February 28, 2019 Joint Special Meeting of Mountain View City Council and Shoreline Regional Park Community

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[00:00:01] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Okay, we're going to call this meeting to order. I apologize for being a little bit late, but we're going to get going now. So we will start with roll call.

[00:00:14] City Clerk: All council members are present, except council member Clark, who's absent.

[00:00:17] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Thank you. He'll be here. Yep. I do want to let folks know that we do have in the Plaza conference room right next door, the monitor, so if you don't want to sit on the floor or stand, you could watch it, and then if you want to talk to us, come back at, you know, the appropriate time, just as an option, in case you don't want to stand or sit on the floor. And again, that's just right next door. Where is our fire marshal? I don't see any takers. That's okay. Okay, so... We are going to move one item out of order and do item 5 right now, which is quick, which is the announcement of our closed session report. Which is kind of fun for me that I get to say there is a close session report this evening. In furtherance of the city's goal to support vulnerable members of the community. The city council decided this evening that the city of Mountain View would join as a friend of the court brief, join the friend of the court brief to support the city of Baltimore in their challenge against the Trump administration regarding immigration policies. And it was a vote of 5 to one with council member Clark absent and council member McAllister voting, no. Thank you. The next item is oral communications from the public on non-agendized items. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the council on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for one 3 minute period during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non-agenda items. So, can I see a show of hands of how many folks want to speak on non-agendized items? Looks like just a handful. Okay. Um, Maybe a few more back there. So I just want to remind folks that this is items not on the agenda. Okay. If... what? So if you are not here to speak about goals or projects to support those goals, that is on the agenda. So we're taking public input on anything other than discussing our goals or projects to support those goals. So if you have something, please come up to the microphone, at some point, be sure to fill out a card and leave it with our city clerk so we can get your name right for the minutes.

[00:03:10] Councilmember John McAlister: City manager. I mean, man of mayor. Like last Tuesday, I announced that the Mountain View Boys basketball team was in a playoff position for NorCal. I'm pleased to announce that they did win that and they are playing tonight for the 3rd 2nd round for NorCal for to advance our Mountainee Boys basketball team. Go Spartans.

[00:03:32] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you, council member McAllister. Okay, so I don't see anyone coming up to the microphone. Oh, now I do.

[00:03:45] Stephen Nelson: Sorry, I didn't know whether I was going to get called or not. Um, where's the counter? Mayor, can I confirm three minutes?

[00:03:52] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So, yeah, we'll do 3 minutes, yes.

[00:03:55] Stephen Nelson: My name is Stephen Nelson. I'm a retired trustee of the elementary school district. I'd like to talk about the 9.5 million dollars in elementary school revenue that was diverted by Shoreline District this last fiscal year. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. But a wonderful thing to invest in. We don't need to build a private college north of 101, but we do and will have community responsibility for educating elementary kids in public education. Shoreline district is a half century old this year. Since 1969, it's had special state authorization to divert all increased property taxes from schools. But it also has authorization to build, quote, public buildings, unquote. A fair restitution for past diverted revenue is a complete elementary school facility. And then let's go forward and replace that temporary, half ass, half effective revenue sharing agreement. Community public education deserves 100%, guaranteed tax revenue. Thank you.

[00:05:19] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Anyone else wishing to speak on an item not on the agenda?

[00:05:29] Lenny Siegel: My name's Lenny Siegel. I'm a long time Mountain View resident. I support what the council did the other night in voting to come up with a city led master plan for North Bayjore for the gateway area. I think the city needs to resolve the dispute between the 2 property owners for the project to go forward. However, I was concerned to hear some of the comments from the dais, particularly those picking out SiWest proposal as a starting point for the master plan that's going to be developed. SiWest is proposing to provide space for maybe 4,000 or more jobs and housing for less than a 1000 people. The idea of the residential update of the North Bay Shore plan was to try to match the office space that was approved in 2014 with housing so that we can mitigate the job's housing and balance and make it possible to achieve the transportation improvements that we need, people walking and biking to work from homes nearby, complete neighborhoods. So we can build the offices that is meeting the trip cap. So I'm hoping, as you move forward, that you look at the city's interest and not the proposals of the particular companies, we need the housing. I also heard from the Deus people saying, well, 9850 is just a maximum. It's not really a target. It is a target. Yeah, legally, it's a maximum, but it's a target that the council set in 2017 for multiple reasons. One is, because we have so many new jobs going in there. We have to balance it with housing. Secondly, we need it to mitigate the traffic. If people don't walk or bike to work. Shoreline Boulevard will be thoroughly clogged worse than it is now. We need it to make transit possible. We need it to make a store possible. It took us 3 years of listening to experts in the public to come up with that 9,850 goal. It's higher than I originally was advocating. But that's what's necessary if we're going to do the right thing by Mountain View. Yes, Mountain View is building a lot of housing. I've got the spreadsheet. I know we're doing a lot, but I also have the spreadsheet for all the offices we've approved, and that actually we have more jobs coming than housing. So I implore you, as you move forward, to make it a priority and make it clear to both Google and Si West that we need the housing in North Bay Shore, not just the offices, not just the parks, we need the housing. Thank you.

[00:08:01] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[00:08:06] Public Speaker: Honorable Mayor Medichek, Honorable Vice Mayor, Abby Koko, Honorable Council members. I hope I'm not out of order, but I'm emboldened a little bit by what former mayor Siegel shared. What I wanted to share was just a couple of observations, not actually related to the agenda itself, but observations from a citizen that I hope you would consider as you move into the agenda item. One of the things that I had noted by reading the Mountain View voice when we look over time at some of the projects being approved, which I'm sure my neighbors will speak about more specifically, has to do with construction, repurposing, and, I mean, we can see the stickers. One thing I have, a lot of concern for, and former musical just mentioned, it has to do with traffic. Um, in order to, uh, I do believe, and I would like to share with you, in order to make it safe for pedestrians and bikes, perhaps we could consider ways of actually separating from the road gray traffic. One of the items that has been in the local newspaper in the last couple of weeks has to do with the Caltrain projects and the closing of Castro. That's something that was discussed here, you know, months ago. What I would offer to you for your consideration is that we don't have that many freeway feeders, both jobs and homes generate traffic. And we do want to encourage bikes and pedestrians. If we could find every opportunity we can to actually separate the bikes and pets from the roads, especially as we look at driverless cars and other automations. It's not safe for them. So as you consider projects to actually open up those areas for development, if we can get the pedestrians and the cyclists, somewhere safe, that way, we can feed the freeways and come off the freeway safely. I would appreciate if you could just keep that in mind. And thank you. And I wish you a lot of luck with the planning. Thank you.

[00:09:51] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Anyone else wishing to speak on a topic that's not on the agenda? Okay, then we will close this portion of the meeting, and the next item is item 4.one, which is council goal setting for fiscal year, 201920, and 2021. And for this section of the meeting, we have our assistant city manager and chief operating officer, right? Audrey Seymour Ramberg, with some members of her team. I see Melvin Gaines and Christina who has been very helpful to me. me on many topics. Um, Christina Gilmore. Sorry, I should have said your last name. Anyone else? As part of this?

[00:10:44] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: I can do some acknowledgments. Madame Mayor. Thank you so much. Madame Mayor, members of the council. I am presenting to you. information, but acting in a somewhat different role than is typical during a study session for a staff person and that I am going to be helping guide the council through the process for this study session, which will allow the mayor and all council members to participate freely, hopefully to help us use our time wisely and get to the desired end goal for this study session. I'm not going to be sitting at the computer, as you can see. I'm standing here at the podium. I have a lapel mic if I figure out how to use it and feel so moved, I might actually move around a little bit, mostly because I want to be able to stay engaged with you, see all of your faces, and make sure everybody's having a chance to participate in the discussion. With me, as you noted, our Melvin Gaines and Christina Gilmore. Melvin is going to be answering questions that you have if you have any around our 2017, 19 major goals, work plan. And he also will be the kind of chief scribe to capture the project ideas and comments on goals so that we make sure that we're documenting those things. And Christina is also assisting in note-taking. from our experience in going through this process in the past. There's a lot of information, a lot of exchange of ideas. And sometimes people walk away with different remembrances of what was discussed. And so we want to make sure that we get it all. In addition, the department heads and the city manager are here to answer questions regarding activities in their different areas. And as always, the manager to help with the city manager to help with process. Our study session this evening, we have the agenda of some opening comments by me. That will be the very shortest part of our time together. I'm going to talk briefly about the purpose of goal setting in general, the purpose and roles and process for tonight's study session, and I have just talked about the roles. And then the steps and the timeline for the overall process, so you know what's coming next, which helps you know what we don't have to get done tonight because there are multiple steps in the process. to give you context for looking ahead 2 years. We want to take stock of where we are on the um, project work plan for the goals that have been in place since uh, fiscal year 2017, 18. Um, We will after I provide that background information. I'll sit down and we'll hear from the public, providing their input on what they believe should be the major goal areas and perhaps potential specific projects. And then we'll return back to the council and I'll facilitate your discussion on 2 areas, the establishing of the major goal areas, which are the very big buckets, if you will, and then facilitate your rainstorming of potential projects. So starting with the purpose of goal setting in general, It has been the council's practice to go through a biannual cycle starting in 2013, 14. That was the 1st year with the 2 year work plan. And since that time, the council has continued that practice in order to create high level themes, that really establish a limited number of very important priorities for the organization and the community. And those priorities are really instrumental in how we make decisions about resource allocation to direct resources to the areas that the council is telling us are most important to the community, aligning our staff efforts, you know, our departments and our staff, build their work plans, around the projects that will accomplish the council's major goals. Obviously, they have other projects and work as well. But it's a very big focus. I mean, every department head in this room could recite to you probably verbatim, what the council's 4 goals are. And we communicate them regularly to the community in our publications and in our other outreach. Um, and uh, they they, they service that kind of, um, clarity and focal point. In addition to the goal set, setting the major themes. We do adopt a work plan of projects to accomplish those goals over a two-year period. So tonight's study session is the 1st step in that process. And there's a couple different things that you're that we are hoping that the council will together accomplish this evening. First is for the council to agree on a small number of major goals. You'll see I put on the slide 2 to four. I think it's unlikely that you would only select two, but I wanted to kind of encourage you in the direction of thinking about a limited number. Really, if it is more than four, then it's hard to think of them as the city's highest priorities, um, in that, um, the more priorities you have, the fewer priorities you have in a way. in terms of your ability to really dedicate resources to them and accomplish them. So, as I'd said, these are high level, they're kind of thinking about overarching outcomes, things that are very important to the community. And you're not going to be asked to settle tonight on specific wording. I know in the past, sometimes we've been able to wordsmith the actual goal statements. And I think we, from the suggestion of the council subcommittee, and then later the approval of the council on what our process would be this evening, are wanting to shift some of our time to allow the council to have input on potential specific projects instead. And so we're just going to want to make sure we get the major themes correct. Um, and then staff will go and do the wordsmithing and bring those goal statements back to you um, at your next study session for approval. Now that doesn't mean that we're just going to use a word like housing and think that that's what the goal is. It's going to be helpful to hear more from you about what you mean by that, what elements you might be including in that. And you probably those who were on the council last time will recall that housing was a goal before, but there were some areas of emphasis that were important in 2017 that maybe hadn't been focused on in 2015 and the goal statement shifted a bit, you know, some more descriptive language was added into it. So it will be fine to kind of speak about those substantive elements within a goal so that you all understand and agree that you're talking about the same thing and so that we have what we need to develop wording. So in getting to those 2 to 4 major goals, you're going to be looking at 2 things. You're going to be looking at our current goals. It was a suggestion 1st to the goals subcommittee and then adopted by the council that the current goals we have, are very large in in scope and complexity, and you couldn't probably say that any one of them is completely done. And so we wanted to allow for the possibility that counsel may wish to continue those goals again. And maybe with some revisions to what is included in them or emphasized within them, but we are going to give you some time to reflect on the current goals, to see if you want to move any or all of them forward, either as is or with changes. You're also going to be given the opportunity to discuss the potential for adding new major goal areas. And we'll want to get all of those out on the table. But again, I'm suggesting that you select no more than 4 by the end of the evening. Now, how quickly that part of the agenda goes. You know, the packet did include a suggested amount of time for that, which may or may not be what happens this evening, and how quickly it goes will depend on the degree to which council wants to change the current goals, and also how much consensus there is among you. The 2nd thing that we're hoping to accomplish tonight is to brainstorm potential projects to be considered for inclusion in the major goals, work plan. As I mentioned, this is something new that we're trying out this year based on direction from council. Um, and um, uh, we'll um, get a chance to see how it goes. and some parameters around that that I would like to suggest, or that this evening, we don't have the purpose of evaluating or deciding on any of these projects, and I think that's important for the public to understand as well, that this is the 1st step in a multi-step process, and prioritizing and analyzing will come later in the process. This is just to get things on the table. And I can then share with the public and the council, which, you know, council's fairly familiar with this timeline, how the rest of that process will play out. So following tonight, we're already at the very last day in February, and we are giving the advisory bodies and our department teams the month of March to review what comes out of tonight's study session, and also to add to it as they feel is appropriate, also talk about what they feel might be the most important, or other kinds of notes or feedback on the projects that come out of this evening. And so that's going to be happening throughout March. And then our next study session is April 23rd. When, as I mentioned, we'll bring back the goal statements in, you know, hopefully a nicely, concisely and clearly worded statements and then also present back to you, the list that you generate tonight plus what gets added by the advisory bodies and the department teams, and ask you to prioritize. After that, working as a cross-departmental team and also individually within our departments. We're going to be assessing the level of staff and other resources that would be needed to accomplish those projects, any interdependencies that we need to know about, timing considerations about, you know, when within the 2 year time frame, we would expect to work on them. All of that together would allow us to make a recommendation on what we believe are the feasible projects to go forward. So you can kind of picture we're having a little bit of a winnowing down of lots of stuff gets on the table, and then you as a body are going to indicate where there is broad support, perhaps where there might be some things that aren't as broadly supported. Staff isn't going to analyze the entire list. We're going to analyze the things that have broad support by the council in accordance with the April 23rd study session. And then we're likely, very likely, unless you guys are all super duper judicious in the things that you're putting on the list this evening. We're likely to be coming back to you with an even more refined and limited set of projects because we really do want to be successful in delivering what it is that the council adopts as a work plan. Um, so that is the process for overall goal setting and for tonight. I am going to give you just a few slides of information about our current work plan and some other things that are kind of happening in the organization now, but I want to pause and see if there are any questions from council about the process. Okay, great. So during the last two-year goal setting. Um, which started in early 2017. Council decided to continue to have major goals related to housing, transportation and sustainability. All 3 of those had been the subject matter of goals in 2015, but the council did suggest some new areas of emphasis. And in general, made the goal statements a bit more descriptive. If you look at attachment, I think it's two. You'll see the goals from the prior to goal setting cycles. And I think we made some positive changes towards describing a little bit better what it was that that goal, our current goals were trying to accomplish. In addition to those three, counsel did add a goal to protect vulnerable populations and preserve mountain views, diversity, and staff, at least, I don't know if this is common parlance now, but we came to lovingly call this goal community for all, and that's how we've been communicating it in our newsletter and other communications. What this chart shows you are the number of projects in the 2017, 19 work plan that are associated with each of these goals. You'll see there that there's also a small bar that says other, because there were 5 projects that the council felt were important, but that weren't really affiliated with one of these major themes. What you also see in the project is the status of the projects, and the categories there are the darker blue on the bottom, which are those projects that were complete as of December 31st, 2018. And then the 2nd segment of the bar is those that are anticipated to be complete by the end of the current fiscal year, which is June 30th, 2018. And that leaves the light blue segment as those that are continuing on past this fiscal year. Um, so, uh, everybody sees something different. Graphs are great about being able to tell stories. When I look at this. My 1st 2 takeaways is that there are about twice as many projects in transportation as there are in the other goal areas. So thank you, Mike, or don't bother to thank us, Mike, or and also that more than half of the projects across all of the goal areas have been completed or will be completed before next year. However, there's still a fairly significant number of projects that are expected to continue. It may or may not be coincidental, but I found it interesting that the height of the bottom two segments is roughly even across the 4 goal areas. I don't know know if that means that we have only the capacity to do about 40, 44 projects, but we adopted 66. So, um, that there might be a little bit of a mismatch there. So this is the total, if you aggregate all of the projects and the different goals together. The work plan includes 66 projects of which 43 or 65% are or are anticipated to be completed by the end of this fiscal year. The other 23 will be carrying forward, and 2 of these 23 have not been started. Um, so the 66 projects in the 2017, 19 work plan compare to last year where there were 51 projects and the year before where there were 48, So there is some scale creep there. Um, and, you know, I must say that not every project takes the same amount of work effort. Um, but what you'll see as we look at the projects that are continuing forward, we have some really, um, uh, um, challenging um, significant um, endeavors that we've undertaken in the current work plan. In addition to these 66 projects that are associated with the council goals work plan, the departments every year also include in the budget that has adopted, other significant or major projects that they are working on that don't relate to the council's goals. So for a department like mine, that is overseas HR, we're doing some major succession planning efforts, which, um, every department has some responsibility for helping to implement and takes a significant amount of my time, but it's not something that gets, um, included in the council goals work plan. And there were 68 of those projects adopted in the current, 2018, 2019, budget of those 25 are expected to carry forward into next year and that they are not completed. So this means that there are kind of before you even get out of the gates tonight with your project ideas. There are 48 relatively substantive things that are in the department's hoppers. already on the plate, if you will, for 2019.20. So while 65% of a work plan and is a accomplishment to be proud of, that's a lot represents a lot of effort and a lot of outcomes. There is an obvious question of why won't we have all 100% of the projects completed by the end of this fiscal year. you know, within that 2 year planning period. And I'll say that there are many parts to this answer. First, there were some projects that were so big that we never really expected that they would be done within 2 years. We could start them in the 2 year cycle, but we didn't expect to complete them in that time. Also, of course, there are things that turn out to be more complex than we anticipated or we hit roadblocks and wind up with delays. And what I'd like to say is that whether or not all components of a project are or even can be fully anticipated at the onset, it often takes longer to get things done than we would like. And I know we have that feedback from the community, you know, I think Dan gets that feedback from you as the council, I get that feedback from Dan. Probably, you know, project teams within the departments, get that feedback from their department heads. And I think, um, you know, it's often the people who are closest to the work right on the ground level, um, that have the best understanding of how long things take and why they take as long as they do. But I can offer some reasons for this in general. Um, and one is that we are an organization that really um, uh, take seriously our responsibility for engaging the community. And when we are working on. these projects are not day-to-day things. These are establishing new policy directions. They are, you know, undertaking major infrastructure upgrades. Um, you know, they include all of those kinds of things that that in order to know what the need is, what the impacts might be, uh, in order to keep the community informed and part of the process, that takes time. You know, there's a fair amount of community engagement that happens. Also, I think, and I think that's a good thing. You know, sometimes people who are not in the public sector will think, oh, you know, government is just so slow and, you know, so bureaucratic. And I think there's some really good outcomes from the fact that we do things in a public way. We have public process. We don't have this meeting, you know, behind a closed door. We have it in a, you know, an agendized meeting where anybody can come and speak to it. Another good thing about our organization is that we're highly collaborative. We have, you know, a tremendous department head team, and all of us care about what's happening in each other's departments, and we work together to solve problems. And we recognize the interdependencies across different work efforts and across different organizations. And so we do need to coordinate on many of these projects. And sometimes there are departments like the attorney's office or like finance and administrative services that will get pulled into more projects than they're not. You know, they're involved in, you know, perhaps a majority of them. And that does create some constraints in our resources. Um, And also we need to work with other agencies. Sometimes we have a great idea and the regional agency that would need to be part of the solution, doesn't see it exactly the same way, either in terms of the level of priority that it is or, um, what the scope of it should be. And then I think lastly, on that, kind of the complexity of the issues are that, you know, sometimes these are things that don't really have a right answer. Um, that the situations are incredibly complex and there's more than one right answer or the right answer is very ambiguous. And so all of that takes a fair amount of time. So the other things I want to say about capacity are that even if we had all of the staffing that we needed, you know, to handle the workload, and that's one thing. The workload that we have as staff is very full, as you've heard us say, and as you've acknowledged. Um, We aren't always able to be fully staffed with the budgeted resources that we have, um, because of the labor market right now. It's challenging to recruit and retain employees. And we have to look at what we budget and then some lead time to be able to get those positions up to speed. Um, So in terms of what's on the, the, um, staff's played, it's not only the other department projects that I've already mentioned, it's also the day-to-day service delivery. And that leads to, um, the picture that I shared with you during the last goal setting, and I'll just say remember the iceberg. Um, we focus a lot in our communications, as I mentioned, you really hold us to task as you should on the projects associated with the major goals. But that is really the tip of the iceberg in terms of all of the things that our city does on a day-to-day basis. You know, our operations and service delivery in the library and in our safety, our police and fire services. you know, the, uh, field crews and park maintenance. And our budgeting and accounting and our hiring and training and all of those things are things that across the organization as a whole, we estimate take about 85% of our staff capacity. That's not every single department or even every person within a department. It really does vary. I have a larger percentage of my time that's more discretionary for special projects, but there are a lot of, you know, folks who don't who carry. heavy ongoing workloads. So that concludes my presentation about our current work plan and capacity considerations and before we open it up to public input, about major goals and potential projects. Are there any questions from council? Okay, so not to usurp the role of the mayor, but I will now call for public input.

