That we get started.

So let's begin with the pledge.

If you're able, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I'm such a United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice all.

Great, thank you.

Today's invocation will be provided by Eddie Garcia, author of the Mexican Heritage Plaza, a symbol of resilience and perseverance.

Councilmember Ortiz, please tell us more.

Thank you so much, Vice Mayor.

Eddie Garcia is a retired executive, author, and former school board president, a try a heart transplant warrior, and for me personally, an excellent friend.

He's a lifelong East San Jose resident.

Eddie began his career as an aide to Blanca Alvarado, the first council member to represent District 5, dedicating decades of his life to public service and uplifting our community.

After a decade-long battle with heart failure, Eddie received a life-saving heart transplant and went on to write a memoir documenting his remarkable journey of resilience, faith, and perseverance.

Earlier this year, Eddie authored and published Mexican Heritage Plaza, a symbol of resilience and perseverance, a powerful book that highlights Mexican-American leaders who fought institutional oppression and helped build the cultural and civic foundation of East San Jose.

The stories in this book remind us of the courage, advocacy, and community leadership that continues to inspire us today.

It's true honor to introduce my good friend Eddie Garcia.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Councilmember Ortiz, for this honor and for this invitation.

Where are you?

There you are.

As someone who grew up on the east side, I'm very honored to have the opportunity to do this.

I'm going to start with a little known fact.

The City of San Jose was founded on November 29th, 177.

But here's the fun fact.

With that, I'm going to read a brief passage from the book.

Through the 20th century, the handful of historians who wrote about San Jose's history ignored the ethnic Mexican experience.

Beginning in the early 1950s, ethnic Mexicans unsuccessfully attempted to establish a cultural center to celebrate the city's Mexican birthright.

Proposals from the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s faced institutional roadblocks, financial challenges, and community divisions.

Ultimately, none of these projects progressed past the beyond the none of these projects progressed beyond the idea phase.

Despite efforts by generations of San Jose's ruling class to marginalize the contributions of ethnic Mexicans to the city's development, a group of Mexican-American civic leaders overcame seemingly impossible odds in the 1990s to build a state-of-the-art Mexican cultural center that would become a symbol of Mexican-American resilience and perseverance.

And as all you know, as you all know, that beautiful facility sits in District 5.

When I was doing research for the book, the founder's tenacity reminded me of a verse, a powerful verse about hope from St.

Paul's letter to the Romans.

He wrote, We rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.

With dwindling budgets, increasing demand for services, and little help from the chaos in Washington, DC, our mayor and city council face enormous challenges every single day.

Let us encourage them to take notice of St.

Paul's wide words by rejoicing in their challenges, persevering, and strengthening their character to make hard decisions to help people.

Into traditions that meet our personal beliefs, let us offer prayers to them as they do their work today.

God bless our mayor and city council and all of those of us who live in our beautiful city.

Thank you for the invitation.

Again, that was Eddie Garcia, co-author, and thank you, Vice Mayor for kicking things off.

We are on to our ceremonial items.

Councilman Duan, if you join me at the podium, we will recognize and proclaim Peace Officers Memorial Day.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Today we gather to recognize National Peace Officer Memorial Day.

A time to honor the brave men and women in law enforcement who have given their lives in the line of duty.

Having served our community first as a firefighterslash captain and now as a council member, I have had the privilege to work alongside so many dedicated public safety professionals.

I've seen firsthand the courage it take to answer calls, the sacrifice made not only by those who serve, but also by their family, and the deep commitment it takes to protect others every single day.

Here in San Jose, this day carry a deep personal meaning.

We remember the heroes from our own community who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to others.

Today we honor Sergeant Morris Van Dyke Hubbard, Officer John Buck.

Officer John Kovast, Officer Richard Huerta, Officer Robert White, Officer Henry Bunch, Officer Robert Worth, Officer Gene Simpson, Officer Gordon Silva, Officer Des Moyne Casey, Officer Jeffrey M.

Fontana, Officer Michael J.

Johnson, Officer Michael J.

Cetterman, and Community Service Officer Long Fam.

These names are more than names engrave in memory.

They are father, son, brothers, friend, partners, and colleagues.

They were public servants who put on the badge each day knowing the risk, yet chose to serve.

The courage, their sacrifice, and their legacy will forever be a part of the story of San Jose.

We also honor the families, loved ones, and fellow officers who continue to carry their memories forward with strength, pride, and resilience.

Your sacrifice and your service alongside them will never be forgotten.

It is my honor, alongside my colleagues on the San Jose City Council to proclaim May 15th, 2026, as Peace Officers Memorial Day in the city of San Jose.

May we always remember those we have lost, honor the lives they live, and continue to show our deepest gratitude to all peace officers who serve and protect our community.

Thank you.

And now the mayor will present the commendation.

Thank you for being here.

If you join me here at the podium, we will recognize and proclaim May as Historic Preservation Month.

Good afternoon, everyone.

As the council's liaison to the Historic Landmarks Commission, I'm honored to be here to recognize Historic Preservation Month in San Jose.

This year's national theme, all people are created equal, reminds us that historic preservation must tell the story of our communities by elevating underrepresented voices and experiences.

Historic preservation is about more than protecting buildings.

It is about preserving the stories, traditions, and lived experiences connected to the places that shape our city.

It is how we tell the full story of who we are.

Today, San Jose is home to nearly 230 historic landmarks, eight historic districts, including the recent Sheley District in District 6, and seven conservation areas, each reflecting the diverse communities and contributions that have shaped our city over generations.

As we approach the nation's 250th anniversary in 2027, this year's theme underscores the importance of ensuring preservation reflects the full and diverse history of all people, especially by elevating stories and sites that have too often been underrepresented.

As we also approach San Jose's 250th next year, we also want to remind you that the 2027 annual California Preservation Conference will be taking place right here in San Jose with over 600 visitors from across the nation.

This month I encourage everyone in San Jose to celebrate Historic Preservation Month by learning more about our historic landmarks and the ongoing work to preserve them.

At this time, I'd like to invite Rachel Royer.

Rachel, her day job is actually activating some of our older buildings in the city of San Jose, putting small businesses in business and enlivening the area around SAP at Creekside Socials.

Rachel also serves as the chair of the Historic Landmarks Commission.

She's going to share a few remarks, and then the mayor will present the comp the proclamation.

Rachel.

Thank you, Councilmember Mulcahy and members of the Council for this proclamation, recognizing National Historic Preservation Month.

Historic preservation is about far more than protecting old buildings.

It is about preserving stories, people, and moments that share that shaped San Jose and continue to shape who we are today.

From the agricultural roots of the Santa Clara Valley to neighborhoods, landmarks, and cultural sites that define our city, these places connect us to our shared past while strengthening our sense of identity and community.

This year's theme, All People Are Created equal, is especially meaningful because it reminds us that preservation reflects the full and diverse history of San Jose.

It is an immune opportunity to elevate the underrepresented stories and recognize the many communities, cultures, and experiences that helped build our city.

Historic places are more than just structures.

They're places where memories are made, cultures are celebrated, and businesses grow, and communities fight find belonging.

Preservation helps us carry those stories forward while shaping a stronger and more inclusive future.

Landmarks such as the Tommy Smith House on North 11th Street, the Bayside Canning Company building in Elviso, and the Duby Brothers House on 12th Street, along with neighborhoods like Japan Town and Little Portugal, each tell a different story of San Jose.

Together, they reflect the diversity and cultural heritage that make our city unique.

Preservation is also important to San Jose's future.

Adaptive reuse and rehabilitation support local businesses, create jobs, encourage sustainable development, and help maintain the character of our neighborhoods as the city continues to grow and evolve.

We are also excited to announce the launch of the My San Jose Project, which invites residents to contribute and explore the places, memories, and personal connections that divine San Jose.

We encourage everyone to visit bit.ly slash my San Jose, select a location, and share why that place matters to you.

Thank you again for recognizing Historic Preservation Month, and we encourage all residents to take time this month to celebrate the places, stories, and communities that make San Jose home.

Well said.

Thanks for all the great work you do in the community today.

Thank you all very much.

I'll take a photo of this.

And now I'd like to invite Councilmember Ortiz to join me at the podium.

We will recognize and proclaim National Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women's Awareness Day.

Thank you, Mayor.

I want to thank everyone for being here today as we recognize Murdered Missing Indigenous Women Awareness Day.

This day is about honoring lives, uplifting families, and acknowledging a crisis that continues to impact Indigenous communities across our country.

The data is difficult, but it's important that we say it out loud.

Here in our region, research led by the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley found that 55% of participants had a murdered relative.

50% had a missing relative.

55 experience 55% experienced domestic violence, and 54% experienced sexual assault in their lifetime.

These numbers are not just statistics, they represent real people, real families, and generations impacted by a systemic injustice.

That's why the work of the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley is so important.

Through community-based research, advocacy, and culturally responsive care, they are not only raising awareness, but also supporting healing and pushing for solutions rooted in community.

So alongside the mayor and my colleagues on the city council, we are proud, we are proud to proclaim May 5th as Murdered and Missing Indigenous Awareness Day here in the city of San Jose.

At this time, I'd like to invite Anasita Miller, Prevention Services Program Director, to thank Councilmember Ortiz for this important proclamation.

From the depths of our heart, we appreciate your steadfast commitment to ensuring we create a world where Indigenous people can live in safety and dignity.

As indigenous people, we have endured centuries of genocidal attacks, neglect and erasure, and yet we continue to remain committed to the protection of our lands and our people.

The issue of missing and murdered indigenous people is not just a hashtag.

It does not just affect the community once a year in the month of May.

It is an earth-shattering grief that families carry every single day.

It is the silent tears of a father who has been forced to bury his own son, and the grief of a mother who is still searching for her beloved daughter with no answers and no support.

It is grief that is profoundly unjust with deep colonial roots.

And though the weight of the grief can feel crushing at times, our community continues to transform our grief into action and hope.

For decades, mothers, fathers, aunties, uncles, grandparents, community organizers, land defenders.

We've all come together to demand justice for all of our relatives.

And that includes justice for our sisters, our brothers, our two spirit kin, our trans relatives, our unhoused relatives, our relatives struggling with the substance use, our relatives with severe mental health conditions, our children and foster care, our incarcerated relatives, our relatives who have survived sexual violence, our relatives with disabilities, and our elders who are survivors of boarding schools.

While this proclamation is an important step to acknowledging the depth of this crisis in the Bay Area, we would also like to respectfully request that the City of San Jose create a MMIP task force to truly address the crisis locally and to ensure that the task force is made up of directly impacted individuals and family members.

We like to thank you, Mayor, for this time and the rest of the council members.

A cat.

If the mayor can please present the proclamation, and if my colleagues would like to join, please feel free to come down.

We're back to our agenda and on orders of the day.

We do have an adjournment.

I don't believe we have any changes to the agenda.

Is that correct?

I wasn't made aware of any.

Okay.

Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of Thomas Tommy Nunez, who passed away on April 24th, 2026.

A long time NBA referee.

He devoted his life to empowering youth to pursue brighter futures.

Councilmember Condelas, please tell us more.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, as mentioned today, uh, we adjourn in loving memory of Thomas Tommy Nunez.

Uh Tommy was the first Mexican American uh referee in professional sports and officiated in the NBA or the National Basketball Association for more than three decades.

Uh before that, he proudly served uh our country in the United States Marine Corps.

He was a mentor, a leader, and a constant source of encouragement to so many, especially young people, whom he inspired to pursue both athletics and education.

In 1980, he founded and sponsored the National Hispanic Basketball Classic, an annual tournament that brought together players of all ages from across the country.

Through his academics through athletics campaign, Tommy was personally involved in the fight to reduce dropout rates and address the many social challenges facing our youth.

His commitment to serving economically disadvantaged communities came from personal experience.

He was deeply proud of being a product of the barrio and understood firsthand the adversity that many young people face.

Beyond his philanthropy, Domin's mentorship and guidance helps shape the lives of thousands of people, including my own.

I know him warmly as Uncle Tommy, and I'll always cherish the drives to countless basketball games while he served as a regional advisor for the NCAA for the March Madness Tournament.

The impact he and the foundation had on youth, especially Latino youth, reached communities throughout the country.

I also want to uh take a moment to extend my thoughts, prayers, and deepest condolences, condolences to his family and loved ones during this difficult time.

I will miss him deeply, and I know his legacy will live on through the countless lives he empowered.

May he rest in peace.

Thank you, Councilman.

That was a nice adjournment.

Appreciate your reflections.

We're on to our closed session report.

Yes, the city council met in closed session with their labor negotiator regarding the status of negotiations as noticed on the closed session agenda, and there's nothing to report at this time.

Okay, thank you, Susan.

All right.

Next is the consent calendar.

I know Councilman Condelas would like to pull it on 2.8.

Are there any other requests from the council?

Not seeing any.

I will turn to the council member and ask if if he so chooses to maybe move uh consent when he's done with his comments.

Sounds good.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, first of all, I just wanted to quickly thank uh finance and ESD for uh launching this this critical affordability pilot.

Um, you know, a few weeks ago I actually attended the Santa Clara Valley Water Commission where we had a discussion uh where uh you know contributions for their water rate assistance program uh was brought up, especially for those struggling with their water bills.

Uh the Valley Water Board directors who attended acknowledged uh the difficult economic climate, but also challenged uh the commissioners uh who were there to do something about it within their respective cities.

And well, I am proud that we are, uh, because now more than ever our community faces economic challenges and and water service interruptions due to unpaid bills, uh creates significant hardship.

