The Sunol Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) met on April 16, 2026, at 6:30 PM. The meeting covered a wide range of topics including public safety, downtown revitalization, a proposed office for unincorporated communities, land-use permits, cell tower compliance, and wayfinding signage. Several votes were taken, and follow-up actions were assigned.
Note: The transcript indicates the meeting started at 6:30 PM on April 15, 2026, but this summary uses the provided official date of April 16, 2026, per the instruction.
Okay, let's start the meeting at 6 30 on April 15th. Okay. Um would you want to talk about the comments or that roll call first? Do we'll call first? Okay. Councilmember Connett. Councilmember Harrison. Present. Very great. Right. Um for all participants online and in person. Please state your name for the record prior to your presentation. If you wish to speak an item not in the agenda, please wait until chair calls for public and non-agenda items. Only matters within the council's jurisdiction may be addressed, and time limits are at the discretion of the chair. For in-person speakers, please fill out a speaker card and hand it to the chair. For online participants, speakers, please use the raise tab function for down in participants. Please now star and I to raise and lower your hand. The clerk will allow you to unmute it as your turn. Okay, thank you. And we'll we'll we have a big very full agenda tonight, so we'll limit the public comment or all the comments to two minutes. Okay. So let's talk about reports updates. I think we have Sergeant Edwards here. Just Deputy Edwards for Richard Franco. So I'm not responsibility. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you very much, Andrew. Yes. It's not. Oh, there it is. Public comments. I'm sorry, looked right past it. Thank you. Did you have a public comment? I'm Andrea Turnbull. I'm a resident of Sunol for 27, almost 27 years. And I um I uh published informed Synol. Um tonight I want to tell a little story. And the story is about the first company that I went to work for when I finished business school um 40 years ago, and the company's name was Teradine. And what was remarkable is that the company was about 300 million dollar company at the time, and uh they had a CEO who had still been employee number two when they started the year I was born, 1961. So 24 years in, they still have the same um CEO. And then uh by the time I left, that 300 million dollar company was a billion dollar company. But in between, one of the problems that we were facing is that the electronic industry was in trouble in the United States, and I had gone to work for an electronic industry company. We're getting our butts kicked by the East um East Eastern Asians who were out performing us in quality. Well, this guy decided that he was the chief quality officer, making himself the CEO in charge of quality, and it literally changed the way that we worked. We got competitive, we were able to deliver uh test systems around the world that cost about a million dollars apiece, and Intel told us that the payback on that test rule was 25 days because it tested the IBM PC chips. But what was remarkable was that he used to run around and say some magic words, and I hope you'll say them often tonight. What's the benefit? Every time that we go through an agenda item today or we talk, I'm gonna encourage you to ask what's the benefit. He did it so well that our company, that company is now a three billion dollar company long after his passing.