Okay.

It is two o'clock.

Welcome to the joint meeting of the rules and open government committee and the committee of the whole.

As a reminder, we expect all attending to follow the code of conduct located in the agenda.

Failure to comply to this code of conduct and behavior which will disturb, disrupt, impede the orderly conduct of the meeting may result in removal from the meeting.

With that, I will ask for a roll call.

Candelas.

Here.

One.

Foley.

Here.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to, let's see here.

We're canceling.

We have the October 14th meeting, which has been canceled.

And then before we get to the draft October 21st agenda, I just want the public to know that item C1 has been dropped.

And just in case anyone wanted to know about that item.

So we'll go back to item number two, review DAF agenda for October 21st.

And we have an earlier start, it's going to be is that the earlier start one?

No, it's not.

That's not it.

Okay.

So we start a closed session at 9 30.

1 30 regular session.

The 6 o'clock session is recommended cancellation.

And then we have ceremonials, consent starting on page 4, going on to 5, 6, 7, ending on page 8, strategic support starting on 8th.

And we also have 5.2 on page 11.

We don't have anything in environment and utility services, nothing in neighborhood services.

Item 8.1 on page 11, community economic development.

Going over to page 12 as well.

And land use items starting on 12 going on to 13 for land use consent to be heard immediately after consent.

Going and uh continuing on to page 14.

And then we have open forum and adjournment.

Is there any public comment?

No public comment.

Move approval with the cancellation of the evening session.

Thank you very much.

Seeing no hands, let's vote.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to the consent calendar.

We have public record.

And we have uh item number two, uh update uh of the neighborhood services and education work plan.

Is there any public comment?

Yes, Brian, please go ahead and make your way to the podium.

Thank you.

I just like to request when I first started coming here, the um public record was a separate agenda item and it wasn't part of the consent calendar.

And here at rules you had a little more of an quote unquote intimate um discussion, and it led to some good discussions.

It also led to people having a sense of being heard because sometimes when you do generate things on the public record, it seems like it's a note and file, and I know what that means.

If I had it explained to me, but when we take the time to come down here, um it would be a personal use, it would be like we be able to say this is on the public record, and the consent calendar is a separate item.

That changed a while back.

I'm not sure when, and I'm not really sure why, but I would just like to make that suggestion.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

Thank you very much.

Seeing no other questions, uh let's vote.

Great.

Four-zero.

And uh now we're up to uh open forum.

Brian.

First of all, thank you for coming and telling me that I appreciate that.

And um, I've got my other glasses on, so I can't I can see right to about here.

So if I look away, uh I would like to bring up something um that we used to have we could call in, and a lot of people used it and it was very effective, especially for people who are elderly, people with disabilities, people who have maybe chronic issues, the sort of the things that keeps me kept me from coming down here, and that was gone away with or done away with because there was some quote unquote bad actors that if they would have disrupted this place in person the way they disrupted was horrible things, and I understand that you have to maintain decorum, and people should not have to listen to that.

But they won.

There was never any prosecution, like there would have been if they were standing here, they disrupted the meeting just as much, if not more, locking out lots of people from San Jose who want to participate but can't, because driving down here is hard.

Parking is not as hard, thank you for that part.

But um I would really ask you to look into it.

I know I've sent several letters, I even called Zoom.

I was almost gonna drop a hundred bucks just to ask them how to fix this problem, but I couldn't lie and say I was part of San Jose, I wouldn't be quite.

Um I have this little write-up um that I would ask you to please look at, and I'm gonna give it to the clerk, um, to look at that.

And also, you know, the way that appeals are happened for the um, if people want public records requests, all that's changed, and it's not going.

If we are the city of innovation, these are things that could be done online, and people should have access to be able to uh do I believe that's my two minutes, anyways.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

Thank you very much, and we are adjourned at 2060.

Um, I know how to do that.