Wed, Feb 11, 2026·San Jose, California·City Council

Rules Committee Meeting Summary (2026-02-11)

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Thank you.

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Here.

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Foley?

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Here.

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Kamei?

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Here.

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Cohen?

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Here.

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We have a quorum.

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Thank you.

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There is no council meeting next week, so we will have our first review of the February 24th agenda,

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which has a 9.30 closed session, 1.30 regular session, and consent starts on page 4,

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continues on pages 5 and 6.

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In section 3, we have our annual summary of upcoming labor negotiations,

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Public hearing on the status of city's vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts.

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Section 5, funding agreement for affirmed housing for around eight affordable housing and sustainable grant funds.

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Section 8, the Alameda Business Improvement District.

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Establishment of Story Road Business Improvement District.

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Santa Clara Senior Affordable Housing Development on St. John Street.

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Trillium Senior Apartments on Santa Clara Street,

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Lower Income Voucher and Equity Program,

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and we have two appeals in land use.

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Any public comment?

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No public comment.

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Okay.

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Back to the committee.

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I think there was a request for a time certain on one of the items.

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Is that right?

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I know you are, Council Member, you're here to ask for that?

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Yes, that's part of it, correct.

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Okay, well, we're on this item now, so.

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All right.

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Did you want to ask me?

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I was going to be one minute that I said on my staff,

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asked you for this earlier.

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Yeah, I mean, that's fine.

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I mean, I think I heard a request.

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I guess I'm going to ask you a question about the request.

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You want item 3.3 to be at a time certain.

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Do you have a specific time in mind

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when you want it not to be heard before?

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I just think at a time,

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how long do you think that means it's going to be?

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That's the thing is it's really short.

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That's why it's hard to know what time time certain could be.

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Most of these items are pretty quick,

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so that's why I don't know what the right time certain is,

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and that's why I was asking a few.

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What do we think of the time the meeting will be over?

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I mean, other than the two land use appeals could take a little time,

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but other than that, to me, it's like an hour meeting, in my opinion,

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so that's why I'm not sure what the right order is.

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3.4.

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yeah let's let's let's table the idea until next week we have one more crack at it at rules okay

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all right talk about it thank you um and otherwise i'll accept a motion to make sure that uh the

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public was able to provide comment in regards to that is there a time constraint of when this item

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needs to be heard you mean in terms of weeks yeah yeah which week um i don't i don't believe there's

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a legal requirement on the timing but that is something that we can check in

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on okay report back next week I'm unaware I know we need to hear it

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annually but I don't know about I think we did this last year for the first time

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in February so I think we were trying to do it before budget starts but that was

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the only rationale okay I just I got a I got a request from some of our partners

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that they wanted to provide input on it and so I just would like for them to be

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able to provide input. I'll connect with Lee and David offline. All right, thank you. All right, go ahead. Vice Mayor. Well, yeah, I, I, Council Member, I appreciate your desire to have the community here and listen in this report. The difficulty is, I mean, they're available to come in and participate anytime, particularly if they're an organization that can come in, they show, they show up at any time. But when we set a time

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certain it makes it difficult, particularly on a short agenda like this, we may have a big break.

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If we say, okay, time certain four o'clock, we could be taking, we may be finished at one third,

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two thirty, and then we're coming back at four o'clock. So I, my preference would be if, if it's

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a concern of getting people here that we move the item defer, uh, through orders of the day,

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we just put it at the end of the agenda. Yeah, that might be the option. Just make it last on

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the agenda, so at least it goes late.

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That's something, but we don't have to make

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that decision today either. I just wanted to

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share some thoughts about it.

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Okay, do we have a motion to accept the

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agenda? Move approval.

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Alright, we have a motion

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and a second.

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Motion carries 5-0, and we are on

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to consent. We have two items on

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consent today. Any public comment?

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No public comment.

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We have a motion and a second. Let's vote

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on consent.

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Okay. That motion carries 5-0. And we're on to the item, the multi-signer memo and exploration of scale development fee framework. I think the workload analysis shows everything green lit. Well, first, let's see if there's any public comment.

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No public comment.

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No public comment. I don't know if we need, we heard this a couple of weeks ago.

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Yeah, you heard it last time.

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So, Lee, you just confirm everything is green lit and it's okay for us to?

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Everything is greenlit.

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It was already under staff's work plan, and they're working on it.

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And Director Burton is here for any questions that the Rules Committee may have.

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Okay, then back to the committee.

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Any questions or a motion to accept?

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All right, we have a motion.

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Could we just ask a question?

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So would this need to go to the full council, or is it already moving forward?

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It's already going to move forward.

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It doesn't need to go to council.

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All right.

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So let's vote to accept this item.

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Motion carries.

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Open forum.

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No public comment.

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All right.

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We're adjourned at 2.05 p.m.

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Thank you, everyone.

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Thank you.

Discussion Breakdown

Procedural69%

Engineering And Infrastructure31%

Summary

Rules Committee Meeting Summary (2026-02-11)

The committee convened, confirmed quorum, reviewed the upcoming February 24 agenda layout and major items, discussed whether to set a “time certain” for a forthcoming agenda item to accommodate partner input, approved the current meeting agenda and consent items unanimously, and received an update confirming staff capacity/workplan alignment for an exploration of a scaled development fee framework. The meeting adjourned at 2:05 p.m.

Discussion Items

Review of February 24 agenda (preview): Committee reviewed the February 24 schedule (9:30 closed session; 1:30 regular session) and highlighted items including annual labor negotiations summary, a public hearing on vacancies/recruitment/retention, affordable housing funding agreements and grants, business improvement districts (Alameda and Story Road), senior affordable housing developments (St. John Street; Santa Clara Street/Trillium), a lower income voucher and equity program, and two land use appeals.
Request for a “time certain” for item 3.3 (February 24 agenda):
- A council member relayed that partners wanted to provide input and sought a time certain so they could participate.
- Committee discussion noted uncertainty because the agenda was expected to be short, and a time certain could create a long break if the meeting finishes early.
- The Vice Mayor suggested an alternative: place the item at the end of the agenda via orders of the day rather than setting a fixed time.
- Staff indicated they were unaware of a legal requirement on timing beyond an annual requirement and agreed to check and report back.
- Decision on timing was tabled for further discussion at the next meeting.
Multi-signer memo / exploration of scaled development fee framework: Staff confirmed the workload analysis was “greenlit,” the work was already on the staff work plan, and it did not need to go to full council to proceed.

Consent Calendar

Approved the meeting agenda 5-0.
Approved two consent items 5-0.

Key Outcomes

Agenda approved 5-0.
Consent calendar approved 5-0.
Confirmed staff is proceeding with the scaled development fee framework exploration (no full council action required).
“Time certain” request for February 24 item 3.3 was deferred for reconsideration; staff to check whether any timing requirements apply and report back.