Um and I I just wanted to say that I plan to track this pilot's effectiveness, uh, especially for its potential long-term implement implementation, and we'll definitely be getting the word out to potential applicants, uh, and those uh who are in need.

Uh thank you again for the uh for the for the work of this department um and and look forward to to seeing this roll out, and we will help with the rollout as well.

Uh and that being said, I'll move approval of the consent calendar in its entirety.

Thank you, Mayor.

Great, thank you.

I don't see any hands.

Tony, do we have public comment on consent?

Yes, Brian.

Brian Darby, come on down.

Hello, everybody.

Hello, Mayor.

Hi.

Good luck.

Anyways, um, if they could, they would charge for air.

And and they would take every pen penny out.

I don't know who that we is, but there's some we out there.

I can't imagine not having water running in your home in the richest country that has ever existed on the face of human on the face of this earth.

That should just make us angry.

It won't, but it should.

And it's frustrating that water districts and the perceived corruption of things like water, things like um housing, things that should be just what people need just to survive.

Thank you for starting this, and I hope we can roll it out to everybody.

People should not have to wonder where their water is coming from.

It just doesn't seem right.

Thank you.

Back to council.

Great.

Thank you, Tony.

I still don't have any hands, so let's vote.

I'm missing one voter.

My uh screen isn't working, but I'm a yes.

Okay.

So with that verbal vote, the um the result is unanimous.

Great.

Thank you, Tony.

See what's wrong with it.

Is it working now or do we need okay?

You got it.

Awesome.

All right, we are on to item 3.1, report of the city manager.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

I do not have a report today.

That's an efficient report.

Thank you.

All right.

We're on to item 3.3.

Public hearing on the 2026-2027 proposed operating capital budgets and the 2026 through 2027 proposed fees and charges for the City of San Jose.

Uh there is no presentation, so we'll go straight to public comment.

Okay, I currently have 12 cards.

When I call your name, please come up to the podium.

You do not need to come in the order that you're called.

We appreciate if you do not applaud or boo and you show appreciation with hand gestures, thumbs up, jazz hands, so we can hear everybody.

So I'll call about five names and then I'll add Susan St.

Clair, Karen, Ms.

Rayan Mendoza, Joanna Bacera, and Jeremy Barus.

Come on down.

Thank you, Tony.

And as folks are coming down, I'll just note for anyone who wanted to speak and has not done so before.

We have comment cards here.

They are um yellow, pink, or purple.

Just fill out a card, drop it in the box, and we'll collect it for the clerk.

And as soon as you first one down, can go ahead and begin, and you'll have two minutes.

Welcome.

Thank you.

My name is Susan St.

Clair.

I'm a resident of Willow Glenn District 6.

I retired five years ago at the age of 71.

Medicare talks by insurance brokers were confusing and offered only their product.

Luckily, I saw an ad for SourceWise at HICAP.

After two meetings, I understood Medicare and drug options and costs and how to file.

Thank you, High Cap.

One time Sutter Health billed me $500.

Medicare said I absolutely did not owe that.

After many, many, many long phone conversations with both sides, I got nowhere.

I asked SourceWise for help.

They reviewed the bills, they understood the problems, they called both sides, they acted as a mediator.

After three years, Sutter Health acknowledged their error.

I owe nothing thanks to SourceWise.

My Party drug plan went from a premium of a dollar eighty a month to 156 dollars a month.

That was the premium.

I needed Source-Wise to help find another affordable plan.

They did.

With HICAP's well-trained team, I filed for Medicare timely and correctly.

Sutter deleted their billing error.

My monthly drug plan premium was reduced.

I am so pleased with HICAP.

I referred many friends.

This program was cut 42% last year.

Their $300,000 budget is minimal.

We elders need more resources, not fewer.

Who else will help us?

Who else provides low-cost, excellent, understandable, individualized, unbiased services for older adults health and wellness.

Please prioritize HICAP funding.

We are told it's an aging population.

Why cut services to this elderly population?

Why put elders at risk?

Please fund HICAP.

Renew the grant.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Hi, I am Karen, and I live in District 4 and have for 30 years.

And I'm a member of uh showing up for racial justice and I'm a rapid responder.

Uh federal cuts have forced painful choices, but how we spend our money as a city shows who we really are.

I'm asking you to preserve the full one million dollar funding for immigration services and to activate the mayor's commitment to raise an additional $500,000 from philanthropic um sources.

I have witnessed as a responder um masked unaccountable ICE agents, taking people who are just checking in as required, and I've heard from other neighbors who are terrified.

The terror is real and it's here where we live.

Our most vulnerable need neighbors need us, please fully fund our immigration services.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Also, Linda Phillips, come on down, and Shannon Zee.

My name is Joana Becerra y soy organizadora comunitaria.

Estoy aquí para pedirles que inviertan un million de dollars in services de immigration para nuestra comunidad.

Muchas familias immigrantes viven con miedo y confusion porque no tienen acceso a ayuda legal confiable.

Muchas personas qualifican para alivios migratorios.

Citizenship, Docker Renewal, Work Permit or Family Reunification, but they do not have the resources to pay for private lawyers.

Investing in migration services doesn't just help individuals.

It helps the whole city.

It helps children grow up healthy and protected families with stability.

Protected families can work, open businesses, participate in schools, and contribute more to our economy and community.

Let's not forget that San Jose has always said that it is an inclusive and diverse city.

This is the time to prove it with real actions and real funding.

I ask that you prioritize at least one million dollars for immigration services for working families.

Every six days, one person dies in ICE custody.

These services are lifelines for our families trying to stay safe, stable, and connected to the communities where they belong here in San Jose.

And immigration services are a preventive spending tool.

Okay.

Legal representation reduces, family displacement, homeless risk, foster care disruption in the system, and emergency shelter use and long-term social services.

And now even to talk about the trauma for generations that these families are gonna have to carry, because the pain that has been inflicted by the federal government.

So is your duty as representatives of this city to help us all?

We are 42% living here in San Jose.

Okay?

And if I tell you this before, a government is measure the way you treat your most vulnerable.

And these services are needed.

Okay, and that's your responsibility again.

It's your responsibility and should not be begging every year for these services.

Okay.

Thank you for your attention.

Thank you, next speaker.

Georgia Basile, come on down, Deb Gordon and Brian Darby.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

Jeremy Barus with Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment.

And we urge the council to invest a full million dollars in immigration services in the city budget.

We do know that there are tough decisions to be made.

We also want to also thank Council members Ortiz, Duan, Molkehi, and Torrios for participating in our event on Saturday.

It was a productive conversation, and we hope that we can continue to engage and have a productive conversation as we move forward in the budget process.

Without these funds, we could lose immigration attorneys that have been assigned to the different organizations that were awarded funds.

We also could, the Raptor Response Network could also lose dispatch days that you know for dispatch for the 24-7 ICE hotline and also the cut of four legal service organizations that provide emergency legal services to those who are detained.

The Rapid Response Network has become a trusted source for verified information about immigration enforcement and a cornerstone of community preparedness.

San Jose is the most impacted city in our county with detentions impacting residents across 22 different zip codes.

A stark reminder that no community within the city is insulated.

So let's invest in the very community that vests that invests in us every day.

Please preserve a full million dollars for immigration and legal services in the next year's fiscal budget.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

My name is Linda Phillips with SourceWise, a nonprofit in the area agency on aging to Santa Clara County.

We are one of nine profits today, once again asking for continued funding of the older adult health and wellness grant.

Last year, these programs already took a 42% cut while working to respond to an increase in demand for our services.

These key prevention services help seniors stay stable and reduce reliance on costly safety net supports.

Without them, we know seniors will likely experience higher risk of food insecurity, challenges to health care access, housing instability, social isolation, and mental health decline.

By failing to continue investing in nonprofit providers, the city risks incurring higher long-term public costs, such as potential increases in emergency room visits, protective service interventions, and institutional care placements.

I urge you to maintain funding to serve older adults in our community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon.

My name is Shannon, speaking on behalf of the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits and in solidarity with older adult health and wellness providers here today.

We strongly urge you to restore funding in this year's budget.

These services are unduplicated, essential components of the safety net that support historically underserved, non-English speaking and medically fragile older adults.

Without this funding, the city relies on parents with young children who are already stretched thin, working to stay housed and provide child care to support their older adult family members.

By failing to continue investing in older adult providers, the city risks incurring higher long-term public costs.

We understand that the city is seeking to balance this budget in seeking cuts to balance his budget in an exceptionally difficult fiscal year.

Um, but eliminating these services should not be the answer, especially considering the city's steep 350 million dollar investment in a sports arena.

In contrast, older adult providers last year already experienced a 42% cut while demand increases in federal funding streams dry up.

We thank Vice Mayor Foley for spotlighting this issue at yesterday's budget study session, and we urge the rest of the council not to balance the budget on the backs of San Jose's older adult population.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon, Mayor, Mayor Mahan and Council.

My name is Deb Gordon.

I live in the villages in the foothills of District 8.

I'm here today because fire safety is a real concern for me and many of the over 4,000 seniors who live in the village's Gulf and Country Club.

I'm a member of the village's HOA board of Directors and also the chair of our Firewise Committee.

We worked with Captain Ibarra of the San Jose Fire Department and others of his team specializing in wildfire response to obtain the honor of becoming a nationally recognized Firewise community, first to do so in San Jose and Santa Clara County.

The perimeter of our homes back up to Johnson Ranch and other wildlands, and according to the Calfire maps, many of our condos and single-family homes are located in the high fire zone of the wooy.

Since 90% of wildfires in the wooy are started by flying embers, we rely heavily on Captain Abarra to identify the necessary fire hardening work we need to do to defend our property until the fire department can get there to defend us.

Should a wildfire start.

We need these well-trained firemen and specialized equipment like the Wildlands truck for tight spaces to keep our communities in the hilllands safe.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, they forecast high fire danger expanding into Northern California by July.

Due to the low snow pack, early heat, and ongoing drought.

Please let's avoid any unintended consequences through budget cut actions that would reduce emergency response capacity in the hills.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you, next speaker.

I'd also like to call Larry, Diana, and Kathleen to come on down.

Good afternoon, Mayor Mahan and Council.

My name is Larry McNary.

My wife and Cheryl and I live in the foothills in District 8 in the villages.

We moved to San Jose 44 years ago to raise our young and growing family.

The reason we chose San Jose is because we knew it was a safe city.

Excuse me.

We knew it had an excellent police department.

We knew it had an excellent fire department.

That's why we chose San Jose.

It actually worked out pretty well for us.

Our children grew up, they started their own families.

We decided to downsize and move to the villages.

The villages is a beautiful community in the foothills, but it borders some wildland areas.

We always felt safe living in San Jose until we heard that our city council was considering reducing the essential resources available to fight wildfires, thereby jeopardizing the safety of its citizens living near wildland areas.

The loss of essential wild land fire fighting resources places our villages' community at greater risk.

I implore you to do the right thing and protect essential wildland firefighting resources and avoid budget actions that would place our community at greater risk.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

I'm Diana Halleck.

I also live in the villages, but you guys are all newcomers because my family moved to San Jose 1840.

The original city hall down on Mission Street was donated by my Uncle Herman.

So we've been here a long time and we'd like to stay here a long time.

And the one thing we want to do is preserve the services that you have so graciously given us all through these years.

I'm delighted it's national or historic preservation month because you cannot take away firefighting equipment, firefighting training, firefighting awareness from folks that are 50, 60, 70, 90.

We have many hundred-year-old residents in the villages.

So while the type three fire truck that you're considering is a beautiful piece of equipment, those little type six trucks that can zip in there and put out fires close to homes and on steep terrain is really really critical.

So thank you all for joining me in my city, and please protect our wildland fire equipment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Marcello, come on down.

Halleck, McNary, and Kathy Early.

Okay.

You tried telling them, Mr.

Mayor, last the time when they people got increases in salaries, and they deserved it.

I'm not saying that that the money only goes so much.

We're talking about preserving people's lives, fire, water, services for the elderly, of which I'm finding myself joining quickly.

And I I, you know, when the gentleman came down the golden escalator, I tried telling people.

You know, I you did all you have to do is just read about what he did to his business partners.

That's all you have to do.

That's what I did.

And nothing has been a surprise.

In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't gone down faster.

But there are people out there that think we're gonna be this individuals that we're gonna overcome, we're gonna hunt for our own food out here on First Street, we're gonna drill our own wells.

The last time we lived totally separate was well, never since we've been a species for at least two thousand two hundred thousand years.

Never.

We're a social species.

We always have.

This idea of the rugged individualist doesn't exist and it never has.

And that's the idea people want us to get by.

Preserving these services is required, and you have to have a balanced budget.

I don't have a lot of the answers.

I don't pretend to.

All I know is what you're preserving are people's lives.

So I have to think hard.

I'm glad I'm not in your place.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Hello, my name is Kathleen Helsing.

I live in California, Oak Creek, the most southern neighborhood off San Felipe Road before you get to the foothills.

I urge you not to cut the wildline engine staffing.

This talk, this council talks a lot about affordability and housing in San Jose.

Well, I can't afford to lose my home, my housing in a fire.

Supposedly, San Jose is one of the safest, largest large cities in the state, and maybe the country.

I want to be safe from both crime and fire.

I won't feel safe without this funding.

My family has been packed ready for evacuation twice.

We witnessed from in front of our home firefighters being dropped by helicopters into the foothills.

We saw the flames and how they were quickly put out by those firefighters.

