November 9, 2021 Regular Meeting of Mountain View City Council

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[00:00:27] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Wonderful. Great. So good evening, everyone, welcome to the city council, regular meeting of November 9th, 2021. I'm going to read the usual announcement as required. This meeting will be conducted in accordance with the city of Mountain View City Council Resolution number 18613 in accordance with Assembly Bill 361. All members of the city council are participating in this meeting by video conference with no physical meeting location. Members of the public wishing to observe the meeting live may do so at mountain view.legistar.com. On YouTube, at mountain view.gov slash 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, by visiting mountain view.gov slashmeeting, to enter the Zoom meeting, or by phone by dialing 669-900-9128. And entering webinar ID 821, 31459750 Any emails received by 5 p.m. today were received directly by the city council. So, um, I'd like to have the pledge of allegiance, so please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Of the United States of America. And to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[00:02:11] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. So we'll move on to item two, which is roll call. The city clerk will take attendance by roll call.

[00:02:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Councilman by Abby Koga.

[00:02:19] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Here,

[00:02:20] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Hicks.

[00:02:21] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Here.

[00:02:22] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Lieber.

[00:02:23] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Here.

[00:02:24] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Mattachek.

[00:02:26] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Here?

[00:02:27] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member, Shelter.

[00:02:28] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Here?

[00:02:29] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[00:02:31] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Here.

[00:02:32] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor May.

[00:02:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Here.

[00:02:34] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Thank you.

[00:02:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Um, so we'll move on to item three, which is our presentations. We'll now take public comment for all the presentation items, of which we have, I believe, three. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide public comment on the presentation items listed on the agenda? If so, please click the raise hand button in zoom. Or press star 9 on your phone. And we'll display a 2 minute timer. Okay, I am not seeing any hands raised for public comment, so let's move it back to item 3.one, which is our United against hate week proclamation. Patrice O'Neill, CEO, and executive director of not in our town. And the working group joins us this evening to accept the proclamation. So I think as Patrice makes her way over. I'll talk a little bit more about this proclamation. The city has many activities that will be available to teens through the team center, and to our afterschool participants during United Against Hate Week, including United Against Hate Sign Making. A book club on Angie Thomas's award-winning novel, The Hate You Give, A hosted night of streamed TED talks on the subject of anti-hate. A game night against hate, and a film screening of not in our town. As well as an opportunity for students to make paper chain links to solidify their union against hate and write poems to promote a voice for students to share and speak up, as well as create awareness amongst students and the opportunity to create a peace tree mural. Additionally, our city library activities in support of United against Hate Week include bystander intervention training. And outdoor story time, uniting our community along with lists of reading materials for children, teens, and adults that will be available on the homepage of the library website. Posters are also available at the library for members of the public to pick up and show their support by displaying the mountain view stands united against hate poster in their homes. The library is also supporting the unselfie. So UNFLIFIE, social media campaign, where the public is encouraged to post a selfie on their social media account and talk about why they are standing up against hate, while using the hashtags, hashtag, unselfie, hashtag, united, against hate, in hashtag, MVP library. A lot of good programs will be happening throughout the city. And I want to give a special thanks to our city staff for all the efforts that have gone on in this campaign. So I'm going to give them their round of applause now for all these activities. And I know that, um, cities throughout the Bay Area and throughout the country are also participating in the United um, against Hate Week as well. And so I'll just read the proclamation. Whereas the United States is a nation of immigrants whose strength comes from its diversity, and the Constitution of the United States ensrines quality on all individuals, regardless of race, gender, orientation, or political views. And whereas recent federal policies and rhetoric have generated a toxic environment that encourages the propagation of racist xenophobic, anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and other bigoted views by embolded hate groups and individuals. And whereas deep divisions within our country are the result of extreme ideology. Further strengthening a cycle of mistrust and suspicion field by fear, anxiety, and insecurity. The number of hate crimes across the United States has increased dramatically over the past couple years. And whereas the city of mountain view is fully committed to racial equity and justice, as it strives to create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive community for all. And whereas education, compassion, and cooperation are key to unlocking understanding and embracing differences between people. And whereas the city of Mountain View seeks to join other Bay Area, California, and communities across the country, and united against hate week as an important step in bridging divisions, and strengthening our communities. Now, therefore, I, Alan Kmei Mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council. Here I proclaim the week of November 14th through the 20th, 2021, and each and every day beyond as united against hate week. Hi Patrice, how are you?

[00:07:28] Patrice O'Neill: Hello, mayor.

[00:07:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Would you like to say a few words?

[00:07:31] Patrice O'Neill: I would if you don't mind.

[00:07:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Of course.