[00:35:41] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So if you are here to speak about major goal areas or specific projects, if you could please, line up and fill out a blue card and give it to the city clerk. And could we see a show of hands of how many folks, um, I think we're gonna get a lot of folks speaking tonight. So we are going to limit it to two minutes per person. And remember, you can see the time up on the screens there, but it's also right here in front of the dais. So, um, if you could also make sure to fill out, um, a card and leave it with our city clerk either before or after you speak, that would be greatly appreciated.

[00:36:29] Mila Zelka: I'm Mila Zelka from Palantier Technologies in Palo Alto. I would like to suggest that your council add to one of its goals for 2019, participation in talks that explore the creation of a subregional TMA, or collaboration of TMAs across city lines. These are transportation management associations, of which I know you have one in this city. In Palo Alto, we admire the TMA that you've built here, and we're in the process of maturing our own in downtown in the Calab area. We've been providing transit past subsidies for service workers making $70,000 or less, and this has helped mode shift over 330 workers in 2018 alone, which is equivalent to our Bryant Street garage. As you may be aware, there are a number of private TMAs in the area, and both the cities of Menlo Park and Redwood City are in the process of creating theirs. A group of private sector companies, public leaders, and concerned residents from throughout the mid peninsula, have been having conversations, loose conversations, on how to create mode shift to and from these employment centers, how an independent yet resident informed entity, a federation of TMAs, could ease the burden of running a singular TMA in any one city. And how such an effort could begin to tangibly address transportation equity and climate action goals. by participating in a shared discussion with stakeholders from neighboring communities. There could be a leveraging of purchasing power, sharing info on commuter behavior, and an ability to complete networks for greater mode shift. Joint venture Silicon Valley will formally convey stakeholders to explore such an initiative, and when they do, we hope this body sends an elected to participate in the talks, which will conclude by year end. There is momentum in both concept and potential implementation, with minimal impact on staff time. We hope you consider, thank you.

[00:38:24] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next, please.

[00:38:30] Trish Gilbert: Hi, this is related to your community for all goal. My name is Trish Gilbert, and I'm a Mountain View homeowner and parent of 2 kids who attend Mistra Elementary. I'm here tonight to urge the city to expand their partnership with the Mountain View Wisman school district on after school options for low income families. Currently, the city and the school district partner on Beyond the Bell at 4 schools. But the reality is every school in our district has low income families who would tremendously benefit from after school opportunities. For example, Mistral's demographic is 44%, free and reduced lunch, and the only option on our campus is the YMCA, and though they offer a discount off the $650 a month, um, cost for the London families, the program has limited capacity and is currently, um, with a wait list. Even some of our more affluent schools have low income populations that could benefit from programs at their school. So why am I here versus just speaking with the school board? Offering high quality education enriched after school programs for all of our low income students is a win-win-win for our community. Students win because they gain additional time and exposure to math, language arts and recreational activities. Academic outcomes and test scores improve, and more ELL students reclassify sooner. Parents win as they no longer have to rush to campus at three to pick up their children because they can't afford after school care or babysitters. Assuming an after school program could go to 5 or 530, these parents could work an additional 8 to 10 hours a week, which equates to 100s of additional dollars a month, which would greatly improve their family's well-being. And last, the win is for our community. I can only speak from Estral, but numerous parents at our school work at businesses and restaurants in Mountain View. If parents aren't rushing to get the kids at three, their availability increases. First and foremost, I'm here on behalf of students, but the awesome thing is this program could actually help keep Mountain View the diverse community we love. Our neighborhood families are being priced out because it's so expensive to live here. But once again, a byproduct of an afterschool program targeted to our low income families has a benefit to increase family incomes. The benefits to students and their families in Mountain View as a whole. So thank you for your time.

[00:40:21] Unknown Speaker: Do you have it? Just quickly. Are you Bridget?

[00:40:23] Trish Gilbert: I'm Trish.

[00:40:24] Unknown Speaker: Oh, you're Trish. Okay. But I know, Bridget. I know.

[00:40:27] Unknown Speaker: Did you have a question?

[00:40:28] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I have a question. So, you miss... So, Miss Trail...

[00:40:32] Trish Gilbert: Mm hmm.

[00:40:32] Unknown Speaker: Ms. Trail... Mr. Al... Miss Troll. Okay, they don't have an after school program or save the... Beyond the Bell. So that's Castro Landos, their cough, and monoloma. And why don't you have a one after Save the bell?

[00:40:46] Trish Gilbert: Um, I'm probably not the best one to answer, but... I think there was, um, we used to be part of Castro, we split off. Um, kind of the Beyond the Bell, opt in, was kind of such that we only, I think, a certain number of schools could potentially opt in on a Bridget.

[00:41:07] Bridget: This is Bridget. I'm a parent at Estral as well. So there's an existing collaboration between the city of Mountain View and the Mountain View Westman school district. supporting these after school programs at a number of the schools, as you said, and thank you for that. The, uh, grant, and there's, it's in collaboration with a grant. And my understanding is that the grant specifies that the free and reduced price lunch, there must be 50% or greater at the school to qualify for the Beyond the Bell program, because Mistral was a new school, that came into being after the grant was already in place, we have very close to that at 44% free and reduced price lunch, but we do not quite need that. And so that's why we don't have access to this program, but we do have a lot of needy students needing actual care. Thank you.

[00:41:56] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next please.

[00:42:10] Public Speaker: Sorry. Hi, Madam Mayor, city council members. I'm a member of a growing organization in Mountain View that's called Mountain View, excuse me, Mountain View vehicle residents. You may not have heard of us yet, but you probably will be hearing about us in the next few weeks. We're coming together to find ways that we can show that false narratives that all residents are somehow lesser than human beings, that we're all out for a free ride. We're all dirty, and we hide behind closed curtains because we're all meth addicts. Those narratives are false. The reality is that the people I've come across while I've been in my home motor home, or at our meetings, are hard working, they're elderly, they're handicapped, and they have families, and they're college students, or they just maybe people who have been thrown a curveball in life. I'm not trying to say that we're all vehicled, all vehicle doors are walk a straight line, and wear halos, but then again, neither do apartment residents, homes with multi-roommate residents, hotel, motel residents, not even residents that live in your own neighborhood. I think there is a solution out there that doesn't kick the citizens of the city out. simply because they can no longer afford to pay rent. The increased rents for most part are what put us where we're at. This progression can be stopped before we're all sleeping on the city hall stoops. We have a core of committed persons seeking to find solutions for the situation of vehicle residents. This number will increase exponentially in the next few weeks. As a group together with discounts. We can find a way of resolution. that is equitable to all involved either directly or indirectly. Mountain View has been a long history of tolerance for others. It appears to me that with the arrival of some tech companies, that tolerance has begun to erode. This is why I asked the city council to kindly step aside or step aside. Excuse me. To kindly reserve some time for us or put some time for us on your agenda in the next few years. I think we can find a solution that's equitable for the for the city. Thank you.

[00:44:26] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next place.

[00:44:34] Denise: Hello, I'm Denise. I'm here again after Tuesday evening, and 23 year resident of Mountain View, and I apologize. I kind of have to read this. As I know the 2019, 2020 goals, including those related to development, are largely the agenda for this meeting. I'm before you again, to ask you about development as it relates to North Bay Shore. Specifically, I wanted to ask again about the GCAT program at Google. I've served as a volunteer for the company's program, a homeless CAT management initiative, which was started by and funded by Google with the work being done by volunteers. I won't go into a lot of stuff because there's not a lot of time, but I just want to say there's been a 72% reduction in the number of homeless cats that Google's been able to take care of under its very careful management. And I no longer work for Google. But the only 2 outcomes related to the development plan and cats and the issues surrounding them as one, releasing the very wild ones, back to live their lives or continuing, continuing under watchful care or killing them. And, uh, I very quickly, I just want to say, I live on Sierra Vista between Montecito and San Luis, so I'm very familiar with demolition and rebuilding and that kind of thing, and many things are being displaced. Not just cats, not this issue, but I just want to implore the city council to please make clear that banning, trap neuter return in the areas where it's currently legal, accepted, responsibly practiced, and beneficial to North Bay Shore, is not and will not be one of the criteria that attached to a condition of any development plan adopted in North Bay Shore, either by Google or SiWest or anyone else. The other thing too, Sovaca, um, supports feral freedom, and that's who we contract with. That's who the city contracts with for animal care. So thank you so much.

[00:46:32] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next place.

[00:46:41] Hui Chuan: Good evening, council members, my name is Hui Chuan, and I'm a member of the Wage Step Coalition. I come here to talk again about the waste shift issue, which has come before the council before, and we do hope that the Mountain View will stay in his leadership role and a fight for social justice as it has on other issues. This model has been going around the county and we've seen successes in the city of San Jose, the county of Santa Clara, the city of Nopitas, and the city of Sunnyvale. We're looking at ways where we can hold the business owners accountable when they don't pay their employees. Those people who devote their time to the success of the business, and to gathering profit for these business owners. So what we hope to do here is stamp out this culture where we can take advantage of people and find shortcuts to withhold payments and increase your profit margins, but leave the people who are working for you and are responsible for your success to struggle, especially as we look at skyrocket rents and more quality of life that is diminishing in the South Bay. Around the county and around different municipalities, this model has existed where we can look at a simple 3 pronged system to address this issue. One is to create a city policy that ensures the city itself does not contract with wage step violators. Two is to put into place a rule that would not renew or revoke a business license for a business that engages in wage debt or other crimes against their employees. And lastly, withhold the building permits of those entities that suborn these kind of violations and oppression against workers. We see this in San Jose, as we look at silvery towers, and we hear of labor trafficking, and people who are actually living in conditions where they have to live and work, under situations that we have never heard of. And I would urge this council to study this issue and make it a priority. Thank you.

[00:48:28] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next, please. Next, please.

[00:48:42] Hope Lopez: My name is Hope Lopez, a resident of Mountain View for many, many years. I am here to remind, to remind you, to ask you that, uh, to take into consideration and you're, uh, setting up for goals for the 2019, 20, 21 years, to take into account first, that we, the public support, affordable housing resources. We support the redevelopment of exceeding affordable housing, We do not support the redevelopment of affordable housing to be turned into townhomes, and because that increases the community, the housing crisis in our community. When you approve policies for redevelopment, those policies do not take into account the needs of our will in our community. And that should be taken into account. We are asking you today to please, at least, to approve a moratorium for the next 9 months to stop the destruction or redevelopment or naturally affordable housing throughout the city of Mountain View. And the last thing, even though it is now an agenda point here, I personally am asking you to take into account that our streets are many of our streets in Manview are in bad condition, including El Camino Real, California. I know that El Camino real is part of the federal government, but now with the rain, there are a whole bunch of patholes, big cracks and small cracks, especially now with the heavy rain. So, you may have to take into account, so how to fix those, because the man view residents are the ones who use those trees the most. Thank you.

[00:50:55] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next please.

[00:51:01] Julie Solomon: Good evening. My name is Julie Solomon. I'm a resident of Mountain View, and I'm also the chair of the Human Relations Commission here in Mountain View. Although I'm here to speak on behalf of myself and not on behalf of the commission. I would 1st like to say that I fully support council member of Ramirez's recommendation in the excuse me, project recommendation attachment for tonight's meeting, that specific metrics be used to assess progress toward major goals, and to determine which projects to implement, excuse me, moving forward. So, for example, in the case of the current major goal, promote strategies to protect vulnerable populations and preserve the socioeconomic and cultural diversity of the community, council member of Ramirez has offered two examples of potential metrics, percentage of displaced households that are rehoused and able to remain in mountain view, and number of homeless students in each school district. There could be many additional metrics, and I would volunteer to participate as a community member in a process to help identify them. I also think it's crucial to readopt this major goal for the next biennial, focused on protecting vulnerable populations and preserving diversity, even in the current biennial, with the goal in place and many important projects implemented by the city. Vulnerable populations remain extremely vulnerable, and our diversity as a community is threatened. So, for example, low income rental apartments continue to be eliminated, and threats from ice on our immigrant residents continue, as you heard about, on Tuesday. In alignment with the goal, focused on vulnerable populations and socioeconomic and cultural diversity. I support project proposals for the next biennial from council members, Hicks and Ramirez, that collectively are designed to prevent displacement of low income residents, and improve RV and mobile park living situations, and also council member Matichuk's proposal to expand housing options for seniors that take into account their needs as they age. Thank you.

[00:53:10] Unknown Speaker: Thank you. Next please.

[00:53:19] Marco Antonio Sedillo: Hola, buenas noches, members del concilio, y soy residente, de esta.

[00:53:26] Interpreter: Good evening. Council members. My name is Marco Antonio Sedillo, and I am a resident of this beautiful city of Montenville.

[00:53:36] Marco Antonio Sedillo: Y el proposito de mi presencia es.

[00:53:48] Interpreter: My purpose here tonight is to ask you to establish a policy for these major goals that you're gonna establish tonight. This is regarding the stealing of salaries that is happening in a continuous way in Montebu. This is very serious. As an example, I want to tell you that I was working for a whole week with an employer and they didn't pay me.

[00:54:38] Marco Antonio Sedillo: Incluso.

[00:54:49] Interpreter: So I took this to the court, to the minor issues, minor claims, and the judge favor me. Despite that the center was at my favor, I still didn't receive a single cent from the employer. I am aware, and I am aware that this situation has happened to several people. In the city. So, please consider this is, since, this is an issue that is affecting several people, a lot of people, and this will benefit us, and to make this city a better place to live. I will also would like to ask you to find a safe and secure place for all the people that are living right now in our business. to make a better place for them to live. So just to make this better and secure place for these people who need a better standard of life. Gracias. Thank you.

[00:57:09] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[00:57:17] Public Speaker: Good afternoon, members of city council. Earlier this week, I experienced a very traumatic and upsetting and overall devastating situation with my dad, being detained by ice. I need to know that our residents in my view are not scared to come outside of their houses is because we weren't born here. I am in middle school and I don't know what I do without my dad, who has been a homeowner in Mountain View for 17 years. I want restaurants for not only me and my family, but for other immigrants, families that call Mountain View home. I am taking out to see what actions can be done so no one else has to go through what I went through on Tuesday morning. Thank you.

[00:58:16] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[00:58:32] Paula Perez: Good evening. Council member, my name is Paula Perez. I'm here to ask you in a very special way. That you consider in your agenda, one of your priorities? To take action to protect the community that is being prosecuted without a criminal cause. Because they are violating their human rights without a reason. For example, you could create a whole line for the community that is suffering this kind of issues. para estas familia de supportunadas. Or if you can provide for legal services, for these families that cannot afford to pay for these services that are very expensive. So once more, I ask you to protect these families that are suffering this situation, and is actually also affecting the education of their children. Gracias. Thank you.

[01:00:52] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:01:00] Maria Marroquin: Hi, good evening, console members. My name is Maria Marroquin, and I live in work in Mountain View for many years. So I'm here, um, to urge you to take actions as a member of the, uh, theft, uh, Westlife coalition, because I have been witnessing, witnessing through my career. A lot of abuses, and I believe it's with time to stop it. Also, I want to call to attention and action about to protect and find a real space, dignify space, with people who is getting through difficult times in their lives, and they need to live in their cars, or when there are bees, and they need a space when they can really live in the whole sense. You may be aware that lately, a couple months ago, one person passed sleeping in his car and parking in the parking lot or McDonald's. That is horrible and shouldn't be happening here. One death is too much. And other one about is very important also for me to request action, about the moratorium, in medium moratorium and demolitions. We have been working tariously in order to protect the tenants in Mountain View. And now with these demolitions, everything is kind of going away. So you have the power, and you have also the great opportunity, the privilege to legislate in order to protect your community, who really need your support. So thank you for your attention and congratulations, alloyo.

[01:02:36] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:02:42] Robert Greeley: Good evening, council members. My name is Robert Greeley. I am a longtime proud resident of this great city of Mountain View, which I very much love. very dear to me. I'm also a volunteer supervising attorney with the workers' rights clinic of the Catherine and George Alexander Community Law Center in San Jose. I want to tell you that at every clinic that I've ever supervised, I have witnessed firsthand, the agony and the despair of the low wage workers who come to us for help. They're being cheated out of their fair wages, they're not being paid minimum wage, they're not being paid overtime. And in many cases, they're not being paid anything at all for their many hours of hard labor. And it's just really heartbreaking. I've heard countless stories from struggling working people, including single mothers, youth, seniors, immigrants, vulnerable people, working people, who are desperate, to put food on their table, to put a roof over their heads. And they're being taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers who are flagrantly violating our employment laws. So, I'm here to say that the stories that I have heard are truly heartbreaking, but even more than heartbreaking, they actually make my blood boil. I'm here. Pardon my language, but it pisses me off that this is happening here in the United States of America, one of the wealthiest countries on the Earth, and we're allowing wage, theft to happen, and flagrant violations of employment law, it's unconscionable. I think it's a national disgrace, and I'm glad that we're finally starting to take it seriously, starting here in Silicon Valley as the leader in this national crucial issue. I'm very proud of the work that the workers' rights clinic is doing to help our most vulnerable workers here in the valley. I'm happy to see that Mountain View is considering making it a priority to fight wage theft, and I urge you to do so. In closing, I'll just say that Mountain View is deserved of its reputation of being a great progressive city, and being a leader in so many ways, and I look forward to your being a leader on this vitally important issue too. Thank you.

[01:04:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next place.

[01:04:51] Miguel Sanchez: Hello, council members. My name is Miguel Sanchez. I am a member of I'm a resident of the North Westmin District. I'm here to give you 2 quick examples of how well-intentioned goals can go and have unintended consequences with, I've been a resident of this area for about 10 years. Within half a block from my house, over the past 3 or 4 years, we've had 85 new townhomes come up in 2 separate developments. The 1st one on the corner of Piazza Drive in Evondale displaced an RV park. So we got 35 new townhomes. And I can still recognize the vehicles of the people that live there who are now living on the street. So that was that's the 1st example. The 2nd is about 35 new townhomes just opening up on the corner of Fairchild and Tyrella. They went on the market about a month, a month and a half ago. Last Thursday, um, the developer, I'm on the mailing list for real estate, uh, transactions and I saw that the developer had to drop the price between 75 to $165,000. I went to visit the houses on Saturday. They gave me a sheet where they had only sold 3 and they had they had 31 of them available because the price was too high. I went and went and looked at one of the model homes. And it was so ironic to me that I was on the 3rd floor of this beautiful new townhome, overlooking what used to be affordable apartments for our residence. So, I think we need to, we need to, setting goals is very important, but it's also very important to understand the 2nd and 3rd level consequences of of what can happen here. So I'm all for increasing our housing, but I think we need a little bit more of a range between not just everything being uh, 3 floor uh, rows of townhomes. Thank you.

