January 26, 2021 Regular Meeting of Mountain View City Council

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[00:01:01] Mayor Ellen Kamei: And thank you for joining us for our close session. Um, city attorney Chopra. Do you have any remarks you'd like to make before we take public comment on all 3 items for close session?

[00:01:12] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yes, I just want to announce the closed session items for Tuesday, January 26th. The council will be meeting on 3 items. The 1st item 2.one Conference with Legal Council, formally initiated litigation, Governor Code Section 54956.9, name of case James Arzugo versus city of Mountain View at all. United States District Court, Northern District of California, case number 517 CV 03249 BLF. 2nd item, item 2.2 conference with legal console, liability claims, government code section 54956.9 D2 and E3. The claimant, Selena Smith, against the city of Mountain View, and item 2.3 Conference with Legal Council, liability claims. Government code section 54956.9 D2 and E3. The claimant, Joel Alejo against city of Mountain View.

[00:02:19] Mayor Ellen Kamei: And now would be appropriate task if there's any public comment for any of these 3 items. On the meeting agenda, members of the public may provide oral public comments by signing up at mountain view.gov slash cc underscore speakers or dialing 669-900-9128 and entering webinar ID 914-2330-7533. Any email? Today, we're forwarded to the city council. Email received after 5 PM will not be read during the meeting. What about the entered into the record for the meeting? Would any public on the line like to provide public comment on the closed session items? If so, please raise your blue hand in Zoom, a 9 on your phone. The city clerk will display the timer on the screen. A moment, but it went down. Does anyone? And that's. So, this time we will close, um, public comment, and we will sign out of the zoom into our closed session zoom. So we'll, oh, I see again.

[00:04:15] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: If you have public comment, yeah. I unmuted, but the hands been lowered. Can you hear me?

[00:03:40] (archive recording) Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. All right. Well, the hand is down and we've tried to unmute. So I think at this time we're going to close, keep public comment close, and we'll move to the closed session. I'll see everyone in the closed session.

[00:03:58] (archive recording) Mayor Ellen Kamei: 2021. I'm going to read the usual announcement as required. This meeting will be conducted in accordance with the state of California, executive order N dash 29 dash 20, dated March 17, 2020. All members of the city council are participating in this meeting by video conference with no physical location. Members of the public wishing to observe the meeting live may do so at mountain view.legistar.com or youtube at mountain view.com backslash youtube. And on Comcast channel 26. As noted on the meeting agenda, members of the public may provide oral public comments during the public comment period for the item by signing up at mountain view.gov backslash cc underscore speakers or by home by dialing 669-9009128 and entering webinar ID 914-2330-7533. Any emails received by 5 PM today were forwarded to the city council. Emails received after 5 PM will not be read during the meeting but will be entered into the record for the meeting. All votes will be taken by Will Call vote. Tonight, Spanish interpretation services will be provided for item 4.2 urgency ordinance extending residential eviction protections. When this item is called, please follow the prompts on your Zoom screen for interpretation, and select the language that applies. And Before we go to the pledge of allegiance, Did we want to have the Spanish interpretation that people know about Adam 4.2, please?

[00:47:37] Unknown Speaker: Buen estal de saberque, la personión, la tiqué, no more, cuatro, punto dos, la venanza de urgencia, que 16 es con des alojo residentiales, bastard interpretado en Español, y con de llegemos, esa seción, le vra de harzabor, las instructions, como, que pere, recipid, instruction as cucharoto en Español, gracias.

[00:48:01] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So if you'll please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Oh, I pledge allegiance to the 5 in the United States of America. I said, look forward to... One nation. Under God. Invisible. With Liberty. Great. Thank you. Now I'll move on to item 2 roll call. City Clerk, will you please take attendance by roll call?

[00:48:42] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: So, make Kelso member, make Koba,

[00:48:44] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: here,

[00:48:45] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Kelso Mulla Hicks.

[00:48:47] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Here,

[00:48:47] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: tell someone the lever.

[00:48:49] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Sure.

[00:48:50] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Tell someone that a check.

[00:48:52] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Here,

[00:48:52] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: council member, show Walter.

[00:48:56] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Here?

[00:48:58] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: If I stay on here. Here.

[00:49:01] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor come.

[00:49:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Here.

[00:49:03] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Thank you.

[00:49:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you very much. So we'll move on to item three, which is presentations. So we will 1st take item 3.one. The HRC report on immigrant needs slash assessment. So, uh, I think we'll turn it over to our assistant city manager, Audrey Seymour Rambert first.

[00:49:28] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Thank you, good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Uh, if I might ask the city clerk or um, IT director to move into the panelists, Julie Solomon, and Fernando Romero, those are the uh, 2 of the 3 HRC subcommittee members who worked on the project to do a immigrant services needs and asset assessment that was approved by counsel in the HRC work plan. Um, the HRC has considered their findings and recommendations at 2 or more of its scheduled meetings and now they are here tonight to share, um, their, um, findings, um, briefly and recommendations. Staff has met to discuss the recommendations. Um, that this is not an action item for council this evening. The council direction is sought. Um, it is for counsel's information. Thank you. With that, I'd like to turn it over to Julian Fernando.

[00:50:34] HRC Commissioner Julie Solomon: Thank you very much. Can everyone hear me? Okay, great. Thank you. Good evening to everyone. My name is Julie Solomon. Uh, we are currently in a national context in which COVID-19 has highlighted long-standing social inequities, Xenophobia continues to coexist with the idea of the United States as a nation built by immigrants, and the direction of U.S. immigration policy remains unclear. In this context, it is essential that local jurisdictions understand needs and provide appropriate resources and services for their local immigrant populations. The HRCs, immigrant services, needs, and assets assessment, aims to inform the city's efforts to support mountain view's immigrant communities. The assessment report was authored by myself, HRC vice chair Fernando Romeo, and former HRC commissioner Linda Batten. We thank many other parties for their input and support, including everyone who provided data to inform our analyses and recommendations, assistant to the city manager Christina Gaymore, the city's multilingual community outreach program staff, the Spanish Civic Academy ambassadors, and our fellow HRC commissioners. We also thank Kristen Bard for data analysis support. This evening, Commissioner Romero and I will provide some report highlights, including recommendations for city council consideration. Uh, next uh, are the slides being shown, may I ask?

[00:52:13] Unknown Speaker: Yes, show them right now. Julie, are you able to?

[00:52:18] HRC Commissioner Julie Solomon: Oh. Never mind. Okay, great. Thank you. And my understanding is that you will be advancing the slides, correct, on your end? Correct.

[00:52:29] HRC Commissioner Julie Solomon: Okay, thank you very much. So, giving limited time, um, we are on the next slide, please, thank you. I'd like to call out that our data sources for this assessment, included U.S. Census Statistics for Mountain View. Key informant interviews with community organizations and city staff, focus groups with immigrants in Mountain View in Spanish, Mandarin, Chinese, excuse me, Mandarin, Chinese, and Russian. And we also conducted a survey of immigrants living and are working in Mountain View, and that survey was conducted in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. There was extensive outreach, resulting in a convenient sample, in which 268 respondents met the inclusion criteria. Most data were collected in late 2018 and in 2019. However, in 2020, we conducted some additional interviews, reviewed documents, and considered input obtained from other HRC projects, particularly pertaining to the pandemic's effects on immigrants. Next slide, please. So we organized our findings by stakeholder group. I will highlight a few findings from the survey, focus groups, and interviews. Among immigrants, 1st of all. Mountain View and city government were usually reported to be welcoming, so per the survey by 90.8% and 80.8% of respondents, respectively. However, some reported that Mountain View and city government was less welcoming to low income immigrants, particularly given housing costs. Spanish and Chinese language respondents to the survey, most commonly reported meeting translation and interpreting services, while English and Russian speaking respondents, most commonly reported meeting legal services. Community organizations expressed in a wide variety of services were available to immigrants through the city and community organizations. They reported positive views of city services overall, but wanted to see more people and more groups reached, and also better communication by the city. Uh, they also reported that some important service needs remain, especially in relation to low income housing. Some express that the city should be a more vocal advocate and example of a safe space for immigrants. City staff reported that the city is providing many services and resources that address needs and preferences of immigrant communities. However, they would like to have additional staff and or volunteers that speak clients languages and to offer more resources in diverse languages. They also reported a need to expand outreach services to diverse communities, increase that would be accessible and appealing. Uh, Fernando Romato can now speak about additional findings and also share our recommendations.

[00:55:26] HRC Commissioner Fernando Romero: Thank you very much. Thank you, Julie. Hi everyone. And the point about the pandemic, it is important to note that, um, that Santa Clara county immigrants are among those most impacted by COVID nightly. Um, many immigrants, uh, immigrants are among those considered essential workers in front line work, which puts workers and their families, health and lives at risk. Many immigrants work in sectors with shutdowns or layoffs, which put them at an economic disadvantage to spread their families and provide the basic necessities such as groceries and rent. Um, immigrants have um, lower rates of health insurance. Uh, the cares act includes many non-citizen immigrants from receiving relief funds. Um, However, um, the state of Californian and private founders have offered some relief funds, um, To undocumented immigrants, um, Among immigrants, the digital debate has been exacerbated, particularly for law income immigrants. Yep. In light of the finance, many more of which were deterring the report than what we are able to cover, in this presentation tonight, the HRC offers the following recommendations. So we had broken down our recommendations in 3 sections in order of priority. So I will start with the 1st section, uh, recommendations reflecting urgent needs that the city should look consider prioritizing. Recommendation one, um, develop and roll out a communications plan, focus on immigrant communities that leverages a variety of media, pathways, and spans the group of organizations and volunteer immigrant community license who can assist the dissemination of information. Um, recommendation to conduct an information campaign around the city's multilingual community arrange program, programs inter- interpreting and translation services, and investigate the potential need for services in other languages, especially based on the 2020 census findings. Uh, recommendation 3, uh, collaborate with the nonprofit, education and business sectors to continue to reduce the digital divide among immigrants, and non-immigrants, communities in mountain view. Now, uh, to offer the recommendations for actions already identify in whole or in part as a city council priorities. Um, recommendation number for continue to offer the Spanish civic academy, provide up-to-date information in the academy and the associate ambassador's program on the city website. and plan and implement similar linguistically and culturally, tailor academies in other languages. For example, Mandarin, uh, recommendation, number 5 in developing programs and policies, others in housing and housing costs and displacement, community, police relations, and other equity, link issues. Consider impacts on diverse immigrant communities. And for the future, Um, just thinking past pandemic. Um, we have recommendation number six, which is um, develop an orientation in several languages for non-English speakers who are new to the city. I do see the 1st services offered by the city, county, local public schools, and private, nonprofit entities. considered partnering with other organizations on this effort. So I think we can take questions now. Thank you.

[00:59:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much to Commissioner Solomon and Commissioner Romero. Thank you very much. So do council members have questions at this time? Please feel free to raise your hand or physically or have via Zoom. All right, vice mayor Ramirez, I saw your hand first.

[01:00:04] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, ma'am. I said a couple of quick questions. So first, I know we're not taking action tonight. Um, there are some uh, really uh, valuable recommendations and from staff's perspective. Um, are those some, uh, will that be sort of implemented just in the course of the HRC's work plan? Is that something you're going to come back to counsel with? Um, what, what sort of the next step?

[01:00:30] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Thank you for your question, Vice Mayor Ramirez. We will prepare, staff will prepare, um, a written, um, memo to council regarding the status of current city efforts and many of these areas. These are, fortunately, things that, that staff and our communications and outreach division and our city manager's office more, more broadly, um, have been thinking about and working on, and we can update the council on those current efforts as well as some things um, that we think we could incorporate without requiring significant trade-offs of priorities within existing staff resources. Um, beyond that, some things would require, um, more, um, resources and therefore might more appropriately be considered by the council, um, as part of its, uh, uh, prioritization process, um, for the council work plan and, uh, which is part of the strategic plan this year. So I think you'll have more information from staff soon around what we see as the things that are underway, um, possible to be undertaken, um, with an existing resources and things that the council may wish to consider.

[01:01:45] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great. Thank you. very helpful. And then, uh, does the city offer a pay enhancement to staff who are able to speak a 2nd language? I know some cities do that.

[01:01:57] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Yes we do.

[01:01:59] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Fantastic. Um, that's all like that. Thank you very much to uh the HRC for your work and listen to uh staff for uh for helping compile this very uh useful information. Thank you

[01:02:11] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Council member Showalter.

[01:02:14] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Ah, yes, I'd like to um, 2nd uh, the thanks. I attended one of your meetings when you were giving a presentation on this and I was really blown away by the breadth and depth of the work that you had done. So, kudos to that. And in that end, is there a report, the whole report that we can view versus just this small one? Is that available?

[01:02:36] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Yes, it is. It's currently on the city's website with the HRC agendas for the last 2 HRC meetings, but I will include a link to it in the update that I just mentioned to the vice mayor so that you can easily go right to it.

[01:02:50] Councilmember Pat Showalter: That's great. And then the other thing I wanted to ask you about was the orientation idea. I think that would actually be good for, um, many people, uh, whether you spoke English or royal immigrant or not. Um, and uh, um, I wondered if there are examples of this in other communities that we can benchmark or if this was just, you know, a good idea that you came up with.

[01:03:20] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Uh, thank you for that question, and I will certainly say I remember moving to California from the east coast in 1992 and scratching my head over a lot of things like, what is this concept of county government, which is not something that we had where I was moving from. So even not as an immigrant coming from another country. I certainly experience some uh, culture shock. Um, thank you for your question about whether there are examples of other kinds of welcome programs. Um, there are, um, and I apologize. I'm hard pressed to remember the specifics. Perhaps Commissioner Romato does remember specifics, but I know that there are some other examples, then we could certainly take a look at what some of those might be and think about, you know, how they might be adapted for the city of Mountain View. Um, Commissioner Romero, do you by chance remember where, I know there was at least one example that we discussed. And I, I'm not recalling where it was and I apologize.

[01:04:24] HRC Commissioner Fernando Romero: Right? No, I'm sorry, I don't remember that's that is specific as simple. But I know, you know, I'm a graduate also from the Spanish Civic Academy and, you know, during the, um, Civic Academy, uh, class. We learn about the month view, different departments. So, I think that was very useful, especially, you know, for people like me who had never been, um, you know, involved in the city politics. So, it was very useful for me to learn, you know, how each department, uh, work, you know, how the, um, um, city of Mountain View works independently from uh, the school district. So those things, uh, you know, sometimes you would think, you know, those 2 things, I'm sorry, those 2 body of governments work together, but, you know, I think they done in month a meal.

[01:05:17] Julie Solomon: Yeah, that's and uh, thank you for bringing that up. That, you know, that is the materials from that program could be leveraged. And, um, I haven't attended the the, uh, English language leadership Mountain View, but perhaps there are also materials there that could be leveraged as well.

[01:05:37] Fernando Romero: I'm sure there are.

[01:05:38] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah. Okay, thank you so much. Really appreciate your work.

[01:05:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much, everyone. So, um, in true virtual fashion. We have a little bit of a virtual snafu. Um, we, uh, have reached a capacity in terms of how many people have joined our zoom, and I believe, I'll turn it over to our chief technology officer, Mr. Roger Jensen. Is there more that you'd like to add here?

[01:06:06] Roger Jensen: Yeah, the, um, the meeting was set up with a limit of 100, um, and so we want to restart this with a, with a limit of 1000 because we've reached the limit, and I don't know how many people are waiting to, to start. So the media idea will not change. So I'll end the meeting and I'll restart it in about 30 seconds, so attendees and panels will have to rejoin, use the sandblank that you use earlier, but we will have to stop and restart the meeting to address the issue.

[01:06:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Roger, before you do that, do you mind if we just have Spanish interpretation, convey that as well please?

[01:06:39] Roger Jensen: Yep.

[01:06:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So we'll go ahead and restart it. Okay, perfect. Thank you.

[01:08:15] Roger Jensen: You can rejoin before we start again.

[01:08:18] Unknown Speaker: Yes, thank you for letting me catch up with that.

[01:08:20] Roger Jensen: Yes, of course.

[01:08:25] Unknown Speaker: And I'm finding that again, I cannot raise my hand.

[01:08:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. The meeting is live already, but um, perhaps, um, Mr. Jensen can can help.

[01:08:37] Unknown Speaker: I also can't raise my hand.

[01:08:40] Unknown Speaker: Same here.

[01:08:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Uh, Mr. Jensen, you're muted.

[01:08:50] Roger Jensen: Uh, Palace, you're going to get a note that you're the, the host and just make me the host back. We have the same problem. Sylvia, you joined before me, and you are the host, and you have 100 seat max. So we have to restart the minigans. So if you do not join until You see the meeting started again. So give me a few minutes to do it and then I'll start as the host. I will end.

[01:09:36] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Okay. Thank you.

[01:15:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Okay. I see 2 hands raised. Again. So, all right, I see everyone raising their hands. So, um, I'll just say welcome back to everyone. Thank you so much for bearing with us, as we are navigating our virtual city council meeting still in 2021. Everything is well, it's old as new again. So we're going to pick back up on item 3.one, which is the HRC report on immigrant needs and assessment. And so we had been um, council members were asking questions. Um, and I will resume with council member Agit Abi Koca.

[01:16:49] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Ewan, thank you to the HRC for, um, your report, appreciate it, the work that was put into it. Um, just a quick question. I was wondering, invite me for staff, but, um, the census, um, when do we, and I'm sorry if I'm not up to date, but when do we expect the, um, you know, the results of the census to be, uh, available and will we be matching this, um, the work that was done against the new numbers?

[01:17:23] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Thank you for that question. Council member, Abby Koga. Um, My understanding was that it was um, April, that I'd like to see if Julie or Fernando have any, um, confirmation of that.

[01:17:42] Julie Solomon: Um, I always have, I'm not sure exactly when the data will be available, um, especially because the original timeline for the census was delayed, um, with the pandemic and there were a lot of challenges with counting folks. Actually, in particular, accounting town members of immigrant communities, um, which can be challenging for a number of reasons, but especially during the pandemic. Um, so I myself, um, I'm not sure when uh, the data will become available. I'm hoping that when it is, there may be some discussion of potential undercounts and adjustments for undercounts to help local jurisdictions use the data more effectively. Um, so. Yeah, I don't. I don't have any information other than the where you guys provide it. Sorry.

[01:18:38] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Mayor, mayor, you're on the census committee. Do you have any? Uh, sense of when we might get the info.

[01:18:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: We haven't, um, received an update on the on the new date. But I was gonna mention that I'll always shout and I'll ask and I'll find out.

[01:18:58] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay. Great.

[01:19:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, council number Hicks.

[01:19:07] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, 1st thank you, uh, Julie Ando and everybody else who worked on this. I have a quick, well, 2 quick interrelated questions on process and sort of the, the, uh, waiting of these various, the 6 different recommendations. First, I'm wondering, if after you surveyed people, and maybe you mentioned this, and I'm sorry, you know, maybe if I read the full report, I would get it. But after you surveyed people, did you kind of circle back and ask them at any point which of these 6 recommendations were the most important to them? Was there any sort of waiting of the recommendations?

[01:19:50] Julie Solomon: Um, thank you for that question. Um, We um, we did not have an opportunity to circle back and do another survey or another series of focus groups. Um, it was a very, uh, heavy lift, shall we say, to do, um, the 1st round of data collection. I was very appreciative of all of the support we had for that from the city. We did have a series of meetings in which we talked HRC meetings, actually 3, at which we discussed findings to which we discussed recommendations. The findings and the draft recommendations were sent around to folks who had provided input through introducing focus groups and who had provided contact information so that we could follow up. The MCOP also circulated summary findings and recommendations, in 4 languages, to folks as well. And so we welcomed community input. We had a, I would say a very small amount of community input in response to the recommendations. So ultimately, it fell to us as an HRC to have discussions and we, uh, we did, um, Talk about ways to group the recommendations and ultimately decided on the categories that you see in the in the slide that Fernando sent, but we felt that was the best way to group the recommendations as a full HRC. Um, and Fernando, do you want to add to that?

[01:21:27] Fernando Romero: Uh, I think you uh, say pretty much everything, Julie. I don't have anything to it.

[01:21:33] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay. Yeah, you know, my, um, from the groups that I talk to, which are mostly the Mountain View Tendance Coalition and Capacito, which may be a particular pet of people, um, you're kind of your uh, point number 6. I'm sorry, number 3 and number five, the digital divide, the housing, affordable housing and displacement are the ones that by far get the most mental. So I'm interested in some waiting of the issues, um, and focusing on the ones, and that some of that may be pandemic related with remote schooling, but I'm very interested in some follow-up with waiting on the issues and making sure we're working on the ones that are most heavily weighted or most important to people. And thank you again for all your work. Thank you.

[01:22:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you, Councilman Nomatachek.

[01:22:28] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. So actually, I have a very similar thought as council member Hicks. Um, when um, our assistant city manager summarized what would be in a, um, a memo or a report to council, um, the items that we may wish to consider, uh, caught my attention, and I thought, well, gosh, I would like them prioritized because we often have to make difficult choices given limited resources. And so I actually would like the HRC in conjunction with staff to absolutely prioritize the recommendations that council should consider. And as part of them on our strategic planning process, we can consider those. So I'm hoping that's possible. Thanks.

[01:23:22] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, Counselor Mata, Counselor Wieber.

[01:23:25] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you. Well, thanks to the HRC for bringing this product forward. I don't think that there could be a more important time for this. Uh, the immigrant community is going through so many cross-cutting pressures right now. That this is a very valuable snapshot in time and roadmap for us. Um, I'm very interested in the future, and Mr. Romero references somewhat, uh, the leadership opportunities, and the opportunities for, for empow- empowering knowledge and opportunity within the city. Um, I think that that's very critical. And I'm very interested in what we could be doing in terms of the need for mental health services, uh, across the board. Um. So often it's it's difficult, I think, for uh, the immigrant community to access those services that are so vitally needed. And if there's a way that we can help. Uh, even if we're not doing it as a city to ensure that it's out there in the community. And accessible to individuals. I think that would be very valuable. So thank you for your work. Thank you

[01:24:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So, um, I'm going to uh, I don't, well, I do have a quick question. One, I want to thank our HRC commission and our commissioner, Solomon and Romano for coming tonight and presenting. It's so nice to have you on video and seeing your faces and joining us. It's been really nice. I think one of the things that I had a question on, and this might be for a city manager McCarthy is, I think that, you know, we recently, um, have on board a chief communications officer. Is there more that you can share about what the city's doing, um, in terms of communications and, um, our multilingual program?

[01:25:33] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, mayor. I am happy to answer that question. So yes, as you noted, we did hire a new chief communications officer, the 1st position of that level in the city. She started in October, Linka Wright is her name. We have also hired a new digital engagement and marketing strategist position to help with our efforts. And as many of you know, we do have our multicultural outreach program led by Nancy Ducos, and her team of which some are here tonight, doing interpretation, and Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. And we also have a communications coordinator. So we do have a full communications team now, although we are kind of ramping up as several of this team members are new. And so a big part of our effort is going to be working on outreach to our immigrant communities and continuing to do the great work that we've already done, but building upon that. So, I think that we will see a lot more outreach underway over these next several months on many of our projects.

[01:26:38] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Thank you so much. I think my only comment would be, you know, we have, there's a way to think up what our communications team would and the recommendations from the HRC, that would be, I think, really great to find a way to integrate. Okay, so, um, would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item, which is 3.one? If so, please rate, click on the raise hand button in Zoom, or press star 9 on your phone, and the city clerk will display the timer on the screen. I see 2 hands, so why don't we just set it for 3 minutes, Miss Wonderland?

[01:27:24] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Okay. Hold on, just one moment. I need to head on over. Okay. Michael, are you there? Michael? So it's saying. Talking permitted and I'm hitting ask to unmute. So if you can click the unmute button, I can hear you.

[01:28:20] Michael: I'm sorry, I guess it was me. I was not wanting to talk to this. I was waiting for the monoloma fencing thing.

[01:28:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. No problem. So that'll be item 3.4.

[01:28:31] Michael: No, I didn't know my hand was raised. I apologize.

[01:28:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: No problem. Okay, I just want to make sure. All right. Okay, we have a phone number. It's a 408 number. Please feel free to unmute.

[01:29:14] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: The car should hit star 6 to unmute their phone.

[01:29:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Oh Star, is it Star 9 or Star 6?

[01:29:23] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Star six.

[01:29:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So if the 408 number dialing in who has their hand raise could hit star six.

[01:29:39] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: All right, it's, they please try star 9, please, thank you.

[01:29:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right. Can I dial in color hit star 9 please? All right, I'm gonna move on to the next person and maybe we'll come back to that individual if that works. All right. Brent.

[01:30:14] Brent: Yeah, sorry, I had signed up to speak under the fencing issue as well.

[01:30:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. All right. So the fencing issue is going to be 3.4 So you can everyone who's on the line for 3.4 can just raise their hand at that point. So I'm going to try one more time before a late number. Please hit star nine. Okay. I'm not seeing that that working, Miss Wonderland. Is there anything you can do on your end?

[01:30:54] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: No, they have to hit sternine.

[01:30:57] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Correct. Okay. All right, well, perhaps we can try to circle back. I don't know. All right. Maybe we can take the timer off the screen. Thank you. Alright. All right. So let's move on to item 3.2, which is the check update on current programs and services by executive director, Marcia Desalii, and Diana Ritter, the director of quality assurance.

[01:31:41] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Okay, I'll move you over, Marcia. Just one moment. Okay, Marcia, you are moved over. Would you like to meet yourself, would you also like me to bring Diana over to the panel?

[01:31:58] Marsha Deslauriers: That would be great. Thank you so much, Mayor Kane.

[01:32:07] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: So I don't see her name under the attendees.

[01:32:13] Unknown Speaker: She's already.

[01:32:14] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Oh, shoot, you're on this. Okay, someone else moved her over. Perfect.

[01:32:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. All right. We'll turn it over to you.

[01:32:22] Marsha Deslauriers: Thank you so much. Um, and I was asked to, uh, speak briefly tonight, which I am delighted to share with you some of the check updates during COVID. Let me share my screen with you. Give me a moment to do so. And um. We'll get started. Great. um So thank you so much, Mayor, can they and council members for the opportunity to update you on chat's response to COVID and some of the other community needs? Um, as I said, it's been asked to keep it brief, so I'm going to share some information um, from this very busy year. Um, as a mental health agency, we continue to strive to support safer and more harmonious communities through healthier relationships. Relationships with ourself, with our families, in the workplace, the communities, in the school. And we do so through these services that you can find on your, on our website that are listed here as well. Um, and all of these are supported by our 52 employees, our 87 clinicians in training and our 15 licensed staff. And I want to pause here for something that uh, you just heard from the uh, commission is very important and building a safe and harmonious community requires serving a diverse population. And in 2020, chat formalized our diversity, equity, and inclusion work with a statement of our commitment because we saw firsthand a disproportionate impact on our BIPOC communities and our employees and our clients. The DE and I work has focused, has been a focus of ours for the last 5 years, at a minimum, to ensure that our clients and our employees feel a very deep sense of respect and inclusion through every interaction that they have with check. To do so, we have expanded training each year, and in the spring of 2020, we formalize the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, and raise it to the board level. I would also add that this training allows 90 new clinicians every year to be graduated into our communities, so it is expansive. But before moving to a COVID update, let me say that prior to COVID, Chat was meeting another critical need in the community, after the unfortunate death by suicide, for the high school student in Mountain View in October. Our response was quick and in depth. We immediately diverted 12 experienced and or licensed staff to our campus. Within 90 minutes of the early morning call we received, and we remained on the school campus for weeks. Um, you know, the experts at Stanford and the CDC advised us that death by suicide can put a community at risk for a suicide contagion for a full year thereafter. So this defined a lot of our work pre-COVID. We identified slightly more than 400 students, potentially at risk, and implemented a careful intervention to ensure their safety and coordinated efforts with the MVLA staff. And now, together, we have thankfully passed that one year mark last October. That led us quickly into the pandemic in March, and our response, within 5 days of the shelter in place order, we converted more than 100 clinicians to telehealth, and began outreach to our 1100 clients to ensure that the continuity of care, which is so very important, when everything else was around them, was changing, that they had this consistency. We provided 20 hours of telehealth uh training with national experts in order to increase the efficacy of our work because it is a very challenging venue for kids to be engaged on. And we also invested in the technology for our electronic health record system, which we fortunately implemented in 2018. We added a new patient portal. A new phone system. So clients could reach their therapist more easily. Um, and even a process, um, many changes to processes, but one in particular was for receiving cash payments to ensure that no group felt that they were excluded. Our initial adoption rate for telehealth sessions was only 50%. You know, at that time, people were in shock and making this adjustment, adjustment, and telehealth proved to have a middle class bias, as it required not only the technology, but also the skills to use the email and zoom. So, and we required emergency contact in the home to replace the school personnel or our clinic personnel that had always been available to us for a crisis with a student. So monolingual parents and caregivers required greater translation services. Our responses quickly included more than 190 translations to facilitate count, um, the appointment times, but far beyond. It was everything from preserving the dignity of, of, uh, our of the families and helping those that had both a Chromebook, but needed to know how to use email or other tech questions. And were very um embarrassed to ask. With the volumes increasing. you know, quickly became apparent that we needed to contract with a translation service agency. As well as um continuing the outreach and a lot of creativity from our clinicians to engage clients. With the adoption rate, it was clear, we had to pivot to parent support. Now, we know that parent behavior, um, it has a bidirectional effect. So our efforts shifted to parents. The kids, many who could not sustain a full therapy session of 40 or 50 minutes. We use, we use the balance of the time for parent coaching and support increasing the hours of contact with parents 91% over last year. A big upside to telehealth was the advantage of a virtual home visit and the chance to observe live parent child dynamic in the home, in real time, and provide parent coaching. And additionally, our social emotional learning program, which had to be suspended at that time, went forth and produced more than 40 videos of fun activities for the kids to do independently without the need for parental support. And when the kids were abruptly left school. Uh, we reached out to all of the 150 kids in our groups in Mountain View, to help them, and bring a sense of closure and reassurance for them at this very, um, strange time for them. But we started anticipating a surge in cases for the fall, and we created a bridge pop program, which was an expansive counseling service over the summer for existing clients, that we identified as potentially at risk. uh remembering that we were still working very much within the framework of that contagion. Uh containment. So this was a free service to all that were in the program. And our own staff were also being parents while working as clinicians. So, um, they required a substantial amount of staffing restructure to do. So we were very pleased, of course, that we could continue to provide access for the parents, um, for their care and support through the summer program as well. But we had also heard from community members that they were hurting. Um, maybe didn't want, um, uh, individual care. They were just hurting. And so we initiated community outreach to provide support through webinars. We delivered the coping and thriving during a pandemic in May. Um, and then with the news that schools were returning virtually, uh, we had a community town hall supporting families mental health during COVID. And in October, uh, as schools had resumed. We helped teachers and parents with a how to keep calm and carry on webinar. Uh, with the full and the pandemic continuing, uh, we really had a challenge of hiring virtually 55 new clinicians and virtually facing all 87 of our clinicians in schools and the clinic. Uh, we adjusted hours to ensure kids were not taken out of classrooms for their sessions. And with the economic situation worsening, the requests at the clinic for free and reduced services increase threefold. And has required us to introduce a temporary reduction to our, the lower end of our sliding fee scale from $20 to $5 a session. Some of the things that we're seeing, um, uh, for counseling request, um, the top 4 that we are seeing is, uh, anxiety, um, issues with academic performance, depressed or unhappy, and social behaviors, both acting out and acting in, as we call it. Our family resource center has programs to help young families, um, to give them a healthy start in life on the 0 to 5 age group, and they are extensive, and again, these are some of them, and you can see them on our website for more information about them. But the FRC had to pivot to virtual recreations of all of those classes and parent education and coaching and consultation. We saw families not normally able to participate, maybe due to time and traffic constraints that now could participate, which was a benefit, um, and we also had that great opportunity of staff being able to observe families in our home. But the um, families are also facing difficult, difficult situations. Um, so we really supported by forming some social media campaigns to address the DE and Ike, uh, situations that they were facing, uh, as immigrants, um, and members of, um, BIPOC communities as well. Um, and uh, uh, I am very proud of our team, uh, the family resource center teams. Um, did both, uh, at essential s- supply distribution, uh, at the Castro school, multiple distributions of essential supplies, both for the kids, um, and uh, diapers as well. And the photo on the left is, is our very young clients continuing to engage in Zoom classes. These are 3 and 4 year olds, and um, uh, kudos to the leaders who could actually continue to keep their engagement, um, and we are servicing more than 350 individuals in these programs every month. And finally, our Latinx program, um, for, of our Spanish speaking clinicians, um, served 196 unduplicated families in 2020 and continues to provide extensive support for these families. Again, with translations, um, around tremendous issues around privacy challenges, uh, people being able to access services, uh, from garages from cars from, uh, um, RVs, et cetera. Um, the ability to access the technology, and most importantly, how to use it and the ability to use it. So in closing, um, let me say that, uh, we think the long term impact of the pandemic on our mental health is just yet unknown. Uh, there, there will be a significant tale on the mental health effects, and the secondary effects will um, certainly outlast the pandemic. Mental health demand is expected to spike after the pandemic with upticks in in many issues, OCD or germophobia, et cetera. Um, but cultivating support, uh, and supportive interventions are really important for the healing and cultivating a sense of caring, of self-efficacy, a sense of hope, sense of safety, and all of that, um, makes connected this imperative. Um, so fostering connectedness will be a key for all of us to heal because connection reduces anxiety and increases hopefulness. And that's uh, in part, the essence of some of our work. So building connection and relationships is uh, we're there to help. And uh, I thank you very much for the time. I need to stop sharing now. Okay, thank you,

[01:45:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: thank you very much. Marcia, it's always good to see you. I'm proud to be on the checkboard as part of the GPA. So just to clarify, I think what we'll do is we'll turn to council questions and council members can ask any questions they have. Then we will turn it over to public comment, where if the public has any comments on this item, which has to do with check, they can, um, raise their hand via Zoom or raise their hand. It's a star 9, and then we'll bring it back, and if anyone has any, further comments, we can, we can take those. So um, do any council members have questions? All right. Okay, seeing none. Does anyone have any public item public comment on this item? Okay. And just to clarify, this item is the check item. All right, just making sure, and I will click on the names now. Joan McDonald. John, please unmute yourself. It came back.