[00:07:33] Patrice O'Neill: We're so excited to be here tonight and to welcome Mountain View as Again, once again, part of United Against Hate Week. For those of you who don't know, United Against Hate Week started with a poster campaign, when white supremacists were marching in across the Bay Area in 2017 right after Charlottesville. So it started as a poster campaign in 13 cities. We're now quite a few years later near 100 communities and organizations that are participating across the country. Tomorrow. I'm speaking to a group of women in Ukraine who are starting an event for United Against the Tate Week there. So it is spread far and wide. It's very exciting to see. It's also a sobering moment. I just returned from an eradicate hate summit, the first ever in Pittsburgh gathering of 100 global leaders, many from your community who represent some of the tech companies, trying to grapple with this global rise in hate and the threat that we are facing. I think it was sobering. Um, I think when we talk about hate, we have to remember the dangers that that we're facing and the threat to our neighbors, um, that, um, that we've seen so starkly here, particularly after the pandemic and the rise in anti-Asian hate across the Bay Area and around the country. I guess what was really inspiring about this event was that it was focused on solutions. We can do something about it, and we see United Against Tate Week is such a vital part. And it's exciting to speak to you here in Mountain View because you are a center of solutions and a community that has so much capacity for helping to change the world. And so we're excited to see what you do next in Mountain View and grateful that you are inviting and engaging your community to be part of this. So thank you so much and um, We look forward to spreading and sharing um, the actions from your town.

[00:09:41] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. And Patrice, just want to also ask if people are looking for more information. Do you have any resources you want to point folks to?

[00:09:51] Patrice O'Neill: Please go to unitedagainstateweek.org. You'll find an action kit with um, with 20 things you can do in your town. You'll find a way to get free films. Not in our town is offering free films for people to screen throughout this week. So if you want to just have a screening with your neighbors or your family, you can do that or edge your, um, uh, local community group or faith organization. So, there are many ideas. There are poetry slams happening all over the Bay Area. It's really nice to see the youth events you're, that you're hosting there and the engagement of libraries across the, across the Bay Area. So, many things, um, uh, that you can do, you can find that on Unite Against Tate week under the get involved section, United Against Tate week.org, and, uh, thanks for becoming involved. Please, if you're going to do something, put it on the calendar so we can alert people in your town to actions that are happening there.

[00:10:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Perfect. Great. Thank you, thank you very much. Thanks to you. Thanks to our staff who are doing all these incredible events. Would any member of the council like to say a few words? Council member Abby Koka?

[00:11:09] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for, um, creating this proclamation. Thank you to our staff for all of the activities that are being planned. Thank you, Patrice, for being with us today. Um, I am very proud of our city of Mountain View. We celebrate our diversity and have time and time again, um, spoken out, um, voiced our, and really shown, um, shown that, that we, we value the diversity of our community. Um, I just wanted to mention, it was a bit of an announcement, but, um, I believe there, um, there will be a united against hate, uh, rally, March in Los Gatos on the 14th, November 14th, uh, 2 PM, um, as you may have read in the news, um, the mayor there, when our colleague, Mariko Sayak, has been, um, under attack. And, um, so a number of us will be, um, attending the March that the Sunday, um, at 2 PM and, um, I would, um, invite others to join in. Um, it's unfortunate that a town close to us is going through this in a pretty severe way. Um, I, my heart goes out to Mayor Sayok, and, um, I, I stand with her. Um, but I just wanted to mention that and invite others to please join in if they can. Thank you.

[00:12:36] Patrice O'Neill: Be there. We spread the word.

[00:12:38] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Any other members of council like to say a few words? All right. Great. Thank you so much, Patrice. I am so happy that you were able to join us and thank you for sharing all the information and accepting the proclamation tonight.

[00:12:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Right. So we'll move on to item 3.2, which is our family court awareness month proclamation, and Tina Swinton, founder and CEO of one mom's battle, joins us this evening to accept the proclamation. I think. Hi. Hi, Tina.

[00:13:16] Tina Swinton: Hi. Thank you for having me.

[00:13:19] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. All right. I'm just going to read the proclamation and turn it over to you for a few words. So the proclamation states, whereas the mission at 11 mom's battle, and the family court awareness month committee, is to increase awareness on the importance of a family court system that prioritizes child safety and acts in the best interests of children. And whereas the mission of the family court awareness month committee is to increase awareness on the importance of education and training on domestic violence, childhood trauma, and post-separation abuse for all professionals working within the family court system. And whereas the mission of the Family Court Awareness Month Committee is to educate judges and other family court professionals on the empirical data and research that is currently available. Such research is critical, such research is a critical component to making decisions that are truly in the best interests of children. This research includes the adverse childhood experiences, study, Saunders study, The Meyer study, childhood, custody outcomes and cases involving abuse allegations, and the Santa Clara law study, confronting the challenge of high conflict personality and family court. And whereas the mission of the family court awareness month committee, is fueled by the desire for awareness and change in the family court system, while honoring the 800 plus children, who have been murdered by separating or divorcing parents. Now, therefore, I, Ellen May, mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council. To hereby proclaim the month of November is family court awareness month in Mountain View, and commend its observation to all citizens. And thank you, Tina, for joining us. Would you like to say a few words and maybe share a little bit about the committee for not only my myself and my colleagues, but for the public?