[01:06:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:06:54] Bridget Harrison: Good evening, council members. My name is Bridget Harrison, and I'm a Mountain View resident and a parent in the Mountain View Whisman School District. I'm here to speak in support of 2 goals. Number one, expanding the city's current commitment to after school academic enrichment programs for low-income and at risk children to fill gaps that exist in those programs. And number two, to continue the city's commitment to protecting vulnerable populations and maintaining social and socionomic and cultural diversity in mountain view. Number one, as you've heard, the city currently has a commendable commitment to afterschool care and academic enrichment with the Mountain View Whisman school district. Through the Beyond the Bell program for low income children. However, gaps in those programs exist. Specifically, as you've heard, Gabriella Mistral Elementary, the bilingual, Spanish, English, dual immersion school that newly opened a few years ago, does not have a program. As I mentioned, Mr. L has 44% free and reduced price lunch student population, which is actually similar to other schools that do have beyond the bell, but we do not have a program. Since the school opened, many of our parents have asked again and again, for an academic enrichment after school program to improve student achievement, to help close the achievement gap, and to help working parents who are struggling to make ends meet. Additionally, there are a few other schools in the district that don't have programs in there are wait lists at some of the Beyond the Bell programs, so not all students who need it can access it. I ask you to expand your commitment to these programs, to bring after school care to all the low-income students who need it in the city, particularly at Mistrell. Number two, protecting vulnerable populations. As you've heard, 2 days ago, there was an ice rate in Mountain View, very near the Mr. Allen Castro Elementary schools that has had a chilling effect on our community, with parents at our schools afraid to leave their homes to bring their children to school. Additionally, many of our families have been or are at risk of being priced out of our community. I ask you to renew your commitment, to predict our vulnerable populations and maintain socioeconomic and cultural diversity in our Mountain View community, both through any legal protections possible, and also by protecting and expanding affordable housing in Mountain View. Thank you.

[01:08:59] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:09:14] Emelda Moreno: My name is Emelda Moreno. I want to speak about the same topic of the person before me about Ms. Strad school. I want to thank you for the support that you are providing with the BTB program beyond the belt? Yes. But only a few schools are being benefited in the district, within the district. Our school, Gabriella Mestral, doesn't have this program. Is very important for us for the Hispanic to have this program. Because it's not the same that they are in the school compared to being on an apartment, whether there are five or more children. The children don't have the same space and they don't have help with this homework, with their homework. Les pedo, de favor, silo podento marin cuenta, suagenda. Estariamos muy agradecidos, con estedes, gracias. So, I asked you as a favor, if you can consider this in your agenda, we will certainly appreciate it. Thank you.

[01:11:18] Mayor Lisa Matichak: If you could hold on, Council member McAllister has a question for you.

[01:11:24] Councilmember John McAlister: Do you have trouble getting Wi Fi or Internet at your apartment or access to it?

[01:11:37] Emelda Moreno: No.

[01:11:38] Councilmember John McAlister: You have no problem with having access to it, or you know you don't have it?

[01:11:46] Emelda Moreno: Nothing problem.

[01:11:47] Unknown Speaker: She doesn't have a problem. Okay, thank you.

[01:11:50] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:11:57] Philip Cosby: Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of that. Counsel, my name is Philip Cosby. I'm a member of the Cafecito Group at St. Athanasius. I'm here tonight, first of all, to point out that not all housing is the same. Million dollar townhomes are not affordable to most people that live in Mountain Dew. A $10000 mortgage requires a family income of at least $240,000 a year. I don't make that. My family doesn't make that. And I wonder how many on the council, actually, can could qualify for it. But that's what we're building. We're tearing down existing apartment buildings. and building $1000000 townhomes. And there's no place for for the people who live in the apartments that are being torn down to go. They could be paying as low as $2000 a month. And the next affordable apartment, if they can find a vacant one in Mountain View, will range from $2,500 to $3,500 a month. And that's just for an ordinary apartment. So they're basically when we're tearing these apartment buildings down, and allowing people to build expensive town homes or row homes. We're telling the people that are living in Mountain View for many years, we don't want you. We want other people to move into our city. and occupy these expensive homes. So I'm asking that the council review their policies regarding demolition and development. so that we maintain an economic diversity within the city. We study policies that might allow the tenants of the buildings to buy them. A tenant opportunity to purchase Act would be something to study. And I further ask that you enact a moratorium on apartment demolitions to allow the study of these affected policies to occur without losing additional people. Thank you.

[01:14:05] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please. Excuse me. You know, there's lots of people with different perspectives here tonight, so if you could refrain from any sort of clapping or booing, or any other thing, and just let the folks speak, I would appreciate it.

[01:14:25] Aurelio: Hello, everyone. My name is Aurelio, and I have many years living here in Monteville. I just wanted to ask you to support the Latino community, especially. So due to the current federal, like, climate, political climate, we've been suffering a lot of racism against us. I speak English, but no fluently, and there's being a lot of racist attacks against me. So, les quedillamos pedir, que por favor, pusiera nuna politica, para yudarnos a protegeri, que no collaborara, la policia, ni el condado de montenbio conais, ya que mucha gente Latina, que tiene mucho temor, todos la mayoria, tenemos sijos nacidos aqui, los padres, nostamos legalmentia qui, por sierra razones, es capamos en estro pais. We wanted to ensure that you offer all of the resources to immigrant and refugee communities and ensure that there's no collaboration between the city and ice, and also that the police is not working with ice, because it is a lot of us have U.S. citizen children, and we're seeing again, and again, that we're being attacked.

[01:15:59] Aurelio: So, nestro sijos, estanper cupados de que valla pasable algua los padres, nosotros de pedimos que nos ayudan, nosotros aqui en montebio, a muchisi magente, que noda la Cara, por temor, por mucho temor, a cerca de eso, yo matrebia venir ablar, por muchos de ellos, para pedirles ostedes que estan, aqui nos ayuden nos a pollen neso.

[01:16:25] Interpreter: There is a lot of fear in the community because of the ice rates and people getting deported. My children are scared that I might be deported one day, and we ask you, as city council, to make a statement against us.

[01:16:38] Aurelio: Yo, tengo mucho, tiempo viviendo, a quien monte view, este, este monte view, me gusta muches un lugar muy bello, tenc, suviero la rentas, la vida quien monte viewes muy dura, pero yo tengo dos trabajos, porque?

[01:16:54] Interpreter: Okay. So I lived in Monteville for a lot of years now. I love this series, a beautiful city. They keep racing the rent, and it's unaffordable to live here, but I had to get two jobs in order to stay here because I love this city. And I refuse to live from Mountain View, because I love Mountain View, and I want my son, grow up in this city. Thank you very much.

[01:17:17] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:17:22] Public Speaker: Hello, everyone. Sorry. So, good afternoon. I am a community organizer here, and I work with siren. So, we wanted to make a statement and ensure that you all actually take a stand to protect immigrants and refugees. So we see again and again that our communities are being attacked, and we want to make sure that the city council does everything y'all can do to ensure that this families are not being separated, and that everybody's getting their same resources regardless of their immigration status. I did wanted to talk a little bit about the housing displacement because a lot of our leaders, as Aurelio were saying, are highly are being highly affected by this issue. Their rent keeps going up and the wages are not going up at the same rate. Also, we believe that there is a need for the city to make to give more resources for the community and empower immigrants, to use their resources available here. And so we ask you to please ensure that you do everything that you have in your power, to ensure that ice doesn't separate more families, because they're clearly targeting low-income immigrant communities of color. And so we ask you to please take a stand to defend them. Thank you.

[01:18:35] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next place.

[01:18:40] Alice: Good evening, everyone. My name is Alice. I'm a Mountain View resident. I'm here today wanting to get your support to consider revised ADU code, the accessory during the unit code to make it more resident friendly, and given we can see that the California housing crisis and also the state law audience. And I strongly urge that we could consider, drop the legal conforming requirement in the current code, because it's just making it very difficult for any resident who want to offer a football housing option to people and not be able to do it. And I think that that is probably the true way to encourage ADU as a way to provide for the housing for people here. And I want to share briefly my case, I have a 680 square feet detached garage, and which was built back in 1970s by the previous owner, and the garage was permitted when it was built, but the current city code classified as legally non-conforming, simply because the size is more than 500 square feet. And when I went to apply for permit to convert it to ADU, and I was denied because they said that they only allowed 500 to be converted if it is an existing structure. And controversially, when I look at the city code, they allow 700 square feet ADU to be built brand new, which is, which is very controversial to me. And so I was told, if you tear down your current garage and rebuild another one, you can build 700. But if you have an existing 700 square feet, right, you cannot. You can only convert 500. And so I think that many people here are talking about, they don't have police sleep. And I'm waiting to offer my place, but see, it doesn't allow me to convert. So I just simply feel the legally conforming requirement is not logical and doesn't make sense to me. And, um, so I think that, in short, I just want to urge that you consider this and make it really resident and friendly. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:20:48] Councilmember John McAlister: Madam Mayor. I've requested the police chief to come out and explain our position. How we deal with ice and to the general policies dealing with other populations, and hopefully, he'll calm us down.

[01:21:06] Police Chief: Thank you, council member. Yes, as counsel is aware, we undertook an evaluation of the police department's policy, and maintained our longstanding approach that we do not cooperate with federal authorities for purposes of civil immigration law enforcement. The county police chiefs joined together and did a consolidated announcement that no municipal agencies cooperating with federal agencies for the purpose of civil immigration law enforcement. So we do not enforce immigration laws in the city of Mountain View.

[01:21:40] Councilmember John McAlister: And the city of Mountain View was not involved at all with the ice raid recently.

[01:21:44] Police Chief: Correct. We're notified when ice conducts operations, but we do not provide resources, unless there is a public safety concern, and in the instance this last week, there was none, and we were not involved.

[01:21:57] Councilmember John McAlister: Okay, thank you.

[01:21:58] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Council member McAllister. Next, please.

[01:22:06] Shilpa: Good evening, council members and honorable mayor. My name is Shilpa. We bought our house in Mountain View in 2017. Our house consists of a main unit and a rare ADU. We bought with the intention of providing this housing for our parents. And before purchasing the property, we even confirmed with the city, as well as the county, that the structure is completely legal and nothing was flagged at that time. After issuing the building permits for the rare unit, the work has started, then the work was halted by the city stating that the ADU is not zoning compliant. The city has not been able to show that what zoning designation applied to the property when rare apartment was built. So the current rules in Mountain View for ADUs are so stringent that it is impossible for homeowners to convert existing conformal or non-conformal structures into ADUs, or even adding new ADUs due to the lot size and setbacks. So the city staff is putting the burden on us to demonstrate conclusively that ADU was permitted legally at that time when no such proof is available. They're holding us to an impossible standard. The city needs an easier process to resolve these issues, and placing the burden on homeowners to produce non-existent records from decades ago is unreasonable. When in doubt, the city should favor increasing housing opportunities. If city doesn't allow structural modifications to these non-conformal structures to make them safe. It might be a huge safety issue in situations of natural hazard that is like earthquake. City councils should establish a waiver process in zoning and size for resolving issues with undocumented buildings, and it is similar to how city of San Francisco did. So in the year of 2016, there were 100 permits issued for 200 units in city of San Francisco. So we request council members to modify the city adapted ADUs ordinance in their immediate goal setting, which is beneficial to many people, make cities ADU ordinance in line with the state laudanance, which is allowing hope owners to repair non-conformal ADU structures instead of asking them to remove. And it should help, it helps homeowners to add easily id use, which in turn mitigate the city housing crisis. Thank you.

[01:24:14] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next place.

[01:24:20] Axana Wallace: Hello, council members. My name is Axana Wallace, and I'm here to support my new neighbors. So I've been a resident of a month of view for 15, even more years. So I knew my previous neighbors very well, and renters next door, so we had a very good relationship, and I had never any issues with them, and the structure which they're talking about. So I strongly, as a neighbor, disagree with the city, which actually wants my neighbor to demolish this building. This is what I wanted to tell you. Thank you.

[01:24:55] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please. He could speak into the microphone.

[01:25:04] Public Speaker: Yeah, I'm the neighbor of Santosh, who lives in Central Avenue. We are living there more than 10 years. And he have a rail structure that property exceeded even before Santosh's body. And some people who are renting it, city even collected utility bills for the property. ADU are needed in the city, there is a housing crisis. State law is very relaxed in converting existing structure into ADUs about mountain view, ordinance limit, conversation on existing structure of ADUs. City council should establish a waiver process for resolving issues with undocumented buildings, non-conformal structure and ADUs.

[01:25:53] Justin: Hi, I'm Justin. I've been living in Mountain View for last more than 10 years and I would like to support the ADU. So my friend Santosh and people like Santosh can have, you know, repair it use more easily and, you know, we can find a middle ground for everyone likes Santosh. Thanks.

[01:26:17] Public Speaker: Good evening, everyone. I'm here to just suburb my friend Santosh. I feel, uh, ADUs are the source of available housing. And I feel the change in the, EADU loss in modern view. I'm just here to just support him. Thank you.

[01:26:35] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Thank you all. Next, please.

[01:26:48] Sandy Perry: Good evening. I'm Sandy Perry. I'm from the Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County, and we're here to advocate for the priority to be displacement. We're in favor of a zero displacement policy. Displacement is the number one issue in the entire Bay Area, and actually, if you pay attention to what's going on in Sacramento, is the number one issue in the entire state. And we're concerned because the decision on Tuesday night. We don't know the outcome yet, but it could conceivably exacerbate the job's housing and balance and increased displacement in Mountain View. We believe in a moratorium, on demolition that's been proposed of rent controlled housing. We believe in exploring things like the topa. We think a moratorium should go longer than 9 months, it should go as long as is necessary to find the policies that are going to prevent people from being put out of their homes. As I said the other night, displacement destroys communities, reduces diversity, tears families apart, erases culture, damages environment, ruins the quality of life, undermines economic opportunity, and increases inequality and homelessness. We've seen it in San Jose. There've already been murals that have been painted over in the city of San Jose. People are losing their sense of place. There's been big conflicts at city hall over this Google thing in relation to displacement. There were arrests, uproars. Young people feel like they don't have a future. They say, oh, a bunch of large buildings growing up, but they're not for them. They're not for them. They'll never be able to live here. So, and it's obviously a regional program. It's a problem. It's not just Mountain View. It's all over Silicon Valley and all over the Bay Area. Thank you very much.

[01:28:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:28:53] Ruth Silver Tobe: Good Good evening, mayor and council members. My name's Ruth Silver Tobe from the Alexander Community Law Center, Wage Theft Coalition, and Human Trafficking Coalition, Sunnyvale, Milpitas, the city of San Jose, Morgan Hill, and Santa Clara County have enacted Wage Theft Policies and Ordinances. We are here today to ask you to join them. Wage theft is a problem in Mountain View based on our data. Workers have lost over $5 million in wages in Mountain View, and over $250,000 in restaurants alone. Santa Clara County will be including Mountain View and their pilot program revoking restaurant health permits for unpaid wages. But restaurant health permit revocation is not enough. We need to ensure that employers disclose judgments, if they contract with the city, if they apply for business licenses, and if they apply for building permits. Malpitas is already enacted, a wage theft policy, an ordinance for contracts, and business licenses, we ask Mountain View to enact that policy, we're also asking various cities, including Mountain View, to address the problem of rampant wage theft in the construction industry. We do not want to see another silvery towers in mountain view. To prevent another Silvery Towers, we're asking that you require disclosures in building permit applications. These requirements are not burdensome to the city. Businesses should not engage in unfair competition. We need them to know there are consequences if they don't pay workers. We're asking for the city council also to make as their goal antidisplacement and to deal with the RVs in a way that's humane. So many of our clients who don't get paid are forced to sleep in their cars. Please adopt these goals and protect workers from wage theft in mountain view. Thank you.

[01:30:55] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:31:01] Tomas Margein: Good evening. My name is Tomas Margein, and I'm here to support and recommend that you take up wage theft and a wage theft ordinance as a priority. I'm an attorney. I've been an attorney for 22 years. 21 of those years, I've represented wage theft victims. I also want to acknowledge and thank the vice mayor for your words at the county when you went and spoke in support of the OLSC. I see the timer is much more generous in Mountain View than it was at the county, but I really appreciated your words, and how you personalized this issue. Wage theft affects women, effects minorities. I call wage theft, also the theft of time. What I see, and what I've seen in 21 years, are workers paid a salary, and then they start working 50, 60 hours. Construction workers are only paid when they go to a job site, not when they go to a shop. And the early morning work. I think a wage theft ordinance is a goal that can be completed in a year. It's not that difficult. Milpitas passed it. We are working with Sunnyvale in Cupertino, and have suggested as part of the association of city of Santa Clara cities to jointly come up with an ordinance. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Again, other cities are doing it. And I want to end, and I'll say this quickly, it also affects consumers. Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit involving the Google Construction project in Moffat Field. A 2nd tier subcontractor was paying their worker's cash. I went to the contractor's license board, and it said that that contractor had an active license, but it may be suspended for not paying a civil judgment. So if Google doesn't even know who they're hiring, This is a problem that if they had known, they would never have hired them. And thank you for being generous at the time. Thanks.

[01:33:09] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:33:15] Forrest Peterson: My name's Forrest Peterson. I'm a graduate student at Stanford, and, well, my advisor decides if you'd like to browse through my thesis or not. I've been working on wage theft because it's a lot more interesting than my research. So... I can speak on behalf of the Center for Integrated Facilities engineering, as long as I keep my comments within scientific domains. So from my research, I've observed that weight theft is widespread. And as a center for integrated facility engineering, we have the only database that's a unified database of wage theft. So that means that if you receive a simplified wage theft report from the wage theft coalition, that report is a compilation of data from the Department of Labor Standards enforcement, that's from the wage and hour division, that's from some private investigative sources, we have the only database that is that unified database. I don't know why that database isn't available outside of safety, but, um, apparently it's not. Also being from Stanford, of course, housing. I couldn't get past without mentioning that quickly, which is, of course, Stanford is standing up against low income housing, which I definitely do not support. So the other side of our research is not just trying to educate on wage theft, but is also to actively stop wage theft. So I think it's appropriate, that Google here, we've repurposed them somewhat, hopefully we aren't in trouble for that. But most everybody here on their phone right now is probably tracked by your location. Google Timeline. So we found out that rather than make an app and go out and ask everyone, download the wage theft app. We just simply say, you already have the wage theft app, and we finished half our work. So this card I've been handing out to workers on Stanford campus and anywhere else I find. Mostly construction workers, as you heard earlier, uh, wage theft is pretty predominant there. And a friend at Adobe, one of the graphic designers helped me develop this. So it instructs construction workers how to turn on, uh, time card tracking so that if they aren't paid, they now have a record of where they were at work.

[01:35:25] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:35:36] Fernando Romero: Good evening, everyone. My name is Fernando Romero, and I have been a Montebuo resident for 19 years. I'm a graduate of the Mountain View Spanish leadership academy, and I am a husband and a father of 2 beautiful girls, ages, 3 years and 4 months, all. My wife, Lutes and I, like to live in Mountain View because this city is welcoming, it's a safe place to live in, has great schools, has great weather. It's rich in multicultural diversity, and many languages from around the world are spoken here. For these reasons, my wife and I would like our daughters to grow in Monte View. However, with the cost of housing increasing every year, in Mountain View, in the Bay Area. My wife and I are static contemplating what are options for housing, including moving out of the Bay Area. Just like our family. There are 100s of families in Mountain View. I have to look for housing somewhere else outside of Mountain View and the Bay Area. Therefore, tonight, I would like to encourage you, issue one of you. to promote strategies, to to protect vulnerable populations and preserve the social economic and cultural diversity of the community. Please also considering improving the quantity diversity and affordability of housing for the law, a lot of emphasis here on for the law income and the middle income families. Focusing on the aforementioned goals, I think, will also help decrease the traffic congestion in our freeways, since less families will commute from and to mountain view. Thank you very much.

[01:37:48] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:37:55] Robert Gary: Hello, my name is Robert Gary, and I represent a lot of people that are not only living here, but working here. I drop some. Anyway, I want to speak on wage theft. You have an organization that works here in Mountain View, it's called Downtown Street Team. And they are guilty of wage theft, because what they do... I think you do have them here. Sunnyvale. Right. So what they do is they take people that are householdless, and then offer them an opportunity to clean your streets, that you would normally be paying somebody a living wage. And instead of paying them any money or any cash or anything, they give them $5 per hour in a gift card. Now, I don't know how many of you would want to get paid in a gift card, even if you got your full salary. But the idea that you're working and you're cleaning the streets for all the citizens that live in Mountain View, and those people that are doing this service for you are now getting paid in a gift card. Think about that. The other thing I want to talk about is the displacement of people that are living here in Mountain View. Their buildings are being knocked down, and because of Costa Hawkins, we can't build any housing that's older than Costa Hawkins. So consequently, what we have are a bunch of buildings that are new, that are being replaced and taking place of the properties that are under rent control. So the number of properties that are controlled that have rent control are shrinking. They're not expanding. And until we do something about that, we're gonna continue to displace people. And it's a real shame to be doing that, because eventually people get displaced, and then they end up living on the street, and they end up being houseless or homeless, as somebody you refer to them. And I just want to point out that every one of you can also be displaced. Thank you.

