The Rules and Open Government Committee met on August 27, 2025, to review the agenda for the September 9th council meeting and discuss two committee memos. The session included public comments and focused on procedural updates and a proposal for equitable investment in East San Jose.
And we're going to call the um August 27th meeting of the rules and open government committee to order. Let's start with roll call. Candelas. Here. Duan. Foley. Here. Camille? Here. Cohen. Here. We have a quorum. Great. We are going to start by reviewing the agenda for the September 9th council meeting. Called for a 9 30 closed session and a 1.30 regular session. We're going to have some meditation for our uh we can get calm. All right, great. Looking forward to that. Consent starts on page four. Continues on pages five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven. And then in section three, we have our procurement audit report. And a report on request RFP for banking lockbox and merchant card and investment custodial services. Section four, a response to the grand jury report on our um fire department culture. Section five, fourth amendment to the Zanker 101 VTA project. 5.2 Transportation Development Fund with Affordable Housing Project. Section 6 Electrification Workforce Development, Existing Single Family Building Reach Code, and the San Jose Muni Waters Public Health Goals Report. Do you have any public comment? No public comment. Alright, so we'll come back to the committee. Any move approval? Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor. Well, let's vote. All right, motion carries five-zero. And now we're on to our consent calendar. We have two items on consent today. Is there any public comment? No public comment. Alright, back to the committee. Move approval is consent. Second. All right. Let's vote. All right. That motion carries five zero. And now we have two memos, rules committee reviews. The first is a memo written by myself and Vice Mayor Foley modifying the gift limit code, increasing the gift limit from $50 to $200. We had a discussion as a council about a year ago about increasing the gift limit up to what was a much higher level that would have been the state level, about 400 something dollars. I forget the exact amount.