Exactly, here we go.

Thank you.

Um Anna Baird.

Yeah.

Mike Castor's act present.

And then Marisol uh is absent on her way.

All right.

Item number three is uh approval of the minutes and uh minutes uh May 5th, 2026 were sent out.

And I don't know if any corrections were made, but um the um motion to approve motion to approve and second, I'll second.

Uh, uh moved by Catz, seconded by Baird, all in um any public inputs.

Okay, um, in which case all in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed nay.

Or now the motion carries unanimously.

Item number four is future agenda topics, and uh, if everybody knows this is not talk about topics that are on the list, but if there are things that people would like to talk about, um, getting them added to the list.

Are there any petitions?

Pamela.

Yes, so this uh was a result.

Well, going back.

I used to be on the planning commission, and I used to rail from the bias about we needed to have more condos built, single left for sale authorship projects.

And um, some of you know my husband is um has been ill with Markinsons, and we should have moved to a single level house two years ago when he was uh diagnosed, but we didn't, um and he's having some difficulties now with getting upstairs at our two.

We can't really talk about it.

I know.

I know.

I'm laying the groundwork, laying the groundwork.

So this is now my the nude bee in my bonnet.

So anyway, um, so I was downtown Los Altos walking around, and I noticed that there are a lot of for sale or condos downtown.

So there are 57 units that were built um between 2013 and 2023, most of them in 23 and 24.

57 units.

There's a project that is entitled for 50 units, and there's a one under construction for 15 units.

So I would like to have a discussion or suggested discussion or at least information about why can't we build autos downtown?

Uh like help with revitalization, we would have more bodies downtown.

There is a project over links to the uh police station.

I mean the post office.

Those are really expensive.

Um but any case that would be something I would like um us to recommend or ask staff is there good explanation of why we can't build it.

Okay, no, no, uh downtown condos is uh an item on that agenda.

Can I ask a quick question?

I know we don't discuss this by the yeah, Vince has been doing these presentations on mid and low income house.

Did he ever present to this group?

I know he presented to BIP.

Yeah, well, he just in the reviews, he doesn't have a look at it now about that.

Okay, because he did a formal presentation for BIP, so I don't know if he'd done it for this group.

Okay, no discussion, all right.

Um, we got more.

Oh, yes.

We got an email of the committee about which I think was a good idea about potentially putting in like recycling and composting bins on Astro as opposed to just touchdowns or that's sorted off site.

We're having a discussion about that, learning more about what that was.

I think that was one thing that had come up.

Okay, and then I had another thing which someone brought up recently, which is uh concern around how quickly fire could get down Castro, like if there was an emergency, like how fast can someone actually the fire department actually get down through those gates and like have we tested it?

What's the you know game plan?

So understanding that topic.

That might be like we're just a report, that's not really a yeah.

Good evening committee, good morning committee.

Can you hear me?

Yes, hi.

Um, Amanda Amanda Rotel, economic vitality manager.

So um, I'm working from home, I'm a bit under the weather, but uh just an update on the fire piece.

So the fire department has tested response times, and I'm actually working with them to do some additional training.

Um uh this summer uh so that they can continue to be proactive in addressing any issues that come up on Castro Street.

So um they're being super proactive.

They have run tests and they're continuing to run tests and train.

Cool.

Can we get a reddle on them?

Uh we can definitely ask the fire department to come present.

Yeah, thanks.

Go ahead because you notice the bollards are not in the middle.

Yes.

You know, they're they're spread out.

So all they have to do is open up the gate.

Right, right.

But then like, can you turn like where do you have to turn to get onto that?

Like it's going to go right over the curve.

So I want to just caution us not to get into a discussion on.

But I do want to say they have done multiple tests of fire trucks getting onto Castor Street.

Actually, there was quite an audience the last time we tested.

It was quite fun to watch them turning the big trucks onto Castor Street.

So they have run multiple tests.

And the Ped Mall was specifically designed to accommodate a fire truck and accommodate turning radiuses.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um seeing no other hands, we will move on to item number five, oral communications from the public.

And this is item is reserved for people wishing to address the committee on items not on today's agenda.

Um and the committee cannot act on anything raised during oral communications.

