warrant our involvement. And, typically, that's gonna start with a warning. So, I guess, more education. Right? Hey. You're in violation. So we get a complaint. We go to a house. We're not immediately going straight to hammering them with a heavy citation. We give them a special response notice, and we have that dialogue.

So it continues to reinforce, like, what the expected conduct is and where where the tolerance what we what we will enforce on, followed by the enforcement. That's when we're actually issuing citations. Every time we issue a citation, there's going to be a notice sent to the tenants as well as the property owner and the property manager, and the violator receives a copy of that citation. And then as we progress up, if the behavior is not corrected, we get into heavier fines. We start having house meetings with the repeat offenders, if you will.

And when things really get serious, there's potential for academic discipline. If it becomes a nuisance, it it becomes, deemed a nuisance, which is, blue tags is what we're talking about. And, typically, when it gets to that point, we are going strictly enforcement. We've they've demonstrated, that education, they know the rules. They've already been warned.

They've already been penalized once, and we're just going strict enforcement. So that's sort of the illustration of how a typical progressive enforcement model that we utilize works. Next slide. So these are the most common violations that we see out there. And listed are the sec first, second, and third violations. As you can see, it still adopts that progressive enforcement model. So for the first violation, there's the penalties for said violation. And then as you see the second penalty, it it doubles. And the third violation, it actually doubles again. So it would be 600, for example, amplified music.

And then there are additional responses associated to that. If it's the third time we've been out there in thirty days or the third time we've been out there in a calendar year, there's a corresponding fine, which I did not list out. But I think, you know, it's very clear that the the fines start adding up very quickly if you continue the wrong course. Next slide. So going back to our reactive versus proactive, again, everything we're gonna do is gonna be reactive when it comes to our most common enforcement, which is against the loud disturbances to amplified music, disturbing the peace.

It's typically going to start with a citizen picking up the phone, calling our dispatch, and saying, there's a loud party here. It's I can't go to sleep. It's midnight, and that starts the rest to follow. Officers the next step is officers gonna respond. They're gonna investigate.

They're gonna corroborate what the report out is or dispel if it's not that. And if it is a violation, they're gonna move down the progressive enforcement model. They'll issue a first response. They'll document that in a, police report. And then what happens is it's gonna go to CRT in which officer Baluchin or officer Tyler Durian will review, and then we will make a determination if there's enough probable cause to where we're going to issue a citation.

So every case, every call takes this course. Then we'll go to the next slide. I'll explain sort of how CRT reviews the case. So as part of our analysis, we look at what time of day it is. There are certain sections in our municipal code that stipulate times, for example, ten to seven as far as disturbing the peace.

That that plays a factor. How many subjects were there? The distance of which the amplified noise could be heard, whether or not there's alcohol presence or level of cooperation, and we are actively tracking how many times we've been there. So it's subject to all that analysis before we make the determination on, is it their first offense? Are we issuing them, you know, third, fourth violations?

Are they on the verge of blue tag? And the report right there is sort of just a a very simple example of sort of what is captured and how they articulate that in a narrative report that the officers review before making that determination. We watch the body worn camera to to assess a lot of all the factors there. Next slide, please. So when they've reached, like, strict enforcement, they've been deemed a nuisance.

They receive what is called a blue tag. So they have been identified as a nuisance home, and we start leveraging nuisance laws against the property, typically the property owner. And so in addition to the fines that I've previously illustrated in the previous slides, anytime we are go we go out there after a house has been blue tagged, they in addition to those fines, they are also receiving another thousand dollars on top of that for every response that we have. So it it gets very substantial. K?

It's a violation to remove that blue tag, and that blue tag needs to be on the residence for a minimum of ninety days. So I'd so where are we today? I'm happy to report that we're still at zero blue tags for the year. So we use, we use this very sparingly, for those that are not able to self correct. And, in years past, you can see we we we've issued a lot of blue tags.

And this year, we're actually doing quite well. So we're still currently at blue tags. There are some properties that are on the verge of that, but this is where we are as far as our maximum enforcement. Slide. So here are the stats as of last Friday.

From the beginning of the school year through the fifteenth of this year, we've issued 120, eight special response notices. And then of those, we've issued 58 citations after our analysis. In the years prior, it was a little bit up, I guess, on the the citations, so we're down we're we're down a little, but doing well. Next slide, please. This is sort of a breakdown.

So for perspective, you've seen how many citations we've issued. So each of those violators receive on average a $500 fine per citation. We're not here to make money. We just want the behavior to change so that we have peace and tranquility in the neighborhood. That's, our average based on all the associated fines.