[00:15:21] Tina Swinton: I would love to. Thank you. My name is Tina Swidden. I am an author, advocate and creator of Family Court Awareness Month. We are only in our 2nd year, and we have received support from over 200 cities, counties, and 7 different states in the US. Um, and so we've made a huge amount of progress in our 2nd year. I personally enter the family court system 12 years ago, believing that child safety would be a priority. It just seems like common sense, but sadly, that is not what's happening. in our family court system. Um, it's a place for parental rights, Trump, a child's rights to safety. My children are safe. And in our final proceedings, my ex-husband was labeled as an abuser. While I know we are very lucky, that the courts finally believed us. Had they listened from day one and been trauma informed and trained in domestic violence, it would have spared my daughters and myself 6 years of severe trauma. Nobody wants to be validated in that way in family court because it comes at a great cost. And, um, you know, we know that domestic violence is about power and control, and that need for power and control doesn't just go away when the relationship ends. It transitions into the family court system where the children become the pawns because the abuser knows that's the number one way to hurt the healthy parent. It's really important for us to recognize and honor the children who have lost their lives due to family court failures. Um, to date, there are 111 known cases where the protective parent told the court that the other person was unsafe and they were ultimately failed. Our kids' lives are dependent on the court's becoming educated on abuse. And I wanted to dedicate this proclamation to Catherine Campbell, who's a resident, um, here in your city of Mountain View. She's with California Protective Parents Association, and she is a fierce advocate for children, and does just amazing work. We do believe that the 1st step towards change is creating awareness. So we are grateful to Mountain View for standing with us, to recognize the importance of a family court system that prioritizes child safety. So thank you.

[00:18:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you so much, Tina. really appreciate you joining us. Would any member of the council like to say a few words? Council member hits.

[00:18:18] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I just wanted to thank you for the work that you're doing. I think this educational work is extremely important and also, thank you so much for sharing your personal story. I think that that really illustrates and brings it home, I think, to a lot of people, but I imagine that it's very difficult to share that. So, so I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing that. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:18:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Council member Hicks. Did anyone else like to say a few words?

[00:18:47] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Right. Well, Tina, thanks so much for joining. Um, we just want to give you a round of applause for for braising out the awareness for working with members of our community. Um, and yes, thank you for sharing your personal situation with us. And I'm working so hard to advocate for those who don't have a voice. I really appreciate it.

[00:19:08] Tina Swinton: Thank you.

[00:19:09] Public Speaker: Thank you all very much.

[00:19:10] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Have a good night.

[00:19:11] Tina Swinton: You too.

[00:19:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. So, uh, our next proclamation is item 3.3 national hunger and homelessness awareness proclamation, and we have Tom Myers, executive director of community services agency, also known as CSA, uh, who will join us this evening to accept the proclamation. And so, There we go. Hi, Tom.

[00:19:40] Tom Myers: With the proclamation and related city council, uh, city communications. Mountain View is drawing attention to national homelessness, youth, awareness month in November, as well as national hunger and homelessness awareness week, that will be observed November 13th to the 21st, 2021. The city, along with the county, Santa Clara County, and community based partners have achieved many accomplishments over the last 5 years. In providing basic human services, a pathway to housing, and actual housing placements for the community. We know the homeless crisis cannot be solved by one organization or city. But Mountain View appreciates the amazing work done by our partners addressing the various stages of housing instability, and providing assistance to meet basic health and safety needs. And so in addition to CSA, our lead safety net agency. I think it's also important to think and send appreciation to the following organizations for all they have done to help our unhoused and unstably housed community. The list is long, so hopefully you'll have a, uh, colleagues will endure this a little bit. Um, but as was mentioned, it's, um, it takes everyone, uh, to help with our homeless crisis. So we have alta housing. The Bill Wilson Center, Destination home. Dignity on wheels. Fight the hate ministry food distribution program. Home first, Hope's Corner. Life moves, the Los Altos United Methodist Church, The Mountain View Day Worker Center. Move Mountain View. New directions, a program of peninsula healthcare connections. Reach potential movement. The county of Santa Clara. The Santa Clara housing Authority. Second Harvest, St. Athanasius Food Distribution Program, and the Valley Homeless Healthcare Program. So I think we should give all of our community partners a round of applause, of which we have money. And thank you to CSA for being our leads, um, health safety net services provider. And I'll just read the proclamation, Tom, before we turn it over to you. The proclamation reads. Whereas for the last, for the past 29 years, the national coalition, for the homeless and national student campaign against hunger and homelessness, have sponsored national hunger and homelessness awareness week. And whereas the purpose of this proclamation is to educate the public about the many reasons people are hungry and homeless, including the shortage of affordable housing for very low income residents, and to encourage and support for homeless assistance service providers, as well as community service opportunities for students, and school service organizations. And whereas the city of Mountain View is committed to assist the homeless and hungry with necessary human services, temporary shelter, and affordable housing, both directly and through support of nonprofit housing and social service agencies. And whereas the city of Mountain View recognizes that hunger and homelessness continue to be a serious problem for many individuals and families. Now, therefore, I, Ellen Kumei, mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, to hereby proclaim November 13th through November 21st, 2021, as National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Tom, would you like to say a few words?

