All right, everyone.

We're gonna get started.

It is now five o'clock.

Good evening, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for our closed session.

City Attorney Lowe will make a closed session announcement, and then we will welcome public comment on the items listed for closed session.

Can you hear me?

All right, I'll just even mayor, vice mayor, and council members, uh, city attorney Jennifer Logue.

There are four items on this evening's code session agenda.

Item two point one is a meeting to consider appointment of a city attorney pursuant to government code section five four nine five seven B1.

Item two point two is a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation pursuant to government code section five four nine five six six six six six point nine.

The name of the case is San Francisco Bay Keeper versus City of Mountain View and City of Sunnyville.

United States District Court case number twenty CB 00824.

Item two point three is a conference with legal counsel regarding two items of anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point nine D two.

And item two point four is a meeting with legal counsel to discuss the initiation of litigation pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point nine D four.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Now, would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session items listed on tonight's agenda?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a speaker card to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have a minute and thirty seconds.

Hi, my name is Monica Tysher, and I have been a resident of Mountain View for over 27 years.

Thank you for making sure our city remains a community for all.

Thank you.

Next we have Brandon.

Hi there.

My name is Brandon.

I've lived in Mountain View for more than 20 years.

I'm here tonight to also comment on the proposed lawsuit against the Gilroy facility, and I'm asking the city to join the amicus brief.

I'm here to comment because I've seen what ICE and the federal government are doing to our neighbors, and I don't like it.

Um I don't know how to say this in a way that is uh not, it just doesn't sound like it hasn't happened to me.

It's so crazy, but um the same agency that shot a nurse in the face, or excuse me, a poet in the face, a nurse in the back, and left a five-year-old boy in the snow to act as bait to grab his mother, wants to open a concentration camp in Gilroy, a place I previously had known for its garlic ice cream.

Um I'm glad that you passed the resolution recently, did not help ICE with staging, and now I'm asking you to do more.

Um as a citizen, I I know what I'll be doing.

I'm gonna be there with my sign, and I'm thinking garlic, not gulags.

But um, since you're our elected officials and I know you can do more, I'm here tonight to ask you to do more.

Um tonight, I'd just like you to ask you to help our neighbors join this lawsuit.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We will now take virtual speakers, and I am seeing none.

So, council will now recess to the plaza conference room for closed session and return to council chambers at the close to continue regular session.

Do I read this part?

Okay.

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the joint meeting of the Mountain View City Council, Shoreline Regional Park, and City of Mountain View Capital Improvements Financing Authority of June 23rd, 2026.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

All right, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Councilmember Hicks here, Councilmember Kamei.

Here, McAllister, Councilmember Ramirez.

Here, Councilmember Show Walter.

Here, Vice Mayor Clark.

Here.

Mayor Ramos?

Here, you have a core.

Thank you.

In recent weeks, the city, along with a few of our neighboring elected decision-making bodies, have been subjected to disruptive racist verbal attacks by anonymous callers during virtual public comment.

As we strive to create a welcoming, safe and inclusive community for all.

The council welcomes respectful, non-threatening public comments on matters within our jurisdiction.

Comments deemed otherwise, pursuant to the council code of conduct and the government code may be grounds for terminating a speaker's comment period.

I will also say in advance that all public speaking comment periods tonight will be limited to 90 seconds or one minute and 30 seconds.

So now we will move on to item two, closed session report.

City Attorney Loeb, do you have a closed session report?

Yes.

Um good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

In closed session this evening, the City Council took final action on item 2.4 on the closed session agenda, which was a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956 D4 regarding the initiation of litigation.

Council voted with four ayes, zero no's, and two its two abstentions by Vice Mayor Clark and Councilmember McAllister to authorize the city to join a legal brief with other Bay Area local governments supporting a request for a court order to halt construction of a proposed U.S.

immigration and custom enforcement detention facility in Gilroy.

Thank you, City.

I do believe it was five eyes.

I apologize, that's right.

It's five eyes.

Thank you.

All right.

We will now move on to item three.

Please note these are presentations only.

The city council will not take any action.

Public comment will occur after the presentation items.

If you would like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

So we have item 3.1, National Immigrant Heritage Month Proclamation.

We are happy to be joined this evening by Maria Maroquin, executive director of the Dayworkers Center to accept this proclamation.

Maria, would you join me at the lectern?

So okay.

So the proclamation reads Immigrant Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate our origins as a society built on the strength and diversity of immigrants from every corner of the globe, and whereas generations of immigrants have courageously left their homes, lives and loved ones in search of refuge, opportunity and freedom in the United States, driving our economic innovation and enriching our cultural fabric.

And whereas immigrants continue to build businesses, strengthen our workforce, and create jobs, significantly contributing to the vitality and success of our community, and whereas this month allows us to celebrate this rich diversity, reflect on the essential contributions of newcomers, and reaffirm our commitment to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environment for all residents.

And now, therefore, I, Emily Ann Ramos, Mayor of the City of Mountain View, the best city, along with my colleagues on the City Council, do here right proclaim the month of June as Immigrant Heritage Month in Mount View, and I encourage all residents to celebrate their diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contributions that make our community a vibrant place to live.

Miss Maria, would you like to say a few words?

Most definitely, good evening, Madame Mayor and members of the council.

Thank you for this proclamation.

Receiving this recognition during National Immigrant Heritage Month is a profound honor.

But not just for me, but for the entire community, I stand here representing.

I know you do.

As you move into today's agenda, you will have the power to make decisions that directly impact the stability and prosperity of our community's most vulnerable members, those who are too often overlooked.

But yet form the very backbone of Mount View.

Thank you so much.

And we have the proclamation right here.

We're gonna take a picture with the M Mm.

All right, we have lots of proclamations, lots of things to celebrate this uh evening.

So item 3.2 is the 100th anniversary of the Kiwanis Club, a Mountain View proclamation.

Yay!

We are happy to join be joined this evening by Marina Marinovich, the foundation's grants committee chair with the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View to accept this proclamation.

Miss Marina, will you join me at the lecture?

All right, so the you can be right here.

It's better for the pitchers.

All right, so the proclamation reads whereas the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View was officially chartered on March 15th, 1926, beginning a century of service dedicated to improving the lives of children and strengthening the Mountain View community, and whereas the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View is part of Kiwanis International, a worldwide organization of volunteers committed to improving the world, one child and one community at a time.

And whereas for nearly 100 years, members of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View have volunteered their time, leadership, and resources to support youth programs, local nonprofits, educational initiatives, and community projects benefiting the residents of Mountain View and neighboring communities, and whereas through the Kiwanis Foundation of Mountain View, the club has provided significant grants and financial support to dozens of local organizations each year, helping expand programs that serve children's families and those in need, and whereas members of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View have actively supported community engagement through events, partnership, and volunteer service, including youth leadership development and programs that encourage civic participation and community pride, and whereas the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View continues to bring together civic-minded volunteers dedicated to improving the community and creating opportunities for future generations through service, leadership, and fellowship.

Now, therefore, I, Emily Ann Ramos, Mayor of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim Kiwanis Club of Mountain View Centennial Day in recognition of 100 years of service and commitment to the Mountain View community.

We extend sincere appreciation to all past and present members for their lasting contributions to the well-being of the city and its residents.

Now, before I ask you to say a few words, I'll use this opportunity for our mayor's um call to service, call to community, and call to action.

So as you take this mic, please let people know how can people join and support the Kiwanis Club.

Okay.

Well, thank you so much, Emily.

I'm gonna call a couple different members up for this.

Didi is our president here.

Uh first of all, thank you so much, City of Mountain View and everybody that served.

We've all been to the Harvest History Festival and the City of Mountain View's helped so much collaborating with that.

And um, anyway, come up, Didi, and um, thank you.

Okay, just say a few words.

Hello and welcome.

Um, the Kawanis Club of Mountain View is as they said, a group of volunteers.

Um, we have been in service now for a hundred years here.

Um, Kiwanis International is our I don't know what you'd call it, like, umbrella group, thank you.

Um, and that has been in service now for a hundred and ten years, and Koanis is in over eighty countries around the world, and we do quite a bit of um different things.

I'm sorry, I'm not prepared for this.

Come on up.

But if you would like to join us, um we would love to have more members.

Um you can contact either myself or Marina.

Um, and we have a website, so you can go to that and find out.

Kiwanis Mountainview.org.

Yes.

Um, and we will be having a lunch meeting this coming Friday.

If anybody's interested and you'd like to join us, it will be held at uh restaurant Don Giovanni's at noon here in Mountain View on Castro Street.

First lunch is on us.

Yes.

So if you're interested in joining, we will buy your first lunch there.

It's very good.

So please come out.

Okay.

Robert.

Our vice president.

Yes.

I'm the vice president of the local chapter, and I'm just here to tell you about our century of service here in Mountain View and our big celebration that's coming up.

The Kawanas Club of Mountain View is proud to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2026.

Since 1926, local Kawanas volunteers have worked quietly behind the scenes to strengthen our community through scholarships, grants, youth leadership programs, service projects, and support our local nonprofits.

Over the years, we have given away more than four million dollars to the community through these efforts.

To commemorate this historic milestone, the club will host its 100th anniversary gala on Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at Don Genevani's in Mountain View.

We especially would love to hear from and celebrate with individuals and organizations that have been touched by Kawanis over the years.

If your school, nonprofit, family, child, or community group has benefited from a Kawanis grant scholarship program or volunteer effort, we warmly invite you and the entire Mountain View community to join us.

This will be an evening of community, memories, and appreciation for the generations of volunteers who have helped make Mountain View a better place.

And there will be a live band featuring Marina and her band.

And her husband Jeff.

Okay.

We will only be selling selling 100 tickets, so early reservations are encouraged.

We hope to celebrate with many of our neighbors and community partners who have been part of our remarkable 100-year journey.

Thank you, and we look forward to your attendance.

Shall we play for the proclamation?

We got other Kiwanis here.

You call them Kiwanis or like this.

Are you here?

All right, let's have a go.

Alright, are we centered?

Um, right, there's a white person.

All of us are, no, yeah.

Um, are we balanced?

I love that you're going to go.

So maybe you're short counting.

Are we good?

Okay.

Yay!

Sorry, it's so long.

All right, now we're at our final proclamation of the night.

Um it's item 3.3 proclamation honoring city attorney Jennifer Logue's appointment to the judiciary.

We are happy to be joined this evening by City Attorney Jennifer Logue to accept this proclamation, City Attorney Logue.

Would you join me at the lectern?

All right, the proclamation reads Whereas City Attorney Jennifer N.

Logue has been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to the Contra Consta County Superior Court and will conclude her service to the City of Mountain View on July 3rd, 2026.

And whereas Jennifer has served the city of Mountain View for four and a half years as city attorney, and whereas Jennifer earned her jurisdictorate from Georgetown University Law Center, and whereas Jennifer has dedicated her legal career and to public service, and Jennifer strengthened the city attorney's office by building an experienced team of legal professionals by incorporating new technology and best practices into the city attorney's office.

And whereas Jennifer has assisted in the city in navigating complex legal issues with a calm demeanor, sharp intellect, and unwavering commitment to the city of Mountain View and its residents.

And whereas Jennifer possesses the rare combination of intellectual proudness and compassion that makes her uniquely qualified both as a Mountain View City Attorney and as a judge.

And whereas City Attorney Logue leaves a lasting legacy and impact on the City of Mountain View and will always be appreciated by the City Council executive team and city attorney's office.

Now, therefore, I, Emily Ann Ramos, Mayor of the City of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the City Council, do hereby express gratitude and appreciation to Jennifer N.

Logue for her special exceptional leadership service and dedication to the residents of Mountain View, City Attorney Logue.

Would you like to say a few words?

Yes, please.

I wrote this down so I didn't forget or get nervous or cry or get overwhelmed.

Thank you, Mayor and Council members, for this incredible, incredibly meaningful proclamation.

I am deeply honored to have been selected to serve as city attorney for the city of Mountain View.

Serving this community has been one of the greatest privileges of my career, and I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to work on behalf of the city, its residents, and its elected and appointed leaders.

As I prepare to begin my new role, I am overwhelmed by the many warm wishes, kind words, and expressions of support I have received regarding my judicial appointment.

They mean more to me than I can adequately express in words.

I also know that whatever success I have had during my time here was only possible because of the remarkable people with whom I have had the privilege to serve and work with.

I am especially grateful to my fellow appointees and city colleagues whose partnership, dedication, and friendship have made this work both rewarding and enjoyable.

While I have been fortunate to work on many complex, challenging, and interesting matters during my tenure, I believe my greatest achievement has been helping to build a strong and talented legal team.

I am confident that this team will continue to provide the city with outstanding legal representation and the support it deserves for many years to come.

Leaving Mountain View is truly bittersweet.

Although I'm excited for the opportunity to serve the public in a new capacity, I will greatly miss the many people who have made my time here so meaningful.

And there are many of you that I will not forget ever.

Alex, I'm talking to you.

Thank you again for this honor and for allowing me the privilege of serving as your city attorney.

All righty.

So would any member of the council like to say a few words?

Councilmember Hicks.

Well, I'll keep it short and sweet and just say to uh city attorney Lowe, well deserved.

Thank you, Councilmember Hicks.

Councilmember Kamei, great.

Thanks, Mirror.

Um, I love all of our proclamations because I think it shows how we're a community for all.

We're community immigrants, we're a community of community servants, and soon to be judges.

It's very exciting.

Congratulations, most especially to City Attorney Logue.

It's hard to believe that half of our time has been together for some of us.

And it's been so wonderful to work with you.

I'm happy that you know me and then you know, in case anything ever comes up, I don't want to be on any side of that.

Um but um the the hardest working person, um, the the court is lucky to have you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Kamei, Councilmember McAllister.

Here's a phrase that you'll probably enjoy for the rest of your life.

Here come the judge, here comes the judge.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember McAllister.

Council member Show Walter.

It's been a pleasure to work with you.

I've really enjoyed all those explanations you've given me over the years.

So thanks very much.

We'll miss you.

Thank you, Councilmember Show Walter.

Uh, City Manager Kimber McCarthy.

Thank you, Mayor.

So uh many of you may know in council will know that when we have one of our executive team members or department head uh or someone who's been with the city a very long time, retire, they get the privilege of having their very own uh official street name sign.

And uh we felt that even though this is not an official retirement, that you certainly have earned the right to have your own official street sign.

So I just want to thank you on behalf of the whole organization.

Thank you for your partnership for all of your hard work, unwavering dedication to all of the residents to the organization.

It's just been a pleasure working with you.

I'll I'll tell everyone when I uh talk to uh one of the folks that was vetting you, and they asked uh what I thought you would be like as a judge.

Um, and I just said that this role was suited for you.

You know, your temperament, your your commitment to fairness, uh to rigorous research of the law and making sure that you're applying in a way that um is fair to all and also with compassion and empathy, you're gonna be absolutely fabulous.

And let's hope none of us have traffic tickets in Contra Costa County or do anything else.

So without further ado, I want to congratulate you and present you with your sign.

And you do have to open it in front of everyone because it's very fitting, if I may say this is going up in chambers for sure.

Our staff are so clever.

All right, um, Vice Mayor Clark.

Just to briefly say what a pleasure it's been to work with you.

And when I was filling out the I received a uh similar feedback form, um when we found out um that you uh that you were up for the appointment, it was really really hard to fill that out, knowing that it was basically um ensuring that you are going to move on to bigger and better things, but we were really gonna miss you know, but uh but then you know it hits you that what a feather in our cap to have someone who not only has worked so hard for the for the residents of Mountain View, um, not just for for us but for all the residents of Mountain View to um you know to be in a branch of government um judiciary where I think you're just incredibly well suited because of all the characteristics that our city manager articulated.

You're gonna do an incredible job, and we're so proud of we'll be able to say we knew you win.

So thank you so much for all you've done and good luck.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Clark.

Uh, any other comments?

You're good.

Congratulations again, uh City Attorney Logue.

All right.

Um, we will now take public comment for the presentation items.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the presentation items listed on the agenda?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or a blue speaker card up to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds, um, or one and a half minutes, all right.

We will take our only uh speaker in person, Alex Brown.

Uh your honor, and maybe please the council.

Uh congratulations.

Thanks.

All right, thank you.

We will now take virtual speakers.

Seeing none, this ends our presentation items.

We will now move on to item four, consent calendar.

So these items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration.

If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following the approval of the balance of the consent calendar.

If you would like to speak on these items or the next items, oral communication on non-agenda items in person, please submit a speaker card, a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

Would any member of the council like to pull an item?

Okay, it's a very large consent calendar, y'all.

Um council member Ramirez.

Thank you.

Mayor, sorry, I have to pull 4.14.

How do you do this to us?

4.14?

Yes.

Councilmember Schobalter.

Well, I'm not gonna pull an item, but as is my um my custom, I do go over the consent calendar very carefully.

And I've there were a mere 34 items this time, so I felt the need to make a chart, and I divided that chart into eight categories, which I'm gonna share with you.

So uh Clerk, can you open it up?

And there are a few that I thought were particularly meaningful, so I made them read anyway.

Uh every every year at the end the last session before we go into summer, there is just a plethora of consent calendar items, and that's because the city staff needs to get things finished and they needs to get they need to get approval for all of the contracts that they may want to carry out during the summer.

So we expect to have a lot.

Last year we own, I think the last the most I've ever seen before is 28.

So this is this is a new record.

Okay, next uh, this also means that the city staff is and your city is doing a lot of work.

Um, so the first category I made was ballot issues and and policy changes, and there are five of those.

Um, and I think in particular, the one that's probably of most interest to people is the prohibit the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities.

Um, but there are other ones that are um uh, for instance, I think the last one 416 Mountain View Employee Home Binder Assistance.

That's an idea to um allow uh employees to get loans to help them live closer, and that's for our retention uh program.

Okay, next one is housing.

We all care a lot about housing.

We've been um we've been recognized as a pro housing city, but this is uh the largest um affordable housing grant that we've gotten.