[01:39:53] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:40:00] Public Speaker: You all know me, so we'll get right to my point. As you can see, I am supporting the stopping of temporary moratorium on demolishing buildings. I think it is absolutely and unequivocally necessary that we take 6 to 12 months to figure out what's going on here. Mountain View has in the pipeline right now and over the next year or so. The number changes all the time, but roughly 14 to 16 projects that will displace people, which means we're looking at displacing 100s to 1000s of current Mountain View residents. It's already difficult enough to find a place in Mountain View if you have money. And it's going to be even more difficult for those of us who are middle income or not at Google salaries or IT salaries. But this time I want to offer a suggestion to you. We do have resources in Mountain View that we should be using to help people who are being displaced, try to stay within Mountain View. We have a rental housing office. And I think as part of the development process, that rental housing office should be activated at some point to help these citizens. And one thing I think they should do is contact all of the existing landlords in Mountain View, say, hey, these citizens have to be out of their building on whatever the date may be. Do you have openings that you anticipate being available then? Would you please give these people an opportunity applying, and ask them to have a policy of giving priority to a displaced mountain view resident. I'm not saying that they need to change their qualification process or anything else. But people who are being forced out of mountain view, not of their own accord, should be given every opportunity here to stay here. This is where our lives are, and if we're being forced out, and it's against our will, we should use our resources and use the people who have available housing to help us. I think that's a worthwhile goal under at least those strategies over there. Thank you.

[01:42:05] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:42:12] Julie Sexana: Hi, my name's Julie Sexana. I've lived in Mountain View since 1996. I raised my kids here. They went to schools here. I think Mountain View is an incredible community, and I can't tell you how upsetting it is to be evicted from this community. Um, so I hope that you will, and I know that you are trying to come up with some solutions in that, but I'm a teacher. I earn a decent wage, and I can't afford to live here, and I'm being kicked out, and I never thought that would happen. My dream was to retire here in the community. So I just wanted to put a face on the people who won't be living here anymore because they can't. And I want you to know that. So thank you.

[01:42:56] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:43:03] Lisa Raskin: Hello, everybody. My name is Lisa Raskin, I am a resident at 2310 Rock Street. I have lived there for 12 years. I work for Palo Alto at the Lucio Packer Children at Stanford. I had worked there for 17 years. Um, my family of 4 contributes to the city of Mountain View, have been long-term tenants. We eat and we shop as small and big businesses. We are middle class family, and I'm asking of you to think really hard before you vote this time, because it will affect my family in a very big way. Um... So, I ask you to think really hard before this placed in long term residents that had helped mountain view drive for years for rich outsiders. Thank you.

[01:43:55] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:44:02] Public Speaker: Before my timer begins. Can I request three minutes if some of my colleagues from Carbon Free Mountain View are willing to give up their time?

[01:44:09] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Sure. I think... Are these the three giving up their time?

[01:44:17] Public Speaker: There were supposed to be a couple more, but, oh, oh.

[01:44:20] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Great. Thank you.

[01:44:22] Public Speaker: Thank you. Tonight, I'm here representing Carbon Free Mountain View. We want the council to see that sustainability isn't just another gold to consider. It is the bedrock on which all other goals are built. Without having and achieving sustainability goals, we will find ourselves in an untenable and extraordinarily expensive position of climate change adaptation. So now that I've provided the obligatory gloom and doom, let me share some great news with you. Sustainability projects actually enable us to achieve other goals, like protection of our vulnerable populations. Improvement of our transportation system, and even improve our housing solutions, and sustainability measures greatly enhance livability. Sustainability is not a 0 sum game. It makes all of our other goals achievable. We applaud the staff recommendation that we keep our existing goals and add specific projects. In fact, the environmental sustainability task force created 36 sustainability projects in June 2018. We put a lot of thought into these. We think that there are what they are, what is needed, and we are re-recommending them tonight. I have submitted a copy of our executive summary to Lisa for your review of all of those recommendations. But I'd like to highlight a few of our core areas. Our transportation recommendation supports sustainability, vulnerable populations and livability, and, of course, transportation. For example, if we expand the mountain view shuttle, we reduce vehicle miles traveled, which also addresses livability, in that, it reduces traffic. It would also assist vulnerable populations by offering additional low cost transit option for all members of our community. Our building related recommendations also support sustainability, vulnerable populations in the livability of our city. Very simply put, decarbonized buildings are safer. healthier, more comfortable, and more affordable for residents, and often more aesthetically pleasing. But if we expand how we think about sustainability, we can use sustainability projects as levers to provide more financial incentives. For example, we could work with landlords of naturally affordable apartment units to install things like solar arrays or EV chargers, where they can make money that would help provide financial incentive to avoid displacement. As well, measurement tracking and goal setting must be prioritized. If it doesn't get measured, it doesn't get managed, it doesn't get done. We also recommend elimination of single use plastics and several other projects that look at sustainability. at a lens somewhat beyond the carbon focus. And to make this all work, we need a new sustainability office, including funding for community outreach and the development of a citizen advisory board, More money plus more people equals more and much better results. Sustainability brings a more livable city for all of us. It protects our entire population, provides critical transportation initiatives, and safer and better housing. Thank you.

[01:47:22] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Thank you. Next, please.

[01:47:28] Clarissa Chen: Good evening, city council members and mayor Matachek. Thank you for hearing my comments tonight. I'm Clarissa Chen, and I'm a resident of Mountain View, and I'm currently a freshman at St. Francis High School, and an active member of the environment club. Environmental impact should be one of the city's goals for the next 2 years because now's the time to save our environment. At the rate we're going by 2050, there will be more plastics in the ocean than fish. Last year, while in 8th grade at Bulls Charter School. I was one of 2 student representatives to represent the U.S. in Bonn, Germany, for a student led initiative called hashtag decarbonized decolonized. There I worked with youth around the world to create a white paper, addressing climate change that was presented at the United Nations Conference of the Party's COB 23. Since then, I've also presented, um, attended several local events, including the youth action climate summit at the tech museum to engage with youth on this issue. After interacting with youth locally and globally on the effects of climate change, I've learned that lots of small changes can make a big impact. Unfortunately, it's difficult for many consumers to make lots of these ecological changes to their daily lives on their own because there's so much consumerism and marketing everywhere. The city needs your help to lead us towards a more sustainable city. Integration of paper bags, compost pickup and reusable energy has been a great start, but we need to keep up with the momentum. Over 500000000 single use plastic straws are used to cross the U.S. daily. And starting in January of this year, 2019. California was the 1st state in the U.S. to ban straws in full service restaurants. This is an awesome step in addressing plastics and other negative impacts on the environment. I hope that mountain view can continue to be proactive in making changes towards a more sustainable world. These changes are good beginning, but there's still a long way to go. I hope that as you decide on the city's goals. You will keep environmental impact at the top of the list, specifically focusing on mitigating climate change, ocean protection and single use plastics. Thank you.

[01:49:33] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:49:42] Michael Libramson: Thank you. My name is Michael Libramson. I live in Mountain View. I mostly support the goals as represented, but I would suggest a few redistance to them. So under the goal of projected vulnerable population. I believe that the heat here has to set the goal within this goal to reduce substantially the homelessness, not just to help the homelessness. Of course, this is needed. But to reduce the homelessness, and there are many ways to do this. One of them could be to work more actively with destination home, which is a county wise, a county wide program, and there are many other ways. And I wanted you to consider them seriously. Another point regarding the goal of the housing. Of course, we have to build mahogen, but I believe this goal should be reformulated as fiction, the jobs, housing, uh, balance, because if you just build housing, but don't limit the office growth, uh, we can do it forever, and it will not help anyone. We still will have people evicted, displaced, gentrified communities, we absolutely have to reduce the ocean growth. And I call the heat to impose a complete maratorium for billion offices, at least on public land, and actually on any land, which has a naturally affordable housing, or can be used for building affordable housing. And Palo Alta does this. I don't see any reason why mountain view cannot do something very similar. Number three, the guardian transportation, someone already mentioned that...

[01:51:43] Mayor Lisa Matichak: You can wrap up. Sorry, your time's up if you could wrap up.

[01:51:47] Michael Libramson: Okay. So, the easiest way would be to extend our community so that people could use it for daily commute. So if it starts from 7 a.m. for instance, and has interval 10 minutes, and not 30 minutes. And my last point is about outreach. Thank you. More of this. M much, much more. Thank you.

[01:52:14] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:52:21] Dashel Leeds: Hello? My name is Dashel Leeds, and I'm a volunteer environmental advocate for the Santa Clara Gall Audubon Society. First, I'd just like to offer some words of solidarity. I support a carbon free mountain view, and I think that we should protect the housing rights of our populations most vulnerable to housing displacement. I'd like to thank Mayor Matachek for proposing projects H, Citywide Bird Safe Design Requirements, and Project I, citywide lighting design requirements. For 1000000s of years, living beings have evolved circadian rhythms under the natural cycles of day and light. Artificial light is a new phenomenon for living organisms relative to our time on Earth. Human beings have melanopsin containing ganglion cells in our eyes that are light sensitive. These cells are hardwired directly to our biological clock. When lights hits these cells, our brain essentially thinks it's daytime. And this creates a disruption that lingers even into our deep sleep. These disruptions, if they occur over a long period of time, can cause numerous health effects, and can even be carcinogenic, mitigating light pollution is therefore critical to protecting the quality of life of our citizens, and a multitude of other living organisms who also have circadian rhythms. Fortunately, cities and countries from around the world have adopted light pollution, dark sky ordinances, such as France and Chicago. California cities have also adopted dark sky policies, such as Malibu, Ohio, and Alameda. The scientific and legislative consensus behind these policies is strong. Dark sky policies around the world, use nearly identical standards. We can use this precedent to create straightforward, successful legislation. Every human being deserves the right to peaceful sleep, and a clear view of the night sky. Please support the citywide bird safe design requirements, and the citywide lighting design requirements. Thank you.

[01:54:11] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:54:18] Shanae Kleinhaus: Good evening, Mayor Montechuk, council members. I'm Shanae Kleinhaus. I'm Dan Vonmel Advocate for Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society. I think Dash did a great job. Maybe I don't need to say a lot more. But, um, I do want to say that tonight is very difficult to keep on task. It's hard to hear all the people that are talking about, about evictions, about losing their homes, about wage theft, and not sympathize, and talk about birds. I have to say, it's tough. But that's my job, and I'm gonna talk about birds, and about biology and ecology. Other people talked about the importance of environmental sustainability. I think this really is something that affects us now and well into the future. But there are some steps that you can take now, and dealing with light pollution, with trees that we need in our cities, doing a wildlife management plan for Shoreline Park. These things are tangible. They can be done in a short time. And they can be done relatively quickly, with not huge amount of resources. And so I really thank my renter check for offering those priorities, and I hope we all vote for them. And I also really sympathize with what I heard here tonight. Thank you.

[01:55:34] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next please.

[01:55:42] Julie: Hi, my name is Julie. I'm a Mountain Views resident and have been here for about eight years. I'm pleased to see the council has adopted the community for all pillar. In these divisive times, it makes me proud to be a Mountain View resident to strongly promote and demonstrate empathy and respect for all, specifically including the most vulnerable population, which often has the quietest voice. I'm a parent of 2 kids in the Mountain View Whisman school district. My son just started kinder at the Mestral dual immersion school, and my daughter will start there in a couple years. One of the things we value most about Mountain View and Mistraw, is that socioeconomic and cultural diversity, which is a sadly dwindling population in Mountain View. We in the school community have heard repeatedly that lack of inexpensive aftercare is a drawback to enrollment. For reference, the cost of current on-site aftercare is in excess of $7000 per year per student, and there is frequently a wait list. The city currently provides funds for some aftercare programs for schools where more than 50% of kids get free or reduced lunch. Thank you very much. for this. We would like the city to find a way to fund after school programs, targeting families of lower economic means at all schools, thus enabling them to stay in the school district without having to make a hard choice between reducing work hours or leaving children unattended or leaving all together. I request that you think creatively to find funding to provide aftercare for families who cannot afford the existing paid options. We want to teach our children to value diversity as much as we do. Please help us retain and increase the diversity we have within our schools by enabling the more vulnerable population to enroll and stay in the schools. Thank you very much.

[01:57:15] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:57:22] Jamie: Hello, my name is Jamie and I'm a sophomore in high school and a Mountain View resident. At the last city council meeting I attended, your predecessors were presented with quite frankly, the barest minimum of action they could take to promote sustainability in Mountain View. These actions have been paid stakingly, selected, and researched by a team of intelligent, capable people, and yet they were met with skepticism. Many council members were inclined to be tight fisted with public funds going towards environmental causes. They view sustainability as optional. But as I'm sure you know, we don't have much time. The UN predicted that we have until 2030 to be completely carbon neutral in order to avoid the worst possible effects of climate change. I'm sure the council is aware of these statistics, and yet, somehow, there continues to be a debate as to whether the necessary changes are cost effective enough. PG&E made the same mistake with the recent fires. They tried to be penny pincers, to be cost effective, and to wait as long as possible to fix an urgent problem. And rather than update outdated and dangerous power lines, they ignored the problem and to avoid the expense. And now look what has happened. scores of people are dead. Thousands of homes have been burned to the ground. It was estimated by acu weather that the wildfires in 2018 alone cost California of $400 billion. The plans that an environmental task force presented to your predecessors have been painstakingly overanalyzed for months. So take a chance. Enact all of these policies and assume that some of them are going to fail. It makes economic sense. The monetary expenses far outweigh the benefits of keeping our community and our world safe. When Senator Feinstein was confronted by a group of middle school students who asked her to support the new green deal. She replied that she had been in politics for 30 years and knew more than they did. Well, if you've had things under control for 30 years, why are we in a state of crisis now? Your generation's consistent lack of action has destroyed the planet we all require for survival. And now, many of you are refusing to make the changes necessary to bring us all to a better future. People always remark that it is down to my generation to make things right, but my generation doesn't have time to do that. In 12 years, I will be 28. Barely starting out my career, and it will already be too late to turn things around. It's up to you. Your generation can turn the tides of history by acting now. We elected you to protect us, and that's the bottom line. Thank you.

[01:59:39] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[01:59:44] Janet Workman: Thank you. My name is Janet Workman. I'm a Mountain View resident and homeowner. And I'm here tonight on behalf of 10 of my neighbors who signed a letter, which I have given to the clerk. They ask me to speak on their behalf, as well. We are all homeowners, but we all share the concerns that were presented tonight about the displacement of so many people in our community by these escalating housing costs, and we consider this an urgent situation. And would urge you to consider this, certainly, one of the city's highest priority for the year. And given the urgency of the situation, We would hope that you would consider a moratorium on apartment demolitions as an immediate act until other, maybe longer term, solutions can be identified. Thank you.

[02:01:00] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:01:09] Public Speaker: Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilman, members and staff, a temporary pause of demolitions of affordable housing units would give the city a chance to study the consequences of past demolitions, condos, or townhounds, out of reach for those who displaced, as well as others, seeking ownership housing may not actually be the answer. Anecdotally, I've heard that many recent additions of ownership housing are still vacant due to cost. Give incentives instead for developers to build housing on sites, not requiring demolitions, require more affordable units than would have been demolished, plus additional units at market rate. Residents who'd been facing displacement could move to the newly built units at their same rent. More rentals would be available for other. Demolitions could then proceed without displacement. This process is happening successfully in East Palo Alto. Why not here in Mountain View? Other solutions may be land trust, land banking, would certainly lower cost of building housing. Tenant ownership programs might prevent displacement. A revisit of the ADU requirements may help also. Displacement, sadly, means loss of diversity, inevitably increasing numbers of vehicle residents in total homelessness. Let's not price out hardworking people from Mountain View. We must find ways to house them with dignity. Let's ramp up the safe parking program, engaging this population, breathe their needs, and wants, may produce actually fresh ideas. Other cities have established programs, policies, ordinances, that address this crisis, rather than continuing the pattern of when some lose them, please study more ways that could result in win, win, win. Thank you. This won't be easy, but positive results are worth the efforts and decrease. Air pollution, and... traffic will help. Thank you.

[02:03:35] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Next, please.

[02:03:40] David Beanie: It's good evening. My name is David Beanie and I'm the executive director for the Santa Clara Building Trades Council. I'm here tonight to represent the over 30,000 construction workers and members, some of whom are here today. If you are with the building trades and sitting down, please stand up and be counted. Thank you. I've heard a number of ideas here tonight that I think would go a long way toward shoring up these hardworking folks who are part of the shrinking middle class, and who are getting the short end of the stick. But I'm here tonight to talk about a specific protection for workers. I'm here tonight to support the opportunity to have a community workforce agreement, also known as a CWA, for Mountain View that will provide protections and measurable community benefits. CWA would be a partnership that protects the city's precious resources, protects the city's people. and provides a clear path to a family supporting career for some of our most vulnerable populations. The CWA would ensure that on public construction projects, every contractor will work on a level playing field. And every construction worker will have a reasonable, equitable working conditions. CWAs in other cities have been shown to nearly eradicate exploitation of construction workers on those projects. This can save the city enormous amounts, as well, that might otherwise be lost to cost overruns and change orders. Another important feature of the community workforce agreement is that vulnerable populations in the city, minorities, economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and unhoused will have an opportunity to be placed in apprenticeships, in which student workers are paid to work and be trained in the construction crafts. This training leads to an actual career in the construction trades that can support a family with built in health care and real, tangible retirement benefits. As a society, we can and should be measured by how we treat the least among us. A CWA is an opportunity for us to say that even the workers who build our city and sweep the construction site will work with dignity and respect. Thank you.

[02:05:43] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:05:48] Eugene Dong: Thank you, Madam Mayor, and council members for your time. Good evening. My name is Eugene Dong, and I am a recent she metal worker union, local 104, and also a longtime Mountain View residence. So I just want to add a bit more about Dave's community workforce agreement. I want to say that it will provide a targeted, higher pathway, for Mountain View residents through a trades orientation program, which I actually gone through. The Santa Clara County Trades Orientation Program, known as Top, is a comprehensive apprenticeship readiness program, that teaches a little bit about what each trade does, and provides a pathway into construction apprenticeships, not only for the disadvantage and under represented community members, but also for people who still want to remain significant and relevant and productive members of society. So, this CWA will connect the top program graduates, such as myself, with contractors working on city projects, and with the principal program that I am going for now. This targeted highway path, higher pathway. and the top program will provide family supporting lifetime careers to the people of our communities. So please make these benefits a priority for our city. Thank you so much.

[02:07:18] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:07:28] Jose Cabrera: Uh, go to New Bear, city council members. My name is Jose Cabrera. I'm one of the field representatives with the Carpenters Union. I represent about 6,500 members here in the Santa Clara County. So public policy through prevailing wage is meant to ensure industry standards, such as career training, healthcare, and retirement security, that way, those workers can retire with dignity, and not be a burden on the taxpayers. However, and even though preventing wage policy mandates that employers provide money to pay for these essential benefits, they don't mandate that they actually provide them. Instead, many employers provide them as a taxable wage, which cheats the worker out of both essential services of these benefits, as well as increases their loss to payroll taxes. And so what happens is that we, the public, pay twice. for health care and other services. Once for the prevailing wage, and twice when some of those family members that were supposed to receive these benefits don't. And then end up at the county, receiving treatment and services as uninsured. Ultimately, a community workforce agreement will ensure that all these workers will be treated equally and fairly. Regardless of union membership or employer. Thank you.

