San José Rules and Open Government Committee Meeting - December 10, 2025
San José Rules and Open Government Committee Meeting - December 10, 2025
The Rules and Open Government Committee met on December 10, 2025, at 2:00 PM to review the upcoming City Council agenda for December 16, 2025, approve a consent calendar of 12 items, and hear one public comment. The meeting adjourned at 2:05 PM after completing the agenda.
Consent Calendar
- The committee reviewed the council agenda for Tuesday, December 16, 2025, including a closed session at 9:30 AM and regular session at 1:30 PM.
- The consent agenda included items from pages 5-17, with one deferred item (page 17).
- Specific items: Fire Department inventory controls over controlled substances audit (Section 3, recommended for deferral), Digital Empowerment Broadband Strategy, Abandoned Shopping Cart Retrieval Pilot Program status report, extension of the urgency interim ordinance on the moratorium of tobacco retail licenses (Section 7), preliminary action for creation of the Alameda Business Improvement District (BID), and preliminary action for the Alum Rock/Santa Clara Street BID (Section 8).
- A land use consent item was to be heard immediately after regular consent.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Brian, a member of the public, spoke during open forum. He wished the committee happy holidays and requested the establishment of a city-recognized day honoring victims of crime, possibly including a flag-raising ceremony. He noted that crime victims often face severe life impacts, such as loss of tools or vehicles affecting their jobs and housing, and argued that formal acknowledgment would be meaningful.
Discussion Items
- No substantive discussion items were held beyond the agenda review and consent calendar approval.
Key Outcomes
- A motion to approve the consent calendar passed 5-0 after roll call (Council Members Candelas, Duan, Foley, Kamei, Cohen) with Council Member Candelas joining after the initial 4-0 vote.
- The committee concluded its final meeting of 2025 and was adjourned at 2:05 PM.
Meeting Transcript
All right, we're going to call today's Rules and Open Government Committee meeting to order at 2 o'clock. Please start with roll. Candelas, Duan, here, Foley, here, Kamei, here, Cohen, here. We have a quorum. All right, well, welcome to the Rules and Open Government Committee meeting we just as a reminder we expect all attendees to follow the code of conduct located in the agenda failure to comply with this code of conduct and behavior which will disturb behavior which will disturb disruptor impede the orderly conduct of the meeting may result in removal from the meeting we're going to start by reviewing the council agenda for next Tuesday December 16th a closed session at 930 and regular session at 1 30 and consent starts on page 5 continues on pages 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 and ends on page 17 although that item is deferred it must be the last meeting of the year a long consent agenda in section 3 we have fire department inventory controls over concept controlled substances audit section 4 that item is recommended for deferral section 7 digital empowerment broadband strategy abandoned Sharping cart retrieval pilot program status report and an extension of the urgency interim ordinance on the moratorium of tobacco retail licenses section 8 preliminary action required for creation of the Alameda business improvement district and the same thing for the alum rock Santa Clara Street business improvement district we have looks like one item on land use consent which we heard immediately after regular consent and that is it for the agenda we have any public comment no public comment all right back to the committee move and there's an ad sheet yes second all right we got a motion and second no other comments so let's vote motion carries 4-0 and now we are on to well we don't have an agenda for the following week because there's no meeting on December 23rd we have today wrapping up the year with 12 items on our consent agenda do Do we have any public comment on consent? No public comment. All right, we have a motion on consent. Move for approval. Second. All right, let's vote on consent. Motion carries five zero. We've been joined by Council Member Condellas. And we are on to, and he's registering an aye vote on the agenda. And now we're on to open forum. We have one, Brian, go ahead and make your way to the podium. First of all, happy holidays to all of you. Very wish, wish you a very happy new year and a very Merry Christmas. I just wanted to bring up, I brought this up before and I believe one of you thought about initiating this. There's days of recognition throughout San Jose and there's sort of a general recognition for crime victims, but there's not, if I'm not mistaken, there's not a day where people who are victims of crime are acknowledged, even honored, if you will, by the city. Not that, I mean, the city does a lot for them. I wrote something here. I would encourage to look into it to see if there's a possibility of having a day. Even a flag raising ceremony, I don't know what kind of flag you would raise.
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