Um, the total award is uh from this program, which is for affordable housing and sustainable communities, is um is $50 million, and 35 million of it is for the Evelyn Avenue Affordable Housing Project, and then 14 million is for sustainable transportation.

That's pretty amazing.

Then we go on to budget.

This is the final um uh meeting of the session, and we will approve the budget later on, but there are some set some separate budget items.

Then public works.

Public works took took two screens, um, lots of nine consent calendar items.

Uh the urban water management plan, which is uh uh an important regulatory requirement.

Uh we do every five years, and um just all sorts of other things that we have to do to keep our uh our infrastructure in good working order.

So the next one, uh next one so some more thing building plan checks.

We one of the things that we do is inspect things and check plans and make sure that what we build in Mountain View is safe, and also we have to do things that um like keep up the uh with with getting our keeping our sewer mains repaired, not necessarily sexy work, but very important.

Next, transportation.

We all care a great deal about transportation in particular.

We talk about the importance of um repaving our streets, having active transportation, all that sort of thing.

So 14 million dollars of this grant that was um the 50 million grant goes to sustainable transportation.

We also every year get a report on the North Bay Shore um trip cap, and we're well within those thresholds.

Next uh category is sustainability and climate change protection.

We do a lot of work on sustainability and climate change protection.

We don't just plan, we actually do it.

And so the last three uh items on this are literally things that are related to our sea level rise protection program, and we completed uh the construction on pond A2W.

I hope most of you have gone out there and enjoyed the area and the new um and the new trail that's there.

Next slide.

Um everybody in Mountain View seems to love parks, and we don't think we have enough of them.

Well, now we're getting two more, and that is really something to be to celebrate.

One of them is the purchase of property of 2.4 acres um on San Rafael Avenue in the Terrabella area, and this is an area that's park deficient, but at the same time we're expecting to build some more housing there, so there'll be more need for parks.

So this is it's this great news that we were able to purchase these properties.

And um, for those of you who live in the area, you might want to think about taking part in the um the design of the park, which the parks and work department will be initiating um shortly, and then this is one uh the well back, yeah.

The other one I think is is cause for a great deal of celebration is the city has made arrangements with Google to lease uh a facility on Clyde Avenue to make a new pickleball facility, and that is um pickleball has been something that this uh this community has been tossing around for three or four years about where we should do it.

So we've come up on this this facility has been identified, and um we should have room for I believe it's 12 or 20 um pickleball, up to 12 uh pickleball uh courts there, which which should be great fun.

And I couldn't resist saying pickleball pickle resolved.

Okay, so then the last one is just administrative things, there are always administrative things, the minutes, the youth advisory committee appointments.

Uh we always have to advertise for um uh legal things, and um this is the first this land management assessment advisory service item.

That is the first uh uh consent calendar item of our new IT director, Michael Senior.

So with that, I think that's more than enough.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Show Walter, Councilmember Hicks.

So I'm not gonna I am not gonna pull anything.

I do want to uh make a comment on 4.27.

So mayor just tell me when you would like me to do that.

We could do that after public comment.

Okay, all right.

Would uh any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on these items?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds.

So our first speaker is Alexander Amaroso.

Let's see.

Evening uh Madam Mayor.

Evening council.

So I only really had uh a couple thoughts regarding um items 4.7, 4.8, and 4.13.

So in regards to uh 4.7, um I very much enjoyed the strategic energy innovations and climate core um strategies to that to those ends and even with representative uh or sorry council member uh Schulters said about again this being a sustainable um city let's keep going that direction and I would actually uh suggest when plans are made on these items let's look towards uh regenerative agriculture because we have the gardens for it we have the local um the local uh what's what we look for um uh farmers market folks to work with and let's keep uh rolling that direction now a couple concerns I would say for 4.8 is um when we're looking for uh plans for development towards like you know these parking structures and these parking areas there has been some constraints some constraints over where folks are going to park in places like the spot in front of 24 hour gym so maybe we can work on possibly helping folks find better parking in that sense and also when it comes to the mountain view go um missing the mark on that uh contractors uh contractors uh deadline let's see what we can do proactively to prevent that from having the future thank you thank you seeing no other in person oh we have an in person uh miss joan hello i live at Sunset Estate a mobile home park for seniors on Sylvan Avenue we always are uneasy about our stability since we own our homes but we just rent the space that they sit on what are we gonna do if Mountain View one day allows our spaces to be sold from under us so on page 18 of the COAP the community ownership action plan uh this is included this is the wrong item that that item is uh item six point uh seven point one we're on only on the very first one we're still on consent calendar okay I will come back then no problem thank you miss joan um now we will have we will take virtual speakers and we have one online Bruce England thanks mayor this will be really quick I just wanted to call out the item um 415 which had already brought up prohibition on the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities might be a no-brainer to approve that but I just want to at least voice one person's support for your approving that thanks thank you so much we will bring the we will uh now bring the item back for oh here you go we will now bring the this back for council action and note a motion to approve to a motion to approve the consent calendar should also include reading the title of the ordinance and resolutions attached to consent calendar items 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.8 uh through 4.18 not including item 4.1 uh 4.14 and 4.22 please note that the adoption of items uh 4.4 reflect the updated policy text attached to the council QA document and posted online.

I see um i see a motion by council member ramirez, seconded by councilmember Kameh, and I will let you be a massacre.

Oh.

Oh, Council member hicks, go ahead and have your uh comment.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, so I just wanted to bring I I wanted to thank first uh Councilmember Sherwalter for bringing some of the among these 30 some uh consent items.

There were some that were I think um really notable and that uh members of the community have been uh very interested in or would be including the the large um 50 million dollar grant and the two parks.

I was just going to bring, I will be um voting for this motion, accepting everything, including uh 4.27, but I wanted which is the North Bay Shore trip cap monitoring where we count how everybody is using how everybody's going into uh North Bay Shore.

I did, however, want to bring up, um I wanted to bring that to people's attention as well, um, because since 2015, um transit use is down by half, biking is down by two-thirds, carpooling is down by one quarter, and single occupancy vehicle cars are up by use is up by one-third.

So at the same time, there's a lot of change going on in the transportation arena, you know, positive things like micromobility, electric cars, there's also automatic vehicles, which you may deem positive or not positive.

Um, and also I believe that our Stevens Creek trail use is way up.

So I just wanted to bring the TRIPCRAT, not continue to ignore, I mean, I'm sure you're all reading it, but not ignore the TRIPCAP monitoring.

I think it's really time for some creative thinking around this to turn those numbers around.

Um, you know, I think that uh we should incorporate that into future agenda items.

And with that, I'm ready to um I'm ready to vote.

All right, and that brings us to Councilmember Ramirez.

Take it away.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have to read a short Steinbeck novel, so if you have to use the restroom now's a chance.

Uh I move to approve the balance of the consent calendar, including item 4.2, adopt an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, amending Chapter 2, Article 8 of the Mountain View City Code to add section 2.86.25, governing the selection of arguments for city ballot measures and to make other clarifying modifications to be read in title only, further reading waived.

Item 4.3, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View establishing the fiscal year 2026 to 27 appropriations limit to be read in title only further reading waived.

Item 4.4, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, modifying City Council Policy A-11, financial and budgetary policy to be read in title only further reading waived.

Item 4.5, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, adopting the City of Mountain View 2025 Urban Water Management Plan to be read in title only further reading waived, and adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, adopting the City of Mountain View Water Shortage Contingency Plan to be read in title only further reading waived.

Item 4.6, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, adopting the recommended fiscal year 2025 to 27, sorry, 2026 to 27 capital improvement program, including all amendments to existing projects, excluding the shoreline and regional park community to be read in title only further reading waived, and adopt a resolution of the City Council of adopt a resolution of the board of directors of the shoreline regional park community adopting the recommended fiscal year 26 to 27 capital improvement program for the Mountain View Shoreline Regional Park Community, including amendments to existing projects to be read in title only further reading waived.

Item 4.8, adopt a resolution of the city council of uh of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing temporary closure from public access to parking lot number 11 for a minimum of 66 consecutive months beginning October 2026 to be read in title only for the reading waived.

Item 4.9, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing the city manager or designee to amend the professional services agreement with optimy uh incorporated to increase compensation by $32,950 for technical and financial advisory support services for municipal solar and battery storage projects for a total not to exceed amount of two hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars to be read in title only further reading waived.

Item 410, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View finding that the action taken and activities approved herein are not projects subject to California Environmental Quality Act procedures and authorizing the city manager or their designee to one enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Resilient Facilities Coalition or RFC, a multi-organization coalition for climate and community resilience projects, and two apply for grant funds available under California Proposition 4 and related programs in the in an amount estimated to be a maximum of $35 million, including as a lead or partner agency for a not to exceed amount of 285,950 to be read and title only further reading waived.

411, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View declaring that the city is authorized to accept and incur an obligation of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Grant Funds and enter into an execute standard agreements 213 with the California Department of Housing and Community Development for a total not to exceed amount of 285,950 to be read in title only further reading waived.

412 adopt a resolution of intention of the City Council of the City of Mountain View to vacate the public street and street easement known as Gammel Way in its entirety to be read in title only further reading waived and set a date for a public hearing to consider the vacation for September 8th, 2026.

413, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City Council of the City of Mountain View authorizing the public works director to execute program supplement number F 027 to administering agency state agreement for federal aid projects number 04-512 for F15 with the California Department of Transportation for the City of Mountain View Transit Center Mobility Hub Pilot Project 23-27 to be read in title only further reading waived.

4.15, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View, adopting Council Policy A-24, prohibiting the use of city property for civil immigration enforcement activities to be read in title only, further reading waived.

4.16, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, amending city council policy D-13, Mountain View Employee Home Buyer and Relocation Assistance Program to be read in title only further reading waived.

417, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View appointing 15 members and nine members at large slash alternates to the youth advisory committee for the 2627 school year term to be read in title only further reading waived.

418, adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View authorizing the acceptance and appropriation of a cannabis tax fund grant from the state of California in an amount up to 498,397.20 cents, a contingent upon award and receipt of the grant funds to help reduce and mitigate the impacts of impaired driving in Mountain View and authorizing the city manager or designee to take all steps necessary to receive the grant funds to be read and title only further reading waived.

And 422, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View one, approving a special event permit and sound amplification permit for the Octoberfest special event subject to conditions to approving the closure of certain public streets in the downtown area on Saturday, October 10th, 2026 at 230 a.m.

through Sunday, October 11th, 2026 at 10 p.m.

for the October, Octoberfest special event pursuant to California Vehicle Code, Section 21101E and 3, delegating authority to the community services director for future Octoberfest events to be read in title only further reading waived.

And I think I forgot to include the staff recommendation for item 4.4.

This is Council Policy A-11 financial and budgetary policy to include that last underline sentence under 4G, the use of proceeds from the sale of excess city owned properties shall fund this reserve as directed by the city council.

Thank you, Councilmember Ramirez.

I hope people record that for their own ASMR.

All right, and it was seconded by Council Member Kamei.

We are ready for a vote for the balance of the consent calendar.

The balance of the consent calendar has passed unanimously.

We will now move on to item 4.14, which was uh pulled by Councilmember Ramirez.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh, and I'd like to remind the public that the charter requires us to read all of these things.

So if you don't like that, do something about it in November.

Um, so item uh 4.14 um is uh council policy A-13B governing community engagement uh in public meetings.

I uh was conferring with the city manager in uh city attorney earlier.

Um I think there needs to be a little bit more time to um uh review the language and the policy, so I'll I will request that we uh defer consideration until um September.

I think that was okay.

That would be the motion.

We have a motion by Councilmember Ramirez, seconded by Councilmember Show Walter.

Uh, let's take it to a vote.

Motion passes unanimously.

We have now completed our consent calendar.

Thank you so much, everyone.

We will now move on to item five, oral communications.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons speak wishing to address the council on any matter not on the agenda.

Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic within the city council's subject matter jurisdiction for up to three minutes during this section.

State law prohibits the council from acting on non-agenda uh non-agenda items.

If you would like to speak on this item or the next item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

Spanish translation services are available for this item.

We will hear from our interpreter.

But I can queue us can interpretacion mediante zoom.

For the click in the bottom de interpretación, idioma de su preferencia.

Then we interpretation durante los comentarios publicos in persona y rituales.

Las personas can necessitan interpretacion consecutiva.

Thank you.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

So Eric Poikan is our first speaker, then Deborah uh Taboloff, uh, G.

Giangen Sun, uh, and Elizabeth O'Brady.

So, Eric, please make your way up to the podium.

Good evening, Mayor Ramos, Vice Mayor Clark and Council members.

My name is Eric Boycon.

I'm a member of the HRC as part of and part of the Rapid Response Network here as myself, along with IPEN and many community leaders.

First, I want to thank Councilmember Kamei for leading the no enforcement zone conversation.

It has meant a great deal for impacted community members, and it's the kind of leadership we need right now.

Many others and I are glad to see this policy passed on tonight's consent calendar, keeping the city property off limits for immigration enforcement, uh protecting our neighbors and our city employees, and we're grateful the council took this step.

If anyone in the audience who supports this work, could stand with me for a moment.

And there's so many more who couldn't be here tonight, but email DD say the same thing.

We all stand with you in these decisions.

We are also here to thank council in joining the amicus Brief, supporting the lawsuit from Santa Clara County and the eternal attorney General to stop the ICE facility near Gilroy.

This one matters.

It's not one of a symbolic gesture.

It adds real legal weight to a case that could keep the facility from ever opening.

And it tells people in our community something they need to hear from that mouth of view.

Is it going to stay quiet while families in this region are under threat?

When the city signed onto that brief, immigrant families here know the city is standing with them.

As many already know, our community is living in fear of losing their families with facilities proposed in both Gilroy and Dublin.

That fear is going to grow in Mount of View whether we want to or not.

Cities and counties across the region.

Thank you, Eric.

Alright, next we have Deborah, followed by J.E., and then followed by Elizabeth O'Grady.

Deborah.

Okay, uh, we'll go back to you, Deborah.

Giogin or JE Sun.

Oh.

So do I have like three minutes or like one and a half?

You have uh 90 seconds.

Okay.

Um, hello.

Um, I'm here to talk about a problem on Jamini Avenue that keeps getting wars.

Uh Jamie and I Avenue is one of the uh roads where the oversized vehicle are allowed to park, but still 72-hour parking rule applies, uh, which means uh they are not allowed to park in the same spot more than 72 hours.

But this is not the reality.

Um RVs are sitting in the same spot for over a month.

Um, so last week, you know, there is an RV parked directly in front of my own front door.

It was so closed I could almost touch it.

So it took like more than five days to move.

So this morning when I was leaving my house for and work, another RV parked right in front of my neighbor's house as well.

I have lived the year uh for two years, but it keeps getting wars.

Here's what enforcement looks like.

Um they come uh to check the tires uh once or twice a week, but the RVs don't move.

I've talked to the officer in charge myself, but after more than a month, the city finally posted uh a towing warning.

I was told it from the officer it's the first observation of violence after a month.

So this is the happening on Germany Avenue.

Germany Avenue is a quiet street of family homes.

It's a 100% pure uh residential area.

How did it end up like this?

And why is the city not just failing to enforce its own rule but actually adding more RV's parking spots, um, making rooms for RV dwellers not listening to the residents who actually live here who own this homes, uh, rent is homes and pay taxes here.

I know a lot of this comes from the Navarro settlement, which is set to expire in early 2027, but will it really end?

Thank you so much for your time.

Next we have Elizabeth O'Grady, and then uh we'll bring it back to Deborah if she is still there.

Elizabeth.

Um, is Deborah here?

Okay, we'll what we'll do is that we'll move on to our virtual speakers.

Um, and then from there we'll try back to Elizabeth and Deborah.

Um, so our first virtual speaker is um uh Bruce.

Thanks again, Mayor.

I just want to uh voice my support for Eric's uh points that he made earlier in person.

Thank you.

Um we're gonna circle back to our in-person speakers, Elizabeth and Deborah.

Are you here?

If not, we're going to have to move on to item six.

Oh, wait, we we have uh Jason.

Feel free to you'll have uh 90 seconds.

Yes, thank you very much, uh, mayor and council members.

I just wanted to say that I live near in Sunset State's mobile home park near Evelyn.

The new Evelyn park that was made.

Um it's a wonderful park, but I mentioned earlier too, there is no parking.

So no parking for people to visit.

The park is surrounded by a private residential building, and there is no um no parking whatsoever, and also when cars on load, they block the bicycle lane, which I've also mentioned a couple times.

So I really wish you would consider doing what StudyVale has done.

Make that road a one-lane road at the part, and to be able to allow uh temporary parking for people who visit the park and for vehicle loading and unloading when trucks come to move people in and out of the facility.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That ends our oral communication on non-agended items.

We will now move to item six, 6.1, the biodiversity and urban forests plan adoption.

Assistant Community Service Director, Brenda Silvia and senior management analyst Lindsay Wong will present the item.

If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

And we are ready for your staff report.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

My name is Brenda Silvia, Assistant Community Services Director and Project Lead for the Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan.

I'm joined this evening by Lindsay Wong, Senior Management Analyst, John Marchant, Community Services Director, and Russell Hanson, Urban Forestry Manager.

Also joining us virtually this evening are Selena Pang, environmental scientist, and Sasha Heath, Senior Ecological Scientist, both with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, SFEI, which supported the development of the plan.

Tonight, staff is bringing the updated draft plan forward for council adoption following the April study session and subsequent refinements.

The Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan updates and expands the city's 2015 Community Tree Master Plan into a larger and broader, more integrated framework.

The plan focuses on biodiversity, urban forestry, habitat connectivity, climate resilience, and community well-being.

It is intended to serve as a long-term policy and implementation framework to help guide future city projects, programs, investments, and decision making.

The plan also supports the city's broader sustainability and resilience goals while helping foster a healthier, more connected, and climate-ready urban environment.

The plan was developed in partnership with SFEI and a cross-departmental city and project team through a multi-year planning process.

The process included technical analysis, interdepartmental collaboration, and review by both the Parks and Recreation Commission and Environmental Planning Commission, as well as City Council review at the April 2026 study session.