[00:23:33] Tom Myers: Yes, please, um, thank you, Mayor. Uh, city council members and city staff. And thank you for mentioning all of those groups. All of the faith communities, all of the organizations, all of the government agencies, all of the nonprofits who are involved in working with our unhoused residents. They are great partners, all of them. And they do very, very important work. Some of those organizations have staff, many of whom are like some of our CSA staff who have firsthand experience with past homelessness and the expertise, the natural expertise that that gives them. Nearly all of these groups utilize the power of volunteers to double the amount of work that can get done, and there is no doubt, as you mentioned, that Mountain View is a community that cares deeply about our unhoused residents. And there are successes. We have the largest safe parking program in the county. There are sours available on almost every day. More food gets distributed. A lot of people don't know this. More food gets distributed in Mountain View than in any neighboring city on the peninsula. And just today, I signed two checks to move two unhoused individuals into housing. These are all successes. But for these successes, there remained far, far too many who are sleeping unhoused in our city tonight. They are old and young, gay and straight, families with children, singles with no one to rely on, people from all walks of life. And poignantly, this week, many are veterans. Everyone, a different story, everyone, a different life. And it is for them that CSA will prominently display this proclamation when our building reopens to the public. So thank you very much.

[00:25:28] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you so much, Tom. Yes, a round of applause. Would any member of the council like to say a few words. Councilman Michelle Walter.

[00:25:39] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah, I'd like to just, um, uh, sort of ditto what what Tom said about the power of all these organizations and the volunteers that make them make them up. I mean, I know that people, um, you know, people want a way to contribute, and all of these, um, organizations provide that, and I know, you know, people who take part in many of them, and they get a lot of fulfillment out of it. And for those of us who have money to contribute, These are all great places to contribute. And it's, you know, it's very nice to be able to send our donations to something that's really going to help, you know, our neighbors. So, anyway, thanks, Tom, for your leadership. It's just, it's inspiring.

[00:26:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Council member Lieber.

[00:26:33] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, Mayor. Well, I just wanted to, um, say thank you to CSA and to Tom Myers. Um, I think so often how lucky we are to have CSA here in our community. Um, it's going to be a very hard winter this year. And I know that CSA will be there and I'm, I'm so glad that you mentioned the lived experience of your staff. Their passion comes through in everything that they do. And as, uh, council member show Walter, uh, indicated as well. CSA has done a remarkable job of giving our community members meaningful volunteer work so that they can be of use, and it really lends a dimension to their lives that, uh, gives them a lot of meaning as well. And I'm also thankful for all of the clients, because it takes a lot to come to CSA or to come to a service provider, and to say that you need help. And, um, the clients are actually giving a very great gift to, to those who give. And uh, so thank you to them as well.

[00:27:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Any other council members like to say a few words? Right. Well, thank you so much for joining us, Tom, for representing CSA and all of the long list of saving that community partners and organizations. And I guess I just want to give you an opportunity, as we're talking about going into the holiday season. You know, some people may be asking if you're doing donations or anything of particular interest for CSA. Um, and I just wanted to give you the opportunity to share that before we say goodbye.

[00:28:29] Tom Myers: Great, thank you very much. Yes, of course. Like, like most other groups, we we do need financial contributions. And we really are putting a huge call out for volunteers. So many people are still a little bit scared to get out there and volunteer, and we definitely need volunteers here at CSA. Uh, one thing that we are doing is we've listened to the people we serve, uh, and we are concentrating on uh, empowering them economically. So we are really concentrating on giving out gift cards this year and making sure people have cash gift cards. We're giving actually larger amounts than we've ever given before. So we definitely need the donations for those larger amount gift cards. But if people would like to make donations to us or to any of the other very deserving organizations that were mentioned here tonight. Uh, the work is, uh, never ending, but as, as council member Lieber said, it's very, uh, fulfilling. So thank you.