Is there any of the public wishing to address the committee?

And still nobody online.

All right.

We will close our old communications from the public and move on to item number six, unfinished business.

And item 6.1 is Castro Street update.

Who's presenting?

There are slides.

So bear with me for a second since we just got here.

They're in the last.

Yeah, I don't know.

You want to send them on Teams?

Because I'm not connected to VPN.

So we can just do this.

Can you see them now?

Hello.

There they are.

Oh Amanda, saving the day always.

These are our downtown updates.

Music on Castro is happening now.

Encourage you guys to get down there.

I had the chance to go last week.

It was so cute, and there were so many kids dancing in the street with bubbles and stuff.

It was very charming.

And these are some of the upcoming dates and who's performing.

Go to the next slide.

We have concerts on the plaza coming up, June to September, 6 to 7 30.

And these are the upcoming performers.

We've got an 80s band.

Should be fun.

Tell your friends.

Yeah.

Great question.

Are we doing entertainment zone on music nights or uh first Friday nights?

No, not at this time.

Why not?

I think because they're in, I mean, Amanda can correct me, but I think because the plaza doesn't have really have anyone who would maybe participate.

But downtown, I think that the event is so small that it would require just like a heavy amount of um staffing and regulation and implementation in order for like such a small event would probably be um a lot of cost for what it's working with.

I'll just note for like in downtown Los Altos on first Fridays when they have the music all over town again.

They're an open carry city, but you know, that's part of the charm of it is people can have a drink and walk around and it draws people downtown.

So we could go through the pilot that we'll consider to expand it.

The first um activation of the entertainment zone will be the July 18th and 19th summer of soccer weekend festivities.

So that'll be our first activation, first kind of test case.

And the big difference with Los Altos, too, is they have a band every every block kind of thing.

So that's a very different thing than a centralized band here.

Right.

Right.

You could make a day entertainment zone like two blocks.

I mean, I I suspect that it might draw more people downtown if if you are doing that so I would really encourage staff to sort of really try and try it at some point during the summer um and see if it works on a smaller scale than the big event and see if it does draw people downtown of course I have to do that a couple times because people may not see the notice what's the entertainment zone?

So anyways is not enough.

Good feedback yeah uh Mandy can we go to the next slide journal so there's some discrepancy things this it needs to be and this we're playing in that time at least for that one when I was there I thought this is sort of on them I said wow they're good let me go but there's somebody else was playing there so there was a problem so just something is connecting the I'll definitely yeah all right we're gonna be hosting downtown office hours to um evangelize the entertainment zone and answer anyone's questions um uh we'll be in front of Red Rock coffee Kristen Amanda and I um starting today and going into next week and the following on Tuesdays from 11 to 1 and we're hoping to just create a space where people can come ask questions about the entertainment zone but we also expect to field questions about the patio renewals and grants other um things that we're working on right now so um I encourage you if people have questions about the entertainment zone to send them our way during these hours we're happy to have questions or answer questions and be in conversation and be available out there.

So do you have a table and a little protocol that says here I am where you do stand there or we're just gonna use the blue mountain view the table that's out there in front of Red Rock the pick table and I I imagine we we'll have some materials and our badges on and our name tags and you know I can't leave this office without someone stopping me and saying oh Tony and I've only been here for three months so people know who we are and uh yeah but um a sign is a good idea so I'll think about how we can potentially put up a sign.

DT MV or something.

Yeah.

Um okay so the Mountain View makers market we're really excited to be launching this event and accepting applications right now.

We've received over 30 applications for the market and we're expecting um more than 60 um we're doing an info session this Thursday uh for any vendors who are in for interested in being part of the makers fair just gonna do rapid fire answer questions see what people's concerns are see if they have other ideas for how to improve kind of the concept and so we'll be hosting that on Zoom this Thursday and then there will also be a session on Monday uh June 8th that will be presented in Spanish and um I will follow up with all of you with the flyers for all of these events if you're interested in sharing them with other people.

Have you told Fatmo about those?

Oh yeah I was like they as long as they know and they're distributing it to their people.

Definitely I've met with Fatmo twice now.

They're great oh yeah they're really happy that so are these going to be under canopy or is this going to be in an empty storefront or where would we be set up?