The project also included extensive public outreach and engagement through community workshops, multilingual engagement opportunities, pop-up events, surveys, a stakeholder meeting, and neighborhood-based activities.

On April 28th, 2026, City Council held a study session to review the draft biodiversity and urban forest plan and provide feedback and direction.

Council expressed overall support for the plan and gave input related to implementation, accountability, and staffing, adaptive management and reporting, integration of plan concepts into city projects and green infrastructure efforts, expanded native planting where feasible, and support for partnerships, volunteerism, and community-based implementation.

Council also directed staff to consider input from community partners and stakeholder organizations and emphasize that the plan should serve as a foundational city policy document to guide future projects, programs, and investments.

In response to council feedback and additional stakeholder input, staff and SFEI refine the plan for ease of review.

Updates made to the draft plan are highlighted in yellow throughout the attached document.

In response to council feedback, the implementation framework was strengthened to support long-term coordination, accountability, monitoring, and adaptive management.

The updated plan identifies a designated staff lead to oversee the city implementation team and coordinate plan efforts across departments.

Annual reporting was also expanded beyond the Parks and Recreation Commission to include City Council and the public, along with additional community-facing engagement opportunities.

The adaptive management approach was further reinforced to support adjustments and responsiveness to evolving funding opportunities, scientific knowledge, community priorities, and lessons learned over time.

The revised plan further clarifies its role as a foundational city policy document intended to guide future projects, programs, investments, and decision making.

Updates also support incorporating planned concepts into future objective standards, roadway design approaches, and green infrastructure strategies where feasible and appropriate.

The plan also recognizes opportunities to incorporate greening, urban forest, and green infrastructure improvements into future capital improvement program projects and broader infrastructure investments over time.

Overall, these refinements are intended to support long-term coordination and alignment across departments.

Revised language places additional emphasis on the use of native and regionally appropriate species, including refining definitions to better clarify ecological compatibility and regional applicability while continuing to balance site conditions, maintenance considerations, species diversity, and long-term resilience.

Refinements also underscore the protection and retention of mature trees, habitat features, and ecological resources alongside future enhancement efforts.

You may recall the discussion of the term near native during the adoption of the parks and recreation strategic plan.

Staff subsequently updated the biodiversity and urban forest plan in response to that direction.

After receiving additional public input following publication of the council agenda materials and draft plan, staff is recommending several refinements to the definitions section to improve clarity and better distinguish native species.

We will discuss those refinements shortly.

Overall, these updates are intended to support a healthier, more resilient, and ecologically connected urban environment over the long term.

The updated plan strengthens language, recognizing the important role that community partnerships and volunteer efforts can play in supporting implementation and stewardship throughout the city.

As implementation moves forward, staff will explore funding opportunities to support these collaborations and stewardship efforts.

The revised language also acknowledges opportunities for community science and biodiversity monitoring efforts, including the use of publicly contributed ecological data where appropriate.

Staff also considered and incorporated select recommendations from community partners and stakeholder organizations that were received during the study session process.

Following publication of the council agenda materials and draft plan, staff received additional public input and is recommending the following refinements for council consideration as part of the adoption action.

We remove the definitions of near-native species and non-native species from the native species category.

We added the term biodiversity anchors as defined in the Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan to the Native Species section.

And we replaced the term near native species with functional species to better describe species that provide biodiversity benefits.

This slide shows the specific updates made to the definition section.

Native species are now defined by a given species status as being native to or having a long evolutionary history within a specific locale.

Native species can contribute to biodiversity anchors defined in the Mountain View Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan, supporting ecological relationships and functions in native ecosystems.

Functional species are not included in the native species category and are defined by species that are not regionally native, but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region.

Functional species as defined in this plan, particularly those closely related to regionally native species, can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions, such as climate resilience, pest resistance, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support.

These revisions clarify terminology, incorporate the concept of biodiversity anchors, and more clearly distinguish native species.

Staff believes these changes improve clarity and consistency while maintaining the intent of the plan.

Following plan adoption, staff will establish the city implementation team to support long-term cross-departmental coordination.

Early efforts will focus on advancing actions identified as in progress and upon plan adoption while continuing to incorporate plan concepts into ongoing city projects, programs, and initiatives.

Staff will also begin developing baseline metrics, monitoring approaches, and reporting procedures to track progress and support adaptive management.

In addition, Council will also consider a CIP funding request this evening to support the development of a web-based tree selector tool in partnership with SFEI.

The tool is identified in the plan as an early implementation action and will support future city projects, development review, and community tree planting and educational efforts.

In summary, the biodiversity and urban forest plan establishes a comprehensive long-term framework to guide biodiversity, tree and habitat preservation and enhancement, and climate resilience efforts throughout Mountain View.

The plan supports coordinated implementation across city departments, projects, partnerships, and future planning efforts while advancing broader sustainability and well-being goals.

The updated draft plan reflects extensive community engagement, technical analysis, interdepartmental collaboration, advisory body review, and council direction.

This plan positions Mountain View as a regional leader in biodiversity and urban forest planning and helps establish a strong foundation for long-term environmental resilience and stewardship.

Staff is recommending that council adopt the biodiversity and urban forest plan, including the additional refinements outlined in this presentation.

We appreciate your time and consideration, and we are happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Councilmember Hicks.

Okay, thank you very much.

So my only question is I um like you have been contacted by a number of uh local and regional groups, too numerous to name right now.

Uh and I just want to make sure that with I really appreciated the slide on refinements and the recommended uh our recommended staff recommendation.

I just want to double check because I've been contacted so many times.

Um that uh in your refinements, the native is uh only used with regards to regionally native and California native now.

Correct.

And near native no longer is in the plan, instead, you are using functional species.

Correct.

That's what I was told to check for.

Thank you.

Um, and you also have modifications uh regarding the uh biodiversity anchor.

Is that true or not true?

We added that on slide slide 10.

It highlights uh how things will be laid out in the plan.

Native species is now defined as a given species status as being native to or having a long evolutionary history within a specific locale.

Native species can contribute to biodiversity anchors defined in the Mountain View Parks Recreation Strategic Plan supporting ecological relationships and functions in native ecosystems.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Councilmember Hicks.

Councilmember McAllister.

So I have a couple of simple self-centered questions.

So if I wanted to improve the butterfly population that once was here when I grew up, what plants would I grow?

And would that information be in this plan?

I'm gonna let SFBI specifically answer that.

They're on the line virtually.

If you are there, please raise your hand so that our city clerk can bring you up.

Oh, here we go.

Thank you.

Hi, this is Selena Pang at the San Francisco Estuary Institute.

I'm sorry, you didn't realize I had to raise my hand.

So yeah, thank you for that question.

Um, I think the plan does address the um biodiversity benefits for insects and pollinators, um, but we do not, it does not get as specific as like telling you exactly which um plants you would want to plant.

And as Brenda highlighted, um the next step of this work is to look at um a virtual plant selector tool, which is highlighted in several um actions of the plan, and um, you know, the work on that it hasn't been funded, so um it's not quite underway, but um but that tool would be um I think the next step in uh in answering your question.

So it is coming.

Hasle's voting on that tonight.

Oh okay, well, okay.

Hopefully it's coming.

And my next question was which is a long stretch.

So in Arbor Day, we get free trees we can request.

Can we apply that type of uh program to the plants?

So if somebody wanted to put in a native plant that the city have some stockpile or options to be able to go down the city MOC and say, okay, I want a few plants to put in their yard to be part of this uh program.

Well, we currently don't have the the space or the funding for that, but we can certainly explore it.

I I like the idea.

Well, I mean, you're doing trees, and so you know, this is this is implementing the program faster than if we relied.

Everybody would have a piece of opportunity to do that.

So when we do the tree program, we take requests and then we go purchase the trees and deliver them right away.

So is that what you're saying you're gonna implement?

You'll purchase that.

We will take a look at that and and look at our space and capacity and resources for that.

Okay, I'm looking forward to it.

Thank you.

Councilmember Callister, you could join me in volunteering with the pollinator habitats.

They always have wonderful plants.

I'd like to do that in my front yard, so thank you.

You could come by because we used to have the bees and the the uh caterpillars in my front yard and the butterflies and all the other birds.

So let's see we can get that going.

So, all right.

Councilmember Schoalter.

Yeah, I'm gonna go back to the these definitions.

I'm a little confused about what would be a functional species.

Can you can you tell me an example of a tree you know about that we use a lot that's a functional species?

Sure.

I'm gonna defer to SFEI and possibly our urban forest manager on that.

And SFEI, you're able to unmute now.

Thank you.

Um, I'd like to invite Sasha to answer that question.

Um, she has a very strong ecology background stronger than mine.

Hi, thank you.

Do you have me?

Okay.

Um so what we mean by functional species was specifically these used to be non- the near native species.

And so these are um, excuse me, the chats in the way.

Um species that aren't regionally native, but that might provide a similar function to a near to a species that's either phylogenetically related by genus or is near and um from an uh ecosystem that is similar to the ecosystems in Mountain View.

So specific species um are listed in the tree selector tool, um, or I'm sorry, in the tree plant list and in another Santa Clara Valley or Santa Clara Valley plant list that could provide some options.

Um it would be a species that would provide fruits, um, nectar, um, that is associated with that has been demonstrated to be associated with some of the butterflies that that um the other council member mentioned, um, support for bird nesting um might help improve soils in a particular habitat by bringing water into the area.

Um acts as a refuge for bird migrants during migration because of the foliage and the insects that might um be foraging on the tree.

So functional species meaning it is still providing some of the functions that a native species would provide, but um is planted is not a regionally native species and is planted perhaps because of not a difficult growing conditions or that sort of thing.

That makes sense well you're not quite getting to what I'm interested in so I'll I'll try and ask it a different way when I think about the plants that we plant here we we we talk about native plants we talk about low water tolerant plants those are things that we often try and promote the planting of um the uh the low water tolerant plants are often from uh New Zealand and Australia they're not near they're not near at all and that doesn't mean we're saying you should never have these in our in our area but they're they're not near native to a close by area we're not and we're not trying necessarily get rid of them except maybe eucalyptus because they you know they're like they burn.

But um but so I so I'm having a little trouble with this and then the other thing is that the truth of the matter is um the fruit tree cultivars that we've used in agriculture for decades aren't native anywhere um they're you know they are produced plants that um uh were um uh humans uh um morphed over many many generations into things that were wonderful agricultural producers like orange trees and apple trees and that can have blossoms etc etc so this inclusion of the word native in here I think is a little I mean I I'm confused by it what what um I'm gonna have our urban forestry manager Russell Hansen take a question.

So thank you first first and foremost Russell Hanson urban forest manager with NCSD.

Um yeah it we we could get into a lot of different species but just to kind of put a few examples out there when we talk about our native coast live oak Quercus agrifolia that we have within our community um where I go to when we talk about these functional species is I go to like Quercus can be it is not native to California but it is from I'll say the southern desert areas from Arizona New Mexico Mexico on over even into Texas we have several other species of oak trees that we can draw upon that we feel will be adaptable to our climate and it's about getting them here trying them out making sure that they absolutely will survive within our community for the life expectancy that we're really truly looking for.

And so that's the first example I I could come up with a lot more but you're absolutely correct.

The hybridization of our fruit trees of all of those other types of plants that we have done over time has shown that they do adapt to our climates that they do provide some benefits or otherwise and that's where we're going with the functional species.

But they're not native.

Not native to California correct they're you know those those hybridization those hybridized trees are really are native anywhere you know they're they're an architect they're an architect arch agricultural product which is great I love them.

I don't I but but they're not native so I think that that term in here is um I think it's misplaced it's it's not it's not under the native species category.

Yeah it's not under the category but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region.

That's not necessarily a requirement you want functional trees but they don't have to be native um they that you want trees that are going to do well here that we're we're when we get to this functional species we're kind of out of the native category we're we're talking about other things and um and that's okay you know there's lots of great trees but I just um I think that we're when we when we keep this native nomenclature in here we um it's it's just it it's uh it just strikes me as as um being incorrect and and this and I have to say I am so excited by this plan.

You know I've read it a couple times and um I've been working in restoration work for many many years and we are doing a great job this is the only thing that's kind of sticking in my uh and when I and I and I just feel like this utilization of the term native here is um is uh unnecessary and um and kind of negative so uh so I would um in the in in the functional species part everywhere else we want to have it be at the forefront um thanks that's my thank you council member show Walter I see council member Hicks you're back in the queue yes so I'm gonna ask uh council member showwalter because this is kind of the core of what a lot of these organizations are are getting at maybe they will speak up for themselves after our questions um but I know not all of them could be here tonight so our what I want to make sure that I understand the change you're asking for in so what you're asking for is on slide 10 under in the small print under uh functional species that it say you're hoping that it would that when it says functional species as defined in this plan um particularly those closely related to regional native species I'm I'm not sure what word you wanted you want taken out of that because it seems that it's saying functional species are not regionally native which you are also saying oh you want the part that says but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region you want that half of the sentence taken out yes okay that sounds fine to me if it's fine with staff I just wanted to make sure I know what you're saying because it is kind of the core of what a lot of people have been asking about I'm gonna uh also SFBI just chimed in they'd like to to address that and answer a few questions now that they they said they better understand what you're what you're asking for.

So if we can go ahead and have Sasha online.

All right hi thank you yes I think I understand the reason we have um native to another region in that section is just to point out the idea that nativity is defined by the region it is native to right so we are defining native species to the for the Mountain Dew biodiversity plan as being those that are either within California or those that are regionally native.

And so when we use that term in the way that you're describing in a functional species section we're saying these individual these species may be native to another region.

So like Russell explained maybe south of California in Mexico they might be able to move further north that sort of thing.

They're native there they're not native here.

I do understand your point that the horticultural trees like fruit trees are so long from being native from a given place but they did originate let's say in Asia or Europe that sort of thing.

So when we're using the word native we're saying you know everything is native to its location wherever it happens to be we're just differentiating between what's native here regionally versus elsewhere.

But if that's confusing um I'll leave it to Brendan to decide whether to change that.

Yeah well I guess my question we're my additional question would be is what are we trying to do with this functional we're trying to say that there's other trees that aren't or species that aren't native that are still valuable here right isn't that really what we're trying to say that's exactly what we're trying to say there are other the the plan is called the biodiversity the word diverse is in there.

So we're trying to say that there's other species that may not be native regional or California that provide functions that support biodiversity that's it just say that no it says it got it yep you're native.

Get out, yeah.

That's you got it right I saw you uh going up to the podium, Mr.

Marshawn.

Was there anything you needed to add?

Are you good?

Okay.

Um, is that it, Council member Schulwalter on your end?

I think so, yeah.

Thank you.

Council member Hicks, you're back in the queue.

No, I just didn't but but I'm fine with taking out that.

But that's a comment.

So that's correct.

Okay, so do we have any more questions?

Councilmember Kamei.

Thanks, Mayor.

So I apologize.

I'm just seeking clarity.

So this will come up when we take an action if there's an edit to you'll you'll clarify for us before we take the.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

And just to further clarify, it's the kind of link like the nomenclature of the word, it's not the use of these trees.

That's it's it's more okay.

Thank you.

I have species that can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions, such as climate resilience, pest resilience, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support.

Simple.

I think that's much better.

Thank you so much.

You got it.

All right.

Do we have any more questions from my colleagues?

Questions?

Questions seeing none.

As um of the members of the public seen that back and forth of questions, please let us know in your public comment if we're in a good place.

Uh so we will now uh with any member of the public on the line, like to provide comment on this item.

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star nine on your phone.

A timer will be displayed on the screen.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

We are going to start with our in-person speakers first.

Uh Robert Cox, followed by Daniel Shane, followed by Tracy Beria.

All right.

Thank you, mayor, vice mayor, and council members for the years of work that have gone into putting this plan together.

I recently completed for the second time our local Loma Prieta Sierra Club Environmental Sustainability Program.

At our last spring session this year, one of the program directors announced Mountain View is the first city in our chapter area that has a biodiversity plan.

This plan is one more example of how our city is leading the Bay Area in the adoption of programs that support and sustain our environment.

In particular, I appreciate the parts of the plan detailing the ecosystem surrounding the Stevens Creek Trail near my home.

I would like to add my support to the letter sent by Shawnee Kleinhouse from the Silicon Valley Bird Alliance and a host of local environmental groups recommending some final changes to the plan document that you've just discussed.

In particular, I do support removing the reference to near native species and support strict advocacy for true local native species.

The near native language could be used as a loophole, excusing us from using truly local native plants while planning our biodiverse environment.

But I appreciate the discussion that you just have, and I think you're all on the right track.

So just keep going.

Thanks for listening to my concerns, and thanks once again for a great job on this biodiversity plan.

Thank you, Mr.

Cox.

Uh Mr.

Shane.

And I agree with Mr.

Cox.

You've done a great job on this plan.

Um I'm really happy to see that the planning of trees in public spaces for increasing urban canopy was expanded to incorporate private lands and development.

That was really, really great to see.

Thanks.

By requiring developers to consider these important natural resources early in the planning and design phase of proposed housing commercial and transportation projects.

And sometimes it's not just the tree that's important.

And so native trees and plants provide the food and the shelter, sources of food and shelter for native animal species.

And that's one of the key things about why we are promoting native species, maybe over other types of species.

But I agree with Councilwoman Show Walter that you know I love fruit trees too, and we should uh be very diverse in how we think about planting more trees.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Daniel.

Miss Tracy.

Okay, I'm Dr.

Tracy Faria.

I'm a mountain view resident, and um I just want to say these revisions, they uh really created a clearer and more transparent framework and preserve the distinction between native and non-native plants that helps ensure that biodiversity anchors remain focused on supporting local ecological um relationships and food webs.

Now that we have a plan, or hopefully we'll soon have a plan, uh, like the wording, um, I just want to say that I think this is gonna help us to have a city where the next generation will be able to sit underneath the trees, enjoy the birds, and butterflies with uh council member McAllister.

