Alright, good afternoon.

Welcome everyone.

I'd like to call to order this meeting of the San Jose City Council for the afternoon of September 23rd.

Tony, would you please call the role?

Sorry, Kamei.

Campos.

Tordillos.

Cohen.

Ortiz.

Present.

Mulcahi.

Here.

Duan.

Here.

Kendellas.

Here.

Casey.

Foley.

Here.

Mayhem.

Here.

Kimmy?

Kiva Quorum.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Now, if you're able, please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Hi.

Congratulations.

United States of America.

And to the Republic, which is one nation, under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Today's invitation will be provided by Robert Davis, Vice President of Community Relations for the San Jose Earthquakes, and Councilmember Candeles will tell us more.

Thank you, Mayor.

It is my pleasure to introduce today's invocation speaker, Robert Davis of the San Jose Earthquakes.

Robert brings an extensive background to the work that he does in our community.

He started working with the San Francisco Giants and throughout the years continue to work in various roles with the Sacramento River Cats, Oakland Raiders, now Las Vegas Raiders, and San Diego Padres.

Now we're fortunate to have him bring his talent and charm to the San Jose Earthquakes.

Robert and I share the same passion for sports and the belief that engaging our youth through recreation programming is an invaluable investment.

We agree that sports like soccer or football have the innate ability to connect communities and transcend borders and language barriers.

The program offered over 225 middle and high school students a safe, supportive, and empowering space through free futsal games in partnership with our San Jose police officers.

We also offered mental health resources and it proved what uh a collaboration uh looks like, where we uh both serve our youth and our families uh in a strong public-private partnership.

Um I want to thank Robert and the San Jose Earthquakes uh for creating change in our community through sport.

Um now uh please join me in welcoming Robert uh as he leads us in today's invocation.

Robert, welcome.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Hello everyone.

Uh good afternoon.

Uh thank you, council member, mayor, um, council members, staff members, and members of the community.

Uh as a council member Shared, my name is Robert Davis, and I serve as the VP of community relations for the Quakes, and also lead our Quakes Foundation.

Uh firstly, definitely wanted to say thank you so much to the council member uh for the work that him, uh Teddy, Carolina, and Haley for your dedication for the work that you do in District 8 and for supporting Saturday Night Lights, which we like to call SNL, and for giving me the chance to speak with you today on behalf of the foundation.

I'll be quick.

Uh our foundation focuses on improving youth, health, and fitness, and fighting food insecurity, especially in communities where the need meets the love of soccer.

Earlier this year, we piloted Saturday Night Lights presented by Calhope to advance these goals.

On April 11th, in partnership with an incredible group of organizations and individuals, including the City of San Jose, Santa Clara County, Catholic Charities, Leva Middle School, Evergreen Elementary School District, the San Jose Police Department, see up there, Chief, and the District Attorney's Office, and many, many more.

We launched the pilot at Labo Middle School and Washington United Youth Center.

For 10 weeks, youth came together for free Friday and Saturday evening futsal, meals, and mentorship.

Coaches Leno and Coaches Isaac led the sessions, and each week the same four police officers at each site led coaching, playing alongside the kids, and building trust.

Critical work.

What made the program truly special was a collaboration behind it.

More than 20 partners came together to make it happen, bringing energy, expertise, and heart from across San Jose.

It's been inspiring to see leaders, many of whom grew up in these very same neighborhoods, giving back to their own communities.

The results truly speak for themselves.

As a council member mentioned, over 225 youth had an opportunity to play.

At Leva, we saw an increase of 30% in attendance for youth who were involved throughout the course of the 10 weeks.

Those same youth had zero disciplinary incidents during that time, and 100% of eighth graders who participated ended up getting promoted.

At Wash, one young participant said, I used to be scared of the cops.

Now I talk to them like they're regular people.

A parent told us this program helped my child see police differently, not as a threat, but as mentors.

With the World Cup kicking off here in market, just 263 days away.

It's coming soon.

We have a unique opportunity and indeed I would say a responsibility to grow this work.

In San Jose, as many of you know, evening futsal isn't just a game, it's a tradition that brings families together and it brings neighborhoods together as well.

And it creates positive spaces for our youth.

Together with our partners and as a city, we plan to expand Saturday Night Lights at our current locations and leverage the excitement of the World Cup to reach even more neighborhoods this year.

As Quake's legends and Quakes Foundation leader Shay Salinas likes to say, a soccer ball can change a life.

And Saturday Night Lights is proof of that.

So let's keep this work going.

Let's keep building community, and let's keep giving our youth every opportunity to thrive.

Thank you.

Thank you, Robert, really appreciate that invitation.

Thank you, Councilmember Condelas for arranging today's invocation.

I'll just say I've seen Robert out in many of our districts doing important work with our youth, and I'm grateful to you, Robert, and our Quakes for how engaged you are in the community.

So thank you once again.

Let's move on to our ceremonial items.

We'll start with Vice Mayor Foley.

If you would join me at the podium, we will recognize Dan Roy.

Today I'm honored to recognize Dan Roy on behalf of the San Jose City Council.

Over the last two decades, our city has been incredibly fortunate to benefit from Dan's dedication as a volunteer City Hall docent.

Dan began serving as City Hall docent in 2005 with his late wife Harriet, welcoming employees to their new building and guiding visitors during the opening of the City Hall that we know today.

Together they devoted countless hours to greeting guests at council meetings, sharing vast knowledge, and answering questions with warmth and care.

Dan's tours always filled with laughter, curiosity, and fascinating stories, have helped thousands connect with San Jose's civic spaces and rich history.

Just this past July, he led a group of District 9 summer campers through City Hall, which would become his final tour before announcing his retirement at the conclusion of the tour.

My staff had the pleasure of following along that day and witnessed Dan sharing details about City Hall that even they and likely I and probably all of us never really knew.

He pointed out the building's beautiful architecture and guided them to the 18th floor, offering a breathtaking panoramic view of San Jose.

The tour concluded here in Council Chambers, where Dan spoke about the city's history and the importance of the mayor and council, though not before a stop at the Janet Gray Hayes Rotunda, where the group joyfully tested the echo of their voices with a moment to yell at the top of their lungs.

They can just hear that, can't you?

I feel especially honored that my District 9 residents were Dan's final tour.

Dan, your passion, generosity, and dedication have touched countless lives.

The City of San Jose celebrates the remarkable example you have set in volunteerism and civic engagement.

Today we proudly mark the close of two decades of devoted volunteerism and celebrate your lasting mark on our community.

You have been a gem for our city, and we wish you all the very best.

And don't be a stranger.

We may need a tour guide.

Dan, we would you like to share a few words before Mayor Mahan presents you with this commendation?

And also I'd like to present you from my team a box of cookies from Gunther's their famous chocolate chip cookies.

Thank you very much.

I don't have a lot to say, just uh want to thank you.

It's been a wonderful experience.

Been through four mayors here at uh City Hall.

I've uh came in, we came in at the original uh opening of the City Hall.

My first tour was to the employees that came to this that were moving over from uh the previous city hall to this one.

So it's been a long ride, it's been a fun ride.

Had a good time.

I was first time in my career that uh I got to work with my wife as uh co-equals.

In fact, uh we had a team, and I was the captain of the team, and I knew I was the captain because as Admiral, she said I was.

So uh we we had a great time to go for it and uh we enjoyed it, and I've enjoyed watching the city grow and mature as we uh spent things so just want to thank everybody here and all the members back here at the council for uh doing such a wonderful job in our city.

So thank you very much.

Bye.

Thank you very much.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

All three sided forward.

Thank you very much, and thank you.

Oh, you're welcome.

Thanks, Scott.

You thought of it.

All right.

Now, uh, Councilmember Ortiz and Councilman Candelas.

If you would join me at the podium, we will recognize Damien Trujillo.

Damien, I think you get to come down too.

Sorry, Damien, no cookies, but uh we got we do recognize you today.

Today I have the honor of presenting a commendation to someone whose voice, work, and leadership have left a lasting mark on San Jose and the Bay Area, and that is Mr.

Damien Trujillo.

Since 1996, Damien has served as a journalist with MBC Bay Area and as a host and producer of Comunidad del Valle, the Bay Area's longest running public affairs program, now on Telemundo 48.

Through his storytelling, Damien has uplifted voices that too often go unheard.

Farm workers, immigrants, and underrepresented communities whose struggles and contributions deserve to be seen and valued.

Growing up in Greenfield and working in the agricultural fields with his family, Damien gained a deep understanding of the struggles and resilience of working families.

These experiences shaped his commitment to truth and representation, driving him to highlight stories that might otherwise go untold.

Over the course of his remarkable career, Damien has earned 18 Emmy nominations and countless awards for his powerful journalism.

And just this year, he was inducted into the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hall of Fame, a well-deserved recognition of his excellence and his role as a mentor and role model for future generations.

Therefore, it is my honor, alongside the mayor and city council to present a commendation to Mr.

Damien Trujillo in recognition of his visionary leadership and journalism and extraordinary service to our community.

Damien, thank you for using your platform to tell our stories, to advocate for equity, and to inspire all of us to see the value in every voice.

Congratulations and would you like to say a few words?

Thank you, Councilmember and the rest of the city council.

Mr.

Mayor, thank you very much.

What an uh honor.

I'm here joined by my wife Monica and uh my daughter Isela.

My two other children uh could not be here.

Uh they are there when I have to leave and uh to cover either a hurricane or an earthquake, uh, not knowing when I'll come home or not knowing if I'll come home.