Good question.

It's along the 300 block of Castro and we anticipate that all of the vendors will be bringing 10 by 10 uh booths but we aren't requiring them.

So if somebody wants to just have a little table that's acceptable too I would think more down home craft fair less like renegade craft uh you know big fancy show where we're really trying to have local makers uh feature their products and encourage people to shop small and support those local artisans and art entrepreneurs this fall the beer garden does like Saturdays or something.

They have oh I have the one the beer garden oh right yeah yeah.

Yeah, lovely.

They have like I want to say it's like once a month or something.

They have they have like a Sundays, or yeah, they have like jewelry and crochet items.

They have vendors that come by.

Okay, I'll have to connect with them on that.

Thank you.

Tony, can I just interject?

Um, for um the tech showcase, which is uh July 30th, um, we also are partnering with the makers community.

Um, but these are electronic geared or technology geared technology um makers that will be in City Center Plaza, and more importantly is that nothing is for sale.

This is all for demonstration, show off their technology.

This is a vendor type of thing, but it's another way for us to kind of test out our relationship with the with the maker community.

Grease this kids.

Yeah, but uh the repair cafe fit in this thing, they don't challenge anything, they repair things for people.

Oh repair cafe, repair cafe.

Uh we've actually or which one are you talking about?

Which one are you recommending?

Showcase or the makers.

Yeah, so we've actually um reached out a number of times and haven't received a response.

So if anyone has a special connection, please tell them to respond to me.

Because we have uh reached out three or four times in the last month.

So that's a they're a big deal.

Yeah, they I mean they have multiple people there working.

They have huge crowds waiting to get in.

So it's it's an event in and of itself, it's not like a no idea.

But for the makers market um, I mean makers, I'm confusing them now.

For tech showcase, um it's just a little bit different than a vendor opportunity.

Um, and we are actually really encouraging repair cafe to be there to bring something that people can touch and play with, pull apart, put back together, which is my understanding of what they do in their doors in the first place.

So um, we think it would be a great opportunity for them.

Um, but uh they gotta answer the email.

Okay.

Greg Cola Donato is involved in that.

But if I need to have two art updates, so um we have two fun events next week.

First on June, uh Monday, June 8th from 5 30 to 8 30.

We're holding um just open gallery hours to go see C Xian um and her exhibit if you'll have perseverance.

Um so you can peek at it through the uh Mountain View Center for us windows right now.

Um but this will just be a chance to kind of walk in and out.

Um the artist will be there, you'll be able to meet her, um, get a chance to look at her art, um, just be able to meet people other people who are interested in art.

Um and so we're really excited about this.

This is gonna be um this is a part of kind of a pilot test um to hold uh these kind of open gallery hours once um during every exhibit because we rotate these exhibits every about six to eight weeks, and so this is our first um open gallery hours evening, um, and then we'll post more.

I think our next one's gonna be in late July with uh the next Monday evening um at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

You can just hop in and out um as you're available, then we're also hosting a ribbon cutting on Thursday, June 11th, um, to celebrate the panels, the art panels that were installed at the train depot.

Um so this is gonna be at 3 p.m.

next Thursday afternoon.

Um, and so just a chance to again meet the artist, celebrate the art.

This is a huge collaborative effort between the city, Arts Mountain View, Mountain View Historical Association helped provide a lot of great feedback and I think about it for contribute to the panels that represent kind of the history of Mountain View.

Um and then there was a grant issued by um the Valley Transportation Authority, so they'll be there as well.

Um, it's gonna be a little party.

Um so come and enjoy.

Um, another chance to meet the artist who um John Patrick Thomas, who also did a Bollard on uh two of the Bollards on.

Uh no, I think we um are gonna use the community center, the community service department.

Okay, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They're not as flashy.

Oh we had a monopoly on big scissors.

Okay, sorry.

Okay, um that it?

Yep.

Um any other questions or comments or anything from the public.

No.

Still nobody online.

Okay.

All right.

Then we will close item 6.1 and move on to item seven, new business.

And 7.1 is a summer of soccer.

Right.

Amanda, are you taking this in or would you like to do that?

Yeah, I can jump in.

Um, so we are excuse me.