And uh I want to thank all the staff, the council, the commissioners, and all the people who had input on this, and um councilmember McAllister uh in the bottom definition of natives that they had here, they have Calscape, and you can put in your you put in Mountain View, you can look up all the plants that are in Mountain View, and they will list the butterflies that are uh that will use those plants as host plants.

So it's by uh California Native Plant Society.

Thank you all.

Thank you so much, Dr.

Tracy.

Uh we will now move on to our virtual speakers.

We have Dasha Leeds.

Hello, my name is Dasha Leeds.

I'm the conservation coordinator for the Sierra Club Loma Prieta chapter.

I'd just like to thank staff and council for all your work on this plan.

Uh, we do appreciate the recent modifications that have been made, and we just hope that as you proceed forward that you do everything you can to ensure that we're prioritizing the use of native plants uh locally wherever possible.

Um, native plants have vastly superior uh biodiversity benefits as opposed to non-native, even functionally non-native plants.

Uh so we hope that where you wherever you have the discretion to use native plants that you do so.

Uh thanks, and we look forward to revisiting this in a year.

Thank you.

Um we will now move on to Bruce England.

I know, Bruce England.

Do you hear me okay?

We can hear you.

Great.

Okay, uh short, but I got a couple of questions.

I know you can't answer them directly, but I'm gonna raise them anyway.

So the question about turf artificial turf versus natural.

Um, wondering what the changes are that we should be looking for, because a lot of times the discussion around turf doesn't make it clear whether they're talking about plastic fake grass or natural grass, and even if it's natural grass, whether the grass choice is appropriate for our area, just like the native plants and trees discussion that um you already have been talking about.

Second is um I'm just not sure if you're going to refer over to the plan from the active transportation plan as well as the parks and rec plan, which was mentioned.

So as you know, green streets are called out in that plan as it stands, the actual transportation plan that is.

And they do cite the biodiversity plan there, but with no explicit direction regarding tree choices, at least that I'm seeing.

So are they shooting for something more explicit in the parks plan to point that out?

I'm I'm sorry, in the uh active transportation plan.

Just wondering about that.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

England.

Um, Ronit Bryant.

Yes, thank you very much.

Uh mayor, council members.

Uh, this is a combination of a long process to position our city as a place where people and nature can thrive together.

Biodiversity means supporting our native wildlife, birds, butterflies, and all forms of life that call California home, not planting a wide range of plants from across the entire globe.

And so biodiversity anchors must be based on native plants, preferably locally native plants, or else they will not be supporting biodiversity.

I thank staff for for clarifying the definitions and and listening to the community and making changes even this late late uh late stage.

I'd like to say that functional species provide environmental benefits such as canopy and water and soil retention, but not the kind of biodiversity that native plants can supply because our local wildlife has evolved with native plants, not with functional plants from elsewhere.

So I hope that that helps the discussion that the council had earlier.

And I look forward to next year's PRC meeting to hear how the plan has been implemented and what adaptive changes might be necessary.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Former Mayor Bryant.

Next we have Rashmi.

Hi, can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Great.

Thank you.

Yeah, Rashmi Sahai, member of Green Spaces Mountain View.

And I just want to echo something some of the things other folks have been saying.

Thank you so much to staff and council for moving this plan forward and staff all your hard work in incorporating feedback along the way.

I really have seen that and appreciate it, especially in this late-stage process.

And I um I strongly support the changes in the definition.

And like Ronit said, the reason we're focusing so much on native is that they provide to they provide the biodiversity of all the other life within within Mountain New.

So it's less about diversity of plant species, but diversity in the ecosystem that we have.

And we just want to make sure that when we're saying native, we're talking when we're talking about protecting biodiversity, that's what we mean, and we're not confusing it with other functions that plants can provide.

Um yeah, I don't have too much else to say.

I wanted to say one more thing for council member McAllister.

Um, the library has seeds, and there's native seeds there.

So maybe if the city is not giving out plants, you can always get seeds at the library to start your garden once you look at that plant list.

So hopefully with that, that'll get you started.

Um thank you so much and looking forward to um seeing the plan implemented.

Thank you.

And our last virtual speaker is April Webster.

Hi, thank you.

Um I also like the other speakers, um, want to um give a huge shout out to staff and consultants for putting in all the work to integrate um the comments from the various community groups, um, the final uh into the final um Bob plan.

Um the final plan is a lot stronger for it.

Um, uh yeah, just really excited about it.

Um, I also just related to the previous letter uh the draft that was sent in.

Um I want to uh say that I I appreciate that the plan now more clearly recognizes um this document as a foundational CD policy document that action one better integrates biodiversity and um urban trees into transportation and capital improvement projects that act as uh action 17 now includes a shape goal for active transportation corridors, not just parking lots, and that action 22 creates a stronger annual implementation and reporting framework.

Um I also um support the joint letter around the definitions for native.

I think that's really important as well.

And um just finally want to say I, you know, moving forward.

I think um the focus should be implementation, um, and I hope that um this plan and this goals can be considered early in transportation and the parks and public realm projects.

Um thank you so much.

Thank you, April, and that was our speakers.

I will now bring the item back for council deliberation and action.

Uh, Councilmember Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'll allow uh another council member the privilege of making the motion to um approve uh the plan, but I did want to share a few uh hopefully quick uh reflections.

Um, first, uh, and I think every council member uh will agree with this.

Um this is a remarkable work.

And it would not have been possible without uh the persistent advocacy from our very well-informed community, uh, and also um the remarkable work by our staff who I feel have been very proactive in uh working with our community, including right up until the very last minute uh to address some of the the concerns that we've been hearing.

Um, we we take all the credit sometimes as uh as council, um but but really I think the credit goes to to all of you who have been engaged uh in the development of this plan for for so many years, and it's been uh a privilege to sit here and watch you all do the work.

Uh and I'm grateful I have the opportunity to vote yes before I uh disappear at the end of the year.

Um there are a couple of things in the plan that I did want to uh elevate though.

Um I think m members of the council will talk about the the different uh forms of advocacy that we've seen, but I I love to call out uh my friend Daniel Shane, who I've met with uh over the years, many of us have met with.

Um there are um I feel the plan meaningfully incorporates a lot of the specific concerns I've heard from you and from others that you've worked with.

Um, I I plucked out uh sections and put it on a word document.

Um one of the actions uh includes a specific uh commitment to reviewing the general plan, um uh the municipal code and capital project requirements to identify opportunities to codify plan commitments, uh such as pursuing canopy cover uh or landscaped area targets.

And I think that's remarkable that to have objective standards that go beyond the things that we've historically included, like setbacks, but uh now uh objective standards uh and roadway design approaches, green infrastructure strategies that incorporate biodiversity elements too.

That's really cool and worthy of emulation.

So I'm excited for uh future councils to uh implement this plan and and I think help Mountain View become even more of uh the role model that we already are in doing this work in uh incorporating objective standards that apply to private property as well, um the biodiversity strategies that we've worked very hard to bring to fruition.

Um I don't want to belabor the points, there's a lot of cool stuff, but two other things that I thought were really neat.

Um I've this strikes me as a really hard thing to do, but uh so important and wonderful if we could achieve it.

Uh, there's a uh a line item here about uh permanente Creek and Stevens Creek.

Uh and the plan uh includes recommendations uh to uh pursue restoration efforts like daylighting stream sections, softening channels, planting trees, and building green infrastructure.

Uh that would be great to see.

I would love to see it uh in my lifetime.

I know that's not easy to do, um, but I would love uh for us, you know, for the future council uh as you implement the plan to consider uh opportunities to uh elevate that that action item.

And I think uh we we once upon a time had a part of that in uh development uh proposal uh from a major uh employer in the area, and unfortunately that didn't move forward, but that's the kind of innovative thinking that I think we ought to to continue to explore.

Um and the last thing I'll leave you with is um there are a lot of um interesting opportunities uh that more clever people than I uh hopefully can help uh realize, and that's looking at um uh challenging properties or or private properties where we've long had an interest in finding, you know, uh useful ways to uh to make that property uh valuable to the community.

Uh quest to annex comes to mind.

I think that's hard work, but with a lot of uh community outreach.

I think we could find something that has lasting value that helps fulfill the strategies in this plan.

Um, but also, I think about the Francia property, which some of you on the council for for many years have been looking at.

How can we do something?

That's a lot of land?

Uh and it's it's it's in a strategic location where there will be some uh growth probably on in the near future.

And uh wouldn't it be wonderful to see that land um uh utilized for some purpose that helps achieve the goals in this plan?

Um and there are I wrote a few other examples down, but I think the long and short of it is um as as the staff report, I think I I put it away now, but I think there was a commitment to ensuring that this becomes a foundational document.

It's not a regulatory document per se, but it helps influence a lot of the work that we will do uh in the next few years, right?

So when there is private property that's redeveloped, biodiversity elements were incorporated, or when we look at strategic property acquisitions, uh or partnerships with governmental agencies or or um you know developers, we can help achieve many of the goals and the action items that we have listed here.

So I'll stop there.

Uh very exciting.

Um kudos to everyone except for me.

I've done nothing except vote yes.

Um, but uh, very excited for you uh and and those of you who are um who will replace me on this council to to see this this work to fruition.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Ramirez.

Councilmember Schoalter.

Yeah, I am very excited about this plan.

It it has been a long time coming, and you've done a really good job of it.

Um uh you've brought together uh a very diverse group of experts to work on it, both in our community and and um uh in the staff and and in our consultants, and and it just shows, it really shows, and I really appreciate your just a few minutes ago correcting that that um uh definition that had really been bugging me for a long time.

So thank you for that.

Um, kind of uh ditto to everything Councilmember Ramirez said, and um I um one of the things that I'm really happy about with this is to see the impact it's already having.

Uh we um, for instance, one of the things that was on the consent calendar of the 34 items was um some actions related to the public safety building, and one of those was that um instead of going with uh selection of plants that had been made initially that that many people working on the biodiversity plan had said no, we don't like that.

Um, a new um a new process was put in to send that list back to the PRC and come up with a list that is much more in line with what we are doing with the biodiversity plan.

That's just perfect.

I mean, that's really the kind of thing that we're supposed to do be doing and integrating these programs.

So I'm so pleased to see that.

The other thing I think that's important to recognize is this kind of science is really kind of new.

I mean, first for cities it's new, and so it isn't going to um everything that we have in this plan that we we want to um the actions we want to take, they're not going to all go just as planned.

We're gonna learn a lot as we go through.

And so I think the fact that we've built in this adaptive management, which means that we will bring back every every year, every few years to the PRC to look at how the plan is going, that's just really healthy from a point of um view of our uh of our transparency as a community, and it's also just best scientific principles.

So I'm really delighted to see that going on, and I think that it will be a wonderful way for um our the experts in our community to stay involved and and kind of make sure that we we keep on task with this, um and uh then uh I I guess I feel the same way in a sense that my colleague uh Mr.

Ramirez does.

We we've sat back for years and watched this go on and not really done very much.

So um uh we recognize that that's that there were other people who were really really um working hard, and that's just very appreciative.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Schoalter.

Do we have any other comments from my colleagues?

Councilmember Hicks.

So I'll just say very briefly uh deep thanks to all the staff and all the community members who've been working so hard on this.

I remember when I I first heard about uh the possibility of having a biodiversity plan, um it it seems almost counterintuitive to have a biodiversity plan within an urban place.

Actually, urban places are some of the best places to make sure we have biodiversity, not only of plants, but of the small creatures that keep keep everything going for us.

But one of the things that I like best reading in the plan was it said it's not just for uh habitat and species well-being, that it's also for community well-being, because I think it does come, I think people thrive, not just small creatures, but larger creatures like ourselves thrive more when we have when we have live among diverse plants and tree canopy.

So thank you again.

I hope I understand Councilmember Show Walter, what the actual motion you're making is because you made a few changes.

Yes, it's it's just the to approve the um the plan.

That's what we're supposed to do, isn't it?

So as on the last slide.

We actually updated the slide based on the recommendation that council was looking for.

Okay.

Recommendation to adopt the biodiversity and urban forest plan, including the additional refinements outlined in this presentation with a revised definition of functional species that reads species that can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions as climate resilience, pest resistance, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support.

That's it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Hicks.

So we have a motion made by Councilmember Schoalter, seconded by Councilmember Hicks.

I will also like to echo the thanks that my colleagues have made to staff and the community at large.

There are a lot of items that go before council.

It's not a reasonable expectation of all seven of us to be absolute experts at all the things that come before our council.

We rely so heavily on the experts in our community for this, and we rely on you to care very strongly to go through the rigmarole of government bureaucracy to get something quite amazing through.

This is a a plan that has been really worked through through community engagement.

I thank staff for their work and their willingness to incorporate so many of the suggestions from our community.

Like I've had the opportunity with a number of the people who volunteer with the pollinator habitats, Green Spaces Mountain View.

I have not met with uh Mr.

Shane.

That is not his fault, that's my fault.

Um, and but I see your emails and I read your emails and then try to reread it again to understand it, and I still have to reread it again to understand it.

Um, but is because uh people like that in our community are just so um determined to making sure that this plan is something truly special and truly worthwhile for essentially the best city, and um essentially true very much so um and I say that in other cities too.

Um but thank you so much to our community for for getting us through this finish line through the very end because there were changes uh right there at the end, and thank you to staff for your work on this.

So with that, um we are all ready for a vote.

And that motion passes unanimously.

Congratulations, everyone.

And with that, I'm actually gonna call a 10-minute break, and we will reconvene back at 8:51.

And I have a surprise for my colleagues in council in the break room.

All right, let's head back to our seats, y'all.

We have one.

No, we are not going to get.

We have one, two, three, four.

We have five items left tonight.

Let's let's get this done before one a.m.

tomorrow.

Let's go.

Oh, we lost our quorum.

So if you all can make your way back to your seats, we're calling this meeting back to order.

I really like using that.

All right, we are item seven.

Seven point one.

Adoption of the community ownership action plan housing element program three point two.

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Housing director Wayne Chen will present the item.

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Ms.

Joan, this is the item.

Go ahead.

We're ready for your staff report, Mr.

Chen.

Thank you very much, Mayor and Council, Wayne Chen, your housing director.

I'm very pleased to be here tonight after a two-year process to present the community ownership action plan or the COPE for your consideration.

I'd also like to note that our consultant of David Driscoll with Community Planning Collaborative is also on the line in case questions come up.

I'd like to thank him and his team along with Echo Northwest, the joint consultant who helped us get um to this stage here today.

Um I'd also like to recognize the COPE advisory committee who spent many hours of their time to participate in advisory committee meetings as well as meeting individually and with other stakeholders to talk about and provide input about how we can be successful in supporting uh groups to achieve successful community-owned projects.

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Just very quickly, an overview of the recommendations is for your consideration to adopt the COPE to consider additional project funding, to consider additional capacity building funding, and to authorize the city manager designee to establish a more streamlined funding process to meet the requirements of acquisition preservation projects.

As a reminder, the COPE is part of housing element program 3.2, which is the city's comprehensive tenant displacement response strategy.

And the goal or the requirement of the housing element is to facilitate the acquisition and preservation of at least 50 community-owned housing units.

And as discussed with council in previous meetings, the focus of these 50 units would be on units covered under our community stabilization and fair rent act or CSFRA units, because those have been the units that are most susceptible to market rate development pressures and redevelopment causing tenant displacement.

Just a brief overview of the timeline shortly after the housing element was adopted in 2023.

We had held a study session with council in early 2024 to talk about the COPE and other items.

That's where we also recommend the allocation of $4 million of funding, which was later appropriated of October that year.

We started the process with our consultant team, convened an advisory uh committee, and then brought back guiding principles and vision and an initial $75,000 to support technical assistance grant funding last year.

Since that time, we've been working to develop the COPE and other program requirements, and here we are tonight for your consideration.

The COPE has five sections.

It is informed by council direction and the COPAC, the advisory committee input.

And I'm going to go over each one very briefly.

Talking about the underlying reasons and causes for the need for this type of plan, which to our knowledge is really one of a kind at the local level, and the redevelopment pressures that exist because of the strong economy here.

The COPE can help create more market stability and stability for residents, and it's part of a larger response by the city, including production, preservation, and protection.

The notion is that the COPE can lay a foundation and a framework to not just achieve 50 units, but with all the extensive work that is being done, it lays the foundation for scaling up potentially well beyond 50 units pending funding availability and really developing the capacity of the system to do this work.

Section two is focused on people-centered housing and further explaining what that means.

The concept was presented and unanimously supported by council back in September of last year, but it is really about starting with people first and figuring out the financing needed to make it sustainable over time.

Three levels of change of the at the household level, integrating the community and finding new ways of doing things.

And so that's the system levels change.

And uh the notion that community well-being, health, and these other items that are typically not part of real estate conversations is really central to this type of real estate development, this type of housing development.

It's guided by six key principles and conditions for success.

Those six guiding principles are shown here, with the first three decommodification resonant roles in governance and community stewardship as definitional to what community ownership housing means in Mountain View.

The remaining three items are key ways in which we would need to undertake in order to make community-owned housing successful.

That includes capacity building and systems transformation and continuous improvement.

The conditions needed for success are somewhat straightforward, but we need a lot more funding.

We need the funding to be more flexible.

We need to build up the capacity of the organizations, mission-driven organizations who want to undertake projects and the ecosystem of the partners and other organizations that help support that process.

We need to have sort of a new way of looking at what compliance and accountability might mean because these projects might be operated differently from the traditional affordable housing projects that we may be used to.

The partnerships and ecosystems are foundational, and resident education and participation is critical.

Most folks, as residents may have never participated in governance or making policies about the housing that they live in.

That's both an amazing opportunity and also an area that will need to be supported.

Section three defines community-owned housing, and one of the things that really stood out certainly for me is that as we went into this research and talking with folks, is that there's not one form of community-owned housing.

And many folks use community-owned housing or even referring to organizations like community land trusts or co-ops interchangeably and in different terms.

And so what we wanted to do with the COPE is to create a framework that we understand what these terms mean in Mountain View.