So I appreciate the their support.

I I really didn't have an excuse not to make it in journalism because I was taught by the very best.

Uh Rigo Chacon was my mentor, took me under his wings, and then when I got to KNTV 29 years ago, they sat this cub reporter next to Doug and Maggie, and so I learned about integrity and honesty right from the get-go.

Um, and so I appreciate uh what they were able to do for me.

People sometimes ask what is the most memorable story.

One of them that always comes out is a story about Rosalinda Rivas.

She was a custodian at the uh old city hall, and then she became a custodian here.

And she, I did a story on her because she was sort of the ambassador to the city of San Jose.

Because every time you walked into City Hall, didn't matter who you were, there she was with a smile on her face, welcoming you into the house of San Joseans.

So I did a story on her, and unfortunately, we lost her a few years after they opened uh this city hall, and I found out later that on inside her locker at this city hall was uh a framed uh picture, autograph picture that I had given her.

And so she's very dear to my heart, uh, and that's one of my favorite stories.

Um, as we all know, the First Amendment is under attack right now.

Uh, if you will allow me, if the viewers will allow me, I will continue to uh represent this community and bring the news with honesty and integrity.

I thank you all so much.

I would be remiss to thank Councilmember uh Condellas uh for being here.

I know he is a personal family friend of Damien.

Wanted to mention that.

Hi, Rosa.

Okay, I think.

Congratulations.

Yeah, I think we're we're keeping council members Candelas and Ortiz here, and they have invited the entire council to come join us here at the podium as we recognize and proclaim September 15th through October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month.

So we'll welcome everybody down.

Awesome.

Well, yeah, uh my San Jose State folks.

Uh while while you come down, I just wanted to uh thank everybody.

Welcome, everybody.

Today uh we're gonna be recognizing September 15th through October 15th as Hispanic Heritage Month in our city of San Jose.

This is a time for us to reflect on the invaluable contributions of the Hispanic and Latino communities across the nation.

San Jose has been home to a rich history of cultures, and the Hispanic Latino uh communities play a central role in shaping the identity of our city.

From our local businesses to our schools, our community members are an integral part of what makes San Jose so special.

Throughout our city's history, our Hispanic and Latino residents have played a leading role in shaping our economy, culture, and education, and continues making significant contributions uh to this day.

At the heart of the thriving community are those who lead, inspire, and uplift others, leaders like Blanc Alvarado, Rose Amador, Ron Gonzalez, Pete Carrillo, and Victor Garza, all paved the way for generational change and served as a guiding force for many, including myself.

Um, as a first-generation Mexican American, I am proud to celebrate this month, and especially to a commitment to amplifying those voices, um, amplifying those voice voices where we can and create spaces where diversity is celebrated and embraced.

Nuestra comunidad siempre estarán unida, I am also honored to introduce Celante juntos, con orgullo y esperanza.

Our community Chicanex Latinx Student Success Center, who will share more about the significance of Hispanic Heritage month before the mayor presents the proclamation.

And Magdalena Barrera, Vice Provost of Faculty Success.

That being said, go Spartans and uh the microphone is yours.

Hello everyone, good afternoon.

My name is Selene Ramirez, and it is my honor to receive this proclamation on behalf of the Chica Nex Latinex Student Success Center, also known as Centro at San Jose State University.

As we come together in recognition of Latinx Heritage Month, observed from September 15 to October 15.

Centro is more than a physical space.

It is a home away from home.

It is a dedicated community learning space where students, students can study, build meaningful connections, engage in dialogue, and receive personal and academic support.

While it centers the experiences of our Chica Nex and Latinex students, all SJSU students are welcome to join and find belonging.

On behalf of Centro, I want to thank our students and colleagues for helping us create such a beautiful space, one that ensures every student feels seen, valued, and supported.

Together, we continue to celebrate and uplift the voices, cultures, and contributions of the Latinx community at SJSU and beyond.

Thank you, Councilmember Peter Ortiz and Domingo Candelas.

Thank you, everyone.

Now uh Mayor, uh, will you present the uh commendation?

Um and uh on behalf of all of our colleagues on the city council who are up here.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I think that I might have a thing.

And thank you.

Does anyone on the council have any changes to the printed agenda?

I'm not aware of any, so we will move on to the closed session report.

Nora.

Thank you, Mayor.

We do not have a report out of closed session.

Okay, thank you, Nora.

Next is the consent calendar.

Uh I'll ask colleagues for items they'd like to pull.

I am aware.

Thank you to colleagues for the advanced notes.

Uh Vice Mayor Foley would like to pull item 2.5, that's the city council travel report, and she'll offer a brief presentation on her recent trip, and then Councilmember Duan would like to pull item two point twelve for comment.

Maybe at that point, unless there are any other items at that point, we could take a motion on consent as a whole, unless anything else comes up, but I'll turn to the Vice Mayor first for her travel report.

Great, thank you so much.

I spent the last 10 days in Japan, both in Okayama, Japan, which is our sister city, and then in Izumizano City, which is in the Osaka Prefecture.

I went as a representative as a director with the Sister Cities International Program.

We held an international summit with over 50 countries represented and over 500 people in attendance.

The first part of my trip took me and my husband, and I should add this that this was not a taxpayer trip.

This was a personally funded trip.

It took my husband and I toyama to say greetings to the Okayama delegation who had visited us earlier in April.

I went as a representative of the mayor.

The mayor Omori greeted us very generously and spent time with us along with the city council in Okayama.

I got to learn a lot about how they run their city council business.

You'd be interested to know, mayor, that they have a strong mayor system, that the mayor actually appoints all of the staff and moves them around from department to department.

He has no involvement in the committee meetings, and in the in the council meetings that is run by the chairman.

Very interesting.

Sounds good to me.

But they have 45 council members, and uh, but they are part-time positions and uh they're all wonderfully and uh wonderful and gracious.

This was my fourth trip to Japan, my first trip as an official delegate.

So it was really a special opportunity to meet with Okayama.

I have a couple of videos that I want to show you, but first I want to say that our relationship with Okayama is a very long one.

We started in 1957.

The Sister City program was started by President Eisenhower in 1956.

Next year we celebrate our 70th anniversary, and in night and 2017, San Jose and Okayama celebrate their 70th 70th.

And they are looking forward to seeing a delegation from San Jose, including the mayor, they would love you to attend Mayor Mahan in 27 2017 when they have their uh 2027, I should say.

I'm jumping backwards.

2027, have their uh 70th anniversary.

They have a lot of activities planned for the delegation, and I'm sure they will be here in kind.

They are very generous, a very kind, a very respectful community.

It was just uh so much delight to be with the Japanese culture, and anyone who has an opportunity to visit Okayama, please let us know, and we'll introduce you to the department they have that handles the they have a whole department handling international uh affairs.

Can you imagine that?

A whole department, and and they're they're just incredibly gracious.

Um the other thing I want to mention is that I do have two videos.

The mayor omori, who is as busy as our mayor, was very gracious to offer us 30 minutes of time.

He spoke to us in English.

English is obviously not his first language, but he did beautifully with it.

And then he spoke to us in uh Japanese as well.

We had translators along the way, they thought of everything.

Timing was exquisite.

It just was the most wonderful, respectful, rewarding event.

I was able to present a letter on the behalf of the mayor, and a gift also on behalf of the mayor.

And I think I have two videos to present before I present a gift to the mayor.

You should know that in Japanese culture, gift giving is truly an art form.

It's very important that you give the gift, you acknowledge the gift, and a gift is is given in return.

So we made sure we had a lot of gift giving going on.

I want do want to thank the staff in Okayama, and I want to thank the staff here in City Hall, City Manager, uh Jen Baker, Blogge, who all helped with the gifts that I was able to bring over to Japan and present to the Japanese Okayama people.

So with that, let's see.

I think I have two videos.

One of the presentation to the mayor, and then one is a marketing piece that uh the department in Okayama put together.

Presentation to the mayor, and then one is a marketing piece.

No, other way around.

Okay.

This is the marketing piece.

We need to do something like this, Mayor.

Okayama City in Western Japan has a population of seven hundred and twenty thousand.

With excellent connections, this city center is just 30 minutes from the airport.

It's a key crossroads for the Shinkansen and expressways in all directions.

Its convenient location draws many businesses, as does the active support for startups and innovation.

The well-organized walkable city center is lined with diverse shops, a natural grass park, and a theater that's a cultural and artistic hub.

The city is full of people enjoying weekend events and other activities.

Okayama City is blessed with sunshine and a mild climate, and lies in one of Japan's least earthquake-from regions.

It's also among the top in Japan for hospitals per capita, with a high concentration of advanced medical facilities.

Comprehensive care ensures a safe and comfortable life for seniors.

While powerful daycare and kindergartens provide strong family support.

A triennial international art exhibition showcases Okayama's cultural scene.

Okayama City has also focused on the preservation and development of its heritage, such as Okayama Castle, once home to Samurai and Ninja, and Okayama Korakwin Garden, one of Japan's top three gardens.

The number of nationally designated historic sites is second only to Kyoto among Japan's large cities.

Okayama unites history, culture, and people, creating a vibrant hunt for sports and events.

Sports teams fill the city with energy and excitement.

The Okayama Marathon attracts runners from across the globe.

The Naked Man Festival, Sai Daiji Ao, and the dynamic festival of Uraja, with nearly 350,000 people.

Energy fuels new connections.

Well diversity drives growth.

Okayama continues to move forward, shaping the future.

The vibrant crossroads, Okayama City.