San Felipe is a narrow rural eucalyptus-lined road.

Imagine the disaster if we must flee a fire.

There will be a bottleneck of cars from the 300 homes where I live.

We will then be stuck behind behind the 300 plus homes in the Meadowlands, trying to flee.

The neighborhood next to us has padlocked our egress fire lane, and the country club has padlocked their back gate.

We will not be safe on a log jam San Felipe.

San Jose wants to be known as a progressive and innovative city.

We don't want to be known as the next specific Palisades, Altadina, Paradise, or Oakland Hills.

Please don't take away our safely safety.

Please don't cut the wildland engine staffing and our fire fighting money.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Hi, good afternoon, Mayor Mayhan, Council members.

My name is Marcelo Aspiritu.

I live in District 10.

I'm the director of the health insurance counseling and advocacy program at SourceWise.

You heard from one of our uh clients, Susan recently.

Basically, we help people with understanding their Medicare and Medicaid options.

As you know, maybe you've helped your own parents, it can be very confusing and complicated, and in many cases, dire.

People are trying to get access to the care that they need to help with their conditions.

So through our network of volunteers, we're able to uh assist a lot of people.

And I'd say we're on the front lines of keeping people in their homes, particularly again, older adults who are very low income.

I had a client the other day who needed to get help at Stanford, and he wasn't getting help in his in his uh particular medical facility, wasn't sure about Medi-Cal, and so we took the time to look at his income, get him signed up for Medi-Cal, and now he has access to Stanford to get help with this condition that he's been suffering for years.

So we help a lot of older adults who, again, are close to because of their fixed income, really need help, and and we can do that.

So I urge you to continue the funding for the older adult health and wellness grant.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Also, also Kim G, come on down, Georgia B.

Come on down, um Bao True, and Tien.

Fam, come on down.

Go ahead.

Hi, Mayor Mahan and City Council.

My name is Kathleen Early.

I hope I got called.

I'm not sure because I'm a little hard of hearing.

What I wanted to talk to you about is funding for immigration, immigrants' rights, and to recall Martin Niemaler's poem.

Paraphrasing, first they came for the immigrants, but I was not an immigrant, so I did not speak out.

This is a very important issue in our time.

And the fact that more and more people are joining the Rapid Response Network shows that it's important to our citizenry.

This is the moral issue of our time.

The concentration camps in Germany began not as extermination camps but as concentration camps.

As you may, as I'm sure you are aware, the federal government would like to build one in Dublin.

If they manage to do that, they will be able to take many, many more immigrants because they'll have someplace nearby to put them.

I thank you for your attention to this matter.

I haven't used up all my time, but maybe that's okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good afternoon.

Georgia the SEAL, Directing Attorney of Senior Adults Legal Assistants.

We're known as Sala, resident of District 6.

Sala provides free legal services to San Jose residents, 60 or older.

We and seven other agencies are funded by the older adult health and wellness program through PRNS.

The senior commission's budget priorities and MBA number two state health and wellness grants are part of a vital service offered by PRNS.

Further noting that PRNS focuses on recreation activities while using partnerships to offer services that are not recreation-based.

Please sustain health and wellness services this uh upcoming fiscal year in your budget.

This funding supports Salah's legal services at nine senior nutrition sites in San Jose, including Alma, Camden, Cyprus, Eastside, John 23rd, Mayfair, Roosevelt, South Side, and Willow Glen Centers.

This year we will serve more than 300 San Jose seniors with this money.

Next year we'll have to scale back services if we lose funding.

So please sustain funding to support aging in place through this program for San Jose Seniors.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, next speaker.

Yes, good afternoon.

My name is Kim Gaptel.

I'm a resident of D6.

I'm here, as you might imagine, about immigrants in our community.

I know you guys know all of the statistics, so I'm not gonna bore you with that, but I just want to implore you to do whatever you can to support them because just like your families, all they want to do is live here and raise their families and be safe.

And the reason a lot of them are from here is because of forced migration, which was uh, you know, generally caused by the United States interfering in lots of different countries.

So let's not forget that.

We have a responsibility here.

I mean, big time, and uh I the thought of I can't I can't even grasp it of people having to wake up every day and if they manage to get to sleep, uh, worried to death about everything about every step they take outside of their house and inside of their house.

And um, and I know you have budget problems, but these people are 40 percent of our city, and I I don't think you can argue that um they're not worth it.

And I'd also say that um, you know, a million dollars was great last year, and we're still waiting for the five hundred thousand that the um certain members of the council promised to start raising last May 19th.

I'll just point out at a meeting at Amigos at the Mexican Heritage Plaza.

Someone said they were going to raise $500,000, and we haven't seen a penny of that.

However, they have recently raised about at least 14 million when I just last checked for other activities.

So I'm thinking maybe uh thank you, that's your time.

Next speaker, I'd also like to call Nam La Win Chu Chuan and Hong Huen.

Come on down.

Uh good afternoon.

Um, council, members of Mr.

Mayor, Miss uh Vice Mayor, and all of the Councilman and Uman.

My name is Bao Chiu.

I am the president and CEO for Vietnamese voluntary foundation, known as the Vivo also.

We are located in D7 of uh San Jose.

We would like to bring all of the seniors here today to ask uh for the councilman for the city to sustain and preserve the owner of the House and Runners program.

Used to be known as the senior health and runners program.

Vivo has been receiving this fund here for the last uh 10 years, and we've been helping assisting many of our seniors, and they've been benefiting a lot from our program from the ESEL class, from the social dance class, from many uh case management helping them to apply for social services, doing translation, and passing uh citizenship exam.

So the senior have been benefiting a lot from this program here, and without the program going forward next year, it will be a devastating blow to all of them.

So I'd like to bring all of them here, and each of them will speak, and you can hear directly from them, and hopefully you can reconsider the plan to again to Susan and please the owner of the house and one of the program.

And thank you very much.

And I would like to uh pass to the next speaker and um many of them will speak in Vietnamese, and I hope uh if you uh can listen to the translation, thank you.

And I recently moved there.

I've been using the app for four or five years, but the day I arrived, I felt very lonely and sad.

Since I met Vivo, my life has changed.

I'm so happy because I've been able to integrate into the Car to Connect community with Harmonia family and the workshop.

My health has improved significantly.

Respectfully submitted to the city council.

Give it to us.

We are fortunate to receive additional support for vivo in this meaningful program, allowing us to continue our work serving senior citizens like ourselves.

With the city council's approval for us to continue with this program, I would like to thank the council.

I just want to read the last two cards from your group, so I officially call all the names.

Huang Tan and Kuk Duang.

Okay.

Yeah, go ahead.

Those are found jose to vivo.

San Jose and Vivo for supporting our senior community during difficult times in life.

Thanks to Vivo, I have received guidance and connections to many social support resources such as medicine, health care services, food, mental health support, and participation in senior focused activities.

I feel more optimistic and less anxious.

As a result, I feel more at ease and no longer feel anxious about participating in community activities.

Here, I find many programs that I think are very helpful for senior citizens.

Dear esteemed guests.

An opportunity to learn English in a friendly and caring environment.

Besides the ILV class, there were also times when Peter's classmates helped the elderly use cell phones.

It's very helpful for the community, and in addition to health care, there are many other activities that help us feel happy.

Thank you, Speaker.

Not lonely.

At the city council, my name is Tuan.

Thanks to Vivo.

I've made more friends and feel life is more meaningful.

Every day I continue to support this wonderful program so that it can continue for our community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Win Hong.

So you can yung.

I go to the Vivo Center and enjoy a very friendly and good afternoon, Mayor Mahan and Council members.

Um as a concerned San Jose resident and community worker, I urge you to prioritize funding for our senior health and wellness services.

Fully aligning with the recommendations provided by the senior citizen commission.

It's in our city's best interest to be a senior-friendly community.

These vital programs offer very low cost prevention against isolation, depression, and chronic illnesses that plague our aging population.

The benefits multiply healthier seniors, strengthened family units, enabling caregivers to contribute economically, boosting local spending and reducing health care burdens.

Council members, the investments pay dividends for families.

Please allocate some funding to this sector.

We will appreciate your attention to the elder community.

Again, on behalf of Catholic Charities and other civil community-based organizations, should guarantee you that uh for the amount of investment in the senior wellness at Navar City, the DVD that we get, the benefits that the families get is tremendous.

Don't let this program go.

Thank you.

Back to council.

All right.

Coming back to council.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you to all of our public speakers.

Appreciate you raising your important concerns and priorities.

I'm not going to touch on all of them.

I do want to briefly reference two before I turn to colleagues.

So on immigration funding, appreciate the ongoing advocacy.

As we did note last year, we're funding those additional legal and other services with one-time funding.

I know we're all working hard to make some very difficult trade-offs this year.

So again, want to note that we do have 500,000 in one-time funding in the city manager's proposed budget.

I certainly support that investment.

I assume from what I've heard that council colleagues do as well as we progress through uh the budget process and come back with our June message.

We'll continue to have opportunities to discuss trade-offs, but it it will be it will be difficult in this year uh to increase support there without making other very painful trade-offs.

We're getting down to the bone here without a lot of vacancy savings or other um easier things we can do to uh balance our budget.

I do want to note that I was proud late last year, and after following on the community meeting we had out um at the Mexican Heritage Plaza to stand with Mayors Lurie and Bass to uh launch a fund with the SF Foundation, and we've raised a few million dollars regionally from partners, of which over 450,000 has been earmarked for organizations in San Jose, three organizations, Sacred Heart, Somos, and Amigos.

So there is some additional philanthropic funding that's been provided, but obviously we know that the need is is much greater.

But I did want folks to know that I have followed up on philanthropic uh resources and will continue to be making asks, but obviously it's a difficult environment to get uh people to invest in a range of things.

And then on fire risk, because I was a little confused by some of the comments.

I did want to ask our city manager to provide some clarity and make sure we get whether it's an info memo or some kind of something in writing, because I understand a lot of concern in the community, rightly.

I understand my aunt lost her home in paradise and barely got out of that fire, so I appreciate the concern.

City manager, would you share a little?

Yes, um, appreciate the concern as well.

Um, yeah, I think there's uh some misinformation out there.

There is the budget proposal is on page 527 in the fire department section of our proposed operating budget, and it is a wild um land engine staffing reconfiguration proposal, and it does uh take it from a type six engine to a type three engine.

Um, but it's not expected to adversely impact our operational readiness at all.

It it is a larger engine, um, has larger footprint, um, but and it may limit some access in the narrow and steep terrain, but it offers superior water capacity and pumping power for wildland urban interface protection.

If anybody in the community would like more information or specific questions, I encourage you to reach out to our fire chief, and you can reach him on the you can find his email on the internet, but it's Robert.sapian S-A-P-I-E-N at San Jose C A.gov.

Again, it's Robert R-O-B-E-R-T dot sapien S A P I E N at San Jose C A.gov.

And I encourage you to reach out if you have specific questions, but that is absolutely not our intent to put our uh communities at risk with this proposal.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you, Jennifer, and I'm sure um your council offices will, and I know most of our speakers today, at least on this topic, were from DA, but will also be happy to help facilitate making sure we get you the best information, as will my does my office.

Um okay, so thank you again to all of our speakers.

I know a number of important topics were brought up.

I want to bring in colleagues here, and I'll start with Vice Mayor Foley.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you all for coming and expressing your concerns about the various budget items that are uh facing reductions.

Uh, mayor already hit on a couple of them, but I'd like to talk about the senior health and wellness program.

Last year it was slated to be funded to be cut completely from the 600,000, but I was able to find offsetting funds, trade-offs and the other but in the budget to fund 300,000.

Uh, frankly, I'm hoping to do the same again this year.

It is critical that we provide programs for our seniors for their health and wellness.

As the uh staff uh city council person who is the liaison to the senior commission, their uh comments and concerns are very valid, and I take them very much to heart and am doing what I can to find again the offsetting numbers on the other side of the budget, but it is a difficult time uh a difficult year for us economically.

You all have heard where we are, but I'm I'm hoping to find those dollars.

But and I just want to thank you all for coming and advocating for programs that are important to us.

Thanks.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

Let's go now to Councilmember Condelas.

Uh thank you.

Um, I I just wanted to express my appreciation for everybody who came out to speak on the the proposed operating budget.

There's there's still several uh operating uh operational budget meetings that we have to have.

So this is just the beginning of the problem.

We just finished our budget hearing, and then we have uh I believe we have another hearing on this uh in what two weeks, June 8th.

So that we have a subsequent meeting uh to discuss the finalized budget as as the administration takes all of our comments into into uh implementation.

And so, you know, whether it's immigration funding for older adults, Marcelo, I haven't seen you in years since our health fair days with Jim Bell.

It's good to see you, um, or or folks in the villages.

Uh, I appreciate you coming out, and you know, I also appreciate the city manager mentioning the the write-up.

While it is true it is a bigger engine, um there.

One of the concerns that I had yesterday for the for the for the fire chief was on the potential that's written in the memorandum on the trade-off of uh of the rig itself uh having issues with difficult terrain, narrow, narrow roadways, and uh and steep climbs, and that is the issue at hand.

And while you know, I asked and I and I got reassurances from the fire chief that that it may not necessarily be the case, and he doesn't anticipate that from his professional opinion, which I respect.

Um, but the fact remains that this is still out there, and this is still a concern for some of our raised residents and neighbors, and I don't, you know, we we can say that and we but unintentional consequences still matter, and that is the point, and I appreciate folks coming out to speak, and um, and that is something that that I'm carefully tracking.