At the core, it's the three core elements of decommodification, resident governance, and community stewardship.

The actual housing project can be structured in many different ways.

It can involve different organizations.

And there are generally four models that I'll go over in just a moment.

But the COPE is intended to be flexible and allow organizations to propose the type of housing project that generally would fit into one of these four models, but variations can also be supported.

So the COPE is intended to be clear but flexible.

In Mountain View, the conversations that we've had have really been centered on having a rental project, and we certainly want to be able to support that.

And even having rental projects that could evolve over time to become ownership units.

By ownership, we mean the residence ownership in the building, whether it's the individual units or shares in the building, if it's numbers two, three, and four.

Section four is talking about making community-owned housing work, the importance of having organizations that can undertake a project for the entire life cycle and all the aspects needed to acquire, own, operate for the long term, are really key, and gaps in any one of those areas can really impact the viability of a project.

The ecosystem for this type of work is very nascent.

There's a lot of interest.

There are projects throughout the region, but as a percentage of all the types of housing that is being done, it's very, very small.

And so this requires some sustained long-term investment, and the city has already undertaken the roles of being a convener, a funder, capacity builder, and policy leader, and the recommended goals and actions will continue to support those roles.

I'll talk about the funding in a moment.

Very briefly, these are the different categories and areas that we see as the project lifecycle and a mission-driven organization that wishes to do this work if uh they're requesting city funding is to be able to demonstrate the ability to execute on these different functions over time.

We did want to note that we felt that was very important to be able to support different types of organizations, whether they are locally created and formed in Mountain View, which are community-based organizations and are very key.

They could bring a lot of technical knowledge and expertise of the various parts of a project life cycle that can really help support build up our ecosystem.

And the recommendation is have the COPE be able to support both types of organizations.

Regarding the project funding, a couple of years ago, when staff made and council approved the recommendation to allocate four million dollars in project funding, that was based on this idea that it would require 20 million dollars of subsidy to be able to achieve the 50 units.

And we recommended this four to one ratio.

Last year, when we came to council, that amount had increased to 25 million, and we didn't make any changes to project funding at the time.

Tonight, we're recommending uh increasing that amount by one million for a total of five million to achieve and maintain that same four to one ratio, and we would continue to undertake efforts to fundraise, establish partnerships, or um apply for grants in order to try to achieve uh growing that fund.

The capacity building efforts, the recommendation tonight is increase the initial 75,000 um by 425,000 for a total of 500,000 to support capacity building.

After the meeting last September, we had identified um three additional options besides providing grants to mission-driven organizations to build up their capacity and identified uh partnerships as being really critical for transferring knowledge and supporting projects, and that requires more resources.

Section five are uh five year goals and an action plan.

Um, the intention for this is to provide again a clear actionable framework, but provide some flexibility to allow us to um be able to implement, see what works, uh modify or update as needed and iterate over time.

Um we, along with our partners are doing this really for the first time in this region and in the city, and there will be learning involved, and so uh we have provided this clear and hopefully flexible framework, but with clear actions that we would implement uh over time, and it is intended to be a five year uh time frame.

Uh these are the goals where we um again hope to have very sort of clear goals, but the first one is achieve at least 50 units by the end of the five-year period um uh in partnership with our local organizations and our regional organizations and to uh create the ecosystem that can allow us to increase that over time is to continue to build the community owned housing fund to try to achieve the 25 million dollars, um, building capacity within organizations and the and our partners in the broader ecosystem with a goal of being able to stand up at least one organization uh locally formed and founded in Mountain View to be able to stand up projects on their own.

Um transition the city led uh leadership of this process into a more shared and regional uh process.

We would remain a vital part and play a leadership role, but um it would be more sustainable to do this if the regional if the leadership were shared.

The goal five is that once a project is up and running, that there would be uh metrics and accountability measures to uh monitor um if the projects are being operated according to the COPE requirements.

Uh regarding recommendation four for streamlined funding approvals, um last September we had made a recommendation to um identify and work with a third party uh agent to allow us to um transfer the funds, allow that party to be able to receive funding requests and uh underwrite and approve the requests.

Because of the nascent nature again in our county, we um have not been able to identify an organization that could uh fulfill um all of those roles.

So we will continue to look.

Um, however, we are also recommending to allow staff to identify um another option, which is to keep the funding process within the city and identify a more streamlined process that could meet the timing and the needs of community owned housing, and to delegate that authority to the city manager designated to identify and then to approve uh projects and funding requests.

Um we would um recommend in doing so that there would be the appropriate safeguards and transparency measures and be able to provide um uh sort of uh very current updates to the public and to the city council if a funding recommendation is made.

In terms of next steps, we would update and finalize the COPE, any um identified cleanups, but also updating the funding amounts should council approve them tonight, and then we would uh begin implementation and continue to convene the COPE at least for uh a period.

Again, these are the recommendations here, and that concludes staff's presentation and very happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks very much.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Staring you all down.

Seeing no questions, we can move on to public comment.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on any item on item 7.1?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds.

So our first speaker, Joan Berdowski.

Thank you, Council.

Um, as you know, I live at Sunset Estates, which is a mobile home park.

And uh I was already telling you about how uneasy we are, which isn't very uneasy, but it's always there, about the fact that we only own our homes and not the land under it.

And then I saw on page 18 of the COAP, the community ownership action plan, that is included in today's agenda.

Uh the mobile home community ownership is actually mentioned specifically as eligible for support under this plan, and I thought that's really great.

So that's what I'm here to say.

Um I it might not apply to us because I understand this.

All of this is uh for new housing, not for what's already there like us.

But in any case, thank you very much, City Council, for remembering that mobile home parks are a place where a lot of place people live.

And uh we hope that you make this plan work for us, mobile home owners or renters.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Joan.

Uh Jason Clock.

Followed by, I'm assuming Alex Brown.

Yeah, thank you, Council.

So before moving from New York and Washington, DC, I think we have never seen home ownership on rental property and hope we can end it in favor of housing stability.

Um I too, we live in a mobile home park, San City of States.

Uh rent increases without justification with no positive changes into the park have been happening.

Um, I do thank you for your work to reduce the annual increases, but let's work to have all 1130 mobile home owners in our six parks own the land.

Um current problems, fixed incomes.

I live in a 55 plus park, supporting my mother.

Fear of park sale, fear of retaliation and eviction.

Mobile homes are considered affordable, yet the owner is able to raise rents annually and when sold substantially.

Currently, Sunset Estates has many homes for sale with rents that make it hard or impossible for 55 plus often retired buyers.

Many applicants fail to meet the income requirements of the owner.

Some have returned to work to help cover their rents of more than two thousand a month.

Ownership would stop unnecessarily for a profit rent increases if we owned it.

Um it would also support owner renter conversations.

We have had no input in any decisions that affect our park.

For example, we have wanted a uh ADA automatic door and uh uh accommodable restrooms and have been denied that.

Since rent control, the owner has been able to pay for our monthly magazine, the directory, annual holiday party, which was hosted by his family for 50 years.

I'm thankful neighborhood grant has helped us to continue to offer that free and um and for a summer bash so thank you for that.

Thank you, Alex Brown.

Hi, friends.

Uh Alex Brown, resident of Santiago Villa Noble Home Park in North Bay Shore.

Uh, guy who does stuff sometimes, I guess, for the Mountain View Mounts.

Uh thank you for including us in the process.

I really appreciate being a part of the COPAC.

Uh I'm excited to see this come to council and to like have progress because knowing that we have the support of the city is huge.

Uh it helps people feel much more secure.

Uh we've had a lot of fear in the mobile home communities of the parks are gonna get sold for redevelopment, the people are gonna get forced out, and this gives us a much stronger chance to be able to use that as an opportunity to make it better to actually take control of our homes, our lives.

Uh so thanks.

And also thanks to the consultants who are I assume on the call uh for putting up with me in all the meetings.

Thank you, Mr.

Brown.

We will now move on to virtual public comment.

Um, Sandy Perry.

Hello.

Thank you.

Um my name is Sandy Perry.

I'm a vice president of the board of South Bay Community Land Trust, and we were privileged to be part of the community ownership action plan advisory committee in Mountain View.

South Bay Community Land Trust was the first CLT uh that was formed in Santa Clara County, and we're very happy to be joined by now, not just one, but two.

We have Mountain View CLT and Seoul CLT uh that are emerging in Mountain View.

Uh we're very pleased to support this uh Mountain View Community Ownership Action Plan Initiative.

Um last week in San Jose, we just closed on a six million dollar rehab loan from the City of San Jose for our second property, which is an 18-unit apartment building in East San Jose.

Preservation creates affordable housing by taking unsubsidized affordable housing units permanently off the speculative market, which prevents people from being displaced and prevents those units from being lost as affordable housing when uh rent increases uh drive up the rents and make them unaffordable.

Preservation is more economic uh than new construction.

Uh it's uh much faster and it's easier to win over public support, and I'm running out of time.

It's also an opportunity for ownership.

Thank you, Sandy.

Next we have Vila.

B.

Are you there?

Yes, I'm here.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Uh hello, council.

Uh this is B.

Hansen from the Mobile Home Alliance.

Uh, and I'd just like to start by thanking you for directing city staff to work on COPE over two years ago.

Uh their current task is to find funding and develop processes to implement COPE for Mountain View residents who are most vulnerable to displacement, and I hope you'll direct staff to continue that work.

Uh as you know, Mountain View six mobile home parks are naturally affordable housing, but have a large proportion of residents who are seniors living on fixed incomes.

Some have heard rumors that one of our parks might be sold, and two years ago another one did sell.

Uh, our carefully crafted MHRSO, which passed in October 2021, helped our entire community immensely.

But it's time to start thinking about future challenges.

Because our ordinance could be weakened by a future council.

Having a co-op housing model in one of more of the parks would assure mob mobile home residents that they won't be displaced.

One of the current uh goals starting with uh 50 CSFRA units is a good start, and I hope you'll keep co- me moving forward by approving all of the recommendations in the council report.

Thank you.

Thank you, B.

And our final speaker online is Anna Marie Morales.

Hi, can you guys hear me?

We can hear you, Anna Marie.

Hi, thank you so much.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

Uh my name is Anna Marie Sheher from the Mobile Home Alliance as well.

I'm definitely gonna echo what B and Alex just said.

I'm a lifelong resident of our beautiful city, and I'm speaking in strong support of the community ownership action plan being adopted tonight.

I hope all of uh in comp in its entirety.

I appreciate the direction and goals outlined in this plan.

I also deeply appreciate that our mobile home communities received due consideration throughout this process.

It matters to see us recognized as a vital part of Mountain View's housing landscape.

This plan represents a crucial step toward greater stability for our neighborhoods.

Mountain View residents of all incomes and all types of housing deserve to live with stability and dignity.

For many of us, the goal is simply to stay in our homes without fear of displacement.

Please give us the resources and support we need to be active partners and shaping the future of our homes.

Whether through ownership or other models of community control, we want to ensure that our communities have security, dignity, and a real say in where we live.

Thank you so much for your little leadership on this critical issue.

Thank you, Anna Marie.

That was the last of our speakers.

I will now bring the item back for council questions and deliberation.

Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to the report.

Do we have any deliberations?

I know that we have a motion by Councilmember Kamei and it's seconded by Councilmember Ramirez.

I will let Council Member Kamei go first.

Great.

Thanks.

Thanks so much, Mayor.

Okay, well, estamos aquí, or it's very exciting, we're here.

Um and I um it's uh I feel so apt that the secondary is Council Member Ramirez because I feel like this work um was motivated by the very painful experience happening in our community, where we saw um naturally affordable units um getting demolished, our residents displaced, and a real frustration on our council on what we could do um to to help our residents um main stay in Mountain View, but also how to how to preserve housing affordability generally overall in our city.

And over these seven and a half years, we've been grappling with that, and part of that comes to fruition tonight with our community ownership action plan.

I think similar to the biodiversity and urban forestry plan, you know, these are plans, but it's all about the actions that come that go along with it to bring it into reality.

But I think that um what we can really be, I think excited about is how staff and the incredible work of Mr.

Chen, his team, and how he has really tried to um not only bring I think guiding principles but also the five-year goals, um, and I appreciate um how the different models it starts, you know, one of the models is is rental, but there's also you know, three opportunities for potential ownership, which I think we've often heard as a council are residents' goals.

So um very excited um that we're here tonight.

I want to thank the co-op and uh our residents for their input, their collaboration on um how we can both preserve and create more affordability um in the city of Mountain View while putting our residents first.

So it's just very exciting.

So I just want to keep it brief.

We still have a ton of other items, but uh just wanted to add that.

Thanks.

Thank you, Councilmember Kamei, and uh you are the one that made the motion, seconded by Council Member Ramirez.

Councilmember Hicks.

Yes, I will be supporting the motion.

And I just want I wanted to thank staff and and everybody who worked on this.

I I also wanted to say that so in another life before uh before I lived in Mountain View, I worked for a community land trust for 10 years.

And so going over this work, um, you know, it's really heartening to see that, for example, the guiding principles are very much speak to the work I did in the past.

So I think we're really on the right path.

In particular, I will not read all six of them, but decommodification, resident roles and governance, etc.

You know, these are all the things that I worked on successfully in the past, and did see that preservation can be more affordable than starting from scratch.

So I hope that will happen here as well.

Um, I also wanted to highlight another thing that seems like going on the right path is um I asked in our council written questions whether uh uh staff or community-based organizations have been talking to any potential um community-oriented organizations or developers, because I think that's really key, and the answer I got was that it's a long answer, which I won't read, but that staff has spoken with at least three community-oriented developers who've expressed interest in supporting this.

So that's another thing that tells me we can be on the road to success.

So I will be supporting the motion.

Thank you, Councilmember Hicks.

Before we go to the vote, I'll just like to say thank you to staff and thank you to our community for pushing this.

A lot of programs relating to this kind of preservation strategy of community land trusts, limited equity co-ops, and um the other one is uh community development corporations.

Um a lot of the ones that exist now exist without a lot of help from their local government or cities.

This is this is a way Mountain View can lead to create that ecosystem that that is needed, especially in the time where uh the recovery of our economies is very K-shaped.

It has been really since even before the pandemic, but then not supercharged after the pandemic, um, and it and it has been getting worse.

One of the ways to really negate a lot of that um pressure is essentially looking into housing.

And as we look into housing, you have the three Ps framework, and this is very much in the preservation of the peas, which has always been the squishiest of the P's.

Um, a lot of us know the production, a lot of us know tenant protections.

Um, and we we've also led on that.

We have records of leading that.

Very few cities lead on preservation because it's hard to do, it's it's hard to grapple with.

Um, and this is where Mountain View is leading.

This is an incredible framework that other cities have not even looked at that, don't even know where to even begin.

We are beginning it, and I'm really proud of the work of our staff and our community because there's no way we can make this happen without the community pushing, very similar to the item before this the um the biodiversity strategy.

This is where not necessarily the we're relying on our community to be experts, but we're relying on our community to really carry a significant amount of work to make this happen.

And so I am I am really grateful to having the community do that.

Particularly, I'm also highlighting this does cover the mobile home parks.

So it's not new development, it's existing.

So all our wonderful mobile home parks are uh would be under this framework.

So I remember a long time ago there was a great documentary about how vulnerable are mobile home parks just in general because it wasn't it was a national doc, it was a documentary that covered mobile home parks nationally.

However, they did do a focus on some of our parks here in Mountain View and interviewed some of the residents there.

This was before we had our our rent stabilization program for the mobile home parks, but they it did cover not only getting protection stat, but the next step.

This is that next step of the possibility of the mobile home park residents owning their park.

What kind of system that would take, and there are resources out there on national level, but it is so important to really highlight how much our city is looking at putting that investment ourselves.

We are taking that step forward.

So I'm really glad that this is a big step forward for everyone in our community to really addressing um preservation and protecting our naturally occurring affordable housing.

So with that, let's take it.

Oh, oh, yes, Councilmember Kamei.

I'm so sorry.

Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View to transfer and appropriate one million dollars from the below market rate housing fund to the acquisition and preservation subfund to help fund community-owned housing projects as part of the community ownership action plan to be read in title only to be read in title only for their reading waived, and adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View to appropriate 425,000 from the general housing fund to fund capacity building efforts as part of implementing the community ownership action plan to be read in title only for the reading waived.

And just the motion also includes the uh the items you didn't have to read.

Just the it's the staff recommendation plus those two.

Yes, correct.

I just didn't read the things that we need to read right now, but pretty soon not.

Yep.

The voters can decide that this fall.

Um, all right.

So let's take it to a vote.

And that motion passes unanimously.

Thank you, everyone, for your work on this.

All right, so we have our next item, item 7.2.

Call for a municipal election for November 3rd, 2026, and place a measure for the transit occupancy tax on the ballot.

City assistant city manager Arn Andrews will present the item.

If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now, and we are ready for your staff presentation, кстати, святой.

Good evening.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council.

Tonight's item is the culmination of one of council's strategic priorities.

The fiscal year 2025-26 and 2627 council work plan included a priority item, which was pursue a 2026 revenue measure to seek additional funding for a priority community projects and services.

To that end, in September of last year, the council approved a 2026 revenue measure ad hoc subcommittee and assigned the members of the council finance committee to meet to review revenue measure options.

The subcommittee met five times between October 2025 and June of this year, and tonight is the culmination of their deliberations with a recommendation that's coming forward this evening.

One of the other things that have transpired since the ad hoc committee has been meeting is we also wanted to engage our community and let them know that this was a conversation that the council was gonna have.

And to that end, we did a mailer of about 40,000 of the homes in Mountain View, to which we actually got from a marketing standpoint a pretty good response.

We actually received over 1,200 online responses and about 300 write-in responses.

So we actually heard from about 1,500 of our residents.

Basically, their responses to us was they would be interested in meeting and speaking at some point.

And so we've offered to meet with any hotel year that decides they would like to meet with us.

From the resident survey, we asked them to look at six different priorities and rank them, and so you can see that the responses from residents, a lot of interest in streets and roads, a lot of interest in public safety, affordable housing.