That video makes me smile because it reminds me how energetic and friendly and generous the people are of Okayama.

Do we have the next one?

The next one is a presentation to Mayor Omori of a gift kindly donated to us by the sharks.

He was thrilled to receive this shark's jersey.

And I should note that 57 is the year that San Jose Okeyama started its Sister City program, so that's the significance of the number.

The box that it came in from the sharks was a box with a uh video play out.

When you open the open the box, you could see the sharks perform in front of us.

It was vibrant, exciting, and lively, not captured in the video, but the mayor and his team were just so thrilled by that gift and by the generosity of San Jose when they were here in April, and they hope to reciprocate when we're there in a couple of years.

And I hope to tag along, even though I won't be a city council member.

And on that note, the mayor sent a gift for me to present to our mayor.

So, Mayor Mahan, on behalf of Mayor Omori, I present with you a gift of ceramics, which is famous in Okeyama.

Thank you.

This is beautiful.

Alright, I'll drink my coffee.

Can we get a picture so we can send it to Okeyama?

So they saw that I did my official duty.

Very important.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

Thanks for the travel report.

Well, thank you, Vice Mayor.

What a beautiful gift.

And I do hope we can return the favor in a couple of years.

You mentioned how long running this sister city relationship is, 1957.

A lot has changed since then, but you think about the state of the world at that time and how it's still is important today that we build these kinds of international relationships and promote common values and understanding across cultures.

So I appreciate how committed you've been to the sister city relationship, and I'm glad you were able to take the time to go uh take the trip and promote this cultural exchange.

So thank you for the travel report and the beautiful gift, and I'll be sure to write a handwritten thank you note back to the mayor.

Um so thank you for that.

I think we're gonna move to the second item that was polled.

Councilmember DeWan pulled item 2.12.

So I'll turn to him now.

Thank you, Mayor.

Today, my colleagues, Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember Compost, and Kamei and I present a resolution of support for assembly concurrent resolution 71.

Assembly concurrent resolution 71 proposed naming a portion of Highway 101 near Story Road to Little Saigon Freeway.

This is more than a name, it's a tribute to the resilient contribution and cultural heritage of one of the largest Vietnamese American community in the nation.

Little Saigon is a vital part of San Jose identity and economy.

And thank you, American Monument, honor their history and pursuit of American dreams.

I also like to take an opportunity to thank State Assemblyman Ashkara for bringing this ACR 71 to support our Vietnamese community.

Again, thank you so much, and I look to have your support.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Appreciate that.

Would you like to move that item along with the rest of the consent calendar?

Moved for approval of the consent calendar.

Second.

Great.

Thank you.

Now we'll turn to Councilmember Ortiz.

Thank you, Mayor.

I wanted to express, I also wanted to express my gratitude to Assemblymember Kalra for creating this resolution to name this segment of highway near the story road exit, little Saigon Freeway.

Also, want to like uh I'd like to thank my colleagues for their memo as well.

While this portion of the highway does not run through my district, I feel very strongly about supporting this item.

District 5 is home to one of the largest Vietnamese communities in San Jose, and I'm deeply proud to represent them.

Our Vietnamese residents in San Jose endured incredible hardships and demonstrated unparalleled resiliency in their efforts in building their homes and lives here in San Jose.

This action is more than just naming a highway, it is a powerful recognition of the perseverance, contributions, and lasting impact of our Vietnamese residents.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Appreciate uh both your comments, also very supportive, and think this is a great way to recognize the Vietnamese community here.

So we have a motion on the consent calendar as a whole from Councilmember Duan.

Anyone wishing to comment on any item on consent, including item 2.12, uh, will be able to do so, but I'll turn it over to Tony.

Yes, I have four cards.

Hong Kao, Tin Kao, Tian Wing, and Brian Darby.

Please all come forward.

Honorable mayor and council member.

My name is Hong Kau.

I'm a retired city employee, and also you know, I'm president of the A forty-five years for the last five years.

I'm so proud to be the citizen of San Jose because I saw you know the Shao Zay grow from the very uh small city until right now one of the best place to live.

And I appreciate for all your upform.

And today I come here to support for the HCR 71 because I see you know the community of Vietnamese committee and with the other committee, try very hard to build, you know, the uh very along the story road, and also they contribute a lot for the culture and uh you know the uh for the this country and with the support, your support, you know, the uh North California Shao Jose will try with the South California to have a section of the freeway 101 to name little Saigon.

This will be the landmark not only for Shaoze, but for all over the world, all the community, Vietnamese community over the world, because Shao Zay is a one of the racket, population of Vietnam Bobside of Vietnam.

I appreciate for your support and thank you very much.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good afternoon, mayor may and um the council members.

I would like to express my retitude to um council member Kamei and Kempo along with um district seven council member Bienduan for adopt a resolution of support for ACR 71 authored by Assemblymember Askar to designate a test of um 101 in Santa Clara County to be named Little Shagon.

This name is have a lot of meaning to us.

It's a powerful symbol of our identity, control, heritage, and our contribution to California in particular, and to the USA in general.

So I would like to urge all the council to vote in favor of this proposal.

In order to do that.

You show your understanding in Sally De Shall Dari with uh our Vietnamese community members.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, next speaker.

Yes, my name is Tianguin.

Chairman Mat Mahan, Council Member.

And uh and uh Vice Mayor Pampholi, you know, and we understand that I live in Tokyo for 14th year.

That's why, you know, it's so impressive for me.

Thank you so much.

In the Japanese people say Natsuka.

Natsuka.

Okay, uh, very simple.

I am totally okay with Council Member being done.

Council Member Autos about uh ACR 71 um simply man askara who want to name a portion uh what highway one oh one story rot to uh the saiwan freeway.

Lit the sidewalkway, yes.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Hello, um I just wanted to uh bring up on the consent calendar the uh disability awareness um day that's coming on October 30th, which is a Tuesday, I'm sorry, a Thursday.

And I would like I'm not sure if it's included in the agenda for them, but uh how AI supports people with disabilities, um environmental controls, communication systems, uh being able to write advocacy letters for yourself and express yourself in a more systematic way, and uh artificial intelligence helps that happen.

I've worked with people with disabilities for uh almost 45 years now, and would like to um say that it's sure a long way from boards uh that you point at the communication system.

Uh one lady um who's uh passed on, but I worked with she had four different languages on this wooden board, and that's what she used to communicate.

Um we tried getting all the high text up, but no, she liked that board.

And um, as we go into the newer generations, hopefully um we'll continue to provide these services to people with disabilities because it doesn't look like that's gonna continue.

I don't know how much you can advocate for the federal um cuts that are happening, but it it it will get worse, and some programs are cutting as much as 90%, and I don't know how programs survive without cut.

Thank you.

Back to council.

All right, thank you.

I don't see any other hands up, so I think we're ready to vote on consent.

Motion passes unanimously.

That's okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

We're on to land use consent.

This is item 10.1A.

Turn to colleagues, see if we have a motion.

Second, great, thank you.

Tony, do we have public comment?

I have no cards for this item.

Okay, coming back to the council.

I don't see any hands.

Let's vote.

Can you vote verbally?

It oh, I'm just having a glitch, currently it went through.

My screen wasn't showing it went through, but I guess it did.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you, Tony.

Let's move on to item 3.1, report of the city manager.

No report.

Thank you, Assistant City Manager Lee Wilcox.

Let's go on to item 3.3 status of open audit recommendations, and we will have a staff presentation.

I see our city auditor Joe Royce coming down, and we'll let him get settled in.

Good afternoon, Council.

I'm Joe Royce City Auditor.

I'm here with Michelle Millari from our office to present our report on the status of open auto recommendations as of June 30th, 2025.

The city auditor's primary responsibility under the city charter is conducting performance audits.

They include recommendations to correct deficiencies, strengthen accountability, improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of city programs.

Over the past 10 years, our office has issued nearly 100 audit reports with six hundred and fifty auto recommendations covering many aspects of city operations.

We monitor progress toward implementing recommendations for past performance audits and provide regular reports on the status of those recommendations.

This report shows progress on 151 auto recommendations.

This does not include audits brought to you in recent months, such as the audits of cost of special events, access and use of traffic safety programs by traditionally marginalized communities or procurement.

Those will be included in our next status update.

Since our last report, 42 auto recommendations were implemented or closed, and we'll be carrying over 109 open auto recommendations to the next cycle.

I want to point out this is the fewest recommendations we'll be carrying forward across cycles that we've seen in more than a decade, so a lot of work has been done by the administration over the years.

As noted earlier, we've made about 650 recommendations over the past 10 years.

Of those, 85% have been implemented or closed, which is above our target of 80%.

To get a sense of the breadth of departments of work to implement recommendations from past audits, we want to highlight a handful.

The finance department worked with the city's outside financial auditors and the city's development partners to determine the proper accounting treatment of development fee revenues, and also updated the city's encumbrance policy and created additional guidance for staff to better manage encumbrances moving forward.

The police department finalized a community engagement plan and established a team within the crime prevention unit to coordinate its community engagement activities.

Department also updated its duty manual to clarify responsibilities around gun violence restraining orders.

The Department of Transportation developed new performance measures to assess progress on tree planting goals, including resident ratings of street trees and other metrics.

And the city manager's office of communications language access manager began site visits of city facilities and also developed standard operating procedures for monitoring language accessibility and created new trainings and made other resources available for city staff to support the city's language access and equity efforts.

A few more I want to highlight.

