The meeting opened with ceremonial proclamations celebrating arts, Indigenous heritage, and Filipino American history. The council then approved a significant philanthropic donation for a public peace monument and engaged in a detailed debate over the standards for a new list of pre-qualified city planning consultants. The session concluded with extensive public comment on issues including safe parking for the RV community and allegations of disrespectful conduct by a council staff member.
All right, good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon and welcome. I would like to call this meeting of the San Jose City Council to order for the afternoon of October seventh. Tony, would you please call the role? Come. Campos. Present. Tordillos? Here. Cohen? Here. Ortiz? Present. Here. Juan. Candeles. Here. Casey. Foley? Here, Mahan. Here. You have a quorum. Great. Thank you very much. Now, if you're able, please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge the ladies to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic over which it stands. Today's invocation will be provided by the Dartmouth Middle School Band Ensemble, and Vice Mayor Foley will tell us more. Thank you, Mayor. For today's invocation, I'm thrilled to be joined by a special group from Dartmouth Middle School, a partial ensemble from their outstanding school band led by Director Jonathan Pu. Each year, I'm proud to host Music in the Valley, an event that celebrates community and the incredible musical talent of our local students. While today we're joined by just a few of Dartmouth's talented musicians, their full Eagle Band with about a hundred and twenty members always brings down the house at Music in the Valley. I'm delighted to have them here this afternoon and can't wait to welcome them back to our fifth annual Music in the Valley and my final one as council member next May. Without further delay, I pass the microphone off to off to Mr. Pu, who I understand will introduce a couple of students to speak. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having us, Vice Mayor. Robin and Johnny are going to do a little introduction for us. Good afternoon. We are a few members of the Dartmouth Middle School Symphonic Band. Thank you so much for inviting us to perform for the invocation today. We will perform the song for good from the musical Wicked. We wanted to dedicate this song to Vice Mayor Pam Foley and thank her for being so supportive supportive of music and performing arts in schools. What a beautiful performance. Thank you so much. It's a great way to start our city council meeting today again. That was the Dartmouth Middle School Band Ensemble. Would you give them one more round of applause with me? Thank you. And thank you to Vicemar Foley, who's uh leading our invocations this month for highlighting the talent of our some of our local students.