(This meeting was originally scheduled for September 16, 2026 per the agenda and transcript, but the provided timestamp indicates September 17, 2026. The summary uses the given date.)
The Sunol Citizens Advisory Council (SCAC) met on September 17, 2026, to receive law enforcement and fire reports, discuss progress on downtown revitalization and wayfinding signs, consider a funding request from the Sunol Business Guild, review Caltrans' response to community concerns, and honor Fenestra Winery's 50th anniversary.
Note: Date discrepancy – agenda and transcript state September 16, 2026; however, the provided timestamp indicates September 17, 2026. The summary uses the given date.
Okay. So we're going to call the meeting to order on Wednesday, September 16th, 2026. And there were agendas on the table there. You may have picked it up when you came in. Council Member Cone. President Councilmember Harrison. Councilmember McLean. Here. Council Member Star. Character Range? Yeah. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. Okay, the first order of business is public comments. And um, we have two people who have signed it for public comments. We'll limit the time to two minutes. And um, you have down public comment and all items. Um, if you don't mind, we'd like to a card for each item for our. Um, it turns out the county told me I don't have to. Okay, well, we'll go back to the county then. Okay, okay. So public comments. First one, Andrew. Thank you, everybody, Andrew Turnbull from Sennol. 92 residents divided by 1.7 million residents in Alameda County. Uh, how do we even get any attention? But we do. And one of the reasons we get attention is the excellent work of our Sonola Citizens Advisory Council. I would specifically like to thank the SCAC for the way they handled the issue of the Caltrans tree issue that we had. It was some of the most backbone that I've seen. This group stand up to what was a horrible situation. We heard Caltrans give all kinds of excuses, but yet the SCAC stood up. The other thing I want to do in my one minute is thank mobile citizen and thank the people of Alameda County who respond to mobile citizen. We had an issue where a SNO Glen Parent asked me to turn in a mobile citizen report on that crosswalk within one day, that was solved. Good on Mr. Rosen, what dozenbeck, Dr. Woodesenbeck, and his entire organization for that kind of response in our little section in our little uh portion of Alameda County Heaven. With the 22 seconds left, I want to say thank you to Caltrans for spectacular implementation of the freeway between here and um and Little Valley. So there's an opportunity to say thank you, and there's an opportunity to say we're not putting up with it. Thank you to the SCIC for standing your ground. Uh good evening, Tom Pittman. Uh the number one responsibility of any government agency is to protect its citizens. We had a situation this week where phone service was again out for the majority of the residents on Killcare Road. Nobody could call in, nobody could call out. If an emergency were to occur, that individual would have been uh at risk. This failed uh siren system that was tried is obviously of no impact because it's only in one place. I would urge this council to proceed on establishing some means by which communication can be conducted. Mr. Scott Sanders has attempted to put uh antennas on various places. I would urge you to pursue that, and possibly as opposed to spending money on what I consider failed septic proposals.