Public works animal care and services division implemented multiple recommendations from our 2024 audit of the animal care and services, including formalizing protocols for different aspects of operations, such as pathway planning for incoming animals, better tracking foster animals, communications, and licensing.

Parks Recreation Aboriginal Services, or PRNS, created a tool to compare beautify SJ blight reduction beautification service delivery to the Healthy Places Index to support equitable service delivery moving forward.

And lastly, in the area of open government, the administration clarified guidelines around disclosures of public subsidies and updated city policies around the retention and disposition of electronic records.

The list that I've just run through gives you both a sense of the variety and breadth of our work over the years as well as the continued progress departments are making to improve the city's system of internal controls over important programs and services.

In 2018, the city council directed the city manager to identify and prioritize work on 12 outstanding auto recommendations.

I'm going to quickly run through the current 12 priority recommendations.

The three in the area of potential budgetary savings of revenue generation include improving overtime controls in the police department, since our audit of police staffing expenditures and workload in 2021.

The department implemented new controls over discretionary overtime, has required captains to submit quarterly overtime reports, created a dashboard for supervisors to review overtime details, and more recently required the chief's approval for certain types of overtime.

Despite overtime continuing to rise, these actions met the intent of the recommendation, thus we're considering it implemented.

Adding community service officers to address lower priority police calls.

Since that same audit that I just mentioned, the police department reduced supervisory positions or CSO supervisor positions to deploy all CSOs out in the field.

They also began a pilot to align CSO and patrol schedules.

Again, these actions met the intent to deploy additional CSOs out in the field, and we consider this one implemented.

Next one was outreach on the massage ordinance and notifying massage businesses when their permits are about to expire.

Co-enforcement reviewed business tax data and massage therapy council records to create a roster of potential businesses.

Code in the police department have implemented an outreach strategy, and through the police department's new permitting software, there are improvements to the permitting and renewal processes.

So this one as well is considered implemented.

The three recommendations there are operational efficiency include identifying vacant lands within the city's real estate portfolio and reporting on their intended use, finalizing and publishing guidelines about the city's sequel requirements and process from environmental consultants, and contracting with outside service providers for spay and user services.

Progress continues to be made on each of those three to varying degrees.

Developing citywide administrative guidelines for procedures for managing federal grants.

Covering various aspects of managing federal dollars, it's currently available on the finance's internet site, updating the emergency operations plan to ensure segregation of duties and formalizing procurement tools.

The Office of Emergency Management updated the EOP or emergency operations plan to reassign staff to segregate incompatible duties, and finance has finalized a cost recovery document for future emergency operations.

Lastly, improving the accuracy and usefulness of reporting tools for encumbrances.

The three priorities in the area of improved service delivery include increased language translations of vital documents and include language translation options and SJ permits.org website.

Updating the San Jose Animal Care Center's care and services manual to align with association of shelter veterinarian guidelines, and incorporating all languages spoken by 5% or more of the population into the SJ 311 website and mobile application.

Those three recommendations are also in varying stages of implementation.

More information about all open audit recommendations is available in the appendices of our report and online in our interactive dashboards, which you can find on which are shown in the slide, as well as you can find them on our website.

With that, I'd like to thank all the city departments for their efforts to implement audit recommendations and for their assistance in compiling the report.

I'd also like to thank all of my staff for working with the various departments to document and verify information in the report and particularly the status of all the open audio recommendations.

Happy to answer any questions, and then I ask you to accept the report.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you, Joe.

Appreciate that.

Tony, do we have a public comment?

Brian, come on down.

One of the emails I write, believe it, I go to the website for the president and I put my uh information in there.

I'm absolutely convinced he doesn't read it.

Um but you do the best you can to exercise your rights.

I was concerned about Dodge and still am, even though that uh circus is bowed down a little bit.

And I suggested if he hired a bunch of auditors and actuarials and accountants who are aggressive, he could cut off a lot more without damaging any programs.

And of course, that doesn't it's not very showy.

Being an auditor isn't really uh if nobody wants to hear from you, at least at least the city here people do want to hear from the auditor.

That's not that's pretty rare.

I've been to a lot of meetings and auditors are not liked, because they tell the truth, and I think that should be something that we should celebrate, and uh sometimes doing the right thing it's not welcomed, it's not celebrated, but it's definitely necessary, and I just wanted to bring that up.

Thank you.

Back to council.

Great.

Thank you, Tony.

You're a public speaker.

Going back to the council.

We'll start with Council Martin.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you for the um report.

I just have a couple of questions.

On page number six is identify all vacant lands within the city real estate portfolio and report on that land and their intended news annually.

The target date is uh February of 2026.

Will there be an update on the singleton property at this time?

So I I don't know about the specific property.

So at the time of the audit when we did the real estate audit, they did not have a good database of all the city's lands and the implemented a database software which they will track it, and this report out is alignment with uh report out to C D and Kevin's coming down and talk about singleton's property though.

Good afternoon, Council.

Uh Kevin Ice Director of Real Estate.

So that date is uh when the annual real estate services update will go to the CED committee, and yes, it will include an update on singleton.

Well, thank you so much, and thank you for coming down.

I have uh my last question will go towards uh our director Matt Lesh.

Councilmember, do you want to start asking your question?

Sure, as you're coming down.

It comes down, yeah.

With the target date around the corner for SPAY and neuter outside of our network, is the ACS on track for the December goal?

Council member, yes, Mattlash Director of Public Works.

We are on target to hit all 39 of the recommendations in our audit for 2024.

So we'll be hitting, we're on target for all 39 of the recommendations, including that one.

Well, that exciting to hear that you hit all 39 recommendations.

That's incredible.

And maybe just a quick question.

Um we in the process of hiring a new manager for the ACS.

Yes, the recruitment is ongoing for the deputy director position that is over ACS, yes.

And do you know when we'll be able to possibly finalize that?

Hopefully shortly.

Shortly as to months?

Yes.

With that, so again, I can't predict how the future on these things.

The percu the recruitment is ongoing.

We hope in the next month or so we have an announcement of the position being filled.

Perfect.

Thank you so much, and uh thank you for your hard work.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Let me turn now to Councilmember Kamet.

Um I'd like to thank the auditor and the team for always doing a great job here.

I want to say I particularly like both appendix A and B.

I could always go to it at a glance, and uh if I want to go to the detail, I go to B.

But I I want to highlight your inner interactive dashboard of recommendations.

I really, really like that.

Uh, I you know, make it available and let people know about it in case they're interested.

Uh so I just want to say thank you for your good work.

I know that we never want to see uh any red in there, but um it's it's at least progress towards completion, getting it going, and you know, I'd like to thank the departments because there's a lot of work that's involved in getting these done, and uh so I just want to uh go ahead and uh accept the report.

Second.

Great.

Thank you, council member.

Let me turn now to Vice Mayor.

Thank you.

I too just want to thank you, Joe, and your department for always coming forward with a really honest, thoughtful report.

I like to see the open audit report because it shows all the successes that we've had over the years and the areas that we still are working on, and and I know there's some like overtime and things that are continuing to be looked at, but I I like this sort of semi-annual check-in to see where we are.

Uh I already asked you my question uh yesterday, I guess it was, of what keeps you awake at night.

So I'm gonna ask you publicly what keeps you awake at night as it relates to this.

So that is a really good question.

The I would I would say that no specific recommendations, it's generally just kind of the the scope of the work and overall risk to the city's overall internal control structure or in system in the context of multi-year budget deficits.

It's um uh internal controls at their most basic level are just uh systems we put in place to make sure things are working as intended.

You know, these are uh and you know the most you know standard operating procedures.

What sort of systems do we have in place for to attract uh talented individuals to come work with us?

How do we train them up?

How do we supervise them?

What sort of quality control systems do we have in place?

What sort of data systems do we have in place to track and monitor and report out on service delivery?

And uh I know departments take internal control seriously, that's why we saw so many things implemented.

You know, the if I just think think back what I described earlier, the you know, updating the duty manual to clarify responsibilities around gun violence restraining orders, that's uh enhancement of the internal control system, um, updating the encumbrance policy, developing performance measures around tree plantings.

You know, those are all aspects of the internal control structure that's been that have been improved.

But when there are stress, when there's multi multi-year budget deficits, I get concerned that internal controls become nice to have, become deprioritized, and what does that mean uh down the road in terms of are we going to be able to meet our uh our um our goals?

Are we gonna be able to protect assets the way we like to?

So, at a high level, that's what what I'm concerned about right now.

Um I'm I wouldn't point to the administration or any departments that they don't take it seriously, but I also know when there's uh lots of when there are budget deficits, tradeoffs have to be made.

And so I just uh ask that you all keep that in mind as you're as we move into budget season in the fall and then in the spring about what those trade-offs mean from an internal control standpoint.

I I appreciate that, and and I think we at council often see opportunities for addition to add to add additional work, but that results in additional time and takes away some of the efficiencies that already occur in various departments.

So we need to be very aware where when we're adding things to PBCE, for instance, that we are aware of the manpower that they have who can handle actually handle the work, and then are certain processes going away because they of the expeditious nature of the activity, whatever it is.

So I think we just need to go eyes wide open and and I appreciate your your honest response to that.

I also want to give a shout out to you, Joe.

He presented uh we had a I had a joint meeting with council member Casey where Joe presented uh his information about uh what the auditor does, and uh we had it was a well-attended audience and a lot of good questions, and he's coming again to my district nine leadership group in a couple of weeks.

So if you're looking for speakers for any town halls or any events, fellow council members, consider uh our auditor.

He has a lot of good information, and people like to hear what he has to say.