[02:08:49] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:09:02] Will Smith: Good evening, Mayor, and City Council. My name is Will Smith. I'm a representative for IBW. We represent 3,500 members in the county, many of them, they live right here in the city of Mountain View. A community workforce agreements will leverage the resources of the construction industry to bring superior construction to Mountain View City projects. CWAs will ensure projects are completed on time. They prevent serious delays by providing alternatives to work stoppages. And attract the most professional of contractors who know how to properly plan and execute a project. CWAs provide an open competition in bidding, and high road contractors are not pushed out by bad actors who put their foot in the door with a low bid. But end up costing more in the long run, throughout the overruns, and the change orders. that accumulate throughout the duration of a project. CWAs attract the most skilled and qualified craft persons in the city. for the projects. The best workers know they have choices, and they have the choice to work on projects where they are sure to be free from exploitation. A community workforce agreement will save the city money, not only in the short term, but also in the long term, as the high quality construction will extend the usable life of the project and reduce repairs. Thank you very much, and I hope you guys make this a priority.

[02:10:26] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:10:31] Josue Garcia: Good evening, Mayor and City, cancel members. My name is Josue Garcia, and I represent you as Anacra County residents for responsible development, and I'm here, uh, before you asking you to please give a high ranking, uh, thumbs ups to the, uh, responsible construction earnings. Uh, and but before I give you more information, I would like to ask every member of the community that came to support us, whether you are with the building trades or the MVPS or anybody, please, to please stand up so that council members can see that we have support. And once the rest of you, once you hear me, speak, I'm sure you'll stand up as well. The ordinance is targeting contractors that are part of the underground economy, which is a group of contractors that don't pay taxes, tax evasion, workers can fraud, wedge stuff, and big OSHA violations. The construction is booming in Silicon Valley, and so has the underground economy, which stuff is big, and this is a preventive mechanism. I mean, once the worker gets hurt, there's no going back, that worker gets hurt. Once the wages are stolen from the worker, it's impossible to get the wages back. Um, And it's hard to believe that this is still happening in Silicon Valley in in 2019. I'll give you an example. My dad is retired. He was a victim of wedge theft. I have been a victim of witch theft, and I'm thinking, so now my son is going to be a victim of white theft, and then my grandson and my grandgrad, and you get the point. I think we have an opportunity to put an end to that right now. And I hope you can help us, and we are talking about workers that all they do. It's go to work, and then only not for not to get paid. Just put yourself on their shoes, go to work tomorrow and tell your employer, they don't pay me tomorrow. That's pretty pretty bad. I hope you can support us, and thank you very much.

[02:12:25] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:12:33] John Scarborough: Good evening, mayor and city council. I'm John Scarborough. I'm a resident of Mountain View for the last 16 and a half years, and I hope for another 6.5 at least, so my son can graduate from high school. over here. So anyway, I'm here to ask that when you're considering the priorities you have, consider equity in housing, so we can have, I really like the idea of community for all. Sounds great. I would like to see more of that and sustainability. We need much more of that. I was hoping that after our great strides in the last couple years, and even before that, we wouldn't really have to work on it that much, but it's worse, and we need to put more time onto it. And the last thing is on transportation, if you could focus on a part where we can have these streets safe enough for people to walk and bike around, that would be really great, too. Thank you very much.

[02:13:28] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:13:40] Theta Corns: Hi, I'm theta corns. I support the antidisplacement policy, and also anti wage theft. I would just like it to be consistent, fair, and easy to understand with metrics. Also, I think, as far as housing, the regional housing or the arena targets would be great. That's a variety of different housing. Also, as far as transportation. I think also metrics, including miles of protected bike lanes, and also the mode share targets. I think, implementing vision 0 to reduce number of traffic collisions, injuries, and fatalities. Also, citywide TMA, and also increasing walkability with a pedestrian network. BPAC really used to update the pedestrian master plan, and to have each department develop its own sustainability metrics, because I know each department is working on sustainability, but it's often not visible. And then also, each department could work together to work on tree canopy. The parks and the development side review is not well understood. There's a lot of trees that are currently being cut down. And there's a lot of review on the parks and rec side, but on the development side. I think it's not well reviewed, and we're counting tree trunks, not canopy. We have a 10% tree canopy goal but developers are still counting tree trunks. Thank you.

[02:15:27] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:15:34] Bill Murphy: Hiya, folks. I'm Bill Murphy, a resident of the Mona Loma neighborhood up by San Antonio Road, as 31 year residence of Mountain View, my wife and I ask that the council approve sustainability as a major goal in tonight's goal setting exercise, and then as it plays out over the next couple months. The Citizens Task Force put together a great, great plan. But now comes the heavy lifting. In particular, we believe that early in these next steps, Mountain View must put in place the critical enabling factor of a proper system of measurements, a strong greenhouse gas emissions budget to hold ourselves accountable. You have our family's support during these ambitious coming years, including as volunteers and neighborhood communicators, and certainly as voters, our adult kids live here, and they also are fully on board with fighting global warming as well. Please approve sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction as a key mountain view goal. Thank you.

[02:16:30] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:16:38] Christina Perrero: Hi, I'm Christina Perrero. I'm here to speak for vulnerable population protection in, particularly in the rental housing market. So my husband isn't here because he's out coaching his soccer team, and he's got a bunch of kids that have been playing together since, basically, since they can remember, And a lot of those kids come from apartment complexes that are endangered by proposed development, proposed demolitions, and we want to see these kids continue to grow up together, and continue to play together, and continue to be a full part of the mountain view community. The kids come from every walk of life. They're from, you know, there are different socioeconomic backgrounds, there are different races, different ages, different everything. Like, almost like an analogy for a whole community. You can't make a team out of just strikers. You can't make a community out of just high tech engineers. They have a place here and we all have a place here, and I want to see them protected. One of the best examples I found in the proposal was the impact assessment on impact assessment, almost like an environmental impact assessment, except for an assessment on what effect a project would have on a vulnerable community. If we add that to the development requirements, and especially including a no net loss provision, I think we could do a lot to continue having our kids stay together and play together and growing up to become our next generation in the mountain view community. Thank you.

[02:18:13] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:18:22] Mary Hotter: Sorry. how to fix it. Good evening. My name is Mary Hotter, and tonight, I want to speak for livable Mountain View. I want to share our position on housing. First, we are generally opposed to more offices in Mountain View giving our housing crisis. We are not in good shape overall, and we all know it. Other council have made the point even this past Tuesday night that sometimes offices are needed to support building housing, since housing is not as profitable. But I would argue doing what we've always done isn't working. Frankly, it seems crazy, but the economics of offices in Mountain View are leading to people being kicked out of their homes, and it's not livable for all of us. The numbers I'll leave you with tonight in a handout that you can read later on the break. Um, suggest that you should consider using a guide when considering offices versus housing. The general concept is that we should be aiming for roughly 4 to one in new square footage. Specifically 80% for housing and 20% for offices and no more offices. But we are building housing with, but I asked the question, are we building housing with natural customers for our small businesses? Or are we adding office workers who take up valuable downtown parking? And don't eat out due to in-house free food? Those are some of the issues that offices bring. Also, without planning for schools, future water use, police and fire needs, parks, transit, and alternative modes of transportation. We won't get the livable mountain view, all of us want. If we want, if we pause and plan, we can create the infrastructure needed to support this new housing and the increased residents who want to follow the jobs. A creative and necessary way to achieve the housing goal could be to have the city, business people, advocates, and residents come to the table to collaborate and identify incentives that work for all of us, for housing that minimizes the need for the highest number of offices to work.

[02:20:35] Mayor Lisa Matichak: If you could wrap up.

[02:20:36] Mary Hotter: Yep. So I'm going to go ahead and I'll pass this around, but also I just wanted to say that we support the carbon-free Mountain View points made earlier and also the housing points. Thank you.

[02:20:46] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:20:54] Joyce: Good evening, counsel. My name is Joycein, Mountain View Resident, and I'm going to speed read through this. In the past, I've spoken about planning holistically, and the importance of our downtown as the heart of our city. I've championed the idea of the Moffat change area as the missing half of our downtown potential with the transit center as the linchpin. And tonight, I'd like to discuss two things. One, the importance of a grand vision for the transit center, and two, the need to play the transit center, the historic downtown, and Moffat together. The transit center not only needs to maneuver multiple modes of transport, multiple modes of transportation conveniently and safely, It also needs to act as a seam, as the train tracks, and Central Expressway form a 300 foot thick rift in access between north and south. If we want our downtown to feel whole, we need a seamless fabric of connection. From Shoreline Boulevard to Stevens Creek Trail, almost a mile apart. The only access is at the transit center. We're already at a disadvantage in terms of walkability by having such few points of connection, and we're at another disadvantage due to the required grade change. How we weave the historic area of downtown to the Moffatt neighborhood is critical. That access needs to feel as gracious as possible, because the only way people will get out of their car is if the experience of walking to their destination surpasses the convenience of driving to it. Even given all these challenges, the discussion of the transit center should go beyond problem solving. The driving force behind the design should be clear, a clear, and grand vision that excites the imagination of the entire city. The transit center is a portal, one of few gateways into mountain view. We wanted to have a sense of arrival and a sense of place. When you step off the train, you should know you are in mountain view. You can't create a scene without the pieces you want to join together. And we can't design the transit center in isolation. I'm advocating that the historic portion of our downtown, in the adjacent Moffat change area, be planned concurrently and holistically, with the transit center, and that we design them with a grand vision that reflects the larger question of who we are, and what we value as a city. Thank you.

[02:23:00] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:23:04] Jerry Steach: Good evening. Madam Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, wherever she may be. Council members, my name's Jerry Steach, longtime Mountain View resident and a member of Liverpool Mountain View. I'd like to speak briefly about, uh, Area H, downtown on Castro Street, from Evelyn, uh, up to California Street, those three, uh, vital blocks. Um, now I'll read, uh, from this here. I've spoken with countless other Mountain View residents on Area H. Um, and we share a common concern. There appears to be a mad rush to develop the downtown, with little regard for thoughtful planning. Rather than rush madly like that and risk regrettable results, Mountain View would do well to step back, allow time to learn what other cities, large and small, have done to protect their historic areas, then apply that understanding to Area H. Even seemingly minor planning changes require considerable thought and research, requirements that demand time. Therefore, I ask that within the goals that you set as a result of this evening, they include imposing a pause in Area H development, whilst Mountain View employs professional planners to carefully plan what's optimal and sustainable for that part of downtown. That's how any city should be planned and how development should take place. Without such pause, ladies and gentlemen, irreplaceable buildings, some with rich histories and or architectural distinctions, could face the wrecking ball. The only winners would be developers and Mountain View residents, would be left with the downtown whose character was dramatically, perhaps irreversibly diminished. To summarize, pause, plan, then build. Thank you.

[02:24:47] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:24:52] Louise Katz: Thank you. Madam Mayor, and counsel. Louise Katz on behalf of livable Mountain View, and as a follow up to what Jerry said. Livable Mountain View asks, how do we change with the times and still preserve the historic resources of our downtown historic district H, which gives Mountain View its unique identity. It should not be an either or proposition. If we do not act now, to protect historic buildings. They will disappear under the pressure of development. Our city's history is embedded in its downtown buildings, and we'll be providing the council with detailed information on that in the coming weeks. Council member goals include a vibrant gathering place for residents and visitors, better transit to minimize cars, walkable destinations, and development of the Moffat area, which we all, which we support. The historic district H of downtown fits within all of those goals, as it preserves an interesting, fund, safe, and vibrant destination to walk or take transit to, and there is no such other place in mountain view. We know that recently built shiny office buildings do not provide a sense of place or a vibrant streetscape. Many already on Castro Street, create dead zones with plank lobbies, darker covered windows, locked doors, even when their plans to the council showed something different. Our current precise plan has no protection for any building whatsoever, no matter how historic, or how much we value them. We urge a pause and plan, segmented approach to fix the precise plan, so that the three blocks of the historic district are protected from the train on back, from certain destruction. We must act now, or so that no buildings come down during this planning phase, or there might be nothing left to save. For this reason alone, we cannot wait for another goal setting session in 2 years, because once these unique and irreplaceable buildings are gone. They'll not be coming back. And gone to will be our history. Our identity as a city, replaced by another row of big buildings. The Santa Monica pier has a sign on it about its preservation of history and ecological resources. It quotes Jacques Cousteau. People preserve what they love. Thank you.

[02:26:59] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:27:05] Robert Cox: Honorable Mayor Matterchek, Vice Mayor Rabay Koga, and city council members. I'm Robert Cox, a 24 year Mountain View resident. And I'm here on behalf of Louisville, Mountain View, to speak about our parking issues here in Mountain View, particularly in downtown, and recommend the city council, address them in the next 2 years. First, let me thank the council for what has been accomplished. We now have real time wavering signage in the bargain garages, valet parking where it's needed, and a process for establishing residential permit parking zones. But more remains to be done. Particularly now when developers are proposing many new multi-story office buildings in the downtown. Employers are packing employees into smaller and smaller work areas, while our parking standards remain unchanged. At least half of the new employees will work in these buildings, will not have parking spaces. The result is that the downtown residents and visitors of their homes are finding it increasingly difficult to park in the streets near their residences. Before the situation gets significantly worse, we need to pause, plan, and find good ways to deal with it. Our current RPPP process, which has not has not resulted in the creation of a single parking zone. It is too complicated. Livable Mountain View recommends setting up a presidential parking permit area in the downtown that will insulate our residents from the impact of the encroachment, developments which seek parking waivers should help fund establishment enforcement of the program. It is fair and just mitigation for the financial benefits such project developers receive, from building less parking than the people in their developments demand. Regardless of whatever solution you adopt. We as the city need to look at the situation, squarely in the eye, understand the reality of what is happening and determine the best ways to fix it. Let's pause and plan for a better amount of view. Thank you.

[02:28:51] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:29:01] Lori Robbins: Good evening. Lori Robbins, I'm an eight year resident of Mountain View. Mountain View. And first, I want to thank the council for all the hard work you do for our city. I'm here to talk about the goal that overlays all the goals. Transparency. Transparency enhances public trust. Case in point, the transit center. The city, website for this project is difficult to navigate. Architectural plans, if we can even find them, just in general, require advanced knowledge of symbols and language. The proposed transit center, which is the largest change to transportation in Mountain View, since the auto replaced the horse, and we are getting the vision on the back burner, and we can't find what we need on the website. Instead, consultants, present to the public in a segmented way, that is confusing and doesn't address the whole plan, or any vision at all. Citizens should have public access to 3D models of all the major projects, not just that one. That include context. Mountain View has the money to do this. Council has the ability to require it. Models will also help the council visualize these projects as well. Fancy drawings full of trees and happy couples can mitigate the impact of these larger projects. Some of you have even admitted this to me. Finally, Mountain View should review its policy on notifications, the radius for large projects, really needs to be increased, and those notifications should also include notice via a posting on next door. We are at a critical point. Citizens and council need to fully understand projects before we go full speed ahead. This council has a unique opportunity, if you could read pause, gain public trust, and plan the most livable and beautiful. city on the peninsula. Thank you.

[02:31:31] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:31:36] Carol Whitaker: Hello. Hi, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counsel, Staff members here. Oh, let's get out, don't. Okay, uh, my name is Carol Whitaker. I'm a Mountain View resident. And I'm here on behalf of the, um, Livable Mountain Group. Livable Mountain View Group, to speak in support of livability for all. Mountain View's population is estimated to grow from 80 to 130,000 over the next five years. Our quality of life and livability of our city is at a critical tipping point. And until we get it right for all of our current residents, we must pause. Pause the building of more offices which require more housing. It has been proven again and again that more housing in a job rich city does not lower housing costs. It is the jobs and the up zoning that make the land expensive, and housing costs so high. So let's pause. We must pause and plan with transparency to get it right. We can no longer allow developers and large corporations to design our city for us. We can't allow our historic buildings to remain unprotected. And we can't permit buildings without ground floor retail and ample parking, which erodes our downtown businesses any longer. We must hire an urban designer. It's in a packet that I sent around to distinguish how we view a designer versus a planner. That's what we understand, and if anyone wants to dispute that, we welcome you to do so. Um, We can't permit buildings without ground floor retail and ample parking, which would erode our downtown businesses. We must hire an urban designer with a holistic vision for a dynamic, diverse, inclusive, and sustainable city. All great cities have vibrant everything you want, walkable downtowns, which means our transit center, which is the center of everything, must be vibrant. clean, safe, and most importantly, seamless. If any part of that transient system is off. Our city isn't walkable and it's not desirable, then we've failed. Mountain View has remarkably rich in a complex history of pioneers and entrepreneurs. From Gold Rush merchants to Nobel Prize recipients to tech giants, we are the epicenter of Silicon Valley. Thank you. Long before the likes of Google came here. I'm wrapping up, and we need to be loud and proud, and we need to demand excellence. So, counsel, Livable Mountain View urges you to pause and plan with transparency because this place that we all love matters. Thank you.

[02:34:17] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Next place.

[02:34:21] Matthew Reid: a hard act to follow. Good evening, Mayor Matachek, Vice Mayor and Council. My name is Matthew Reid. from Silicon Valley at home. We promote policies that create and preserve housing opportunities for all in Santa Clara County. First, I want to recognize Mountain View's commitment to finding solutions to our shared affordable housing crisis. We encourage you to keep housing at the center of your work plan. We look forward to progress on solutions for the missing middle. Ways of using public land for new affordable housing and leveraging major land use opportunities to build complete neighborhoods for all incomes and abilities. We also believe that this council should make addressing Mountain View's displacement challenges a high priority. We believe this priority fits squarely between your goals. One, protect vulnerable communities in diversity and goal, two, improve diversity and affordability of housing. In line with the number of council members, we urge council to consider a pause on redevelopment of naturally occurring affordable housing, and to direct staff to come back with a range of different responses for your consideration. We believe this housing is a critical community resource. During these times when we struggle under the costs of building much needed affordable housing, losing existing resources amounts to taking one step forward and two steps back. We know that this council has had to make some difficult decisions on conditional use permits in the past. And in these cases, there's been some anguish. And we think that you deserve to have more policy tools to work with. Thank you.

[02:36:21] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:36:27] Public Speaker: Good evening, Madam Mayor. Good evening, city council members. I am here today to ask you to please put in priority a pause on all these demolitions, and also, we do not need any more offices in our downtown. Um, I'm here to talk to you with my heart open because I do not want to lose any more of my neighbors. I love where I live. I love the people that I know. I love to see the kids who come and say hi to me because they recognize me. I live the time when, unfortunately, I didn't know my neighbors. I would walk in, and they would be different people coming in. And that, to me, I don't want to go back to that situation. I really, really want us to think about how we can work all together, to stop these, think about how we can keep the people that we have here, and also work so that all of us can work together. Again, I ask you to put priority in a pause in demolitions and also no more offices in our downtown. I really appreciate your time, and I'm here that I'm here to let you guys know that I know all of you have some hard, really think about the people and the valuable people that we are losing as it is right now. 2310 cannot let us go. The people that live there are valuable people. The people that live right now in 2005 Rock Street, they're valuable people too. But I would like them to be able to stay here in Mountain View. We need them. I want them to stay and they want to stay. They want to make mountain view what it is today and make it better. Thank you.

[02:38:15] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:38:23] Alex Brown: Hi. Alex Brown, Santiago Villa. I'm here tonight. I'm half of the Mountain View Momo Home Alliance. I was very glad to see 2 proposals put forth to address the fears of the mobile and manufactured home residents of Mountain View. To be brief, Mountain View is home to 6 parks comprising 1130 mobile homes. When the mobile home alliance reached out to these residents, we found that 85% of the respondents were seniors, and around 17% were either disabled or veterans. 90% of the respondents were concerned with their space rent, something that not only affects the value of their home but determines whether they can continue to live in the city. Mobile homes are naturally affordable housing, and they provide housing to many of our more vulnerable residents. I hope that next year, you can help to protect our neighbors to the week and the city can thrive. Thank you. And also, I like the municipal broadband idea for that. That's just me. Thank you.

[02:39:09] Mayor Lisa Matichak: If we could have your speed of talking, we'd be good it done.

