Call the rules and over government committee meeting to order.

Let's start with role, please.

Here thank you.

We're going to start by reviewing the council agenda for Tuesday, May 12th.

Well, you can't bring me anywhere.

All right.

We'll start with this agenda.

The um closed session at 9:30, regular session at 1 30, and consent starts on page five.

All right, need some duct tape.

Uh consent ends on.

Consent ends on page six.

Section three, we have a public hearing on the operating capital budgets.

Um, and in section five, we have an amendment to the airport master plan.

Section six, public services solid waste services rate, section eight major events status report, and eight point two being deferred to June second.

And looks like there's no land use items.

So do we have any public comment?

Approval.

All right, I don't see any hands, so let's vote.

That motion carries five zero.

And now we're on to our first review of the agenda for Tuesday, May 19th.

This one has a 9 30 closed session, 1 30 regular session, and cancellation of the evening session and consent starts on page five, and continues on pages six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and ends on page eleven.

Section three, our citywide customer experience transformation status report.

Section five.

Item five one deferred to June 2nd.

Item six one, San Jose Clean Energy Programmap status report, and one item in land use and our environmental review policy.

We have any public comment?

All right.

We have a motion and a second, so let's vote on the agenda.

Okay, that motion carries five zero.

And so now we're on to our consent calendar, which has only one item today.

Do we have a motion on consent?

So any public comment on consent.

I just thought it was important to acknowledge the work that the auditors do and how it keeps us all in the straight and narrow, so to speak, and I just want to thank them.

Okay, back to the committee.

We have a motion already, so let's vote.

And that motion carries five zero.

Now we're on to item one of action, a policy analysis of vacant commercial storefront activation tools.

Um were you here to, did you want to say something on this council member?

No.

Oh, okay.

Anybody, nobody any public comment on this one?

I know activating our storefronts is a critical area, critical.

Um the city has talked about it quite a bit.

I don't know how much you've actually resourced right down the street of San Jose State.

I have the they have civil engineers, they have people that are hungry to get something done, and I bet you if you cooperated with them, you may already do that, I'm not sure.

But this could really open the door for some people to actually get some their feet wet in city work, and certainly not a far away to commute, and best of both worlds.

I'd encourage you to look into it if you're not doing that now.

Thank you.

Jordan Moldow, district three.

I'm supportive of doing what we can to try and eliminate hurdles to uh filling in vacant storefronts.

Um I wanted to add some of my own thoughts on the matter.

Uh I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, and I went to a coffee shop, and then I noticed that later in the evening, it's no longer a coffee shop, it's a bar.

So two completely different businesses operating in the same storefront, presumably, you know, each paying half the rent or something like that.

And so I'm not familiar with what restrictions may or may not be in place for that kind of use, but if there are any restrictions like that, we might want to see if we can make it easier to do things like that because maybe a business isn't profitable enough to be open for a full day in order to pay the rent.

But if two businesses could move in uh and pay half the rent, then maybe that opens up more opportunities uh that we wouldn't have otherwise.

So I'd encourage maybe to add something like that into the scope.

Uh and then maybe other creative ways that we might think about uh besides just getting a single business into a storefront.

Um, you know, I don't know if there's ways that you know if a BID collectively wants to make us a particular storefront uh less empty.

I don't know if there's ways for BIDs to pull their money and rent a vacant storefront to do something collectively with the space.

So I don't know, but uh yeah, hopefully we can think creatively on that.