We are deep in the planning for summer of soccer activations.

Um, we've got kind of three categories of activities taking place.

Um, once again, we're working with the chamber, partnering with the chamber to do outreach to our business community.

Um, we're going to be hosting uh an online map and uh as well as a calendar uh promoting what the businesses are up to.

So chamber ambassadors are out there.

We're still encouraging businesses to submit what they're up to so that we can include them in all of those promotions.

People can visit the website, mountainview.gov slash summer of soccer.

Um we're also looking for to create opportunities for play.

So some opportunities to celebrate soccer, bring the community together.

So with that in mind, a foot golf course will be set up for open play in Questa Park and foot golf is essentially a frisbee golf with a soccer ball.

Uh so that'll be available the entirety of this uh of the tournament, and there's gonna be cute little cards where people can keep their score.

Um it's gonna be a really good time.

So encourage people to check that out.

We're also dropping a mini pitch into the downtown.

So this is a small soccer field, and we're gonna have activations happening there as well, but it'll also be open for open play, kind of the back half of the tournament.

And then lastly, we're gonna be culminating everything with our weekend of music at watch parties.

Um that's July 18th and 19th.

We're gonna be screening the bronze and final matches, and we will be activating the downtown entertainment zone for the first time.

Um, and so again, we're we're testing out the entertainment zone as part of our outreach and office hours.

We're working closely with the businesses to make sure they understand both the opportunity but also the responsibility of participating.

Um, excuse me, do we know what time of day those um uh league games are on the 18th and 19th?

Yeah, so we've gotten some mixed information, but they do happen during the day.

So um the game should start somewhere between noon and two.

Um they're they're being shown on the east coast.

So we'll be you know showing them in real time here on the west coast.

Um, but uh we should have final times here pretty soon.

But they are midday activations, and I'll just jump and show, you know, as part of that, uh, we're gonna be showing the games and then we're gonna have live music, so live bands, um, playing before and after the watch parties.

We're again gonna have family friendly activities, the oversized games, um, uh some face painting, you know, photo booths.

Um, you know, Jamil was in our 360 photo booth for the Super Bowl, so he can share more about that.

Um, and then again working with the chamber and downtown business association on some business specials.

Do we know of other cities are also doing watch parties and stuff?

There are a number of cities that are doing watch parties.

Um none that I'm aware of that are doing, well, I think um San Jose is doing watch parties for every single game.

Um, but some of the smaller cities have selected various weekends to host watch parties.

I know Redwood City has some watch parties.

Um, I believe uh Los Altos Hills, maybe.

Um, so but there are there are a handful that are gonna be hosting events.

Yeah, and then just like Amanda, just before I mean it seems like it.

It would be really good to really identify who around us is because then we could add this.

You know, we're the closest watch party, you know, between you know Redwood City and Santa Clara sort of thing.

So as opposed to everybody assuming that every city is doing something, um might help our draw.

Yeah, I will say we've been coordinating with our economic development colleagues to ensure that none of us are doing the same day so that we aren't competing with each other.

But certainly we could add them to our calendar where other watch parties are in the region if you think that would be helpful.

And individual businesses can hold their own watch parties too so we won't be able to track all of that.

Yeah, the events all over and I know um several businesses they're going to hold watch parties for every game that's playing during their open business hours.

So I think it would be going to be a lot of fun.

And then lastly just want to share this other opportunity.