Slide. Escaping me with this Venn diagram. Put a nice Venn diagram. So as I mentioned, one of the things that, the CRT does is we have, ABC and tobacco grants, and we utilize that in addition to Team two hundred through even additional resources, at, these issues. And, we have team two hundred.

So let me break them down. Team two hundred essentially dedicated officers to patrol the, SCU footprint, for any issues. With the tobacco grant, we have one tobacco, retailer within that footprint, and we've, we've heard that they were selling, tobacco to minors, and that minors mean 21. And we do minor decoys where we send somebody in who's 21 and, to see if they can buy. And if, the store clerk sells, that's a violation.

We've also done inspections for compliance. They need to have appropriate signage as well as, they can't have any prohibited product. So, flavored tobacco, is prohibited. That's the most common thing we'll see, and we do seizures with that. And we work with the CDTFA, which is California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

We seize all that product, flavored tobacco product and other illicit product, and, the businesses are fined heavily on the civil side administratively, in addition to losing their inventory, which we've seized. So we've done one operation, in the university footprint already. And then ABC ABC, we

do the

same thing with the minor decoy. They go in, try to buy alcohol if the sale is made. Annuities are issued, and ABC could take civil action by suspending their liquor license. We also do shoulder tap where we send a minor in the parking lot and are asking people to buy them alcohol. So adults will go in.

If somebody furnishes or accepts the money, buys alcohol, we arrest them for furnishing alcohol to a minor. And then we do general enforcement. So this is typically officers patrolling the area, looking for people who are drunk in public, who are consuming alcohol in public, minors in possession. They are proactively patrolling the university area. And at the center of all of this, ultimately, what we're trying to accomplish is we do there is a piece of education there as we we we educate the clerks, we educate the violators, and, ultimately, the accountability piece, right, when we arrest them or issue them citations, fines.

All those are additional efforts to deal with these issues. So I and then ultimately, our our enforcement, we do it objectively and without bias or favoritism. So we treat everybody with respect, and our decisions are are made based on fact evidence and law. We are not taking personal relationships or external pressures, and we apply the law uniformly. So it's because we get one person who who complains and is a chronic complainer, we treat that no differently than the first time.

And we still go through the exact same process, the same analysis, and then we issue the citation accordingly. That's my last slide. It's my contact information up there. I won't get into specifics. Mark Elsie, thank you for joining us tonight. You mentioned you've been calling us. I really appreciate the emails. And just know that so I won't disclose any of the addresses here. We can connect after, or you can follow our PRA request process. But just know that we did take action on those addresses.

We issued up to, if not a thousand dollars worth of citations based on the information you brought forth to us, through those email chains as well as one thing to note was I did receive a last minute email on Sunday. And, unfortunately, whatever incident transpired from there, instead of calling us, they sent the email, so it didn't initiate the process that I described above. Therefore, it was not actionable for us. So my advice to anybody here who is experiencing these type of issues, the first thing that starts it all is by calling our dispatch. That's what I would encourage you all to do, whether it's crime of, like, disturbing the peace, alcohol related, or trash related.

Start by calling. It starts the documentation prob process as well as, the actions to follow. I

got a couple of questions. Any other members have questions? K. The first is, like, if there's a trash related incident in incident, I use the My Santa Clara app. Is it better for me to call dispatch for that?

Thank you. Thank you, member chain Suds. The there's two avenues. Right? If it if it's, like, if it's blocking the roadway and it's like a traffic hazard, I would recommend, like, calling. Don't use the My Clara app because there's gonna be a delay in, like, us taking action on that. But if it's something that's, you know, out the way, it doesn't require an immediate response, My Santa Clara app is very useful, and then that will trigger, know, notifications, and then we ultimately will get to it. So hope that that gives you some clarity.

And last year, we had a number of couch fires. I didn't I have not heard of any this year.

I'm glad to report that neither have I. And we're towards the end of the year, so I hope it's it stays that way.

That's good. And then, you know, you talked about proactive and reactive code enforcement. So for noise, somebody has to call in for that. But if you're if an officer is driving around and they notice outdoor furniture in the front indoor furniture in the in the front lawn or a beer pong table is not used, that is a it would cite.

I've heard your your question correctly. If if we see, like, a a couch that's, like, on the lawn, your your question is where will we go out our way to site for that? Yeah. Is that Yeah. Is that the question? So, unfortunately, we will not. Maybe that would be a good educational point. Like, hey. This is potentially a violation of of code. Right? You might wanna put that in, but our officers will not issue a citation there. Think maybe you could speak to that.

