Good afternoon.

It's 2 o'clock, so we're going to call the January 14th meeting of the Rules and Open Government Committee to order.

Let's start with roll call, please.

Candelas.

Absent.

Duan.

Here.

Foley.

Here.

Kameh.

Here.

Cohen.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Okay.

We don't have a meeting next Tuesday, the 20th,

So we're going to do our first review of the agenda for January 27th,

which has a 9.30 closed session, 1.30 regular session,

and recommended cancellation of the evening session.

Consent starts on page 5 and continues on pages 6, 7, 8, and 9.

section 3 we have our annual report on city services in section 8 we have a number of items

one is our update of our implementation of senate bill 79 8.2 is a downtown residential

incentive program for commercial to residential conversion 8.3 is extension of the multifamily

housing incentive. 8.4 is an amendment to the inclusionary housing ordinance. 8.5 is a soft

story seismic retrofit pilot program. And 8.6 is an amendment to the mobile home rent ordinance.

And no land use items, so we'll go to public comment first. No public comment. Okay, so back

to the committee, and we do have an ad sheet, but first I'll entertain questions or comments.

I have a question.

Go ahead.

There's been some requests regarding 8.6, the mobile home ordinance,

that we move it towards the front of the agenda immediately following consent.

Yes, that's the request that I had received from many of the mobile home folks in my district.

We also understand that Council Member Dewan had a request to put it at 6 p.m.,

so we have two conflicting requests.

So I think we ought to today note it as that we're planning time certain

and then figure out in the next week how to reconcile those two requests

and make a decision the next Wednesday's rules meeting about its actual.

Well, I'll reaffirm with my mobile home residents,

and then you reaffirm with yours,

and then we'll come together and make the decision next week.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Okay.

Then I'll move approval of the agenda.

With the ad sheet.

With the ad sheet.

Second.

Motion and a second for approval agenda with the add sheet.

And just with a note that we will be setting a time certain for 8.6 at next week's rules meeting.

So all in favor, we'll vote now.

Okay.

That motion carries 4-0.

And then we're on to our next item today, which is our consent calendar.

I have the agenda somewhere under this pile.

We had four items on consent today.

Is there any public comment?

No public comment.

Okay.

Back to the committee.

motion for approval

okay second

motion and second

motion carries 4-0

and that brings us all the way to open forum

Ryan please go ahead and make your way to the podium

first of all thank you

happy new year to everybody

and I would like to bring something up

that I brought up before.

I sent an email to several people.

I went through the San Jose calendar.

I may be wrong,

so somebody can help me answer that question.

There doesn't seem to be any specific day,

flag raising,

or any kind of ceremony

that acknowledges a category

that crosses all denominations,

all nationalities.

That's victims of crime.

There's a summer night out,

I believe it is.

There's a lot of help for people.

But I've found following up, like people hitting runs and people's tools are stolen, assaults, things that don't catch the news cycle are left out.

And people talk about no one cared about what I had to say or this is not an attack on officers or anything, but the police said we can't do anything.

An acknowledgment, I mean, ceremonies are really important, which is why we say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Putting up wrong kinds of flags can gravitate a community.

Ceremony has some value, recognizing people, even if it's just symbolic.

Recognizing people, and I'd like to put forward again, that's why I came down here.

We need some kind of day that recognizes what the victims of crime from theft all the way through violent crime,

because they all share one thing, they lose something of their safety.

They lose something that they don't have that same feeling again.

They don't.

And we all know that if we've been a victim of a crime.

I've personally been victims of physical crime and theft.

I don't feel safe going out.

And it's just something I think we really should think about.

Thank you.

Happy New Year.

Back to the committee.

All right.

Thank you so much.

We are adjourned at 2.05 p.m.

Thank you.