We just heard the item before us, the interest in maintaining affordability in Mountain View, and then local parks, either the addition of new ones, the maintenance of existing ones, and then we also heard quite a few people just talk about infrastructure in general.

There was the ability for residents to also just add other.

And so we had a lot of residents that talked about other issues, including oversized vehicles, commercial vacancies, appliance electrification, parking, pickleball.

We heard about that this evening as well, and then interest or lack thereof in road diets.

So the item before you is a recommendation to update our transient occupancy tax or what we refer to as TOT.

A TOT is a tax that assessed on hotel or motel room occupancies.

Some call it a hotel room tax.

The city's transient occupancy tax was last amended in 1991, and at that point it was increased from 8% to 10%.

Since that time, almost all of our neighboring jurisdictions have updated their TOTs to rates higher than where we currently are.

So as a result, we have one of the lowest rates in the surrounding area, and also just looking at other large tourist and hospitality destinations in the state.

The proposed increase because of how low we are, would likely not have any impact on our competitiveness in the hospitality industry.

And you can see that in the table that was included in the staff report, and also before you here, our 10% is clearly one of the lowest in the area.

And so the recommendation before you this evening, which we'll get into a little more detail later, is an up to recommendation, which provides first the electorate to decide in November if this is something they want the council to have the latitude to do, and then if they agree, then ultimately the council could decide what they think an up to increment could be between the current 10 and up to 15 percent.

Staff went ahead and did some analysis on what this would have meant retrospectively and what it could have also what it could mean prospectively.

One of the takeaways if you just look at the baseline TOT from 2023-24 to the current estimate, you can see that it's increased from about 8 million to 11 million, which shows that we do have strength in the hospitality sector coming out of COVID, going from the 8 million to 11 million.

And retrospectively, if somewhere between the 2% or a 15% rate were in effect, it would have been an addition of about 1.6 million to about 5.5 million, and prospectively that same analysis, any increase from 12% up to 15% would be an addition estimated revenue of about 2.1 million to about 5.4 million.

I mentioned that we're recommending what's referred to as an up to model.

So you can see the recommended ballot question, which talks about the areas that the community mentioned were of importance to them, and then composed to what is known as an up to model, and you can see the language actually authorizes the city council to increase that at a point in the future, working closely with the city attorney on this ballot language.

So next steps.

August 7th is the last day for resolutions calling a measure.

At a date to be determined, there will be a deadline for submitting primary arguments in favor of or against a measure.

August 12th would be the last date to amend or withdraw a measure.

A date to be determined would be the deadline for submitting rebuttal arguments to primary arguments in favor of or against the measure, and at a date to be determined, that would be the deadline for submitting an impartial analysis by the new interim attorney.

And then, as I mentioned in the November-December time frame, depending on the outcome of the election, staff would return to council to see what, if anything, action council would like to take to move from the current 10% to something up to 15%.

So before you tonight, you have four actions.

Adopt a resolution of the city council of Mountain View first, calling a general municipal election and ordering consolidation with the statewide general election for the purpose of submitting to the voters a ballot measure to amend Mountain View City Code Section 33.2 to authorize city council to increase the city's transient arctic to meet tax.

The second, authorizing members of the council to author an argument for the ballot measure.

The third is directing the city attorney, as I mentioned, to prepare an impartial analysis.

And then finally, authorizing the city clerk to contract with the county of Santa Clara for services to be performed in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3rd.

It's supposed to say 2024 instead of 2022 to be read in title only.

Further reading waived.

26.

Thank you.

I'm still back with Measure G for Brains.

So that concludes our presentation.

And with that, we're available for any questions.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Staring down.

I am seeing no questions.

So we will go to public comment.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on any item on the consent calendar?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom.

Oh sorry.

Would any uh person like to provide comment on this item?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

I am seeing no speakers in the queue.

I'm seeing no speakers online.

So I will bring it back to the council uh for questions and deliberation.

Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report.

I see um councilmember Ramirez.

Uh thank you, Mayor, and I appreciate Councilmember McAllister making the motion so I don't have to read it.

Um, but there are two quick things.

Uh, first, um uh I want to uh express um my appreciation, and I I'm confident this is true also of the uh other ad hoc committee members um the appreciation to staff in the city attorney's office for the quick pivot.

I know there was um a lot of work down a particular direction, and um I think that was that was important work, and I think that will have lasting value, but I know the TOT increase was was not the thing that we were contemplating when we first started this journey.

Uh so thank you for for putting this together in a relatively quick uh period of time.

Uh and then second uh for uh the motion uh part two is authorize members of the council to author an argument.

Um I would request uh if the other members of the uh ad hoc uh uh revenue subcommittee would join me.

So uh I would request to council member McAllister to include um uh mayor Ramos, Vice Mayor Clark, and and myself as uh the members of the council who would be authorized to prepare that argument for the ballot measure.

Thank you.

All right, seeing other speakers, Councilmember McAllister.

Well, you know, Councilmember Ramirez, you work so hard on it.

I I think it's a disservice for me to read it.

I think you should take the motion, and it's your honor to have it if you like.

Thank you, you can take it.

Is the seconder okay with that?

Okay.

Thanks, council member.

Um, I will move to approve the staff recommendations, including uh adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View one, calling a general municipal election and ordering consolidation with the statewide general election for the purpose of submitting to the voters a ballot measure to amend Mountain View City Code Section 33.2 to authorize city council to increase the city's transient occupancy tax.

Two authorizing uh Mayor Ramos, Councilmember Clark, uh sorry, Vice Mayor Clark and I uh to author an argument for the ballot measure.

Uh three directing the city attorney to prepare an impartial analysis and four authorizing the city clerk to contract with the county of Santa Clara for services to be performed in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 to be read in title only for the reading waived.

Thank you for the motion, Councilmember Ramirez.

It has been seconded by Councilmember Hicks.

Uh, thank you to my colleagues on the ad hoc uh revenue measure committee, whatever it's called.

I look forward to trauma bonding with you on the election camp on the election uh campaign trail.

Um, with that, let's bring it to a vote.

And that motion passes unanimously.

We're going right through these.

Um, so now we will move on to item 7.3 resolution appointing a retired and annuitant as interim city attorney under government code section 21221 H.

Human Resources Manager Lindsay Bishop will present the item.

If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council.

The item before you this evening is a resolution appointing Janny Quinn as interim city attorney.

Earlier this evening, council recognized current city attorney Logue for her service and her appointment to the judiciary.

At the direction of council, city staff is working with Terry Black and Company to identify a successor and to fill the position.

Recruitment is underway for an anticipated appointment in the fall, an onboarding of a new city attorney.

Excuse me, in this calendar year.

Until the vacancy is filled, the city needs to appoint an interim city attorney.

Janny Quinn retired in 2019 after 24 years of service with City of Mountain View.

In addition, Ms.

Quinn served as the interim city attorney in 2022 during the recruitment search that resulted in Ms.

Logue's appointment.

Ms.

Quinn is available and possesses the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to serve as interim city attorney until council makes a regular appointment.

Government code 2121H permits the city council to appoint a CalPur's retired annuitant to a vacant position during a recruitment with several restrictions, which include the following.

The interim assignment is required to be a single appointment and may not exceed 960 hours in a fiscal year.

The proposed interim assignment complies with all applicable CalPERS requirements.

Staff recommend appointing Miss Quinn as interim city attorney with an hourly rate of 179.66 cents effective July 6th, 2026.

This concludes my presentation.

And human resources director Maxine Gulow and I are available for any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Seeing none, we're moving on to public comment.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk.

We will take in-person speakers first.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

I am seeing no public comment.

And I'm seeing no virtual public comment.

So we will now bring this item back for council questions and deliberation.

Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report.

Councilmember Schoalter.

Yes.

Um in earlier terms, and she was a delight to work with, very knowledgeable about the city and the law and very good at explaining to anybody who needed explanations, and that's a major part of her job.

How uh how that we could best go about doing things.

So I think that it's wonderful she's been willing to step up and join us for a few months in this time of need.

And um, so I'm very pleased to uh to um move the staff recommendation, which is to adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View appointing Janny Quinn as an interim city attorney under government code section 21 221 H to be read in title only for their reading weight.

Thank you, Councilmember Scho Walter.

And it looks like it was seconded by Councilmember McAllister with no other speakers in the queue.

Uh we will now take it to a vote.

And we are just zooming right through this, y'all.

Um, we will now move on to item eight, public hearings.

Okay, public item.

Yes, yes, public hearings.

All right, so we'll have item 8.1, residential development project at 333 Franklin Street.

Would any member would any council members like to make disclosures?

No disclosures?

No, no one met with anyone.

Okay.

Um, oh, um.

Is that okay?

Um, and senior planner Philip Brennan will uh present the item.

If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

And we are ready for your presentation when you are.

My name is George Schroeder, planning manager, and I'll be presenting a residential development project for your consideration at 333 Franklin Street.

Okay.

The project site is located mid-block on Franklin Street between California and West Dana Street in downtown Mountain View.

The general plan land use is for medium high density residential, which allows for 26 to 35 dwelling units per acre.

Project site is located within the downtown precise plan, and specifically it's within Area B or the Franklin Street residential transition area.

The project site is 7500 square feet in size, and currently the site is vacant, but previously contained an eight-unit apartment building.

Surrounding land uses consist of single family and multifamily residential buildings.

The applicant, Silicon Valley Custom Homes, is requesting a planned community permit and development review permit to construct a three-story residential building with eleven apartment units and two two-story detached accessory dwelling units or ADUs.

The app can also request a heritage tree removal permit to remove two heritage trees from the site.

The site is comprised primarily of the residential building fronting the street and two ADUs located at the rear.

The site is accessed from Franklin Street along a shared driveway with the adjacent multifamily development located at 325 Franklin Street.

Along the South Property Line is a pedestrian walkway to allow for access to the units.

At the rear are two detached ADUs with parking spaces located beneath the ADUs.

The project is providing eight below market rate or BMR units comprised of seven low-income units at 80% of the area median income or AMI, and one very low income unit at 50% AMI.

This exceeds the city's 15% BMR requirement.

The project also meets SB 330 replacement unit requirements for the eight previous rent stabilized units.

The city's tenant relocation assistance and right of first refusal provisions do not apply to previous tenants of the project site because of the timing of the formal planning application submitted, which was submitted after the previous building was already vacated.

And because the city's previous tenant relocation assistance ordinance or TRAO is applicable to the project, exempted displacements due to a city enforcement order, such as the red tagging.

Aside from the concession requested, which I'll go over in a moment, requested for the unit distribution between the main building and ADUs, the project complies with all the other requirements of the BMR ordinance.

The project is eligible for a 50% density bonus because it provides more than 24% of the base units for low-income households.

The UPCAN is requesting one concession under the state density bonus law to locate two BMR units in the ADUs in lieu of the main apartment building as required by the city's BMOR ordinance.

The UPC also requests five waivers that would otherwise preclude the construction of the development for open space, floor area ratio, landscape planting, building Eve Height, and trash enclosure dimensions.

The design of the project is considered contemporary craftsman, design in conformance with the downtown precise plan design guidelines.

Traditional building elements include horizontal and vertical cement plaster siding, a street-facing gable roof, and angled dormers integrated into the roof form.

The design intentionally integrates the third floor of massing of the roof dormers to serve as a better transition between downtown and the surrounding single family neighborhood.

Here's a view of the project from the shared driveway showing the main apartment building to the right and the detached ADUs to the left with parking spaces located beneath the ADUs.

The site contains two heritage trees, one redwood and one silver maple tree.

The project will require removal of both trees to accommodate the new buildings and site improvements.

The Upkin is proposing a total of four 24-inch box replacement trees to offset the loss of the two heritage trees.

The new tree replacements are anticipated to increase the on-site CAMI coverage by six percent at full maturity.

Auto parking is not required for residential uses located within the downtown precise plan.

The Upkin is voluntarily providing two parking spaces on site, one electric vehicle or EV parking space, and one accessible space located at the ground level beneath the ADUs.

The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA under the Class 32 infill development exemption.

And several public meetings have been held for the pro for the project.

Project was reviewed at the design review consultation meeting in May 2025, where the applicant made some design changes in response to the DRC's recommendations.

The UPCAN also held a neighborhood outreach meeting in February with 12 members of the community attending.

Lastly, the zoning administrator reviewed the project on May 27th and recommended its approval to the city council.

In conclusion, the project is found to be consistent with the applicable objective disvelopment standards and achieves general plan and housing element goals by increasing affordable housing opportunities in the city within close proximity to downtown and major transit routes.

Therefore, staff recommends that the city council adopt a resolution conditionally approving the planned community permit, development review permit, and heritage tree removal permit pursuant to the conditions of approval for the project.

And this concludes staff's presentation and community development housing and public work staff are present here tonight to answer any questions.

Thank you.

We will now hear from our applicant, CEO, Jenny King, and Chief Architect, Hao Ching Liao with the Silicon Valley Custom Homes Inc.

You will see seven minutes on the clock.

Okay, um, I think most of the topics were well covered by George, so I'm just gonna take a couple minutes just to reiterate some of the highlights of the project.

So just want to mention that this project replaces um deteriorated a building that was old and unsafe and structurally um uh unsafe and with a uh very safe and modern and code compliant uh building for the mountain view downtown area.

And this project also increases the housing supply from existing eight units to 13 units, which I believe it's making um more efficient use of the valuable downtown site, and more than two-thirds of the units are affordable and the affordability levels ranging from low income to very low income, which I believe is going to be contributing to the housing um issues in the in the city and the mountain view downtown.

And the site is located within excuse me.

Located within the walking distance from the downtown mountain View and uh less than half mile from the Cal Train station, and which I believe it's going to make excellent transit oriented housing project.

And this is um uh in a nutshell, the project turns a in my opinion, safety concerns into a community asset, and which uh also provides affordable housing and uh supporting local businesses and boosting the vitality of the downtown.

Um, and uh with that I encourage the council to uh support the exciting and responsible housing production project in Mounting View.

Thank you.

Any any questions, I'll be here to answer.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Uh Councilmember Show Walter.

Yes, I was just wondering why you chose to build ADUs at the back instead of making the building larger, it just seems like an unusual decision.

Um I think the idea was that the city would allow detached ADUs, but in the new development, George can correct me wrong, but um the attached a to do is there's limitations of adding that in the new development.

So it just allowed you to have a little more development.

Only in the detached building, the ADUs were allowed.

That's how you were we were able to add more units.

Okay, so you couldn't have just made the other building larger.

No, then it becomes the attached ADUs, which is not allowed in the new development.

Okay, thank you.

I get it now.

No problem.

And Councilmember, just to clarify the the main building is limited by the limitations on the liable density by the general plan, and then the ADUs, the state ADU law essentially gives more uh density with the just uh through the ADU development.

They took advantage of the um the amount that they could build on with the regular building and the ADUs are additional to that.

Correct.

They've they've maximized what the general plan density allows.

That's what I thought, but okay, thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Show Walter.

Councilmember Hicks.

So I'm just curious with 13 units and two parking spaces on site.

How will you determine who gets those spaces?

So those two thanks for the question.

Those two spaces are one for ADA parking and the other one is EV charging, so there's no tenant parking on site.

And um there has been some concerns raised around the lack of tenant parking spaces and um the because of the ROI of the project, and also we looked into the options of putting in a basement parking, and because of the narrow width of the lot, um the clearance that requires to have a cars go in and out with the ramp down, it was uh not only not visible from the um layout perspective, but uh it was a very uh difficult to pencil um in the project just because of the um the affordability level that we had to take into consideration.

So maybe I missed something, but who will get the who will get the parking spots?

So the ADA parking will be more of a first first come first serve for the uh handicapped individuals um and then the um AV parking charging station will be available for any tenant who wants to charge their so the charging one will be rotating and the ADA one will be if there's a disabled person otherwise correct, should be determined.

Okay, yes, thanks.

Thank you, count thank you, council member Hicks.

Um do we have any other questions from council?

Um, seeing none, um would any member of the public on the line or on the line like to provide comment on this item?

If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star nine on your phone.

A timer will be displayed on the screen.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

I am seeing no speakers, and I am seeing no virtual speakers.

So we will now bring this item back for council questions and deliberations.

Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report.

Councilmember Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm happy to move to approve the staff recommendations, including adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View conditionally approving a planned community permit and development review permit to construct a three-story multifamily building with 11 apartment units and two two-story detached accessory dwelling units or ADUs on a vacant site which previously contained a multifamily building utilizing state density bonus law and a heritage tree removal permit to remove two heritage trees on a 0.172 acre site located at 333 Franklin Franklin Street, EPN 158-12-069, and finding the project to be categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15332 in fill development projects to be read and titled only further reading waived.

And I'll only add um appreciation to staff for their work on the project and also to the applicant.

I think all of us are impressed with the uh high percentage of affordability uh in the project, uh which is always good to see.

Uh and I'll also note that um the project, if it's constructed, will help achieve our AFFH goals, affirmatively furthering fair housing, um, which is uh one of our uh critical housing element uh programs and if memory serves, there's a specific call out for downtown above and beyond lot twelve.

So uh this is uh a project that will help us achieve that housing element program as well.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Ramirez.

Council Member Hicks.

I will be supporting the motion and I I agree with the th the merits that of the project that uh council member Ramirez mentioned.

I do want to say the one thing I'm disappointed about is that even that despite the low level of parking, provided the much of the site is driveway and hard and hardscaping on on all sides.

So I'm hoping that in the future we can get some objective design standards that can maybe reduce that, um, because I I personally don't want housing all surrounded, planted in concrete in our downtown or anywhere else in the city for that matter.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Hicks, Councilmember McAllister.

Yeah, uh this project, when I look at a project, I always like to see how it enhances the neighborhood, it benefits the neighborhood, it doesn't impose anything on the neighborhood.

And unfortunately, this unit, this project does not supply parking for those units, so they're gonna have to be parking on the street, and they go, oh, we got all this transit.

Well, if we're looking at the demographics that are going to move in there, most of them will probably need cars to get to work.