[02:39:13] B. Hanson: I can't talk that fast. Uh, B. Hanson also representing mobile home association Mountain View mobile home association in San Diego Villa neighborhood association. I know that uh, several members or 2 members at least uh, Mr. Ramirez and Ms. uh, Hicks have are prioritizing our community for support with this goal setting session. I hope that some of you will join them. Um, Mayor Matachek. I understand you're interested in helping seniors, and we have a majority population of seniors in the mobile home parks. I am a senior also, and I have an advantage over most of them, that I have a good job and I'm able to work still. But many people are not able to do that anymore. I'm kind of a contact point for those people. And it breaks my heart that I can tell, rarely tell them that we're doing very well. We've been working for 3 years on our mobile home space rent problem and associated issues without much result. We started with the Mountain View tenants coalition, helping them collect signatures for measure V. We thought we would be covered by it. And we got some help from the city attorney and from the rental housing committee attorney, and that did not work. We are forced into mediation against our landlord, a landlord's attorney who was assisting the city in opposing us. We don't know how that's going to go, but it looks like it's going to be a lot much longer time than we ever thought. In the meantime, people who are disadvantaged by having to live on social security and disability, are having problems with rent. And I'll stop here. Thank you.

[02:41:19] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Ex, please.

[02:41:26] Alex Nuñez: Hello, Counsel, thanks for the opportunity to speak here today. My name's Alex Nunez. I am an increasingly longtime resident of Mountain View, and I am here to echo a lot of the support for protecting vulnerable populations that you're constituents have very consistently spoken to tonight. And in particular, I would like to discuss that point from the viewpoint of responsible development policies. I'm here to ask you to explore practices that protect vulnerable populations from involuntary displacement, the loss of affordable housing and forced labor. As many people have spoken to, redevelopment of existing affordable housing into ownership homes, some of which are still vacant, has increased displacement, houselessness, and increased a lower quality of life for low income residence. Mountain View's current approval policies for development permits don't account for resident needs. In order to address this, I would like to echo an idea someone had about requiring impact assessments on vulnerable communities as a critical criteria for approving or denying a permit. And it is possible to prevent displacement. and even slow it down as well. And in order to do this, I definitely agree with the calls for a 9 month temporary pause on both the demolition of affordable housing, as well as a pause of construction of new office space across the city. In addition to that, because construction is one of the industries that has the most human trafficking that happens in it. I definitely call for the protection of vulnerable workers in the city as well, by stepping up wage theft and human trafficking disclosure requirements for city contracts, business licenses, and building permits. Thank you. Please protect affordable housing and people's wages. Have a good one.

[02:43:25] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:43:31] Public Speaker: Madame Americans and council members, thank you for the work you're doing. And I'm standing before you as a person who has really seen the benefits of the CSFRA, the measure V that was passed by the voters. I voted for it. And this brings me to one of the projects that you've selected housing, while all the other projects are very important, and everybody who stood here has spoken very passionately and clear and given you ideas of what it is that they would like for you to do and prioritize, and it's all very important, and hopefully you take all that to heart. For me, I'll focus on housing and really request that you really prioritize uh, in uh, making sure that these uh, that there's a pause and the auditorium uh, placed on all the applications for demolitions. Housing is very important. We all need a place to stay, good to sleep at night after we work very hard. And it's very important, then when you, when you, you know, whatever decisions you make, that it, it impacts people's lives. And you are able to change that in whatever decisions you make. And we are looking at you because we've avoided you in here and we want to make sure that you listen to all of us who've spoken here today. And it's late, but we're here to make sure that we are hard. Thank you for your time.

[02:44:59] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Thank you. Next, please.

[02:45:04] Heather Phipps: Good evening, my name is Heather Phipps, and I'm a Mount View resident. I just wanted to say that I support the protection of Mountain View's scare supportable housing resources and the right of residents to stay in their communities. The overwhelming redevelopment of existing affordable housing into ownership homes in order to retract more high income workers for Google and other tech company jobs has increased the displacement and houselessness as well as create a lower quality of life for low income residents. And let's be clear, this was happening long before measure V was put on the ballot. Thus, I urge the council to adopt several of the specific suggestions proposed by council members, Hicks and Ramirez, related to affordable housing, which will strengthen the council's efforts in meeting the first two current goals listed in the city council major goals work plan. In order to address the current critical stage of displacement and gentrification in Mountain View, I urge the council to immediately adopt council member Hicks proposal to put a 9 month pause, and it could be longer on the approval of demolition permits for redevelopment of existing affordable housing. This would provide the council with the time to adequately plan and adopt displacement prevention policies such as Topa, which is part of the tenant protection in Washington, DC, which was where I moved from, also to look in community land trusts, which are happening around the country, in Oakland, in particular, and other no net loss of affordable housing programming, as well as Sikh Satan, private funding to purchase naturally affordable housing. Given the council's approval of the 2005 Rock Street Debate Development Project on December 11th, and the displacement of 70 low income people of color, including 30 children, a nine month pause or longer, on projects to clearly is clearly imperative to supporting the first current major goal that you will have listed in the work plan. The 2005 Rock Street displacement project also highlighted the need for the council to develop an impact assessment on vulnerable communities as a critical criteria for approval or denial of a development permit. In addition, I urge the council to adopt rent protections for mobile home park residents, as both council members Ramirez and Hicks have recommended, and I also agree with council members Hicks, that it's critical to find ways to deal with RV and vehicle living situation in a humane way.

[02:47:15] Mayor Lisa Matichak: If you could wrap up.

[02:47:17] Heather Phipps: Yes, lastly, protecting vulnerable workers from construction trafficking is critical to human rights protections in Mountain View. Wage theft, human trafficking, and unsafe working conditions are extremely common in the construction industry search. The council to step up, wage theft, and human trafficking disclosure requirements for companies. Thank you. Please do what you can to protect Bollenberg communities. Thank you, Mountain View. Thank you.

[02:47:40] Sandra Spasa: Hi, my name is Sandra Spasa, and I'm Para Cafecito, and also, I'm San Joseph Church, and I'm leaving Montemu for 20 years, and I currently live and working in Montemu, as instruction assisting of my school. So as you know, I'm here to support our those points. We really want to have more natural affordable housing for kids for people who are the more valuable of this community. We're not, I really want you to look all the resources that you have looking for a lot of policy. Maybe you can have ways to protect, you are our back of shoulders, you are representing our community. So you have the power to say, stop demolition, you have the power to say, do the auditorium, you have the power to have another try, to have many resources. You guys can do it. And each one, you are sitting there because we vote for you guys. So please consider this and those 2 years coming on the role. We have 10 more buildings to demolition, which is I don't think so you guys can keep approving and approving and don't think about the other side. We need to have balance in mountain view. Like I said it before to cancel Lenny Siegel. So this has to be stopped because I having kids for press school, 3 years old, 5, 4. And it's hard to tell me, hey, you need to live out of this beautiful city. You need to live because you don't have right to live here. How can I tell kids like that if they are the future of the mountain view? There will make this beautiful city successful. So there are really, there are cities. Please consider this and keep working for our community. Thank you. Thank you.

[02:49:31] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So anyone else who'd like to address us on the goals and projects to support those goals? Saying no one else in line will close the public input. And I think we need to take a little bit of a break here, if you don't mind.

[02:49:51] Unknown Speaker: I think we ought to keep going nonstop.

[02:49:57] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So if we could come back in 10 minutes, that would be great. So, 10 minute break to Audrey, to take us through the next sections of this meeting.

[02:50:10] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Thank you very much. And thank you to the members of the community. That was a truly impressive presence of people, you know, feeling very passionately about this city. Um, and so we now can turn to, um, the 1st of your 2 deliberative sessions, um, focusing around the major goal areas. Um, what I, um, will remind you is that, you know, what we're asking you to do is to select by the end of the evening, which, hopefully, um, is in the near future. Um, the uh, 2 to uh, 2 to 4 um, major goal areas, again, focusing on the themes and overarching outcomes. Why is this important to our community, what it is that you're hoping for the city to ultimately accomplish. And again, not getting into wording or projects for this part of the discussion. We're going to discuss the current major goals, by we, I mean you, you're going to put forward potential additional goals, and with all of that on the table, you're going to be asked to make some decisions about carrying forward one or more of the current goals, either as they are or with different elements to incorporate and any new goals. And as I said, before, this can take as long or as little time as you like, based on the degree of change and consensus among you. Um, so what I'm what I'm going to do is suggest again that um, you do not need to um, at this stage, be evaluating each other's comments, um, but you can ask clarifying questions. You can make observations about where there might be similarities or diverging thoughts. And, um, you know, as we go, if we are seeing consensus that we can identify and directly, um, uh, uh, come to that consensus, that's great. If not, we can take a break and staff can try and consolidate and frame what we heard from you about the goals and bring it back with, you know, a few minutes later with a suggestion of what the consolidated goals could be. And then if there are still more than four, you could go through a rankwater process. So that's kind of from, you know, minimal process to more process than that will, I guess, depend on where you are. So what I would like to suggest that we do is we look at each of the 4 current goals and give every council member who wants the opportunity to speak to those, to reflect on those goals. Um, and, uh, you don't need to go through each of these questions. But these are potential discussion questions for you to keep in mind and reflecting on our current goals. Um, saying as much or as little as you would like about, um, why you believe the goal was important 2 years ago. What has changed in the past 2 years. And if this goal were to continue into the next biannual cycle, what might you want to change about the goal. So we'll start with protecting vulnerable populations. I think you all can just kind of light your lights, look at each other and who's ready to speak and speak out. If we need anything that's a little bit more moderated, I can assist with that.

[02:54:04] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Yeah, so just to clarify, I was not going to be managing a cue. Free flow.

[02:54:10] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Correct, yes. If you prefer that, I'm certainly open to that, but we're, you know, seeing this as both individuals sharing and also some opportunity for dialogue.

[02:54:25] Mayor Lisa Matichak: comfortable with that. We can do it that way.

[02:54:28] Unknown Speaker: Community center, but. Hey, so I could. How many, I mean, have you given us a, I didn't notice a list of programs or initiatives that we've started or how many we've completed? And I know most of this is continually ongoing in the sense of we have projects. So, okay, so protection that we had 11 completed. So when you...

[02:54:53] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: No, 11 total of which I think there are 7 that are completed. That's attachment 3 in your council report. And I do actually, for the part where we're talking about individual projects, have slides that show for each of the 4 goals, which projects are to continue forward. But we're not talking about projects right now. We're talking about kind of the goals more generally. So, um,

[02:55:22] Unknown Speaker: Okay, you sort of answered my question. So, I mean, a lot of the a lot of the goals that we have there are continuous. I mean, they don't have a sunset date. They just continue. Well, I mean, under the goals, we have projects that don't, I mean, we have the policies that don't sunset, which are sort of projects, so.

[02:55:44] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Well, um, we don't consider, if something is operational, like we, the goal was to establish a policy or a program, and we have done that, and it's established, and it's operational, we're calling that complete, even if the work associated with that, you know, policy or program is ongoing.

[02:56:05] Unknown Speaker: Okay. I had a question on the 1st goal. almost 3 hours ago, you mentioned the community for all term. Could you remind me what context that was in?

[02:56:27] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: When we begin after the council adopted these goal statements and we looked at how we would be communicating to the public about what our goals were, you know, housing was easy to say as housing and transportation, everything had kind of an easy way to abbreviate it. So we just internally wanted to find a way to abbreviate it. And that's what we came up with.

[02:56:55] Unknown Speaker: Great. I'm fine with the 1st goal, protect vulnerable population, unless we want to just shorten it to make it more and use the term community for all. But other than that, I think, why was this important 2 years ago? I think, um, well, we had a federal administration change that, um... has a different direction, I think, than, I would say, our community that has always, um, supported and welcomed diversity. And so, um, we put this in because we felt we needed to make a statement that we want to continue to, um, create a, have a community for all. And we're still in that climate. So I would be fine to continue this.

[02:57:48] Unknown Speaker: What was the word that you wanted to modify it too, a little bit, or change the goal, the wording?

[02:57:54] Unknown Speaker: I would just say, we can totally shorten it and say, promote strategies to, um, maintain a community for all. I guess that would be sort of comprehensive, wouldn't it? Or if you want to keep it this way, I'm fine with that, too. That if we're using that to promote it out, then we may want to just, you know, have a consistent message, so...

[02:58:25] Unknown Speaker: I was just... focusing on even more than just the one. So, generally, most of the thoughts that I had, sort of fall under the, they could, you could argue that they fall under most of the headings that we had two years ago. So, um, I don't know if we want to talk about, you know, are there any that folks want to remove or combine, or any, any that, um, any that we want to add? But for me, I mean, I'm just putting it out there rather than going one by one, most of the ideas that I had, we don't have to go through every single one of them tonight, do fall under most of the existing categories. And I could understand, have looking through some of the things that folks have proposed in advance, I could see, you know, maybe they don't fit under perfectly under each one or maybe we need to create one or remove one or combine a couple. But for me, most of what I had just is falls under one of these four. And so I don't really see a need from, at least from what I'd like to do to tweak those too much, but I'm open to what others have, but that's sort of where I'm at at a high level.

[02:59:36] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So, for me, and I'm going to sort of take the same approach here and not necessarily speak to this one. I definitely don't see any need to change, nor do I want to change. the goals about the environment or transportation. To me, those are really important, and we still got a lot of work to do in those 2 areas, as you can tell by the number of projects we had. And so for me, those two, I mean, if we want to tweet the words a little bit, I'm fine with that, but the topical areas, I think are still very relevant. Transportation sustainability. And then I get to the other two, and we've done quite a bit of work in those two areas. And I was thinking that perhaps there would be a way to maybe have a new goal that has, um, elements of these two in it, um, because we, we talk a lot about housing, and it's mostly around vulnerable population. So, Um, I haven't come up with a way of combining those. But when I put together my list of projects, which I hope everyone noticed, it's said at the very top. It was not a comprehensive list, because clearly I have more I would like to add to that list. Um, I think I'll get to Z. I won't go past Z, though. So 26. Um, I couldn't necessarily fit them into the four existing goals, um, and I had a large number of projects under, I would say, quality of life. And for me, that means quality of life for the people who have lived in Mountain View, who we hear a lot from, that they're frustrated with, um, many aspects of their quality of life, whether it be traffic, potholes, tree canopy, uh, the NTMP, and the list parking, uh, and, you know, there might be a better term than quality of life, but I couldn't think of it at the time, but I feel like there's lots of projects that I would work on to support for lack of a better term, quality of life for the residents who are here.

[03:02:11] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: All right, since everyone's staring at me. Oh, just in the way. So, when I was looking at the four goals provided, I gave them each sub kind of subheaders just for myself, and when I thought about it and looked through everyone's proposals, I saw the buckets as diversity, housing, transportation, and sustainability. One of the things that I feel that has come up often is quality of life and livability. And I was hoping that maybe that could be incorporated in the sustainability goal, trying to stick to the four. Um, I'm comfortable with the awards here, um, presented in the staff report, um, but wanted to see maybe if we could wrap the quality of life livability element into into one of the existing bullets, as I think uh, council member Hicks had talked when we 1st looked at this last month or a couple weeks ago. And those are my initial thoughts.

[03:03:18] Unknown Speaker: Well, I agree with council member Kame, I support retaining the 4 thematic goals that we've had for the past couple of years. There's still a lot of work to be done in each of them. And then there's clear, clearly substantial community support for retaining them. And I think, you know, that's an elegant solution to sort of wrap in livability or quality of life into sustainability. I think there's a lot of overlap there and some of the other concerns that the mayor brought up, I think, are, are, you know, very important to the community, but, you know, probably there are, there are, we'll have, we'll have to do some word smoothing, I think, to make sure everything sort of fits neatly into each category. The one thing I was interested in seeing if there was council interested in is incorporating some kind of metrics or a means by which we can gauge whether we've made progress in achieving the thematic goals. Because, you know, I think even if we all agree very broadly on the goals, we may come to very different conclusions on how much progress we've made in achieving them. I wouldn't feel comfortable saying that we've achieved any of these goals. But maybe some of us feel that we've put enough of a dent in them that, you know, maybe we can sort of operationalize some of the remaining work and then come up with a new goal. But it's really hard, I think, to say that if we don't have sort of a shared sense of the measurements we're using to determine whether we've made progress. And I didn't, I provided some examples that I thought might be helpful, but I didn't, I don't want to be prescriptive right now. And when I spoke with the city manager about this, He had suggested that if this is an idea that we're interested in, that, you know, we allow staff to take a look at it and there are probably a lot of numeric goals that we've already set for ourselves. So some of the goals, some of the suggestions I made come from policies that the council had previously approved. So, uh, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, uh, or to, what is it? By 80% by 2050, I think was was the, the metric that we already have those kinds of goals in other in other documents and maybe it's just a matter of compiling those and using them to gauge how much progress we've made in the thematic goals. But, you know, if there isn't support for that, then I would be comfortable with retaining the medicals that we have right now.

[03:05:56] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, I would... So, I agree with the direction that people are taking, I think, the 4 thematic goals, I think, we heard a lot of support for them tonight, when from the public, they're clearly not complete. I could actually go either way. I could go the way the mayor said that I do think that a lot of the strategies to protect vulnerable populations and preserve socioeconomic and cultural diversity are housing issues. So we could put those together. On the other hand, I could also go in the direction that council member, Kame, recommended of combining, I think livability was an element of the election, and that we should recognize that. So the other way to do it would be to keep the 4th thematic goals, and to combine to talk about sustainability and livability. I think a lot of the livability goals are sustainability goals there about walkable streets and so forth. So I would go in either direction, whatever the majority of council wanted to do. And then I also agree with Council member Ram is that we should have some metrics to back up the goals.

[03:07:18] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: So, um, I'm fine with that, um, only one with, um, I was going to suggest a little tweak on was housing, um, and adding, uh, you know, it says an added focus on middle income ownership opportunities and subsidized housing opportunities because there is a lot of um, affordable housing, grant, money coming down the pike. And I just want to position ourselves to be able to get as much as we can, frankly, because, you know, we are. We're trying to do more affordable housing projects, subsidize housing projects. And so, um, I want to be aggressive in that. So I would like to add that focus to the housing one. And then in terms of the comment about quality of life, livabilities. I agree. I actually do think we could combine it with the 4th element, um, in addition to, and maybe it's part of it, but I've been thinking about, and we've talked a little bit about it, but ensuring that from a city operations side, you know, we have the service levels that we need to, um, to, to sustain a growing community. And so, I wanted to somehow incorporate that. And so, originally I thought financial sustainability, but I mean, we can take that part out and just say a sustainable, a community that's sustainable by being able to provide the, um, needed services and infrastructure, um, to keep our high quality life or something like that. But I agree that quality of life, or whatever you want to call it, should be a goal included as a goal. Is that included as a separate goal or included in a... And we could combine it with the sustainability goal. And then, oh, in terms of metrics, and I said on the mayor's list, but we do have our performance metrics in each department and there has been conversation about how those might not be as relevant anymore as they were when they were established. And so, um, I don't think we need to really need it as a goal, but we could look at supporting the mayor's item. And, yeah, that wasn't a goal at all. That was a project. Right, it was a project. So I actually look at it more as a project than a goal.

[03:10:09] Councilmember John McAlister: So I have a new goal, I think. Someone say, uh-oh. If we need to start building for the future, you know, and be prepared for autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, and we're not, all these goals are pretty much continuing the status quo, but I think we need to get a vision of what's going to happen in 10, 20, 50 years to put Mountain View in a position so that when all these companies that are in Mountain View developing autonomous vehicles, or coming out with AI, that Mountain View is in a position to implement them. And the things I'm talking about is a lot of it is related to transportation, connected vehicles. So that means signalization that hasn't been improved in 20 years, broadband, that has to be upgraded, even if it's fiber. I know somebody said fiber, but we need to have Wi-Fi or something to have fiber, because that's where AI is going to be doing. It's the data collection and vehicles as they go from one city to another. Hopefully we'll get to regional. Somebody was talking about TMAs. I mean, we need to have that type of big data so that we can grow and take advantage of what's out there. And so, we're building new buildings. I mean, we need a new public safety building, and we need to build that for the 22nd, 23rd century. We need to incorporate that so that it has the technology to address whatever needs are coming along the lines. And everything that we're doing, again, doesn't get us focused to the future and build. Because if we build that technology, companies will want to come here. It does improve the quality of life for all of our employees. We can get those autonomous buses are running around town and so forth. And I think that is my, one of my goals is to look for build for the future. And I thought, you know, again, when I started saying the different goals, I go, yeah, we could tweak it in there, but I think we need a major goal, just to say, we need to, we got to get technology. Recently, we had an example of we had the power outage, took out the Wi-Fi, a lot of people. We didn't have a backup plan. We don't really have the infrastructure to say if a major earthquake or natural disaster comes along and wipes us or does something. We don't have the technology or infrastructure to get us the next place. So that's what I would like to see us do, is be that city that is really a true smart city and gets us to the place where when something comes up, we can jump on it and implement it. So that to me, that is a total different goal. I mean, I haven't, I've been listening to a lot of cities and they're talking about smart cities, but they're still building for the current, you know, housing is housing. Traffic is traffic, but how do we solve it? Well, let's start building for the future. And so to me, that is a major, different goal.