So as part of the mini pitch that'll be dropped into the uh into the downtown um we are going to have pop-up opportunities for businesses if they'd like to do a pop-up you know a coffee cart pop-up or um you know a makerspace pop up uh at the at the mini pitch we're providing opportunities for businesses to come and activate um we all we are also in conversations with some of our um regional professional sports teams and they're interested in doing some pop-ups at the mini pitch so um we'll be building out the calendar and encouraging the community to come down um for both open play and then some of our special events and that is it thank you just wanted uh also this information time is on the current uh downtown digest dates and all that um questions romanda any public input all right thanks Amanda um and moving on to item 7.2 the economic vitality strategy update yeah thank you so um let me see your email amanda oh yeah you don't want to see that nothing fun in there wait go back no I think I saw something yeah happy to have you come and answer my emails for me anytime um so uh as you know we just presented to city council um our annual update on the economic vitality strategy um this went to council uh just last week on the 26th um and so wanting to share that update with you as part of your packet you'll have you have the full staff report um that includes some updates from uh some kind of highlights of things from this year um but I do want to share our uh kind of our updated graphics so you can see here um particularly calling your attention to goal number two which is around reinvigorating downtown um you can see that we have we've really engaged on a lot of the action items that are related to downtown so of the 32 total actions for that goal um all but seven have been sort of engaged in some way which is pretty excellent um uh and some highlights from this year obviously getting our uh pop-up space off the ground um on castor street the don't eat me pop up that was a huge huge undertaking um some of the art activations that Kirsten has been spearheading has been a big uh big win being able to get the train depot mural up and running in the ballards um those have been huge um our facade improvement grant program continuing to serve businesses throughout the city but um a lot of interest in activation uh here in the downtown um tony's done a great job of relaunching that program with the larger match and um really helping to uh relook at the user experience and and make improvements on that um and then obviously our summer of soccer is huge um so being able to bring the world uh the super bowl event in February and now working towards the World Cup event um we were able to move really quickly to get an entertainment zone approved.

Excuse me.

And so uh lots of huge wins for downtown and lots of work to come so um we've really as we're we're building out our team, we have Tony that has joined us.

We're gonna have a new arts position joining the team um so we're look really looking uh strategically about how we're gonna be moving into year three, which is if you can imagine believe it, we're only at year three.

We've only completed two years of the economic vitality strategy and you can see all the um all of the work that we've already done.

And just a another way of kind of cutting up the data here is to uh look at um how action items have been um kind of broken up in our work plan.

So all every 164 action items was given a timeframe if they were labeled as immediate short-term or midterm uh midterm or long term and so you can see you know we've completed all of the immediate action items we are very um we're we're highly engaged in our short term short-term action items with only 15% not started and despite um some of these other actions falling into different categories we've already been able to engage on some of our midterm and long-term uh progress one thing to note um as we're moving through the economic vitality strategy and it's detailed in the staff report that it's included is we have a lot of items that are becoming ongoing items and so this means that they don't have a discrete end date it's not a we've we've completed it box checked but rather this is a program a policy uh a procedure that is now just becoming part of the everyday workload of the economic development team um and so we have quite a few ongoing items I believe we have double um the ones from last year in terms of you know just adding to our baseline workload and so as we're getting a lot of great momentum right now but as we continue to move through the uh move through implementation of the program we're gonna just see more and more becoming ongoing and so um I I project that we'll see a slowing of this rapid progress as we have to you know um maintain all the work that we have established so far in addition to continuing to engage in some of the newer items in the work plan as they come up but I'll pause it there.

Peter?

Yeah so Amanda, you know, first of all congratulations to the team there's a lot of incredibly there's incredible volume and an incredible importance in the work that's being done.

So kudos to the two members here in the one remote um that's a lot to be done on.

One of the things that I've noticed in terms of going to this the council meetings and all that is the council is very uh I don't know stuck on is the right word but they they they seem to really ask a lot of questions about accountability and how are we doing according to metrics and so on.

And you just mentioned something that's really important which is a lot of the activities that were just were discrete activities now are really becoming ongoing tasks.

And so I guess my question becomes one of how can we present to council progress on things that are just ongoing.

You know what is there a new metric that needs to be introduced in some way so that you know we can make everyone feel good that yes things are being done but there's things that just continue to roll.

Am I making that clear?

Yeah it's a good question Peter and um I mean we're trying to do that with how we're reporting out on the economic vitality strategy by showing all the categories so showing things that are ongoing you know as one bucket but you know in progress completed as another bucket.

Certainly you know in the report we're still reporting out on the ongoing work that's taking place.

It was really important for me in putting this together to really highlight you know we're still doing the facade improvement grant program.

We're still doing you know tech we're still providing technical support we're still supporting small businesses with one-on-one engagement.

So all of that is still is still in there because if you look at uh I think it's page nine of the report and I can share it I I included this little iceberg graphic um to really highlight and let me zoom in you know all the ongoing work that's taking place so you know below the water line there is this big chunk of the iceberg of all the work that the staff is doing day to day and you know we anticipate that you know we have I don't know 20 20% of our time uh that can be allotted to strategic initiatives.