And so is this gonna be an additional burden when lot twelve opens up that there are more people are going to be parking on the street and it's gonna detract from the neighborhood.

It's not gonna make the streets safe because there's visibility will be impacted.

And I got a kick out of it that they're gonna have an EV in there and again looking at the demographics.

I don't know, I could be wrong that they're gonna be buying EV vehicles to park in that area.

So because of that, I'm not gonna support this motion.

Uh I know it's it's uh they're allowed not to do it, but they were also allowed to do it.

And going forward, I will always continue to make sure that the neighborhoods are protected from unnecessary burdens and you think of parking as an unnecessary burden, but I think it is because it affects the quality of life for the people walking around and just looking for the visual aspects of seeing where we were talking about the urban forest and so forth, all the cars out there, and not actually to see some open space.

Thank you, Councilmember Callister.

I am not seeing anyone else in the queue.

Um, so thank you, staff, for your work on this.

I am like Councilmember Ramirez, I'm actually impressed by the percentage of affordability on this.

I'm a little annoyed about the um the tenants who were evicted because of the red tag that don't have that right of first return, and that our the the recently adopted TRAO that we had uh doesn't affect them because we passed it a little later.

Uh too late for these residents to um develop that.

That's that's that's on us, not on our not on the applicant.

Um, but uh I will be supporting this development.

Um, and with that, we'll let's bring it to a vote.

And that motion passes 6 1 with council member McAllister dissenting.

Um is it 10 o'clock?

Oh, it's right there.

10 o'clock.

Let's go.

Well, do we have uh I'm assuming council member Clark?

I already seconded it.

Um go ahead and make your motion.

Yes, we only have one item left, and it's a really important one.

So I'll move that we continue past 10 p.m.

Thank you, Councilmember Clark.

I will second that, unless we don't want to do our budget.

That's always an option.

All right, we'll take it to a vote.

And that motion passes five-two, with council member council, and council member is not wanting to have a budget.

All right, we will now move on to item 8.2 adoption of fiscal year 2026-27, budget fee modifications and funding for fiscal year 2026-27 capital improvement projects.

City Manager McCarthy will kick us off, and finance and administrative services director Derek Ramponi and assistant finance and administrative services director, Grace uh Jen, will present the item.

If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to city clerk now.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm sure glad that you uh voted to go past 10 since we are legally required to have a budget by July 1st every year.

So uh with that, this is the culmination of many months uh that council has considered the budget, provided uh good feedback to staff, and so tonight is the official adoption of the budget and various regulatory things that we have to uh pass with the budget.

So, with that, I'll turn it over to our finance director, Derek Rampone, to walk you through uh the changes that we've made and all the elements of this budget.

All right, good evening.

Thank you, City Manager McCarthy.

Uh good evening, Mayor Ramos, uh, Vice Mayor Clark and Council members, Derek Rampon, your finance and administrative services director, and joining me is Grace saying, the assistant finance and administrative services director.

Um, what the item you have before you tonight is the last step and the recommended budget process for 26 for fiscal year 2627.

Uh the recommended budget is structurally balanced.

Uh we have some new ongoing staffing requests that are limited and targeted.

The budget focuses on maintaining strategic service levels and advancing council priorities.

Investments are also included in the budget to improve operations and support economic vitality.

Overall, this budget really balances fiscal sustainability with strategic investments in city services and priorities.

This slide provides a high level overview of the fiscal year 26-27 budget development process.

The process really begins each November with the budget kickoff and department budget request development throughout the winter.

The budget team works closely with departments and the city manager's office to review requests, evaluate priorities, and develop funding recommendations.

In February, we presented the mid-year budget update to council, followed by the preliminary review of the recommended budget in April.

As a reminder, the general operating fund budget has an operating balance of 145,000.

This is down slightly from the last time you saw this item, which was at 150,000.

That's due to the additional $5,000 of expenditures that are being appropriated for increased multicultural engagement programming, which was discussed on June 9th and will be further discussed later in this presentation.

This slide shows the five-year general operating fund forecast.

Fiscal year 2627 is uh structurally balanced with the projected operating balance of 145,000.

Looking ahead, staff does project some modest operating deficits beginning in fiscal year 27-28 as expenditure growth does outpace revenue growth.

The forecast does return to a positive balance in 2030 31, and that's largely due to some projected reductions in pension costs, and that's as of today.

That has a cost of 12,000.

And then the third one is the $5,000 increase, ongoing uh increase in multicultural engagement programming that was discussed at the June 9th meeting.

Before concluding, I'd just like to thank the City Council for the guidance throughout the budget process and for the opportunity to present the fiscal year 2627 recommended budget this evening.

I'd also like to say thank the many staff members across the organization who contributed to the development of this budget with special recognition to the budget team for their hard work and dedication throughout this process.

All recommended budget actions are detailed in the staff report before you tonight.

Staff respectfully recommends that you approve these actions and adoption of the 26-27 budget with the related appropriations, and with that, we are happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Does any member of the council have questions?

Let's bring it home, y'all.

No questions?

No questions.

All right, so now we'll move on to public comment.

Would any member of the public on the line or in person like to provide comment on this item?

Or if so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star nine in your phone or turn in a blue card.

A timer will be displayed on the screen.

Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes.

So it looks like we have uh two in-person speakers.

Uh Lauren Hatton, followed by Daniel Kelly.

Good evening, and thank you so much for the opportunity to speak.

My name is Lauren Hatton.

I'm the managing director of Peninsula Youth Theater.

We are a resident company of the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts and have been with MBCPA for decades now.

Um in the last few years, our expenses at MBCPA have increased astronomically.

And as part of this budget plan, you are projecting further increases, including increases to our patrons by eliminating the tiered facility use fees.

We are doing everything in our power to absorb those increases and keep our programs accessible to our community, but when those fees go up on the side of the center, we have no control over that.

So we are asking that you please reconsider the facility use fee elimination at the two dollar level, and to just keep in mind how these fees impact the organizations in your community.

We are effectively being priced out of Mountain View by the raise in fees over the last several years.

And we want to stay.

We love it here, it's our home.

We love the center, we love Mountain View, but the fee increases have been really, really detrimental to our organization.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Daniel Kelly.

Hi.

Uh thank you.

Uh my name's Dan Kelly.

I'm a longtime Mountain View resident.

I'm a board member of PYT.

I want to echo much of what Lauren said and add that I think PYT is a real asset to the community.

My children participated.

They're too old now.

But they got a lot out of the program.

And I think many, you know, the people who participate, you know, they we serve a lot of children over the course of the year, and they all get a lot out of the program.

The Center for the Performing Arts is a is a beautiful resource that the city has, and the city can choose who uses it.

And in the choices they're making their pricing PYT out of using that space, which I think is a real shame.

That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I see no other in-person speakers in the queue.

Um we will now take virtual speakers.

I am seeing none.

We will now bring the item back to count for council questions and deliberations.

Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to the report.

Um so it looks like we do have a motion and a second.

Uh before we get to that, I do have a question because I do want to address what was just in public comment.

Um it might be too late to do any action, at least for this upcoming budget, but is there um is it's is it something that we can look into?

Uh mayor, I would ask that we hear from our community services director about about this.

Um the participants uh pay to participate in PYT.

Okay.

Good evening, Council, John Marchant Community Services Director.

And I first want to start by thanking PYT for being here and bringing this up.

Um they certainly are a valued client of and user of our facility and have been for a long time, and we want to continue uh that relationship um over the time.

So what we are recommending is that there is basically it's called a facility use fee.

Think of it as a convenience fee.

So we the city pays to have um as charges go through for the purchase of a ticket, we have to pay for that service through the software company that provides that service.

So previously, the what we are um recommending to eliminate, which was discussed, the that tier, any ticket that was under $30 would pay two dollars as that convenience fee.

Any ticket over $30 would pay a convenience fee of $3.

What we're recommending is that everybody, no matter what the price of the ticket to pay that $3.

This fee has not been raised since 2009.

So 17 years of not increasing that fee, which our costs go up, and that's why we're making that recommendation.

We have any follow-up, Councilmember Hicks.

So what are we talking in term in terms of like if we for example, if we kept it at $2, what would we be talking about per year in terms of it?

I don't have that math in front of me, and I'm sorry.

Um I also want to highlight that uh as you're probably aware, uh, PYT offers a number of matinee programs for students, and we do not charge that fee on those tickets.

Um, and so it is just the tickets that are available to the general public.

Okay, so nobody knows like even roughly per year whether we're talking several thousand, ten thousand, fifty thousand.

Like nobody, I I just don't have the volume off the top of my head, I'm sorry.

Uh council member McAllister, do you know the referee?

No, I don't.

But uh I have a question for so that's a pass-through fee, right?

To the consumer.

Correct.

Not to PYA.

That is that is that the consumer is charged that, not not PYT as an organization.

I'll uh one other follow-up question to that.

So uh the public comment speakers are talking about increased fees.

So it was more than just this fee.

Was there another fee that is affecting them in the increase?

So over the past couple of years, several actions have been taken with that program, of which, yes, there have been some uh fee changes to bring us in line with what the market um average is um or even below, but we have been making changes so that we can staff appropriately and when you staff appropriately, we're passing on some of those costs, which is the the greatest impact that they're they're seeing right now.

Okay, uh council member command.

Great, thank you.

Would it be possible for council to get an off agenda memo with the information on maybe in aggregate what we've been doing related to the different fees and the costs and things like that?

I think it'd just be helpful for all of us to have that information if that's okay.

Sure, absolutely wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Kenny.

I didn't know how it was gonna go with that.

Um, so we do have the motion by council member McAllister and is seconded by Council Member Schoalder.

Did you already read the thing?

Oh, he did not read the thing.

All right.

I figured I'd give him a break because I saw the length of this and I go, do I really want to make the motion on this one?

But you want me to read it now for you?

Yeah, okay.

To memory of Lucas.

Oh, I'm sorry, the wrong line.

Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mount View.

One adopting the fiscal year 2026-27 city budget.

Second, appropriate appropriating funds for to cover expenditures approved by said budget, three, authorize the city manager designed to execute funding agreements consistent with the nonprofit funding appropriations in the adopted budget.

Four, adjust the budget license tax amount by the annual CPI, and five, authorize the finance administrative service director to adjust appropriations in various funds as needed to align with actual reserved earned and received as specific specification specifically set forth herein.

Make final adjustments to the community stabilization and fare rent act and mobile home rent stabilization ordinance budgeted and fees.

Adjust appropriations related to the gram middle school site based on bill invoices and determine final budget amounts based on council direction to be read in title of further reading waived, and adopt the resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, amending the city of Mount View master fee schedule to be read in title only further reading waived.

Adopt the resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View amending the fiscal year 2025-26 salary plan for hourly employees and adopt the physical 2026 salary plans for regular and honored hourly employees to be read in title only for the reading waived, and as acting as an acting as a Mount View Shoreline Regional Park community, adopt a resolution of the board of directors of the shoreline regional park community one, adopting the fiscal year 2026-27 shoreline regional park community budget, two appropriate funds to cover expenditures approved by said budget, and three, authorize the treasurer to adjust appropriations as needed to make payments in accordance with the tax sharing agreement with the Santa Clara County and the educational enhancement reserve joint powers agreement to align appropriations with the actual reserves earned and received is specifically set forth here and determine final budget amounts based on board direction to be read in title only further reading wave and acting as the City of Mountain View Capital Improvement Financing Authority.

Adopt a resolution of the City of Mountain View Capital Improvements Financing Authority.

MVCIFA adopting the fiscal year 2026-27 budget for the debit service payments appropriating funds to cover expenditures approved by said budget and authorizing the MVCIFA Treasure to make budget adjustments and determine final breathing amounts based on F M F C I F A board directs to be read in title and further reading with.

Thank you, Councilmember McAllister.

And that has been seconded by Councilmember Show Walter.

I see Vice Mayor Clark on the queue.

It was just the same thing again.

Just to clarify the motion covers all of the recommendations printed in the staff report, including those that you read.

For a few of these, it's you didn't do anything wrong.

The staff recommendation includes things in addition to what was read.

So just just clarifying we're approving the staff recommendation plus everything you read.

It's it's in the record.

It's in the record.

All right.

Let's get this vote on.

Passes unanimously.

We have a budget, y'all.

All right.

Now we will go to item nine.

Council staff and committee reports.

Do we have any council staff and committee reports?

I see council member show Walter.

I'm gonna let everybody else talk about all the fun stuff in Mountain View, but I wanted to share with you that last week on Monday and Tuesday, I traveled to New Mexico as your representative from Silicon Valley Clean Energy to take part in the celebration of the completion of the Sun Zia wind farm and transmission uh project.

This is the largest wind project in the United States.

It's literally um three times larger than the next two largest wind farms combined.

It's huge.

It includes um 3,650 megawatts, nine um 916 um wind turbines that are spread over 90 miles and five hundred and fifth of high voltage direct current line that enables uh this this power to be transmitted over such a far distance.

Normally, when you use AC um lines, you lose a lot of power as you know, over over time, but with the use of this AC, um, I mean, use of the DC, that that those power losses are are much much much smaller.

And so this was new technology, um, developed in Sweden, it's been used there, but it hasn't been used here before, and um so it uh it wins 550 miles from New Mexico to Arizona, then it switches over into ACE and it goes into California, and we and um uh Silicon Valley Clean Energy and a number of other CCAs or early customers in this, and one of the things that makes this so cool is that well, the time.

You know, we're in a time when wind power isn't really popular with everyone.

So to have um to have completed this project is quite you know quite quite an accomplishment.

It took 16 years uh to get through all the permits, the financing, a mere 11 billion dollars of financing, and construction for three years.

Um, and it's really a fabulous proof of concept that huge quantities of clean energy can be transmitted many miles from where they're produced to where they're used, which is which is just vital for us to transform into a clean energy country, which is one of the things I think most of us want to do.

So um, so I wanted to share that with you and say that really we should all be proud that we're part of this CCA movement that has been so effective at um inspiring clean energy projects to be produced, and this is just a great example of one.

So that's that's what I wanted to share.

And we went to a lot of fun stuff, but other in locally, but other people can talk about that.

Thank you.

Uh Councilmember Kamei.

Thanks, Mayor.

Um, so I just wanted to um clarify when we were talking about item 7.1 about our community ownership action plan.

I failed to highlight council member McCollish's advocacy that we that we the city should own our own housing units.

And uh tarnished his legacy related to uh the city owning housing because I forgot.

Is that good?

Are you happy now?

Okay.

Really perfectly.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um and now that he has his flowers, so um on June 10th, um Microsoft invited uh the council to and I attended um their data center grand opening on the 11th.

I attended the Cities Association annual summer meeting.

It was related to our resiliency, really fascinating, really great.

I think a majority of us attended.

On the 16th, we had our council transportation um committee, and on the 18th, I um attended the future proof your business, our collaboration with like VTA in the chambers, and then this past Saturday we had our pride.

Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you, Councilmember Kamei.

Councilmember McAllister.

Uh well, I guess I'll since you she didn't mention a couple items, I did attend the city association, and that was interesting to hear uh the uh response that's uh emergency response.

I we had a CTC meeting where we went over the ATP and I thought we gave some very valuable information.

Uh, some of our thoughts on that one.

And I was also was uh honored to be with my fellow council members, most of them exhibit my first attending to that meeting, and it was uh quite impressive to see the the uh activities and how it was set up.

So but I also wanted to bring up an item nine uh that uh it's been kicking around for a while, but we haven't addressed it.

Um I responded to a customer's uh conc uh constituents' concern about RV parking over on Gemini.

So I went over there to look at it uh to talk to the lady and reports, and it was interesting uh that when I was there the the what is it, the NEP NES.

NES.

The neighborhood services services were there uh checking on some of these RVs.

And uh I got a glimpse of what was actually taking place and what they did and how they went in there and tagged them.

But what was interesting is that there was about three unhitched trailers there.

And I asked them, what could they do?

And I said, could can that since they don't move, and I said, Well that's not part of your ordinance, so we uh we can really can't do much, but except registration or something like that.

And I go, well that's that's interesting.

And uh I said, are we getting a lot of those?

And they said, yeah, we're getting a lot of them coming from Palo Alto and other cities, and I go, Oh, because they're they're putting in uh regulations to do it.

And in fact, there was one trailer that was sitting about five feet away from a fire hybrid, and I said, can we do something about that?

And um I left at the time, so I'm not sure exactly what took place.

But I'm bringing this up now because we are increasing with a lot of unhitched trailers are coming along, and I think that we've and also we just got a report from our assistant city manager uh giving us an update on the memo that we asked about going down, and I was wondering, is the council feels like should we adopt some new regulations to fill in the gap, especially like the van lords, that it was interesting how they said the the police said, Well, I said can you tag the register uh registrate owner of the RV or the trailer?

And they said, No, we have to go after the we we tag the person that lives in there, and I go, Well, how do you get to tag the person if they're not around?

And there was a cat and mouse range that was always confusing on who was going to be responsible for moving the RV.

And so, and so but since it wasn't in one of our agreements, and I could be soft on that idea, but I go, okay, whatever.

But it would be interesting to maybe consider having staff because this last one was a memo to maybe write up a memo of saying as we move forward that we might have an action plan, and I just wonder if other people are interested.

That or if they gotten comments from the our constituents talking about the RVs up there.

I know I got a couple emails from businesses were saying that the people are their tenants are not coming in, the employees don't feel safe, the vacancy rates are up in that area, so there's some economic uh hardship on the people that are in that area and some of the neighbors.

So I'm putting that out there to see if uh we can maybe look at having staff again spend about an hour or so writing up a memo, potentially doing something about the unhitched trailers and the van lords.

So I'm just opening it up for discussion.

And if I mean I was just wondering, maybe you know, if we should we ask the staff to look into some uh ordinance going forward with the unhitched trailers, I'm not entirely sure how we should forward on this.

Um I guess this is a question if we want to add something to our work plan.

Essentially, um this last six months now.

Um we want to take a straw poll to add an item onto our work plan.

Will we have to remove items from our work plan in order to move this forward?