[01:46:17] Joan McDonald: Okay. I, I wanted to say that I hope that the HRC, um, recommendations, Note that check is available with translation so that the immigrant population, uh, does need to know that check exists and mental health services are available to those people in the immigrant community. Thank you.

[01:46:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Tim Mackenzie. Please feel free to unmute.

[01:46:56] Tim McKenzie: Hi. My name is Tim McKenzie. You see him pronounced. I've been part of MVPDX cohort too, and just last week, we talked about school resource officers, and one of the major things that they mentioned that they end up, uh, that they end up trying to deal with is, uh, mental health issues that that kids have. This is a really serious problem in this area. I was shocked when I moved here and learned that there were 2 suicide clusters right in this area in the past 2 decades. It sounds like Jack was able to do a lot of work to help avoid that. And it's great work and it seems like it needs to be funded more. I would recommend that we move money from the police department towards check because these are people who are well trained and qualified to do this work and the school resource officer program currently does a lot of this work, but it's with people who aren't qualified to do so because we ask far too much of our police. Um, and I would just like, I would just like to advocate reallocating resources in that manner. Thank you.

[01:48:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right. Uh, Robin Lynn?

[01:48:11] Robin Lynn: Hi there. Uh, thanks, thanks for the chance to speak, and thank you so much for the work that you, um, Marsha, you and Jack do, like, I am blown away with the amount of, uh, effort and thoughtfulness that you're putting into this, and I, I don't know. I really really appreciate it. I don't think it's work that most, um, just anybody can do. And so, um, I I just wanted to express my thankfulness and gratefulness for for it. And I think one of the, I was reading in the New York Times over the weekend about, in Las Vegas, uh, state of suicides and high schoolers and how it's, although exacerbated by COVID, kind of indicating that we do have, um, something missing in our community, and I guess it is community. And I hope that we all take a few moments to think about how we can help build community, um, just even amongst the folks that we know and our immediate neighbors and things like that. Thank you so much for your service.

[01:49:16] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Robin.

[01:49:18] Robin Lynn: Thank you.

[01:49:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right. Those are all the hands I see. So I'll bring it back to council. Do council members have any comments on this item? All right. See none. Marcia, we will think, oh, council number Hicks.

[01:49:43] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I just wanted to underline what Jim had said that it would be nice if the um, HRC and chat could get together and kind of look at some of the things on those, on the list, maybe things that they want to interface with chat over some of the uh, 6 priorities on on their list. So maybe a little interfacing between the 2 groups, send it to us tonight. Thank you.

[01:50:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Any other council members? All right, seeing none. Marcia Diana, thank you so much for joining us virtually tonight. We really appreciate it. All right, then you'll move on to. Thank you.

[01:50:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: We'll move on to item 3.3, a COVID-19 update by city manager Kimber McCarthy. And I think before we get started, I'm going to hand it over to city attorney, Christian Chopra, please.

[01:50:35] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Thank you, Mayor. It's come to our attention that the Q and A feature on this Zoom meeting was inadvertently added. That's normally not a part of Zoom Sydney council meetings. So we would just ask the public to not use that feature and and just notice that those comments and questions won't be addressed during the meeting, but you'll have the opportunity to participate via the standard public comment. Uh, policies during the, the bound to the meeting. Thank you.

[01:51:13] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, mayor and I'm going to share my screen now. All right. So good evening, mayor and council members. It's my pleasure to be before you this evening to present the latest COVID-19 update as I do at every council meeting, and my last update was December the 8th. So I think we all know that in that time period, there has been a lot that has happened, a lot of changes, a lot of development. So, um, tonight's presentation is intended to be really comprehensive to not only update the council about all of these various changes that have happened, especially related to the vaccine. and also let the public know about resources that are available. So the 1st thing I'm going to do is start with the data and just give a snapshot of where we're at right now. This is data as of today where we're at at the county and in Mountain View. And then I want to compare the data from today to where we were in my last update on December 8th. So unfortunately, you can see in that top box, um, countywide, we are approaching almost 100,000 positive COVID cases. Um, and unfortunately, um, over 1200 deaths from COVID-19, we're at 555 hospitalizations. And just for context, just how quickly things have escalated in a little over a month. In my last update, there were 41,000 cases, countywide. So we've jumped from 41 to almost 100,000 and just a little over a month. Um, and then at that time, there were 511 deaths, which, as you can see where we're at now. So we've more than doubled our numbers, which at that time in December 8th. We were just kind of ramping up from the Thanksgiving holiday, um, and the positive cases, and then obviously now this is factored into the, um, holiday in December and the New Year's holiday. So we have certainly seen widespread community transmission. So in Mountain View, we have about 2400 cases, a little over that 2460 cases. At this time last month when I presented, there were 1100 cases. So we've also more than doubled in Mountain View too. So we've certainly seen the surge in our county, and these numbers here show the surge statewide. So the top number on the left corner, the 3.1 million, that's how many positive cases there are statewide right now. If you go to the 2nd row, you can see that the majority of those positive cases are still remaining to be seen in that younger age group. So 1800000 of those 3100000 cases are in the younger age group. So this has been a trend that has continued throughout COVID that we've seen since March. And it's really something that the state has tried to address with certain business closures. Um, obviously what they've tried to address through, um, some of the orders for things to close at 10 PM and not open till the morning that that really was intended to get at, uh, certain age groups, frankly, um, and that, and that you can see why, um, that that continues to be the biggest number statewide. So I wanted to show this slide to, um, let you all know that as of yesterday, instead of being in the restrictive stay at home order, we have now moved back into what the state calls the blueprint for a safer economy. So if you remember, the different colors of tiers. Um, and the website that the state provides that anyone can visit that has, um, information about these different tiers, what the colors mean, it also has interactive, um, uh, interactive county, um, where you can see where the counties are at and the data for the county, www.COVID-19.ca.gov. Um, I encourage you to visit that site to really see where we're at statewide. And then this snapshot just shows what all of the different color tiers remain, what they mean. So right now we are in the purple tier, which is the lowest tier. It's the widespread tier. So what that means really is that most of the counties in California in this tier, and we are at more than 8% of a positivity rate, and you don't start moving into a lower tier until your numbers start lowering. So this is a snapshot of where we're at. And as I said, most of the counties across the state or in this tier. So as I mentioned, being in the purple tear means that it is the most restrictive. However, some things have opened as compared to the restrictive state home order we ran over the holidays. So right now, under the purple tier, in more retail capacity has returned to 25%. One of the things that has not changed is the travel restrictions. So for folks traveling more than 150 miles unless it's for work. There is still a requirement to quarantine for 10 days when you get home. One of the things that has opened was that high school and youth sports can resume now with a stable cohort outside, but not inside. Other things that are now allowed outdoors are, um, religious services, uh, museums, movie theaters, gyms, um, so workout, dance studios, things like that can open outside, but not inside. Also, all businesses have to submit a brand new social distancing protocol. So, uh, what that means is when you go into businesses and you see the signs on the door with check marks and there are different protocols, businesses are required to resubmit new ones now with this new order. So the other things that have happened that were closed over the holidays were outdoor dining. So what this means now is that Castro Streets is now open again. So we're happy that our restaurants, hopefully when it's not raining, will be able to serve folks outdoors downtown. Also personal care services, which have been closed, are now open. So, hair, nail salons, barbershops, um, Tattoo, cosmetology services, all of those are open now with 20% capacity. This is a snapshot from that state website that I mentioned a couple slides ago. And what you can do is hover over the county to see every single day where the metrics are at for each county. So how many cases per day, um, that each county is seen per 1000 people. And then you can also see the positivity rate. So for Santa Clara, we are at 45, about 45 and a half new cases per day per every $100,000 folks. Our positivity rate right now on a 7 day average is 6.6%. And this does change daily. So if you are interested in seeing where we're at across the board, Santa Clara County, you can go to the drop down menu and see where we're at. In terms of nationally, I think we all know that, um, we do have a new national strategy to, um, really tackle, um, COVID-19 and, um, have a more aggressive strategy in place certainly for the vaccine rollout. So, uh, the new presidential administration has put out um, a blueprint. So their national strategy for COVID-19 response and pandemic preparedness. And the biggest part of that is really ramping up over these next 100 days to ramp up the vaccine production, to make sure that the American people really trust what's happening in the federal government, and really try and mitigate the spread of COVID through mandatory masking, at least in federal facilities, and other places where it wasn't mandatory before. Um, and also making sure that we can do safe reopenings for schools and other businesses and travel. So I think over these next several weeks, we're really going to start seeing, um, more news on the vaccine front, um, because I know that that's one of the things that we are all most interested in and it's also one of the most confusing things about what's happening now, uh, really how much is happening with vaccines. When are they available? When is it available to me? So that's something that I'll touch on in a few more slides. The 1st thing that I wanted to do, though, before we get into that is present a picture of how vaccines are distributed from the state to the counties. And so this is something that, um, I think a lot of people don't know how it works and, um, it's also something that has, I think, contributed to a lot of the, um, misinformation and just lack of clarity as to what's going on. So how it works is that the federal government provides the number of doses and the vaccines to the state. And the state gives the doses to what they call the multi-county entities, or MCE, that's the term that they use, and multi-county entities are essentially the health or medical providers that function in different counties. So that would be Kaiser or Sutter Health or Pam. They get their vaccine doses directly from the state. They do not get the vaccine doses from the county. And the state is also giving the vaccine doses directly to the county. That's in the middle in the blue boxes. So what happens is the county distributes those doses to their facilities and their health system, and other providers that aren't multi-county. So for example, they would distribute to Stanford or for here in Mountain View to El Camino Hospital. So the state is giving to the private medical providers and the county. One of the difficulties that's happening right now is that the county is not able to see or hasn't been up until recently, how many doses were being provided to these entities that weren't coming through the county. Um, so they do have more insight into that now, which I'll touch on in a little bit, um, but that's how it works coming from the state. Then on the right side, you can see that the federal government is not only distributing into the state and then going to the counties, but the federal government is giving vaccine doses directly to CBS and Walgreens through contracts that they have with them. And then they are also distributing to facilities such as Indian health centers and veterans like VA hospitals in Palo Alto. So that comes directly from the federal government. So you can see through the slide that there are a variety of ways that the vaccines are getting provided to the entities. And so what we are really trying to accomplish now or what the county is and these entities is understanding the number of vaccines. And so what's happening so that they're able to actually have insight into each other's data. So where you can go right now to find out more information, including the slide that I just presented is SCCfreevax.org. This is the county's website that is really the official source of all of their vaccine information in the county. And right now as of today, and I say as of today, because it could change tomorrow, um, or any other time this week. As of today, we are vaccinating folks in phase one A. So those are medical workers, um, or 1st responders or people and staff and long-term care facilities. Also, new news today from the county is that anyone over the age of 65 can get vaccinated at a county health system, including our site in Mountain View, which I'm going to talk about in a little bit, or Stanford Health. Now, as I mentioned before, The Kaiser and Sutter Health or Pam doses are given in a different bucket, right, from the state. So they don't have the number of doses right now that the other providers have. So they are not yet vaccinating folks who are over 75. Right now, anyone, or excuse me, over 65. They are only vaccinating people who are over 75. So what you have are kind of 2 different phases right now happening depending on where you, um, where you have your medical provider. So, again, if you are 65 and over and you use the county system or Stanford, you can get a vaccine and contact your provider. If you use Kaiser or Pamp right now, it's just 75 or over. Uh, we have heard word that the state might be changing, the way that this phasing is working. So we're waiting to hear if this is going to change within the next few days or weeks. But for right now, this is what the vaccine eligibility is. So as I mentioned, we're really pleased that we were able to step up when the county called us and asked if we were able to provide a mass vaccination facility. And our community center opened this past Friday as a site to provide vaccines for the county health system. This is just a snapshot of their operations that just started on Friday. And a little bit more details about it. It is appointment only. We do have limited appointments that are available daily, but we will be hopefully ramping up to at least a 1000 vaccines per day or a 1000 appointments per day, I should say. And so we're going to be seeing how operations go over time. I can say that just over these last few days, things have appeared to be very smooth and have gone very well. So we're really, we're really hopeful about that continuing also in a smooth manner. And we're also really thankful for that partnership. And we're really happy that we're able to provide this service to residents in Mountain View, who use the county system and also to residents throughout North County, who may need to come to Mountain View. So as I mentioned, the way that the phasing works now. This is as of today, we're currently in phase one A, where healthcare workers and long-term care residents and employees can get vaccinated. And then phase one B is next. So we're also in phase one B for the county system. So you can see that one B, tier one, are individuals who are 65 and older. And then the next kind of phase after people who are 65 and older are people that work in education, or childcare, emergency services, food and agriculture, then the next tier in one B are other different sectors of work, um, who have risk of exposure. So transportation, industrial, commercial, and congregate settings where there are a lot of people together with risk of outbreak. And including prisons or homeless shelters. So that's all part of phase one B. And as I mentioned, this is how the vaccine eligibility works now, but we are waiting to see if it is still going to continue to be this way over the next few weeks. Then the last phase, phase one C, includes individuals who are 50 to 64 years of age, and then people who are 16 to 49 who may have an underlying health condition. Then there are also categories for employees who work in different sectors who um, could possibly be um, exposed or have further risk of exposure. So this is, um, the role of this now is very, um, I would say broad and it involves 1000000s of people. So I think the thing that I really want to underscore about what's happening now is that we don't have an issue of will to do this. There is an issue of supply. There are just simply not enough vaccines right now that not only that the state has received, but that the county and the medical providers have received to quickly vaccinate through these phases. So, um, one of the things that we're hearing from both the state and the county is that as the vaccine production can ramp up, then we can obviously start vaccinating more and more people. So that really is the goal right now. The city does not have any say so over how the vaccine rollout or production goes. We try and work hand in hand with the county and getting the information out, but, um, cities do not have any control over how this works. So, what we can do is advocate for a quicker rollout and obviously for more doses to come to California and Santa Clara County. So one thing that the county did launch recently is this vaccine dashboard, and I know that the fawn is a little bit small, but this dashboard is found on that SCC free Vax.org site. And essentially what this shows is, um, all of the vaccines that have been received and administered by all of the providers throughout the county. This is updated daily. It also has, on the far right column, the number of appointments, that are going on in all of the different medical providers, and at the very bottom of the screen. And this is updated, as I said, daily. So as of today, there have been 160,000 folks who have received their 1st dose of the vaccine. And then there are around 78,000 people who have received their 2nd dose of the vaccine. So this is a really handy chart. If you're interested in seeing who's getting what. So they kind, they finally have the data to see how many doses they, that have been received, and then how quickly they're administering it. So you can check this out every day or every week just to see how it changes. But as I mentioned, we're hopeful that it starts to ramp up very quickly. I also wanted to note that the state has rolled out a new tool that people can go register for online to find out when it's your turn to get vaccinated and then you should be able to schedule appointments. It's my turn.ca dot gov. Now, I will say this is a pilot site right now, and the state really up until this point has only rolled it out to a couple jurisdictions in southern California. I believe in LA and San Diego counties. So I'm not certain that you would be able to at least book an appointment now in Northern California, but they have rolled this tool out officially today. So I'll continue to provide an update about this. But this is something that the state wants all residents to be able to use to just find out when it's your turn to get vaccinated. So then moving to testing. Um, even though we have the vaccination site, we are still also providing testing opportunities for residents in Mountain View and people in North County. So just since this summer, we've provided over 13,500 tests. And just this year alone in our, in our testing, our past couple testing events, we've provided over 1400 tests, um, just this, this month in January. You can schedule your test at the SECfreeTest.org. Uh, you can also still go get a test at El Camino Hospital Monday through Friday from 730 to 7. And then our upcoming 2 testing events will be at our center for the performing arts. The next 2 are on February 2nd and February 16th, respectively, and they are from 9.30 AM to 4 PM. Again, you can register to get tested at SEC free test.org. And I also wanted to give a snapshot update on El Camino Health and what they've been up to and the testing that they provided. So as of last week, they've provided over 19,000 tests, no cost tests to folks who live or work or who go to school in the El Camino healthcare district. They've also provided 6000 COVID-19 vaccine doses. And I know that they are starting plans to look at, um, more vaccination sites and provided more vaccinations to folks in the community too. So we're happy to partner with them on our testing events and we're glad that they're able to provide these testing and vaccination opportunities as well. Then I'm going to pivot now to some updates on our programs that we have, um, that have been in place for quite a few months now before, um, this year started and as we've gone along this month. So the rent relief program, which I know we're going to be talking about later in an agenda item. Uh, to draw your attention to the bottom in yellow. You can see that so far, uh, we have cut over almost 1800 uh, checks to households. And we've spent about 3 point, excuse me. $3800000 um the average amount of the check is a little over $2,100 that's been pretty consistent throughout this time. But there is absolutely still a growing need in the community for rent relief, as you can see, and CSA is moving through those requests as quickly as they can. In terms of our small business efforts. We have made progress on a number of fronts for our small businesses. And one of the things that you may recall that we did in partnership with the chamber was create this Mountain View marketplace where people can go by local, from Mountain View businesses at Ilovemb.org, uh shop. I love mb.org. And the program is going to have some fun. Valentine's Day, marketing and some new services and things to shop for. And then if you're interested, they also have shop safe, shop, local lawn signs at the Chamber of Commerce for people to put in their lawns if they are interested. One of the other things I mentioned is that our Castro Streets program will now reopen. Now the outdoor dining is allowed. We have our small business grant program, actually. excited to announce that that is expected to launch next week. Um, Council approved in November, $250,000 um, for us to launch a grant program. So we're expecting to provide around 50 small businesses with $5000 grants and the way that the businesses will be selected is through a double blind lottery system. So everyone who qualifies will be put in this lottery and will be able to award grants to at least 50 small businesses. So so that that will be great to do. And that's also on the back of our small business resiliency micro loan program, um, that had a $1000000 of seed money, and we've served over 80 local businesses, uh, with more still in the application process. So we're glad that we've been able to do that too. Then I have an update about Project Home here right now. The picture here is a snapshot of the construction that's underway for our modular units. So those modular units have arrived, and they are being stored right now. Right now, some of the construction activities that are taking place are we're installing the sprinkler lines. We're pressure testing it. There's pure foundations that have been constructed and they're going in, and these range from 6 feet to 12 feet deep. They're doing trench work right now. And the timing, the anticipated timeline for this is that we will be ready to accept those modular units in mid-February. That's contingent on PG and E installing power to the site, hopefully by mid-February. And then we're expecting that, um, we will have, you know, full completion and folks moved in estimated now in in April. So that's the timeline right now and CSA is managing the interest list for this project. For safe parking right now, we have 67 vehicles right now across our 3 lots that operate 247. And so we are serving right now 148 people on average weekly at all of those lots. Then I do want to highlight and thank our community services staff and our recreation staff, 3 folks in particular for just the amazing work that they did to work with the county to help stand up this vaccination site. So, um, the photos are of John Marchant at the top, our community services director on the middle right, Christine Crosby, our recreation manager, and at the bottom, Michelle Peterson, our recreation supervisor. So these 3 have just done Yelman's work, working with the county and El Camino Hospital, Planned Parenthood, all of our partners, and not only standing up testing sites, but now this vaccine site, that they worked with, many, many, many other city staff. I know that I'm leaving a lot of folks out. Um, but they did this within a week, less than a week and over a holiday week. to get this vaccination site up and going. So, um, I do want to thank them and recognize and acknowledge them for the work that they did and getting this going and collaborating with the city departments and our partners and just um, doing an amazing job, um, serving the community. So, With that, um, I am done with my presentation, this last slide just shows some of our mask up MV campaign that we've been doing over these last several months of Mountain V residents wearing their masks and we will continue to promote mask wearing and social distancing and being safe and healthy. So, with that, that's the end of my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions.

[02:19:17] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you so much, uh, city manager McCarthy. Uh, so what we'll do is, uh, if Council members have questions, I see Council member Abby Koka has her questions or hand raised already, uh, we'll go to questions and then we can go to public comment and come back if anyone has additional comments. Council member, I'll be okay.

[02:19:35] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Thank you, city manager, for that uh, update and I just want to um, echo thanks to um, our staff and in particular our parks and recreation staff for all the hard work that they put into um, for the testing sites, we're the 1st in North County to have testing, and now I believe we're the 1st to have a vaccination site in North County. So, I'm very proud of that and I just want to thank Steph for all their hard work is, I had a chance to tour the site, the vaccination site today at the community center and it was quite an effort and to do it so quickly. It was just really quite a tremendous effort. So thank you for that. But my question has to do with the vaccinations. Um, I, I, I, I posted, um, on social media today after my tour, um, our, our site being up, and the questions have got quite a few questions already. Um, and it mainly has to do with the, and I know you explained it with that chart, which was really helpful, but, um, folks who are patients of Kaiser and Pampin, I don't mean to call them out, but I will just to be, um, more clear. Um, you know, they've, uh, they've mentioned that it's been very difficult for them to get their vaccinations through their provider. Are they able to come to the community center to get vaccinated, um, there if they're not having trouble getting it from their own provider.

[02:21:07] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, council member Abikoga. So I will tell you what the county's answer is to that. And then I know that community services director John Marchant is in the box and he may be able to fill in any gaps. Um, so we are told that if people do have Kaiser or Pam, Sutter Health, that they should call their provider, um, that because there is a limited number of doses, that, um, the county is providing, uh, their county sites, which this is ran through Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, um, that this site serves people who do not have, um, Kaiser or Pamp. Um, but, um, I would ask John if he has any further information about how that's being treated or or, um, how they may think about that in the future.

[02:22:00] Community Services Director John Marchant: Thank you, city manager McCarthy, and your description is correct. And we are actually going to be working with the county as well as our communications folks to work together and further clarify, um, those questions that have been asked. Thank you.

[02:22:18] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, and then another question was, um, in terms of our own employees, uh, frontline workers like our parks maintenance votes, what are they in one C or are they in one B? Try to understand what where they fit in.

[02:22:40] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, Mayor. Oh, I'm former mayor, council member, Ebekoga. Um, They right now would be considered to be in one C. And that is where the majority of government employees are, but as I mentioned, we are waiting to find out what's going to happen with the rollout of the vaccinations. I have heard that it may be changed based on age. And then all of what we're talking about tonight might be a moot point in a couple weeks. But as of now, most of the government workers are in one C.

[02:23:22] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Great, thank you. I did hear that about age just a while ago too. So, thank you for that. That's it. Thank you.

[02:23:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much. Does anyone else have any other questions? All right. So I don't see any other hand, so I'm going to move over to public comment. And so, uh, these are, these are going to be questions about um, the COVID-19 update. Gabriella Britton. Please unmute yourself.

[02:23:51] Gabriella Britton: Hello. Thank you for all that very useful information. I have one question regarding the community center in Rainstorf. Um, I uh, noticed that when I went to help someone enrolled. It asked for social security, then it says that you needed to sign papers and that if you didn't have insurance, you needed to pay. So I'm wondering if any undocumented immigrant is eligible to go there?

[02:24:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: We can't directly answer your question during public comment. Is there more you'd like to share? We can bring it back after you're done speaking.

[02:24:34] Gabriella Britton: Um, no, that's it. Because I, you know, I noticed that in the county, those, um, requirements weren't, um, needed. So I, I'm, I'm confused in which um, someone who's an immigrant can go to one or do they have to go to the other? That's all. And if the if the one in Rainstorf is not free.

[02:25:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, thank you so much. All right, anyone else wishing to give public comment on this item? All right, we can bring it back. Uh, city manager McCarthy, Mr. Marshawn. I don't know if you have answers to those questions.

[02:25:22] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, mayor. So, um, for the 1st part is that all COVID vaccines are free. So wherever anyone goes, there's no cost of the vaccine. Um, we have not seen any charges anywhere. So if there is, um, a charge that that is new news, um, they should be free. Um, and then to the other part of the question about um, undocumented folks. I do not know the answer to that right now. I have not heard that. I think that the county's intention is to have everyone vaccinated, but, um, we can find out further information and I can provide an update about that in my next update. And we can also put that out. Um, through our communication channels.

[02:26:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. To council members have any comments at this point? All right, see you none. Thank you, city manager McCarthy. Thank you, Mr. Merchant, very much. All right, so we'll move on to item 3.4, which is a presentation from the Mountain View Wisman School District, superintendent, Dr. Ian De Rudolph, regarding school fencing. All right, Dr. Rudolph, I see you.

[02:26:42] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Perfect. Right. How's it going? Thanks for allowing me to grace your presence. I guess my 2020 goal of not showing up in 2021 has already been broken in this short. Uh, start of the school year, but it's always great to see everybody. So, thank you for having me back. Give me 12nd to tie into my screen and then I'll jump in. Okay. Sorry for one second. I got a couple slides up here, so There we go. Let's see. Hey, you know what? I'll just do this. Okay. Wrong one. All right, can I go see that?

[02:27:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we see it.

