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The Rules and Open Government Committee and Committee of the Whole met jointly in a hybrid meeting on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 2:00 PM in San José City Council Chambers. The committee reviewed upcoming City Council agendas, approved consent items, discussed ceremonial agenda limits, and agreed to cancel the next week's Rules Committee meeting because a quorum would not be available. The chair initially stated the meeting date as October 13 and was corrected to October 14.
Okay, we are gonna call the meeting to to order at two o'clock for the rules and open government committee uh meeting of October 13th. Let's start with roll call, please. Candelas here. The one here fully here come here, coin. Here, and today is the 14th, not the 13th. Thank you so much for that uh clarification. We're going to start with the review of next week's October 20th council meeting, which has a 9 30 closed session, a 1 30 regular session, and a cancel evening session. And consent starts on page five and continues on pages six and seven. Then on section three, we have the city manager's annual report. The civil service commission interview was scheduled to be heard last the conditional vacation of a portion of Spring Street. Section four, we have our IPA annual year end report. Section eight, our citywide planning work plan prioritization. Uh we have a three items on land use and early consideration general plan amendment and two uh land use appeals. Do we have any public comments? No public comment. All right, back to the committee. Second. All right, we have make a comment. Sure. Go ahead. Vice Mayor Foley. Thank thank you. Um I noticed that we're starting to add in four ceremonials when three had been the policy and the procedure going forward. So I would encourage all of the council members, whoever has one, to please stay within the five minutes, and that means including your comments in their comments. Thank you. We'll have to take that one up with the mayor's office. But we could, as a rules committee, I suppose, just strike one of the items. But we won't we won't do that today. We'll just warn them for the next time. Um I think go ahead. I I think Vice Mayor Foley does have a good point. You know, some of them have been going a little bit long, and so um uh I also know that the regular person, um Steven is is out, and so uh maybe uh the awareness of the three as usual, but I think uh everybody before warned that I think we should keep it to three. Yeah, I think I think it's important because uh I remember a time one way before I was on council where the ceremonial part would go on and on and on, and uh at some point I wasn't on council when it happened, it got limited to three, which is is beneficial. That way we can we're we're here for the meeting, and the the ceremonials are something we add in, but it it's if we stay to our five-minute time frame, it makes it much easier. But that means we have to stay within our five minutes. There's only one on the meeting following on October 27th.