Uh, in addition to to the rigs and the operational changes at the fire station adjacent to to the villages in my district.

Um, there we're also taking actions as a city with vegetation management to reduce fuel load at Alam Rock Park.

We're investing a million dollars, proposed a million dollars out of the general fund, uh, which I'm also encouraging to tap statewide resources like Cap and Trade, Cap and Invest now, to see if we can reduce the fuel load along the hillsides adjacent to the villages as well.

And and I'm sure everybody's gonna lean into that ask, and and while I appreciate um the the reinforcement that uh it is not our intent to have unintended consequences is still a concern, and I just wanted to uplift that issue.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

I appreciate that.

Let me turn to Councilmember Ortiz.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I want to thank everyone who came out and and spoke.

Really appreciate you taking the time to be here for this budget hearing.

Uh, I know many of you have prioritized this, you know, in respect to you know, miss missing time with job or with your work or with your family, and so I want to thank you for taking a part in civic the civic conversation, especially as it relates to our budget.

Just want to comment on a few of the things that were mentioned during the discussion.

First off, senior health and wellness.

That's definitely front in mind for me.

Given uh East San Jose has a high percentage of seniors who have been disconnected to resources, and I know they rely on uh many of these these services for you know daily daily um you know food.

Um last year during the budget, I was able to work with Angel Rios and Eric Sullivan in order to get some money to uh continue uh um these this support at uh POSU, the Portuguese uh you know service organization here on the east side.

It's gonna be a little bit harder uh this year, but um you know, I'm committed to meeting with uh individuals who have concerns over this.

I'm gonna be meeting with the community organizations in my district uh to see what could be done.

Um also uh in regards to immigration.

Uh obviously this is something that's very important to me given I I represent East San Jose and the Mayfair uh community.

Um, you know, I think that uh first I want to thank the city manager for putting in the $500,000.

I want to make sure people know that this wasn't a given.

Uh and I had multiple meetings with the city manager.

I know multiple several of my colleagues had conversations with the city manager stressing the importance of this.

Uh and I think that this this city council, the individuals on the city council really have been a trailblazer uh when it comes to standing up for our immigrant community.

I think before uh last year's million dollars that were allocated, the most that the city allocated to the Rapid Response Network was $50,000.

And so from going from $50,000 to a million dollars, that was huge.

That was thanks to many of the advocates here in this room.

You know, we just vote on the issue, but you guys come out here and you advocate and you share your um your truth, and uh I know that that gives us you know the uh the support we need to advocate from this dais.

I mean, even though this 500,000 isn't what you know our our community is hoping for, it is a huge increase.

And I just want to commit to working with this group.

Uh, you know, there the budget has to have trade-offs.

Uh and so I wanna I want to make sure that I make myself available, ask my colleagues uh to make them themselves available because we're already hearing that uh the Trump administration is gonna be doubling down on immigration enforcement.

Um, you know, they're looking, I think they're across the state, they're looking to open up ICE detention centers.

God forbid for that something like that opens up in uh in Santa Clara County.

Um and so, you know, easy easy for me to say like let's get the million dollars without um without having necessarily something we can cut.

We already hearing from residents, we're already cutting quite a bit, um, but I'm I'm gonna be leaning in during this budget um to see what we can do to move the needle on immigration, and I ask my colleagues to do as well.

And I and I know you guys will because we've actually done a lot for our immigrant community.

So I want to thank my colleagues for continuing to support our undocumented community and hopefully we could what's we could do uh something in this budget cycle to to give them the support they need.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Let me turn now to Councilmember Kamehameha.

Thank you so much.

I want to thank everyone who came out today um to uh give us your thoughts on uh this important budget issue.

Um I also want to ask you to please uh take a look at the city manager's 2026-27 budget message under attachment E.

If you think that uh these are tough cuts, we will have even further cuts, and there is a contingency plan in the budget, which I represent the I mean the liaison to the Library and Education Commission, and they will lose half 25 uh FTEs uh should things not go well in terms of uh uh the June um the June uh election.

So I think that if you can look at the contingency plan, there are further cuts if you know things don't go our way, and this is an economic issue in terms of not having the funds necessary for all of the things that are important.

You know, the immigration funds that's critically important.

We really really need to be there with our immigrant community.

Source-wise is important, sala is important, vivo is important.

This is these are all important things.

But as my colleagues have said, it is a trade-off.

And if we have to cut even more, we will know on our June 8th meeting.

So uh please take a look at that.

It is critically important that people uh know that there is a contingency plan.

Should things not go well for the city, and uh and it it's it could get worse.

So I think that this is something that I'm trying to let people know in my community of the importance of getting involved.

Thank you for being here.

This is the first step, but please tell your neighbors about uh our budget and the importance of of being involved in the information.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Appreciate you highlighting that.

Let me go to Councilmember Duan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you for all the speakers.

Especially, you know, I'm very aware of the budget shortfall, but I'm very aware of the needs out there for our senior, not only their health, our mental health, and many other programs that when we support the senior program, it it would actually save the city and the county quite a bit of money, because when we don't support our senior with their health and the mental health, they become sick and perhaps use a lot of uh resources that are unnecessary.

And so I will work with our city manager office and and we'll see what we can do even at the budget deficit that we have.

And I would like to say a few words to the folks uh vivo uh in Vietnamese.

Come and go too back that to Brooklyn.

You'll get programmed, give them full.

All right, I yield my time, thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Appreciate uh your comments.

I don't see any other hands.

This was a public hearing.

I don't believe we need to take a vote on this.

This was just a hearing, so we're going to move on to item 5.1 now.

This is the amendment to the airport master plan.

We have a staff presentation, so we'll take a moment for folks to settle in.

Okay.

Cool.

Where is it?

You fly in Dandela?

Now I drive.

Oh wow.

We like don't you get to put it in.

Good afternoon, Council members and mayor.

Uh Muki Patel, uh, the director of aviation at the airport.

I'm accompanied by uh Patrick Hansen, our acting deputy director of planning and development, along with Ryan Sheelan and John Wilson from our airport planning department team, which consists of just the two of them.

So we're here to uh present our uh proposed amendment to the airport master plan for some council members that may not be aware.

Our airport master plan is written into the municipal code uh which requires the airport each time we amend the airport master Plan that we bring it forth to council for approval.

Um it is a guidance document for the airport, it is uh FAA approved process that we go through.

So if we can go to the next slide.

Um just so we're here to just provide you an overview today, um the actual amendment itself, the purpose and the need of that, uh, show you a little bit of our demand forecast and the changes in those demand forecasts, and obviously um a statement from our environmental review.

Thank you, Mookie.

John Wilson, I'm an airport planner with Airport Planning and Development.

So we're just gonna start there with uh what the airport master plan is and what it isn't.

It's uh our long-range guide for facility development uh here at the airport.

It's a foundational document.

It's designed to ensure that airport facilities, whether that's our roadways, our terminals, airfield parking, will have sufficient capacity uh to meet future aviation demand.

The airport master plan, as Mookie mentioned, is incorporated into municipal code, gets amended periodically, much like our city uh general plan.

The current iteration of the master plan as amended contains some 90 uh capital improvement projects.

Uh, we note that not all these projects may be built.

We move we only move forward when there's adequate passenger demand and operational need or financial capacity for any given project.

The master plan, then it's our tool to help us assess when uh we can expect that demand may materialize.

This isn't the last opportunity for council to weigh on on these projects.

Uh the capital improvement projects and the master plan uh city council typically request for federal funding or for uh construction contract awards.

Last time we came to council with a master plan amendment, that was back in April 2020.

It adjusted our 20-year planning horizon to 2037 and included several major airfield and terminal projects.

So we're back here today uh with an amendment for several reasons.

The primary one of which is that our aviation forecasts that we're using at this point are stale, especially after the pandemic.

Since then we've seen changes in how people in the Bay Area work, changes to the business travel makeup of the airport, um, disruptions to aircraft deliveries and changes to airline network planning, especially here in the Bay Area with our three airports.

So, as part of the amendment, we conducted new forecasts to bring clarity to where and when we should place our resources in the coming decade and to allow for future economic development opportunities for those segments of aviation where we are seeing growth.

So, as an example, the amendment responds to a new segment of aviation uh known as advanced air mobility.

This revolves around the development of EV tolls or electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

There's significant investment and advancement of that technology with a major manufacturer based right here in San Jose.

So we want to ensure that our long-term planning incorporates this emerging technology.

So, just got a couple of quick charts for you.

Uh, this first chart uh shows the ebbs and flows of passenger activity at SJC, which historically uh tracks with economic activity here in the Bay Area.

So, following our initial recovery, as you can see, passenger growth has stalled over the last three three to four years.

The yellow line at the top represents that earlier planning forecast in 2020 when we anticipated 22 and a half million passengers by 2037.

The light blue line shows that in our updated forecasts that by 2037, we still anticipate growth uh to uh 17 million annual passengers instead.

It is a downward revision, but it also importantly gives us a clearer picture of where we realistically expect our growth to be coming in the in the future years and where we should focus our efforts.

And then this next chart.

Uh, I think earlier I mentioned that uh we do planning for segments of aviation that are experiencing growth.

This is one of those.

This is a significant business aviation presence at SJC.

Uh this chart contains our annual general aviation and air taxi operations.

So a general aviation means any privately owned aircraft.

Um, air taxi is typically an aircraft, a small aircraft hired out to operate a flight.

So companies like NetJets or Flexjets that you may have heard of.

So corporate aviation at SJC has continued to experience growth, and with the expectation with the exception of the start of the pandemic, where we had a minor dip, business aviations have recovered and exceeded projected 2037 operations consistently.

So an upward revision, the blue line here, in our new master plan forecasts will allow us to pursue additional economic development opportunities at SJC to serve this segment of aviation.

And I'll let pass on to environmental Ron.

Hi Ryan Shulen Senior Planner Airport rounding out the presentation here for environmental review.

So back on April 28th in 2020 City Council did certify a new final environmental impact report or EIR for the airport master plan.

The environmental impacts of this amendment were addressed in an addendum to the master plan and staff found that no new or more significant impacts beyond those identified in the certified EAR nor have any new mitigation measures or alternatives been identified.

So the amendment will not result in a substantial increase in the magnitude of any of the significant environmental impacts previously identified in the certified EAR and therefore in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act an addendum is the appropriate level of environmental impact clearance for this project.

And just moving on to our staff recommendation we recommend City Council adopt a resolution approving the addendum to the San Jose International Airport Master Plan integrated final EIR in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act and also to adopt a resolution approving the major amendment to the airport master plan for the San Jose Moneta International Airport and this concludes staff's presentation we're available for questions.

Thank you.

Great thank you for the presentation Tony do we have public comment on this item Brian Darby is going to become I just want to remind with your master plan and as you develop new um places out in the airport new projects and stuff that you uh keep in mind that the population is growing older and that the need for people with transportation needs of people with disabilities people with various types of physical and maybe cognitive and uh sensory disabilities be taken into account.

Thank you.

Back to council.

Alright thank you very much for the presentation I know you and your team really pride yourselves on the quality of the experience as someone who is now using our airport once twice three times a week I I appreciate the all the consistent upgrades to the experience I ran into a robot the other day and uh seems like you keep adding new food options so grateful to you for that and look forward to us um you know getting back to growing service um wanted to just ask two real quick questions one can you share a little more about how this update to the master plan positions us to drive additional revenue in the years ahead to make sure we have a sustainable airport and can continue to invest in that best in class experience that we're known for.

So as we mentioned may have mentioned in the past um it's a closed loop ecosystem financially it's an enterprise fund of the city and so everything we can do to generate new revenue on the airport does help uh lower our operating costs for our partner carriers including parking and ground transportation and all kinds of concession functions so this master plan update was specifically targeted at a former parking lot on the northwest corner of uh Dela Cruz on that side of the airport uh that uh later this fall we will be issuing a large RFP we call it affectionately the orange lot but it is for uh aviation related development be it manufacturing be it um uh uh storage of aircraft home home based aircraft or a fixed-based operator sort of your gas and goes um flex jets things like that um it's about six acres of property uh as it's known today.

We're working with the FAA to uh provide us some clearances to for a little larger ramp operation there on the northwest corner um that'll allow for additional private jets to continue to functioning through the airport.

The vision for that orange lot uh will be laid out in a public uh industry day on June 12th at the airport.

Um it'll be posted on our website.

Um other things that we would like to encourage is uh review.

It's one of the three or four sites that we'll be reviewing for electric vertical takeoff and landing type aircraft, as well as a uh my vision is uh sort of providing a premium service over on that side of the airfield for those families that like a private screening, a private lounge, and then be transported over to the commercial side of the house and board an aircraft right from the ramp.

It's it's something that happens at LAX for some of the uh movie stars, and it's uh it's a private business model that seems to work well.

Um I would like to uh make that happen here.

Okay, may I add, Mayor?

Something's outside of the fence, the airfield fence.

Um also we're working with Matt Losh and uh Public Works to look at a uh expansion of a bioretention site um uh on the land uh south of 880 that would accommodate some city needs and some public needs as well as support the airport as we pour more pavement.

Great.

Thanks for all that.

And then my second question, which you already touched on Evitol service in the future of this new technology with the home of Archer, Stones Throw from Joby, uh capital of Silicon Valley.

Can you share a little more about how you see that new technology evolving over the next few years and what we're doing or what we should be thinking about doing to best position SJC to be on the cutting edge?

It's a fabulous question, Mayor.

I will yield that to Ryan.

Ryan's been the center of that uh process for some time now.