They really trust that he's he's an independent auditor and they uh trust what he has to say.

So thank you very much for your report.

Thanks for that, Vice Mayor.

Uh I just want to add the thanks uh, Joe, to you and your team for the report, but also to our city departments for diligently implementing many recommendations.

I just wanted to flag that we're down to uh from 145 to 109 recommendations, as I think Joe mentioned, 85 of which are partially completed.

So I understand that this is the fewest open recommendations in over a decade, and that is I think a tribute to the value of focus.

We're trying to do fewer things, focus on the most important and foundational matters that really affect quality of life, safety, our basic responsibilities for all of our residents.

And I think staff has done a really nice job of following through on uh the open recommendations in those focus areas, and I think our auditor has been even more focused on those highest priority areas that the council's given guidance on.

So I I think there's real value in that.

One of our areas of focus is building more housing, and I do just want to flag, and maybe do we have Chris here?

We have Chu.

Alright, Chu, let me pick on you for a second.

If Chris isn't here, just kidding.

Um there's a lot of change around CEQA.

So I guess I wanted to flag of the priority areas, priority recommendations.

One of the few that is still read relates to CEQA.

I think in total we have eight recommendations for CEQA process improvements, and then we have some, I think positive change out of Sacramento with some additional stream streamlining related to in fill development.

So can you just give us an update if I'm sorry to put you on the spot, but just a little bit on the state of play around Sequa and what it means for these open recommendations?

I'll also note in our budget message in both March and June, we spoke pretty extensively about the need to continue to simplify and streamline the application of CQA, particularly when it comes to housing.

So if you don't mind just giving us a little bit of an update.

One part is trying to sort out what is exempt, what is not exempt.

And same time we had a couple of meetings with all the developer round table, just like last month, when we listen to their feedback.

One is we know what we do, and one we want to explain to the developer in that community what the CQA today means differently.

What requirement maybe still require in our planning process, even with or without the CQA.

So we are still in the process of sorting that out.

And same time working with the developer, the community to listen to their feedback.

Some part of the feedback to us is since the CQA is exam certain areas while you are still required in the planning process.

So we we are working with them, like you said, is streamlined the process as much as we can.

One way is meet the state requirement, same time explaining that to the uh community, whoever developer proposed a project.

You might see a lot of the every memo we present to the council at the end is always the sequel, that's element, right?

So we always want to explain that to the developer to let them know you don't need to go through the sequa now, or why you still need to go through the sequel process.

So that's what we are working on right now.

Certainly the goal is make us faster and as simple as possible.

Yes.

Yeah, that sounds like a good goal to me.

And are you saying that we, even though it's state law and the governor signed it, we're still not clear on where it applies.

What's the can you help us understand how quickly we can get that clarity?

The state law on the sequa, we believe is clear what we should follow.

I think the not clear for some area to the developer is even without a sequel, certain process, either that's a traffic or different thing, we still will require based on our own zoning code requirement.

So that's when we need to clarify with developer.

Yes, we understand the CIQA, that process is no longer needed, but in the city process, there's still certain requirements we have to go through to see the impact.

So hopefully we can align with the state requirement, or we come up with good reason why in our approval process still require analyzing certain element, regardless of CQA exam or not exam.

Yeah, I'm sure we'll all be interested to learn more about that.

I mean, my personal inclination would be to try to align with the state's efforts to streamline and that we should really lean that direction.

But of course, what I could understand staff sharing with the council areas where you all feel it's really important for us to uh continue to study certain impacts.

Um, what would be the rough timeline for us to get clarity given this big change in state law?

Actually, just this Thursday, we'll have another round table meeting with developer.

We'll have a presentation again.

We will utilize every chance we have to clarify with the developer internally.

We do have our goal, like Mayor, you mentioned, regardless, SQL require or not.

Even we require, we want to think go faster.

Otherwise, it makes no sense.

If SQL requires certain process, we still require, but we don't, we're not able to go faster, it doesn't make any sense.

So we'll understand that piece.

So we want to work on this.

Even we still require certain elements to analyzing it, how we can make it go faster.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

Um, I guess my last two questions on this, and I'll I'll pause after this topic.

I can take some of my other questions offline.

One is you're mentioning the developer round table.

It also seems to me from experience that having the buy-in of the city attorney and her team is helpful here.

So I know to put you on the spot.

Um it's often the lawyers who you know mess everything up and make it go slower.

Just kidding.

So are you also coordinating and making sure we have real clarity between the PBCE team and our city attorney's office on what our minimum requirements are definitely the state law?

Yeah, we we work with the attorney office pretty close on that.

And mayor, I think part of the information that's needed often is to um provide the legal uh basis for fees.

So we can't just pull fees out of thin air, and sometimes there's information needed for for the fees that uh accompany development.

Okay, and then final question is just at what point would the council get an update on the progress to streamline CQA and particularly implement or align with this new state law.

Is that something that would go to CED or sorry?

Uh yeah, that will be one form, or we can do an inform memo to the council to go go through the process.

Yes, okay.

I guess I just suggest, and I'll I'll kind of leave this open to staff to um to city manager and staff to decide, but given the amount of direction and recent budget messages and now the state law that we need to comply with and the open recs, I think at some point, whether it's for CED or an info memo or whatever you all see is most appropriate and what the right timing is.

I think it would be good to know where we are in our efforts to we talk about streamlined CEQA, we've been saying that for years.

I'd like to know specifically what are the changes we're making, and what are the changes we're choosing not to make, and are there discretionary policy decisions there that the council may want to weigh in on?

Well, do thank you.

Okay, okay, great.

I'm seeing persistency manager nod as well.

Thank you, Chu.

Appreciate your time.

Thank you.

Okay, we have a motion on the floor.

I don't see any other hands up, so why don't we move to a vote?

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, thank you all very much.

Have a great afternoon.

We're on to item 6.1 stormwater management annual report 2024-2025.

We also have a staff presentation, so we'll give folks a moment to transition.

Ready?

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

My name is Jeff Provenzano, director of the environmental services department, and today's item is an update on our annual stormwater permit.

Uh, this is a repermit we're required to bring back to council every year before we submit it to the water board.

Um, and this is backward looking.

This is for last fiscal year.

We'll go through some numbers here in the report.

Um, there are more recent numbers, but uh but as we go uh forward, uh any questions that you have, we'll be more than happy to address them as we're doing the presentation.

With me today is Regnay Nair, deputy director for the environmental services department, Jennifer Seguin, Deputy Director for Transportation, Olympia Williams, Deputy Director for Parks Recreation Neighborhood Services, and of course, Deputy Director Matthew Newin with the Department of Public Works.

With that, I'll kick it over to you, Regini.

Thanks, Jeff.

Good afternoon, Mayor.

Members of the uh council and public, my name is Regny Nair, Deputy Director of Environmental Services.

I'm here with my colleagues to provide the update on the stormwater permit.

Um next slide.

Let's see, all right.

Okay.

Whoops.

So just a quick overview of today's presentation, as Jeff mentioned.

This is uh looking back at fiscal year 24-25, and we'll be just focused on uh our accomplishments and what are some of the next steps that we'll be doing for this fiscal year.

Just a quick reminder the stormwater permit adheres to the Federal Clean Water Act that essentially states the prohibition of any pollutant discharge into the waters of the United States.

Also, as you may recall, the stormwater permit became effective as of July 1st, 2022 and covers 22 provisions that involves almost half of the city departments as listed above.

We're now in year three of this five year stormwater permit, which will expire in June of 2027.

Um so for today's presentation, we're just gonna focus on what's highlighted in um the key provisions that are identified in the red rectangular box.

Uh so I'll start off with Jennifer.

Thank you, Reginy.

Jennifer Sagan, Deputy Director, Department of Transportation.

I'm gonna cover the C3 provision, which is uh green stormwater infrastructure for new and redevelopment.

And the goal there is to ensure that new development um treats their stormwater on site before it runs off into the storm drain system.

And we have a really exciting accomplishment in the FY 2024 25, um, and that's the completion of the Riverview Stormwater Garden Regional Stormwater Capture Project.

Um some of you were there for the ribbon cutting, I remember.

Um it's uh a very large regional project which is unusual and uh was given the outstanding stormwater capture and use implementation project by the California Stormwater Quality Association.

Um during the year, the city approved permits for 45 GSI projects.

Um 41 of them were public and four uh private and four were public.

Um the team inspected 24% of the total inventory of 655 projects, um which is uh exceeding the 20% minimum per year that we need to inspect.

Um future regional GSI projects and anticipated design will begin in early uh this year, it's already begun with construction completed for one project in the fall of 2027.

And I will pass it to Olympia.

Matthew.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council members.

I'm Matthew Muyn, Public Works Deputy Director, oversee the CIP program in the CD.

Uh I'll talk about a provision C 10.

Um provision C 10 focus on the trust load reduction.

Um essentially, it means we have to capture and uh take care of all of the trust before it's reaching the surrounding water body.

And out of all of the provisions that um Reginy mentioned, this is one of the most stringent uh provision because we have a timeline to meet, which is by the end of this year, we have to capture 100% of the trash load uh coming to the surrounding water.

So this program requires a lot of other programs to support.

Um the first program that we implement is the Puntras Capture device.

Um so far we install a total of 36 uh large trash capture in the city.

And in the last fiscal year, we also install about 4062 small trust capture device in last fiscal year alone.

So you can see these device on the right hand side of the slide.

Another program that we use is the private land trainers program.

And so a total of about 2,040 partial has to be an assessed.

And fortunately, only 234 of those need to comply.