[03:13:13] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I think for that one, the way I would handle it rather than have goal number five. Um, I think that a lot of what you're talking about is a part of transportation strategies, but that if there's something that's not, I would probably, I mean, we could have one or two projects under others. So that's that's probably the way I would handle that. But I'd love to hear from everyone else.

[03:13:43] Councilmember Chris Clark: We could, um... So, I've been taking notes, and so, I think, generally, it sounds like most of us are okay with the vulnerable populations goal, sort of, as is, um, maybe with a, a few tweaks, but, um, generally okay. I think on housing, the vice mayor mentioned maybe improve the quantity diversity affordability of housing, you know, with a focus on or especially middle income ownership and subsidized housing opportunities, sort of adding adding that in there. Council member McAllister, I agree with Council member Hicks, that I think I think there's actually a really good synergy. I think I think you're right that it does extend beyond transportation, but I think within transportation, if you were to sort of tweak that goal to be, you know, more infrastructure focused and not just on transportation, you could say develop and implement comprehensive and coordinated transportation and smart city strategies, or whatever label you want there, you know, tech forward or smart city strategies that achieve, you know, mobility connectivity and safety for people all ages, because that really is, it's not just transportation. It's about infrastructure, too.

[03:15:03] Councilmember John McAlister: Yeah, I wouldn't have an issue putting it in there. And broadening the goal a bit. Yeah, and I focused on transportation because that's what I'm familiar with. But, I mean, I've talked to people at San Jose. They're looking at the software, how they can use big data for hiring to work at their MOC better, to work the library better, so that and broadband again. Yeah, most of it's related to infrastructure. But you're right. There are some personnel in other, you know, efficiencies that you can gain through. So that's, but yeah.

[03:15:34] Councilmember Chris Clark: And then and then and then I agree that, um, you know, I think the livability goal, however you define that, um, fits pretty well within sustainability. So you can create a create a livable and environmentally sustainable community with measurable outcomes or enhance environmental sustainability and livability with measurable outcomes. I think you can, I think there's a way to sort of marry, marry those things together because I think, you know, sustainability is one aspect of a livable community or quality of life. So, um, you could tweak whatever you want. But I think overall most of what we just talked about fit sort of within some tweaked, you know, 4 goals.

[03:16:18] City Manager Dan Rich: So stepping in in the facilitator role. You've all spoken to your views on the existing goals and there's some potential different ways to incorporate things that are beyond the precise focus of these goals and council member Clark has put a proposal on the table. Um, and I'd like to kind of get a sense of where the group is, of whether this feels like it's on the right track and would be an acceptable way to look at the major themes for the council going forward. Does everybody, was everybody clear about what Council member Clark said?

[03:17:00] Unknown Speaker: Okay. Yeah, I have, um, actually, maybe it's a question first, and for all the work that was done for the ESTF, Would that show up as one project or 50 projects?

[03:17:19] City Manager Dan Rich: Um, well, um, that's a good question. So, um, there were 36 projects, so it wouldn't be 50. And whether they would all be projects in the next 2 years or whether or not, you know, through the efforts that staff has been doing to, um, um, create a strategic plan that puts forward what the city's vision is for sustainability and what the different scenarios could be for the level of response, you know, the scope and, uh, magnitude of the city's response to that and the different resource implications associated with that. That's all coming to council on April 30th. So I would suggest that you all, to the extent that you have specific interests in sustainability projects that you put them out now. and that we continue to have our process on the goal setting, but also to know that there is a whole parallel process on sustainability that's happening and you will have the opportunity to make decisions about the, you know, the general strategic approach to take with that. And then there will be, you know, projects within that that kind of accomplish that. and a different approach than what we've done before. I'm, you know, tipping our hand a little bit about where we expect to come to council, um, you know, ASAP would normally be, uh, kind of an, uh, at that spring time frame, and we really want the, the three-year plan of projects, um, for sustainability to be informed by a strategic vision, which is informed by the task force and its recommendations as well as a really extensive amount of internal work that we've been doing over the past few. months to kind of bring forward those options in a way that you can decide the strategic, you know, the kind of the policy direction, and then we'll build the ASAP with the plans, um, the projects from there. So, um, that may have been more than you asked for, but did that answer your question?

[03:19:32] Unknown Speaker: It did. And my concern is I don't want to dilute the focus on sustainability.

[03:19:39] City Manager Dan Rich: Right, if I may, I've been holding back on the idea of including sustainability and livability together, to say that actually is fairly well synchronized with the internal work we've been doing about what we believe our organization's vision is for sustainability, and also what makes for successful outreach and behavior change in the community, how to engage the community and get them, you know, you know, they're not going to care as much about greenhouse gas. I mean, I've heard members of the task force say, you can't, you know, you can't see a greenhouse gas, but you do know if your your efforts to get from one part of town to another are too congested. You do know if you don't feel like you can bike and walk safely. And so we already are looking at the concept of livability as being an integral one to sustainability. So I don't know if that's how the task force is going to see it, but in terms of our internal efforts of really trying to make it be part of our, you know, how we in each of our departments, think about our relationship to sustainability, that's what has been, you know, the vision of our staff.

[03:20:57] Unknown Speaker: Okay, because I was thinking, um, that, Had you not said that, uh, and I'd like to know how, what other people think about that, but I would potentially collapse, housing, and community for all, into a goal, and have livability as a new goal, and either put some of, maybe it's, you know, livability now and in the future. to take some elements of what council member McAllister was talking about, but then the rest of those elements into a broader infrastructure that includes transportation. But if sustainability and livability are closely intertwined, although I was going through the projects in my head, and I wasn't sure I would be able to fit all of those in there. And of course, I'm going to try to convince everybody to support those projects.

[03:21:54] City Manager Dan Rich: Well, if I might, I'll, um, go back to what Council member Hicks said, is that, um, it, we did, the council did choose in its last session to adopt some projects that weren't in the major goals, and that is an option, um, at this point too.

[03:22:15] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay. Say that one more time. I miss that last one.

[03:22:20] City Manager Dan Rich: Yeah, I was giving you credit for the point that if when you were speaking about council member McAllister's Smart City, you're building for the future as a major theme, if a big chunk of those strategies and ones that we think we could commit to in the next 2 years are transportation related, that could get folded into the transportation goal and anything else that we that did get prioritized that wasn't related to transportation could be a kind of standalone in that other category. And I think the same thing is true if there are projects that the mayor is putting forward, that that ultimately survive the, you know, it was like, what survivor doesn't get voted off the island, and makes it on the list at the end of the process, and it doesn't fit in the major, one of the major goals, then it's just kind of a standalone other.

[03:23:11] Councilmember John McAlister: So smart cities, to me, is not a two-year project. I mean, it's a continuous project. So... I could see where I could put some things and other things, but then that dilutes the importance of it. So, if we had smart signalings, which would reduce traffic congestion, which improves people's lives, would therefore reduce greenhouse gases, and therefore, so it blends into different things going that direction, or if we had smart meters for water, so we know we know stoppage. I mean, those are infrastructure things that we are there in the future, or building, buildings, autonomation, systems, and so forth. I mean, these are like projects, but these are actually incorporating them with the bills, or giving people platforms or ideas to move to that direction. And yes, I could see some of these things could be in little departments, but I'm afraid then they would lose the concept of, we're not building today and just replacing it. We're got to think outside the buy. We got to get our IT department up and running smarter. We gotta get... It's an education to the whole department, say, what do we need to do if we're going to build 10 years from now? And a lot of the other goals are just, well, this is what we need for right now, or we can accomplish them now. And I'm saying, that's the difference, I think.

[03:24:25] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: I definitely can hear that. And, um, I'm also hearing that it doesn't look like the majority of your colleagues are gonna go in that direction. So I was trying to suggest some ways that some of that could be achieved, but I definitely hear what you're saying, is that if you put it out there as a major theme and, you know, it becomes much more systematic in how you think about it as opposed to ways that it plugs into other goals. And I might quibble a little bit with the characterization that these other goals are all things and the projects underneath them are all things that you accomplish in 2 years because if you look at addressing...

[03:25:02] Councilmember John McAlister: Well, I didn't say they're accomplished, but there's policies in places that, yeah, the housing is a continuous deal. This is something that would be different of approach that we haven't approached yet as a city. Other ones, we have the housing, where we're looking at, livability, trees, walking, so forth, bike paths. But looking into the future, we haven't approached as a systematic solution.

[03:25:23] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Right, and, you know, this is something that we talk about as an executive team, and that the city manager brings up, that we, um, we do find it hard to kind of lift our level of thinking from how we do things now and how things are changing, um, and so, yeah, I mean, that, that, that, I definitely understand what you're saying.

[03:25:46] Unknown Speaker: So, I was going to take a little bit different tack. I actually think that with the, the, um, goal on housing that, and tell me if I'm wrong because I definitely was not here as much as some of you over the past 2 years, but, um, or 4 years. There was a lot of talk of building housing with a lot of hope that building housing would, you know, increase the supply and make it more affordable with also maybe 15 to 20% affordable housing, actually, you know, within what was built. But I think some of what we're hearing lately is some parts of that that weren't really talking about much 4 years ago, like displacement, and mobile home space rents are 2 that come to mind. So it seems to me that that's a little different than the way you're talking about it, John, that that goal has kind of evolved and has more bullet points under it, kind of, than it did two to four years ago. It doesn't feel to me like it's getting closer and closer to getting fixed. It feels like it's becoming more complicated.

[03:26:56] Councilmember John McAlister: Well, I never said housing was going to be, it's continuous. It's not, we're going to solve it in such a time. mean, it's gonna be continuous. But we have policies in place and procedures, and we've, how we doing it? We work in our funding and so forth. So, we're working on that. But the smart city or the city of the future, we haven't approached yet. And so that's why I'm looking for some support for others to say, if we are the smart city, we are a leading city. Let's consider it.

[03:27:29] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I hear what you're saying, and I agree about, we have done a lot of work, and put policies and procedures in place to address. I think, you know, all the precise plans we've done, changes to the zoning ordinance, that's a lot that we've done to address housing. Um, there's probably, you know, a few more projects, but I think some of the things you're talking about, I would put more into the vulnerable populations than I would housing. So, I could see where, you know, thinking about the future, um, you know, I agree that this is an important thing to do. And I'm trying to figure out, is it a standalone goal? I don't think I would say it isn't, but how do you fit these all in? We've got so many. So, I do think you do have to start thinking about the future or else you won't start working on it.

[03:28:25] City Manager Dan Rich: So not to jump too far ahead, but we are in the midst of our budget building process right now, and obviously, a lot of different things get in a proposed budget that use resources and move us down multiple paths, and obviously, your priorities are critical to that. But, you know, remember, the iceberg, 85% of what we do is below that. And so we will propose funding and projects and departmental projects, um, in addition to what you propose as your major ones, and, again, not to, um, prejudge things, but one of the things we were talking about is some funding, essentially, to do sort of a strategic plan or some pilots around smart cities, 'cause it is an area that we think we need to focus more on. Now. That's not to say it has the same weight or visibility as being one of your top goals, but the point is there are, you know, there are other steps and smaller steps we can take and funding projects that we think are important.

[03:29:32] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Yeah, I was gonna say back in 2013, 14, um, we had the goal of technology, and, um, the, I think the biggest result of that was Rod having Roger come on board. So, um, you know, and that, I think once, and this has been tricky because that year we picked goals that were, we thought were small enough that we could try to complete in 2 or 3 years. And these big old housing, transportation, sustainability, frankly. I mean, they're always gonna be our priorities, right? So that's the question is, do you want to do that and then try to fit everything under it, these big umbrellas, or do we want to pick, you know, 2 or 3 goals that we think we can actually complete in 2 years? So, I'm fine with going this way, but I understand what you're trying to say, John. It's just, you know, I think that's, yeah, that's how this goal setting has transformed. But now that we have the chief technology officer, you know, my um, recommendation or suggestion would be to just say, you know, let's, my sense is he's going to need a bigger budget to do the smart cities work. So hopefully, you know, we can ask him to, I'm sure he's already working on it, but when the budget comes and at that time, maybe we can look at certain projects to support or, you know, look at increasing funding if there are things you want to see the office work on. So I would cover it.

[03:31:05] Councilmember John McAlister: That's great. I appreciate that. But you did say one thing that you go, well, this is how we've done it in the past. What I'm looking at is, we got to go outside the box to get us to that area. And I appreciate that, yeah, we'll get some projects going, but as long as we're looking, from a V, from transportation, VTA is looking at trying to get all the cities along signalization to get all the same technology so that we can reduce traffic, greenhouse gas, and so forth. So it would be nice if we led the way, or at least start thinking that we need to get to that direction. And what we're doing it for 2 years. Maybe it's a whole different, not in our goal setting, but just a mindset, and we take it there and do it versus the goals, but we got to get there.

[03:31:54] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: So I feel like we kind of came to a place where we are in enough agreement, that we have for goal areas that are the same themes, but with some different elements to them, and housing in particular was with adding of subsidized housing, Transportation, we would be looking at kind of the technology infrastructure, um, to achieve that goal and sustainability would be including concepts of livability. So I think that enables us to move forward to the next part of our agenda, which is to do project brainstorming. What I'd like to do quickly is step you through kind of the things that are already on the plate with regard to the goals, work plan, going into next year. And then, um, we have, um, written projects from some of you, which you are invited to speak to or add to, but you can also be assured that we have them. Um, if you, because this is not a night to really advocate or, you know, again, it's more to make sure that we're clear about what it means, um, and you're confident that we've got it. We've captured it. Um, so, um, you know, you have a choice if you've already submitted yours in writing, how much more you want to to present that here in this public forum. And if you were one of the people who took the voluntary option to, or opt it out of that voluntary option to, to submit, you can submit your, you know, present your goals, share your goals, and we will be documenting all of that between Christina and Melvin and myself and trying to kind of project it back to you. Those who have censures in, we've already kind of cheated and prepopulated. the list under your name with the things that you've already submitted. So that's the process. So let me show you the goals that are continuing forward under each of our 4 goals. This gives you an opportunity to see if there might be some overlap or duplication with the kinds of project ideas that you have and want to bring forward. And also, as I said, it's kind of a reminder of what's on the plate. So invulnerable, the protecting vulnerable populations or the community for all the 2 projects that are not, to be finished by the end of this fiscal year are the immigrants, resources, information, and referral resources that was implemented primarily for the community for all grants, which will be, you know, granted at the beginning of this fiscal year with a full year for those organizations to, um, implement the activities that are being funded. So that's why that's not complete. And I'm not going to go into that level of detail for all of them. I just happen to know that one because that's one that Christina and I are working on. The pilot for human rights impact analysis is also not complete under housing. The Lot 12 RFP, um, a gatekeeper, um, community benefit financial study, the East Wisbon precise plan, which is underway, but won't be complete. And the soft story seismic retrofit. There are 2 slides on the transportation projects that are carrying forward. You'll see them here, the comprehensive modal plan, the transit center master plan, vision 0, 2 different parking projects, one regarding down long-term parking solutions and the other pilot projects. And then a regional bike route, additional transportation items are the inclusion of the VMT and level of, sorry, vehicle miles traveled and level of service and the sequel process. El Camino, real streetscape, the automated guideway transportation system feasibility, some short-term improvements for Castro Moffat and Central, the shoreline interim bus lane, and Castro bike lane study. Finally, in sustainability, these 4 projects are expected to carry forward the South Bay salt ponds, sustainability performance measures for North Bay Shore, the greenhouse gas reduction program, which includes or draws from a traffic model update, and the Latham Community Garden relatively recently approved by council that's currently under construction. So, um, are there any questions on those carry forward projects before I ask you all to go in turn and present your project ideas?

[03:37:09] Unknown Speaker: Yes. Just a reminder, tonight is just to get them out on the table not to debate them or to prioritize them. No evaluating.

[03:37:22] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Yeah, just make sure we've captured them, right? All right, so I'm not hearing questions on the carry forwards, so we're here to capture your the projects you want to put forward.

[03:37:38] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So I would like to. I am not going to go through all the ones I had on my list, but I would like to add a few more. And I apologize, you know, I never intended for my list to be complete when I sent it in. Um, and some of these we've talked about in the past, and they didn't make it to the list, um, for the past 2 years, so I'm hoping this time they do. Wage theft. We certainly heard a lot about that tonight, and the data is pretty compelling. Community workforce agreement. We also heard quite a bit about that tonight. Um, there's one actually, council member McAllister suggested in the past, but I didn't see it on your list. And that was you wanted to survey residents.

[03:38:26] Councilmember John McAlister: Oh. Well, I was gonna hope to do that, yeah. But yes, we need a... After those last election where there were a few surprises that maybe we need to get a readjustment on what the community's thinking and do a general city survey to request, then do that sooner than later. But yeah, thank you. But yes, we need to get an idea of where the community thinks.

[03:38:52] Unknown Speaker: Responsible construction ordinance? And... Actually, it's a little bit different community workforces, more around public. Responsible construction ordinance could extend to private developers.

[03:39:10] Unknown Speaker: But what is that? Exactly what does that do?

[03:39:13] Unknown Speaker: Well, we heard about it tonight where, um, are you talking about the responsible construction?

[03:39:18] Unknown Speaker: Yeah. So if you are going to work in the city of Mountain View, you have to have no wage theft, judgments against you. You have to have certain safety standards, things that make for a safe, um, fair, um, work environment for the construction trade. Actually, that would be an age. I feel like there's so many. Yeah. Ways you can look at this, I think.

[03:39:49] Mayor Lisa Matichak: The other one that I wanted to add to maybe something John had, and you had about Parkland.

[03:39:59] Unknown Speaker: Review of the Parkland ordinance? Because, yeah.

[03:40:01] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Yeah, so if it was broader than just for density, because I think we've heard from several developers that they would like more certainty. So I'd want to look at that as well. We certainly heard tonight that maybe after school programs, for schools that do not have them, but that's probably a broader topic, just after school programs. And then the other one that I thought was interesting tonight was development projects, sort of more transparency in development projects. So we heard ideas about models, additional information online, noticing. I know we've recently talked about noticing, but then there was the noticing for the daycare center. And I thought, oh, gosh, I guess I was thinking that When we said noticing, um, should be broader. There's apparently a lot more categories of noticing. And I thought it was all, but apparently it's not. So maybe we could revisit that. we had the other night? Yeah, but they, but the original noticing was not 750 feet, it sounds like, but I could be wrong about that because I feel like there's so many aspects of noticing. And that's it.

[03:41:27] Unknown Speaker: Mayor, can I ask a quick question about one of the recommendations you had made? So I strongly support your city metrics item, but I just wanted to get some clarity on what, is that sort of just in the context of the, um, in the mid-year budget review, there was that attachment that had those metrics or are you thinking something a little bit more expansive than that?

[03:41:55] Mayor Lisa Matichak: I was thinking in the departments and their individual metrics and separating separating out metrics from workload measures. I do know some department heads when they come in, revamp them. I think it could be a potentially huge project, so we might want to talk about if we go forward with it. If it's, uh, a quick, Look at these, or is it a major project, because it could be very time consuming. But I was just thinking about internally the departments.

[03:42:26] Unknown Speaker: Okay, thank you.

[03:42:29] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Good, John. Are you sure?

[03:42:32] Councilmember John McAlister: Yeah. Okay.