He's very passionate about it.

Awesome.

So, so our goal with this master plan amendment is is to try and raise public awareness that EV tolls are coming.

There's as you mentioned, there's there's a lot of manufacturers local, such as Archer.

So we're trying to take that first step and identify where these future vertiports could go on the airport before they grow into the community.

We want to start on airport, and we know we have a number of challenges.

So today we're not committing to building them, we're committing to studying them and looking at all of the possibilities out there.

And um, you know, obviously the timeline with EV tolls continues to change by the day, right?

We're looking at you know anywhere from a year to five years before it takes off.

Um so that's really our focus right now, uh, as well as working with the rest of our city partners on a uh citywide policy uh for verteports in the future.

Great.

Well, I think um accelerating those conversations is important.

We already see some other places in the world starting to jump ahead, and we need to be at the forefront and should really be pushing the envelope for the country as we as we tend to do in San Jose.

Um, thanks.

Let's turn to colleagues.

I'll start with Council Tordillos.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, staff for the presentation.

Uh obviously the airport, one of our most important assets in the city.

Uh, and you know, with these capital uh plans, obviously they take many years uh to plan to fund to execute.

So it's I think good that we're looking ahead trying to you know skate to where the puck will be.

Uh, but I did have some questions uh, particularly on the uh projected passenger growth.

Uh, just seeing if we could dig in a little bit more.

Obviously, we have a couple years of you know receding uh passenger trend lines.

Uh, and then even looking back, you know, we're lower than we were a decade ago, we're lower than we were two decades ago.

I pulled up the data from 1996.

It looks like we're about flat from where we were, you know, 30 years ago.

Uh, and then I also just looking at the trend lines from 2000 onwards, seeing how long it took us to recover from the years after, you know, the dot com burst, uh, you know, close to 20 years to kind of get back to where we were.

So I'm curious if you could speak a little bit to how we're modeling this new uh growth forecast through 2037, given that you know we first have to stop shrinking, and then even from there, there'll be you know something north of a 60 percent uh growth needed in the next decade to get up to the new uh projected passenger numbers in 2037.

So just curious if you could share a little bit more detail there.

Yeah, let me generally speak to it, and if I stumble, I'll let Ryan jump in.

Um so the master plan forecast, um, there's multiple forecasts that happen.

We do a financial forecast for rates and charges with the airlines, we do a medium-term forecast that looks at um impact from new facilities or lifecycle expenses for redevelopment in the airport, and then um this is really looking out quite far, and it really is done on a guidance for the NIPIAs, which is the national plan of integrated aviation uh planning forecast for the FAA.

So the trend lines that they they generally use for these kinds of forecasts are uh nationally derived, and all airports use the same kind of calc calculation in terms of recovery.

Obviously, our microeconomy here in the valley, and then not just in San Jose, but in our region, um, you know, we're seeing a high uh concentration of uh vacant office space.

We've seen a shift from uh Monday through Thursday business travelers, and then this growth in leisure but premium leisure travel that seems to be insatiable appetite for premium economy and first service.

So as we're kind of watching that trend, and you're seeing Southwest, you know, kind of modifying their product line and moving to a premium service, only time will tell in terms of how we adjust to this new type of airline product.

Um, the the challenge is that um, you know, with with Southwest being 58% of our market share in San Jose and their product mix shifting, um some of the premium customers that are accustomed to lounges and larger premium services with more nonstops have trended to go to the other airport where there's a big weather delay at that airport.

Um, and so we're challenged to try and lure those customers back.

Um, and so we're working on that.

Um, only time will tell in the mayor's March budget message along with um a goal of creating some kind of a regional coalition of leaders to try and bring attention back to San Jose will be our short-term target.

Um if you're asking me the next 24 months, we're we're projecting flat at 10 million passengers, both uh 2627 and 2728, um, and that's just more for conservative financial planning purposes.

Um anything else you wanted to add?

Okay.

I guess follow up a little bit there.

You know, looking at the the trend lines after 2000, we were under 11 million passengers per year from 2002 all the way through 2017.

Uh so just curious what we anticipate changing between now and 2037 to see that presumably protracted period of growth to get us up to that 16.7 million annual passengers.

Yeah, that is um, it's to get to 16.7 again.

I I think if you look at the CAGAR over the last 25 years, it's been 0.5% growth rate.

And so it really does take the the economy, the innovation that happens in the valley to create that demand to create that flow of traffic back again.

And I think there's lots of um consternation out there as AI is being invested in and what that does either grow jobs, grow investment, or change people's jobs, and so we'll continue to watch it, but I I don't have a high hope that we'll get back to set uh 16.9 million passengers, at least not in the next 10 next 15 years or so.

That's going to be a drawn-out process for sure.

Sorry, but isn't the new 2037 projected passengers 16.7?

Is it 20.

So uh Mookie talked a little bit about the different types of forecasts we do.

So this is essentially a very, you know, we have conservative financial forecasts.

This is on the the opposite side of that spectrum where we look at regional growth models, where we look at the history, where we look at you know some of the industry standard models that are used for FAA you know planning, and we use that to extend out.

We want to make sure that by the time we get to 2037, our environmental documents, our um, you know, facility planning, all can encapsulate that that top line number.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilman.

Let's go to Councilmore Mulcay next.

Thanks, Mayor, and uh thanks, gentlemen, for the presentation.

Um, mayor and council member Tordillos took a couple of the questions, but I wanted to.

Well, first of all, which one of you were doing this presentation in April of 2020?

What I think the airport was probably shut down, right?

Yeah, that must have been a trip.

Um okay, so uh Muki, talk about also, you talked about the orange lot and the RFP out there, but we also have some activation of some other airport controlled land in and around Coleman Heading.

Can you talk about that and where you are in that process?

Yes, so we um thank you for that question, Councilmember.

The uh there's an RFP that goes live here in a few weeks to hire a professional developer consultant.

So think of your JLLs, your CBREs, and we're looking for guidance that will help us develop um a parcel of property south of 880 on Coleman and Heading.

Um that's the larger site three that we've we've talked about in the past, it's it's the larger property along Coleman.

Um we've gotten some feedback that uh, you know, we're working also with uh Jen Baker's team and Kevin Ice on creative ways to look at that development.

So that's one parcel.

I talked previously about uh bioretention uh being an actual revenue generator where licenses are sold to developers to buy into those bioretention sites.

So we believe if the math works as we as we kind of move through, there's two sites one that is uh a smaller site that's right by the interchange onto 880, and then one further south that we uh envision working with uh the conservancy along with parks and making sure that if there's a bioretention site, it incorporates the Columbus Park soccer fields that are about to be invested in.

So it'll make it cohesive and uh you know, have a walking path that'll cross the street into the rotary garden and those rose gardens down there, rotary play areas.

So building that cohesive plan starts with that larger bioretention site that uh Matt's team is helping us work on.

Great.

Thank you for mentioning all of that.

Um I was at the airport last night for my liaison duty, and it was great to see construction actually happening on site.

Can you just sort of talk a little bit about what's happening near Terminal A?

Yes, so just uh north uh south of Terminal A, where we had a uh ground transportation bus pickup, bus drop-off.

So we have the 60 bus there, we have groom shuttle that goes out into the larger communities.

Uh the TNC's pick up there.

So it's a ground transportation island.

If you are flying in and out of Terminal B, you notice that there's better lighting there, there's overhangs.

Um we're bringing that through an ADA project.

So the grading was incorrect, some of the sidewalk curb cuts weren't there.

So we uh applied for a 20 million dollar grant and were awarded a grant through um the aviation infrastructure bill that was passed with the bipartisan infrastructure law.

So there's 80 uh 20 million coming in there, approximately 8 million of airport funds that are tied into that project.

It's on a cycle 18-month project.

Yeah, right now we're looking at about 16 months.

16 months.

So we'll have that project completed.

So it's nice to see uh orange cones and uh orange signs at the airport.

If anybody gets exhausted by seeing construction signs at an airport, that means we're not developing and not growing, and that's always a good sign of investment.

That 28 million dollar project downstream provides a lot of jobs in our community.

Yeah, I mean, I just want to appreciate how tenacious and creative you and your colleagues at the airport have been, and I look forward to supporting the regional initiative to drive more uh flights as well as more passengers.

Before we finish, I wanted to just check in about Ewart Road.

It's a for those of my colleagues who um may have heard from some of our biking community.

It's probably a road none of you have been on unless you're a cyclist, um, but it sits at the northern tip of the airport and is used as a kind of a cut through for those that use the Guadalupe Trail for commute into Santa Clara and some of the neighboring uh towns with jobs.

And I think in the plan that is going away.

Can you talk a little bit about that and the and what sort of spurned that along?

Sure.

So the master plan uh that was presented today doesn't account for Ewort Road as a bike or pedestrian path.

Um after some research with our with our team here in 2001, my predecessor and uh the DOT director uh agreed to using land on the other side, uh, on the north side of Dela Cruz, which is also FA, I guess it is FA land, isn't it?

It's FAA land, and we put a bike path there.

Um, and so that bike path was the designated bike path on airport property that was um agreed to at that time that uh Ewort Road would no longer be designated a bike path or be recognized as a bike path.

So when that was completed, um, in that document in the MOU, there was some uh plans to do some communication out to those uh organizations that didn't happen uh for various reasons, and so we're taking that on now.

There's a May 18th committee meeting of uh of the community there, the bicycle community that I'll be representing this plan at.

But it is currently closed, but it's a pervious closure, meaning bikers and pedestrians can still use that road.

It was initially built to connect that orange lot with bus service back to the main terminal.

So when we used it as a public parking lot, it was a road for that.

Um, with obviously, as as uh tightening rules do exist around safety and security, it sits right against the blast fence, and we've also had uh an incursion with bicyclists and actually a police vehicle having a collision on that road because there is a blind spot as you go around.

So we want to prevent public access on that road.

Right.

So if we take away public access there, one of the alternatives is the trail in continuing to go north instead of coming off onto Ewart Road.

But as I understand it, the issue is the flooding that happens in the you know, kind of the underpasses along the bike trail.

I'm wondering if you have considered and if you plan to speak to our other colleagues in other departments to see if we can do better about keeping that clear so that if we do end up taking Ewart away, that we don't lose commute opportunities for those that are doing the right thing and getting off the road in a car and taking their bike.

How we make sure that that's opened up.

And so is that something that you'd be open to doing and pursuing that with our other departments?

Absolutely.

We've got some public feedback on that uh road most the bike path itself along the river is their preferred bike path.

Um, and it's the ewort road is only used when it's flooded, or that was that's what the public comment was yesterday at our commission meeting.

Um yes, absolutely.

I think the flooding that causes the bike path to be uh disabled is is definitely something that is a combination of not just PNRS who actually goes out and cleans the bike path, but in partnership with some other agencies, like I believe Valley Water might be responsible for for the river there.

Uh I'm not sure, but somebody there needs to be some dredging that happens along there to make sure that the water in the route table isn't causing that that closure of that bike path.

So we will work with those partners.

Great.

Thank you for that commitment, Mookie.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

I'm done.

Thanks, Council.

I appreciate your line of questioning there.

I do not see any other hands.

Did we have a motion on the report?

We did.

I don't think we did.

I'll move for approval of this item.

Second.

Great.

Okay.

Let's vote.

We're missing.

Oh.

Did it work that time?

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Okay, that passes unanimously.

Thank you all very much.

Okay, we're on to item 6.1 republic services, solid waste services rates, no staff presentation.

Do we have public comment?

I have no cards for this item.

Coming back to the council.

Move for approval.

Second.

All right.

Not seeing any hands.

Let's vote.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you.

Okay, great.

We are on to item 8.1.

This is the 2026 major event status reports.

We have a staff presentation.

So I'll turn it over to Jen Baker and the team as soon as they're ready.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council, Jen Baker, Director of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs.

And joining me in the box today is our deputy city manager Rosalind Huey, Special Events Director Tommy O'Hare, and John Poach, Executive Director of the San Jose Sports Authority.

So with that, Tommy, would you like to kick us off with the major event status report?

Thank you, Jen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, City Council.

We'll start first with a recap of the Super Bowl.

I'd like to start at a high level first.

Really, what we've tried to do with SJ 26 is create more foot traffic downtown, create economic vibrancy, and really create a sense of civic pride in San Jose.

So our strategy is focused around major events in downtown, really pillowed around what we call big rocks, so concerts, and then buttressed with additional activities, a superfest or fanfest, drone shows, projection mapping, community-based programs, and even some digital experiences.

For the Super Bowl, I would say it was wildly successful from our perspective.

It drove massive foot traffic in downtown.

You can see from the numbers here.

Also, we saw a lot of mentions of San Jose.

We saw some really interesting social posts about all the success that San Jose was having and really put San Jose on the map for what was happening during the Super Bowl.

We had two major concerts with local hero and global superstar Kaylani, with over 12,000 people who attended that right here in front of City Hall.

And then we followed that up the next day, the Saturday before the Super Bowl, and we had DJ Domdala come and play in San Jose, who is now probably arguably one of the biggest DJs in the world based upon the success that he had here at the Super Bowl in San Jose.

We had a really big surprise with our Superfest in San Pedro Square.

That took place from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the Super Bowl.

We had over 48,000 unique visitors to San Pedro Square during that time period and really create a sense of I would say 180 degrees from where San Pedro Square was in Super Bowl in 2016.

We also had opening night, also known as Media Day, from the NFL at the convention center.

Another big successful SJ26 event for us.