So if you're thinking about 80% of our time is maintaining the bottom of the iceberg and we're still trying to move forward all of our strategic initiatives um and so you know both graphically and narratively I tried to really touch on that in the staff report um to really show um you know we're we're continuing to keep the iceberg afloat and we're we're really um executing on our strategic initiatives and goals and and the economic vitality strategy obviously is the focus of this report.

Not seeing any hands um two quick questions first off the economic vitality strategy is citywide not just downtown correct that is correct yeah right the but the second question is sort of a follow on to Peter's is you know yes so we have all these things that we've done and that we're doing but did you create any or identify any metrics or has council like what's happening with sales taxes um you know do we have an inventory of you know we've now had 10 out of 30 facade improvements and surveys show that people are really happy with that I mean do we have metrics of is any of this doing anything for our economic vitality or is it just a lot of work.

Yeah thanks Mike so I'll share what was an attachment to the council report which is our measures of success so these were adopted by council um as part of the approval of the economic vitality strategy back in 2024 and so you can see we've identified our measures of success which are clear metrics here on the left you can see how they've changed over our baseline when it was approved in 2024 year one um report out April 2025 and now year two report out April 2026 and then the little check boxes show which of our goals they apply to so some of these measures of success apply to all of the goal areas and some are more targeted at specific get goals so you can see some things I'd like to highlight um here particular to the downtown um our downtown retail vacancy has has continued to decline so we went from 8.5 and we are down into 6.1 so we've moved into our target area um recognizing that a little bit of vacancy is good because you want to have room for new businesses and new concepts to come in so we are exactly where we want to be and so we've seen positive progress there.

If you look at our percent in year over year sales tax in the downtown so we went from negative 8.5 um and now we're in 10% and and that's real a couple of things um it's related both to some new businesses opening in the downtown and from a strong uh year over year change in some of our business service categories um the year prior was particularly low which shows a particularly high number here but that being said we're looking at the same the same uh Q4 data uh every uh year over year and so positive trend there um some other positive trends we're seeing a huge amount of engagement with our economic development business resource pages so we went from essentially zero um and we've we've seen a 6x increase in businesses in in uh utilization of the resources that we're putting out there um uh number of businesses in downtown also continues to go up so we saw almost uh 40 new businesses over the last two years open in downtown so these are the positive trends that we're continuing to look at um and uh and this data is was reported out to council um council did request that we start reporting specifically on industrial uh zoning and so we'll see a new metric pop up uh next year when we go to I I would just say I think this would some of this obviously not the chart but you know like in the um the the the business newsletter that goes out and stuff you know a report on these results, other than saying we're doing a lot of stuff in economic vitality, what's it doing?

You know, it's sort of like, you know, you know, this is sort of what happened in the last election.

Well, the economy is great, but I'm not feeling it.

Well, but here's what here's what's happening.

So, yeah, thanks, Mike.

I appreciate the opportunity to share this.

And I'll I'll just also note um from the downtown piece.

One of the ones, one of the trends that we are really zeroing in on is this office vacancy rate.

So we are seeing an increase in office vacancy in the downtown.

Um, we know that we had a large company vacate downtown when we when they were purchased.

Uh, they were acquired and moved out.

Um, so it as part of our year three work plan, we are going to be really looking um looking both at some of the current trends in downtown in office vacancy and then what strategies might be out there.

Right.

Thanks.

Um, yeah, question.

Amanda, can you put that chart back up, please?

Okay, the second to the bottom number of square feet supporting commercial industrial activities target 26 million.

And um, by the metric, we're over that, um, but down just slightly.

So um, can you explain what that means?

Um, and why do we want to do and I'm not questioning, but can you just explain what we're what the metric is and what we're trying to achieve with that?

Yeah, so it's looking at the just the number of square feet of all commercial and industrial buildings um and space in in the entirety of Mountain View.

And so um, you know, this target, we're above the target, which is great.

We want to be at the target or above, um, but this is really showing kind of the important threshold to support our our current uh economic development and our future economic development goals in terms of the amount of commercial activity that's taking place.

