Good evening, everyone.

My name is Anthony Tordillus, and I am chair of the Planning Commission.

Welcome to this planning commission meeting.

The purpose of this planning commission study session is to briefly review the 2025 to 2027 proposed biannual capital budget and 2026 to 2030 capital improvement program.

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

We will get things started with roll call.

Vice Chair Cantrell.

Commissioner Barroso.

Commissioner Bendel.

Commissioner Pickford.

Commissioner Lagnois.

Commissioner Oliverio.

Commissioner Rosario.

Commissioner Young.

Myself here.

That's five in attendance.

So we do not yet have quorum.

We will go ahead and get started with the staff presentation.

And then we will hopefully have quorum by the time that we go to vote on this item.

And it looks like we have Commissioner Lardnois starting or arriving now, so that gives us quorum.

Okay, before we move into the staff recommendation, we will open the floor to public comment for non-agendized items.

If anyone uh in attendance this evening would like to provide public comment for anything not on tonight's agenda, feel free to come forward at this time.

And you'll have two minutes if you could just state your name for the perfect.

Thank you.

Yes, my name is Lillian.

I'm a substitute teacher, and I'm here because I'm interested in how the planning commission and the people that sit on the commission will go forward with your envision plan.

Um this is not on your agenda items today, so I'm just gonna throw it out there.

So planning on land use, number one, sustainability.

Uh, we talk about climate and carbon neutrality in our city.

Um, you know, when I'm in a classroom with kids, we talk about tree canopy, we talk about climate, we talk about the environment.

This is all very important to the city of San Jose, especially since we're considered tree city USA.

Um, there was a lady that used to work here, her name was Carrie Romanoff.

She was your first sustainability officer, and she I think had the first what's called Green Bond Design Build.

So I'm interested in knowing if the Planning Commission is going to be uh maintaining green building and sticking to the green building ordinance.

There is such an ordinance in your city, I believe.

Um, but really I'm here today because I have looked at previous planning commissions, and I have noticed an uptick in developers uh uprooting trees.

And I'm wearing green today because I like trees.

I don't know about you guys.

Um, I don't think it's that far-fetched of an idea to understand that if we maintain our trees, it has a real effect on our climate and carbon neutrality.

So um when I saw recently, um, this is maybe a week ago in one of your planning sessions, there was a draft, and I looked at it and there was 352 trees going to be removed, ordinance and non-ordinance trees.

I was sick to my stomach.

I'm like, this just can't keep going on.

And then I noticed once again uh another uptick and two more um developers coming in, and all of a sudden, the city you your commission commission is stating that uh we are not going to allow this to continue, and we will not um uh suggest to city council that in fact they develop and uproot those trees.

However, that doesn't mean that these things can't come back on your agenda.

So, how do you plan to reduce environmental impacts?

And if you get elected, uh although um, you know, if the if if the uh city planning commission continues to uproot trees at the rate they're doing, I would be interested in knowing how if you sit on City Council, Mr.

Torridos, that you will in fact keep Tree City USA as it is and keep our tree canopy and not consistently allow developers to uproot hundreds of trees.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

I think the only thing that I will add here is that there is an existing tree removal policy in terms of the number of replacement trees required on site as well as an inlu fee option.

Uh so that is the current rubric by which we uh judged uh proposals that come before this commission.

But thank you for your comment.

Uh are there any other members of the public uh in attendance who would like to provide comment on non-agendized items tonight?

Okay, I'm not seeing anyone move forward.

Uh so with that, we will move on to item 3A, which is the city's 2025 to 2027 proposed biannual capital budget and 2026 to 2030 capital improvements program.

Uh staff, do we have a presentation?

Yes, good evening, Chair and members of the Planning Commission, Jennifer Tell, Capital Coordinator in the City Manager's budget office.

I will provide an overview of the proposed budget and the funding sources for the five-year capital improvement program.

Then I will turn it over to Public Works Direct Deputy Director Sal Kumar to discuss some of the program highlights.

This capital budget is the culmination of the work of staff who are joined here with us this evening from the airport, environmental services, fire, library, parks, recreation, and neighborhood services, police, public works, and transportation departments.