And we followed that up with a drone show that evening that had over 7500 in attendance, and it was shoulder to shoulder inside of Discovery Meadow for that event.

We also had projection mapping going on the Sabrado building and also on Urban Blanco in San Pedro Square.

We also launched our community engagement program called Game On, which is going out to 50 different schools, boys and girls, clubs, soccer programs, different sports activities as well.

So overall, we've really executed on everything that we said we would do from a strategic perspective, and we saw the economic benefits that happened in San Jose related to this.

So you can see some stats here.

Some groups are reporting a 300% um increase in year-over-year sales as well as record sales on certain evenings in San Pedro Square Market as well.

So overall, we feel really great about what happened during Super Bowl.

We drove the foot traffic, we really could feel the sense of community pride.

We saw the media mentions, and then we're seeing the economic data come in showing success from Super Bowl.

With that, I'll turn it over to John Poach, the executive director of the Sports Authority to give us an overview of March Madness.

Mayor and the members of council, thank you.

We took lessons learned from the Super Bowl, realizing it's the biggest American global sporting event to apply to the NCA.

So, special thank you to Captain Torres, Sergeant Depp on the security planning.

And what we did for the NCAA is we did two focuses.

We did a focus at the SAP Center on Barack Obama Boulevard to do free public activation fanfests, and which we contracted with San Jose State University and the art department to combine art and tech in a collaboration called Free Throw and Trophy with a digital mapping of the building with participants taking part in that.

Overall, the second area of focus was San Pedro Square.

Since we had four teams, we had official fan headquarters at four different restaurants, bars, and we kept them active over the Thursday, Friday, Saturday schedule of the tournament.

We were able to utilize our event zone ordinance, which went pretty much uh clean.

And most importantly, we hosted a concert, a free concert with a global basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal DJ Diesel.

We had over 3,700 attend.

And what I'm most proud of, I was a little stunned to spend 30,000 security, but we had zero incidents.

So it paid off the advisement from our police officers.

So overall, we thought the NSA was very successful.

We had over 46,500 attend the games over the two days at the SAP Center.

Our hotel occupy had a very good pickup.

And the restaurants and everything in the just downtown area did well in the San Pedro square.

Thank you, John.

Just turning a corner here, just a bit of a recap here from what we saw from the first two big events from SJ 2026.

Strong downtown activations, really great cultural integration.

The sports events gave us a great opportunity to feature the diversity and culture of San Jose, and we're really able to blend that in through our projection mapping and everything that the Office of Cultural Affairs did with Hometown Heroes.

You can see the great murals that are outside the Rotunda here.

So really great opportunity for us to just feature everything that's great about San Jose when we have all this traffic coming in from the big sporting events.

We were able to activate the entertainment zones.

Great collaboration amongst all the partners from the mayor's office to city council to the city manager's office to our external partners, sports authority, just really great teamwork across everything that we were doing.

So it made it much much easier for us to execute.

And again, the data we don't have all the data in yet, but it's really showing strong economic benefits from these sporting events.

What we've learned, a lot of good communication is important for safety.

So what we saw with the Shaquille O'Neal concert that was free, we were a bit concerned about this because it was a free concert, and we were worried that we might have too many people that showed up.

We received 20,000 RSVPs for the concert.

So we worked really closely with SJPD to make sure that we were communicating with the audience that while you might have RSV feed, you wouldn't be able to attend the concert and enter the zone where DJ Diesel was playing unless you actually had a confirmed RSVP.

Entertainment zones are great.

I think that the businesses really saw the benefit of them.

We saw that it also required a lot of communication about how these work.

So extra staffing is needed kind of at the gates of the restaurants and bars as people enter and exit.

You have to have specific cups.

We had great private support for SJ26 sponsorship program.

This has required quite a bit of partnership management on our side in terms of how brands are actually used, reporting on analytics, literally getting people in and out of concerts and things like that.

And so the sports authority has been great with that, but that's been a pretty significant burden that we hadn't anticipated.

Flexibility is key in the program.

We knew when we built the program that we had an idea, but the ability for us to make changes would be key.

And for us, moving from paid concerts for March Madness to free concerts was great for us.

It allowed us still to have the big audiences that we wanted to have downtown, but we'd built in some flexibility into the programs in order to do that.

Turning the page to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

We have six games that will be played at Levi's Stadium.

You can see the games that are based here.

We're excited to have the World Cup back in San Jose, as John Poach would say.

This is the third time that we've had the World Cup back in San Jose.

So it's gonna be great for us.

It's gonna be great for the community.

Again, we will activate with all of our major fanfests again.

I think arguably we're gonna have the largest fan fest in North America across the 16 cities that'll be anchored in San Pedro Square.

We're partnered together with the San Jose Earthquakes, they've been tremendous partners.

They're contributing 27 by 13 screens to be on both ends of St.

Pedro Square.

So really large screens.

It's gonna bring the community out to watch the events.

They've also brought a FIFA World Cup watch party license for us to use that provides us a lot more flexibility than some of the other licenses.

And I'll speak in a second to the other license that we've acquired for the districts to use.

But we're gonna have huge fanfests in San Pedro Square during the World Cup and also throughout San Jose.

That'll be 34 days of activity that will take place across the 39 days of the World Cup from June 11th to July 19th.

And then we also will have concerts that will take place in Discovery Meadow, potentially some other concerts over at PayPal related to this.

We will have a drone show at Lake Cunningham.

So a full robust offering of fanfest and free family fun activities for everybody here in San Jose.

And then I'd also like to address we will have teams staying in San Jose.

So we have teams staying at the San Jose Marriott and the San Jose Hilton.

We also will be the base camp for Team Paraguay, which will be at the Signia, and they will also be practicing at San Jose State University, and then we also have teams practicing at PayPal.

So quite a bit of activity that's happening for the World Cup happening here in San Jose.

And if I may add a special acknowledgement to Jared Shaley, president of the San Jose Earthquakes.

Tommy, we have been negotiating for almost 18 months for the rights to be able to host watch parties.

Their licenses are tightly regulated.

And thanks to Jared's work with the Barria Host Committee, we're able to be the site that Tommy explained to have all 39 days, all 104 matches.

It's taken over 18 months to get there, but Jared is one who made that happen.

All right.

Tommy had mentioned that some of the things that had really worked for the community and the events leading to now have been the crossover between cultural affairs and expression of the arts and people's interest in sports.

So I'm happy to report that looking ahead into the World Cup, we have some great programming also coming online.

Some of it was a recalibration of our existing calendar so we could be the most efficient with the events that we know gain traction and then orient them in the direction of alignment with the calendar of World Cup games to come.

So we will be hosting city dance opportunities in alignment with the World Cup games and where appropriate, be introducing music and dance that is culturally specific to the teams and the team calendar.

We look forward to um celebrating the Viva Parks event calendar likewise, and that will cross over to some extent with some of the district activation specific to FIFA and summer summertime athleticism.

Gaia Scope will make a reappearing appearance as well as uh Bucky Ball public art.

And we have coordinated with uh the symphony for San Jose's Symphonic World Cup.

So for people who are not in the field but want to be celebrating music and art and the precision that comes with being a uh high caliber musician, certainly we'll will celebrate that discipline together.

Uh and then hometown heroes exhibits will continue to proliferate in our own city hall, and we'll look forward to the um the events and um the live opportunities at the locker room where everyone can still purchase your SJ26 swag and um and see different teams recognized.

In addition to the cultural affairs outreach, um we've received quite a bit of diplomatic interest um from countries coming to town and um interested in learning more about our industry and business investment opportunities and where San Jose is uh a front runner in in sectoral development.

And so from the community diaspora aspect, um both Paraguay and Jordan have reached out very specifically.

So Jordan is on the World Cup calendar for two games, about 10 days apart, and they will have a significant presence in San Jose with some of their community gathering and cultural outreach.

They have been in a discussion with San Jose State University, which is excellent.

And then the Paraguay Base Camp and other auxiliary activities were working to see where there can be some additional cultural exchange.

From an economic development standpoint, our focus area is wanting to cultivate business interests around the visitors who are in town and be able to showcase San Jose's best land and opportunity for business networking.

So our Office of Economic Development will be hosting an international business symposium day on Monday, June 29th.

Part of that will be a bus tour of some of our existing tech sites and vacant buildable land opportunities.

But then also we'll showcase some of the work that peer colleagues are doing in the city around cybersecurity and AI availability and awareness for community, as well as featuring some of our advanced manufacturing and automation technology opportunity and advancement, and where we're leaning into energy resource stewardship and bringing those provisions online.

So that'll be a really action-packed and amazing day, and we're welcoming people to RSVP for that.

We also had a presence on the ground in Washington, DC, most recently at Select USA that was helping get the word out for international visitors who were in town in Maryland for that investment conference.

All right.

Always looking to coordinate with partners on how we support small businesses.

So it's a little bit faint, but you can scan the QR code and register for preparing for the World Cup event that will, it's a webinar.

We'll go through the toolkit of resources for small businesses who are looking for inspiration and figuring out how to position themselves for business opportunity.

The Downtown Association and Team San Jose will also present materials on that call.

We will look forward to the June 4th Team San Jose Bash event.

We know earlier in the fall, early winter, the Bash was the biggest bash that Team San Jose had hosted, maybe ever, and so we're looking to make this one also great.

And then the Directors Alliance and Business Improvement Districts and Business Association Outreach will continue to provide tools and brand toolkits so that as a community we can be welcoming the world to visit San Jose and the different community and neighborhood offerings.

There has been a considerable amount of work and council guided work to help make the events to now and then looking to the World Cup successful and keeping everyone safe.

And so I wanted to highlight on behalf of colleagues in the Office of Racial Equity and across some of our some of our emergency services and readiness agencies, the coordinated efforts in public safety and emergency readiness.

So I know the staff leadership team has engaged in SafeSite Protocol training on de-escalation training.

We have been a beacon for being able to share that with community, specifically with the Office of Economic Development, reaching out to businesses and employees to help explain what safe site protocols look like and the difference between public and private sector space.

We have partnered with IPEN and wanted to be able to highlight that they have two additional upcoming trainings in May, one May 23rd and one May 28th, where they're engaging with employers to help employers be able to inform employees of how to sustain a safe space, what knowing your rights means in the context of some of the enforcement activities that could come to bear.

And that has just been an active training.

So one of the things that IPEN does is they recruit volunteers to reach out to companies and just share this information, they'll do door knocks and have been generous in sharing with us updated information that we can post on our website, on our blog, on our social media to make sure that community across the different languages is also receiving this information and we're able to facilitate the safest, most accessible, most informed environment as we look forward to more events into the future.

And we heard from speakers earlier today from the Rapid Response Network and acknowledge their work in helping inform community also.

Okay.

Just I had one more.

I was just gonna go back really quickly on the last bullet and acknowledge the council policy on how we use spaces and what is prohibited activity, enforcement activity in public spaces that was codified in council policy 715.

Thank you, Jen.

And then just turning a corner from the event side of things to the everlasting impact of SJ26.

We do have this game on program going out where we've been bringing professional athletes, Olympians, notable athletes out into the community.

This has been a big hit.

Um it's been embraced by the community, and we've really seen our local sports teams double down and get engaged in this.

Um, the 49ers proactively reached out to us to be a part of this.

We have the Quakes engage with this, we have the Sharks involved, and we have the San Jose Giants, and so we're incredibly lucky to have this program and be able to do it, and we hope to continue it on and make it even greater beyond 2026.

But we are really thinking about lasting impacts beyond just this year.

As you can see, there's more than just the World Cup coming to San Jose.

You know, we still have a number of events that we go on concurrent with the World Cup.

We had the U.S.

Table Tennis Nationals, and it was rather significant.

It's a great community event because the Olympic Games, there's only four members of the table tennis team.

Three are from the South Bay, Palo Alto, San Jose, and Milpitas.

So we felt we owed it to our community to try and bring that event to San Jose.

So we're hosting that at the Convention Center July 3 through 9.

Uh, along with USA Water Pole, agreed to return for the junior Olympics, which will be in 27, and consists of 12,000 athletes, young girls and boys over two weeks in July.

And we're proud to announce that we have the CrossFit Games.

The world championship uh would take place in Masters and Adaptive at the Convention Center in San Jose State, and then the World Championships CrossFit will be at the end of July at the SAP Center.

And then we jump right into Slam Jose, three on three basketball on the streets in August.

Rock and roll half marathon, which we plan to get up to 10,000 runners, and then we celebrate the year with the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.

So we're more than two big events.

Uh, this is what we do, and we're proud to do it on behalf of the city.

And that concludes our slides.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate all the great work and the report out.

Look forward to the conversation.

Tony, do we have public comment on this item?

I have no cards for this item.

Okay, coming back to council.

Just offer quick comments and then turn it to turn to colleagues.

Um, just want to recognize the incredible team effort behind SJ26.

I'm so impressed with what we've done together thus far, and really excited for World Cup.

You know, and we started talking about this work well over well over a year ago, maybe two years ago now.

I think we saw that 2026 was a unique opportunity for San Jose to be in the spotlight and continue to up level our brand, put our uh city on the global stage and cement our status as a place that can put on world-class events and be a destination and do it repeatedly, as you saw there in the last slide, colleagues.

While Super Bowl and World Cup won't come every year, there are many sports, entertainment, and other mass scale events that we can be an incredible host city for, and that means thousands, tens of thousands of people coming on a recurring basis and experiencing our cultural diversity, our great food, weather, all of our amenities, and it's an important economic driver.

