The San Jose City Council met on May 13, 2025, for a regular session that included a public hearing on the proposed 2025-2026 operating and capital budgets, acceptance of a code enforcement operational assessment, updates on the Berryessa Flea Market redevelopment, approvals of multifamily housing incentive program amendments and loan commitments, and a street renaming to "Sharks Way." The meeting began with ceremonial items recognizing Hepatitis B Awareness Week (May 18-25), the May Day Coalition, and Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The consent calendar was approved unanimously, including a settlement with Calpine Energy Solutions ($900,000 credit), employee health services vendor agreements (up to $8.7 million combined), a T-Mobile macro cell site permitting agreement, acceptance of $3.654 million in federal One Bay Area Grant funds for bikeway projects, and various boards and commissions appointments.
All right, good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. I would like to call to order this meeting of the San Jose City Council for the afternoon of May thirteenth. Tony, would you please call the role? Campos. Present, Salas. Here. Cohen. Here. Ortiz. Present. Okay, hear. Duan. Here. Candelas. Here. Casey. Holy. Here. Mayhem. Here. You have a corn. Thank you. Now, if you're able, please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. We are now on to our invocation, which will be provided today by the Green Sound, and Councilmember Ortiz will tell us more. Thank you, Mayor. Today's invocation will be delivered by the Green Sound, a youth-led Vietnamese American band melding modern sounds with Vietnamese tradition. Sisters Anna and Linda Nguyen, who are trained in both ballet and Vietnamese folk dance. Oh not yet, guys. Now I'd like to invite Green Sound to please start us off. Thank you. That was beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us as we start our city council meeting. We are and again, that was the green sound. Thank you again. We are moving on to our ceremonial items. Councilmember Kameh and Councilman Duan, if you would join me at the podium, we will recognize and proclaim May eighteenth through twenty-fifth is Hepatitis B awareness week. Today we recognize May eighteenth to twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty-five as Hepatitis B Awareness Week. This observance reminds us of the importance of education, testing, and prevention in the fight against hepatitis B. I want to take a moment to thank the students of the Archbishop Mitty High School who through Team HBV San Jose have shown real leadership by bringing forth this proclamation. As hepatitis B continue to have its significant impact on the AAPI community. It's in fact one in ten Asian and Pacific Islanders, often without early symptoms. The good news is that simple blood tests can detect it and vaccination offer reliable prevention. Today we acknowledge both challenges and the tools we have to address them, address them. Thanks to the leadership of our student and the engagement of our broader community, and we continue to work towards healthier future. I want to thank you to Councilmember Kamei and Mayor, would you please present the proclamation prior after this young gentleman would like to make a little speech? Please come on up the case. And uh on behalf of the ALC and Team HPV San Jose, uh I'd like to thank uh Mayor Mahan, uh Councilmembers Doan and Councilmember uh Kamei, and the rest of the City Council uh for proclaiming May 18th through 25th as hepatitis B awareness week here in the city of San Jose. Uh hepatitis B is a contagious liver infection that disproportionately affects Asian and Pacific Islander communities, often without symptoms until it's too late. In the US alone, 1.2 million are living with chronic HPV, and two out of three are unaware of their deadly infection. Yet it's preventable through vaccination and early screening, which is why awareness is so important in our community and why this proclamation matters.