And yes, working with those properties to make sure that they'll be in compliance.

Another program that we are implementing is the online visual trust assessment program, also known as as OVTA, which focus on the citywide program, such as public trust, uh leader cans, neighborhood neighborhood leader, street sweeping, etc., so that we can address the trust in the curve and go to and roadways before it reached the water body.

These programs are critical to help the city to meet and maintain the 100% compliance.

A new program will also be added to the OVTA program.

It's called Adopt a Storm Train, which was inspired by District One and now has been expanded to citywide.

So under this program, we'll engage the community and bringing more awareness about protecting our storm system and preventing trust from entering into the surrounding water body.

So in the next few days, a few months, sorry, we'll continue to install small trust capture in the city.

We'll also bring back and bid the two locations where we are supposed to have some trust capture device.

And then we'll continue to enforce the 234 private partials that's connect to the stormwater system.

And so, in summary, the city currently is at 97.7% compliance without any offset.

And our goal is to achieve the 100% compliance by the end of this year.

With that, I'll pass to Olympia.

Thank you, Matthew.

I'm Olympia Williams, Deputy Director of the Community Services Division in PRNS.

As you may recall, the water board approved the city's direct discharge plan in June of 2024.

Provision C 17 focuses on direct discharges from encampments near waterways and lived-in vehicles.

In 2425, Beautify SJ abated encampments from 16 miles of waterways and created no encampment zones.

This included the removal of over 3.6 million pounds of trash and debris.

As of today, we have cleared encampments from 27.2 miles of waterways in the direct discharge zone areas and established over 22 miles of no encampment zones.

In 2425, the Department of Transportation cleared 30 olive sites.

Beautify SJ provided over 2,600 bio waste removal services as part of our RVP3 program or a recreational vehicle pollution prevention program.

I would also like to note that our housing department completed both phase one and phase two of our waterways surge count.

Moving forward, Beautify SJ will complete encampment abatements in the direct discharge areas along the waterways, and our partners in DOT will continue to implement the olive program at F to 50 sites during this fiscal year.

I will now pass it back to Regini.

Thanks, Olympia.

So the remaining provisions that are listed here are small but mighty.

So we'll start off with the very first one on provision 11 and 12.

This is focused on the polychlorinated bifanels that are known as PCBs and Mercury.

Essentially, this is very focused in old industrial areas throughout the Bay Area.

And so San Jose, I mean, as part within Santa Clara County, there is a good number of parcels that do have these PCBs.

And so we've identified some that are considered high or potentially elevated levels, and so with that we'll have to work closely either with the water board or the city will have to work with those property owners to address the PCBs present.

There is an ultimate goal that we have to achieve in this permit term.

So it's about 121 grams that we have to do remove from our you know water bodies.

The next one is C-15, which is focused on emergency firefighting discharges.

The goal for this particular annual report was to submit a regional firefighting report, and this was collaborated among throughout Bay Area agencies.

There's a total of 79 permittees that are involved with this particular stormwater permit for the San Francisco region.

The next steps is really to now next train personnel and then potentially look at uh least environmentally um environmental foams that could be utilized and also evaluate large industrial sites.

The next provision, which I want to really draw up your attention to, it's the very first time where we're actually providing a cost report of implementing the stormwater permit.

And so for fiscal year 24-25, we've implemented we've allocated or budgeted 124 million last fiscal year.

And so we just wanted to highlight the three provisions that have been kind of the lion's share of uh of that total budget.

And so uh 14.6 was allocated to C3, which Jennifer talked about, which was focused on green infrastructure, and C10 and C17 combined is about 92 million, which is what Olympia and and Matthew have been talking about, all associated with trash.

Um, and so really hats off to all of you for allocating that funding.

So truly appreciate it.

Um, so C21, that's the other provision that's a new provision where we do need to focus on the lifecycle costs of a lot of our water quality assets.

So, what Matthew and Jennifer talked about with full trash capture and green infrastructure, that's what we are required to do.

And then moving forward, starting July 1st of this year, we have to implement this plan.

So before we close, I do have a presentation highlighting our wonderful nonprofit partners.

Many of them could not attend today, but they're here in spirit.

And we just wanted to really celebrate uh trash punks, uh keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, and South Bay Clean Creek Coalition.

They've been leading the charge, and honestly, they've been kind of the heart and soul of our waterways.

So, really just want to pay a tribute to them.

And do we, I hope we have a video.

So um there we do.

Okay, excellent.

So I'm gonna play a little clip that um just honoring what uh these wonderful heroes have been uh providing for the city.

Hi, my name is Justin Imamura, and I'm the founder and president of the trash punks.

And we started here in San Jose, California, where I'm born and raised since 2017.

We've been cleaning up our waterways ever since.

It's been great.

Hi, my name is Deb Kramer.

I'm the founder and executive director of Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful.

We connect people to Coyote Creek by hosting Creek Cleanups.

We also have our bioblitz events and other educational activities.

Hi, I'm Steve Holmes with South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition.

Um our primary goal is to remove all of the trash uh from the waterways so that we see larger returns of the Chinook salmon.

And in this case, we have a beaver dam right over here.

So seeing the beaver coming back into the waterway.

Party with the city of Salse, environmental service department, and all those that are involved have been amazing.

Working with them just makes everything so easy.

There's no red tape.

We tell them when we're doing a cleanup event, and we do it.

Through this partnership with ESC, Keep Coyde Creek Beautiful, has been able to expand our reach within the whole of the city of San Jose.

So not just about Coyote Creek, but helping to make people aware of all of our watersheds and what they have to offer.

Additionally, environmental services has continued to offer not only grants but to seek community grants between community-based organizations and the city of San Jose.

This is kind of a unique uh situation because I talk with a lot of my friends that are in other areas of the country.

There's really not a strong bond between you know city agencies and then small NGOs such as ourselves.

But what we've found is that uh ESD supports us when we have issues such as funding or uh we need access to resources to help us to get the job done along these waterways.

Through our partnership with the Environmental Services Department, we've been able to connect over 10,000 people through our creek cleanups in the last 10 years.

Over those 200 creek cleanups, we've removed nearly one million pounds of trash, and we're just so excited to keep that commitment going between the two organizations.

All right, uh actually I think uh thanks again to our creek partners, and this concludes our presentation.

Thanks for the presentation and all the progress.

It's really exciting.

I know we've all been tracking it pretty closely, and I appreciate your tribute to the three nonprofit organizations you just highlighted in the video.

I know I think we've probably all spent a fair bit of time out in the waterways with these organizations in recent years, and they've they just do tremendous work.

Uh, including I want to thank Steve and uh South Bay Clean Creeks, came out this weekend for quite an epic cleanup along the Guadalupe River and at Columbus Park with some 300 volunteers and they helped lead that effort.

Tony, why don't we go to public comment if we have any?

I have no cards for this item.

Oh great.

Okay.

Sounds good.

We're back to the council.

Again, maybe I'll kick off with a couple questions and then turn to colleagues.

Um wanna thank uh staff.

All of you gave the presentation.

I know many others.

I had the opportunity to drop by briefly just last week as as uh many members of our team were meeting with representatives from the water board, and I could see even, I wasn't there long, but even from those representatives, I think a recognition that the way we've come together cross-functionally, as our city manager says, and I think we all truly believe one city team and been focused and strategic and followed through, uh, something that that they seemed impressed with, and you all can probably speak to that better than I can given that you spend a lot more time with them.

But um, I think it it shows with now a 97 being at 97.7% trash load reduction and um on track to be 100% compliant by the end of the year, which is a huge milestone.

You all highlighted the achievements, but um just the amount of trash we've taken out of the waterways and then the prevention investments we've made are are really incredible.

Um, and obviously we all have a responsibility in city, but also county, state, water district.

We have got to end this crisis of unsheltered homelessness that makes this so difficult, and that's something I was glad to have the opportunity to share a few reflections on with um our water board uh folks.

Um, so my questions are there were just two that came to mind as I was looking at the materials.

One maybe for Jeff and Rajani is around as I understood it, correct me if I'm wrong, but when it comes to private land enforcement, there's uh there were I think it was 234 properties identified that need to become compliant with our trash load reduction efforts.

How do we ensure that compliance and what is the bless you, what is the timeline for bringing them into compliance?

So thank you for the question, Mayor.

So um, with regards to getting them into compliance, uh one of the main criteria it's a new new co-requirement in the permit, and uh the first criteria is that they have to be connected to our storm sewer system, and then the second is assessing the property to and to based on a certain criteria that we in um not just with city of San Jose, it's throughout the state.

It's uh in a trash assessment that we do, and so what we do to get them into compliance.

We work with the property owner, we have notified them, we've sent letters, um, and then they we've had an open you know presentation just to understand to explain to them what does it mean to maintain compliance?

Um and if they're unable to do that, they're allowed to install what Matthew showed, these small trash capture devices.

I mean, ultimately the goal is to prevent trash entering into our storage and sewer system.

So that's the ultimate thing.

Uh we last year we did modify our Muni codes to increase enforcement fines, so we did do that.

Uh so with that, these are all the things that are in our toolkit.

But so far uh property owners are wanting to do the right thing, which is a positive thing.

So, great.

I'm glad to hear that.

And then just turning to I think Olympia probably on this one.

Uh we've now established no return zones.

I think at the time of the report it was 16 miles.

Now I think we're maybe 20 or maybe a little more.

I know we're continuing to expand those as we resolve encampments, clean up an area, start to restore the habitat, and then it's really important that we prevent re-encampment.