Yeah.

I can so code enforcement staff, we do have dedicated staff that patrol the university specifically looking for violations such as that. And so if they see it, they will issue a notice of violation.

Okay. Great. That's all I have.

Thanks. And in a similar vein, you mentioned, like, sort of the parties and that we're not proactive in that. If I was to see something completely obnoxious, like a full DJ set out there and it's just blasting music. We know that eventually someone is gonna call. Although we're not going there and issuing a citation for that because we haven't received a complaint, we can, in those spaces, be proactive and say, hey. I'm just letting you know what I see here. You know? You might wanna, like, stop because these are what defines it. That's another opportunity and space for dialogue and to get ahead of it. So we're not just like, well, they got a major party getting set up.

We're not just driving by it. So we can be proactive in that regard. It's just that the enforcement doesn't start until somebody actually complains and says their piece is being disturbed by amplified sound, the music, etcetera.

Is it only the oh, go ahead.

That always seems better to educate rather than to find. That's what we we lead

with education and outreach. The

reactive approach, which is based off a complaint, is that for, disturbing the peace type complaints only, not

other sorts of crime? Also, with the amplified sound, if somebody has a speaker and they're playing music, if we're not no one's calling, no one's complaining, nobody's offended by that, we're not gonna go out there and say, hey. You don't have a permit for this amplified sound. So apply for that too.

Questions? Yeah. I think Yeah. Come forward.

Sergeant Roshiko, thank you very much. I appreciate the information you provided tonight and the specifics that you shared. I I wanna say your team does a great job. And to the point about education, I think I've I just I've been working with my colleagues on the Old Quad Resident Association to put a summary of the progressive enforcement policy on our website so that more of our residents are knowledgeable about this or have an another resource to go to to understand the importance of making a complaint if you're having an issue and how the police respond to it and what the process is. So thanks to officer Duran and your team for for helping educate the the community and for what you do for us.

Thank you.

You, Mark. I think now we just have the Santa Clara University president.

Correct. Correct. Pull that up

for them.

Alright. So this is the short presentation today. Sean went over a few of our points from earlier. So next slide. So I just wanted to give you some updates on what the university calendar is. So we have a three day weekend coming up this weekend on the twenty fifth. And then finals week for the university, and this is our final finals week for the the academic year, is June 8 through June 11. And then from there, the residence halls will close, and there's two closing dates for the residence halls. The first one is on June 11 at 9PM. And then for our graduating students that live on campus, they're able to stay until June 14 at 12PM.

So those are when the residence halls close, and I know neighbors seem to get excited because neighborhood gets a little bit quiet. And then for our also wanted to share some commencement dates. So June 13 is kind of the big commencement day. So just for for all all of our neighbors, be aware that we will have a lot of people in town and visiting, and it should be a really good time. But just you may impacted with hotels and everything on top of FIFA and a bunch of other things. We're figuring it out. But with that the speaker? Who's the speaker?

Matt Smith.

I would have to look that up.

It's I think it's Dee Dee Myers, the former press supper. She's a SCU alum.

Oh, very nice. Thank you.

And so the undergraduate commencement is in the morning at 08:30, and then we have two graduate commencements, one at four 4PM and another at 7PM.

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more. Alright. Just wanted to give an update. We do have a a monthly joint agency coordination meeting that that involves some members of the community, some members of Santa Clara, police, fire, code enforcement that we get together and then talk about what's going on on a monthly basis. So we talk about upcoming university events and holidays.

We've discussed over the past couple of months some staffing and member updates. Lots of discussion around trash and parties and parking to navigate those issues. And so one of the things I'd to share is at least the end of the year trash pickup that we do out in the community. It's ran by led up by code enforcement. And so on June 17 and June 24, that'll be an opportunity for students that live off campus and members of the community to put the trash out in the community and and have that picked up in a sustainable way. Next slide. Exciting more exciting news is the summer orientation. So this is a chance for Santa Clara University to welcome our newest members of the community and get them registered for classes and help introduce them to the community. We have six sessions that are coming up throughout July. They are overnight sessions.

And so the main reason to bring that up to you all is know that we will have some additional guests in town during that time. So we have a number of students, parents, family members, sort of whoever wants to and can come to sort of welcome their welcome newest members of the community, and that's throughout July. And then our two updates from earlier regarding our new centers. So thank you. Any questions?

Any questions from the committee, members of the public? Alright. Do we have a motion to adjourn?

I motion to adjourn.

Second. I remember Ross. So alright. All in favor? Aye. Aye. You're adjourned.