[02:27:54] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Great, great. All right. So before I jump in on this, because I know that there's a bunch of community, uh, comments probably about this, I do want to share, um, a passage I just read real quick, not to toss in religion, but I think this is really important. What we focus on impacts of directors, the direction that we walk in. Essentially, um, saying that is seen as temporary and what is unseen is eternal. And I think, you know, and thinking about all the different topics that have been coming up as of late, um, around mental health, things that we don't see, but also about safety and security, things that we can't really measure. We have intently focused ourselves on a physical structure and not the needs of our students as well as our teachers and community members. So I'm going to talk a little bit about permanent fencing, um, and just sort of dive into it and sort of talk about where we are and sort of how the needs are. And then, of course, I'm available to answer questions too. Um, so there's a couple guiding principles. So the 1st one, uh, which is a partnership that we really enjoy. In 2000, we entered into a joint use agreement with the city. I'm sure that it's probably a little bit older than that, but at least as far back as we know 2000. Um, and so the city maintains the fields of the schools and the district maintains the ownership. Um, and I just want to be clear because I know we often refer to these as parks. These are not parks that I'm going to be talking about. I'm talking solely about the fields that are adjacent to the school. We do give uh, after school priority access to the city who coordinates community activities. Um, and I, I, um, I do want to bring up, you know, just real quick. Uh, although we're a little bit down this year. We're responsible for the safety every day of 5200 students, more than 600 staff members actually close to 700, and while many of us enjoy the open campus field, including myself, who will sometimes at lunch go run onto campus and then come back off. Uh, our members have regularly approach our members a regular approach or have regularly approach uh, people who are on campus, who are not authorized to be there. And I do want to point out just real quick, because I know that there are going to be some community members who are going to say, well, you know, we're walking. Um, it asks, it actually is against penal code to be on school grounds during the school day. In fact, it's against penal code to be on school grounds one hour before class starts, one hour after class starts. And I think sometimes we, although we're, we're not someone who enforces it all the time. I think sometimes we forget about that. and they do they are subject to different penalties. We have had dog bites, those occur pretty frequently, and we have had bike vests, and we've had to install bike cages. Most notably at our middle schools. We now have 2 large bike cages to try and deter thefts. Men, um, parents and staff memberships also share their concerns about the potential of filing events. And so, One of the big things that has came up, and I'm going to be clear about this, the idea of securing the campuses actually came from our principles and our teachers and our staff. This was not something that we were sort of aware of, and I'll bring it up and I'll show you some examples in a second. Um, but securing our campuses to the terrorist school violence, protects our students to staff with, uh, was a priority. And we had a safety town hall, uh, where members of city council, as well as MVPD, uh, participated with us to talk about it. Now, some people are going to argue that, you know, um, uh, having a fencer isn't going to deter violence, but if you do look at, uh, the, um, FBI's report, um, that came out as well as the Secret Service reports. What they do note. Is that why there is no full foolproof method to deter balance? Every 2nd counts, especially in school shootings. Uh, the most important seconds are actually the 1st 30 seconds to one minute, right? And so part of this is about how do we deter this? Uh, fences as well as cameras were listed on our master's facility plan as a priority one me. The MIP was approved December 12th, 2019. Um, and this also was included in as part of our ballot measure. Now, I know that some community members have also said that we're putting up floodlights, and we're putting up, uh, you know, all these other things. We're not doing any of those things, but we are adding cameras as part of our safety priority. And we have also talked about adding swipe cards to all of our doors as another way of helping to protect our staff members as these are concerns that continue to bring up. And again, I've already brought this up. Like, it's not going to stop things, but does provide a return. Um, and again, I want to point out there is no full safe deterrent across the board. So no one is sort of idealizing that putting a fence is going to stop things. But we do need to be concerned about individuals who walk off the trail onto campus while kids are presents. Uh, one of our bigger, uh, areas of concern, um, are is actually around Lando's where we tend to see a lot more vandalism, um, right off of the trail and it's pretty hard for MVPD to sort of track, uh, individuals. And I do want to point out that we did consult with MVPD, um, to talk about some safety measures and they, um, did, uh, suggest that it could, it could also assist us. So thought exchange. One of the big things that we've been trying to include is student voice and sort of what does that look like across the board? And so this was a recent thought exchange. Um, Visitors, uh, signing in, the office should know, uh, when people come on campus. Again, that's an ed code that is also a part of the penal code. So we need to make sure that it happens. And then students should be able to feel safe very safe and secure during our school time. Um, We also did thought exchange, um, just to consider, uh, to sort of get some other, um, thoughts. Part of the reason why we do thought exchanges that allow people to anonymously bring their opinions out. And then, of course, those opinions get sort of, uh, um, start and ranked based off of uh, needs. And so you can see that perimeter controls actually kept popping up over the course of the last couple of years. Um, and so the massive facility plan identified a couple of different items, I need to screw up perimeters at all campuses, especially with schools, shared public park facilities, trails, access, and multiple frontage. Need for real time, situational awareness by schools. One of the best examples of this is actually the principal, Critnen, pointed out that they are unaware of what occurs on what most people view now as the front side, the middle field side, uh, when compared to the rock street side because it is a complete blind spot over there. Um, and so that's one of the areas that they're they're uniquely concerned about. And then administrative buildings are not always situated as the most invisible and accessible areas of the campus. So we've been trying to change that. There are obviously some schools that are better and easier to get this done than the other ones. Um, And so the principal interviews, uh, both principals, the previous principal of Montaloma and the previous, uh, in the principal of Bob, have noted that there are some, uh, there's no gate controls, there are some serious concerns. Um, and so that across the board, right? And so the, this was obviously something that came as a surprise source, because up until this point, it really was an area focus, um, that we had. Um, but mom tomorrow because that's where most of the conversation is going to come and I just want to point this out, right? So it's located and shares, it's actually a field, not a park. Um, uh, it has a permit fence around all of its buildings, but not around its parking lines. We actually had a teacher who wrote to the board just recently and said that one of the concerns about the SDC. We have our special air classroom there, as well as the kindergarten classrooms, is that it is adjacent right to the field, and that individuals constantly are coming up to the windows and sort of interacting is kind of hard. There are also doors along the backside, um, that open directly out into those areas. And that is the case with a couple of our schools too. Um, and so that was one of the big concerns. Um, and then while the school and park, uh, and I apologize for the type, the typo that's in there, um, has, has resident, residential properties on 3 sides, there are 2 pedestrian access points at the rear, the campus, including a potestrian path on Anna Avenue and Elka. Um, And these paths are open at all hours and the school needs to have the ability to close those off during the school hours. Um, even, uh, sort of pushing this and probably part of the reason why there's, uh, more people who were concerned about this is when we did all focus groups. Um, and then we started talking more far, so we had 3 focus groups consisting of parents, community members, staff members, um, and then we also had a reopening task force that's considered that it's just an internal task force. And this was comprised of members from every group, right? So classified teachers, principals, and district office staff. And all of them brought up the concern about safety with COVID. There was, obviously, the California Department of Public Health requires us to limit contact between public, uh, uh, the publican students during school hours. There was a sizable concern that was raised about what happens when people are walking the campus or sort of accessing it. Um, and then, of course, uh, most, even in our staff town halls, and this is, I'm not trying to argue this is the feeling for everybody, but there was enough people who said that they do not feel safe to return to campus when members of the public are allowed to walk on the campus without mask. And we know that at least at that time, wearing a mask was politicized. But it's obviously a big concern, and one of the requirements we have in order for anybody to walk on campus is actually a mass. I do want to point out that part of the reason why this was brought up, is originally we talked about using thermal scanners to sort of scan our similar to what you see in the airport, um, and if you're traveling, um, overseas to sort of scan all of our students as they walk in, uh, and we sort of shut that down because it costs, um, as well as the logistics in order to, you know, sort of adjust the camera every day and make sure it's warmed up. So we had to move to another thing, another approach for doing temperature checks. But again, uh, the major concern still, uh, that was still there was just how do we limit the number, the number of contacts across the board. And that's a serious concern. And our kids do use these fields for recess. Our teachers are out there. And of course, um, there's been a big push about getting kids outside, uh, when the weather's good, uh, so that they can sort of do outdoor learnings. And of course, our teachers push back and say, well, we can go outside, but you have to deal with the elements and you also have to deal with dogs and parents, community members coming onto the campus. And so that's obviously a big concern of ours. So what of our current plan? So actually at most of our sites, although I know it says five. There's actually a very minimal amount of fencing that's required, including that montaloma which has fencing almost completely around the school, but those fences are actually not connected. And that's one of the areas that we've talked about. And by connecting the fences and adding a few gates that automatically unlock, on the evenings on weekends, we can eliminate some of the safety concerns while still giving the community members the same access to our fields and playground that was allowed before, which again, I want to just reiterate, that is not during the school day. It is before, it is one hour after the school day, and then it's supposed to be one hour before the school day. Landos and Montelorma have a little bit more fencing that is planned. But again, our idea is to connect the fencing that already exists. And I'm gonna show you some of those. Just to talk about sort of their involvement. We've been partnering with the city, just sort of talk about this. We've been sort of working behind the scenes, just making sure that we get feedback. Again, we have a shared interest with the city to make sure that our fields are accessible to our youth, um, and they're used regularly, and so that's one of the big concerns that we've had, and it's been a lot of a great back and forth to sort of understand some of the needs, um, and sort of make adjustments um, across the board. Uh, in terms of community input. Obviously, the safety town hall, 2018, the massive facility plan, where every school site was was included. In fact, more than 200 residents participate in community meetings across the board. We've also advertised these using as many social media platforms. And of course, we were very transparent with the passage of our bond, that perimeter controls was one of the items that we would do. Um, and while it may not have been focused on by everybody. There was a lot of these projects that have been sped up as a result. HVAC is one of those big things. Fencing was another one. Uh, we now we have since conducted a 2nd round of community input, uh, for Landos and Bob. Those were held a couple weeks ago, and we are now working on creating a working group from Monteloma. I do want to point out that, you know, I know that there are several residents who wanted to pick the individuals. We also heard back from the community that they felt like the, you know, serving certain groups that necessarily represent them. And so we use a similar process that we use for boundary changes as well as enrollment priorities changes, where we allow people to apply and use a district advisory committee to select. But it also means that we, our goal is to make sure that we have individuals who are going to work with us, to find some creative solutions to resolve some of these issues. How do we advertise to make sure that we can get people for the working group. We put signs on fields. Uh, we sent notices out to neighborhood associations. Obviously, we did direct mail homes, notices on next door, school newsletters. We actually worked with the, um, social media marquee signs. And so we put them up as many places as we can, including some postcards, and of course, in the presentation, there's a couple links in here. And so just real quick so that everybody can see, you know, so this is one of the one of the postcards actually look like, I hope y'all can still see this. Um, and so these were mailed out to everyone across the board. See here. Here we go. So what adjustments are we made? I'm gonna take you through. Some of them. Originally, we did not think about having automatic locks to open the gates, but we have since moved to those. We have been repositioning fences back and forth based off of community feedback to make sure that we sort of get it right. We've added some additional gates based off of feedback. For instance, you'll see that there's some access points for the city to have so that they can get the mowers in. Um, we're adding landscaping and fences, depending on, on, on some of the, on some of the projects. And of course, we want to also add more signage, that clinic indicates the hours of use. And so I'll give you a good example. If you go to the backside of Monte Lemma, there are actually 2 signs, both signs have different times. I think one time I had like 430 and I think the next one had 530. Um, so obviously those are, we want to make sure that we're consistent across the board, uh, and that we acknowledge that it is one hour after the school day, um, ends. So now let's look at what fencing looks like. So the gray right here, and I hope you can see my cursor. The gray represents all of the existing fencing, uh, that has been there, uh, that when you walk on campus actually disappears into the background. And so what we've done is we've added a couple gates so that people have access, but we've also added more access to those. And what we're also going to do is add access for parking, these nest parking people can pull in. And sometimes we frequently have people who are driving up and down, but we're going to add fencing access here. Huff, Bob, and Landos also have what we call our special day classes. Uh, it could be our artistic kids. It could also be our, um, our medically fragile kids, and unfortunately, um, in the last round of the bond, uh, or, or CBO, um, added some fencing that closed off the doors, and some of the complaints that we heard from our special air families, was that it felt like uh, kids were being caged in because the fencing was right next to the door. By remove, we can now remove those fences and allow kids to have access, we do have kids who elope, um, or like to run off, and so we need to sure that we're mindful that we don't have a kid who's running to the front of the street, especially because the special day classes are actually right up in the front. This also allows kids to walk to a library without having to be escorted, as it would create sort of a gate right there that creates a safety net for our kids. Uh, again, so if we look at Bob, Bob, which actually sits right next to a park, um, has an extensive amount of fencing uh, that exists. Some of it is covered by brush, so we're going to take some of that brush off. But again, it is the exact same thing. We want to provide a couple new fences as you see in the blue. Uh, and the blue represents the chain link fences, uh, that sort of connects with the existing fence. And then the green represents the ornamental fencing. I show you some examples of those. But again, we want to make sure that we provide access and what you can see is there's also where the city said that we want to provide more access and then it will be a gate that's actually right now. next door. Uh, and part of one of the uh, um, changes that we've heard is the is sort of this idea about the good neighbor fences. We did recently just pay for someone's good neighbor fence to get fixed, even though we're not sure who really installed it. So, um, if we do allow the good neighbor fences to sort of say there, uh, we'll need to do 2 things. First one is, we'll need to make sure that all of them are in good shape, uh, so that we don't have to uh, pay to fix someone fences inadvertently. Um, and the 2nd thing is that there are some of these, uh, good neighbor fences where a community member has access onto the field, but the school does not have access backward, uh, to get out. It's not that we want to go in and out, but in the event of emergency, we need to be able to unlock any of our doors. And so we'll probably have to have a conversation with those individuals who have a good neighbor just to come up with a solution for that. And that's a smaller problem. One addition that was added. Um, similar to what we do at Google. Uh, Google provides access to the Kinder lots, um, that are closed off. Some pair of feedback was to extend the kennelot, so that's a little bit bigger in the front of the school. So that parent and obviously allow parents to have access to it because it's normally closed on the weekends. And that would allow parents and put some extra seating in here. That would allow parents to use this, this little kinder area, um, to sort of play after hours or on the weekends, and I think that's a great, uh, solution that allows, uh, parents to feel safe, uh, um, as they bring their kids to the campus. They are called Stevenson, and again, a lot of fencing already exists. We put a lot up. One of the big concerns we had because this is actually 3 different entities sitting on the same campus. Uh, we have the district office, which is over here. I know it right now, it looks like a hole. Uh, we have the future preschool, uh, which has its own requirements and needs his own fencing. We have Stevenson, and then we have Farakoff. Originally, when this, uh, when the new Stevenson campus was built, uh, we had parents who were taking their kids in, and so our uh, district office starting time, also our staff arrived at the exact same time, and we've actually had a couple close calls with accents. So we actually install fencing, um, to sort of close off or create delineate, um, access from the district office to Stevenson. And that is actually, um, helped the control traffic patterns. Obviously, we most families use the front. They do park on the other side, but if they do, they use this gate and come up through the back area. Um, and just to show you a good part of the uh, great neighbor uh, uh, partnership that we have. This is actually right up here, part of the city's property, part of this part of the tennis court belongs. So sunny city, the other part of it belongs to the actual school district. As we started talking about how to help with traffic patterns. One of the things that city staff brought up. Whereas the notion of could we line up, uh, the entrance of Stevenson to the actual street to sort of help control some of, uh, the, the, the, the help mitigate for, uh, for traffic patterns at the beginning of the day, which we, which we would gladly were able to do and that's really helped. And the city provided us with easement onto that property. Over here is a Google, part of the glue campus that I talked about, parents and community members have access to this area after on the weekends. Uh, and that is, um, met something similar that we were talking about for the preschools. But again, for Therakoff, there is actually a trail that goes all the way back here across. We've had a couple kids, and we've had a couple instances on this trail, so we want to just close that off. But again, it would only be during, um, uh, school hours that those areas would actually be closed. Uh, here's Crippen. Cripton has a sizable amount of fencing already. Obviously, the track is used, especially after hours. This fence right here, there's already a fence that sort of exists. It is a, I want to say, a 4 foot fets, maybe a little bit shorter. I've seen people toss to bikes over this fence and jump onto the track. Um, and this track, this, uh, this is again another partnership between the city and the school district. So we want to make sure that people have access to the trail. This is a new a newer feature once we built the track. And so all we're going to do is extend the height of the fence so that we don't have people tossing their bikes and other stuff over it. And that also allows for the trail to be used during the school hours. But it also allows for our students to walk the track and not have to worry about anything. And then again, minimal fencing, just to control some of the primitives, and this addresses, uh, Mrs. Gomez's major concern, the front office is actually all the way up here. And as you can see, the sports center, it's back here, but there isn't a lot of blind spots that exist over here. Uh, here is Graham. again, same thing. There's already a lot of fencing. Actually, the fencing comes all the way back here and then sort of around. So all we are doing, and there's fencing that exists, on this part. All we're doing is simply blocking off some of these areas. There's actually a fence on this backside, over by the MUR. Again, at fencing is probably a 3 or 4 foot fence, and there is actually a Kindler parking lot over there. We're going to increase the height of that. This is an act of preschool. It has been active preschool classrooms. It is a special education, preschool. It has been active for the last couple of years. It's one of our one of the 3 sites that we use. And so we want to make sure that the Kinder, the preschoolers have the ability to play on the playground, uh, without having to worry about any, any other additional access points. And then, of course, there are some gates. There a large gate back here and there's another gate back there. The gate, this backside gate, which heads to our maintenance facility is open pretty much 24 seven. The gate in the front is only open during certain events. Uh, here is Lando's, uh, Lando's requires a little bit more fencing along the trail. We will still have access to the trail, but we were routed to the front of the school instead of having access right to the back of the school, which is where the kinder wing is, which is right around here. We want to make sure that we limit people coming off of the campus. There is also sort of a city-owned tot lot that exists over here. We want to make sure that people still have access to that. But again, it's a similar thing. We are connecting the buildings, even though there's some existing fencing. And as I talked about before, the good neighbor fencing is one of the areas that we were looking at, we would just look at whether or not these are adequate to meet our needs. And if so, then we'll come up with a different solution for those, um, and try to sort of replace the ones that need replacing, uh, and sort of, uh, build up the ones that need building up. Montaloma, which is probably the most contentious one. Mozzawama actually has fencing all the way across. I've walked this campus extensively since all this process started. There's a fence that goes all the way along. Uh, this this, this area. It is actually, I believe, a 10 foot fence. There is another 10 foot fence that exists all the way in the back around here, with an entrance right here, and then there's one more. The original idea, um, because we heard from community members that they wanted access to the parking, uh, not the parking, the Kinder lot, as well as the snack shack and some other areas. So originally, after getting community feedback, we decided that we were going to put a fence just around the field to allow access. Um, and then, of course, we got more feedback that, uh, some parents that they would cut them off from the, uh, the soccer tournaments that sort of occur, um, and that they wouldn't be able, they would be behind the fence to why the kids were playing and would sort of limit access. Um, and so then we worked on another design and so this show that shows you where the fencing is. This is one is more consistent with what we already have, which is a minimal amount of fencing, and we even decided to make it look like Eagle Park, with archways, for both one right here, which is a double wide archway, and then obviously an archway for the trail that allowed people to go in with just a couple of gates that could be open and closed. Um, but again, this, uh, and then this will close off sort of the walk in areas. And this is the back gate that I was telling you about a little bit earlier. Both of these ideas while they were suggested by community members have also been shot down by different community members. And so this, this identifies part of the, uh, the, the challenge that we've been having. We're trying to figure out a adequate solution to keep our staff safe. Our gates. So we've looked at and we would be purchasing electric strikes. These are, uh, these can be, uh, um, Sorry. These can be unlocked after hours and obviously we will be adding a phone number and allowing staff to sort of address this issue. Um, The fields will always be accessible as they currently are with no new limitations. However, I do think that there is a level of, of, of, um, teaching that needs to take place to remind people that these are fields that are not accessible during the school day, as many residents have said, they enjoy the fields during the school day. And we're not talking about right now, even though we do have kids on campus, I'm talking about while when school is really in session, then we have someone in a neighborhood of 3 to 400 kids to know Montaloma's campus, but it's not our goal to limit any type of access whatsoever. Uh, so what does it look like? So here's the example. This is Stevenson Elementary, or this actually could be Vargas Elementary. They both look exactly the same, but this one one Stevenson. As you can see right here, there's there's actually fencing right in the front of the school. The same is true for Vargas. Vargas actually is our 1st school that has been completely enclosed. And we heard both from the principal as well as teachers that they feel safe, and they appreciate the fact that it's closed, but it still provides community members with access to the soccer field, as well as the place structure, after school hours, and so it's not obtrusive, I guess, I should say. But what does this sort of look like? So here's a conceptual rendering of what it would look like at the front. These gates open wider than what is what is currently shown. But again, this sort of shows uh, some of the, Some that the way that we do, we can provide access to the library, which will be this building, as well as control. And there's actually, uh, this rendering right here, there are, um, there are windows as well as a door for office staff. So that provides us with a pretty sufficient amount of security in the front of the school. So what in the next step, sponsor moments, obviously, one of the biggest areas. Uh, so again, you know, and I think this is clear, there's been staff, parents as well as students who have reported that they feel unsafe due to the open campuses and we do have a responsibility address those. Now, not doing anything is not an option. I know there are going to be people who say, just don't put up a fence. Uh, you know, that's, we got to do something to provide uh, safety and security to, uh, our, uh, our employees, our students, and our, and our parents, um, but it doesn't have to be one of the current designs. We obviously have been pretty flexible and will continue to work to come up with solutions. But what we can't have is what people continue to argue is just continue 24 247 unfettered access to this to the campus, even while school is in session. So we have to come up with a better solution than that. But it doesn't mean that there's not a solution that sort of exists. Um, so, uh, uh, The the fencing is sort of limited, depending on which way, which way you want to look. There are community concerns about access to green space. I completely understand that the community believes and feels that this is their neighborhood park, and they should have access to it. It is also the school's field. And we, you know, obviously we believe that the school should have access to the to the field during the school day. So that's one of the areas that we're going to have to find common ground and sort of go, but is, again, not our approach, not our intent to deny anyone access to green space whatsoever. But we do have to take everything into account, and that cannot be done through a large community meeting. And so our solution to that is for to come up with a work group that can provide some safety, provide some recommendations on how to address some of these items. These representatives come from all from all walks of life and include perspective, uh, and will take all perspectives, including MVPDs, uh, into the consideration of when making recommendations. And of course, we will be providing ongoing communication to the community as well as a board of trustees and to city council about what we are doing. And of course, I will bring my final recommendations to the board of trustees. What does it look like? There will be 2 community representatives. There are 2 there's a Park and Recs representative. There are 2 parents. One will come from Mafia Field, which represents about a 3rd of the campus. Another one will come from the actual community. The principal, 2 staff members, and a district administrator. I will not sit on this committee. I will not be involved in meetings, but they will bring this back. Applications happen, uh, were taken and we had 16 people apply. They were ranked by the district advisory committee, not met with Dr. Westover to talk about what that looks like just yet. Our 1st meeting will be February 25th. And then after that, we'll start scheduling a series of meetings with ongoing cadence. We do not, as I've told the board of trustees, we do not know what the time frame for this will be, but we expect this will be our longest project out of the group just based off of sort of some of the contentiousness that's already been expressed across the board. And we'll keep going until we sort of can come up with a recommendation that sort of, that meets all of the needs, um, and balances all of, uh, of the ideas or balances all of, both, both the community's needs, as well as the school's needs in terms of safety and security, as well as access to the community. And it also needs a meat park and recs need. Um, so that, you know, um, parts and recs can continue to use the field, uh, on the weekends. And that concludes my presentation. I do want to just grab my cookies out of the stove before they burn. So just pardon me for one sec. But I can hear you.

[03:01:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: But now all of us want cookies, Dr. Rudolph. We'll wait for you. We'll wait till you come back on screen, but I think it's so much public interest. What we'll do is, uh, council members, if you have questions, we can um, ask those of Dr. Rudolph, and I believe Mr. Marchand is here as well. If we have, uh, questions on the city side as well as our city manager and city attorney are here. Then we'll turn it over for the public comment portion, um, and then we'll bring it back for, um, council members if they have comments or any insights that they'd like to share. So, um, council member Hicks, I see your hand and Dr. Ludolph is back.

[03:02:06] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Hi, Dr. Rudolph. Thank you so very much for taking time out. I know that there's, your facing a lot of pandemic related, extra pandemic related work. So, um, Yeah, I wish I wish we could talk to you at some time when you didn't have all that extra work. Um, out of respect for the many people who are here to comment. I'm going to keep my questions pretty short. And I, um, I, uh, you know, I think the structure is that we get to comment at, that council gets to comment after the public comments. I also wanted to thank the mayor for putting, this is a really important issue, I think, and thank the mayor for putting it on the agenda. Um, so, first, I have to say, so my children went to Castro school. And I have to say, frankly, I'm a little shocked to hear the information about the penal code. And the, um, that one is not supposed to be on campus for an hour before. Or an hour after school. That's, It leaves me with questions about ours, and I have to say, that is just so different from the way I interface with the schools. I had a son in school while my daughter was in preschool. The hours were not the same, the preschool in the school hours. We would come with my daughter and maybe a friend play a playground while we waited for my son to get out. Then he would join us maybe with a few more friends from school. We'd hang out. It sounds like, if I'm, so to me, one of the, there are many critical things we're talking about, but what is hours of access that seem to be continually eroding? Um, and I'm wondering, is, so are you seeing the gates locked to people? Like, for instance, when I was a young parent with a child who was not going to the school and her friends. Would it be? Would I essentially have to play with my daughter somewhere else, drive to the school, pick up my son and drive his friends somewhere else. Is there no ability to, you know, do that kind of interfacing with the playgrounds once they're fenced off and will they be fenced off an hour before and an hour after? Um, the school.

[03:04:33] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Yeah, in accordance with what you said was the penal code. Yeah, so penal code as well as echo, both both concur on this one. I don't think anyone's ever, um, enforced it that strictly. But what I will say is that community access has to be limited while kids are on campus. And so typically what we see, um, at almost every school, and I want to point out, I think we're also at a different point in life, right? So my experience, even with my daughters versus my son, are 2 totally different things and they're 11 years apart, just based off of the circumstances. And so, I, like, I try to keep that in mind just knowing that it's a little bit different. But after hours is after hours. I don't think anybody's going to be out there after hours running around and saying you need to get off campus. Um, and that's when actually the gates start unlocking. What will what we are concerned about, though, is the during school hours, right? And so probably, and I'm just thinking about my own experience, I can't speak, um, to yours, but when I would gather with, uh, other parents, it would always be after school hours after I picked up my kid. It wouldn't be that I walked onto campus during while school was in session and decided that I wanted to play on the fields or bring my dog on the field or anything like that. And so the I think the distinction here is that what occurs once we have a mask island of individuals coming onto campus is totally different than what occurs during the school day, while teachers are trying to, um, trying to provide instruction to kids or while kids are going to the bathroom during the day or any of that type of stuff. And so I think those are 2 totally different things. But the gates, the unlocking of the automatic gates starts right around dismissal time, because you want to provide access to for parents to sort of come in. Um, and, you know, just using Castro and Michelle, since you, you mention it, actually Castro and Michelle had both instituted sort of uh, waiting areas for parents. They do not let parents to come onto campus until a particular time. Um, and then they pick up their kids and they've been doing this for the, at least since I've been here for the past 6 years. Um, and one of the things, you know, if Principal Lambert, uh, was here, who's been at cash for the longest, you know, one of the things that she says is that the Latino community, at least, has been adamant about providing more fencing. And I know in the cafecito, it's not the ones that the district has, the city has, but the capacitos that I hold myself with families. when we were talking about just improvements that we can make. They also brought up the desire to see more fencing across around the campus and keep their kids safe. Um, and so I think it's I think it's a different time.

[03:07:25] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, I don't want to be like, but the question, because I want to leave room for, I think, many people have questions and comments, but, yeah, essentially, my question was, since you had said, the penal code doesn't allow people an hour before an hour after, and I also have seen signs that say 4 PM, I wanted to know, and the, the locks will, I wanted to know when are the locks going to be open, and because this does allow, you know, there can kind of be Mission Creek, that can keep creeping. later. Um, And so I kind of want to know what I want to know what the hour is because already the hour is very scarce. In the winter you get very little access time for...

[03:08:07] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Well, I mean, if we were just to go by the community sign that I mentioned before. I mean, it would be consistent. Monteloma, I think, ends around 3 o'clock. I think the science at 4.30. Uh, so technically if you use the penal code, you're, you're right around the exact same time uh, around 410 is what it is. I don't have, you know, I don't, that's a Dr. Westover question about the specific time. I just know that we have committed to providing access after hours. Um, you know, and again, I've never seen anyone enforce penal code, uh, on the school, unless there's been a serious issue across the board, but I do want to point out that it does exist. And it's also a part of Echo that people have to sign in. And I think that's been one of the larger issues is people have talked about access to fields on the school campus. They continue to say, well, I walk the fields all day long. And, you know, my point of bringing it up is to say that, you know, we're not supposed to be on campus before and after hours. And there's exemptions within the code, both ed code as well as penal code that says who can and who can't come on. Um, and that people need to go to the front of the school to get access. But, you know, as soon as, you know, that's something we can follow up, I'll get Dr. West over, uh, to send, uh, uh, John Mashon, and then we can get that question answered for you because I just don't have that.

[03:09:30] Councilmember Alison Hicks: 100s of questions and comments here. So I do though, I don't know whether I'm still not knowing whether it's 3 or 4 or 430, but I don't want to belabor that now. Um, I, I also, um, A 2nd question, I, I, you know, I understand and sympathize with your concern about safety. One of the comments I've heard from, uh, people living around the Mona Loma area is that, that, um, that, uh, a suggestion of tighter perimeter fences more tightly around the school, rather than in the way your picture, and that that would offer, you know, possibly as much or more safety. And I'm wondering if that's something while still kind of keeping the fields open. And I'm wondering whether that's something that you would consider.

[03:10:21] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Right, the irony is, is that Montaloma already has fencing around, uh, or next to the schools. It doesn't provide access to the field. I mean, it actually blocks off the classroom area from the fields, but all of those classrooms have, you know, either have windows or back doors or some type of outdoor access. And that's actually where teachers have brought up some of the concerns. The 2nd area of concern is that if you just put the fence, majority exists right next to the school, then what about when kids are outside playing and how do how do we provide access to that? And so are we suggesting that we remove green space for kids to play on, um, so that community members can walk during the day? And I think that's why, you know, we're open to, and that's why we've had 2 designs, and we'll probably have 3 or 4 after this. That's part of the reason why we're trying to figure out what is an adequate solution to provide some type of mode to come up safety for our staff members, especially on the backside, the Kindle Wing, the special air classrooms, and then I think it's like 4th and 5th grade. But at the same time, and give them access to the fields. And at the same time, still allow people to have green, you utilize some of the green space without disrupting the instructional day.

[03:11:39] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So you're saying that, um, that teachers are, um, they're afraid that people will, it's not just fencing. They are afraid people are going to break in the windows.

[03:11:51] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Yeah, so we had a community comment last week from a teacher, I think. Well, no, we're, I didn't say, I didn't say breaking windows. I think that's more of a sort of an extreme version. But what they did say is that people do come up to the windows, they do not. They do look into them. They do bother the classrooms and when we do evacuations, that's a serious concern for theirs. Um, so it is, that was an issue that was raised, but I one of our teachers, and it is something that we have to take into account. Now, does that mean that we need to uh, uh, acquire the full field? That one I don't know, but it is, but we do have several of our buildings that, you know, that because of the design back in the day, that have dual entrances and are 2 doors, one on front, one on the back that allow people to have access inside and out, and that's where that, that's where the concern was raised.

[03:12:48] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay. So I, out of respect for other people and their comments and questions, I'm gonna, I'm gonna close my questions now. Thank you.

[03:12:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, council member Hicks. Council member Met a check?

[03:13:02] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yeah, thanks, Dr. Rudolph, for coming to our meeting here tonight. I'm a council member, Hicks, and some of the questions that we had, and then I'm going in a couple more. And in terms of the work group. And so on the slide, it talks about the 1st meeting on February 25th, and that they will go until they have, they can make a recommendation to you on the board. And I was wondering, um, Is there something that's going to drive like a deadline for them? Like, is there a, like, could this go on for 6 months, 2 years?

[03:13:40] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Well, that's, that's, that's all this isn't going on for, for 2 years, right? Like, I think all of us will get tired at that point. But I would assume that it's probably going to take us, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of probably 6 or 7 months. I would, I think this will easily last into, you know, through the summer and sort of over, um, over the break or, or, into this part of next year. It's the last project that we have on the list. Um, and so we anticipate that it's gonna, it will take a little bit longer for us to get done. There is a time frame in terms of the funding. Once we issue a bond. We only have 3 years to spin it down, but we haven't issued a bond. We haven't issued a bond to finish that fence yet. Um, and so we're we're not under any time constraints. And I think ultimately, the goal here is to find a solution, um, that sort of meets the needs of the school and also meets the needs of uh, the community. And so if that takes a little bit more time. It just takes a little bit more time.

[03:14:38] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. So, um, speaking of the bond, you said you were very transparent with it, and I should have looked at this before our meeting tonight, but did it say an actual ballot statement about the fences?

[03:14:51] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: No, talk about safety and security controls, and then we sent out a flyer, and what we had was these little icons that talked about perimeter controls would be at which sites. And so all of them, except for Vargas, actually had perimeter controls as one of them. We had solar listed on there. Um, and so there was a there was a graphic that was used.

[03:15:11] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Sorry, in the actual ballot statement. So if somebody doesn't have time to, um, read the entire pamphlet that comes, you know, for the election, but in the actual ballot statement that says, you know, do do support or not, you know, certain things, was it in that?

[03:15:27] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Uh, I don't know if it, I, I think there's a limit on it, on the actual ballot language. I don't know if it listed every single project. I think it says something about making improvements or facilities and stuff like that. It would have been standard language, which would have been as a result. And that's one of one of the things, but I do know the mail is that we sent out to the whole city, included examples of what we would be doing. And then again, we've been pretty transparent about our concern about safety since 2018 and sort of addressing that. But what the actual valid statement says, I mean, that was over a year ago. So, so, I would have to look it up.

[03:16:06] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, yeah, I was, I forgot to look at it before I came to City Hall for this meeting tonight. Okay, thanks.

[03:16:15] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, council member, Matt, check, council member, show, Walter.

[03:16:20] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah, I um, I was just gonna ask questions about the hours again. I know when my children were attending the schools. The hours for, they went to Bob, and um, the hours for kindergartners were, um, uh, completely different from the hours for uh, 1st 2nd and 3rd graders, which were different from the 4th and 5th, 4th and 5th graders. So there was an overlap of 45 minutes between when the 1st through 3rd graders got out before the 5th and 4th and 5th graders got out. So that was a period in which, um, essentially, you know, parents would come to pick up their kids. And, um, uh, there would be a lot of parents over, you know, watching the kids who had just been let out and, um, uh, waiting for their older brothers and sisters. So that was a time when the community used the facilities a tremendous amount. So that kind of split, split schedule, um, was, uh, And and frankly, the teachers, um, didn't supply any, at that point, they didn't supply any oversight to those children. The parents did. And in the morning, it was kind of the same thing, only the reverse. So it seems to me that there's kind of 2 ways you provide 2 basic ways you provide security. You do it with physical barriers and you do it with people and programming. And it seems like what we're talking about here is all about the physical barriers. And, um, I, I, I just, I, I think that, um, The trust that, uh, I just find it, it hard to understand the trust of the fence, um, versus personnel being out there. And, um, So I wanted to ask you about the balance between, um, physical barriers and increased personnel, um, providing security.