[00:29:28] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you very much. All right, thanks, Tom. Another round of applause for Tom. Thank you so much. Wonderful. All right, well, that concludes all of our presentations for this evening, so we can move on to item four, which is our consent calendar. 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 a council member requests otherwise. As a reminder, the purpose of the consent calendar is for the council to efficiently and quickly consider a high volume of routine or administrative business items with one motion. Although council members may remove items, it is generally not intended for the council to have a lengthy substantive discussion on the consent calendar items. And I want to note, um, that in addition to the minutes included in item 4.one that was distributed to counsel, uh, and posted to the city website. Would any member of the council like to pull an item? Alright. I am not seeing any hands, so would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on any item on the consent calendar. If so, please click the raise hand and button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. All right, I am not seeing any hands, and I don't think anyone's on the line. So, um, I can bring the item back for council action, and note that a motion to approve the consent calendar should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to item 4.2. Council member show Walter.

[00:31:13] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes, I move the um, the consent calendar. And, um, for item 4.2, we need to adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, authorizing the economic development division, to examine quarterly census of employment and wages industry, and employment data for the city of Mountain View, from the California State Employment Development Department, for economic development purposes related to the economic vitality, strategy, and authorizing the city manager or designee, to negotiate, execute, and administer an with the state of California employment development department.

[00:31:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So, we have a motion by council member, Shelter, council member, Matacheck. On 2nd demotion? Great, and a 2nd by Council member Metachek. So, um, shall we have a roll call book?

[00:32:06] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Wonderful. Thank you. Council member, Shelter.

[00:32:09] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[00:32:10] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Mattachek?

[00:32:12] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[00:32:13] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Abbe Koga.

[00:32:15] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Hi.

[00:32:15] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Hicks?

[00:32:17] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[00:32:17] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Lieber.

[00:32:19] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I.

[00:32:19] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[00:32:22] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yes.

[00:32:23] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor, can I?

[00:32:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[00:32:24] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Motion carries unanimously.

[00:32:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. So we'll move to item five, which is oral 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 3 minutes during the section. State law prohibits the council from acting on any non-agenda items. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this issue? If so, please click the raise, hand button and zoom, or press star 9 on your phone, and we'll display a 3 minute timer. And I see a few hands. So we'll just wait for the timer and then we'll, Call on you. Wonderful. Bruce Carney. Okay, I think that hand went down. So we'll reset the timer. And we'll start with someone new. Let's see. Pilar, furlong.

[00:33:28] Bruce Carney: Sorry, Mayor, I, uh, it took me a 2nd to join as a panelist and to unmute. Okay. Can you hear me now?

[00:33:35] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yeah, your hand disappeared, so I thought you raised it on accident. But we'll just start the timer now. Thank you very much.

[00:33:41] Bruce Carney: Okay. So, I really want to join all of you in thanking Tom Myers and CSA for all the outstanding work they do in the community. I'd also like to alert you to two decisions that other city councils have recently made that I hope will inspire Mountain View's council to follow suit. So, about 3 weeks ago, in Los Altos Hills. Their city council by a vote of 5 to 0. Um, determined that starting, or sorry, by the year 2045, Natural gas would no longer be flowing through pipelines in Los Altos Hills. They intend to fully decarbonize their natural gas infrastructure in the next 24 years. As far as I know, this is the 1st community to ever make that decision. It's consistent with the COP 26 Glasgow meetings, which basically say we really need to get fossil fuels out of our communities. And so I really applaud what Los Altos Hills did, and hope that Mountain View's environmental sustainability subcommittee, which will be meeting on December 1st for the 1st time in 2 years, will consider whether Mountain View can do as wonderful a bold thing as Los Altos Hills has done. The 2nd council action took place in San Jose yesterday. Their council decided that San Jose would be carbon neutral by 2030. This is very bold and contrasts with mountain view's carbon neutral by 2045 plan. So again, Mountain View, which has long been seen as one of the most environmentally forward communities, is seeing other communities moving past it. And I hope that, um, the council sustainability subcommittee will consider whether we can make equally bold commitments. Those are the only 2 things I wanted to bring to your attention. Thank you very much for the opportunity.

[00:35:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Okay. P. Lar, furlong?

[00:36:04] Pilar Furlong: Great, good evening. Can you hear me?

