San José City Council Rules Committee Agenda Review and Historic Preservation Ordinance Reform - December 3, 2025
San José City Council Rules Committee - Agenda Review and Historic Preservation Ordinance Reform (December 3, 2025)
The San José City Council Rules Committee met on December 3, 2025, to review upcoming agendas for December 9 and 16, approve consent calendar items, and discuss a historic preservation ordinance reform request. The meeting began with roll call (Councilmembers Candelas, Duan, Foley present – quorum) and a reminder of the code of conduct.
Consent Calendar
- The committee approved the consent calendar for the December 9 regular council meeting (items on pages 5–9) and for the December 16 meeting (items on pages 4–17, including an audit, fire department amendment, gaming control, digital empowerment, abandoned shopping cart pilot program, and business district items). Both approvals were unanimous without items pulled.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Ben Leach, representing the Preservation Action Council, spoke on the historic preservation ordinance reform. He agreed the matter is complicated and appropriately recognized as needing careful consideration, and reiterated the organization's offer to assist independent of the city and to involve other stakeholders.
Discussion Items
- Historic Preservation Ordinance Reform: Staff (Lee) presented a memo and recommended a "yellow light" for the reform, given existing priorities and state mandates. The item will be considered during the council's priority setting session in the new year as part of the budget process. The committee accepted the staff recommendation.
Key Outcomes
- The committee unanimously approved the December 9 and December 16 agendas as presented.
- The committee voted to accept the staff recommendation (yellow light) for historic preservation ordinance reform, moving it to the priority setting session.
- No other motions or public comments were made.
Meeting Transcript
They are out with other council responsibilities. So let's take the roll. See who's here. Candelas. Here. Duan. Here. Foley. Here. We have a quorum. Great. Thank you. Before we begin, I just want to remind everybody that we all, we expect all attending to follow the code of conduct located in the agenda. Failure to comply with this code of conduct and behavior which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of the meeting may result in removal from the meeting. With that I will proceed to the agenda which is to review the council amended agenda for December 9th taking a look at that yes regular can session starts at 1 30 recommending counseling the evening session at 6 o'clock moving on to a consent items starting on page 5 and continuing to page 9 then we have 3.3 annual comprehensive financial report then external auditors report and I actually handle this differently than council member Cohen I don't read everything we just move through the agenda 3.5 3.6 3.7 and 3.8 for the appeals board are we doing interviews there will be interviews yes then 6.1 8.1 and then we convene as a successor agency with and we do have one ad sheet do we have any members of the public who wish to speak no public comment okay does a council committee members have a motion question comments calendar with that sheet. Okay I assume you mean the December 9th agenda not just consent. Okay good. Thank you. That's everybody then let's vote. Thank you. Motion. Moving on. Thank you. Motion carries. So we have an agenda for next meeting. Next agenda that we're reviewing is December 16th. consent starting on page 4 regular session at 1 30 counts closed session at 9 30 closed session or consent up to page 13 15 up to 17 a lot of consent items that that this time then we have a audit for regarding the control over his controlled substances and with the fire department amendment to title 16 gaming control which was delayed deferred from council meeting yesterday digital empowerment and broadband abandoned shopping cart pilot program extension extension of urgency ordinance then create two items related to business districts 8.1 and 8.2 and then consent for land use any public comments No public comment. Okay. Any motion, comment? I move for approval on the agenda for the 10th or 16th. Great. Thank you. I assume that was a second. All in favor? Okay. Moving right along. We have on the consent calendar, we have two items. Does anyone wish to pull anything from the consent calendar? No. I move approval.
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