[03:18:32] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Well, I mean, you know, personnel cost money. And it's an ongoing call at every single site. Um, and so I think when we looked at it, I don't think there's a combination of one or the other, but that was one of the factors that went into, um, some of the conversations. And it, you know, and again, I think the concern that at least was conveyed to me, true principles as well as to the architect, is more about people coming on campus and, you know, personnel are addressing them. But it's the ongoing need to constantly stop them. Do we have, you know, do we have the funds to pay for security guards at all of our campuses? We don't have the funds to do that. That's an added cost that we weren't prepared for. You know, the city provides walking guards to us. And I think, you know, a year ago, right before when Vargas opened. It wasn't budgeted in there. And so, you know, we didn't have, uh, security, we didn't have a crossing guard over at one of the sites and our, the only solution was we could remove one from an existing school and and move it over to Vargas. So personnel is something that that would eat into our operational budget and reduces our ability to do other things for our kids. Um, and, you know, while, yes, we are basic aid district, we are not fully in as a basic aid. And I think, you know, they're, they're, without going into all the details. I think there are other considerations that impact our budget, uh, that, you know, reduce our full take of the tax base. And so if there was a way to pay for a security personnel, and if that's when it's solutions, and we can find a way to fund it, then that's a possibility. It's not that we've ruled it out, but it's, you know, when the architect went out and asked all of our sites, their thoughts, this is what was brought up by staff members. And so this is what I represent as the feelings of staff members. Not once did somebody say, I need a security guard to do X, Y, and Z. Um, doesn't mean that it's not as uh, they can't be a solution, but it doesn't change the fact that people are walking on the fields during the school hours. And so I think there's a myriad of options that sort of exist. But funding is, you know, fences are fixed costs versus personnel is the ongoing costs that you have to account for. Um, so I think that was just part of the consideration.

[03:21:01] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Thank you.

[03:21:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Councilman reliever.

[03:21:08] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you. Um, I had some of the same questions that council member Manachek had, and I was trying to scroll back through my memory banks and think about what I, what my understanding of things before uh, the election for Measure M was. And I didn't recall anything about it. So I, kind of dug down and I saw that, um, the, uh, the, the ballot language, the, the ballot question was, to improve the quality of local schools, make health, safety, and handicapped accessibility, improvements, modernized slash renovated classrooms, restrooms, and school facilities, and replace outdated heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems, shall mountain view school district measure be adopted authorizing. $56000000 of bonds at legal rates, generating an average $2.90000 annually, as long as the bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 4.5 per $100 of assessed value with annual audits. No money for salaries, all money staying local. And, um, and digging down and doing the research, I did note that, prior to the ballot question, um, being put out, that there was, there were meetings where fencing was discussed, but, I don't think it actually made it to most people's understanding of what the ballot measure was all about. And, and so that's a concern. Um, and I this is a question for the city attorney.

[03:22:49] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: I want to, can I clarify one thing because you read the wrong ballot language? It actually does say in the very, in the 1st 3 words to provide safe slash modern classrooms and then it goes art science and everything else. So it was one of the 1st things that was brought up. Um, and we were very clear about the safety, which is why through the masses facility plan, we prioritized what it would look like. And it's also why, uh, you know, we, in all the informational stuff that we put out. It was also included in that too.

[03:23:22] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Yeah, so I completely agree with that. And it, there was only one argument for the minister and there was no argument against. And it wasn't included in the, the argument for, but, but it was definitely part of the planning process, but I think that myself included most voters don't dial down to that level of, of being a part of that process. Um, and so on Google Maps, it describes, um, Mona Loma Park, and it says that it's a family friendly park next to a school. And so my question is for the city attorney is, is this a family friendly park next to a school? Or it's just the school site. And I know it's sort of a little bit complicated because goes back through time to the joint use agreements and et cetera. But how do we look at this property?

[03:24:27] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Uh, Councilman Believer. I'm not actually prepared to answer that question with specificity right now, with something we'd have to look at and get you an accurate answer. I think it's probably complex and uh, we'd have to, you know, review the agreement and also, uh, I would have to get input from the community services director. It's not something I could answer right now.

[03:24:53] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Okay.

[03:24:53] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: The property records just because I can't answer at this one point. property records indicate that it is school district property. The joint use agreement states that we have a shared use agreement, um, and that, you know, essentially, if the city wants to make it in John can, can add into this. If the city wants to make an adjustment, we, we can't, we can't deny them the right in the same vice versa. But we do have to consult with each other. And then so that would be the full interpretation of it. And again, I just want to reiterate, you know, because I know we're focused on access during school hours of the school fields. It is not our goal to limit anyone from having access to green space at any of our sites, nor is it our goal to remove or to deny our use services, department, the ability to schedule it. It is simply to address the safety concerns that have been raised by, uh, by the schools, but Montaloma Field, uh, which is often referred to as Montaloma Park, is actually the school's field and has been uh, since the school is opened.

[03:26:03] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: And maybe I could clarify a little bit. Dr. Rudolph was correct. I was focusing your question of the specific nomenclature and designation of the park or field. I'm aware of very aware of the joint use agreement and it is correct that the District does need to consult the city for input on any physical installations. I believe the agreement reads. I was focused more on your, um, more technical question about park designation, but the, the agreement governs and, And that's correct what Dr. Rudolph said.

[03:26:42] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Okay. And then, Dr. Rudolph, if we could take one more uh, short look at the, um, the advisory group. And, um, Just trying to study that, and that went by kind of quickly there. Dr. Rudolf, you're muted.

[03:27:24] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: It's my typical Zoom thing. Okay, give me 12nd. By the way, Christian, I wasn't challenging your knowledge on it. I was just, I was just clarifying.

[03:27:34] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Oh, no, no, no. I just wanted to provide more color to council member labor about the agreement. I was more focusing on the technical designation of the land, but no, uh, everything's good.

[03:27:48] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: Okay. Give me 12nd. I closed out the presentation because I figured that there was going to be a lot more questions about start times and times. And so I switched over to that. So if you give me 12nd. You want to look at the the makeup of the committee? Right. Right.

[03:28:06] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: There we go.

[03:28:10] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Sure.

[03:28:13] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: There you go.

[03:28:15] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Um... So, um. I think that it, it seems to me that, um, There would be 3, um, individuals who aren't associated with the school. And then, um, 6 who are. Uh, who would be on here? And so, I want to make sure that we still have a way to work through what the real meaning of the joint use agreement is within this process. And I know that you're planning on starting the advisory group process very soon. Um, But I want to make sure that we have time to, uh, really work through what the joint use agreement means. So

[03:29:21] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: I just want, I think, you know, in the spirit of transparency, the joint use basically says that we wanted to put a fence out, we could put a fence out. That's not our intent. Our intent is to work collaboratively with as many people as possible to come up with an adequate solution, to meet the needs of everyone. And so the work group is a reflection of that collaboration. And while, yes, we do have, uh, you know, uh, I don't, well, we have people who are associated with the school. Um, I don't necessarily think that a parent, um, a parent, you know, one who's from Moffit, the one other one who's lives within the community, along with 2 community members in a park and recs are going to necessarily reflect the desires of, you know, one or 2 individuals. I also think that you have 2 staff members and a district administrator, uh, specifically Dr. Westover, whose real job is to come to an impartial decision and make a recommendation to me, that I can make to the board, who represents the school district, that sort of says this is what we've come up with that meets the needs of every single person. And that's really what we're trying to do here. And we're just trying to get as many people from our walks of life without having it be unwieldy. And we're fortunate that, you know, I think it's John, who said that he's going to volunteer, but I don't want to volunteer him for it. But we're fortunate also to have Parks and Rec there. So they too can say, like, these are the other considerations that you have to take in account. Because I think part of this is, you know, when we started down this road and we're getting perspective just from a principal and we're getting their perspective just from teachers, you're getting that, you know, that sort of silo mentality. And this group now takes into account, all the stakeholders that sort of utilize the school site, not Dr. Westover. I mean, her job is just to make sure the buildings functioning, right? But all the stakeholders who utilize the site, and really come up with some good recommendations that say, this is how we can move forward, and this is how we meet the needs of everyone. So I actually believe that this is, and just, you know, we've used this process a couple times for changing boundaries, which was even more contentious and missed, and took us a lot longer to get through. Um, and we use this with a moment, priority task force, and the process actually does work. It just gets a little messy for the group. to sort of come to some type of agreement, but what we came up with, at least with boundaries, or I may not have pleased everybody, was actually a lot better than what we initially thought for boundaries. And I think that's more in line with the spirit of the community. Because, you know, as a consultant that we brought in for boundaries stated, most school districts just change boundaries and keep moving. We did a year and a half long process, just to talk about boundaries, and then another year long process, to talk about the enrollment priorities for it. And then we took another couple years to actually execute it. And that was more in line with what our community means. And I think this community, this task force or this, this advisory group will be, I will also reflect uh, that desire to.

[03:32:36] Councilmember Alison Hicks: And I have no doubt that they would reflect the best thinking of the community, but it seems like other than the person from parks and recreation, I know that John has a pretty heavy workload, but he can handle it. And, um, but, uh, all those individuals except for one would be chosen by the district, is that right?

[03:33:00] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: No, uh, I mean, if you count a principal being chosen, I mean, obviously. So the principal and the, uh, I mean, the people who have been chosen, obviously John Volunteer, the principal has been volunteered. 2 staff members are chosen by the principal. Um, the parents are, you know, basically, uh, whether they're school site council or PTA, whatever process the principal wants to use, they'll they'll make sure that that happens. The individuals who are the district advisor, the district advisor committee is made up of parents who represent, who work on the site councils, and they are the ones who made the choice, but they did it blindly. They didn't look at any names. They just looked at what people put in on the application as sort of like, what is your work issue with the district? What is your experience with facilities and stuff like that? Um, so really, I mean, outside of John, the principal and Rebecca, who was, you know, sort of put on there, everyone else is chosen by someone outside of the school district or someone at the school site. It has nothing to do with us whatsoever. We have no influence whatsoever, um, on what the AC recommends. We have no influence on who the city, the school chooses, um, as their representatives, nor do we have any influence over who the principal chooses as their representatives. And we actually did offer to Monteloma community that they could have, they had to meet our timeline, but that they could have chose the representatives, but, you know, there was a dis, at least, uh, what was conveyed to us, there was a dispute about whether or not the neighborhood association represented the needs of everyone, which is why we continued forward with the application process. But at Monteloma's neighborhood associations and the neighborhood just agreed to send to people. We were gladly willing with that and would have saved us the time and effort to have to have VAC read, true, uh, applications and rank them. And by the way, uh, council member Hickson, as well as a couple other people, uh, doc, my phone's been pinging nonstop. So Dr. Westover says we said at a minimum of 20 minutes before the bell, the locks would unlock, so that at least addresses the before school. And I think she's in here right now. She may be listening. So if she texts me and tell me what the after school is. I'll have that answer too.

[03:35:33] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you.

[03:35:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Uh, counsel my rapid COVID?

[03:35:38] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. My question has to do with the joint use agreement, so I'm not sure who could answer, um, and there may not be an answer now, but, um, and I was just wondering, um, my, my understanding was that it was a joint use in the sense that after school hours, it would become a park or a feel open space for the community. Um, and I was, I'm wondering, um, it, I mean, it's a kind of a rare arrangement is my understanding between schools and cities. Um, so do you know, um, in school districts or cities where there aren't, there are not joint use agreements. What happens to the school? Site, the properties after school is out. Are folks allowed to go onto the campus fields or not?

[03:36:36] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: So I can, I can speak for, I live next to elementary, 2 elementary schools in middle school, and when I lived in San Jose, I live next to another one. People go in the fields after hours all the time. Um, even though they have fencing around. I live next to Central Park and granite Central Park. It's this big area that sort of exists, but the middle school that was just built does have a fence, even the rec center has a fence, but people are there all the time. They're just not there during school hours. Um, and so again, that's that's part of the reason why we don't want to limit access um, at all. And I see people using a skate park or any other other people. I saw some people playing flag football, obviously not today, but, um, playing flag football a couple days ago or a couple weeks ago when it was warmer out there. Um, but typically that's what you see, uh, even if a school does have fencing. Um, there's some way that people can get in and out. Um, which you would have to anyway. And then you see people utilize the schools and the gates only are closed during the actual school hours.

[03:37:42] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So I guess my, um, I guess I'm trying to understand better than, um, the benefit of for the city or the community, residents, whatever, the neighborhood, um, by having this joint use agreement, um, is it mainly, and I, I've learned, it sounds like, when you're scheduling like youth activity leagues, um, it's the city that programs that, and perhaps that's not the case in a non-joint use agreement, um, arrangement where the school does that, but I guess, yes, I'm trying to understand if, you know, other school campuses are open and they don't have this joint use agreement. Um, what's the extra benefit that the city receives for for that?

[03:38:28] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: John, you want to take that? You want me to?

[03:38:30] Community Services Director John Marchant: I'll start and Dr. Rudolph can jump in after. Um, so yes, this is not necessarily a typical arrangement between city and school district and I think we're lucky to have an arrangement such as this. Um, number one, typically if a, if we do not have this type of arrangement, yes, the school district then has the right to, um, utilize the fields as they see fit, um, in this case, we're able to create a used sports organization, um, process. And so we can determine who uses the field when. Um, and in this case, we have a number of playgrounds that are associated with these school um, school locations, um, that become available after hours as well. So we're getting additional access to more playgrounds, not only the fields. in this situation. And so by having the city be responsible also for the field allocations citywide, we're able to then look at, um, what sports season it is when, and make sure that the, all of the, all of the teams have, evil access based on mountain residency, are they recognizing sports organization, we give the priority to the view sports organizations over adult sports. So we have more control over who's accessing, um, those and when. Um, so those are some of the benefits of this relationship compared to others where, um, And so we're providing some of the extra structure around that.

[03:40:05] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: And I would just add, I think, you know, the city does an excellent job of maintaining the fields, which allows us to have some really beautiful manicured green spaces. Um, but it also, um, allows the city to run other programs and allows other organizations to run programs, Girl Scouts during the summer run programs, uh, and utilize our campuses. Obviously, all the, every soccer, uh, organization you can think of in Mountain Views using it. Softball is using it. And so those were things that If, and I'm only going to speak for my counterparts, right? But most school districts are just very leery of renting out space. And so they just kind of keep things closed off. We're in a very fortunate position where we provide access, you know, except for, you know, right now when it gets dark at 5, but we provide access on the weekends, uh, for, for a myriad of, uh, sports, uh, leagues. And then again, the city, we don't have to purchase the equipment, uh, to maintain it, um, and the city uh, maintains the field, which makes our fields and our schools look beautiful across the board. I think the other thing I would say is that, um, you know, we partnered with the city, uh, to to create the astral turf, the 2 astral turf fields. Um, and, and actually three, I was still waiting to bring Vargas online. But even more importantly, we also put up lights. Uh, at, at, at Crittan. And I think anybody who drives through or pass middlefield, even though you can't really see the lights because of the way that they are, anybody goes to middle, uh, to putting in after hours. I think almost to 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night, we'll see people utilizing the track running around it, but also to see multiple sports teams in and out. And I think that is one of the benefits of having it. And especially, um, high school who didn't have lights at the point. I'm not sure if they still have lights, but even they were able to utilize the field and practice. And that's as a as a direct result of the fabulous partnership that we have with the city that wouldn't be there. I also want to point out that when it's the field is not in use. Uh, community organizations do utilize those areas too. And again, it helps that the maintaining of that isn't subject to the school district. It is the city is able to maintain it. And I think one of the challenges. And I'll just speak when I lived in San Jose. One of the challenges is that when a school district makes cuts, they start making cuts of everything around them except for what's in the classroom. And even when we made some cuts. We never once had to think about, do we need to cut the water off or do we need to, you know, stop maintaining the fields because we knew that the city would take care of it in that world. They would they would stay man manicures. So I think all those additional benefits as well as, you know, uh, John and his team. And John, by the way, you come out here, you don't become Dr. Rudolph. Uh, but, uh, you know, um, John and his team making sure that, you know, community organizations have access to the to the to the parks and the different areas.

[03:43:19] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Great, thank you.

[03:43:21] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Vice mayor of the Mes?

[03:43:26] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you mayor. Um, I'm going to ask some of the same good questions that my colleagues have asked, but just with different words. Uh, so the 1st is, uh, the, so for the, the mona loma proposal, our unsupervised students permitted to access the, the periphery of the campus, so like the fence area near the, you know, the, the playground structure and that kind of thing.

[03:43:56] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Yeah, so teachers do send kids sort of off to do assignments outside. Um, sometimes it depends on, you know, whether or not a teacher feels like it's safe, um, or whether it's going to be disruption, but kids to go outside, uh, during the instructional day, to do different projects. So maybe they need a break or something like that. It tends to be a little bit more monitored by the teacher. Um, but they do have access to it.

[03:44:26] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay. Uh, so that's that's during instructional hours and it's generally supervised during recess. Um, do students go out to those areas unsupervised or is that discouraged and forced?

[03:44:44] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Uh, they have almost uh, complete access to the full field, um, Monteloma, typically where you see, um, kids, the back playground area, which is the biggest play, playground area. The softball field, the swing set, and then the, um, the kinder area, and normally they sort of stop, where the kinder area is, like the field, um, Hold on one second. Let me see if I still have. I can I can show it to you. real quick. Uh... All right. Sorry to do that to y'all. Uh, Let me see. Okay, month to moment. So here we go. Can y'all see my cursor, by the way?

[03:45:50] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[03:45:50] MVWSD Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Okay. So this is the back playground area. There is a small fence that sort of exists and then it opens up right here. So kids use this playground area. They use this area right here. They use this part of the field and they will use this part of the baseball field. Um, you normally don't see people go beyond this building uh, right here just because, and that's, you can see the soccer outline. That's just because it's a little bit harder to see. But normally you'll see kids sort of in this general area, across the board, just doing various activities. And then you see a group of kids here. Obviously, when a full school is out. Um, uh, it's a lot harder um, to provide access, especially with the older kids because they they need to stretch the lakes a little bit more. But you don't see kid, no kids go all the way over here to this tot lot, and you don't see kids up in the front area over here. So this is where almost all their attention is. There is, and these are where these fences are. There are some areas in here, that are sort of green space, but these are in between classes. And so this isn't used at all. It's all on this on this side. And that's pretty consistent. Uh, with what we see at all of our school sites. Stevenson uses, you know, pretty much the 17 acres, Stevenson Thakoff, uh, to let kids run and then they call them back.

[03:47:15] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, thank you. That's helpful. So to what extent is the utilization of the field, uh, taking into consideration for the proposals that you've put forward so far?

[03:47:30] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: So the initial proposal, the 1st proposal took into account that we wanted to provide the community with the ability to walk. So the biggest thing we heard is we used the trails, we sort of walked through. We want to have access to different areas. And so we drew the line to allow for that to have access. Uh, so that you could have a fence, and kids could play, and they could still utilize the whole field. Uh, but then, sorry, how about this? I'll show it to you again. I think it makes a lot more sense than you looking at my hands go whichever which way. Um, so this design, you can see this. I'm assuming. Okay, so this initial design was based off of the community feedback that we had that, uh, the community wanted to be able to walk this trail, all the way around here, and go back out, so you can see we connected, and this this playfield actually is open, so the fence is only partially there. Um, and then they they want to access to Snack Shack and they want to access to the top lot. So that's what we initially heard and that's how we drew the designs. Then the 2nd iteration of this was, well, it'd be a lot easier if you just put a fence right up at the top, you just close the school grounds during the school day, and then you opened it up and allow people to sort of walk in after hours. And so that's how we came up with the 2nd design. And within the 2nd design. Uh, I will show you, give me 12nd. whatever question you have next. I'll show you what we, based off of the feedback that we had, how we, uh, adapted the, the front of the field using that initial design so that it reflected more of an Eagle Park look so that, you know, it had a welcoming entrance and really sort of projected more of this open space that we could open these wide gates. Uh, so if you give me a 2nd, I'll find an example of that, but I can, I get some answer. So we tried to be responsive as many times, as many times we've heard feedback from the community to keep making adjustments. And so we're technically on our 3rd iteration of this.

[03:49:44] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay. And then, I guess, uh, Sort of separate from that and maybe this is a question for city staff. Uh, it's, you know, appears many of these schools were designed with some public access component in mind. Um, the, the pathway, for instance, into the monolone campus that you're, when the 2nd proposal is getting off, was designed intentionally. I imagine once upon a time with the idea that there's some level of permeability. Um, and then for anybody who knows, was there ever, like, an easement to guarantee permeability and perpetu- in perpetuity? Or was that just a nice thing that was incorporated into the campus when it was designed?

[03:50:39] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: So the school district has a couple of easements where it is necessary, specifically, um, Stevenson has an easement. Uh, there is one at Crittan. There's an easement for the trail. Um, and I believe, uh, uh, what you, what most people refer to as Cooper Park, our, uh, the Eunice property has an Easement, and then Sylvan, I believe, is a joint. So it has a completely different arrangement across the board. The rest of it is just more a reflection of, uh, when the school district purchased the land and sort of what the needs the needs were. Um, and there aren't that many easements outside of that. And just so you can see, this is exactly what the, the 3rd iteration of what the design looked like to make it feel more like Eagle Park, just one fence up in the front. Um, so that, and this is what it currently looks like. And so we were opting to do this one if that's what the community uh community wanted. You know, master's facility plan. There's actually property, property lines that you can look at and you can find the easements more readily there too. And you can look at where the property line lies and sort of what, what area and stuff.

[03:51:57] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, that's that's helpful. Thank you. And then uh, final set of questions on the working group. Um, it, it might be helpful to better understand exactly how that will function. Is this a brown act restricted group? that will have, you know, publicly agendas, uh, meetings and be required to take public comment.

[03:52:21] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: No, it's not subject to the Brown Act, but it will be open for people to sort of observe. I mean, obviously, if we were in session and allow to see each other face to face. We would publicize where it was, and we similar to what we did with the boundaries task force, as soon as there is attendance task force, as well as enrollment priorities task force, We had an area that the community could sit and sort of watch. And then we always told them they could, they could be involved. In this case, uh, we would provide access via Zoom, but, uh, participants, uh, observers would not able, um, to interact with with anyone, um, whatsoever. They would be muted and it would only be for observation purposes. The only way we would, you know, obviously we felt there was a concern about someone's safety or if we felt like some of the topics are some of the conversations that we, that people were having, were so charged that we, we didn't want people's views to be out there, then we would, uh, we wouldn't, uh, open it up for people to to sort of reserve, but it is not subject to the Brown act whatsoever. And it is our goal. One of these meetings that we provide a community with sort of an update and then we would go back out to the community to say, here's what we talk about. Here's some ideas, gather some feedback and take it back to the group too.

[03:53:38] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, but there will be noticing, uh, in the, the agendas will be published and publicized in advanced public is aware of what's going on and knows when to provide comment.

[03:53:52] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: We would impose, we, it's not subject to products, we don't, uh, we don't do public comments. We don't post an agenda. We will say we're having a working group session up the meeting. It would be on our website. Uh, and so if someone wanted to access it that way, we would. But it wouldn't be, we post an agenda and this is what it looks like and this is when they're going to meet. Um, because again, we want the work group to really work. Uh, and our goal is, is that when we do a community, community outreach, uh, when we take it back to the public meetings, that's when, that's when people also have, those are the opportunities for the public to way back in.

[03:54:30] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay. Um, you mentioned that it will provide recommendations to the board. Uh, will make formal recommendations by a majority vote or are you expecting consensus or what's the decision making mechanism that you're anticipating?

[03:54:48] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Well, they got size? Yeah, so, um, we define consensus as when the world of the group is evident and all voices have been heard and they will make a recommendation to me. Now, what that looks like. It's different depending on the committee and how well they can work together. Some committees or task force were able to vote. Some, you know, they were sort, they sort of land, not landlocked, but they were sort of stuck where they were. Um, and so we just went with the will. But normally, at least with, with, Excuse me, with the task forces that we've used, they normally find a way to come to some type of agreement and some type of compromise, uh, that everybody can sort of live with, not that everybody's pleased with, and then they make that recommendation to me. And then my job is to take that to the board and then the board deliberates and provides feedback and it will bring it back one more time for the board to make a final decision. But um, it's my job to bring the recommendation to the board. It's their job to provide the recommendation to me. And I've never went against the feedback of a task force or our committee, or the recommendation of a task force or committee. So I don't make changes, but I will bring back if the board says, you know, have you thought about this and this, I'll bring the F back home and send them back to work.

[03:56:10] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay, that that's helpful. Thank you. Um, question for John. Um, I'm curious about how you envision your role on this working group. Um, will you do you see yourself as simply providing sort of technical, uh, you know, advice and speaking to sort of the city's role and responsibility? Or do you feel empowered to advocate for a particular outcome? based on direction provided by the council?

[03:56:45] Community Services Director John Marchant: And it's a good question, council member Ramirez. So, obviously, I can provide technical expertise as far as use of recreational facilities as it comes to, um, the will of the city council. I'm certainly willing to take that under advisement and be able to, um, bring that back to the larger group as well.

[03:57:10] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: If I could, and, and, you know, vice mayor, if I could just say this. Uh, in my experience of doing this for over 6 years in this community, the, the more constraints you put on the, on the task, the harder it is for, uh, people to get the job done. Uh, and so it's my hope that John reflects your interest, but also when we bring it back to you, both John or Rebecca and I. Um, it gives you the opportunity to provide feedback. Um, and then we take that feedback. But if we provides explicit direction based off of emails that we're getting on what people have said, it really constrains and puts the whole group into a very tough position and it won't allow John to really be as creative. And so I've said the exact same thing to my board, allow the group to start working in the beginning, uh, and then there will be ample opportunities for city council as well as, uh, the board of trustees, uh, to provide feedback and direction, to sort of steer people, um, along the way, as well as the community members uh, that we will also do this for.

[03:58:23] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Okay. Now, that's something. The intent of the question was to clarify, if the working group does vote, uh, and there's an, you know, a majority decision. It wasn't clear to me whether John would vote or sort of sit out nor as an exhibicio member providing, you know, representation from the city and technical expertise. So I think this is, you know, if, if the council provides some direction, it would be helpful to know, you know, would you be comfortable voting and sort of actively participating in the, the formation of a recommendation that way? Um, those are all the questions I have. Thank you.

[03:59:05] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: I know, I expect John to participate fully and the vote would have a way his heart and the city desire. So, um, that that's the expectation there. And I hope he feels the same way.

[03:59:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, thank you. We are into the 2nd round of council members asking questions. before we do that, I just wanted to ask a clarifying question for Dr. Rudolph. So it sounds like the working group will have virtual meetings of just a working group. And then um, there will also be public opportunities that will be virtual for everyone else to be able to join and attend. Um, throughout the process. So they'll be both and that you've moved your model from the other initiatives that you talked about to completely virtual. that right?

[03:59:55] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: That is correct.

[03:59:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. And so, um, Per, per, well, I don't want to go into conference, but I think that, uh, you know, perhaps that could be part of the communications to, to everyone after, but, okay, council member, Hicks, I saw your hand and then council member, Mattachek, I saw yours and just want to also say we have a very patient public who's been waiting. So I want to make sure that they have their opportunity to, um, speak as well as we're approaching 945. Okay, cancel my hicks.

[04:00:25] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes, I totally want to get to public comments. I just wanted to piggyback on a question that, uh, council member Lieber had asked and because I think it's actually the heart of the issue or or one of the hearts. Um, and ask it from a different angle, she asked, is Monaloma park, a park or a field? And it was, you know, the answer was that it's owned by the school district, which I think we probably all know. But I also think that, um, that, and maybe John Marchant can clarify this for me. I also think that these sites are listed as our neighborhood parks, in fact, in multiple documents, and in fact, I think that the school districts own, Oh, I think I've read that they own 66% of the city's neighborhood parks. So, I, you know, I want to get to public comment, but I believe that's, that hasn't really come up or been expressed and that they have been for 70 years. Um, so I think that's the reason for the amount of council concern that you're hearing, I'm probably public concern as well. And John, you can please correct me if I'm wrong, if everything I've just said is just totally misleading.

[04:01:50] Community Services Director John Marchant: No, you are correct, where in within the 2014 Parks and Open Space Plan, it does call out all of our park spaces. Um, it does call out the type of park and there are a number of them that are called school slash park locations. Um, and those are all the, the shared use uh, sites. And so for all of the school acreage that we utilize, it's about 44% of our cities open space. The Mountain View Lisman school district specifically is about 33% of that of the city's open space, not including North Bay Shore. So, um, yes, those are called out as um, as open space within the city.

[04:02:38] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, so so I'll say no more because I really want to get to public comment, but I think that is the heart of the issue that, um, how what has been considered for about 70 years as the vast majority of our neighborhood park space, what's happening to that?

[04:02:56] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Well, I just, I just want to point out just one more time, and I say this as respectfully as possible. It is not our intent to restrict access to the field after hours. It is not our intent to restrict access on the weekends. It is not our intent to rip up the grass and take it someplace else and put it any place. It is our intent to provide safety to our community. Uh, mainly our students and our teachers. And they, I think, While I, I completely understand, where that, what you're saying, um, I also want to just reiterate that my job is also to represent the needs of the students as well as the staff, and that when people are accessing the fields, after hours, are the parts. I mean, the fields during school hours and creating safety issues for staff and students, that is where this concern lies. And figuring out a solution for that is the task of the group. And so I don't want us to get caught up, at least in our world, we try not to get caught up in the nomenclature of it. What we are concerned about is the unseen concern of safety that exists amongst students, staff, and parents.

[04:04:21] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Mattachek.

[04:04:25] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Uh, just one quick question, and I was going to have this in comments, but Dr. Rudolph uh, sort of granted up when he talked about uh, the process, and he said that, uh, you know, when this comes back to you. And so I was wondering, what did you envision as, you know, how the council in the school district would work together on this?

[04:04:48] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: Well, hopefully we all, you know, on February 26th, I have a solution that we all can live with and we, you know, give each other high fives and call it a day. Um, but I ideally, I don't know if that's what's going to happen. I mean, ultimately, what I expect, you know, and I think all board feels the exact same way, is that we find that the best compromise that we can, both city council and the school board provide as much input as possible, the sort of guides, the working group, but that we all sort of walk away after that, after, uh, various input sessions, uh, or input points, that we all walk away with something that we all can live with and feel uh, comfortable with and that our teachers and our, uh, mainly our teachers feel safe, and that community members feel, A, heard, as well as teachers feel, heard, but also that they have the ability to continue accessing, uh, the green space after hours and on and on the weekends. That's really what I'm hoping occurs and that city council can stay, you know, it may not be ideal to everyone, but is that at least a deal? is a great compromise and is a great way to use it, and that the school board can say the exact same thing, may not meet, check all the boxes, may not make everybody happy, but you know what? It is the best solution that we have. And again, I want to just pull it out there. It doesn't mean that the whole field is sectioned off. It could be just part of a field of section off. It doesn't mean that, that, you know, it could be that city council put a plug in. City council says we're going to provide you with security guards at on our dime and we run with that. And we're like, cool. Like, we're perfectly fine for it. I think ultimately the goal here is just to address the safety concern that exists, and that we all feel confident that our kids are going to be safe and protected, and that our teachers feel safe and protected, especially, I know right now it's heightened because of COVID, but after that, right? Like, that's really what I hope, and I hope the city council, which I'm sure y'all will be. Uh, will be honest and open and, you know, will provide feedback, but I also understand that there's there's competing interest here, but we're all trying to find the exact same thing. safety as well as access for, for, for our community.

[04:07:06] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So would you imagine that you would come back to us after the work group has made the recommendation to you.