[00:36:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[00:36:08] Pilar Furlong: Perfect. So, good evening. My name is Pilar Furlong, and I'm the chief community resources officer for Bill Wilson Center. So we're a local nonprofit here in Santa Clara County that's working to end youth and family homelessness. But I'm here this evening just to let the community know that November is run away and homeless youth prevention month. So this is a nationwide campaign spearheaded each November to increase awareness about homelessness among youth and young adults in our community, and to spotlight the resources available for youth and crisis. This is especially critical in Santa Clara County. Because despite being a technology hub, our county now has the 4th highest population of homeless individuals in the entire nation, and the highest rate of unaccompanied homeless youth. So, did you know, um, over at San Jose State University alone, they had about 4000 homeless students, um, and with black students and 1st generation students being the worst impacted. The longer a person is homeless, the longer it takes and the costlier it is to help them transition into permanent housing. Lacking adequate employment and skills for independent living increases the likelihood that homeless youth will become chronically homeless adults as well. Bill Wilson center has been serving homeless youth and young parent families in Santa Clara County for over 45 years. The homeless clients we serve typically range from children as young as 11, who've run away from home to older youth and young adults between the ages of 18 to 24. some of whom may even have children. Our goal is to provide an integrated system of care that will help our homeless youth clients attain stable housing, either through family reunification or through economic self sufficiency. This means that we not only offer immediate shelter, but other supportive services as well. We do health care, mental health, job training, financial literacy, parenting classes, et cetera. In Mountain View, Bill Wilson Center is partnering with partnering with the local high schools to assist families who are homeless, or on the brink of becoming homeless, to obtain or maintain housing. By helping families find stability, youth are more likely to improve school attendance, and achieve higher academic success. So if you'd like to know more about our agency and the work we're doing in the community, to end youth homelessness, you can visit our website at billwilsoncenter.org. And if you know of a young person who is homeless, please refer them to us. We accept clients from all over the county, and our staff are trained to treat youth with respect and empathy as we put them on the road to self sufficiency. Thank you.

[00:39:08] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. And we just recognized in our presentations, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness, Proclamation. So thanks Pelar for joining us. Next up is Albert Jeans. Hi, Albert, do you have a presentation we need to queue up?

[00:39:26] Albert Jean: Yeah, I have a couple slides, but I can start right now.

[00:39:28] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Well, Heather's getting that started.

[00:39:30] Albert Jean: Okay. So I'll start my own timer. Good evening, Mayor Kameh and council members. I'm Albert Jean, longtime resident of Steriland Estates, Mountain View. Tonight I would like to draw your attention to a rapidly deteriorating situation near my neighborhood. The western part of Terro Bell Avenue has always been an envy of those of us who live east of Shoreline Boulevard because no street parking is allowed there from 2 AM to 6 AM. And they have signs up there. That's how it's always been. This has kept this street, you know, white industrial zone safe and clean for as long as I can remember. However, 3 weeks ago, 2 oversized vehicles parked there, one of which was not motorized. I reported this to ask Mountain View, but have not received a response yet, and here you can see the copy of that from the city's website. Today, I just went out this afternoon. There are 8 oversized vehicles parked there, including a gravel hall trailer, camping trailers, and RVs. Clearly the lack of parking enforcement has encouraged more vehicles to park there. And the situation will only get worse as word gets out and parking on narrow streets becomes more restricted. By the way, this street is more than 40 feet wide, so it's not a narrow street, but it does have these no overnight parking signs. Therefore, I urge the city to promptly address this problem before it gets totally out of control. By the way, on my way to this, uh, West Terabelle, I rode my bike on East Trail, Belba, Terabelle, and counted 24 oversized vehicles park there. So thank you for listening and I hope, you know, we can do something about this.

[00:41:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Next is Jim.

[00:41:13] Jim Zigel: Yes, thank you very much. My name is Jim Zigel. My autistic son, Jeffrey Zugal, is a resident of Mountain View. I am addressing the council tonight about my concerns regarding the Mountain View Police Department's many and serious civil rights violations. I will not attempt to cite all of the cases, but I want to highlight the following. On January 28th, 2019, Mountain View police invaded the home of Mountain View residents based upon a patently baseless suspicion, of child molestation, and demanded that the police be allowed to have a paramedic inspect the six year old child's vagina in their home. This city chose to settle the loather case for $600,000, approximately 90 days, after it was filed. This strongly suggests that the allegations were meritorious and true. In another case, an attorney was arrested by the Mountain View police on January 24th, 2017, for a purported lewd and lascivious act on a child. He was forced to submit a blood sample, strip searched, and subjected to a knight in the county jail. This was all due to false allegations of child molestation, and an inadequate investigation by Mountain View Police. In the course of only three and two thirds years, the city of Mountain View wrapped up three major civil rights violations related to inadequate investigations by Mountain View Police Department of alleged child sexual abuse. These cases have classed the city tremendously, both in terms of actual legal costs and settlements, but also moral standing and prestige. The residents of Mountain View deserve better, and they deserve and should expect concrete actions from this council to know what they and their police department are doing to correct things. I am here tonight, because I fear for my autistic son's safety and welfare. My son was extremely upset by the invasion of my home six and a half years ago. For years, he spontaneously said, Police bad. Furthermore, we all know of cases in which autistic, developmentally delayed, and intellectually disabled youth have been brutalized or even killed by police. I do not want this happening in my son's town. And I expect this city council to take meaningful and constructive actions to fix the MVPD and right the wrongs done by the Mountain View Police Department. Thank you for your time and your consideration.

[00:44:00] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Kevin Ma?