Um, and so you can see, you know, we've added some targets to some of these, but uh, you know, being at at or above that is where we want to be.

Do we do any kind of a measurement on housing?

Um, and how that relates to economic vitality, whether it be below market rate or at market rate, condos, townhouses, single family.

Do we do any measurement with that?

So, not for the economic vitality strategy, but certainly as we're reporting out on our arena numbers, as we're reporting out um on some of our planning, uh um advanced planning documents, those numbers are included.

So we do we do track on those metrics, just not as part of the economic vitality strategy.

There are a few action items that are tied back to housing for so those are things that we're reporting out on kind of in the overall ongoing and compress items that we um just one other quick question, not on the the report itself, but on economic vitality.

Have there been any discussions um between you and Christian about um uh economic vitality advisory committee?

Um, so that will really be uh a decision for council to make.

So it's not a staff level decision.

Um we really will have to defer to city council on on the type of advisory bodies and and what they um have been tasked with overseeing and and advising on.

So um I'm gonna defer that to a council decision.

Okay, just just to uh push back a little bit.

It's not as if council or staff doesn't ever advise council of what we really could use an advisory committee here.

We really don't need this committee any longer, that sort of thing.

So uh council does of course take its cues from uh well reasoned staff uh recommendations, so um that out there.

I think that's fair, Mike.

Um, I'm not prepared to speak on that today.

That's but that's fine.

I I think I knew the answer anyways.

Any other questions on the economic vitality um update?

But I appreciate that showing the grid here because I think that does a different lens on it, it.

It's important.

Yeah, that's very helpful.

And I I would really lead with that.

I mean, or that's data.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, um, and assume nothing, assuming no um public comment.

Okay, um, then let's move to 7.3, the downtown committee work plan.

Oh, sorry, that's me pulling up the slides again.

All right.

So you can see in your packet, based on the feedback that we got at the last committee meeting, um, I pre I've provided a final version of the work plan for your review.

Um, just some high level update, you know, high-level overview of what's in there, obviously.

Continue to provide comments and provide uh rec and feedback on programs and projects and policies, continuing to support the economic vitality initiatives in the downtown, um, you know, helping us with promotion and uh utilization of our outreach services and activities.

Obviously, the downtown parking strategy still remains out there, and so providing recommendations on implementations of that, um, provide council with recommendations on both the parking uh district and the business improvement areas, um and uh our ped mall activation, so continue to support activation and and implementation of those, um, continued collaboration with the visual arts committee.

So, as Kirsten mentioned, we're having an open gallery, and we're also looking for ways that we can host more of those art art talks as we saw really a strong community response from that, and then receiving updates from city departments on on various programs and events and initiatives.

As you know, we've heard from the uh police department in the past, from community services, sounds like we'd like to hear from the fire department um here here soon.

So all of that's kind of built into our work plan.

Thank you.

Can we address the public comment we got about the public bathrooms?

Is that something that would need to be discussed here, or is that just not for this topic at all?

Yeah, so did you hear that, Amanda?

I heard about the public restrooms, yeah.

So we don't have specific item specific projects listed here in the work plan.

So that would um likely fall under um both receiving updates and then uh looking exploring possible programs and uh as part of the continued implementation of the PED mall.

If that were something that we wanted to slot in, uh where would that where would you put that in in obviously, you know, it's sort of like studying, you know, parking or studying this.

If we were gonna put that in, would that be just a new item that um, you know, investigate possibilities of uh you know restrooms?

I think you know, as as we as we think about it, as we have the entertainment zones and we get more people coming downtown, um, and and restaurants saying customers only, um, you know, having you know a place to go is important.

So um it seems pretty relevant.

And so what would be the best way to work that into the work plan?

Yeah, I think it makes sense under G.

Um, you know, that second bullet discuss improvements, changes for cash reclosure, you know, and we could we could include um in turn in terms of discuss midterm improvements, we could put in little brackets here, including public uh, you know, including public restrooms um as part of that, and so that would be an edit we could make to this final document.

Okay, um thoughts on that?

Good idea.

So do I do I hear a motion to include that in the work plan?

Because this is the work plan.

This you know, this is the sign off.