[04:07:15] Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph: I, I, I will as, could we just try not to have it on a, on a week that I have an extra board meeting? Uh, but, uh, yeah, I, I will uh, bring it back. I will bring it back in the same cadence, um, or have Dr. Wes over here in the same cadence that we would bring it to the board. I think so what I would say is, uh, typically the way that the process goes, you give the working group a couple meetings to sort of hash some stuff out, they come up with some ideas, you bring that back and you say, here's where we are. Here's what it sort of looks like. That's probably about one or 2 months later. And you say, in this case, because they're starting in February, we probably have one before summer hits. And I know you all take a you all take a recess. We take a recess, right? But before that recess happens. Everybody's had a chance to sort of weigh in. They get another chance to do some work. We come back, we do that a couple more times. Every time that they come up with some solutions after they've done some work. We come back, you know, if y'all want to see my smile and face, I'd be like, hey, here's where we are. I'll change my background. I'll bring some, you know, some other place and say, this is what we have. What feedback do you have? We'll do the same thing with the board of trustees. We'll try to get as close to a solution as possible. Rebecca and John will work behind the scenes, trying to hash out some stuff on architects will being there. And then as once we feel like we're close to a solution, we'll bring it back one more time. And we'll say, here's, you know, here's what we have. Obviously, city council isn't technically approving it, but you may want to choose, I leave that up to your staff. Obviously, our board of trustees will approve whatever the final solution is. and then we go from there. And if we have to bring it back, uh, through that. And through that process, we also take it down to the community, right? So in each one of those cases, you know, 2 months, 2.5 months of work, we set up a community meeting, we talk about, here's where we started, here are the different iterations. These presentations get kind of long. Uh, we sort of modeled them after city council because we start from beginning all the way to end. And we say, uh, this is what it looks like. Here's where we are. And then they get feedback. We take that back, give it to the work group, and we do it again. And we just keep that iteration going until we feel like we've gotten to a good place. But there's ample opportunity for you to weigh in. And in fact, probably by the time we get to the end of it, you'll be tired of seeing me if you're not already tired by now.

[04:09:44] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I appreciate, uh, I was working together on this. Thank you.

[04:09:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you so much. So I don't see any other council members with questions. Um, so I'd like to um, ask if members of the public on the line would like to provide comment on this item. If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom. Um, and then you would actually hit star 6 on your phone to unmute yourself, um, to be able to speak. Um, so the clerk is going to set the timer uh, for 2 minutes. Um, and I also wanted to say that we received several requests for additional time for public comment on this item by individual speakers representing certain groups of people. Council policy allows individuals up to 10 minutes to speak on behalf of a group depending on size. If those represented agree not to speak. The policy is not designated to allow additional people to be added to the original group to allow more than 10 minutes for any designated speaker. Uh, so I understand that we have 2 speakers uh, tonight who are representing 2 different groups, one representing a group of approximately 20 people who will be allowed 10 minutes to speak and display a presentation. And another group of 5 people who will be able to speak for 5 minutes to speak and display a presentation. Names of the individuals represented by the designated speakers have been provided to the city clerk. And those individuals will not be permitted to speak on the item. Thanks, everyone, for their collaboration on this, and for those who are speaking on behalf of the groups. Please feel free to introduce yourself as well as the names of those that you'll be speaking for, just so that council has that information. So, uh, I will start with uh, Scott Williams, um, Ms. Wonderland, can we put up the timer before I unmute,

[04:11:42] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mr. Johnson's doing that right now. Thank you, Mayor.

[04:11:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. All right. Scott Williams, please feel free to unmute.

[04:11:51] Scott Williams: Hi, can you hear me?

[04:11:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I can hear you.

[04:11:54] Scott Williams: Uh, good evening, uh, Madam Mayor and the members of the council and also to, uh, to our superintendent. Um, I uh, I know that, um, when Measure T was 1st proposed here. Uh, we're looking at $10,000 for fencing in in Monteloma. Uh, and part of it was prompted by the 2018 um, shootings in Parkland, Florida. Uh, and I can understand why our community is concerned about the safety of our schools. Um, in uh, the wake of the school shootings that have happened. Um, the Arizona State University has has gathered data from, uh, a US Department of Education, July 2004 report called Threat Assessment in Schools. Some of the facts here, um, of the attackers that happen at schools, 71% of them feel bullied, persecuted, or injured at school, and 95% of them were students at the school. And so I wonder about the efficacy of trying to fence out violence if the violence sometimes comes from inside our schools. Uh, I think that a safe and inclusive environment at our school doesn't feel like a vacant lot. It feels like an engaged and welcoming community. Uh, so, I'd like to uh, add my ¢2 here in favor of a tighter perimeter, um, allowing the community to be present and to help, uh, create that sense of community and and safety. Uh, and something else I want to do. Okay, all right. I yield my time. Thank you.

[04:13:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Okay, Alan.

[04:13:35] Alan: Um, thank you very much for this opportunity. Thank you, Dr. Rodolph, um, for such a, uh, a complete, uh, a thorough presentation on the subjects of concern to so many in our community. Um, uh, my hope is that, uh, um, being a public uh, forum and and it's being recorded that, uh, this presentation in your comments, um, um, can all be available um, for the public um, after this meeting. Um, and, uh, uh, that's just a hope, and, uh, you know, thank you for the stewardish, your, the ongoing stewardship of the open park space, um, for all these years, um, in conjunction with the city. Um, you know, um, there are a lot of individuals and groups, um, that, um, uh, are out there that wish the same type of equal representation or opportunity to um, offer their own, um, testimony on the subject as well. Thank you very much.

[04:14:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. All right, next is Heather Scholl. Heather, please feel free to unmute yourself.

[04:15:04] Heather Scholl: Is this unmuted now?

[04:15:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[04:15:06] Heather Scholl: Okay. Hi, thanks for the opportunity to speak. Dr. Rudolph made it clear that he does not consider the fields of city park, but the city has conveniently borrowed the fields on the community's behalf and exchange for maintenance and the right to count the park as park space. doing when doing the math, for part space per resident. Clearly, the states of this mushy agreement are over and parks part-time park space should not count under the Quinbyak requirements. I'd like to hear what the city plans to do to replace any park spaces officially taken from our community from the hours of 7.30 AM to the end of the school day. Secondly, in regards to the communication with us in the neighborhood, we have all made clear already about how inadequate and late the communications were from the school, but today, in an email exchange with Dr. Rudolph, I learned that the city supplied only 596 addresses out of the 1000 residents of Montaloma neighborhood for the only communication from the school planned to land on each residence doorstep regarding this plan specifically and inviting community involvement. The city must do better in advocating and informing all of their constituents when these issues arise. Thank you.

[04:16:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Shani Kleinhouse, please feel free to emulate yourself. Shani. You're still talking to me, Heather.

[04:16:47] Heather Scholl: Uh, I'm sorry,

[04:16:48] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Heather, I moved on to Shawnee.

[04:17:00] Heather Scholl: Okay. So close,

[04:17:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Shani. I mute.

[04:17:08] Shani Kleinhouse: Alright, can you hear me now?

[04:17:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[04:17:11] Shani Kleinhouse: Okay. So, um, there has, um, I understand that the school district is planning perimeter lighting for all the schools. Um, in addition to the fencing and that is of great concern to Santa Clara Valley Audubon society, which I represent. We tend to think of artificial light at night. As we do about sugar. People crave it. They always want more. And our society is addicted. But scientific evidence, increasingly shows that artificial light at night is unhealthy to all living beings. Biologists now recognize light collision, is equivalent to climate change in its global impact to our biological system and health. And because, and this is because light interferes with gene expression and homework regulation, and because of that, it affects physiology, metabolism and behavior, to all creatures, whether it's a worm or a tree or human. From cellular to organism to to ecosystem levels. In humans, light has been shown to cause obesity, diabetes, breast and prostate cancers, it's harmful to children's growth, behavior, and mental health, and it's a potent pollutant and should be treated as such. Globally, it's light pollution has increased so much that most children, including more than 80% of American children and probably everybody in Mountain View, have never seen the Milky Way from their home. What will inspire children to wish for the stars? I hope the school district recognizes that any new lighting is a threat, not safety. It's time to protect health in the environment. It's time to minimize light for both the health and the safety of the students. And think of it of any other harmful pollutant that you bring onto the school's environment. Use only day warm motion sensitive lighting, if any, at all. Um, so thank you and um, Please discuss lighting.

[04:19:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much. Kavita. Let's see. Okay, it says, a lot of talk is not available because Kavita, David Kumbe is using an older version of Zoom. Is that all right if I just hit promote panelist there?

[04:19:35] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Yeah, and then do that.

[04:19:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Did you join us?

[04:19:43] Kavita: Hi.

[04:19:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hi.

[04:19:45] Kavita: Um, Well, thank you for the opportunity to speak. Um, so good evening, council member, staff, and Dr. Iende. didn't know I was going to be on screen. I'm sitting in bed, but thanks for, um, thanks for the chance to provide public comment. My name is Kavita. I'm a member of the parent community at Landl's, uh, with 2 kids and volunteer frequently in many different programs at Landl's and through Living Classroom in particular with many of the schools. I do not support the fencing plans because of how it is going to affect our parent involvement in the school communities. I believe it will only push people away and divide our community further. Um, especially after school as parents are not going to stand around and wait for the gates to unlock so kids can play with their friends. Our public green spaces feel as though they are being taken away. Our teachers also rely on parent volunteers, and parents get involved by making connections while dropping off, picking up and spending time on campuses. As a school, I'd like to understand actually how the parent transition is going to occur. As a school community, we've already been dealing with years of construction, new school boundaries, which really impacted the school community already, the pandemic, and now potential return to schools that will look very inviting and even scary to our children. I feel like today, there has been very little collaboration or discussion about fencing in general with the parent community, but rather simply informing us, and the one meeting appeared to be overwhelmingly negative. This is also frustrating because we have yet to reopen our schools. If our goals are children in the safety of our children and staff, Then instead of the fencing, we should focus our money and effort on the mental health of our kids and a plan to get our kids back to school safely. So I urge you to please further consider all these options, especially with regard to priorities as these priorities were established prior to the pandemic. And that you include all the organizations involved in the school day. The time the gates are unlocked, need to be considered as well. Um, things have changed a lot. So my hope is that we move forward with our children at the heart of this conversation, and that they return feeling like they belong, not further isolated. Thank you.

[04:21:41] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Scott Cunningham. Let me hear you.

[04:21:55] Scott Cunningham: Okay. So, um, The concerns about security for kids, I was wondering if the gates could be unlocked by by teachers and by the kids during school hours, considering an emergency where a child needs to leave and go out quickly. Would they be able to? Um, That was my only concern. Thank you.

[04:22:22] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hey, thank you. Okay. Tim McKenzie, please feel free to unmute yourself.

[04:22:33] Tim McKenzie: Hi, uh, my name is Tim McKenzie. I've been a resident of Montalama since 2015. I'll start with a comment from my roommate that came out during this present presentation. He said, I've seen more decorative fences in prisons. Um, that I'll just let that say is stay there. Also, in terms of the outreach. I feel like I've heard a lot about staff and parents and not as much about students. The one slide that says student voices. I don't, it looked very much to me like it was sort of a survey response one to 5 and you can circle a thing rather than voices directly from students. Um, I'll also add the outreach for this has been horrible. There, I did, I got that flyer like 2 or 3 weeks ago. That was the only thing I've heard from the school district. The 1st time I heard about this was last fall when I happened to be at a city council meeting for something else, and this also was on the agenda, and that's when I heard about it. And at that time, and at this time, it really felt like the decision had already been made, and all subsequent work is just sort of engaging with the community to convince us that this is the best decision and fences are the way to go and will pretend to listen and then go ahead with the design that we've already made. That's the appearance that I'm getting from this. It doesn't actually, the, the, we go back to 2018 when we showed the timeline of when this decision was made and we're just hearing about it now 3 years later. And we're talking about student safety. We just heard a few hours ago from Czech about a suicide from a Mountain View high school student. There are suicide clusters here, constantly. This I view as a much, much bigger issue of safety. I don't know if I would ever want to start a family here because I don't know if my kids would be able to live. And that is a much bigger thing of safety than fences.

[04:24:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: You'll meant time.

[04:24:36] Tim McKenzie: Thank you.

[04:24:37] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Andre Valente?

[04:24:44] Andre Valente: Thank you. Can you hear me?

[04:24:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you. Andre, go ahead and I heard you.

[04:24:55] Andre Valente: Can you hear me now?

[04:24:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you. Go ahead.

[04:24:58] Andre Valente: Good evening, council members and mayor. My name is Andrew Valentia. I lived in Mont Aloma for 9 years. I'm also the treasurer of the Monteluma Neighborhood Association, but I'm speaking on my own behalf today. When I came, I found Montalomo to be a welcoming and open neighborhood with friendly engaged neighbors, a great school in a beautiful park, but to my surprise today, I learned 3 things. One, there's no such thing as the Monte Lava Park, no matter what Google Maps says or a sign. This is actually the fuel of the Montaloma school, and it just has been laxing enforcing its ownership and control. To, like, many of my Mount Aluma neighbors, I've been to the park during the day and I've been violating the penal code. I did not know that. I suppose I should consider myself lucky not to be in prison. And three, there's a wave of criminality and safety problems for schools that's unparalleled in the 6 years so years that the school has been here, and that that lack of safety demands, the criminal solutions that have never been contemplated before, like creating a fence. Interesting, by the way, those uh, problems don't seem to occur, it's the Los Altos, uh, which is our neighbor uh, city. And of course, this is not true. And the big point I want to make is that the school from the start has, I think, misled the public. About the need for offense as well as the intent to build one. And I think citizens like me and many others, the whole voice, their displeasure have been duped into voting for the funds they are paying for this. Uh, and finally, I want to make sure that the city council understands that the work looked as proposed by the district is just window dressing. One council member noticed, and despite the statement of Mr. Rodolph, the district would actually choose all participants, including the ones representing the neighborhood. This is just a river stamp. The city council should help drive a solution to create a real Monte Lama Park, be a more reasonable fence. Or purchasing the space and making a real park out of it. Thank you.

[04:26:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Kate Mark? Kate, feel free to unmute.

[04:27:28] Kate Mark: All right. Yes. As a public health professional, I know the importance of site, accessible, parks and public places. And I'm asking that you not use either the current plans about fencing the park. Mainly because of safety issues. Even when the park fields are open, they are often not accessible to the public, because they are used by Little League or other groups renting space. This means that fencing the park will create a narrow, and in some places, this is only 10 feet wide corridor, making it a high likelihood that an accident will happen. It's just a matter of how soon, how serious, and who will be held responsible. Montalama Park is frequently used by 30 people or more, several dogs, sometimes 60 people. And fencing, as I said, will create this corridor. Think of us, imagine this. You have a small corridor, you have toddlers, small children, children on bikes, school kids, skateboards, dog walkers, joggers, athletes, and then there's folks like me, seniors. And the more vulnerable. And those just wishing to find a quiet park bench, which won't exist. The 2 plans that we presented to him tonight are basically no park, except a narrow corridor after hours, the fields being rented. Or 2 a narrow corridor. As a public health professional, I know that accidents do not just happen. They are caused, often by environmental engineering. The current plans for Montelama Park are not a matter of if an accident might happen. It is a matter of how soon, how serious, and who will be held responsible when this happens. Please don't tell us in the future, we didn't know. We didn't think. It will be too late. Someone will be injured or worse. Thank you.

[04:29:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, Isaac Taylor. We're going to move you over to Pamela, since you have an older version of Zoom, and I will keep time for 2 minutes on my cell phone. Um, Okay, let me promote you over.

[04:30:05] Isaac Taylor: Hello, can you see me and hear me?

[04:30:07] Mayor Ellen Kamei: I see and yeah, yeah.

[04:30:08] Isaac Taylor: Okay, great. Um, it was my understanding that um, the group I represent would have 5 minutes. Is that not correct?

[04:30:16] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, sorry, I didn't know that was going to be you. So do you mind letting, let me restart my timer. And then do you mind, please, uh, letting us all know who else he'll be recommending with your comments? Just say their names, please. Thank you.

[04:30:35] Isaac Taylor: Yes, Mayor, I represent Jennifer Kooten. Philip Schmalsa, Barbara Davis, and Michaela Craig, um, the clerk has this information. It's also in your email.

[04:30:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, great. Thank you. I didn't get a chance to see it yet. So let me start the timer now.

[04:30:50] Isaac Taylor: Thanks. Thanks. And is the clerk going to present my slides or should I try to screenshot?

[04:30:57] Mayor Ellen Kamei: She, she's nodding her head so she's pulled them up if that works.

[04:31:00] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: I have those. Can you confirm that's the 2nd presentation I got today? And that the 1st one?

[04:31:07] Isaac Taylor: Correct. Come of that? Okay, I'm here. I'm here not to talk about the park, um, but rather safety. Um, Yeah, if you can go full screen. Thank you. Hardware does not create safety. We can't buy what the superintendent says he wants. We have to do it. Safety is the result of work by people. It's the result of leadership and culture, and it requires active supervision by adults. And absent these preconditions, we will fail to buy the safety that we actually need to do. The proposals, any of them. And there are actually more than the 2 that the superintendent presented, but none of them will provide the desired safety. Next slide, please. Um, We're gonna go quickly through a few slides here in the interest of time. But I have spent most of the last 20 years making safety and security. Um, frankly, I have much more dangerous things than a school or a park. For 10 years at Google, I ran the businesses at Google, which were most likely to injure or kill someone. And it was my job to ensure that never happened. Examples would be driving street view cars all over the world or robot cars here in Mountain View, experimental aircraft, unusual and dangerous buildings. Ships at sea, regulated by the safety of life at sea, working in confined spaces with mixed gas, where one mistake kills. And, uh, frankly, it's a, um, that was a privilege, and I am proud to say that no one died under my supervision, and I believe that, in fact, I personally was the only Google employee seriously injured, um, throughout all of these years of work. Um, In 2016, I left Google to work as the partner in later CTO of the defense innovation unit, an element of the office of the Secretary of Defense at Moffat Field, and in the Pentagon. Um, and I applaud um, superintendent Rudolph for his um, stated commitment to the safety of the 6000 people under his care. Um, We can go to the next slide, ma'am. Um, over, you know, my long history in the community, it has been a privilege to volunteer in the school, for the district, for the police department, um, on various task forces and commissions. And I do applaud, Superintendent Rudolph's stated top priority safety and security. So let's talk about that. Okay, active shooters, that's actually a real problem. On the other hand, it's extremely low probability. High severity, but low probability. And the risk creating mental health effects by being hysterical or afraid about things that are exceptionally rare. In fact, we convert a low probability safety problem into a high probability safety problem when we overreact. Um, especially about things like active shooting in the context of a national academic and epidemic, which, as we all know, has killed 100s of 1000s of Americans and injured 1000000s more. That's what we should be focused on right now, especially given the context for our children, where our media, our screens, our news radios, are filled with terrifying things that undermine their mental health. In proportion, frankly, to the endangered health of our society. And so I encourage the council, the mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, and Superintendent Rudolph, to all reflect, please, on what are we actually talking about here? What is the goal of the proposed enclosure? Is it, um, to, um, as I believe, um, superintendent, we don't said, acquire the full field? Um, is it to, you know, halt illegal access? Um, or is it to keep our children alive or, you know, away from dogs or kidnappers, predators or car accidents? What I'm concerned about here is that even if we are, um, completely successful, the proposed fencing gates actually do nothing to mitigate any of these concerns. If anything, they probably concentrate the risk where now more people are gathering in smaller places, um, squeezed by gates, squeezed into crowds, which is precisely what we ought to not be doing during our national epidemic. Next like this. Okay, I'm going to skip through the next 2 slides quickly, but I'll tell you, both of my children were hurt on district property, and they were both hurt, you know, seriously enough to have, um, you know, wounds, stitches, scars. And, um, I don't think it's a coincidence that those injuries occurred actually near fences. Sorry, how much more time do I have? Madam Mayor? can't see the clock.

[04:36:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: So, I'm sorry, I'm turning my phone off. That was 5 minutes. That was 5 minutes.

[04:36:50] Isaac Taylor: Okay. Um, fine. Thank you for your time. Uh, and in conclusion, I'll just state that uh, I believe the plan won't work, and the superintendent's proposal is just incoherent, self-contradictory, and what we ought to focus on is what people do, not um, things we can buy, process, policy, manning, and action. Thank you, thank you,

[04:37:16] Isaac Taylor: and uh, Council, your, um, your, um, side deck as well. So we can rest of it.

[04:37:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you very much. Okay, James Fair.

[04:37:53] James Fair: Okay, let me know.

[04:37:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you.

[04:37:56] James Fair: Thank you. Okay, thank you. took a while to figure out the end new button. Um, okay. I was going to say has already been said by other people. Um, you know, I think this is a, a solution looking for a problem more than anything.

[04:38:13] James Fair: I would certainly agree with the last speaker on that. But one of the things I wanted to touch on was something that was, I think, 1st brought up by uh, council member Hicks. And that was the distinction between school grounds and a neighborhood park. If you can recall a few years ago, there was a proposed construction of 650 houses on the Mayfield mall site, which actually was, I think, it belonged to Hewlett Packard at the time. And that was just before Google. And one of the things the neighborhood tried to do was to get some more park space. We were told by the city that, oh, you can't have any more park space because you've got Monte Llama Park. So it's been sold as park space for the neighborhood. I believe the requirements in the 2014 plan, but there'd be, I think, 3 acres per 1000 homes. Well, world below 3 acres right now, I believe, for a 1000 homes. And if you take away this park space, it's going to drop to virtually nothing. So, the Montaloma neighborhood is woefully underrepresented in terms of parks. Uh, some of the uh, on a different topic, uh, some of the designs they put forth in particular option number one. I consider that narrow pathway around it to be a severe hazard to people. I personally am a dog walker. And I think that, uh, it's very difficult to have 2 dogs meet on a path. It's only about 8 feet wide. And I just ran out of my time. Thank you very much.

[04:40:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Leanne Rolfs? Liam, please feel free to unmute yourself.

[04:40:17] Leanne Rolfs: Can you hear me?

[04:40:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you. Thank you.

[04:40:20] Leanne Rolfs: I wasn't sure if that dialog box was going to come up or not. I just want to thank the council members and Dr. INDe. My husband and I have lived in Monorama for over 26 years. I can't believe it's been that long. Um, but I feel so fortunate to live in a neighborhood with such a special sense of community. Uh, I really discovered this sense of community when we had our sons 20 plus years ago. I found great refuge at the playground that met every Tuesday at 10 AM, and I can't imagine how I would have gotten through some of those days without access to a park nearby, or to go to multiple times a day to let the boys run off steam, or just get some time with friends, or do stop rockets in the grassy park. Um, I, I can't imagine being a parent now if that access would be cut off. Um, and you wouldn't be able to go to the park right nearby anytime you wanted to during the day, it just, it breaks my heart to think that it would be cut off. Um, I also want to thank council member Hicks for pointing out the need for parks as well as for sharing her experience like mine of the fun and community of drop off and pickup time. I know that times change. And unfortunately, experiences change and, you know, rules come into play and people can't be on campus, but that's really a shame. Um, anyway, I just wanted to encourage other options for fencing rather than fencing off the whole park. Thank you. Are you with my time?

[04:41:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Tiffany Dale? Please feel free to unmute yourself.

[04:42:03] Tiffany Dale: Hi.

[04:42:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hi, do you hear me?

[04:42:06] Tiffany Dale: Yeah. I do. Um, so... Firstly, I don't think this should be offense when I'm down in school. It's not solving the problem. I think it is very important in whatever solution is, come to at the end that the hot lot, the city and hot lot, the city, you know, um, The access is kept for that during the day. There's always been access for that during the day. Dr. Rudolph said that Access wouldn't be reduced. So if that's not included in keeping access all the time, then he's not keeping his word on that. Um, during his presentation, when he was talking about landlords, he, you know, pointed out with the fence, keeping the top lot accessible all the time, and I think you need to, you know, give month alone the same thing. Um, the working group, I don't feel my voice, he's going to be represented on it. It doesn't feel fair if, you know, the district has chosen every single member to be a networking group. I think if you're going to include information on slides about who doesn't feel self. I think you also need to include all the students who do feel safe. My kids went to Montaloma, they felt safe without offense, um, and have said so again through this process. The postcard. I didn't get it. Um, I didn't see anything on next door. I missed the deadline uh to apply for the working group. And also, um, home staff to increase visibility. Okay, the last board meeting. Uh, Dr. Adolph was asking for money to increase the size of the district office to cover all the new hires. So if new staff have been hired to serve in the district office. They're not hired staff to be in the schools. Thank you.

[04:44:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Jessica Cho. Cho Chohan? Okay, you have an older version of Zoom, so we're gonna promote you to panelist. Can you hear me?

[04:44:31] Jessica Chauhan: Yes, I hear you.

[04:44:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: And Jessica, just to be clear, are you speaking for a group?

[04:44:38] Jessica Chauhan: Yes, yes. Um, let me give you the names, or. Did you already receive them, I believe, the registrar did. Um, I think that they might have been emailed over to the city clerk,

[04:44:48] Mayor Ellen Kamei: but for my colleagues, you might not know. Do you mind sharing that? and then Miss Wonderlanden can bring up your presentation while you share that information.

[04:44:57] Jessica Chauhan: Great. I'm speaking on behalf of myself. Michael Halleck, Alex, uh, Winter Hozel, Andy Winter Hozel, Ashik Chauhan, Vec Chauhan, Vec Choppa, Jim Zayorski, Zoe Zayorski, John Grantz, Miriam, uh, Klubout, uh, Bob Alvarez, Chris Ciaccios, uh, Tina Ciaccios, Donald, um, Pepper, Heidi Smith, Alan Mang, Aaron Liang, Michael, uh, Diamond, Vicki Wee, Jacob Madison Lee, Jody Lee, and Sydney Lee. And I apologize to anybody if I mispronounced your name.

[04:45:38] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, and I think we'll pull up your presentation, and then I'm just going to be keeping time on my phone. I'm sorry, with the background, you might not be able to see, you can't see it. Sorry. But I'll be keeping time and

[04:45:53] Jessica Chauhan: Okay. Would you mind giving me like, um, a 32nd time check, just so I can be aware, or a minute?

[04:46:01] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, how about I give you a minute?

[04:46:03] Jessica Chauhan: Yeah, okay. I would appreciate it.

[04:46:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right, setting now. Go ahead.

[04:46:08] Jessica Chauhan: Um, so good evening, um, mayor, city council members, city staff, and mountain view neighbors on Zoom. Um, I'm so grateful for your time in listening and discussing the Mountain View Whisman School District's perimeter fencing proposal update and hearing community feedback. Thank you for allowing me to speak today on behalf of 25 of my fellow community members. And thank you, Mayor Kamei, for adding this to the agenda on short notice. My name is Jessica Chauhan. I work full time in Mountain View. I'm a mom to an 18 month old, and I'm a resident of the Montaloma neighborhood. I've lived in Mountain View for many years, and I rely on the park in Montaloma to survive with a toddler. We're working full-time during COVID. Um, I also grew up in Parkland, Florida, when 2018 students tragically lost their lives in a mass shooting at the high school. I'm sharing this with you because I understand personally the importance of school safety and its impact to a community. My parent, my grandparents were also lifelong teachers, including at MSD High School in Parkland. My cousin is a teacher, and I have a strong interest for my daughter in ensuring Mountain View schools remain safe. So firstly, I want to acknowledge the stresses and significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the city council, staff, the school district, and the community. I'm really grateful for the work you do to keep us safe, and this is precisely why I'm speaking to you today, due to the urgency and concern in this issue by my fellow community members. We're here to request that the city council does the right thing for the community on the Modsaloma Park fencing issue. We're here because you represent us, and our trust in the Mountain View Westman school districts process has been eroding based on our experiences to date. The previous discussion with Dr. Rudolph was enlightening, and there were a number of points made that were unknown until today. Thank you for sharing this information with the council and the community, Dr. Rudolph, though I'm certain a lot of folks in this call disagree with statements made, and some statements were misleading. However, I'm not going to delve into rebuttal since I have limited time and a lot to cover. I believe the city is in a unique position to bring all parties together and create a win win win for all on this issue. And as we thought more about the fencing issue, we've realized this issue is larger than just the school districts proposal. Um, I don't think a lot of explanation is required on why parks and open spaces are important to a community, but I want to highlight on this slide, that as the city of Mountain View continues to strategically grow, it is critical that we don't lose sight of the importance of quality parks and open green space to ensure a sustained quality of life and a healthy community for both new and existing residents. Next slide please. To give you a little perspective on the large open green space in Mountain View, highlighted in the image on the right are city green spaces greater than one acre in size. Now let me share with you some quick facts. Part of the 2010 census. 36% of the mountain view population lives north of the trade tracks. To support 36% of the city's population, 22% of the city's Park Space is north of the train tracks. Adding to this, 64% of all of the city's parkland is owned by school districts. But in North Mountain View, where we're already limited in our park space, school districts own nearly 77% of this park land. And 2 of the 3 large green spaces from train to freeway are covered by the fencing proposal and are owned by the school district. In our current state, this is an inadequate, unequal, and inequitable distribution of parks and greens based in Mountain View, and the districts with the district fencing proposal. North Mountain View will be disproportionately affected, and community access to green space will be virtually non-existent. I'll policy you for a couple of seconds you can absorb the info on this slide, and then we'll move on. Okay, next slide, please. Thank you. Looking towards Mountain View's future housing growth and comparing it with existing open green space, the park line situation promises to become even more dire in North Mountain View. You can't learn more land. So as it becomes developed, you lose the opportunity to add open park space. And this is what we're going to be faced with unless steps are taken to address this issue before we run out of land. Uh, pause again so you guys can have a look at the, um, the slide. Next slide, please. Today there is an opportunity for you, city council, to address this issue. For those who have never been to Monawama Park on the Zoom call, it is a 5 plus acre park in the absolute center of the Monawama neighborhood. surrounded by 1000 plus residences. It is co-located with Montala Elementary, and the neighborhood has used the park freely, like any other city park, for over 60 years. The community has symbiotically coexisted with the elementary school to share use of the park space, and until a few months ago, few in the neighborhood were aware the park space was not owned by the city. As I've already brought to your attention, we are deficient to open green spaces in North Mountain View, specifically in Monteloma. Sorry, specifically in Monteloma, losing open access due to fencing of the park, would mean a loss of 88% of park space in the Thompson Planning area. I'll repeat that. Specifically in Monteloma, using open access due to fencing of the park would mean a loss of 88% of park space in the Thompson planning area. That's a lot of space. There is no alternative within safe walking distance from the neighborhood. The fattiest micro park is not an acceptable alternative to exclusively support the community for any length of time. And as you know, there isn't a lot of land available in Mountain View, right along in Montaloma area. to purchase and recreate an amazing park like Montalomo Park. In addition, the concern and urgency on this issue has been heightened by the communications coming from the school district to the community. Where the district had already signed the construction contracts prior to community outreach, the district communicated the construction schedule was to begin weeks after the announcement. The upcoming working group process still has not been communicated clearly that we had some clarification earlier today. It wasn't communicated in time, nor was it communicated to a large percentage of the community, as you heard in public continents. There are gaps in the justification and plans for Montalama Park fencing that should be addressed in vater detail. And when the community voted for measure T, there was no language in the measure on fencing in shared use parks. We feel misled. But we are hopeful that trust can be rebuilt moving forward. Next slide, please. Modeling the park has for all intents and purposes been treated as and counted as a city park since its inception. The community has used the park day in and day out, unrestricted and during standard city park hours per the signage. There is still ambiguity in the district's communications on what constitutes the school facilities, school grounds, school campus, and park. Including in the, um, Mountain View Westman school district master facility plan, which Dr. Rudolph showed a snippet of in his presentation. And I'm sharing here as well. In addition, and we have read the joint use agreement, the agreement provides rights and responsibilities to the city over proposed park changes and sequel waivers, and we believe it is open for further review and interpretation as to the hours the city, and therefore the community can utilize the park. The proposed fencing plan is a significant change to current community access and park facilities, and should require proper due diligence and council input. Next line, please.