It's also a source of civic pride and and really has a a lot of intangible benefit as we've seen as we've done community programs, including the uh the the clinics, the sports clinics that uh we launched this year.

Um want to just quickly thank all of our partners.

Obviously, everybody in the box has played a very direct hands-on role in our progress thus far, including Rosalind Huey, Tommy O'Hare, John Poach, and Jen Baker.

I want to thank the city manager and uh Jennifer and Lee for their uh support for this work and and you know recognizing this opportunity along with council colleagues.

Also, want to thank Team San Jose, the Sharks, Quakes, BFC, Sports Authority, Bay Area Host Committee, our public safety teams.

I see Chief Joseph is here, downtown businesses, downtown uh business association uh business association, um, and all of the other partners.

SJ Foo's has been in on the action.

Um, it really has been an incredible team effort.

The fact that we brought nearly half a million people downtown for Super Bowl is uh really quite incredible, and uh I'm expecting that we're gonna break all the records in the coming weeks as we have these six World Cup matches.

Oh, and I need to thank San Jose State as well, who's been an incredible partner throughout, and I'm probably leaving out a half dozen other partners and our sponsors, Tommy.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that we've had um, and John has helped host them at um SAP Center, um, just an incredible group of sponsors who uh mostly local employers uh put together um a few million dollars that they didn't have to contribute, but felt as a matter of civic pride and their investment in the community that they should help us put on these fan experiences, which have so much benefit um for all of our residents and especially our small business owners and hotels.

Uh okay, so with that, uh just wanted to express all that gratitude and cheer us on as we head toward World Cup, and I'm gonna turn to colleagues.

We'll start with Councilmember Duan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Steph, for the presentation.

And I just want to personally thank John Poach, Tommy O'Hara, Jen Baker, Rosalind, and um, and especially the earthquake to secure the the party license for us that that is huge.

And obviously, the mayor mentioned many others that he's already mentioned, so I'll I'll leave that.

But as you know, as a council member in District 7, as there's two entertainment zone, if you will, is will be the um CBA, which is at the plant, and then the little Saigon, uh, with the um you know uh Story Road Business Association.

I want to make sure that we secure the small amount of funding compared to downtown, because if you look at the ROI that that the Little Saigon have brought in is tremendous to not only the surrounding businesses there, but also to the city of San Jose.

And I I just want to ask several questions.

One is the Story Road Business Association and MCBA meet the criteria for the you know the grant funding.

Thank you, Councilmember Rosalind Huey, deputy city manager.

Um, so as we shared with the council last fall, the last time we provided an update, we saw FIFA World Cup as an opportunity to do additional activations throughout neighborhoods throughout uh the entire city, and so we have been working with uh a number of groups, uh, namely the business improvement districts and business associations have approached us with their ideas around watch parties and other activations that does include uh the Monterey Road Corridor uh Business Association as well as Story Road, and we're working with them now uh in terms of figuring out um how they can leverage other resources uh and how SJ 26 can also support their activities.

Okay, well, I would look forward to them to get some type of grant funding so that way we can put together a great uh watch party.

The other question I have is um for our police chief.

I know that it'll be a lot of resource to be going downtown, but then I want to make sure that there are resources from our police department to protect our citizen in District 7 as well, including the plant and um, you know, to Little Saigon.

Is there a clear plan for that?

Yeah, yes, Councilmember Paul Joseph, chief of police.

All of the security that officers will be providing, either to the hotels or the events is either going to be happening from officers who are specifically assigned to that detail, um, either from our special operations division or on an overtime basis, or working through our secondary employment unit, so it will not affect our coverage throughout the rest of the city of our patrol force.

Have we also look into the the traffic congestion and how do we divert people to proper parking area without impacting you know the the regular route?

There shouldn't be as many street closures.

In fact, I think there's very few uh compared to the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl security was slightly different.

So uh I'm hoping, I'm hopeful, based on that plan, that operational plan that the traffic congestion maybe we experienced during the street shutdowns in the Super Bowl won't be as uh extensive, and if anybody else has anything for uh happy to jump in, council member.

Um, one of the roles that the Office of Cultural Affairs Special Events team plays is to be the recipient of event applications and gauge in um the number of participants and the magnitude of event and from where uh participants are likely to be traveling, and so we take that information and then coordinate with the police department with transportation and other related departments across the city to um streamline notifications and then otherwise operationalize a successful event.

Thank you.

Um that's all I have for you, Chief.

Um, now I notice in supporting small businesses.

Uh you have um the BID um and business association outreach, including the director alliance.

I haven't heard anything from the director alliance, and what is is their responsibility or their goals in this particular FIFA World Cups.

Um, yeah, so the directors alliance have been working hand in hand with city staff.

Um, many of them have contracted with and the city has contracted with Nathan Olch of Community Strong Strategies.

He's been helping them build capacity and actually helping them design the events and watch parties that they might want um in their area.

So he has definitely been involved.

Well, thank you.

I know uh Nathan has been very involved, and um I appreciate his um involvement very deeply within the um district seven.

Well, thank you so much.

I'm looking forward to to these incredible entertainment zone and and watch party, and I think it will definitely bring San Jose to the forefront uh in United States that we can really put great event together.

I yield my time.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilor.

Let's go to Council Recondelas.

Um thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, uh Jan, Rosalind, everybody in the box for your work on not just um uh the forthcoming work for FIFA, but for everything the past couple years from SA26, the branding to ensuring that our our small businesses are ready in downtown to receive folks and and otherwise, but you know, uh I think we we've seen the the positive results of that work and that that cons uh concerted effort.

The Super Bowl and NCAA tournament were clearly um energy bringers uh to the city, and not only did they bring visitors activity activity and attention, they also brought economic opportunity, and uh that's that's really in important, but you know, both those events were uh very downtown focused.

Uh rightfully so.

We were receiving visitors from uh you know Seattle and I forgot who Seattle played, but you know that we received we received visitors from all across the the United States.

Um, and well, do you remember?

What New Oh New England, there you go.

Thank you.

Um, but but the point is um, you know, uh we, you know, we still have FIFA World Cup, and you know, I think this is an opportunity to bring that energy um into our neighborhoods in addition to downtown.

Uh, but but uh, you know, I'm I'm a little nervous if I'm being honest.

Um, and this is something that I've I've spoken to both um Rosalind and Tommy about uh because of um you know the the lack of I guess engagement with both those events that that I was under the assumption that we would rebring into the neighborhoods, but alas again we have one more shot at it, and um and with this major event coming up with with the world cup, um I um I'm I'm excited for the opportunity not just with our small businesses but but with um you know those uh uh the council offices and uh the prospect of bringing this worldwide uh focus uh to our neighborhoods.

Um I think that's that's gonna be really important and and uh but but curious, you know, a question for for staff if if it's not the council member pushing or or you know my office pushing, what what does that uh what does SJ26 or what does that World Cup activation and any part of our city look like?

Well I'll jump in at Jen Baker, Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs, um and just share that you know part of the way that these events materialize is through partnership and through licensing agreement, and so I think where FIFA stands to bring us some different momentum is in the accessibility and in the way that they scope licensing with um uh mind of trying to create a culture where you have as many people as possible celebrating and activating, and so it's it's proprietary but in a different way than some of the other events that have come to town.

So that really invites us to be that much more um in the neighborhoods and communicating with the business improvement districts, great.

So uh because of that, so so uh I guess that doesn't so great that we have that flexibility and opportunity, but uh I mean that still doesn't answer if if for example my office isn't leading the activation at Easterge or the different watch parties that we're hosting, I mean, how are we activating say um you know other parts parts of our of our city?

This question.

So council member, I'll jump in.

I mean, we are very much interested and eager to work with any community organization with the council district offices around any idea uh to support a community event.

Um, you know, I have always been saying yes, it's great to have a watch party, but every event does not have to be a watch party, and we've been approached uh around some ideas about more family-friendly programming and neighborhood parks, and we're happy to support and market those events as well.

Um and so if there are organizations in your district that we haven't touched and you know that they're interested, by all means.

Uh, we'd be glad to be connected with them and leverage other resources.

Um Jen mentioned in her presentation that we're definitely leveraging um events that are already scheduled like City Dance.

I think that's a tremendous opportunity to leverage Viva Parks activations this summer that are already happening, and that we can kind of theme those um around soccer or community help.

Perfect, and that's exactly what I wanted to hear.

Uh, because in slide eight, we do mention additional programming like Viva Parks, Make Music Day, et cetera, et cetera.

But I you know, I'm just curious to you know, what does that look like?

Does that mean having like a booth?

Does that mean having like I I don't know what that active is it gonna be are we gonna have like a um a screen so folks can watch the games?

I I don't necessarily know what that looks like because you know we uh for me I'd I'd like to be able to, you know, to point, hey, you know, we this is the type of activation we're doing in uh in East San Jose in South San Jose, in east and west San, wherever, but but if if for example I'm not leading that in in that district or in my council district, uh I'm I'm not necessarily sure how how we would as an administration be thinking about activating other areas of the council members not activating.

That's that was my principal concern.

Um but but alas, I'm I am activating, we do we are doing watch parties in my district, so I'm not I'm not too concerned.

So that being said, um Tommy, you mentioned something about Lake Cunningham being an SJ26 activation.

Correct.

Can you elaborate on that?

The funding is coming from the SJ26 budget for the drone show.

Uh but uh how how is SJ 26 or or um the the group coalescing around uh the the Fourth of July celebration?

Providing the drone show for that.

The what?

Providing the drone show for that event.

Okay, and so that's the the activation for so is the city doing any other activations to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America.

I'm focused on sports.

Well, the questions for anybody in the box.

Well, I'll jump up and say currently there hasn't been any budget allocated for any special other activity to celebrate the nation's anniversary, other than we always do a July 4th event, primarily in your district, and so we're using that as an activity as an opportunity to uh celebrate America's birthday as well as celebrate soccer.

Okay, okay.

No, that's great.

I was just curious, is you know, if if we are as a city are are doing uh a 250th celebration outside of Lake Cunningham and in my district this year.

Sounds like we're not.

Currently not budgeted.

Okay, all right.

Don't worry, I am, so it's all good.

Um the the next question I have relates to um uh specifically on the uh the small business outreach that uh council member Duan talked about.

Uh he mentioned his district's Monterey Corridors, Little Saigon, Story Road, but um curious as to the Tully Road corridor and and other parts of um uh of my district.

How are we?

How are we in addition to working with the directors alliance?

How are we actually talking to the small businesses and and preparing them for the for the activations that we're so um aptly preparing for?

Well, I think this is another milestone in the broader capacity building processes.

So if we think um, you know, the last two years for a number of districts um standing up business improvement districts and having the momentum to be able to champion future events, and uh Rosalind and I have each been in conversations with some of the districts that now have bids and they're thinking far beyond even the summer in FIFA and what activations can look like.

So it's a pretty exciting moment in time to see that momentum and championship coming from business community members organically, where the city can play a complimentary role, but not necessarily be the engine.

Um and then for we know and acknowledge that not all districts have an improvement district or a business association that has the same level of momentum, and so that commitment to continuing to grow capacity to help coalesce the interests of business owners and meet them where they are is important and I think will continue to bear fruits.

Um all of the the business um activities in terms of what type of branding or the toolkit um webinar that will be coming up, those are intentionally accessible to um everyone who has a digital device, and so folks could log in and see, you know, even if they're not hosting um XYZ watch experience, what are the ways that they can do business building and express entrepreneurship vis-a-vis some of the tools in the small business toolkit, working capital, um, and then business advising services that are also available and that are sponsored by the city.

Great, thank you.

And and and lastly, um, do we if if for example we have small businesses wanted to do or use the SJ26 branding for if you're if it's coffee shop uh uh uh pizza pizza place with pizza boxes?

How would they go about go about utilizing to try to incorporate that?

I mean, with a month and a half away.

Yeah, so there is an online uh media kit where a business can download different um banners for social media or tabletopers or posters for your window to say um, you know, we're San Jose, we're part of the community, and we want to welcome the world to come check out our business.

Um, where we saw a ton of traction was in Reels development on Instagram and otherwise, where restaurants um and eateries in particular um were posting um special menu items or um opportunities where they would be um staging a watch experience and um and there was some really uh entertaining advertising that was cross-posted across communities, and some of you also council members um were involved in creating reels, which we all were also able to cross-promote in SJ economy.

Awesome, thank you, Jen.

Um, Councilmember, also um team San Jose on their website, visit San Jose.org.

As Jen mentioned, we have a toolkit available for any retail, any restaurant store in any district.

All the graphics are free.

We have them in multiple languages, multiple colors.

They could download them all from visit sanjose.org on the SJ26 link.

It's called the small business kit.

And also it'll be available at the Team San Jose Bash.

I encourage council members to invite their community event planners or even restaurants and and bars to attend it to learn how to promote their business utilizing their toolkit.

Thank you, John.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for that wonderful presentation and the success story really that we had with Super Bowl and NCAA.

But you forgot one.

I see the calendar goes from February through November, but you forgot the National Women's Soccer League championship that was the beginning of all of this.

So I just want to high highlight that, particularly since today we had the uh kickoff for the or the countdown for 30 days to World Cup and uh fly grazing, which is an exciting event that will be happening throughout the city as all as you've already said.

You know, a couple years ago when we knew all of this was coming forward.

Councilman Dev Davis actually sat right actually right there.

She was very concerned that we would not be able to pull this off.

And she said to me, Pam, make sure we get it right.

And I think we got it right.

