All right, it's two o'clock.

I'm going to call today's meeting of the rules and open government committee to order.

Let's have a roll, please.

Kendallas.

Here.

Fully.

Come here.

Cohen.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Thank you.

We have no meeting for November 11th to review, so we start by first re for our first review of the November 18th council meeting.

It has a 9 30 closed session, 1 30 regular session, evening session recommends cancellation.

Consent starts on page 5 and continues on pages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.

Section 4, we have the military equipment annual report, Section 6, Climate Smart Zero Waste Element Report, and Section 8, Master Agreement for Microsoft and Valley Water for the Regional Wastewater Facility, request for qualification for developer for the San Jose Wastewater, San Jose Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, a major event status report and amendment to the inclusionary housing ordinance.

There are two items on land use consent, and that's the agenda.

Any public comment?

Yes, one comment card.

Blair, please make your way to the podium.

And before public comment, I'm just going to make sure to read our um our reminder that we expect all attending to follow the code of conduct located in the agenda and failure to comply with the code of conduct and behavior which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of the meeting may result in removal from the meeting.

Hi, thank you.

Blair Beekman.

Hopefully, it can be a forerunner for uh 2026.

I'm hopeful in those terms.

Um interesting agenda you have coming up.

I wanted to comment quickly on the uh unhoused uh items you're gonna be.

I think there are going to be uh on the agenda.

Um there's also military issues that um you're going to review your military uh tech involvement.

It's an important concept after 9-11 that we we are changing after the era of 9-11.

Uh that's important, and um good luck that we're addressing um the future of our of our housing and unhoused issues and uh what that can be developing into.

Thank you.

All right, back to the committee.

Move approval second.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

Don't see any other comments, so let's vote.

Alright, the motion carries five zero, and now we're on to consent.

We have three items on consent today.

Any public comments?

Yes, we have one speaker, Blair.

Please make your way down to the podium.

Hi, we're even late but here as usual, or late as usual, but here.

Yeah, so um for this item I wanted to comment.

Consent calendar items include uh cost of residential development for San Jose, along with your unhoused items next week.

Uh, you're doing uh these uh study sessions, uh cost of residential development after coming out of COVID.

We were really timid and wanted to continue to practice um uh market rate housing.

And it was really presentable that we could be working towards uh middle income housing that can be a really interesting way to spawn the future of our housing needs, and I think offers a lot more flexible choices for ourselves.

And um I hope this can be a time we can start to be considering that more.

And really, of course, the depth of what mixed income ideas can be working towards.

Um, we really need to consider that people from different income areas can live in the same neighborhood, and that is okay.

We haven't been able to quite do that yet.

Good luck to better develop that.

Um I wanted to comment with 55 seconds remaining.

Um monthly activity reports uh that has the uh auditing report.

Um, thank you for this report.

It just gives a list of different things I can look up in what you're working on as city government.

Um, and it's a long list.

It's like escape my memory for the moment, but it's um it's helpful in what it offers, and um, I'm glad it's there and um look to San Diego.

We're dealing with some of these same issues in San Diego, and they're they speak of you guys, and I try to speak of you, and uh it's important to remind uh what they do well also that I think um they have a real soft touch in how to do things really well, and um so good luck in working together on stuff.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

All right, thank you.

I'll start with Vice Mayor Foley.

Yeah, thank you.

I just had a question about the study session.

I didn't know this was coming along.

Uh when was the eighth selected?

The eighth was selected before summer based off of polling that the city clerk did on availability.

Okay.

And is this uh an update from the cost of residential development that we heard a year or so ago or it is, which uh uh with more specific dive into the affordable component as directed by the council.

Okay, thank you.

All right, do we have any other comments or a motion?

Second.

Alright, there's a motion to approve the consent calendar.

Let's vote.

Motion carries 5-0.

And now we are on to open forum.

So we have one speaker card from Blair.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Um, thanks for quick meeting today.

Um in what San Diego does really well.

Um, we are really considering in San Diego right now because that's where I've been living for a while.

Um, the future of Flock.

Do we need Flock as our coordinator for ALPR use?

Oakland is asking that same question at this time, and it's being seriously considered.

What I spoke here of last time is just we've had to accept the status quo that ALPR, I mean that uh flock is the only way we can coordinate ARALPR efforts.

Uh that's being questioned.

We can have choices with that we don't have to be limited to the National Security Plan of Flock, but actually um develop our own uh systems and work with other companies.

That's quite possible and have a real focus on practices of responsibility of civil protections, civil rights ideals in the in the questions of public safety that there is not quite being asked enough at this point.

They don't know how to better ask those questions and don't really want to work on those things.

We can make those demands of Flock, and we in the same time looking for companies that do hold that sort of standard, a good standard of how wanting to work.

So I'm really um looking forward to what Oakland will be working on in the next few in the month of November.

Uh San Diego, their city officials, uh, they're working on it too.

They're really asking questions in the public space.

Are you doing that here in San Jose?

Or is our ALPR future so determined and set?

We can really reduce a lot of ALPRs, and um, and still have the same public safety coverage.

Uh, good luck how we work on that.

And I want to be working on Bay UASC issues.

Man, they've created a system that's really questionable at this time.

I just want to ask how there can be good open public comment and dialogue and create an openness for their future.

Thank you.

All right, we are adjourned at 2 08 p.m.

Thank you.

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