[04:55:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: One minute.

[04:55:12] Jessica Chauhan: Thank you. Uh, I want to let you all know again how sincerely grateful I am for a strong action in response to the pandemic. COVID has impacted all of us and has changed everything. We all need to rethink our plans and priorities and continue to adapt to this new way of life. Um, I'm here to highlight the urgency during this time that the community, including students studying online, have access to use a city park within safe distance of their home. For more than 2 hours a day. This is key during COVID to physical and mental health and safety of Mountain View residents. The COVID-19 complication alone merits a delay to all park fencing discussions until the pandemic ends. Next slide please. Skip to the next one based on time. To conclude, I want to thank you all again for your time listening to me today, we request that in order for the council, Sorry, in order for the community and city to focus on enduring the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other major topics the city and district are engaged on. We request the council facilitate a pause from the school district in planning and construction related to the park until the pandemic ends.

[04:56:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: In North America, sorry, that's your time.

[04:56:33] Jessica Chohan: Oh, okay, hotel. Thank you.

[04:56:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Thank you. Council will have this presentation for us to review. Thank you very much. Okay. Michael, right? Phelps?

[04:56:50] Mike Reelfs: Hi. Oh, um, okay, so, um, I'm moving to Mona Loma neighborhood too, but I'm also talking because I'm the president of Mountain View Little League and we use the, um, baseball field over there. at Montalomo Park. Um, looking at the plans, the kind of the 1st plan, the way it was set up, it looks like the, You're separating the field from the snack shack and the bathrooms and stuff and where we'd have to warm up kids, they'd have to go to the outside of the fence to warm up and causes problems that way. Um, the 2nd plan, we're just a little worried about the fact of there's times where we have to stock the snack shack and we have, um, bags, £50 bags of chalk and turf dry and stuff that we have to get into the field. So just having access to make sure we can get the equipment and stuff we need into our snack shacks and into our field. Um, are concerns about how the plans are going. So. That's about all I have. So, thank you.

[04:57:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Devin Conley.

[04:58:00] Devon Conley: Good evening. Mayor, vice mayor, and council members, it's a pleasure to see you tonight. My name is Devin Connolly and I am the president of the Mountain View Wisman School Board. I would like to thank the city council and city staff for your partnership in serving our students, our families, and our community. City council meetings tend to have a larger attendance by residents than our school board meetings, and I appreciate the time you've taken tonight for this presentation. And the opportunity for civic engagement, that your public meetings and our board meetings, which are also public provides. Thank you.

[04:58:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. I tech Celic.

[04:58:49] Aytek Celik: Yes, good evening. Can you hear me?

[04:58:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you. Go ahead.

[04:58:53] Aytek Celik: Hey. I'm a 23 year Mountain View resident and a 12 year parent at pub school and I also serve on the pub school site council. Um, there's 3 points that I would like to bring up. One is that I would like to echo the comments from other community members about the inadequate and misleading communication from the just school district. The 2nd that, unlike what has been being presented, There is widespread. There is not widespread support for the fencing in many, many communities, many, many neighborhoods throughout the city. And the 3rd that if fairly this is a safety issue, and if the, Both the city and school have to agree, according to the joint use agreement, about physical changes, um, to the fields, then let's let's ask the city council to vote against the proposed fencing changes, including that club, and instead, instead of funding the fences or security cards, security guards funding chat counselors to be there because I think that would address more the issues. So, um, it was not uh, going back to the 1st point, the communication, it was not well advertised in the fall. When we had a follow-up meeting with Bub over this past week, it was a farce. It was 20 minutes where it was a thought exchange that looked preceded, and there were 38 people approximately and 68 comments and there was 10 minutes spent on addressing those, though there was a follow-up. email sent out, not many of them were, those questions were addressed. On the 2nd point, I will say that the safety town hall, um, was done right after the Stone and Douglas shooting, and there was a lot of data bias, both recency data bias and confirmation data bias, and I'm a trained economist. And I think that that basically brought about this concern, which was not an accurate concern. And so the data that was being presented to justify these fences was cherry picked, you know, and um, I wonder if the community bond measure would have been supported if it had been said it was for fencing, not perimeter control. One last thing is that I have a neighbor here whose children started at bud school and 53 years ago in 1968. And Those neighbors still live in this community and those kids would walk home for school to walk home for.

[05:01:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: your time is up. I'm sorry.

[05:01:24] Aytek Celik: Thank you.

[05:01:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Ben Schroeder?

[05:01:37] Brent Schroeder: Thank you.

[05:01:37] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yep. We hear you.

[05:01:39] Brent Schroeder: Uh, good evening, everyone. My name is Brent Schroeder. I live at 168 Thompson Avenue, in Notting View, about a block and a half from Mona Elementary. My comments pertain just to Mona Loma. My wife and I are parents to 8-year-old twins at attend Monaloma. We've used that park and I will refer to it as a park because that's how it functions. We use that part weekly, often daily since we moved here when the kids were 4 months old. I coached baseball there. We've had a lot of 1st in that park. It's a special place to our family and many others. As far as the fence, while we are not opposed to safety measures, I actually support all the goals mentioned by the superintendent, we do oppose the project as proposed. Um, to me, it seems there are far more reasonable alternatives provide security rather than fencing off the entire park. Many families with pre-kinder kids use the playground, the tot lot as was referred to throughout the day. Just as far as the secret issues go, as a sequel practitioner and city planner for over 15 years. I take issue with the categorical exemption. The district filed. This is a substantial alteration of community open space and as such should not qualify for a categorical exemption. I take bigger exception to the lack of noticing and community outreach. The district has participated in. The notice of exemption I received is unsigned, undated, and gives no indication that it was filed with OPR or the county clerk or the public review or when the public review period began and ended. Um, in terms of potential significant impacts. The one that immediately springs to mind is that many families in Mauna Loma will have to walk and bike to Ringstorf Park and then cross the intersection of Central and Ringstorf, which in my experience is highly dangerous, expects to leave with young children. Uh, in addition, uh, Rainstore Park uh, is not an equivalent uh, or a desirable park, it often feels unsafe uh, due to lots of transients and frankly, day drinking. Uh, in short, um, our neighborhood park, substantially altering it, in this time of COVID, when so many families rely on it for open space and exercise, makes no sense. So I urge the city to strongly encourage the district to really engage the neighbors.

[05:03:45] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Your time's up.

[05:03:46] Brent Schroeder: Thank you. Sorry about that.

[05:03:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thanks.

[05:03:48] Brent Schroeder: Awesome with the rest of these bye letter. you.

[05:03:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, yes, thank you. So we have a phone number beginning in 650 and ending in 233. So you have to hit a star 6 to unmute yourself, please.

[05:04:10] Public Speaker: Hello. Can you hear me?

[05:04:12] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[05:04:13] Jesse Jeff: Yeah, this is, okay, this is Jesse Jeff. I just decided to call instead of zooming in today. Um, so I was in the San Antonio neighborhood, um, and I supported a new charter school that's being scheduled, um, to be built here soon, even though I'm generally against the idea of charter schools, because we're a promised park space as part of the deal, and I'm worried that fencing off the park, um, we'll set a precedent, resulting in future access to this, um, park being limited. So I understand that it's not the school district's intent to take park space away from residents, um, but regardless of intent, fencing up the space will result in less people using it, um, even during the allowed hours, because a significant number of people will see you fencing and just move on without getting close much or redesignage and see the hours they're allowed in. I think there's better ways to do it, um, like with the security guard, but something Dr. Rudolph mentioned, um, we have those, um, where I worked in it. It's pretty effective. Sometimes I work at the library. Sometimes it's, we have physical patrons, but the solution isn't, you know, closed off the library to the public. We, we try to handle it ourselves if we can't, we refer them to security. If that doesn't work, they can call the police. And I think security could do a good job, um, keeping kids safe, keeping dogs at least, keeping bikes from getting stolen, all that good stuff, keeping people out during the hours. They not supposed to be there. So, uh, in conclusions. I'll say, I think everyone's been doing a good job, being respectful. Um, I just want to remind people that I think, Dr. Rudolph is a good guy and has, has good intentions, um, Felistians, I've met with them, other, other capacities, and I think more like the dad, than, uh, like, enough for our kids, um, even if we disagree with them, it seems uh, a lot of people do in this particular instance. Thank you.

[05:06:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Robin Lynn? Let's see. Sorry, Robin, hold on. There we go.

[05:06:14] Robin Lin: Hey there, uh, thanks, Mayor, May, especially for giving us 2 minutes instead of just one. 5 minutes I know it means the median drags on longer, but thank you so much. Um, I'd like to talk about the security town hall that the district sites in its slides as evidence of community desire for perimeter control. It uses a tool called thought exchange. I think it's a wonderful tool for gathering ideas and ensuring that not just the squeaky wheels dominate conversations. I do think, however, that it is the beginning of a conversation with the community not the end. I fear that the district is actually using thought exchange comments as a representative sampling of the community, which it isn't. So, just as a little FYI, I needed, I did dug in a little more about what thought exchange does. So firstly, they use a proprietary algorithm to rank the comments. So what you see at the top, who the hell knows why, how it mystery sauce, how it got there. Um, Second, the numbers to the right of the stars in the parentheses indicates the number of people who rated the thought. So in the district slides. 14, 17, and 13 people rated those thoughts. As a comparison, Mountain View has 70,000 residents. Note that the security town hall also accrued in 2018, and it was open to the community, between then and September 2020. So 2 years. The district doesn't seem to have done any other community engagement on this issue. We don't elect representatives via change.org petitions. Why do we allow thought exchange to serve as the proxy for roll up your sleeves, down and dirty community engagement? It may be harder and messier, but it leads to outcomes that the community can support. I also, as a way of kind of supplementing that, I hope that the council will consider agendizing this under item 8 so that council can continue discussion and decide on a position paper to guide and empower city staff on this topic, including providing public direction on how to make the process trustworthy and productive. Thank you so much.

[05:08:15] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Alexander Brown?

[05:08:20] Alex Brown: Nope. Hi. Dr. Rudolph. Uh, I know that what I wrote about your tea. I was probably too focused on the arts and science labs and relieving student overcrowding, and I could have read the facilities bachelor's plan, but yeah. Uh, fences ramp up a culture of fear. Assuming the worst when faced with the other, creating a sense in children that anyone they don't recognize is an agent of destruction with the ability, if not the intent to harm. It's also it's unfortunate that in seeking the perception of security. We so often curtail liberties instead of encouraging a sense of community, interdependence, and personal empowerment. It's also unfortunate that we've abandoned public park development to the point that most parks are on school grounds. Fences, cameras, floodlights are a cheap, well, not so cheap. Uh shortcut to creating the illusion of safety. Kids deserve consideration for their safety. But I'm concerned that the psychological impact of the security theater is going to do more harm than someone walking their dog across the grass. Who knows? If your goal is a mere sense of safety, that's fine, but please don't pretend that this will make a real material difference for your staff faculty or their charges. Thanks. Oh, and also with the lights on the field, uh, they're terrible. They're way too right, and we personally wait until after 10 to go running, so just so we can avoid them, to one of the earlier speakers. It's ironic to say you can't grow land in North Boundary when most North Bay Shore is landfill. I yield the balance of my time.

[05:09:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Bruce England?

[05:09:48] Bruce England: You hear me, okay?

[05:09:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yeah.

[05:09:50] Bruce England: Yeah. Give me a sec. Uh, thank you, mayor and council members. Um, who's England, Western Station Drive, and a member of Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning and Green Spaces Mountain View? I have concerns about plans being proposed by the school district on both fencing and lighting on school campuses. Well, I understand intentions to address school safety. I'm not convinced the extent of fencing is called for, given that Mandy is not an unsafe city, as our crime records attest. We need to take seriously the message that we send to the community as a whole when we talk about fencing people in and out. In particular, when we're dealing with areas we consider park or open space, or as providing past through access. If we must accept more barriers on our school campuses, I urge you to consider implementing hedges or similar landscaping rather than hard fencing where this is feasible. On the lighting issue, although it's not really being discussed tonight. Impacts on wildlife and human mental health need to be factored into plans since they are further developed. Shawnee talked about this earlier. Clearly, my work is needed on this project. I asked that you identify my board for counsel attention. Perhaps by developing a position, paper, or similar document establishing what the city expects or needs through district plans on this matter. Similarly, an update to the joint use agreement might be in order. Thank you.

[05:11:14] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Julie Goodis?

[05:11:21] Julie Goodis: Yes, hello, can you hear me?

[05:11:23] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[05:11:24] Julie Goodis: Great, thank you. Um, I want to start by saying, I'm not opposed to protecting our children or school staff. What I am opposed to is the current fencing plan for Monteloma. I have canvassed this neighborhood handing out flyers and talking to residents, Montaloma parents, and most importantly, children, and everyone I've spoken to is opposed to this current plan. Mentalism Park has been an open and shared recreational space for decades. It is the heart of this neighborhood and has been a solace to many during these uncertain times. To completely fence in such a large recreational space without at least attempting to compromise and a solution that works for everyone is shameful. I'm encouraged by the working group, but I have been involved in many discussions, received emails from district representatives, and attended several virtual meetings on this topic, and frankly, it feels like we are just getting lip service with no real spirit of reaching a compromise. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about that. There is a better solution if the district representatives push their egos aside and really listen to the community.

[05:12:42] Julie Goodis: There are many of us willing to go to the distance to ensure the right solution is found. Thank you.

[05:12:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Maria Pierce?

[05:13:01] Maria Pierce: Hi, good evening. you hear me?

[05:13:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear.

[05:13:04] Maria Pierce: Okay, well, thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council and Dr. Rudolph. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. My name is Maria, resident of Mountain View, and a 15 year alumni parent with 4 children who attended Mauna Loma. I want to start off by saying I stand in unity with community members who shared prior to me and that drop off and pick up times are such a special time for the community and an especially valuable connecting time for the Latino community. And which I am a part of in a community I serve. This is a community is deeply affected by digital divide in a community who relies heavily on connecting in person to give and share updates and information regarding life, school, and community. I want to shift my focus to Dr. Rudolph's comments where he mentioned students, parents, and staff, have fears and concerns regarding safety. on trying to gauge how widespread the concerns are. As a matter of metrics, there are 5382 students in the district, 658 staff, according to the district's website. And I'm assuming 5000 or more parents in the district. And I'm just curious to know how many people were pulled and um, to just gauge, what was the, the, the level of concern. I also agree with the councilwoman's thoughts on exploring added staff before and after school for added safety measures. And it makes me think on yard duty versus security guards, as was mentioned, by the superintendent. Um, students are used to engaging with yard duty before and after school and also um, at lunchtime. So I think that's worth exploring. Thank you for your time, a yield my time.

[05:14:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Tricia, Doug Gardio.

[05:14:59] Trisha Delgado: Hi, can everyone hear me?

[05:15:00] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[05:15:01] Trisha Delgado: Wonderful. Well, 1st of all, good late evening city council members and Mayor Kumei. My name is Trisha Delgado, and I represent the Monteloma neighborhood association as the current elected board president. Now, I speak to you tonight because Monte Loma residents and the Monte Loma Neighborhood Association have repeatedly tried to appeal to the school district, but they honestly kind of refuse to listen. At all points, they have chosen to avoid what could have been a communal route to engage. For example, working with the neighborhood association to inform our neighbors, could have been part of our quarterly newsletter. It's distributed by hand to every home in Mountain View. Or they could have spoke at our spring annual neighborhood meetings in either 2018, 2019, or virtually this past year in 2020. But they did not. The school district made the conscious choice to not engage those that this fence would impact most, the neighborhood residents of Mountain View. They have moved quickly to draw fencing plans, receive bids, and even set a construction date. To allow either fencing proposal that you saw tonight, will not only shut out residents from daytime access to green space, playground equipment, benches to congregate, and pathways to walk, it will break the heart of this mountain view neighborhood. This is no ordinary park and it is a park. It is a postcard of what every city wants for its residence. It signifies and builds a community around it. This park during the weekday is where parents of young children meet. They gather for picnics. They have 1st birthdays. This is the park where memories are made. This heart of our neighborhood creates community and what it does is bring us together. So I plead with you tonight. Drive a solution to keep all day access to our park. Keep it for future generations as it has been enjoyed by the past generations. Thank you.

[05:17:07] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. We have a phone number, 408 last 3 digits are 246. You could hit star 6 to unmute yourself. So it's a phone number 408 and then the last 3 digits 246. Unfortunately, I can't see your full phone number on my end.

[05:17:51] Kathy: Uh, my name is Kathy.

[05:17:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[05:18:01] Kathy: Hello?

[05:18:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hello? Hi.

[05:18:04] Kathy: Hello?

[05:18:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: We, I can hear you.

[05:18:07] Kathy: Oh, um, I'm, I'm trying to try for me.

[05:18:16] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, this is the city council meeting. Did you have public comments?

[05:18:31] Kathy: Hello? Did I? I'm talking to you.

[05:18:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, yes. Yes, this is the Mountain City Council meeting.

[05:18:46] Kathy: Okay, um, I actually called the trial county in different, I don't know, you know, I'm going to be extremely.

[05:18:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Oh, sorry.

[05:18:55] Kathy: Okay, no problem.

[05:19:01] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Sounds like that individual is calling for a different item. So, I'm gonna bring it back to council, um, for any type of comments. Do council members have any type of comments or feedback on the presentation? All right, I'm not seeing any any hands from colleagues. Okay. Council member Matt a check.

[05:19:28] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. So I'm guessing we all have a lot of thoughts and comments about this. Um, And, um, well, I do appreciate, um, Dr. Rudolph, for going to the council meeting tonight. Um, it uh, sort of raises the awareness of the amount of communication and working relationships we need to have between the city and the school districts because there's more room. Um, You know, I get that the school districts are completely separate from the city, but um, it really is important that we work together, um, for the benefit of our residents. And I think this is a classic case where, um, we need to maybe step back and figure out what's the right course of action. And we do have a history of working together and it's a, it's a good one. It's an important one. We worked on the school strategy. We have these agreements for the joint use of the school fields, and we have another agreement that's in the process of being, you might say, we're negotiated and negotiated right now. And there's lots of other things that we're going together. And I don't want that to stop. And I think this is a topic where we do need to work more closely together. Clearly, we're hearing that from our residents. Um, and, you know, over, let's see, the past 4 years that I've been on council, uh, we certainly have talked a lot about how important um, open space and parks are to our community. For all the reasons people mentioned tonight. It's a great gathering place. It's good for your mental health. It's incredibly important right now due to the pandemic. And there is, uh, not just for the, um, Montaloma area, but for other neighborhoods, the sense that the fields associated with schools are more like parks than they are and school fields. They've been used that way for a very long time, and the paths that provide connectivity within the neighborhoods are also areas that are, um, have been used that way. And frankly, I don't want to see them shut off. So, um, You know, I, I'm guessing that most folks, I did not read the entire statement and a pamphlet for the election, and seeing well into it, that it might have mentioned fences. And I don't think safe implies fences. So, um, I do feel like there hasn't been as much visibility to this as it probably deserved or I did deserve. And as I said, I'd kind of like to step back a bit on this and figure out a process that works better for all of us. And I appreciate Dr. Rudolph saying, you know. They did keep us in lockstep with the school board, when it comes to the working, the work group. I'm starting to feel like maybe we need a work group for each of the schools because they all are impacted by the fences. That might not be the most efficient way. So, you know, it's not like that's the only approach. Um, but I don't want Montaloma to be the only neighborhood that has input, um, significant input, uh, into what might transpire at the schools. Um, I agree with all the comments about safety is important. Um, we have heard there's lots of other approaches to safety and it varies, um, by people, by person. And different people have different perspectives on that. And I think we need to take those into consideration. So I don't want to define what the process should be tonight. Um, But I feel like maybe together we need to figure out what is the best process, um, to have the city and our residence. Maybe involved in this so that we can come up with a solution that works for everyone. Thanks.

[05:24:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Councilman Believer?

[05:24:12] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you. I have to agree a 1000% with Counselor Rematachek in her comments. And I'm thankful to the superintendent for coming here tonight and for hanging in here with us. And I think we've had some good discussion. And I, I so much appreciate the, uh, the offer to bring council together with the school board, to talk about the outcome from the advisory group and to make the advisory group public and open. Um, and to really have a chance to deliberate um, with counsel. to talk about that final product. And, and I do think that this issue has brought about council being called to, to talk about the areas of our city that are really, um, have an under supply of, of parks. And in some of the other areas of the city, the park with the school district isn't as critical because we have large sections of other parks that are available. Um, and there it might be more of a, um, social emotional impact relating to fencing or issues like that. But I think that this is a great opener and, um, can be the beginning of a real discussion about something that obviously has so much community interest. So thank you for that.

[05:25:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Council member Hicks.

[05:25:53] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I wanted to, again, thank Dr. Rudolph for taking the time tonight and also thank all the members of the public who are able to, this has been a long meeting and have been able to stick with us. Um, I agree with what previous council members have said. And I guess there were, there were a couple of things tonight that really kind of, uh, that were said that, um, from the school district that really kind of set me back. Um, I think the 2 things. One was that, so the way I've been thinking about our relationship is that we're, we're working together in the city on certain things and that, um, that the, uh, call them what you will, in the joint used to great one, they're referred to as Parkland. Um, and the parkland is something that, you know, we share and we both give to the community and partly in return for that, we've been working on things like the school strategy. I'm, I guess I was really surprised to hear that it seems like the school district is not seeing it that way, that, that you see that was your fields. And this, you know, multi-decade, um, kind of use, and the fact that in many of our documents, they're referred to as our neighborhood as a large portion of our neighborhood, parts, is not something, at least tonight, not something that the school district particularly recognizes. I'm hoping that that's something that over time we can kind of reestablish. Otherwise, I really think that we, you know, as council, I think one of our, as a council person, I think that one of my primary duties is to provide perk space for our residents. You know, I could list for top 10 duties and that would be one of them. Um, particularly in a city like this where more than other cities around us and others that I lived in, we're really growing. And we're going to be assigned, uh, not to use a lot of jargon now, but, but, uh, the regional housing needs assessment is going to assign us 1000s and 1000s of additional housing units that, um, that we have to build and we have to provide those people to parks as well. I was hoping we could work that out with the school district and providing those, and I would hate to have to kind of switch tracks and support the school district less and our parks more. So I really hope that I'm hoping we can put this onto, um, you know, item 8 so that we can revisit this as a council and find a mutual decision, a mutual arrangement with the school district that allows me to fulfill what I, you know, what I said, what I think is my duty to provide the park when we need to provide to our residents. Thank you.

[05:28:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Councilman Michelle, Walter.

[05:29:00] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah, I kind of concur with all that.

[05:29:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Did she freeze?

[05:29:12] Unknown Speaker: I thought it was, I got eyephrows.

[05:29:15] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, let me shoot her message. And she's frozen. Council member, I'll be Coco, I want to meet yourself while we wait.

[05:29:34] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Mayor, mayor, if I may. Um, I think there, there, there's power that's been lost in some areas, so I just got up some messages, so that may be what's happening in some parts of town.

[05:29:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, the wind, so. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Uh, Councilman Bobby Kuger, why don't you go ahead while we hopefully regain counseling the show, Walter?

[05:30:00] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, thank you, mayor, and thank you, Dr. Rudolph, for coming this evening and presenting your presentation. Um, it was, I think, really helpful for all of us to hear um, more details of, um, the plan and the process and so forth. Um, I, I, you know, I, as a parent myself who've had 2 daughters go through the school system. I very much value the strong partnership that the city and the school district has had over the years. Um, of actually, you know, um, thought of it as a source of pride because, um, it is a unique relationship. And so my hope is that we are able to continue, and I think we can continue that strong relationship and and make it even stronger as we see more and more the intertwinings of school issues with the cities issues. Um, so in that regard, um, you know, I'm hopeful and I appreciate, um, this opportunity to have this forum, um, and my hope is that we can continue to, um, you know, dialogue, um, provide input, um, you know, provide um, input from the residents, um, as you move forward in this process. I guess the question is, you know, how best to do that. Um, listening to my colleagues, I think there are some good suggestions. Um, you know, frankly, I didn't want to go to this far and and we don't have to if, you know, the council is fine with your coming back as and discussing this as a full council at some point. I think that's, you know, definitely an option, but, um, you know, the other thought I had was, and I know I shared this before, but, um, I kind of, um, refer back to my experience serving on the Los Altos school district task force when they were deciding um, how to use the new campus site, um, uh, in San Antonio. So, um, I think, you know, at that, I appreciate that, um, say, and I hope that we can, you know, come to that kind of, some kind of process where we have a similar say in what, um, what you ultimately decide. Um, I do want to clarify a few things, and this is probably more for the public, but there was a comment about communication, um, and the noticing, and that the city was, um, only noticed or half the, no, and half the residents, um, from my understanding, that was just, um, what we normally do with projects, we have, we notice up to 750 feet of the radius of the project site. And so that was the basis for that. But, um, you know, had we, I think, had we been asked to, there was more or whatnot, we would have provided more of, um, more, um, addresses. So I just want to be clear that, you know, that was how that came about and it wasn't in any way the city's intent to leave people out. Um, so in light of that, yeah, I hope that moving forward, we can, um, just be, um, as, as, do I do diligence in communicating, um, also just being clear as to, you know, what are, what the purposes? I've heard, you know, the varying different opinions about what should happen. I definitely appreciate that. I think at the end of the day, we're gonna have to look at something, you know, try to come to something in the middle. Um, I think we can do that. Um, But, um, I think to get there, we're going to have to be very clear as to, you know, what the parameters are. So, um, and again, thank you for um, attending, and I look forward to continuing this conversation.

[05:33:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[05:33:54] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, there. I'll try to be quick. Uh, so I, uh, I, I agree with, uh, the sentiments expressed by, um, my colleagues, I think the only thing I would add is, uh, I, I feel pretty strongly that, uh, we should provide some, some clear direction to, to John as a participant in the working group. Uh, so, uh, you know, he's able. I, I'm, I'm glad he's, he's empowered to participate in more than just technical advisory capacity. Um, but I feel that he needs to, you know, represent a coherent vision from the city, and I think our comments here will be helpful in in guiding that. Uh, and then, incidentally, thank you, John, for all of your work on this issue. I know it's, it's one thing that none of us were, we're really expecting, but here we are, uh, and and I appreciate your, your work as, as a member of the working group. Um, and to the extent itself, well, I do think that the, the boundary of the fence, uh, should be informed in no small part by the utility or the utilization of the field, during, uh, during school operating hours. You know, it, it, it doesn't feel like it's necessary to fully enclose off the campus, as in practice, large, uh, portions of it are not really actively utilized by, um, by, by the students. Um, which is why I, I asked the questions about the utilization, you know, doing, doing instructional, instructional hours. So I, I don't have, I don't claim any expertise in that, but I do think that, that could be helpful in, um, in guiding the work of the, of the working group, in, you know, the screen where, where boundaries should be. And that's all I've got. Thank you.

[05:35:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Vice Mayor Ramirez. Council member Mattachek. I see your hand again.

[05:36:04] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. Um, I have a process question and, um, it's, can we right now talk about next steps? Um, and, uh, We talk to the city manager and Dr. Rudolph about that, or do we have to wait till I don't need to do that?

[05:36:23] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Check. This is agenda, so it's just a presentation, a one-way presentation, there's no council action on this item, but a council's a council member is welcome to bring up the topic at item 8 later tonight and request support from your colleagues on a future agenda item on this topic. And then, and then the details of that can be discussed also, animate.

[05:36:50] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, thank you.

[05:36:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So, um, city manager McCarthy. I know that perhaps Council member Sher Walters Power, I think, is going on and off. So, um, since it's a presentation, um, and hopefully this may come up later in the meeting. Um, Perhaps we can, it would be okay to continue the item since we, does that sound all right?

[05:37:20] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Yes, mayor, I believe so, and it sounds like this will come up in item A. So, there'll be another opportunity to discuss.

[05:37:27] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Right. Yes, okay. So, Dr. V, if I see your hand, I will save my comments. Go ahead.

[05:37:35] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: No, I just had a quick question because, I mean, obviously, all board has to, you guys go a lot later than us. I don't know what item 8 or A or whatever this is.

[05:37:48] Mayor Ellen Kamei: I can explain. It's, uh,

[05:37:51] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: oh, go ahead. But I'm just saying, so, uh, a couple trustees have been texting me asking, do we all need to stay up for this? And so I just, if you could just provide some clarification, uh, it would be great.

[05:38:06] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Sure, item is a standing agenda item for council member reports and the process to, uh, agendas, a future item is often brought up at that time and it would require majority council support to, for example, bring back a future agenda item to discuss this topic and just for purposes of example, what the city position would be to inform the working group representative. That's just an example. So, uh, you, I, you could stay if you wanted to, it does come at the end of the agenda, though.

[05:38:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Luckily, these meetings are recorded. So you are welcome to enjoy the recording. If you like, Dr. Rudolph, and you can pass that on to your trustees. Um, it would just be, as a city attorney mentioned, just an agenda, is it for a later day for discussion since it's, uh, a presentation item. It's more for questions and comments. So, um, I'm still, oh, yes, vice mayor of a mess.

[05:39:20] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Oh, so I was gonna move to continue the meeting past 10 PM, but I forget you wanted to make comments first.

[05:39:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Um, I think that my only comment since it sounds like uh, um, all of my my colleagues, we we share similar sentiments. So the only thing that I, that I would add is just my thanks to Dr. Rudolph and um, is staff who helped prepare the presentation to our community for providing their input. You know, the reason why I thought that it would be informative to have this presentation is council was getting a lot of feedback on this item. And I thought that the best way for us all to hear the information would be a presentation from you, Dr. Rudolph. Um, you know, gets into the, yeah. I think having an open public forum for this dialogue is really what people have been meeting and I think particular because we're in the pandemic, it makes it so difficult to connect to get information to get that communication. Um, and so really appreciate your willingness to come, um, as well as the public to to provide that input that I think just, you know, might have been a little bit of a missing link for everyone to feel like more of a community and connected. So I just wanted to add that. Thanks. So, um, I will, I mean, move on and cancel when we're, um, show Walter can add her comments later. Um, vice mayor remares. turn to you.

[05:40:41] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: I'm sorry, I did have some more comments on the item 8 that may be helpful for counsel. Uh, I know council's going to go to continue the meeting, uh, or not. And it's also possible it's council desires to take a vote to rearrange the order of the meeting, perhaps, if there's council interest moving item 8 up as a courtesy to Dr. Rudolph. That's an option, uh, to consider. It's certainly, uh, counsels pleasure though.

[05:41:19] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Uh, well, If, If we move on to any item, we're still gonna need a vote to continue past 10 PM. I'm right? City attorney Chopper.

[05:41:30] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Correct.

[05:41:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So why?

[05:41:33] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: And then after that decision is made, there, there could be a decision to reorder the remaining items.

[05:41:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So, I would like to close this item if possible. Dr. Ruda.

[05:41:46] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: I'm so sorry, Mayor Kamei. We can watch the video. Y'all don't have to rearrange. Okay. For for an account of us. Although, I'm truly moved by the jester, but at the end of the day, we can watch a video and we can get back to you and I do want to say thank you for allowing us the opportunity to present today, it's been really great. I know it's later for us, then it is for y'all, and I'm sure you all are tired too. But again, many thanks for allowing us the opportunity to come, and we look forward to working, uh, both with the city manager as well as parks and recs to try and come to amical solution for all of us that we we can all live with.

[05:42:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Sounds good. And we all we expect is some some of those cookies, Dr. Rudolph. We went to...