[03:42:33] Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga: Um, I will, uh, I did not submit mine early. Um, so I will go through my list. I'll do it by category, under vulnerable populations. Some of these are in agreement with what's been said. So wage theft, um, human trafficking, and, um, I think, uh, there's many ways to go about it. I just want to include what the county is doing. There was mention. I guess we're in a pilot, we'll be a part of a pilot program for food establishment permitting. They include, like, looking at wage theft and human trafficking past, you know, if there's a history or record of that. And so I want to make sure we do participate in that. But I guess the big category would be wage theft. Um, I've tried this. brought this up before. We have, I think, one establishment, maybe 2 left in the city, but predatory lending is establishments, limiting or putting some restrictions on those. Um, three. So the mayor said, I guess I was looking at it more as a living wage policy for city or contractors. So contracts that the city puts out anyone we contract with should abide by a living wage policy and the county has one that we could model. Community workforce agreements or project league burr agreements. I believe they're close to the same thing. And gun safety ordinances. And this is, I don't want to necessarily reinvent the wheel here. I've been following, trying to follow the different state laws and then the local ordinances, and I know we passed some state laws, but some were caught in the courts, and so I was hoping for an overview of where we stand on all of these gun safety laws and ordinances. And then Sunnyvale has some, I know San Jose the mayor just introduced some, so trying to, I guess, basically fill the holes that there might be. I support the idea of the partnership with the school districts for after school programs, if possible, with Beyond the Bell. I was just looking quickly at the grant program. And, um, it looks like the school district, Mountain View Wisman, is up for their next funding cycle and it's actually was looks like it was due February. So if there could just be a quick check in with the school district to see where that grant is and whether they expand it to expand it to other schools. That would be helpful. Under housing, um, let's see, row house and townhouse guidelines, uh, like to look at a review and, um, from that one project, the one project we saw back in December. It looks like townhouse guidelines may need a, um, update for definitely an update. And the row house guidelines. I remember doing that back in 2006. So we may need to look at updating that as well. And I would include in that the senior housing opportunities piece, because these row houses are usually two, three, story, multi-stories, and it makes it challenging for seniors. Um, Let's see, historic preservation policy. Um, ADUs. So there's some work being done at the state level. I know Senator Waikovsky is working on quite a bit and he had mentioned something about trying to, yeah, help grandfather existing ADUs, being able to count ADUs as part of our housing numbers, even trying to create like a fund to assist folks to bring up their current units. So, whatever is happening at the state is great and then, you know, maybe we can look at supplementing or doing what would work best for our city. Um, I have one, oh, CSFRA reform. So we've heard quite a few, and I know some of the others captured the capital seismic retrofit passed through. I think the city attorney, we've talked. There's some issues about administration, administering it, that we might have some cleanup items on. Definitely have heard from tenants and landlords, and then there is the qualified measure, um, that we need to deal with. And so, um, I would like to explore the city, us doing our own measure or putting our own measure up. And because of the timeline, I would ask that we fast track this because it could be next March is the primary now. They've moved up the 2020 primary from June to March. So we're going to have to like work backwards and get that going. So waiting until July may not be, we may not have enough time if we're going to try to put something on the ballot. So I'd like to do some kind of fast tracking on that item. And I was hoping, I'm working on this one, potential project. It includes other agencies, and I wasn't able to finalize everything, but I was hoping to put a placeholder for a zoning related project on an affordable housing opportunity. And I, as soon as I do get everything wrapped up, I will fill in the blanks, but I was hoping that I could have a placeholder for that. Going into transportation. Actually, the 2 projects I have are both, I think, transportation and sustainability related. I support, you know, John McAllister, Counselor McAllister, I was looking at automated vehicles doing a pilot program on the transit only lanes when we implement those. And then working closely with Silicon Valley Clean Energy, the air district, and other agencies to expand EVs, electric vehicles, mainly charging stations. There's quite a bit of funding for um, grants for building charging stations, um, trying to figure out how to put them in multifamily, um, complexes. So I would like to try to focus on that understanding that transportation is the highest emitter of carbon emissions. And then, um, this is miscellaneous. And I had put it under infrastructure and city operation stability. Um, but I believe, and I saw it on the mayor's list, but we do need to have a better, um, kind of better tracking of state and federal issues that affect our community. And the one main big issue that we're dealing with right now is that Casa, the housing compact, and the various pieces of legislation that have been introduced at the state level around that. And, um, you know, I'm trying to do it at my at the city's association level. But in all frankness, it's a lot and I can't go to Sacramento all the time. So I think we just need to hire a lobbyist to focus on our city at the state and federal level. I think I believe Palo Alto has one. So maybe it's time for us to look at that. And then the other thing, I think we're going to be doing this, but I just want to make sure it's the census, and perhaps that's a budget item, rather than a goal, but 2020 is the census. So I just want to make sure that we do our part in getting a complete count. And then I just wanted to confirm, we are doing the reach codes, um, under sustainability, the police station, redesign, construction, the community shuttle, review, um, and then my question I had is, where are we on? I remember a few years ago, and maybe it's there, and I just can't find it, but putting it on the website, like a web page that has all the projects. And this kind of goes to your transparency, but being able to like click on a dot and then it opens up to the project with a picture of it and the description and, you know, maybe we can even start looking at adding a 3D model there. But I just wanted to know where that project went. So, I think that's it. Thanks.

[03:51:35] Unknown Speaker: Questions where I just wanted to confirm the Reach Codes, PlayStation and Teenage Show. I just wanted to make sure that those were... We've talked about it already, so... I just want to make sure that they're being done. Yeah. I have another project. I don't know what, though. Okay.

[03:51:58] Unknown Speaker: Hey, so I had it under my transportation project, so I didn't, so mine was pretty broad, but since we had wayfinding for parking, I like to be able to take it to the next level and have an app so that throughout the city, someone you could look at an app and see where parking is available throughout all of our parking facilities. So that's, you know, we can get one that's going to give people to sit around. I mean, they'll have to drive around, reduce greenhouse gases, and make what limited parking we have more efficient. And. Also, if there's a way to work on getting real time information about our shuttle and buses and trains that come through the city. So that somebody, if they're getting off a bus, they can get onto the train or plan themselves. Uh, especially on the shuttle. We could start with a shuttle so that they don't have to stand out there to bust out for a while. They could look down, get a nap, and they could show up.

[03:52:55] Unknown Speaker: I think we have that. Yeah. Well, that's okay. We have it. Well, I've used it on the bus. Okay. Well, then, I gotta get out on a bus. You need to get on the shuttle. Get a catch the bus. Does it coordinate with all the other transit, like VTA? No. No. Yeah. Okay. Then we gotta broadcast that idea.

[03:53:21] Mayor Lisa Matichak: So those two, in addition to the ones you submitted in advance. Okay.

[03:53:27] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Um, I guess I'll I'll go. So for, um, I'm trying to try not to duplicate some of the ones that others have listed. So for vulnerable populations, I just, I think that, um, I just think it, I think it would be good for us to have a conversation about, um, I mean, we don't have to debate or figure out where this goes tonight, but I think we do need to figure out, um, I have a discussion around, uh, displacement and net loss and what we are and aren't comfortable with and sort of setting a general rules and framework, um, basically updating our framework there, whether it's looking at the relocation assistance package, whether it's looking at situations in which we will or won't accept certain applications just so, um, I don't think any of us enjoy being in the position of having to look at this on a development by development basis without any sort of formal updated guidance on sort of what we are comfortable with as a body. And so, you know, whether how you define no net loss, whether it's units, whether it's owners, you know, whether it's okay to replace apartments with ownership, I don't know what the answers to all those things will be with the current council, but I think the current council should, you know, at least have a study session and talk about, and even if we don't, you know, it'll take a while to sort of update formal rules and regulations, but even just having that conversation, I send, I think, would be very helpful to to both residents and developers, because they'll have, hopefully, a better sense of where we stand, and then we don't have to go all the way through a process and have everyone, you know, on both sides stressed out, and everything comes down to a single meeting. So I think we should have that discussion, um, at some point, um, have a have a study session on it on, um, on housing. I'll just sort of go through the laundry list. On the ADU front, I think just having a check in with what the state is doing and whether or not that will have an impact on, you know, a lot of the issues that folks have come to us about. would be helpful so that we know whether we need to take further action or whether that's probably going to happen at the state level or not. I think it would be great to update our condo ordinances. They're quite out of date, just in terms of a lot of minor things like their storage requirements and certain, basically everything requires a parking exception. I think they were developed several decades ago. And I think if we were to update them, it would make stackfly condos, for example, a much more attractive product in Mountain View. And we could start by just looking at the frameworks that other cities have. I think, as the vice mayor said, obtained on our road, part of the, part of the displacement pieces, updating our Rome and townhome guidelines, to determine sort of what lot sizes those should and shouldn't fit on, because basically all of those projects require some sort of exception right now and come to us. And I think if you pair that with some of the other discussions that we're having, it will, we can sort of talk about things all at the same time. I think we should move forward, and I think we are with the soft story structure. programs. I believe, I can't remember if this is a vice mayor or someone else who mentioned, or John, I think, mentioned the park fees. And I think the mayor mentioned this to, I think, just creating a framework not that gets us less in fees, but creates more certainty at an earlier point in the process would be helpful for everyone. I would like to, I don't know if this has changed. I hope it has, but I would love to find if there are any organizations out there that are willing to purchase older apartment complexes and help, you know, rehab them. And, you know, even if it's with city funds, we could manage them and sort of preserve that housing. They have in other cities, but I don't think they have in this part of the Bay Area, and it would be helpful to know if there were any organizations out there, because I think it would go a long way toward the 1st goal of vulnerable, protecting vulnerable populations.

[03:58:04] Unknown Speaker: First, did I hear you say that the city should use resources to refab some of these apartments?

[03:58:09] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: I would absolutely be, all four, utilizing affordable housing funds for that purpose. I have no interest in the city being a landlord. So if we can find a person.

[03:58:19] Unknown Speaker: I also heard him say in partnership with other organizations to take the lead on this.

[03:58:24] Councilmember Chris Clark: I'm just saying if we're gonna get down that path someday and actually buy it. Mountain View housing. Okay. And then, um, I think the other thing, one thing that, um, you know, this probably won't make the list, but one thing that San Jose was just looking at, and I think other cities have is zoning to allow sort of co-working spaces where you live workspaces. So they tend to be smaller, smaller units, but you a lot of, but you can create them where you have private bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchenettes, but then you have sort of shared living facilities. So they're much nicer than like dorms, but they're also much more economically viable for folks who are who instead of living with 4 other people in an apartment unit that wasn't designed for it. You have something that's designed for that and more financially, more economically feasible. On the transportation front. I would support looking at a regional TMA. I think there's a lot of synergies that could occur there. between either Palo Alto, in Mountain View or Sunnyvale or some of the others, because I think, I think we can learn a lot from how Alto is TMA just on like the subsidies front, and I think they can learn a lot from us on, you know, we've actually had, I think, a much more successful TMA overall on a district level. And so I think there, I think there's a, there are some people working to make that happen and I would fully support working on that. I think this is probably going to happen anyway, given the bike share situation, but the whole rest of the world moved to East Gooters like 6 months ago. So we're we're a little behind. And we should probably figure out a way to legalize and regulate those before they just appear everywhere. And, uh, um, And then just on the sustainability front. You know, I support, you know, working through the ASAP list. And I agree with the vice mayor that I think there will probably be a lot of ways in which we can partner with SVCE and I'm all for being, if they need guinea pigs, cities to be, they're guinea pigs for EV charger programs or other programs, I'd be happy to take their money and as long as it, as long as it also fits with the livability goal, trying a lot of new things in that front, on the sustainability front. sometimes.

[04:01:06] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Hi. Everyone's still like it's 11. So I think there are a lot of projects that were listed or spoken about, spoken about, that I had written down. So I think rather than reiterate or talk about the ones I agree with since I don't think now's the time, but I think I'll just put out new project ideas that haven't been discussed, just to be cognizant of the time. So, under goal number one, which I thought of as diversity. I'd like to look at the city expanding the Leadership Academy, to include a Mandarin Civic Leadership program. For the bullet, about immigrant resources. I really like to look at opportunities for city, led, know your rights workshops. I think that the feedback today indicates that that could be of use. Um, I'd also look at the city joining destination home. They have a 27 month pilot program, um, trying to do countywide homelessness prevention. They're different partners. Um, and they have pulled money and resources. It's public private partnership. I have a couple $1000000 and I think that could be another way that we can try to make sure that people are housed. On the topic of census, I didn't get the chance to inform my colleagues, but for Santa Clara County, I'm serving on the steering committee, for the complete count for the census. So I'm sure we will be well represented there. For goal number 2 in terms of housing. I'm really interested. The city of Berkeley just asked for a report on missing middle housing. And what they asked was for a zoning reform update in terms of looking at potential lot sizes and rezoning to allow more ADUs, perhaps intensifying the land for, um, duplexes, um, triplexes, et cetera. I'd be interested in maybe being able to do something similar. Also trying to have a city partnership, and this can just be an educational component in terms of the Housing Trust Silicon Valley in Santa Clara County, have a home buyer empowerment loan program that they've been working on. I think it would be really great for residents to know about this and see if they can qualify on a path towards perhaps becoming a homeowner, as I would hope to be one day. And then, um, something else, uh, we heard from our mobile home park community. I think it'd be really interesting to look at our 6 mobile home parks and try to do a database in terms of what are the annual percentage increases for mobile home parks in Mountain View. Um, for transportation. I would really like to revisit the idea of expanding our Stevens Creek Trail into Sunnyvale. Um, I ran it recently and I'd love to be able to run further. So I think that's, I'd also like to look at, well, I'll just leave that one there. For sustainability, a lot has already been said, I think in terms of ASAP, what would be interesting is some of the goals mentioned are in increments of 5 years, it'd be interesting to see if we have maybe yearly targets incorporated in, um, rather than kind of the broad in your increments. And then under the other category, I'm interested in perhaps, I'm not sure how to, what it would be called, but I think one of the things we learned through the business license tax is that we have a lot of small and midsize businesses in Mountain View. It'd be great to maybe do a small midsize business report, figure out how we can enhance communication with our business partners, and then opportunities as we're looking at new developments for these businesses to be able to stay in Mountain View. Um, you know, similar to what we were able to see at the, uh, at the Elon. Um, and then kind of shifting focus a little bit. I'd like to see ways that we can be child and youth friendly. Perhaps looking at a teen survey and how we can make our city and our community, a place where teens want to hang out. I think a lot of times our conversation is related to adults and seniors, but how are youth, what kind of spaces would they like as we're developing or looking at areas like the downtown? Um, I'd also like to look into um, for city facilities, a lactation room policy. Um, I think that that would be really great. I haven't seen any, um, if there are some, um, perhaps I just, I don't know about them. And then, um, included with that in, in city facilities having the ability to have, um, female hygien products available, if people need them, I think would be really great. Um, and then last is, um, an oversized vehicle parking ordinance. The city of Santa Barbara has one where people are able to either qualify for exemptions or look at getting a permit. I think that that would be worth exploring. Thank you.

[04:06:52] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, just a small number of additional ones. Some of these have come up in other contexts, but just to make sure that they're on the list. So, in the context of ADUs, I know the city had looked at an amnesty program briefly, and I'd be interested in reviewing that. And then also, I think this would probably fit best under housing, but looking at form based zoning. And then sort of expanding or working off of a council member Kumay's business retention idea, looking at like a BMR program for commercial space analogous to our BMR housing program and what it would take to get a program like that up and running. Thank you.

[04:07:48] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, so I'm not gonna read through the ones I submitted. Um, I mean, I think a bunch of us agree that we need some discussion of preventing, uh, displacement of sensitive communities. And people had said, John, people had said, would, uh, could somebody possibly buy the units? Actually, Kaiser just initiated a program that I think they might be able to use here too, but they just bought a naturally affordable housing in Oakland. So I actually, as soon as I heard that on the radio, emailed our local rap and asked if they could buy us one here or two. So, and it's being administered by a nonprofit by the East Bay Asian local development corporation, and we have housing nonprofits here, too. Um, so I'm not going to read through the rest of mine. I guess the one, the one, I just hope that some of them, since we kind of combine sustainability and liveability, I hope some of the livability goals that aren't specifically, like, super safety oriented and stuff, some of these are just like about feeling like this is a great city. And, you know, wanting to live in a city and not kind of wanting to drive off to the suburbs. Um, So, uh, like promoting pedestrianism in public places, historic preservation, those kind of things. You know, I hope that they still integrate under that goal. Um, and let me see if I heard any from the public, I don't know, somebody said a 10% tree canopy goal. I don't know if that was already raised. I think, was it? Okay, then don't add that. Um, yeah. Then I think that's it. you.

[04:09:51] Mayor Lisa Matichak: Does everybody feel like they had the opportunity to speak to their... projects?

[04:09:57] Unknown Speaker: But I think these Councilman and the Committee, and Lucas Ramirez talked about it, but small business displacement versus, is that the same as retention and BMR? Because when? Okay, because I just want to use the word displacement, because, you know, okay, that an ordinance that would, if something goes in, they preserves small retail.

[04:10:19] Unknown Speaker: Okay. I'm not going to add anything to the list. Don't worry. But related to that. One thing that we actually, the mayor and I were at, um, a conference where they talked about, their experience sort of, um, you know, retail was really, really. I mean, everyone wants ground for retail. If you look at San Francisco, it's just empty. Even the really, really nice new spaces, but some cities have put in sort of retail subsidy programs to ensure that those spaces thrive. And so that could be a payback on that. And then I think for the city attorney is going to hate me. But one thing that would be really helpful when we come back and we talk about if we have a discussion about displacement and actually some of the other conversations is a lot of people talked about pauses and moratoriums. It would be helpful to know, I think most of those require 6 votes, but I could be wrong. So it would just be helpful to know when we have those discussions, sort of what our authority is with certain vote thresholds.

[04:11:20] Unknown Speaker: Okay, I'll piggyback on your small business topic as well. I know that I've read in some cities, I think, San Francisco, well, some other cities too, that you can put in some places, a cap on chains, and then define chains, like one of the cities I've read about, it's places with 11, you know, then you ask, what's a chain? If you have 2 of them, are you a chain? or so they cap, the city I was reading about, I think, captured it, businesses that had 11 or more were considered a chain. So just so that you don't have your, I mean, I guess I'm piggybacking on the whole small business discussion people were talking about, but so that everything doesn't become, every, every street with retail and restaurants doesn't become dominated by chains. And I think, uh, San Francisco, this is about the subsidized retail. I think San Francisco also has some kind of, they call it something like legacy businesses. These are ones that have been around for a long time and are really loved and those are the ones that are, you know, given priority if there is a subsidy.

[04:12:35] City Manager Dan Rich: So, I had originally thought it might be a helpful part of the process for us to reflect back what we had heard. But I'm not sure that that would be helpful, especially at the interest of time, but you have had three of us here capturing what you've added to what was already submitted. There are obviously some commonalities and things that you said that, you know, where you've agreed with each other and we won't need to list those things more than once and some examples of things that kind of come under categories that would, at some future point, be more fleshed out. But I feel, I'll check with my colleagues that we have a good understanding of what you've put forward. And so our next step will be to communicate that out to the advisory bodies and to the departments, you know, many of whom, if not all, have been here and are paying attention and will be prepared to come back to you on April 23rd. Okay.

[04:13:50] Unknown Speaker: Yes. Just a quick question. So I assume we're not going to proceed with all of these projects. So...

[04:13:57] City Manager Dan Rich: That is a very... A very safe assumption.

[04:14:00] Unknown Speaker: Have we determined the process that we will use to weed out the ones we're not going to move forward with?

[04:14:06] City Manager Dan Rich: That's a good question. Um, I haven't given uh, extensive thought to it, but my initial thinking is that we'll use the same kind of process that we used that the council used 2 years ago, which is that it will come to you, um, in, uh, in a list. This is going to be a much longer list than last time, because it was staff generating it last time. And you will have the opportunity to ask questions and then you will be given a certain number of votes. And there's, you know, I've done facilitation as, you know, um, you probably have been through processes like this and the kind of a rule of thumb as you have and divided by 3 +one. So if, you know, depending if there were 30 projects, you'd get no more than 11 votes, and each of you would use your 11 votes, and that would indicate where there was areas of more commonality and support. So that's likely the process that we would use again. Thank you.

[04:15:19] Mayor Lisa Matichak: All right. Thank you. We don't have anything else. So we don't have announcements or anythings. We done the closed session report, and we're not doing the usual announcements for council members. So, This meeting is adjourned to the next council meeting that will be held on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 at 4.30 p.m. in the Plaza Conference room, 500 Castro Street. Thank you.

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