The Sunol City Council meeting on September 17, 2025, covered public safety updates, emergency notification systems, environmental restoration projects, community events, and the management of community funds. Key discussions included the Sunol Valley Fish Passage Project and an overview of the Community Improvement Fund.
Hello everybody and welcome. Um, I get the month right this time, it's September 17th, 2025. I got kidded so much about just last month saying October, but it's this month is September. Okay, call to order and roll call. Council Member Conan, excuse Councilmember Harrison. Present. Councilmember Cap Romo. Here. Councilmember Stark. Thank you. Okay. Are there any public comments? Open forum. Um, just wanted to touch on two things. Wait, hold on just a minute. We didn't talk about the time. Um, so we don't have a real full agenda, so we could go for three minutes. Well, just want to touch on two things. Might not take three minutes, but uh, one is the uh um importance of Sinnol. Um, it's very tiny, therefore, you know uh people think that uh it shouldn't be uh be too important, but uh and there's a lot of people in each supervisor uh supervisor's district, uh, but that's a lot of uh cities, and in the case of this district, um it's uh a lot of cities in Tri Valley and uh half of it is in Fremont, and the part that's left that's unincorporated is uh a little over 4,000 people. So when you divide by 4,000, which is a tiny number, then the population of Sinnol becomes uh more important. I don't think Sinnol realizes you know, I think you're you don't have any uh um, you know, uh Sinnol isn't big enough, but it is if you compare it to that number of 4,000. Uh and then also um just want to uh touch on the nature of these these meetings, you know, the town town hall style. I'm from uh originally from New England, and in New England they've got you know some giant cities, and there there's no town halls. They do everything very bureaucratically with uh you know the the way the uh politicians uh do it with all the rules, but when you get to the small towns in New England, there is a town hall uh tradition, and uh Sinnol seems to be the only only place where where I can go and see some of that town hall tradition uh from from New England, so it's good to see. Thank you. Okay, so Irene, I have your slip, you're next. Good evening. I've I've come to talk about Wayne Capriati. I think you most of you know him. Um he had been a uh rancher here in Sinnol for a couple of decades at least. Um he had to remove recently because uh his landlord decided to sell his property. So Wayne has always been a big part of making downtown attractive and uh inviting. He was one of the tree planters, and he planted many of the geraniums that we see, the colorful geraniums on Main Street. Now he also worked out uh an arrangement where he was able to get water from the merchants across the street to keep uh the plants that he had helped to plant uh watered and healthy. Wayne has had to live uh now in uh Livermore. He found a rental in Livermore, but he still comes once a week to tend to Main Street. He has to take a bus, which he takes to the Pleasanton Senior Center from there, he pays either a relative or a friend to drive him to Sinnol. So he's still here one day a week tending to all of his plants and uh keeping in touch with those of us who knew him for so many years. So the reason I came tonight is to uh ask if there might not be a consideration of giving him some kind of nominal um reimbursement. Uh you know, he pays, I think, uh, five dollars to the person who uh brings him here to Sinnol. And uh if the merchants or the business guild might be able to have just a few dollars a month to give to him so that he can continue to come. He loves Sinnol, he loves uh the plants and is very proud of the pine tree that he uh planted. It's the biggest one, and he uh he says that it's because his dad taught him how to plant a tree properly. So anyway, I'm here to see if there isn't some way that we can continue to have him come, but to uh help him with the expense of uh having to pay a driver to bring him here to Sunol. Thank you. Definitely benefit from Wayne's work here, really appreciate it. Do you think that that senior wellness fair would maybe provide something, some information for him on rides? Yeah, it'd be a great event for him to attend. Unfortunately, I don't have any budget to get him to and from the event, but once there he may learn of resources that would help cover some of that.