[05:42:33] Dr. Ayindé Rudolph: I burned them all. I was in the middle of the presentation. I wanted to get up to get on in the old burn, so maybe tomorrow I'll try again.

[05:42:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: That sounds great. So, I'm assuming, Councilwoman, Ramirez, has his hands up to continue the, like, councilware, magic. see your hand. So do you, can I, is it about this item?

[05:42:58] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So, um, I was going to 2nd the motion vice mayor was going to make, but also have another comment about, I think we should move item 8 to now because we've got 58 people from the public still here. They probably want to hear.

[05:43:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So I'm going to go to the vice mayor, so we can continue that, the meeting past 10 PM, which is well past now. So Vice Mirror mirrors.

[05:43:22] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: They moved.

[05:43:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. And then you have the 2nd from council member Mattachek. All right. So next on the agendas are a consent calendar, but I'm hearing that perhaps we want to do a change in there.

[05:43:37] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: You should probably 1st take a vote on the continuation of the meeting and then...

[05:43:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. All right, so we have a, a motion, um, Ms. Wonderlanden, can you do a real call, please? Thank you.

[05:43:51] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Of course. I'm not a big coda. I

[05:43:54] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: also remember Hicks.

[05:43:56] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Reluctant, yes.

[05:43:58] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Elsa member Lieber.

[05:44:00] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[05:44:00] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: L from MMA check.

[05:44:02] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[05:44:03] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Health member, show Walter. Nice, Mira, Mirez.

[05:44:09] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[05:44:10] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor come in.

[05:44:12] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, thank you. Okay. And nice Mary, Mary. I see your hands still up. Is this?

[05:44:20] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: I'll go ahead and um, move, uh, item 8 up in advance of the consent calendar.

[05:44:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. City attorney Chopper, do we need a 2nd for that motion?

[05:44:34] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Excuse me, councilmother, uh, showwalker is the phone number.

[05:44:38] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. House member show alter if you can unmute yourself with Star 6. So I'm going to continue the meeting while council member Sher Walter works to unmute herself. Um, The question that I had for the city attorney was, do we need a 2nd and then we do we need to take a roll call vote on that 2nd for the item 8?

[05:45:08] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yes, 2 both questions.

[05:45:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, great. Council number about a check.

[05:45:12] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I 2nd it.

[05:45:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Ms. Wonderland.

[05:45:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: So we have a motion to move item 8 up now, uh, by vice mayor number, 2nded by council member Mattachek.

[05:45:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Oh, for my mother, go go.

[05:45:29] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Just to plan it information and order. Do we need to take public comment on these motions before we actually vote?

[05:45:39] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Uh, this is just a rearrangement of the, of the agenda itself. It's not an agendaized item. It's just, it's a procedural reordering of the agenda, so no.

[05:45:52] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Okay. I, thank you.

[05:45:54] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Ultimately, Hicks?

[05:45:56] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[05:45:57] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: House member Lieber.

[05:45:58] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I...

[05:45:59] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Also, I'm on my to check.

[05:46:01] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[05:46:01] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Showalter.

[05:46:04] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[05:46:05] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: I swore me was.

[05:46:07] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[05:46:08] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor Kameh.

[05:46:09] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, thank you. How can I... I see your hand. Oh, okay. So we've, um, moved item 8 up in the agenda. Was there someone who wanted to bring an item forward for agony? Council member Mad Shack.

[05:46:30] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, so I guess I did have something to say. You know, I think it's hard to come up with a really good solution here on Fly. And so what I would prefer to do is have, um, our city manager and, um, Dr. Rudolph, talk about what might be, uh, a course of action we can take and bring that back to the council for discussion and also take it to the school board for discussion. um So that would be my emotion. And at that time, it's vulnerable, but if we still have the working groups, we would provide, um, our perspective on what we would want represented in that.

[05:47:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Hicks.

[05:47:23] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I'd also like several members of the public said that we could come up with a position paper and take a look at the joint use agreement. And I feel like maybe we need, I feel like we need, uh, some sort of state position from the council on, you know, what we expect out of an agreement because what I'm getting out of the joint use agreement is very now it seems to be very different than what I thought when I've read it in the past. You know, for as one example, I thought I would get noticed for something this important before the decision was made and that it would come to the council level. And it seems like our current joint use agreement doesn't give us those things. So that's part of what I thought could come back to us.

[05:48:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Is that a friendly addition to what counts? I don't know how to check it mentioned. Is counselor a matter check, would you be okay with adding that or?

[05:48:27] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Mayor, mayor, or?

[05:48:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[05:48:35] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Council mayor Mattachek, I think you were speaking, you were on mute.

[05:48:38] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: No, no, I just realized that, sorry. I was just going to say that I think, you know, my statement about, um, at that time providing input on what we would like to see would be sort of like the position paper. So yes, I agree with that. I kind of view the joint use agreement as maybe a separate topic, but obviously I'd like to hear the city manager.

[05:49:01] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Um, thank you, Councilman Romata check and council member Hicks. So yes, I would suggest that, um, So the working group's 1st meeting is February 25th and I think, um, council has provided all of your your feedback and I know we haven't gotten through everyone yet, but, um, it is obviously enough for for me and for our community services director to be able to represent the city's um, intentions in this 1st meeting. So what we could do is see how, you know, this 1st meeting goes, our community services director will be representing the city's interest. Obviously, the superintendent has heard feedback from the community and we'll hear from all of you this evening. And then I think what we could do is bring back an item on the progress of the working group, and you all can form some sort of statement, you know, if you want council member Hicks, um, and Council member Matachek, as you suggested, uh, we could do it prior to the meeting on the 25th so that they have that before they meet, or we could do it after the working group commences after you see what the progress is like. The joint use agreement is a bigger, um, It is a contract. And it is, I think, a bigger thing that we're going to need to dive into with, um, the city attorney's office and community services department. This is something that actually they have been talking about for the last few years. The goal right now, we have numerous agreements right now with the school district, and we're trying to get on the same page with a lot of items, and put it in one agreement. So this is actually been worked on for quite some time now. So, um, I think it's a little more complicated than, um, just bringing this back because there's a lot of other components to it. So I would ask if our community services director has any other insight on that, but I think, at least that's the process. So where I would, I guess, ask for counsel direction is the timing. Would you rather come back and maybe do a straw poll prior to the February 25th meeting or after the meeting has started and see how it goes. So, uh, I think that is a decision point that you could do a straw poll on.

[05:51:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member, Abbe Koka.

[05:51:34] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Uh, I guess, question, is that what we, uh, we want to do this evening, take decide the timing. And if so, Is that part of the motion?

[05:51:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Do you have a proposal, notion maker?

[05:51:52] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So my personal perspective is I think it would be useful to provide you up before the meeting. Um, but I also, um, had raised the point where that I don't think, um, This is limited to the Montalina school. Because we've heard from other residents tonight about concerns about other schools. So, um, I'm concerned about having that working group meeting for just one school and this is an issue that applies to all of them. But I would like to provide the impact before these meetings.

[05:52:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Okay. Council number Leaver.

[05:52:36] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I think it would be available to have the input before the meetings as well, and I wonder if staff, given what we have going on with COVID and the program at the community center in terms of vaccination, and everything else, we'd be able to do this in that time frame. I do think that, um, you know, we've had a good, good ventilation of a lot of the issues here tonight, and, and so I think that staff has, has definitely gotten our drift in our, our general direction. Um, one issue that was raised by, um, one of the individual presentations was about the use of the, uh, park slash fields. Um, during the COVID closure. Um, and if families are allowed to access those fields during the COVID closure, and, and I was understanding from what was said that they had been told that they could not, um, access the fields, but it seems particularly important for families to, to have that access now, um, given the distance learning and and everything else that, um, families in the community are going through. So I'd like to make sure that we include that kind of access um, uh, during this time. Thank you.

[05:54:15] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Right. Council member show, Walter, welcome back. So we, um, we, uh, moved on from the presentation, um, and we moved item 8 forward to now so that we can talk about agendizing what we'd like to do. related to the topic on the presentation from Dr. Rudolph. And so, um, Just wanted to catch you back up. So, um, it sounds like Counselor Manachek had some thoughts and and a few others. And so I'm not sure if you wanted to kind of add anything.

[05:54:50] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Well, I just like to wait in a little bit. Um, I, I, I, just power outage, right? At the right moment. What a bunch of what major punctuation that was. Anyway, um, I'm really glad we're taking this up because, um, you know, in our country right now, we're really sort of facing a, um, uh, uh, one of the crisis is in government trust. And I think this is fundamentally about, you know, how are, you know, local governments, i.e. the school board and and the city work together and and how we behave in a really in a trustworthy manner. And, um, you know, I think a lot of people feel like the, um, the, the language about the fencing was was very, very, um, short and, uh, um, not, uh, you know, not really, getting the point across that of what the, the school district had in mind in the ballot. And then there's just the other thing of, you know, we'll really expect it to spend money wisely as government leaders. And to, um, you know, and to spend it on things that people think will be effective. And we've certainly heard that there's a lot of people who don't think that the fencing will meet the stated goal. And I think everybody, one thing we did hear, though, was that everybody agrees that one, we want to make sure our kids are safe, and two, our parks are precious. So, you know, it's very important that we figure out, you know, how to make that all work. So I think the idea of, um, weighing in a little more uh, carefully before the meeting is a good idea and, um, I uh, Sorry to have missed the rest of the discussion. Thank you.

[05:56:41] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. I just wanted to make sure you had an opportunity to enter your comments as well. Um, so council member Mattachek, was that a, was that a motion? Does anyone have a 2nd?

[05:56:54] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Can you repeat the motion, please?

[05:56:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes. Council member, Mad a check. you mind?

[05:57:01] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Uh, sure. So, um, the motion was to have uh, the city manager and the superintendent get to go there and talk about a process to um, address this. And that, um, prior to a meeting of their working group, the council would, um, provide our perspective or start our position, um, that we would like to see, uh, prior to any meetings of the working group. And also to expand this, to cover all the schools, not just want to offer.

[05:57:42] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Be glad to 2nd that.

[05:57:45] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Council member show, Walter. Sorry about that, Council member labor. I see your hand. Oh, was that the 2nd or would you like to add more?

[05:57:53] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Uh, I was gonna 2nd but also suggest a friendly amendment that we ask for future item bring back shared use. Um, as a as a policy issue.

[05:58:05] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Absolutely.

[05:58:07] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you.

[05:58:08] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. And Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[05:58:13] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: So I'll support the motion, uh, assuming that staff, uh, affirms that you all have the capacity to bring this back to us before the 1st working group meeting.

[05:58:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. City manager, McCarthy, go ahead.

[05:58:32] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you. Um, so here's how I think it could work, um, just with the timing and as council member Lubra noted, um, our community services director and his team are literally working in 7 days a week on the vaccine clinic and uh, many other items related to COVID. So this is a big lift. So what I think could work is we can bring back an item on February 23rd for council to give an official statement or position. Um, I will work with Dr. Rudolph on the process, um, that we will have going forward in terms of just, especially the communication, providing updates to both council and the community. In terms of bringing back the joint use agreement. I would ask that counsel, discuss this and determine this as part of your work plan process coming up. As I mentioned, this is a big lift and it's going to take quite a bit of time. So I think this is a bigger item that you all will need to discuss. And then I also want to note that one of the things that the community services department intends on doing, which I believe can also be one of your work plan items is looking at our parks, master plan, and our rec master plan, and combining them into one strategic plan for parks and recreation. So those are 2 very big projects for the department. So I think we'll just need to have some more thought about the timing and wrap that into our goal setting and our upcoming process, um, not necessarily that we would bring that back to council immediately. We'll definitely need more time on that. So if council's amenable to that. I feel like that's the best way that we can work through the the workload and the other staff considerations we have right now.

[06:00:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, thank you. Council member Abby Kogan?

[06:00:36] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, so I, I, I can split the motion, um, but I will say that, um, It's a, I guess I'm, my question is going to be, you know, what kind of statement are we going to make because I, from past experience, um, but you know, actually seeing like the working group, do its work, and getting input, or getting the feedback from the working group, um, could be helpful in terms of providing the different options that are available. Um, it's, you know, hard for me to say, if you're gonna, if we're gonna be, you know, expecting to take a position, for instance, I don't know, again, all of the parameters of the possibilities and as well as the restrictions on each site. Um, so it would be difficult for me to take a position or position statement if it's, you know, going to be that, which, which, A through Z, which one are you going to pick? But if it's general generalizations, um, you know, I can support that. So I guess I would like to hear more clarity on what kind of position we're going to be expecting to take before the working group starts.

[06:01:56] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Do you want me to answer that? What I was thinking? So I was thinking sort of general, um, Sort of like, um, a policies as opposed to specifics. Um, so not, this fence goes here, but, you know, we want, it could give an example, um, even though this might not be a great one. You know, we want unrestricted access to the fields, something like that. Um, Versus, um, you know, you can put the fence right here. Does that answer your question? Counseling the attic, okay?

[06:02:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So, I believe we had emotion, one capital, one, had a check, 2nd date by counselor, show shelter. I didn't see any other hands or any other discussion. So it sounds like, um, to summarize and sorry if that if my brain's a little mushy, but it sounds like, um, this will be agendas for our February 23rd meeting where council will have the opportunity to give some general approaching, comments, policy ideas. Um, about this issue, kind of holistically, and that, um, city manager McCarthy and Dr. Rudolph will be in communication. Um, while this is going on and that shall we look into kind of other items like our Parks Master plan or our joint use agreement, we can discuss that in our future uh, goal settings meeting. Does that sound right? I'm seeing some heads nod. Okay, great. Okay. So, um, since this, um, uh, item is, it's just a request for a future item with with no action, uh, we don't have to open it up for public comment. So I believe, so you're trying to chop it? Should we still do a real call vote or is a strong motion via hands? All right.

[06:03:48] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yeah, is showing majority is fine.

[06:03:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So all those in so far, if you don't mind raising your hands. Vice mayor Ramirez, if you wanna just verbally let us know if you're supporting it, that would be great.

[06:04:03] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Oh, yes.

[06:04:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, so that looked unanimous to me. City Click?

[06:04:10] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: All right. it was it was unanimous.

[06:04:11] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right. So hoping no one else has any other item 8s that they want to include. I'm going to close item 8 and then move back to, I'd like to move back to the consent calendar item four, but we've been going now for about 5.5 hours. So I think everyone could probably use a break. So if possible, we'll thank Dr. Rudolph, his his 4 trustees on the public. We will take a 10 minute break, if that works for everybody. And so I'm just going to say we're going to meet back at midnight. All right. If that works for everyone. Okay. I see heads mom. See you at midnight.

[05:23:29] (archive recording) Mayor Ellen Kamei: And Spanish interpretation services will be provided for item 4.2. The urgency ordinance extending residential eviction protections. These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to remove an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of resolutions and ordinances will be waived unless the council member requests otherwise. Would any member of the council like to pull an item. Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[06:15:39] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I like to pull 4.8.

[06:15:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So we'll pull 4.8. Any other council members? All right. Council member Hicks.

[06:15:56] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I'd like to pull 4.2.

[06:15:59] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, 4.2. All right, so you have 4.2 pulled and 4.8 pulled. Any other items? Is there? Yeah. All right. Do we have emotionally others? With a balance of a consent calendar?

[06:16:26] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, I smell on your eyes.

[06:16:27] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: I'm sorry, uh... Could ask for public comment.

[06:16:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Oh, thank you. Thank you. about that. All right, does anyone have public comment on any of the consent calendar items? All right, I don't see any hands. I'll bring it back, Vicemail, yes.

[06:16:52] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, ma'am. I'll move the balance of the consent calendar, including 4.4 doctor resolution of the city council. The city of Mountain View, amending council policy, K2, council advisory body appointments, approving the council, policy, and procedures, committees, recommendations, and December 5th, 2019, regarding eligibility requirements for the BPA, BAC, performing arts committee, and senior advisory committee to be reflected in each committee of bylaws, and the council advice or your body's handbook to be read entitled only for the rating wave. And 4.7 adopt a resolution of intention of the city council, the city of Mountain View, to vacate a public service easement at 939 West El Camino Real, to be read entitled only further reading waves, and set a date for a public hearing to consider the vacation for February 23rd, 2021.

[06:17:45] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Do I see a 2nd Council member Hicks?

[06:17:49] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes, I second.

[06:17:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. City clerk, Wonderland, do you mind?

[06:17:55] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Health member, I'd be Kogo. I,

[06:17:58] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member hits. Castle member Lieber.

[06:18:06] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[06:18:06] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Castle member, money, check.

[06:18:08] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[06:18:09] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member show Walter.

[06:18:11] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[06:18:12] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Yes, ma'am, Ramirez.

[06:18:15] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[06:18:16] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor May.

[06:18:17] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[06:18:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Oh, man.

[06:18:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. So we'll move on to item 4.2 Council member Hicks. I believe you pulled this item.

[06:18:28] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes, and we'll see if I can say what I intended to say this late at night or whether I can't get through this. A member of the public had written me and maybe the rest of you asked, saying that the state extension of eviction relief, um, makes funds available and at 80% around, and was wondering if we could get legal advice maybe from the law foundation or Stanford Law Clinic about structuring our ramp program so that we're not basically, um, paying 100% of what, uh, of what people were paying last year, uh, with our rent relief program. So I just, I don't think this is the time. In other words, rents have gone down, it varies from one apartment type to another, but they've gone down for, sometimes 30 to or more percent. Yeah, we're, our rent relief program is paying 100%. So, this, you know, I would like to, um, I would vote in favor, 4.2, but it triggers the question to me of whether we should restructure our rent relief program. So it was just a comment, not something we would move on at this point.

[06:19:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. Thank you. Does anyone else have any comments on this item? All right, city attorney shopper, should I open it for public comment as well? Can I move to item 48?

[06:20:07] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yeah, the prior public comment covered these items. So you're right.

[06:20:12] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Thanks. All right. Thank you, council member Hicks. Bye, Sarah Ramirez. Did you want to discuss 4.8 which you called?

[06:20:22] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, I'll I'll be brief. Um, I, uh, fully support nominating council member Meta check to serve as the alternate to the BTA board. I think she'll do an excellent job. And, uh, is is qualified. I do have concerns about the bylaws, however, which staff attached. I think they need to be cleaned up. I learned from the public works director, none of this group 2 cities. Uh, have, uh, the, the city council, such not, affirmed the bylaws or adopted them. They're they're totally ad hoc. Uh, you know, any composition of pack members participating in one of these meetings, which are not staffed by VTA or city staff, um, can amend the bylaws and that's, that's happened. Um, so, uh, in addition to moving the staff recommendation, I would like to, uh, seek the council support and directing staff to work on cleaning up the bylaws and ultimately, um, securing the formal endorsements of each of the group to city councils. So go ahead and move that and also 4.2. Uh, adopt an urgency ordinance of the city of Mountain View temporarily suspending evictions for non-payment of rent, uh, residential tenants impacted by the COVID-19 emergency effect of February 1st, 2021, contingent upon exploration of the statewide eviction moratorium to be read entitled only further in wave, effective on February 1st, 2021 upon adoption. Thank you.

[06:22:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Council member, Abikoda.

[06:22:06] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. I'll go ahead and 2nd that, and then if I could add some comments on item 4.8. Yes, I fully support council member Mattachex nomination. I think she would be very well qualified to represent as well. Um, I do support the vice mayor's, um, edition. And even in addition to that, um, uh, I think he, he mentioned, and I don't know if it's in the motion, but, um, the concept of having a staff person at these meetings, um, way back when when I was a regular member of this group, we did have staff, um, after I left. Apparently there was some concern about ETA staff being there, but as a result, what I've discovered in returning is that we've lost a lot of records of what's happened in the past and the bylaws, as mentioned, were never ratified. Um, there's just, there's a need for someone to keep records of all these meetings. And so, um, I would suggest that we also um, advocate for our staff, staff person to be a part of these North County grouping meetings. I don't know if you could, they would be willing to add that vice mayor.

[06:23:21] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, I agree.

[06:23:24] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Great, thank you.

[06:23:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: So we have a motion on item 4.2 and item 4.8 and 2nded by council member Abi Koga. So, um, City Creek Founder Limited, do you mind doing a raw call boat?

[06:23:38] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Certainly, Council member of Bigogo.

[06:23:40] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I

[06:23:40] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: tell some of the Hicks.

[06:23:43] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[06:23:43] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Kelsamo Believer.

[06:23:45] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[06:23:45] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Celcil member Metachek.

[06:23:48] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[06:23:49] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: I also remember show Walter.

[06:23:50] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes?

[06:23:51] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Vice Neil Ramirez.

[06:23:54] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[06:23:55] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor Kamei.

[06:23:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes,

[06:23:56] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: thank you.

[06:23:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So we'll move on to item 5 or communications. 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 up to 2 minutes during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non-agenda items. Would any member of the public on the line like to make a comment on non-agenda items? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on the phone. The clerk will display the timer on the screen. So I see one hand, and that is Tim McKenzie. So we could just have the Perfect. We could just do the timer, please.

[06:24:44] Tim McKenzie: Thanks for uh, thanks for giving me some time. First, I wanted to say, thank you, council and staff, I got an excellent email yesterday that, uh, Mountain View will be providing free period products in women's bathrooms. is great. Thank you. I've commented on this on and off for like a year and a half . So it's great that it's happened. I'll also add trans menstruate and we should expand to men's bathrooms. Um, I'd also like to comment on, uh, comments from counselors at in council members at the beginning of the 1st meeting of the year. One of the major themes that came through was civility in Mountain View politics. And I got to say that calls for civility, ring hollow, and sound like Republicans on the national stage calling for unity while questioning the election results. If what we've seen recently counts as civility, we have different definitions of the work. I've seen council members using their position to castigate members commenting at council the 1st time. I can't think of anything more uncivil or anti-democratic than discouraging people from getting involved in municipal governments. Um, it seems like the conception of civility is that there aren't curse words. The real basis of civility is respect. Respecting that, even if we have different politics, we're working towards the same goal that's improving our shared community. I'm a Red Sox fan. I'm dating a Yankees fan. I can find common ground across seemingly unbridgeable divides. It's really uncivil to ignore repeated good faith efforts to reach across the political aisle and bridge policy divides. I really am eagerly awaiting a response to one of the many emails to a council member that it would be uncivil of me to mention who it is without having spoken with first. And if I haven't heard back by the end of the week, I'll reach out to you again. I'm happy to respond to calls for civility. I hope to see similar behavior from elected leaders. And really, sincerely, thank you so much for taking action on the period products. Thank you.

[06:26:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Alexander Brad?

[06:26:56] Alexander Brown: This rain is hardcore, huh? Uh, I want to agree with Tim and also, uh, call for period products in all bathrooms because, uh, men also don't deserve to be bleeding all over their clothes. Uh, it's like, why? Gender bathrooms are silly. Oh yeah, I forgot. Okay. Thanks.

[06:27:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thanks, Alex. I'm assuming you're done there. Um, Shani Kleinhouse?

[06:27:34] Shani Kleinhaus: It's a nice rainy. Night, we need this rain. Um, a European study that was published just in December, showed that high biodiversity in people's vicinity, is is important for their life, quality of life and happiness, is their income. The study showed that individual enjoyment of life correlates with the number of surrounding bird species. An additional 10% of word species increased life satisfaction as much as a comparable increase in income. I think for Audubon, we all knew that, but it's really nice to see studies that collaborate this. So investment in nature and biodiversity is an investment in human. Biologists believe that we now live through the 6th mass extension event, associated primarily with climate change, land use patterns and practices. And I don't have a lot more time. So I would just say it's never been more critical to integrate ecology and rewilding.

[06:28:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Shani, I think we lost you there. Are you still there?

[06:28:52] Shani Kleinhaus: Nature-based solutions into urban lives. Can you hear me?

[06:28:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you.

[06:28:56] Shani Kleinhaus: Yeah. Okay, yeah, my my connection is unstable. So, uh, there's a new group in Mountain View. I think most of them probably gave up by now, wanted to talk to you tonight. Um, they're looking to, uh, use all these urban land, introduce into the land, uh, urban landscape, more native plantings and more nature and more green spaces in general. So I'm glad that Audubon, my group, can help and provide them with resources, and I hope that you will help them expand nature by solution, and real-while, the city's parks, urban forest, storm water, infrastructure, and streetscapes. Thank you. Thank you for listening.

[06:29:43] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. All right, I don't see anyone else with raised hands, and I don't think anyone else has called in. So I'm going to close uh oral communications and bring it back. Um, item 6 public hearing, there is none. So we'll move on to item 7, which is new business. Item 7. is the hotel acquisition opportunity to address housing needs. And so, um, I know that assistant community development director Wayne Chen will be with us. Um, I'm not sure if, uh, council would like to hear a brief presentation from Wayne or if you wanted to forego the presentation, um, to get into questions. But I wanted to see if people were. Cancel where I'm at a check. I see your hand.

[06:30:34] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: I personally like at least some sort of brief presentation because, well, we might have only had the staff report. All members of the public might not have. And so I think it's helpful to provide an introduction to the topic.

[06:30:48] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, Mr. Chen, you heard? Take it away.

[06:30:53] Assistant Community Development Director Wayne Chen: Great. Thanks so much, mayor and counsel. and let me just take a moment to share my screen. Okay, could you confirm that you can see me, share screen? Great. Thanks so much. I'll make this brief. Um, the purpose of this item. Is for the council to provide recommendation on the Crust View Hotel acquisition opportunity to address various housing needs. A brief background, as you know, uh, the city applied and was successfully um, awarded, um, a private home key phones as part of the state program with live news, and that project is well underway. Uh, in October of 2028, the owner of Crestfield Hotel contacted staff, um, because, you know, he had heard about, um, our application and wanted to see if the city had an interest in looking at acquisition of the hotel to meet various needs. Um, to talk about the fact that the state that only had passed, but that there is a lot of potential alignment with various needs, um, along the housing continuum. And we had talked about potentially a rapidly housing, um, um, opportunity to dress, uh, housing needs for persons who may be experiencing, or who are, um, at risk of homelessness, and also since this place tenants given the priority, um, uh, priority that the council has on these, um, the 2 areas. Uh, brief uh, background on Crestview Hotel itself is located at 901 East El Camino Real, built in 1985 with 67 rooms. There are a number of 2 room suites, Amanda Suite, and 531 room suites. All of the rooms are interior with amenities. There are 6 retail pads. Um, and there are over 80 spaces for parking for both the hotel parking and the retail. Just to show some images here. This is the exterior of the hotel. And the hotel owner mentioned that there were recent renovations that were completed in the hotel. So you can see the updated furnishings and fixtures. There's a business center. Um a gym. And this is a lobby area. And then this is an image of the adjacent retail paths that you can see right next to the hotel. Um, over the past couple of months, uh, after, um, having preliminary initial conversation with hotel owner, um, staff connected with the county, um, learning that this may be a great opportunity to partner with the county in terms of acquiring and performing, um, a potential uh, rehab or renovation work to, um, convert this into uh, a residential use. And so the discussions have included um, the county being the lead, um, on the acquisition, given the funding resources that they have. Um, we had talked about using uh, city, CDPG and home funding. Um, as a capital project activity up to $3.7 million. Um, uh, The, um, a process would include a joint request for proposals is, at least what we've talked about with the county. Um, if the council directs staff to move forward and working with the county and if the acquisition is successful, there would be a joint RFP process, um, there would be um, discussions of how to, um, outreach to, um, uh, potential tenants, and then there would be sort of other elements to be further discussed with the county um, pending council direction. Um, so this is the recommendation to, um, have council direct staff to work with the county, um, on this opportunity. And uh, if counsel supports that recommendation, the next steps would um, include the following county beginning the negotiation process with the hotel owner, and that would include a very due diligence items as well. Uh, the city and county would develop an MOU to formalize the partnership, um, that would be part of this process. Uh, we would be including the federal CBG home funding as part of the um, fiscal year 21, 22 annual action plan. It's a plan that the city does every year as part of the CDPG program. It would be for capital projects, and then we would certainly conduct public outreach to the adjacent neighborhoods. Um, so that concludes staff's presentation. Thanks so much.

[06:35:23] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much. Do council members have questions? And I believe, Mr. Chen is joined by some county staff that that's also here, Mr. Chen, do you mind introducing who else has joined?

[06:35:36] Assistant Community Development Director Wayne Chen: Oh, who still remains? It was for reminding me trying to get through the presentation, but I did want to thank the hotel owner. I'm Mr. Andy Patel for reaching out to the city. I really appreciate that. He did join the call, but had to disconnect, so I will follow up with him afterwards. And we do have Chris Robert Hernandez from the County of Office of Supportive Housing. I believe she's still on the on the line here. So, um, um, if there are any questions, um, we can also connect, um, with her as well if, uh, if it's needed.

[06:36:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Councilman Auto Koba.

[06:36:15] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Um, I know this came up, uh, during another project, and I'm assuming, um, oh, I shouldn't assume, um, my question had to do with um, eventual ownership of the property. Um, I know that we were in some discussions with the county on the, some of the other potential measuring projects. Has that been resolved or is that going to be part of the MOU process?

[06:36:42] Assistant Community Development Director Wayne Chen: So in conversation with the county, we were talking about, um, 2 separate MOUs, one that would be specific to this um, hotel acquisition project. And then a separate MOU that would capture the citywide programmatic approach to projects. And, um, in that 2nd MOU is where we envision capturing some principles for how we would partner together under various projects, um, um, that we're looking at in the pipeline. And, and again, so that would be separate, um, the given the size of this hotel project and the acquisition, um, and the funds that would be needed for this, um, project, uh, we would be looking at the county acquiring this site, but the city contributing that uh, acquisition, excuse me, the, the rehab renovation dollars, but we are in conversations on the other projects, such as La Bonita, um, and, uh, the upcoming Montecito project for, Um, city ownership. So that is part of those conversations.

[06:37:51] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So, um, Our contribution to this project, could that be included in the citywide agreement?

[06:38:03] Assistant Community Development Director Wayne Chen: That is at least staff's intent and understanding, and we would have as part of further conversations with the county of, looking at incorporating the units for this hotel conversion, essentially, as part of the 200 to 250 under the, um, you know, rapidly housing units contributing to that.

[06:38:22] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you.

[06:38:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Do any other council members have questions? All right. Seeing then, I'll move it over to public comment. Um, if the city collectors at mine, we'll just stick with the 2 minutes. Um, So 1st is Robert Stromberg. Who's Emily?

[06:38:47] Robert Stromberg: Good morning counsel. you hear me?

[06:38:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[06:38:51] Robert Stromberg: Wonderful. My name is Robert Strummer. or Bob Stromberg. I work with Destination Home. We're a nonprofit organization working to prevent and end homelessness throughout Santa Clara County, including in Mountain View. And we just wanted to be here this evening to thank you, the city of Mountain View for your continued leadership in exploring and advancing permanent housing solutions, for those experiencing, and also those at risk of homelessness. With your recent endorsement of the community planned end homelessness. We believe that the Crestview Hotel presents another exciting opportunity to bring much needed affordable housing units to Mountain View and hope that you move forward with this project. Given the depth of the crisis, it's critical that we explore every opportunity to bring more affordable housing online and deeply affordable housing as quickly as possible. And as we've seen in other communities, recently, hotel conversions are a very promising approach to doing so. This is also the type of opportunity that will help our community achieve its bold goals to house 20,000 homeless individuals over the next 5 years. And we at Destination Home look forward to continuing our work with you on this important work and stand ready to assist the county and city staff as you explore this opportunity further. Thank you so very much for your time.

[06:40:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you very much. We have a phone number at 408 and the last 4 digits are 246. So if you just want to hit Star 6 to unmute yourself.

[06:40:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[06:40:52] Public Speaker: Hi, can you hear me?

[06:40:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, I hear you.

[06:40:57] Public Speaker: Yes, I hear you. Yeah, I'm I'm...