Olympia, can you just share a little bit of what you and your team are seeing out in the field in terms of re-encampment?

Is it has it been challenging to preserve those areas and keep them clear over time?

And and then I I think I have a follow-up, but why don't I let you answer that first?

So thank you for the question, Mayor.

So, in terms of re-encampment, when we first establish a no encampment zone, people sometimes will often come back because they're not aware that it is a no encampment zone.

So we tend to see re-encampments the first sixty, ninety days be a little higher that's because we have to educate folks about this is the sign this is what this means these are the areas you can't be in.

After that it tends to just trail off and then usually what happens maybe a new person that just didn't realize they've established they've encamped in a no encampment zone but we find that after a while then it gets lower and lower and there are fewer places in a no encampment zone that we need to abate.

Okay.

And then I assume now with the in-qual neighbor quality life unit that these encampment zones like all other others like the ones around interim sites will be part of a routine correct schedule.

Yeah and I see Lee nodding his head as well okay so then in my view the really challenging question because we have not completely ended unsheltered homelessness in our city yet that we've made some real progress we've been focused on the is it 26 miles that are priority of the 1476 what 140 I was going lower 130.

130 we lost some waterways it could be 147 I thought we were 140 at one point all right whatever we have over a hundred miles of waterways in the city of San Jose and we've been focused on the 26 miles that have been most impacted and that the water uh board has asked us to focus on let's just be blunt about this if we resolve those encampments establish no encampment zones don't allow reencampment that's great but we're likely to see a significant number of people migrate to other parts of the waterways.

So how are we monitoring that and how do we prevent those areas from becoming as degraded as the first 26 miles are and what is our longer what do we think is the next phase of this work.

Assuming we get to our 100% this year what comes next year?

Oh that's a good question.

I thought Lee was going to jump in first.

Did you want to go first Lee and then I'll go I'm happy to follow your lead Olympia.

So we have noticed mayor as we have cleared areas along those those those areas that had the most impact from encampments people tend to find new places to want to live so what we've done is we've started to map where people are immediately provide services so that we don't find that people get um completely entrenched in those new areas and start to educate folks we're also working on what our learned long-term plan will be because what we don't want is to take folks from one 26 miles and reestablish encampments in a new 26 miles right many of those areas are areas that we don't typically go down a lot of on a regular basis so what we've done is we've started to monitor and go what we call the ring around the city the encampments used to be kind of locating what we call more of the central core of the city along our waterways now we're starting to see people say okay I'll just go out further and we call it the ring around the city so we've been start we've started to map those areas and we're thinking about what our long term strategy will be such as do we establish no encampment zones where we already don't have people established but we don't want people to just move further out how do we make sure that we're not simply having people move from city property not even onto valley water property but now going to areas that are more privately owned which takes a lot more time and technical assistance for us to provide to those property owners.

So I would say more to come and it's something that we are working on.

Yeah and just a few things to follow up so thank you Olympia think you know one thing uh that we don't often show here too is just the the data work that Olympia and her team John PRNS Eric and housing and police department are doing with the migration patterns of our unhoused and so we've got a lot of data of you know where those folks go that we can use you know Eric and Cupid use for additional outreach for those folks to go we can make additional touches and provide additional services which say we're in the position now as a city for the first time dealing with this where we have capacity as well so as we saw with the Columbus park abatement and the acceptance rate of us actually being able to move those people indoors and give them services.

So we can be very you know tactical with the data.

I would say on a larger note, though, the direction from all of you to look at our emergency interim emergency interim housing just program in general and look for efficiencies, and that's bringing down costs so that we have additional capacity to add to the system, and then making it in addition to just being more efficient so that we save money is being more effective and that partnership with the county and a coordinated system so we're moving people out of our system through a much more permanent solution so that we have the additional capacity to continue to work with our population to bring them indoors.

And so that's gonna be really important work from tactical, which is you know what the teams on the on the ground are doing all the way up to our partnership with the county and the work that's been directed you know to the housing department that we need to do to get to that kind of next level.

Yeah, thank you both for those answers.

And I I couldn't agree more about the importance of integrating our system with the counties and getting more throughput and then driving the kind of efficiencies in the existing interim system that we've been talking about over the last couple of years.

I guess I'll just say, on the one hand, I'm very proud of the work we've done as a city.

I think you all have done a tremendous job, and with the council's support, we've added more interim housing units this year than any other city in California, and it shows we have had a roughly stable number of individuals experiencing homelessness.

It has been in that 5,500, 6,000 range, just for my colleagues' context, but we have gone from 84% of those roughly 6,000 people living outside in tents and vehicles, to we think by the end of this year under 50%.

That is a that is more movement than any other city I'm aware of in the state, any other big city, and it's because we've added thousands of beds over the last five years with a thousand over a thousand being added this year alone.

And that's what's leading us where we have a roughly stable population or number of people experiencing homelessness to get to our goal of everybody being able to have a bed, a dignified indoor place to be.

Uh that being said, 50% or a little under 50% is great, it still leaves a couple thousand people outside, and we don't have the money to just keep building endlessly, and so the system has to get more efficient, we have to maximize utilization, we have to get more throughput to county PSH and homeward bound and other outcomes that are more stable for people beyond interim housing.

And the ultimate goal that's gonna be very challenging.

I just want to flag this now, so we're we're not being hand-wavy about it.

We will need the Clean Water Act is very clear.

Can't pollute any of the waterways.

This is the 26 miles we're focused on right now, but in the our time together on this council, I believe we're gonna need to get to a place where there's just a no-encampment zone along all the waterways.

You will not be allowed to camp on the waterways, and we're gonna have to get to a place where we can do that in a way that doesn't just send 2,000 people into the neighborhoods as we've talked about.

So I just want us to be clear-eyed that we've made huge progress.

All the credit to staff for doing an amazing job with executing the current plan, but it is a incremental step toward where we need to go that is going to be harder and more ambitious, and we don't have the resources to do it exactly how we did phase one.

We will need to look at safe sleeping, congregate shelter, and that system integration with the county, all of the above to be able to offer an alternative to the waterways to the folks who are out there today.

Okay, um, let me so great work to the team.

Thank you.

Let me turn now to Council Member Ortiz.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

I want to also thank staff.

I know that this is an extremely important uh function of the city, but it's also a moving target.

And as you know, the mayor said, you make one area and no encampment zone and they go down the way, or or you know, vice versa.

And then I I myself am dealing with um, you know, unhoused on private property in my district, which yeah, Olympia, you know, and it it continues to be uh an issue, especially when we have concerned residents who want something to be done, and we just don't have the authority or or capacity to follow through with that.

Um, so you know, since we were talking about um no encampment zones, I know uh Olympia, you know this, but um there's the property in my district near the Mayfair Community Center where there has been a lot of issues, you know.

Uh, we had an incident at the Mayfair Community Center from a resident uh of the unhoused community that caused a lot of concerns.

I wanted to ask, um, have we do we have an understanding of like what a cost estimate would be for an expansion of the no encampment zone?

Are we gonna be able to expand that or are we essentially stuck at the amount of no encampment zones we have now?

Thank you for the question.

So the initial direction that we received from council was to establish no encampment zones near our EIH sites around our safe parking and then along the waterway areas that we're clearing.

So we always assess keep a list of areas that if we look at expanding kind of no encampment zones what that would look like and how we would manage them.

So we have a team a pretty small team that's managing over 20 it's gonna be almost 27 miles of waterway that we need to clear plus all of our future current EIHs and safe parking sites.

So it's something we can definitely come back with or discuss more in depth offline about what that would look like to add other sites.

Sure.

I mean that sounds good I'm definitely interested in having one near the Mayfair community center I've heard concerns about from staff and youth that they don't feel safe and I want to make sure we're responding to that.

So hopefully we could have that conversation during next year's budget.

Thank you.

Thanks Councilmember would love to have that conversation we go to council member commit.

Thank you so much and thank you excuse me thank you for all your work.

You know I was I was thinking gosh what a what a difference a year make what a difference two years makes I mean we are in such a better place today than we had been and you know it's it's been a lot of hard work it's been a lot of push and pull but you've you've done it so I um I know that we have still a ways to go but but how great is that and you know I know that it was with a lot of effort that you got to where we are today so uh thank you so much for that.

I think um I'd like to uh emphasize a little bit about how we're possibly going to get to knowing campus in all of the waterways because I think that it becomes too easy just to kind of oh I'll just move down the ways or whatever and um and we have to think about how we work on prevention because once it's established whether it's you know public property or private property it costs us more to eliminate than it does or to you know like abate it or whatever than it is to figure out ways to prevent so um as we have these discussions you know I think that um it's a big lift to get to all waterways but I also think that you know um if there are some you know sort of ways to bring prevention into this uh we might be better off and I think that you know it's a little bit difficult on private property because uh you know you can't just go in there and you know do anything uh without permission so I think that working with um private property uh not all of the 140 or whatever miles is uh city owned some of it is water district owned some of it is city owned somebody some some of it is somebody else owns it so I think that that gives a uh different level of complexity but I think that working together um to try to find a preventative way might be a way to go um the other thing I wanted to encourage my colleagues is creating greater awareness in our community um a few years ago I um piloted the adopt the storm during program and I will say that uh this year thanks the um environmental services department took it over and it's been blossoming in other areas of San Jose I will say that I looked at the map if you just put in uh you know adopt the storm during San Jose you will get to a GIS map that shows where the uh adoptees are so I'm giving everyone, all of my colleagues, a year's head start to be able to uh compete for the top number of adopt the storm drains in your area.