It goes to the council from here.

So I move that we add under item G that we study or recommend uh public restrooms.

That's nothing.

All right.

Any other discussion?

Um, all right.

Um and assuming no uh public input.

Public input.

Um all in favor?

Uh say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Uh the motion carries unanimously.

Okay.

And um, we also then need to approve the recommended work plan as modified.

So is there a motion to uh approve the work the fiscal year work plan?

I move that we adopt the work plan as amended on the second.

All right, um moved by Baird, seconded by Shay.

Any uh discussion?

Any public input?

All right, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed?

Um that motion carries unanimously as well.

All right.

You've been really been working hard today, Amanda.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, um, with that, we will um close item 7.3 and move on to item eight, committee staff comments, questions, and committee reports.

Um, anything, Pamela?

Um, question on the wayfinding signs.

Um, the note said that they would be uh installed in June and certainly by we hope by July.

What's the update on the wayfinding signs?

Yeah, we've run into a little bit of some hurdles with production, so we're still hoping for summertime, but um we've had to uh we've had some delays.

As soon as I have a clear timeline for installation, I'll let the committee know.

Great, and then I'll I'll be conducting a walking tour on June 26th, whatever the last Sunday of the month is in June.

Anything else, uh Stephanie?

Now that we think about public restrooms, are there gonna be bathrooms for the watch parties?

Just thinking of the traffic of people.

Okay, yeah, they're all the bathrooms.

Similarly to what we did for the Super Bowl event, there will be bathrooms out.

Yeah.

Any anything else from anybody?

17th, taste the mountain view, get your tickets now.

All right, um, I'll just note um we head into our recess, so we will not be meeting the next two months.

Um, mirroring council's recess.

All right.

Schools out of the summer.

Only one comment on this next to Monte Carlo with some kind of spection going on and it blocked the sidewalk and the detour.

No one was signs, but I saw this tap there looking forward and trying to get the signs on.

Neither signs now.

No, I thought it was walked yesterday.

It's all signed.

One of the albums confused too.

So they were standing up there to say there's no signs in there, but we'll put them on to bring in back and then route them back.

Um walk that.

So I saw it's a good fixing the atrium.

On the outside of it, is all of them.

I didn't know the um M design uh is done, and they haven't um opened up the gallery yet, which will be opening at some point in the near future, and it looks like the um the uh what is it uh the the old tap plastics is still underway, so that would be ought to be interesting.

So uh question on the update on the old Jennings 171 aims building since uh Vincent wasn't here to present.

Do we have any update on what's happening with that building?

That has been forever.

You're talking about the lock museum on the 100 block stance.

Yeah, 171 castro.

Yeah, um, I don't have any updates, although I'm working with the property owner to put a vinyl wrap on those windows.

That would be nice.

It looks a little abandoned, but what about the sample seal group?

That's like leaving.

Yeah, I moved over to it.

Yeah, so I know what happened there.

They just were like, well, maybe we weren't upscale enough to pay $250 dollars for a chat.

Oh, we never went in there, so I don't know.

Well, like I don't know what they're like, this is too fancy.

I don't wear high heels.

I'm like, no things.

Yes.

I will say for that prop for that business, um, we really see that as a success.

They were testing out a concept here in Mountain View, and they were so successful that they went on to find a permanent location.

So I think that's a success story.

Um, and that we were able to incubate that business, and certainly we'll be working with our commercial real estate partners to see what we can bring to fill that space.

Okay, anything else on item eight?

And if not, then we'll move to item nine, adjournment.

And we will stand adjourned until the September, right?

Do we have a date for September?

Because right around our Labor Day, I think.

Yeah, that's a really good, that's a really good point.

Oh no, okay.

So it'll actually be uh yeah, Labor Day is very late.

Today's the seventh.

So we're the first.

We would be meeting on the first, yeah, the week before.

Okay, so yeah, thanks for checking.

Some years it falls right on top of it, so I think she's noting that.

Right.

Okay, that's better.

All right.

Well, have a good summer, everybody, and try and get some time off to our fabulous staff.

Yeah.

You use that break to your advantage, and we are adjourned.

Early.

Wow.

Early and short.

That's what happens when we don't have the uh the uh the development room