A memo.

Okay.

We want a memo.

Council member Hicks.

So I'm just a little unclear on what a memo, a memo that is an action plan, how that's different than putting it on that's putting it on the agenda.

Maybe we could spell out the reason.

Somebody can spell out what that is.

Well, okay, my thought is, because we're gonna be coming up on February, and I'd rather have something in place that everybody has an idea what's happening to people out in the RV parks and the in the trailers that they're all of a sudden they don't something happens, but here they they're given opportunity to give input to what's going on and understand what's happening out there.

Vice Mayor Clark.

I think what would be helpful, I'm curious for feedback.

Um after reviewing the memo that we received, and thank you for all the time and effort that went into that.

The the one thing that I'm most concerned about, um having some sort of semblance of either a conversation or at least knowing what our options are, is what exactly happens in February when the settlement expires.

Because I don't think unless I missed it because I have I um I might have missed it in the memo, but I think understanding exactly what happens in February.

You know, one assumption is that major sheet may basically we go back in time to what August of 2022, where measure C governs, and um the settlement expires, and we're we're basically transported back in time then to when what the voters passed governed.

I'm not sure everyone sitting at this day is necessarily wants that to happen, um and but maybe I'm wrong uh as to what actually happens then.

But I think understanding from a legal perspective what will happen if we take no action between now and February would be helpful for us to know, and that can be a confidential memo, maybe if it if it pertains um to the settlement, but I that aspect of it is kind of what I'm most curious about because that assuming we don't want to just sit here and do nothing and have everything expire and have an outcome we don't want, then we probably should start thinking about that.

And I assume we probably don't necessarily need to authorize staff time.

We would naturally, I would hope, as a proactive city think about these things in advance, but um I see Audrey.

So, so I'll stop talking about it.

Uh thank you, Vice Mayor Clark, um uh Mayor Ramos, members of the council, Audrey Seymour, assistant city manager.

Um, what will happen at the end of February when the Navarro settlement agreement expires, is that there will no longer be a requirement that the city maintain at least three miles of street where the parking of oversized vehicles is not prohibited, and we will no longer be required to provide a map that shows parking restrictions throughout the city and those segments where there are no restrictions that limit oversized vehicle parking.

Nothing else, well, and there are some noticing requirements regarding when the city does um its uh street cleaning program, and also if a vehicle is uh oversized and parked um illegally in an area covered by the narrow streets ordinance or the bike lane ordinance, there are s special noticing requirements for um how the police interface with those vehicles, letting giving them a copy of the map, for example, and not immediately citing.

Those are the things that will discontinue with the expiration of the the settlement agreement.

There will not be and so and that will mean that the narrow streets ordinance and the bike lane ordinance will continue to be enforced and in place.

Um and nothing else will change in the areas that aren't covered by those two ordinance, um absent f uh further additional direction from council.

So there were some things that happened around the same time as the Navarro um settlement agreement that related to specific criteria adopted by the council for where there would be the posting of no 2 a.m.

to 6 a.m.

parking and um that criteria resulted in some changes to where that restriction um would apply and there were signs removed in the areas where there once had been signs, that does not revert back to anything um automatically as a result of the the settlement agreement expiring.

Okay, that's okay.

I think i i there's a general understanding that it's okay for us to have conversations with staff and to start thinking about this before February without you know, a giant study session or work plan.

I think that's one thing because that's yeah, I don't necessarily desire that, but I I just don't want to be in a world where we have really kicked the can down the road to the point where we've created a mess for um we've just created an enormous amount of uncertainty for folks who are on our streets and living in streets and who who deserve to know what is or isn't happening on what timeline.

That's that's my concern, and which I think Councilmember McAllister probably shares too.

Uh so that was Vice Mayor Clark.

Councilmember Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor.

I I think I'm um uh leaning more in the direction that Vice Mayor Clark just expressed that um I guess I I have two concerns.

One is I don't want to uh delay or um uh remove existing work plan items that would might otherwise be completed by the end of the year um for a new priority like this.

This is not something that I'm personally um interested in spending a great deal of staff time on.

Um so I I wouldn't support um a proposal to have staff do new work that they haven't been co contemplating uh that would displace existing, in my opinion, higher priority work.

Um but I also uh appreciate and agree with um vice mayor's comment or observation that we don't necessarily want to leave uh everything in a state of total uncer uncertainty.

Um, I think the the two memos that we've received from staff um are I thought pretty comprehensive.

There's a lot of analysis, a lot of uh suggestions for uh next steps, including a significant amount of um activity ongoing, right?

I mean there were I don't know how much of this we can talk about because it was it but was I can't remember if the memo was confidential or not.

Um it was not.

Um but like the there, you know, the there were tables uh with uh information about citations and tows and that kind of thing, um a significant amount of outreach, and then um from what I recall staff working with major employers who are proactively um conducting capital improvements, right?

Installing bike lanes, which would also then trigger uh the bicycle um lane ordinance, the parking prohibition for for streets with bike lanes.

So I I feel like there is a significant amount of attention being paid to this.

Um, but if there's something along the lines of what Vice Mayor Clark was describing where um especially the members of the council who are going to continue to serve, um, you know, can work maybe at a more informal level with staff and talk about you know, here are things that maybe some of you would be comfortable with and also where are your red lines that would at least provide some clarity and then maybe even some guidance for staff, you know, come the end of this year or January, February, where you have a pretty good sense of where the council's leaning.

I mean you're already very good about this city manager.

Um so I'm I'm I I would agree I'm I'm not really interested in a big study session, but um some way for for the council to continue to receive the information that staff has already been providing, I think very well, and then also maybe informally getting some guidance from the council members who are gonna be staying on about what what might make sense for immediate term or near term actions.

Councilmember McAllister.

Yeah, I just had a question.

Um so the Navarro Settlement that didn't include the unhitched trailers, did it?

Is that I mean it's i include them in what in in what way?

The Navarro settlement didn't really it just defined oversized vehicles and and references oversized vehicles, so it didn't really um I wouldn't when when you say did include the unhitched trailers, do you mean in specifically allowing them to park?

Well, do they have the same seventy-two hours because it's a trailer and not an RV and not a vehicle?

I'm a little confused of that there may be some part of the thing, but it's not part of enforcement or they have their own type of enforcement.

So I wasn't sure how that actually worked.

So the Navarro settlement did not impact the 72-hour parking requirement.

That was left intact as even as a result of the settlement agreement.

And um I'm not certain why unhitched trailers are not subject to the same 72 hour rule.

I believe they are.

Yeah, I was confused a little bit.

That's why I asked for clarity, because it is more complicated to do whatever you have to do then.

Enforcement is a challenge, has its challenges.

Okay, thank you.

Vice Mayor Clark.

I think if it's clear uh and I see Councilmember Icks in the queue.

I think if it's clear that we're um individual council members or um, you know, a group short of a brown act is okay to explore concepts or things that came out of the memo more deeply with staff, especially um concepts like um, you know, there are there are more than just enforcement actions.

You know, there are um uh there are incentives that I think other communities have explored.

Um, as long as I think there's an understanding that it's okay to do that, as long as we're not taking up so much staff time that we're taking them away from other things and other priorities, and that they are very much authorized to say to close the door in our face and say we've we've got other things to do.

Uh that's that's all I'm asking for, and maybe that's always always been implied.

I just want to make sure that that's okay, and we don't I don't get my hands smacked by my colleagues at some point later on.

But um I try not to do that every but every every now and then I deserve it.

But all right, uh City Manager McCarthy.

Thank you, Mayor.

So so staff has an obligation to be preparing for the end of this settlement as it as it is now.

So there's only a few months left.

Um, as you all are aware, as you've heard from our assistant city manager, uh we have been uh working with and have been contacted by various uh businesses and residents, and so we are working with uh various people um to try and help solve some of the challenges that we're facing.

So that will continue, and we do have our Human Services Division.

Um obviously our police department um is also working via the neighborhood and event services division.

So this this work will continue because we have to be prepared for what's happening um in February.

So we don't necessarily need council direction for that.

I believe that uh if there is interest in seeing what other options there are, that is something that staff can work on.

I don't necessarily see this as a work plan item because it's it's just part of you know kind of some of the day-to-day things that staff's having to address, along with multiple other things that we're working on.

Um if there is a desire tonight for council to give specific direction, though, for staff to look at anything specific, then I would ask that you take a straw poll.

But otherwise just know that um I think what the vice mayor has suggested um could also work, and staff's already uh working on uh various actions.

Thank you, City Manager McCarthy, Councilmember Hicks.

Well, maybe what I was gonna say is redundant at this point.

As several other people have spoken, but since I pressed my speaking button, I'll go on.

Um, so I think it's pretty clear that things are not gonna go on they're not gonna continue the same.

There are multiple things that we're facing that are very different.

The expiration of Navarro, uh pretty big change in council and uh legislative changes that are having, you know, having vehicles uh lived in vehicles stream into Mountain View.

So I think for all those reasons, we we all know they're gonna be changes and increasing comments from uh residents and companies here.

And so I just encourage, although I don't want to displace items that um are on the as other people have said they're on the uh our work plan for the next six months.

I also don't want to I think coming next year we're gonna be seeing some changes and should be preparing for that.

And um so the various things that people have mentioned to move that on and be informed so that we can ramp up to those changes and and make those changes in a thoughtful way that I think our next council council should be engaged in.

I think and also the comment that was made that the the people living in vehicles on our street.

I mean, this is the vast majority of our homeless individuals that should they should have some hint as to what's coming so they can prepare because everything will not stay the same.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks, Council Member Kamei.

Great, thanks, Mayor.

Um so I just had two questions.

Kind of one, what what what did we decide on anything yet?

Okay, I don't know.

No, okay.

Um the second is I d I did want to follow up on one of the items.

It had been of interest when um we spoke about this back in 2019, was the kind of the predatory practices that we're seeing related to those who um are unstably housed.

I mean, lack of better word, and in the memo, it it's you know, van lords.

Um I know that there's three cities that have taken action against a type of predatory behavior.

I think this like state legislature had like looked at maybe a bill or two about regulating that.

Just kind of not sure um where we are with that.

I think to me it's just kind of bifurcating the the issue a little bit.

I think one of them is obviously related to the three miles of parking, but the other is kind of more predatory practices.

And I think one of the actions we took this evening, talking about, you know, um community opportunities for people to purchase and um the the co-op co-op um, you know, I think this is another area I've personally been interested in trying to protect folks who are in the situations where they're being in these um domiciles which cannot move and adhere to the 72 hours.

Um, and they're the ones getting the you know, notices and and perhaps ticketed.

And so I just I don't know how colleagues feel about that.

I think that's one of the things that the councils, whether this one, the ones prior haven't been able to tackle, um, and I'm not sure as February approaches if that might increase.

I don't know, you know, I don't know what could happen as people may feel um the strain of Navarro coming to an end.

I don't know.

I don't know how how else the council can tackle that, but that's one of the things that had been on my mind back in even 2019 that we've never spoken about.

I don't even know where to go from here.

Um did you want to make um?

Well, I don't I don't know.

I mean, I think there's many different ideas getting floated, and that's the and so I'm just bringing it up.

There are cities which have already had that.

I don't know if other people are curious for more information.

I only saw a paragraph, you know, a short paragraph in our briefing.

I don't know if there's more there.

People are interested in that.

I think that you know, obviously there's another issue, um, which we're talking about is like the sunset of the settlement.

So McAllister.

So were you interested in exploring how to prevent the van lords taking advantage of there are examples that you know, I know some people are concerned about the work plan, but if we already have examples, city managers if they look at other uh cities, what they do with their vanlords.

That's what you'd like to explore or get some answers on.

I could um with that too, yeah.

Cause that is people are being taken advantage of some of those units if you look at them and they're rented, you go how can anybody live in this city?

Council member Hicks.

Uh so I don't know whether the previous two council members who spoke.

Are you talking about an expanded off an off another off agenda memo with more detail on that particular issue?

It can be I just I think that Councilmember McAllister started the conversation with a with quite a few different topics, and this is the one I of interest to me, which is you know, we have made a lot of our work as a council protecting the most vulnerable, and I have been out because residents and other businesses have reached out to me.

So I have been out in different parts of the community and I have seen it.

I went this morning.

Um and so it is something that concerns me.

We do have three cities that are examples.

There wasn't a lot of information in the off agenda memo, so we could get more, but I don't know how other people feel, but of the different topics that council member McAllister put forward, um, you know, it sounds like staff's preparing for February and the sunset, but this was one topic that the count the council's never tackled, this council or prior iterations.

Councilmember Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor.

My my preference right now would be um what the city manager was suggesting.

I think there's there's I feel like there's a substantial amount of work that is occurring sort of at an operational level on this, including some preliminary investigations of policy approaches.

I think van lording was mentioned if I'm not mistaken in that memo.

I have a different perspective about the van lording proposal, in part because of the the practical matter right when San Jose looked at it last year the ordinance it was ostensibly about van lording but it's it's very difficult to enforce and the primary enforcement mechanism is basically a prohibition against living in RVs.

So like I I think it it is not a good thing and I don't think we should be encouraging it but you know it if you know moving too far down the road basically is just it's it's a de facto RV van and I think that's something that the council can consider I'm not going to be on the council for very much longer but I I personally would be reluctant to you know suspend existing work to elevate that.

That's just my opinion.

About any of it um my general preference is to not displace any of our existing workload that's kind of first and foremost because a lot of the workload if if if we add this into a workload it's going to change just by the nature of we're we're losing people on our council that may have different ideas about it.

I don't know when this item will come back to council relating to the Navarro settlement.

I'm assuming it will eventually um and we could probably guide some feedback to staff as um council vice mayor Clark was mentioning about like things that the policies that were in the off agenda memo that we recently had and there are still more policies that uh city staff are exploring uh when it eventually comes back to us um and we probably are hearing from our counterparts in other cities about the different policies there which we could also direct staff to consider when it comes back I don't anticipate it coming back anytime soon.

Well I mean I guess it depends on what you mean by soon.

I think uh if it if something is coming back to us I wouldn't mind looking into van lording particularly what I'm kind of interested in van lording is how how prevalent it might be I've been hearing different stories about it um from different contacts I've been hearing from when we we did a while back um I was with Vice Mayor Clark I don't know if I was mayor yet at that point where we were just hopping into a van and uh with the MVPD on our ride along um I don't remember when that happened but like it was a year ago um where there was discussion about van lording and there were some stats that uh MVPD gave us I don't think it was in the memo about the stats of like the percentage of how many our residents uh the RV residents were um renting the van from renting the RV from someone uh I've heard different numbers from like the law foundation on how actual prevalent it is um and they are different numbers um so it it would be kind of interesting uh to understand that when it becomes something um I see councilman uh not council member um city manager McCarthy on the line.

Save us.

Yes, thank you, Mayor so um to be clear about what's gonna happen in February.

So what will happen in February is everything will revert revert back to what the status quo was before.

So the terms of the settlement that we're under now, we will no longer be under the terms of those settlements.

That also means that the city could explore options like looking at the predatory practices, looking at the unhitched trailers, which are problematic for reasons that the police chief said, and and also the restrictions that we're under in providing warnings, and then if no one's there, you don't even know who you're giving a warning to, who the owner is, who has it there, and we could have our officers spending hours or even days chasing down, trying to figure out who a trailer belongs to.

So I think there is some low hanging fruit there that would be more uh simple ordinances that wouldn't displace the work that you all have prioritized for us to do.

We are still working on all of that work plan, and that will not stop because of this.

Um, but I think just uh realistically from an operations level, as uh folks have mentioned, uh, we just have to be prepared for um the messaging, the noticing, uh some sort of transition plan so no one is caught off guard, um, and especially those that are the most vulnerable.

So perhaps what the easiest thing might be is for you all to just provide a general, you know, thumbs up or agreement um that staff will continue uh to work on options um that are related to the settlement ending, and then as far as timing goes, I think that can be uh a conversation that that I have with council members, and what's realistic um with what the work plan is versus how long some of these things might take because we are still in the settlement until February, so um, we can be working on things, but there's still some things we just cannot change at this point.

So if council's comfortable with giving that direction, um, it could be kind of a medium between what all of you have said, knowing that we're gonna be working on uh these items and then um coming back to you all at some point in the future.

Is that does that sound good to people?

Okay.

Uh so uh next um I guess if that uh um council member committee you're still in the queue.

Should we do this?

Oh, go ahead.

Thanks.

Um Thanks City Manager McCarthy, thanks, Mayor.

I think that sounds fine.

I just want to be explicit and clarify that my interest in and even discussion of van lords was not too was not the same purpose as it sounds like perhaps the city of San Jose, Councilmember Ramirez.

You know, I just wanted I think it's really important to to clarify that.

I think mine is specifically related to predatory practices.

I am seeing firsthand and how we're helping all of our residents house or unhoused who are the most vulnerable.

And I just wanted to clarify that it's not too obscenely do what other jurisdictions may have done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Kamei.

Um, with that, should we thumbs up on what uh City Manager McCarthy all right?

All right, we have mostly thumbs up.

Um with that, I don't see um anyone else in the docket for item nine.

Um, so with that I will uh report out that I um I went to the public art ribbon cutting.

Um there's a new public art at our transit station, yay us, and I probably suffer from heat stroke, and this is why I don't go outdoors.

Um, then after that I I'll join uh several of my colleagues for the city's association, Santa Clara County, where we went over like emergency response essentially.

Um, and then I went to the wagon wheel ice cream Social, which was partially paid for by our neighborhood grants, and they're very appreciative of that.

On the 18th, I went to the A-bag General Assembly, um, and then on the 20th, we had our Together in Pride event with these lovely t-shirts that are being modeled spectacularly by my two colleagues right next to me.

Um, and then we had a another ribbon cutting for the Breakfast Club, um, which is delicious.

We ate so much food.

RIP my diet.

And with that, um, thank you so much for joining us.

Um the council will enter summer recess.

So our next council meeting will be held on August 25th, 2026.

And this meeting is adjourned at 11 05, and we are halfway through my mayor administration.