[00:44:05] Kevin Ma: Evening, city council. My name is Kevin Ma, a 6 month resident of the city. I was not intending to speak, but I will give a reaction to what Albert just posted, is that fundamentally, as good citizens, we should not be tattling on people who have been trying to live in our communities. As you have probably seen in 2019 homeless point in time count, the 81% of people who are homeless in this county, came from this county. They were priced out of their homes or had some other incidents. Like, led them to be unable to afford rant or keep their homes, maybe foreclosure crisis, maybe just for other costly reasons, as we live in the society. But people want to be in the places they've always been, and if that means they'd have to be an arby, so be it. Here's an unfortunate consequence of measure C that parts of the city has decided to just kick them out of their neighborhoods, which leads to people like him, complaining that it's coming to their neighborhoods. And that is wrong, fundamentally. People should be, we should not be punching down on those who are trying to eke out a living in the, you know, the wealthiest, wealthiest cities in America. And if anything, we should be exploring parking throughout the city to figure out whether they are as arbitrary as how they are. Why are some streets locked out 2 to 6 without an ordinance? Why are some streets just like no parking at all? This came up during the live moves discussion about, like, why isn't the street itself just a lot parking, rather than buying an entire place to put more cars in? And as preceding for downtown parking strategy, coming up later, is that, um, we do, perhaps, take too much account of the people who are, you know, can afford a draft, can afford to be, you can afford to be luxurious at a time where so many other people are suffering, and that we should be putting our efforts on our resources to make sure that people, who are living in cars, who are living in tents, who are living on the streets, have a place to be. And whether that means that we should just not, you know, sick cops on RVs, and so be it. Thank you.

[00:46:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Alex Brown?

[00:46:17] Alex Brown: What Kevin said.

[00:46:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. All right, that concludes public comment. So we can move back to item six, which is a public hearing. The 1st item up is item 6.one. Our food service wear ordinance. Solid waste program analyst Aaron Brewster will present the report. Solid waste program manager, Jennifer Cutter, and public works director Don Cameron, will also be available for questions. And I see Aaron is over. Great. Your screen is up, Aaron, but if you're talking, I don't hear you. Please bear with us. We're having some audio difficulties. Oh, yeah, no problem. Just wanted to let, let her know just in case. People always ask me if we can hear them, so. Just wanted to know.

[00:48:23] Public Works Director Don Cameron: This is Don Cameron, Public Works Director, apologies. We did do run throughs earlier today, but just never know when these technical problems are going to arise.

[00:48:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: No, definitely. So it looks like Erin's reconnecting right now. Okay, no problem. Um, Jennifer. If Erin can't connect, can you bring up her slideshow and run through it? You're on mute.

[00:49:30] Jennifer Cutter: One moment, um, please.

[00:49:34] Aaron Brewster: Good evening. Apology for that. I was disconnected from audio.

[00:49:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: No problem.

[00:49:53] Aaron Brewster: Good evening. I'm Aaron Solid Waste Program, and I'm here tonight to present the recommended food service wear or of implementing the...

[00:50:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Aaron, I'm so sorry. You're kind of cutting in and out.

[00:50:12] Aaron Brewster: Oh, apologies for that. Is this better?

[00:50:15] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yeah, I think so. And maybe, I don't, I don't know about colleagues, but you, you sound a little faint. Like, we can hear you. I don't know if there's a way to maybe turn up your volume. Um,

[00:50:26] Aaron Brewster: Sure. So, um, I will speak right into the microphones.

[00:50:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Oh, perfect. much better, much better. I see heads nodding, so go ahead.