[06:41:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Go ahead.

[06:41:05] Public Speaker: Anyway, I'm calling from like, I can't understand what you're trying to do. You can you can speak.

[06:41:21] Public Speaker: Okay. I mean, I'm trying, um, to say, I would support the purchase of the mortality, which space, as the food security, the house, all the people, all my people, and things, the, I'm not just, uh, Phoenix Park, but that's important too. And they're important, um, the airline walk, which is important. Um. And I'm sorry, I'm tired. Um, um, do that we can to get more housing, we can, we can, we can, we can. Thank you.

[06:42:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you very much. Thanks for sticking with us and calling back in. All right, J Mo. Please un meet yourself.

[06:42:13] J Mo: Uh, hello?

[06:42:14] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[06:42:15] J Mo: Uh, good morning, respecting mayor and city council members. Thank you so much for working so late, and I have been waiting for 7 hours to talk, and this is literally killing Matt, because this is literally killing my family financially, thanks for giving me this chance to express my opinion on this proposal. Many of my neighbors, and I believe this is a project with goodwill, but not a good project itself, because we, um, so that, so we want to uh, express our strengths opposition to get for the following 4 reasons. First one is that it is turning the hotel into a homeless shutter because of the COVID, and that will harm the economy permanently, and the business will not be able to recover once the pandemics are over. We should not give up on the business and their workers. And secondly, it is the very extremely efficient use of the budget because the Crustview Hotel has a prime location, which is next door to the to the Crustview community. According to Zillow, the zip code 94040 has a medium home price of 2.4 million. It is by far the most expensive zip code within the Money region and it's 50% more expensive than others zip code within the region. There are not many more, much more affordable places to build such facilities. And thirdly, uh, it has no families because of the Crestville homeowners will lose significant value over this purpose of punishing the hard-working homeowners badly like us in order to have another group of people is no fairness. And I have done research on the other successful home key project, project. For example, the repeaters and San Francisco. None of them is located within the easily expensive residential community. So I believe that it was a successful key factor to their success. And lastly, housing choice voucher is the most effective known way for to reduce the homelessness and the data shows that reduce the homelessness rate by 75% and President Biden is expensive. Thank you. Thank you.

[06:44:19] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you very much. Sofia Lee.

[06:44:25] Sofia Lee: Hi, can you hear me?

[06:44:27] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[06:44:28] Sofia Lee: Hi, I'm also a resident of the Crestview Drive neighborhood. Thank you for your effort to address the urgent issue of homelessness, but I also opposed this proposal because it's neither an effective way of solving the issue, nor the wisest way of spending the budget. Um, I believe this plan would be unfair to the property owners in the nearby neighborhoods. My family spend all our savings to buy a condo here, and its value has already dropped by 15% because of the pandemic. If the value for their jobs due to this proposal. My family will face serious financial difficulties. Moreover, if the values of properties drop, the government's tax income will be affected, and the local economy will be hurt in the long run. It is also unbiased to spend the budget by a hotel in an area with such high living expenses. It's not just about finding them a place to live, even if they are settled here, they would have difficulty affording food, housing, clothing, healthcare, and transportation. Instead of solving the problem, this plan would create more problems and more maintenance costs for the city in the future. Therefore, I urge the city council to find more affordable places to settle the homeless. And also providing housing choice vouchers to them, which is not only more effective, but also allows them to choose where they want to live and better integrate into local communities. I urge the council to reconsider this plan and tackle the issue with a holistic and long-term view, balancing the needs of all communities. Thank you.

[06:46:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Kelsey Baines. Please unmute. Kelsey, are you there? Oh, I hear something.

[06:46:37] Kelsey Baines: Hello?

[06:46:39] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Kelsey, I hear you now.

[06:46:42] Kelsey Baines: No, I can't hear you.

[06:46:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: I I can hear you. We can hear you.

[06:46:49] Kelsey Baines: Can you hear me now?

[06:46:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes. Yes.

[06:46:53] Kelsey Baines: Great. Okay. Um, so start at work. How many is Kelsey Baines? and I just want to start by thanking you for your work to address homelessness, and to tackle this important, very solvable problem? Homelessness is a state. It's not a trait of a person and it is solved with housing. Um, And it actually costs a lot more money, uh, to not house people than to house them. So housing is a really important and effective solution. And there is no evidence that affordable housing or housing for homeless people brings down property values. Um, and I also want to adjust the, the idea that, uh, housing choice vouchers are a better solution. I worked for a housing choice, um, voucher program called Hudbash for several years, and the difficulty with housing choice vouchers in expensive areas like Mountain View is that the payment standard is lower than the market rate price. So it's most impossible to find a place to rent unless you have a project-based unit to get people into using a voucher. So, um, the, the, the bigger issue, I would say that we need affordable units, we need affordable homes for people, and this would be a great opportunity to get people housed in a high opportunity area with great access to resources, um, and just to be able to let people stay in the community because the reality is a lot of the people who would be accessing these homes would be, people who have just been displaced from the apartment. So it's not new people, it's not strangers, it's our neighbors. So thank you very much.

[06:48:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Alexander Brown. Alex, do they?

[06:49:01] Alexander Brown: Well, I thought I was.

[06:49:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: There you are.

[06:49:04] Alexander Brown: Not here now?

[06:49:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yep.

[06:49:06] Alexander Brown: This is awesome. Thanks for working on this way. We are in a crisis. We need to take action. Just listen to the rain outside and imagine if you didn't have any shelter from it. This is the perfect opportunity and it's up to us as a city to take advantage of it. You know that I strongly support public housing, and this skips the hardest parts. So let's go. Let's do it. Come on. Sophia, if you're worried about food and clothing for those need, I'm right there with you. I think we should also provide food and clothing to those in need. And if the property values in the area drop far enough, that's a great opportunity for the city to purchase more existing housing units to open up as decomodified public housing. So, hey, you know, it could be a win. I yield the balance of my time.

[06:49:45] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Emily and Ramos?

[06:49:53] Emily Ramos: Hello?

[06:49:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hi. We hear.

[06:49:56] Emily Ramos: Perfect. My name is Emily and Ramos. I am with Mountain D Yambi. Mountain BMB, advocates for more housing in our city and beyond at all income levels. We are Mountain View residents and workers who seek solutions to our area's housing shortage. We support partnering with the county in exploring this opportunity to provide much needed affordable housing units for our vulnerable neighbors. Thank you to the mayor and the city council for leading our city to boldly fight the housing crisis. Thank you so much. I yield the balance of my time.

[06:50:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Tim McKenzie.

[06:50:32] Tim McKenzie: Hi, thanks. Yeah, sounds like a great project. We're living through the 2nd once in a lifetime economic crisis of my relatively young life. Um, and last time, big banks bought up money for pen housing for pennies on the dollar while everyone was kicked out of their homes and left with huge debt. Um, We, there's an eviction wave coming. There was a state law that was passed, but it was rushed last minute kind of behind closed doors and an advocate say that there wasn't much opportunity for them to provide substantive comment. So it's great to see proactive steps from the city government to address the impending crisis that's going on that and that we are living through and happened living through for a long time. And want to echo Alex's point about maybe transitioning to public housing because, you know, we should have housing as a human right. And for people worried about property value, that sounds like a legitimate concern, but it, housing shelter is the base on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, like, other problems don't, don't matter if you can't solve your physiological problems. So we need to do everything we can to actually address each other, treat each other with humans and allow us to live full lives with dignity. So, It seems like a great project, highly supportive. Thank you.

[06:52:07] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Evie, kitty. Please unmute.

[06:52:14] Edie Keating: Hi, I would like to speak in favor of this project. And, uh, in terms of property values, when you have unsheltered homeless, I would think that would depress property values, but when you shelter the homeless, um, then you have a much healthier and, uh, you know, community that I think would increase property values. I have been to visit a woman I know who is sheltering in a motel in Sunnyvale through the county and she is very happy there and grateful to have her own room, uh, where she is housed at this site. Um, and, you know, to drive up to the, uh, motel there. You really don't know who's in the motel. Is it a normal motel or not? Um, there's really, you know, no difference physically from the street. And she has a microwave and a mini fridge and uh, is very happy with that situation. And the added advantage to this particular site is that it's on El Camino, which means it's near the bus. And so many homeless do not have their own vehicle or not a reliable vehicle, and being on the El Camino line really makes this site just about perfect. And. Yeah, I, and the county uh, partnering with funds makes it even more perfect. So I strongly hope that you support this project. Thank you.

[06:53:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Richard Mellinger.

[06:53:56] Richard Mellinger: Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Richard Mellinger. I am chair of livable Sunnyvale, a local pro housing organization, but I am only speaking for myself this evening. Um, I urge you in the strongest possible terms to please acquire the hotel. Um, you know, it's never a good time to be homeless. But in the middle of a raging pandemic, in the middle of, well, we're seeing some truly horrible, cold, rainy weather. Um, You know, this is, It's after midnight, so I'm perhaps not being succinct, but, We're judged by what we, how we treat the least among us, and I, you know, whatever you do for the least of these, my brothers, you do to me. And I think that we, that it is a very clear moral case, it is morally the right thing to do. Financially, mountain view is receiving, is going to be receiving substantial assistance to this. President Biden has just unlocked additional FEMA funding for cities to house, unhoused residents in hotels. This is financially the right thing to do. This is morally the right thing to do. Please buy the hotel. Thank you.

[06:55:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. So I don't see any other speakers. So if we can bring it back. to cancel. 20 council members have any uh, comments, motion. Cosmo Rabicoda.

[06:55:46] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Thanks looking for other hands, but I don't see any. So, um, I, I, uh, go ahead and make a motion to, um, new staff recommendation and I just want to, um, think the staff, our staff, the county, um, and also the hotel owner for coming forward and offering the site. It's very seldom that we have opportunities like this. And so it's really, um, you know, I think when we have that opportunity, we have to grab it. Um, I'm really excited that um, we're able to do this. This has been in the work since last fall. Um, yeah, we couldn't really reveal what was going on at that time. Um, but I hope that, um, you know, our residency that we are earnest and working towards, um, providing different housing solutions to, um, especially those in needs. So with that, I will move staff recommendation.

[06:56:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Okay, thank you. Council member Hicks?

[06:56:51] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, I'm 2nding and also 2nding all the things that council member Abbe Coda said, adding one edition, which is one of the things I like about this project is that we're, um, we're scattering our homeless and transitional housing around to a number of neighborhoods. There's, I know that there are a number of, of, there's a homeless shelter down the street from South and council member Abikoga and, you know, multiple other neighbors neighborhoods. In fact, one of the speakers tonight has a, a, a, almost transitional shelter coming near him. So I like that we're not putting them all concentrated in one neighborhood. And yes, so I'm excited about this.

[06:57:39] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Council member show Walter.

[06:57:42] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Sorry about the raise hand.

[06:57:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: It's okay.

[06:57:45] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Thank you. Yeah, I just like to bring up that I was real, I'm, I think this is a great project. I'm really glad that we're going forward with it. But I was, I was also, um, I thought it was very appropriate to see in the next steps outreach to the community because clearly we got a lot of emails and we heard people speak tonight. They stayed on till after midnight to tell us that, you know, there, there, you know, there are some local people who are concerned and it, it always works better if you get the, um, the local neighbors on board. So I'm glad that that, you know, that will be part of the process. Um, they have, you know, legitimate concerns about, um, in their emails, they expect concerns, uh, ex, they're concerned about crime and, uh, um, also, um, safety and, um, and we heard about property values. So, you know, getting them information to help allay those, those, um, those worries and figure out, um, are there other other ways, things they think that would help solve it? That's that's just all of the good. So, great job.

[06:58:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Council member, Lieber.

[06:58:55] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Do you, um, I do want to thank staff for their work on this and, uh, the county, and, uh, the hotel owner. I hope he's in one of our meetings so we can thank him in person for really having the patients to move towards this. And when we're talking about individuals in the community who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. I have to think that in this economy, if we really could identify, um, each person who waits on us in a store or a restaurant, who actually is living in their vehicle or doesn't even have that kind of shelter, um, we'd be really surprised. I'm thinking of some of our specific retail workers who no one would ever guess that they don't have a place to live. And, um, so I think that we have to, we have to fight grouping humans is just the homeless. Um, when they're really the people that, that we know, that we maybe don't identify. And um, uh, I just think that this is a wonderful step forward and um, providing homes for people. And as E.D. Keating said, once individuals are just left on the street and allowed to uh, decompensate, then it, it does become uh, an issue and, and something that has, you know, very unintended or intended consequences. And so this is a great intervention, so it's a really good step. Thank you.

[07:00:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: And then, um, I had a question for city attorney Chopra. I think that uh, hand raised as I was bringing um, it back to council and is it I like to go and check and see if this is someone um, who stayed on with us until the late hour wanting to comment on this. Can I can I go back and check?

[07:00:50] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Sure, you can you can go.

[07:00:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. All right. And so I'm going to go back to this is somebody who raised their hand at the at the end. I'm going to allow you to speak. J Mo, you already spoke. And so we're not, we're not able to do more than once, so. Thank you. Okay, so it's a 650 number ending in 910. Can you hit star 6 please? You have 2 minutes.

[07:01:27] Public Speaker: Hi, I actually raised my hand at the very beginning of 7.one, but I guess something would arrive. I just wanted.

[07:01:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay.

[07:01:36] Public Speaker: I just wanted to remind everybody about this fixed, uh, unhouse folks who lost their lives on the streets of Mountain View last year. Um, I won't belabor any other points. I just wanted to remind you all about those people. Thank you.

[07:01:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Thanks for your patience. Sorry about the miss the technology issues. Okay. And I, uh, this is a new speaker, so I'm going to allow you to speak. It's it's 2 minutes and then we're going to bring it back to council because there is a motion and a second. She, Che Li, Che Li. Please a meal.

[07:02:17] Che Li: Yes, we...

[07:02:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Are you trying to speak? Did you want to speak? Okay. I am going to bring it back to council. So we have a, a motion, and we have a 2nd did anyone else want to provide any comments on this topic? Okay, I'll just I'll just add mine, which are very quick. What? Um, one is, this is, this is the 1st step. So this is, um, allowing the city to work with the county on the acquisition of the site and to um, the points made by my colleagues. There will be communication and outreach to the neighborhood. You will have full ability to give your input at that time. And, uh, the 2nd, um, which council manager, we were brought up, which is, you know, often I think that there's an idea of what homelessness, um, is, that truly, um, the faces of homelessness are much more varied and diverse than we all know, especially now in the middle of a pandemic where everyone's circumstances are more than we know. Um, earlier this evening, when I was still yesterday, uh, we discussed mental health and and nothing helps someone's mental health and then having a safe and stable place to live. Um, and that, you know, is truly what we need to bring to our community. So I just wanted to make those comments. And, um, Miss Wonderland, do you mind doing a roll call vote, please?

[07:04:10] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member, Abikoga.

[07:04:12] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I...

[07:04:13] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Tell some of the hicks.

[07:04:16] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[07:04:17] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Kelsam and Believer.

[07:04:18] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[07:04:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Kelsa Melachek.

[07:04:21] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[07:04:22] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Castle member, show Walter.

[07:04:23] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[07:04:25] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Vice mayor, formulas.

[07:04:27] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[07:04:29] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor Kamei.

[07:04:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[07:04:31] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Thank you.

[07:04:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right, we will move on to item 7.2. Thank you to Consuela from the county for joining us. Um, Item 7.2, the Cares Act funding and appropriation will have a, I think, a very brief staff presentation from assistant to the city manager, Kimberly Thomas, and assistant community development director, Wayne Chen. Um,

[07:04:56] Wayne Chen: Thanks so much, and as you mentioned, I'll be um, joined by Kimberly Thomas, who I believe will be driving the um, PowerPoint presentation, so we'll just wait a moment. That's technical. Perfect. Hi, Miss Thomas. Do you mind a meeting?

[07:05:18] Kimberly Thomas: Good evening, everyone. I'll get the PowerPoint going.

[07:05:39] Wayne Chen: Great. Thanks so much. We have a very brief presentation, um, on the Cares Act Funding and Appropriation, um, just for, um, spelling out what cares that stands for, it is the coronavirus aid, relief and economic security act that was passed by the federal government last year. Next slide, please. Just as a outline, we have a quick background, there's discussion on the COVID-19 regularly program and other programs for, cancel your consideration to carers act funding towards, and then your recommendations. Next slide. This slide is just meant to be an overview background of all of the efforts that the city has undertaken under the together NV campaign, which includes food, other essential needs, rent relief, certainly and small business support. So just wanted to again highlight the leadership efforts that the city and the council have undertaken these past few months to provide a comprehensive response to the pandemic. Next line, please. So there are 2 recommendations. Um, the 1st recommendation is related to the CDPG portion of the CARZAC funding, and that is to apply the city's uh, round 3 funding of $609, uh, $20 to, um, the city's COVID-19 rent relief program. And then the 2nd bucket of funds is the CARS state funds, and that would be, um, to fund a variety of, um, essential services and needs. Next line, please. As a brief background, the uh, COVID-19 rent relief program was approved by council, um, last year towards the beginning of the pandemic. It is administered by the community services agency. And throughout last year, the um, council took action in several council meetings to provide um, additional funding um, to the program. Last year, a total of over $32000000 were provided towards this program. And, uh, just wanted to flag, but the asterisks, the 2 bottom lines, um, will be, um, incorporated into the CSA agreements that they will have those funds available very shortly, um, as part of next steps. But the funds that they have received so far, the 1st 4 lines, over 1750 rent checks have been issued to date, helping over a 1000 households, um, over $2100 per check, and of the, about $260000 that CSA has received so far, um, over 2.350000 of that has been expended. And this has also been supplemented by fundraising efforts undertaken by CSA to supplement the city's contribution. Next slide, please. Um, based on staff's understanding of the resurgence in COVID-19 infections, or the continued job losses, especially in service sector, um, jobs, and also in conversation with CSA, uh, leadership and staff, rent relief continues to be a top priority to stabilize um, households. So the recommendation here for council consideration is to apply the full amount of this round of CDPG Carezac funding, uh, for event relief, uh, program. If council supports this recommendation, there are some steps that we will need to take as part of the how to require process to use these funds. Um, it would include an amendment to a past annual action plan. Um, to identify the use of these funds for rent relief, there will be a 5 day public comment period, and then we are uh, planning to return to council on February 9th for council conservation to formally approve this amendment, to appropriate the funds, and then um, authorize these expenditures to be incorporated into CSA's agreement. So with that, I'll hand it over to Kimberly Thomas for her programs.

[07:10:06] Kimberly Thomas: Good evening. Thank you, Mary council members. City staff is work with the county on this proposal that focuses on the key needs not already bent by CSA. CSA is currently providing, as noted, in Wayne's presentation, rent relief as well as support services like food services. The recommendation for this proposal for this portion of the state funding of the Cares Act is that motels would enable the city through the county's auspices to appropriate and utilize resources of the county to guarantee shelter for the city's most vulnerable COVID-19 patients. The cost for the period is from September 25th to June 30th, and it is not expected to exceed 141,000. With the motel cost being based on the actual use of Motown Knights by Mountain View residents. The 2nd recommendation associated with the State Cares Act funding is to ensure that the assistance already being provided by CSA to the most vulnerable facing COVID continues. That includes those items noted utility assistance, food assistance. And so staff recommends here, another 30,000 be utilized for an agreement with CSA to provide assistance to COVID positive residents who are able to isolate at their home through the COVID-19 response team at CSA. The 3rd component of the recommendation for the State Cares Act funding is for $94,800 to be used to continue and enhance a gift card program administered by CSA. In this case, making it more broad, to be focused on food, but also essential needs that might be needed, and broadening that out to include 7 local organizations that are actively on the ground in Mountain View currently responding to the COVID crisis. These include a number of actors that you see, organizations that are very meaningful and have major response to COVID. I'm noting on the screen, Pope's Corner, Move Mountain View, Life moves, the Day Worker Center, Fight the Hate Ministry, Gift, grocery program, save Lacious, food distribution, and reach potential movement. The funding recommended here is to coordinate this program for gift card distribution through CSA. These organizations, by the way, I should note, have assisted the city of Mountain View in being able to provide access to food services 7 days a week, and that information is available online on our COVID pages in multiple languages for all of our residents. Shown on screen here in the next 2 slides is a recap of staff's recommendation for the CWG portion spoken to by Wayne, as well as the state Cares Act portion. Screen one, screen two. That concludes staff's brief presentation. You'd be happy to answer any questions.

[07:13:12] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you so much. Thanks, Mary, Mary, I see your hand first.

[07:13:17] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, there. I have 2 questions for Tom Myers, if he's available for questions.

[07:13:23] Unknown Speaker: If Tom's still on, he was going to attend.

[07:13:30] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Sorry about that. I muted myself. I moved him over.

[07:13:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Mr. Myers, if you wanted to animate yourself for Ice Mary Ramirez.

[07:13:38] Tom Myers: Yes. Hi. can you hear me

[07:13:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Let me see you. Thank you so much for hanging in there with us.

[07:13:47] Tom Myers: No problem.

[07:13:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, Vice Mayor Ramirez, you had a question.

[07:13:52] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes, thank you, John. So first, uh, I think several of us have heard from families who have taken out loans, um, in order to pay rent, and rent relief as valuable as it is can't be used to pay back that kind of debt. The CSA, uh, a financial assistance program to assist households that have paid down rent using loans.

[07:14:22] Tom Myers: No, we don't have a system like that in place at this point. We certainly can look at it. There are certain limitations with rent relief funds that are uh, administered through various ways, but uh, I, as you know, and I, you and I have talked before, I think financial assistance is one of the best ways that you can give people the opportunity to, uh, uh, to do things that they need to do, uh, uh, like uh, paying back uh, uh, loans that they've unfortunately taken out. to pay rent. Uh, so, uh, we do not have something like that in place. Uh, we certainly, uh, uh, can look at that, uh, depending on the funding amounts uh, that come in and where those funds come from.

[07:15:10] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great, thank you. And then 2nd question. Uh, Council member Hicks had brought up earlier, the concern about, um, rent relief perhaps sort of artificially keeping up rents. Um, the CSA staff have the ability and capacity to negotiate on behalf of tenants who are receiving rent release, maybe bring rents down to where they might be now.

[07:15:42] Tom Myers: Right. I think that there is a legitimate question, and in fact, council member Hicks and I have talked about that before, that there is a legitimate question about whether or not a robust rep relief program, like the one we have here in Mountain View. Uh, it does artificially uh, inflate rental prices. Uh, I do not have the economic uh, uh, ability or the economic education or the economic knowledge to know if that is in fact uh, the case. I do know we have a very robust rent relief program. I do know that our case managers ask people, at the beginning, they've been instructed to ask people at the beginning of the process, how much of this can you pay? So that it is not all relying on the rent relief program. I think that there are, I think it's a legitimate question. If we have a robust program like this, are we, where we actually have not had to, uh, uh, uh, turn anyone that qualified for the funds away? Are we, in fact, artificially holding up those prices? And like I said, that's beyond me to know the answer to that. But I do think it's worth investigating, especially if we get different parameters coming from the state, on these new programs that they will be coming on, that we can investigate that. I think that it's difficult for staff to ascertain, though, from discussing with clients, because our case managers are there to be the clients and they can advocate for the clients. And in fact, do often advocate for the clients in discussions with landlords. In fact, making sure that the landlord is participating in the program is willing to accept a 3rd party check and those kinds of things.

[07:17:37] Wayne Chen: I could also offer some context as well to this conversation I have had, um, discussion with the CIA staff as well. regarding this question. And based on the fact that about a 1000 households have been served. And if we assume that a good portion of them, perhaps even the vast majority of them might be unstabilized units, we know that we have about 15,000 once they buys units. So a 1000 households is um, just a small subset of that um, of that portion. So, although we don't have an economic study, um, formerly, it seems that it would require a much greater amount of funds to somehow artificially prop up prices. Additionally, some tenants may have leases, and so if they're under a current lease, it's the rent that they are paying, and it would be part of the lease, and so we'd be going towards pain. Um, um, rants that are part of that lease agreement. So, it can really vary based on the situation, but, um, that's some context that's that's that had in terms of looking at this question, um, without some kind of formal study, but it seems like it would need to have a far greater amount of money to somehow artificially prop up, um, rents on a market wide basis.

[07:19:04] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: I mean, that makes sense to me, Wayne. Thank you. That answers my questions. I have some comments for later, but that's all. Thank you mayor.

[07:19:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Councilman Matachek.

[07:19:17] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. So, I seem to recall we had a discussion about, um, should we change the parameters around the, uh, relief program with CSA, and I think we said that we would be up to CSA, um, that if some applicants wanted, uh, just 25% of the rent, that that would be okay. And so I'm wondering if CSA is seeing that at all, um, or not.

[07:19:52] Tom Myers: And I wish I could answer that question. I need to get that out, but I can definitely follow up with you on that to see how many of the clients that are coming to us are not actually needing of full rent, how much of them are taking a portion of the rent and so forth. I can do that research for you.

[07:20:14] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: That would be great. Yeah, I'm curious because, um, since that's now sort of, that's the state, uh, I want to see how either effective or ineffective it is, um, on what's happening here and happened here. Thank you. That's it.

[07:20:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Does anyone else have any other questions? All right, seeing none. I will open up public comment. If people have public comment. Please raise your hand. I see Alexander Brown, so we'll set the timer for 2 minutes, please.

[07:20:49] Alexander Brown: No, I never need that long. Uh, Tom, I just wanted to say thank you again for everything you're doing. I know a lot of people who are being helpless, CSA right now, and I don't know what they would be doing without it. So thanks.

[07:21:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. I don't see any other. people with their hand raise, so I'll bring it back to cancel. Vice Mary Ramirez.

[07:21:18] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I am going to move the staff recommendation, and just provide some quick thoughts. So 1st I, I, I would like to see if it's appropriate, um, a program that is a little bit more expansive, that would allow, um, for the provision of some direct financial assistance to tenants who have taken out loans or or have otherwise incurred other debt in order to pay off their rent. Uh, I think the, the rent really program has been. Uh, successful and I'm grateful for, for, you know, the, the, you know, the, the, initiated that and it's been strongly supported by the council. Um, grateful to Tom and CSA for administering it. It's been great, but I think, what I've heard anecdotally is, there have been a number of tenants who, um, I think, you know, feeling pressure from their landlord or just wanting to be able to pay the rent on time and not having the luxury of being able to wait for the rent really, um, that they've taken other measures to stay current on their rent and that has included taking out loans. Um, so I, I don't know how many people that is, um, but I think it, it would be helpful to just sort of monitor that and if there's an opportunity in the future, um, to partner with CSA to address that concern, I'd be very interested in that. Um, and then, uh, it's not, I think urgent now, given the extension of the eviction moratorium, but when it expires, and it will. I do think we need to be prepared to provide legal assistance to tenants who are going to have some difficulty navigating a really complex, you know, a legal framework, you know, knowing how much they have to pay for what time period, what their protections and rights are and what their responsibilities and applications are. Um, so, I don't think we need to solve that problem today, but When the eviction moratorium expires and chance to start having to, you know, start having to make up the rent that they've, uh, the rent that they've been, you know, accruing. I think it is important for us to figure out a way to make sure they understand and rental property owners also understand what, you know, what the protections and regulations are. Um, and then finally, uh, I'm, I'm somewhat sympathetic with, uh, the concern that council member Hicks identified, a comparable unit in my complex. I live in a studio, runs for $200 less than what I'm paying. I happen to be on a lease, uh, so I can't negotiate down until the lease expires, but, um, you know, I, I, I do worry about those tenants who are not willing the position to negotiate because they've lost income. And so they can't easily move out and be able to demonstrate to another rental property owner that their, their income is sufficient to be able to qualify, even at reduced rents. So they're kind of stuck. Um, I think one really is great and helpful to keep them on top of the debt and in the unit that they're in. Um, but if there was a creative way, um, you know, yeah, in partnership with CSA and and maybe others. to think of ways to help those tenants negotiate down where, where it makes sense. I think that'd be great. But in the meantime, this is the best program that we've got, um, and I think we should continue to support it. That's all I've got. Thank you.

[07:25:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So we had some comments and emotion. Counselor about a check.

[07:25:15] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thank you. So, um, I'll 2nd the motion because I am supportive of the staff recommendation. Um, but I also, um, am very concerned about our small businesses. And we have, I'm absolutely thrilled that the uh, 250,000 that we allocated last time we talked about this, um, for small businesses is now a grant program rather than a loan program. I can't tell staff how much I appreciate that change. It's awesome. I know it's a lot more work for us to do. Um, but, you know, our small businesses. Um, add so much to our community. the vibrancy, the, you know, economic, uh, status of the city that I feel like I personally would like to see if we could do more. So, um, I guess I'd like to add to, um, this mirror when there is motion. Um, to see if you'd consider, um, adding that we would ask staff if it's possible if they could, see if there are additional funds that we could allocate to a, like a next round of small business grants. And, um, I did speak with the city manager a little bit about this. And, um, well, it might be hard for our current budget. And, you know, that we might be receiving some funds from the federal government or the state government, that maybe we could look at to um, increase the help for our small businesses. And so I'm wondering if the vice mayor would consider a friendly amendment to include that, just a direct staff to look at it.

[07:27:09] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: I'm comfortable with that. And I think the only question I would have for staff is, is that something that we can consider during the mid year budget review or are you anticipating um an opportunity to disperse federal funds at another time?

[07:27:27] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Um, thank you, Vice Mayor Ramirez and Council member, Manachek, um, to your latter question. No, I don't think that we would be able to include this with the mid your budget update only because, um, We don't know yet what's going to happen with the federal stimulus. So, um, and and actually our docketing is this week. Um, so I think there's still a lot that remains to be seen on what Congress and the new um, presidential administration is going to do. Now, I will say, um, as council member Mattachek mentioned, The good news is that this president and Congress and our governor have signaled an interest in including funding directly to local government agencies that had been left out of the federal stimulus package last year. So it remains to be seen if it will pass, but it is possible. I do think we are in a situation that we have decreased revenues and you all will receive the mid-year budget update in the next meeting on February ninth. Um, so I think it's certainly feasible for us to, um, look at this and see what happens and then come back to council, um, with options if there are additional funding opportunities down the road once we learn more information.

[07:28:52] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Great, thank you.

[07:28:56] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks.

[07:28:57] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So we have a motion and a 2nd, is there any other public or sorry, did council members have comments? All right. Ms. Vanderlibin, if you don't mind, doing a roll call vote, please.

[07:29:12] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Also, remember, I'd be go go.

[07:29:15] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Bye.

[07:29:15] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Also, number hits.

[07:29:17] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[07:29:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Also, remember we bird.

[07:29:19] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I

[07:29:19] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: also remember that check.

[07:29:22] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[07:29:22] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Also member sure alter?

[07:29:24] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[07:29:25] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Vice there, memories.

[07:29:27] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[07:29:28] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor come.

[07:29:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes,

[07:29:30] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: the show game is amazing.

[07:29:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all so much. Thank you to stop. Thank you to Mr. Myers. We appreciate it. All right. So, uh, item 8. We already did. So we'll move on to item nine, a closed session report. City Attorney Chuckle, do we have a close session report?

[07:29:49] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yes, we do, Mayor. Earlier this evening, the council met in closed session and authorized the city attorney to reject the claims of Selena Smith against the city of Mountain View and Joel Alejo against the city of Mountain View, and the votes were unanimous to on each of those.

[07:30:12] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Um, so we'll move on to item 10, which is adjournment. Thank you so much for joining us. Our next city council meeting is actually going to be Saturday, February 6th, 2020 at 8.30 AM. It's our council retreat. All right. And with that, we will join this meeting at 115 AM. Thank you all. Have a good night. Stay safe, good morning.

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