They based on the amount of energy that was downtown, the amount of successes that we hear from our small businesses down, particularly in San Pedro Square anecdotally, the successes that they had uh economically, it's tremendous.

And just the amount of people who were downtown wandering around with smiles on their face, celebrating, it was really a wonderful opportunity, and I I look forward to the World Cup and having the opportunity to have our districts if we wish to host something, uh uh activation of some sort, a watch party, and and so knowing that we have that opportunity and and have some financial capability that's coming from the city that would that will be helpful for a lot of us.

District 9 doesn't have a really good central place that we like a Lake Cunningham that we might be able to host one of these parties, but we're looking into it, and we hope to have something coming forward.

Um Tommy, I've talked to you a lot about wayfinding, and I think the wayfinding was really good.

I really appreciate the signage and the ability of the community to see where they were going when they really don't know anything about downtown.

John, you are a rock star.

The amount of activities that you bring into this city are a huge economic boost.

You are the biggest cheerleader for San Jose.

These events come because you are really good at packaging and marketing what San Jose has to offer.

And what we have to offer is the tremendous diversity, the tremendous variety of cultures that we have here that really is uh really showcases the difference between our city and many other cities who are hosting the World Cup this year.

So thank you, John, for being here, and Jan and Rosalind, you are true professionals and are doing just an outstanding job making sure that these all these events get over the goal line.

I'm I'm truly excited about the World Cup, and you know, I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I am now because it's it the the amount of energy around it.

How can you not be excited for it?

I am a football fan, so I didn't know who that other football team was.

And councilman, you look to the two women, questioning whether the two women would know who was playing against the Seattle Seahawks.

Point of information, it was not because you're a winner, because you're close to me.

Uh-huh, okay.

Well, you didn't look that way though.

Another point of information is because you actually said something.

Just had to call you on it.

And I want to uh just bring up to the attention that you've had this is the 2026 program, but the prior presentation was on the airport, and they go together.

The success of World Cup, the success of the Super Bowl, and the NCAA goes together with the success of the airport.

So the more activities that we have like this, the more opportunity we have to bring in more travelers to the airport, the more funds come into the general fund, the better our economy is, and the more we're able to spread that around to the resources of who need it desperately within our city.

So thank you for all of that.

I just want to highlight one little thing with the with uh World Cup, and that has to do with safety around the two host hotels, the two team hotels.

How are we making sure that the VTA lines are protected from the pedestrians who will be likely roaming around those hotel headquarters?

Um we work really closely with SJPD on everything.

Um there are some I'd say requirements or requests that come from FIFA in terms of what they want to see, and then we work really closely with um San Jose Police Department on what we think is necessary.

Um, and we've additionally applied for um FEMA funding to help cover um the majority of these costs.

Oh okay, great.

Thank you.

I'll I'll look forward to see how that plays out.

Thank you again for your presentation.

Thank you again for a fabulous start of the 2026 year, but there is definitely more to come.

Thank you.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

Let's go to Councilmore Kameh.

I too want to thank you so much.

Uh it's been such an exciting ride, you know.

I think uh uh Vice Mayor Foley mentioned how uh Dev Davis had mentioned to get it right, and you know, we weren't too sure about how it will all come out, right?

Uh but people are still talking about the experiences from Super Bowl, right?

And so I think that what you've done is just uh given us a tremendous boost.

So thank you, thank you so much.

I think that um keeping everyone safe has been one of the things that has been on my mind, and now with FIFA, where there will be more days, uh, which can be unpredictable, but but I think that uh uh the lessons learned that you've incorporated in in your plan as well as the coordination.

I was delighted to hear this emphasis on um communication.

Tommy, you talked about that, and and I think that that is tremendously key.

And it isn't just with our, you know, staff uh in the city, but also coordination with VTA, coordination with the EOC, coordination with Levi Stadium, coordination with Santa Clara, coordination with the county.

I think I think there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that happens that um, you know, we know it happens, we're glad that it happens, uh, but uh, but you know, it's sort of like hidden a little bit.

And uh and you know, to do all of that and be able to give such great experiences.

You know, one of the things that has happened is that we have elevated the expectations, and our community is saying, when are you gonna do some more?

When are you gonna do more of this?

And I'm like, well, I don't know.

We'll see how it goes next year when it's our birthday as a city, right?

But uh, but I think it's been phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.

And you know, the the way you've done it has been with such um intention that uh that I think that it's been it's just been great.

And I just want to say how much I appreciate it, and I'm sure my colleagues do too.

Thank you.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Let's go to Councilmore Compost, and then we can come back to the Vice Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, and I want to echo the thank yous uh from my colleagues to the team to the success for um the activations in downtown.

I know it takes a lot of uh teamwork, um, especially with a with a new team that was uh kind of building the plane as they fly it.

So uh I recognize that and I appreciate that.

Um, and I am really looking forward to the FIFA watch party in District 2.

Um, when we were first having these conversations, or at least the first conversation I got to be a part of when I joined council, there was a lot of excitement about uh the potential of 2026 and what that would look like for our city.

And so um, you know, Tommy, we toured district two and we got to um look at all of the economic opportunity, but also the neighborhood opportunity, right?

Driving through um houses that are around schools that had no niners or sharks or Bay FC flags, and and we talked about the opportunity of getting families supporting our local teams.

And recently I saw in New York City like a five-dollar ticket to go to a local match that makes um opportunities like this more affordable and accessible to families, and I hope that something like that can still be on our horizon as we're thinking about um what um the next iteration of this might look like in the future.

Um I just want to um share the the perspective of someone who is a little further from downtown and didn't get as much of the uh experience that I had hoped for.

Um, you know, initially we had discussed the idea of a uh Super Bowl themed event at this at the Silver Creek Sports Complex, a haven for sports in South San Jose.

Um unfortunately that didn't materialize.

We also talked about the possibility of a March Madness tournament in the Great Oaks neighborhood in District 2, and again, that was unable to materialize.

So that's why like I'm I'm really putting my eggs in the basket for this FIFA watch party and hoping that we get it right because I've heard from our businesses in District 2, I've heard from our neighbors in District 2 that they really wanted an opportunity to engage with the excitement and energy around 2026, and um, you know, being at the farthest south end of the city, it's not always easy for our residents to make it into the downtown center, um, which is why we also talked about opportunities to partner with VTA and maybe host some events at the VTA stations, and so um ways to engage uh more in a in a better, more strong way throughout the city.

Um Tommy, we had talked about like a photo challenge, right, that invites residents throughout the city to see themselves as part of San Jose as part of San Jose 2026, and so um as we're reflecting on all of the work that's been done this thus far and what work remains, I hope that um these comments will uh resonate on every corner of the city, wanting to feel involved, incorporated, and um able to participate in the energy and excitement of 2026.

Um I know that we're a district that doesn't have a business association, and so I'm appreciative of that being highlighted as a lesson learned for how we can uh better incorporate our small businesses and our districts outside of downtown into these opportunities, and uh I I hope uh again that that we can think about ways that are that we are as a city better to engage and incorporate residents from all corners of the city and all ages and all incomes.

Thank you.

Thanks, council member.

Let's go back to vice Mayor.

Sorry, mayor, I forgot something, and and then, and that is that uh Tommy and Jan, I truly appreciate the expertise in your leadership on this, particularly the opportunity you took to present to the Sister City panel that I had in March with a group of people across the country, where you spent uh an hour and a half, I think, talking about sports and entertainment and how what that meant to the city and how it was accomplished.

I just wanted to thank you publicly for that.

Your expertise and giving was fabulous.

Everyone was so impressed with everything that you had to say.

And uh I really am grateful that you gave up your Saturday to spend it with me and 50 or so other directors from across the country.

So thank you for that.

Thanks, Vice Mayor.

I apologize.

Did we have a motion to accept the report?

Someone second.

Great.

Thank you.

I think we've exhausted all questions and comments.

Tony, let's vote.

I'm still missing.

Can everyone check their screen?

We appear to be still missing one.

Because I'm missing two, but one's not the dice.

Yeah, Councilman Cohen's actually out.

And then did your vote get registered, councilman?

Okay.

I'm gonna go ahead and actually it says 10, so maybe it's just Councilman Cohen's.

Okay.

That's weird.

You're right.

It says 10 and 2.

Kevin Fisher for some reason is listed as a voter.

What's going on over here?

So motion passes um with Cohen absent.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you all again for all the good work.

We're on to open forum, which is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on any city business that was not on today's agenda.

Okay, I have um four cards.

Brian Darby, come on down, Azazel Holmquist, Elena Churchill, and Roy Carrillo.

If you could come down in no particular order.

First one to the microphone, go for it.

I would like to ask you, I'm gonna say this wrong.

I'm not very good with German, but Octun T4.

Case K.

Gerhard Krishmore was a young infant in 1939 that was murdered because the person's parents felt it was quote unquote emercy killing.

Hitler's personal physician, Carl Brennett, was given permission by Hitler to euthanize this child, which is set the legal precedent for what led to the Holocaust.

Um signs being tampered with, and people think, well, it's just a sign, that's how it starts.

We say never again, and we haven't learned that.

If you look at our history as a species worldwide, we haven't learned it.

Um we hide it maybe better, but we haven't learned that lesson.

And if you look online, I'm sure people that do, if you look on X or other places, the bitterness, the viciousness is untenable, really is.

And words do have meaning, and they eventually lead to actions.

When we say never again, we mean that in every aspect.

And I just hope we remember that.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good afternoon, City Council and Mayor.

My topic is about the jungle.

Many Spanish speaking residents were have been left behind and did not receive their adequate housing promise due to inadequate access to translators by PATH.

Some of them were at work recycling or at Home Depot.

Some did not know Path was housing.

Some were scared and didn't say yes in time.

This would this was a shortfall on the I believe on the poor communication between PATH and the city.

We had talked to them many times and they were directing us to each other, not much got done.

Many would fell through the cracks.

A couple other things that happened recently.

Was an employee from Path bellowed and was very inappropriate to us, the volunteers and the residents.

And today a police officer was antagonizing and rude.

A supervisor, also a police supervisor, clicked off his camera when I asked him and asked him if the doctor from the Lexian Clinic said that if the residents left, they wouldn't get adequate health care.

And then that was that was overlooked.

We have three organizations that have been out there daily for over a month.

We have gained trust and know these people.

They're caring, hopeful, amazing community.

Please let's address actually address unhouse issues adequately.

The one third of the homeless population that has been addressed has not been addressed adequately.

I have lived experience and I'm willing to reach out to each and every one of you, including you, Mayor.

If you truly care, I will email you.

Please respond.

And I hope this maybe increases my um my um reliability.

But I went to Pinewood, Bellerman sister school.

I did leave early to go to boarding school, but I hope this makes me reasonable to listen to.

Thank you, next speaker.

Afternoon, mayor, city council members.

Um, my name is Ray Carrillo, an ex-city employee.

I'm here to ask for your help about 510 East Santa Clara Street, the Arco gas station on the corner of 11th and Santa Clara, just downtown five blocks away from here.

I'm the property owner next door.

I haven't been able to rent my five units in almost 15 years because of the gas station, with more than 50 people living in on and around the property, the illegal activities going on there and being broken into on an average of 27 times a year because of the gas station.

I'll save you the litany of illegal activities there at the station and the horror of the hazardous waste and fuel leakage, the worst gas station in the entire Bay Area, according to the people who deliver gas.

The city finally closed down the gas station a month and a half ago, but has refused to put a fence around the gas station property, an entire open block downtown.

Several city codes require a fully enclosed secure property downtown.

More than seven stalls, closed commercial property.

They include codes specifically for closed and abandoned gas stations.

It's now become a place for anyone to do anything day or night.

I've escalated up the food chain with zero response.

I'm now asking you and everyone in the audience to please contact the mayor, your council members, city manager, ask why the fence has not gone up around and closed abandoned gas station in the center of downtown.

This would not happen at a gas station on Almaden Expressway in Camden.

This would not happen at a gas station on Meridian in Redmond.

This would not happen at the gas station on Lincoln in Minnesota or Fruitdale and Forest, but it's allowed here.

So please contact mayor's office.

Please contact city manager.

Thank you very much.

Hi, my name is Elena Churchill.

I'm here with uh Mr.

Carrie Lynch.

Three items, uh, two complaints, one compliment.

First complaint, I have a warrant for my arrest.

I've been trying to take care of this warrant for better part of a year.

I have addressed you on six occasions trying to get this warrant taken care of.

I had turned myself into your Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department.

I was transported to the downtown main jail where I was booked and processed.

I was injured during that processing.

It does not have to happen.

I need you, Mayor, to reach out to me to get this uh never-ending warrant resolved.

The warrant came back.

I spent six days at Elmwood.

I had $70 cash taken by your sheriffs.

It's unacceptable.

So that's my complaint number one.

I'm trying to get this warrant taken care of so I could live a quality of life.

I cannot get a job with a warrant on my record.

It is never ending.

No, um, without resolve.

It's been unresolved.

Um, complaint number two.

Uh Mr.

Kerry Lynch here is a Vietnam veteran.

A surrogate bothered to me, and a active member in our community.

Um, we are struggling in your community, not just as senior citizens, but as disabled senior citizens.

The German Shepherds are getting sick because of an invasive vine in an easement in the backyard.

This is probably going to be directed more towards Pam Foley.

We reside in your district.

Please send somebody out.

Our address is listed on the card that I provided, so we could have other options in taking care of this invasive vine that is getting our German shepherds extremely it's poisoning our purebred dog.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you to our public commenters.

And with that, we're going to adjourn.