There are 30,000 storm drains in the city of San Jose.

We each have oh I don't know, let's say approximately uh 30, I mean 3,000.

So, you know, there's plenty of room to, you know, get out there.

Um it's a great way to uh bring education to uh to our kids, and you know, they could in different schools, you know, can adopt the corner storm drain.

It might be something that um your office may want to take on.

Uh, but it is now housed in environmental services, it is citywide, and um I I uh urge you to just check it out.

Check it out.

It's a nice thing to uh let people know what they can do to um, you know, like help the environment and you know learn a little bit about stormwater runoff.

We used to call it, you know, um uh flows to the bay, and we used to have it stenciled with the water district.

By the way, the water district would love to partner with you if you want to do some kind of event in your area.

They are great partners uh because this helps the waterways in general and creates that education and awareness.

So uh I wanna thank uh the entire team.

I look forward to continuing to work with you, and I would like to um go ahead and accept the annual report, and I guess we have to adopt the resolution.

Is that correct?

I'd move that.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Let's go to Councilmember Duan.

Thank you, Mayor.

First of all, I would say thank you.

You guys do an incredible job from 2016 we went from 500 tons of garbage, now we're up to two thousand.

Now we don't want to see that number continue to rise.

That we we don't have to finance the resources.

And I agree with the mayor, somewhere we're gonna have to no no encampment zone, period.

We we have to secure our waterways to protect our environment for the future generation.

Uh but I do have a few questions for you, but um I wanna specifically thank you, uh Olivia for uh putting up that sign there on on loop drive.

And and sure enough, when you put up that sign, I haven't seen garbage there.

Before that, every single week uh is just truckloads.

But anyway, that's a I the question I have is given the rising cost, especially associated with the unsheltered residents uh population.

Uh in the provision um C 17, how should budget allocation be prioritized?

And are there a lower cost, higher impact on intervention that can be scale?

She's reaching out to you.

Sorry, just responding to a public safety issue.

Can you repeat the question?

Given the rising costs, especially associated uh with unsheltered population.

How should budget allocation be prioritized?

Yeah, I mean I think the most important, which is what I said before is you know, this council has taken um extreme measures and allocations over the last three years um to to budget this work.

And so the results that staff has talked about and the mayor has talked about are a result of those allocations.

I would say like anything, the direction that you gave for us to look at are those programs being efficient and effective is gonna be very key with the budget pictures over the next few years.

We're gonna be looking to make sure those programs are meeting intents and where there are cost savings that we can reinvest some of those savings back into additional capacity on the back end or any other allocations that you guys deem necessary for the community.

So without additional revenue on the table, that work is gonna be very central for you guys expanding out those results and outcomes.

Thank you, Lee.

I was also made up in the sense that when there's an extraordinary situation, we we have to make extraordinary decision in order to to mitigate and find the best solution to support our communities whom we use their tax dollars to make sure they they have a clean, safe living environment.

I have a question for the deputy chief uh Aaron Freiler, if you want to come down.

So as a former fire captain, you all know, you know, I I know that every time we go to a small or even large fire, there's an enormous amount of carcinogen that flow down onto our waterways or storm terrain, if you will.

And I know that the fire department is working on uh purchasing a more environmentally uh friendly um foam, if you will, um class A and class B, which is the A triple F for those uh it's acquiesced uh fire fighting foam.

So can you elaborate on that a little bit more, Chief?

Yeah, no problem.

So uh currently, yeah, like you said, we currently carry two classes of foam, which is Class A, which would be for um vegetation or or rubbish fire.

Class B would be for fuels or any type of liquid.

Um in 2019, we actually removed all our fluorinated uh class B foam from all our apparatus uh and went to a compliant non-fluorinated class B foam.

Uh but to keep up with standards, we're actually now looking at a combination of class A class B foam, which is also an organic material, um, that can accomplish both Class A and Class B fires.

Thank you.

And as we purchase uh better foam, there will be costs in in training and practice, um, and then perhaps even on on the memorandum stated here that cleanup crew to ensure effective uh communication and discharge management.

Does the fire department looking to ask for more funding because of the training, the cost, the implementation, every single fire that we and resource obviously when you go to a small or large uh fire.

Yeah, good good question, Councilmember.

Um this is not my area of expertise, so I'll have to get back to you on that on that comment.

All right.

Well, thank you very much.

I'll look forward to um to hear back from you and I'll yield my time.

Thanks, council member.

All right, I don't see any other hands.

Tony, let's vote.

Motion passes unanimously.

Great.

Thank you all.

Thank you again to staff for all the great work.

All right.

On the item 8.2, fiscal year 2024-2025 consolidated annual performance and evaluation report, also known as the CAPER.

There is no staff presentation.

Let me turn to colleagues.

Sure, I was gonna entertain a motion, but go ahead.

Do we have public comment?

Brian Darby.

All right.

Thank you again real quick.

Um the the is a public um oh sorry, public um public discussion, I guess, in that sense.

And so I wanted to offer a lot of us really want to help um do what we can.

We can't some of us can't volunteer.

I wish I could volunteer with some of the things the mayor puts forward.

I just don't have that much use of my hands anymore, so I can't really do a lot of that.

I would think I would try to help in other ways.

I tend to write detailed emails, and to be quite honest, when we put forward I spend a lot of time on it, and I never really I get some automated responses, and why I say it in this particular situation is that a lot of us want to help with the problem with housing, and we would like some response back.

We would like to have um we would like to have some uh at least a response, you know, at least somebody to say, uh, never mind.

Sorry.

Back to council.

Thank you.

Coming back to the council, council member Kamehameha.

Thank you so much.

There's a lot of information in this report.

And I just want to thank the staff for a lot of the details and information.

And I'd like to go ahead and move staff recommendation and accept the report.

Great.

Thank you, Councilmember.

I don't see any other hands.

Tony, let's vote.

I do.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't see your hand up, Councilmember.

Go ahead.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Would staff please speak to the metric or indicators suggest that we're moving the needle on systemic issue like homelessness or housing insecurity?

Thank you, Councilmember Eric Soybon, Housing Director.

To the question of whether or not this report specifically, since it's just an outputs report to HUD on the programs and fund utilizations, it doesn't speak to the broader goal of the progress that we've made in addressing homelessness and the work that we fund in homelessness regarding outreach through the HUD dollars.

Globally, you know, as discussed earlier in the meeting, we've made a substantial amount of progress in terms of total amount of beds being brought online, clearing the waterways.

So we're certainly moving the needle.

This report is more designed around how do we just report out on our funding and kind of check boxes with HUD on this annual report.

Thank you.

Given the current state of federal funding, how are we preparing for potential reduction in federal HUD funding into future years?

So there's a lot of ongoing conversation now around federal funding globally, MBA 33 from the June report sort of limited, put a brief pause so we can best assess what are the new conditions coming down related to our grant funds.

And then going forward, Jim Shannon and I, and I know other directors as well have been discussing what if scenarios.

If all the funding somehow goes away, if uh as we've kind of learned this morning, there's a government shutdown and they don't further any federal funding going forward, we'll have to come up with scenarios working with the city manager's office.

Thank you.

So I'll take that part question in sort of three parts.

First, in our work with the county specifically on utilization of federal funds, there's very little duplication because the county's overall federal funding streams that we receive, so the duplicate programs, Topwall, C D B, G, CSG, et cetera, they receive very little funds because they only receive funds as an allocation to their unincorporated areas.

So our general funding levels are higher, and therefore we utilize more of the funds.

Two to overall coordination with the state, again, separate buckets of funding related to state allocations versus our city county because we are an entitlement city, we receive these funds directly, and so our programs don't generally overlap.

As we look at best utilization of the funds going forward, if there are reductions in the overall levels of funding, or if the city decides because of the new restrictions, we cannot expense the funds in accordance with those requirements, then we'll have to consider what the global impacts would be to three primary areas.

One is our overall homelessness response, two the work and the funding that we apply to housing production, and then three, the work we do on housing preservation, because some of the home dollars that we have as we're looking to expand out those funds are going to go into areas to preserve uh seniors who are living in mobile home parks getting them a new mobile home units, and those types of funds where traditionally our measure E type dollars do not extend to those program limits.

Well, thank you for the answer, and um, we're so glad to have you in the housing department and uh keep up the good work.

Thanks.

I'll yield my time.

Thanks, council member.

All right, I don't see any other hands.

Tony, let's vote motion passes unanimously great thank you we're on the open forum which is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on any city business that was not on today's agenda do we have any public comment Brian come on down okay uh this is the main reason I came down I felt compelled um very much so I wept about this uh three people were murdered last week in uh San Jose I think people are aware of that um Terry Lynn Taylor Jessica Aline Lori and Max Chavez Ryan were their names um I just thought it was important to say that here and that we remember them maybe I'm wrong am I wrong um that that's why I came because this is the most important thing this lady begged for help the gentleman well the person that killed him was has extensive history of violence and he was let go you know again and again I can tell you uh if you want to find an issue that's frustrating people in this uh city it's that and I mean there's been progress made great to the mayor's efforts and to the police the this is all of us not just the police or the mayor it's easy to blame the judge I I don't know what the answer is I do know that three people were killed to me that's important when that 80 year old gentleman was mugged and he had a stroke I mean when they drove through his window that's important it is important and it should upset us normally I don't get frustrated like this but it is it's important if we don't remember this everything else you do is irrelevant thank you back to council thank you all right well thank you all we are adjourned have a wonderful afternoon