[00:50:37] Aaron Brewster: Fantastic. Before reviewing the ordinance, I want to emphasize the 3 main reasons for regulating disposable foodwear. First is to reduce landfilled waste from single use plastics. Nearly all single use plastic foodware is not recyclable in Mountain View's program or elsewhere. Postable plastics are not accepted in the city's composting program, since they do not break down enough at the processing facility. Second is to protect the health of our community members from harmful additives in plastic and fiber-based foodware. The 3rd goal is to reduce plastic pollution in waterways and the ocean. Single use food and beverage packaging is 2 thirds of all litter in the Bay Area, and poses a risk to wildlife, especially birds and marine animals. The city council has already taken several actions to address the environmental and health impacts of disposable food wear, beginning with a city's ban on the use or sale of polystyrene foam food wear in 2014. Since then, council approved the 0 waste policy and 0 waste plan, which provide direction on further reducing the use of disposable foodwear, especially plastics. The 0 waste plan includes 2 phases of foodware packaging reduction, and the recommended ordinance implement some phase one measures. Separate phases allow time for the development of infrastructure to support reusable foodware and avoids overburdening businesses. The state also recently adopted 2 new laws regulating disposable foodware that cover other phase one measures in the 0 waste plan. AB 1276 requires food facilities to provide single use foodware accessories only upon consumer request. Because this is now state law, these provisions are not in our recommended ordinance. The law becomes affected in mountain view and statewide, beginning in 2022. Local jurisdictions will be required to enforce these restrictions. The 2nd law, AB 1200, banned the sale and distribution of food packaging containing per and polyfluoral alcohol substances, or PFAS, starting in 2023. TFAS are toxic substances commonly added to foodware to improve water and grease resistance. EFAS are harmful to human health, and these so-called forever chemicals are very persistent in our bodies and the environment. With that context, these are the new recommended regulations. This ordinance would still prohibit polystyrene foam foodware and expand this band to all disposable plastic and compostable plastic foodware, such as cups, plates, and containers. It would require disposable foodware to be made of compostable natural fibers and certified PFAS free, or made entirely of recyclable aluminum. While not mandated by this ordinance, we do promote reusable foodware as the best option. This will be addressed more fully in phase 2 of the 0 waste plan measures. The ordinance also prohibits the use of straws, stirs, toothpicks, and food picks made from or packaged in plastic. Because these items have reasonable compostable alternatives available. The financial impacts of these new regulations on food providers will vary, depending on the type of business and the quantity and type of disposable foodware they currently use. After extensive research and comparison, we found that for most foodware types, there are compliant items in a similar price range of non-compliant items. Compliant foodware is not universally more expensive. Food providers will likely see a mix of cost increases for some container types and decreases for others as they make the switch. There are potential cost savings by providing accessories only upon request for businesses that do not already have this practice. As shown here, businesses can further reduce the amount of disposable items used by switching to reusable foodware for dinin service. Bulting in ongoing cost savings. City will have a technical assistance program available next year to assist food providers ready to make this transition. There will be some exemptions for situations such as prepackaged food, emergencies, for foodware items the city has identified as not having a reasonable compliant alternative. Food providers can apply for waivers to cover other unique circumstances, such as financial hardship. Baffle conduct extensive outreach to affected food providers beginning next year to ensure they are aware of the new requirements. We'll also develop resources such as fact sheets, purchasing guides and sample signage to support the trans. Staff plans to follow an education 1st enforcement strategy in response to public reports of violations. The goal is to assist businesses in coming into compliance with the regulations, not to be punitive. This has been a successful approach to enforcing the existing foam foodware regulations and the reusable bag ordinance. Staff received public comments requesting to include single use plastic bags in our foodwear ordinance. However, these items are regulated separately through the city's reusable bag ordinance and state law. So the existing restrictions do not apply to restaurants or certain other food providers. The city can expand regulation of plastic bags in areas not covered by state law. But the 0 waste plan does not currently include addressing these gaps. Therefore, we are seeking direction from council to consider adding this item to our existing work plan. Which calls for an analysis of other potential amendments to the reusable bag ordinance, such as adjusting the bag fee. We also want to correct a typo that was brought to staff's attention in section 16.9 set 96 subsection A of the ordinance, so have added this to the recommendation link. That brings us to our recommendations, which are to introduce the recommended food service wear ordinance with revised language to correct a typographical error, and set the 2nd reading for December 14th. And direct staff to explore an amendment to the reusable bag ordinance to regulate the distribution of single use plastic bags by restaurants and other food providers. That I am happy to answer any questions you may have.

[00:57:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thanks so much. Um, does any member of the council have any questions? Council member show Walter.

[00:57:39] Councilmember Pat Showalter: I remember that one of the reasons for the single use plastic bag ordinance was that, um, there was a lot of downtime at the smart station with plastic bags getting, um, into the equipment and, um, really, uh, just jamming it. And I wondered if that's still a factor with the, with the use of plastic bags at restaurants that's pervasive. Is that still happening or has that been cut down, um, as was desired?

[00:58:12] Aaron Brewster: We can certainly check with the smart station about how frequently that is occurring. I know that during the COVID, uh, pandemic, we did see an increase in plastic bag use as uh, many retailers that are covered by the ordinance uh, stopped allowing people to bring their own reusable bags. So that may have impacted, uh, that as well. But we can check for you.

[00:58:35] Councilmember Pat Showalter: So we really might not. No, because of the, what the pandemic, whether, I mean, we have a different baseline right now. Anyway, um, I was just gonna also offer that, that I know at the water district, where I worked when the plastic bag band went into, um, effect, it made an immediate difference in our waterways. Um, the amount of trash that was found there that was, had been plastic bags before just went practically to zero. It was really quite beneficial. So I just wanted to share the fact, you know, that, that, that the, uh, the band had worked. It did, you know, and cleaning up the waterways, which was one of the, you know, the desires. It did that.

[00:59:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Any other questions from council members? All right, I am not seeing any. So I'll move on to public comment. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. We'll display a 2 minute timer. And we have one hand. Bruce Kearney. I'm just waiting for the timer, Bruce. Just a moment. Well, there we go. Go ahead.

[00:59:55] Bruce Kearney: Thank you very much. I was the chair of the environmental sustainability task force back in 2017, 2018. We provided 36 recommendations to the city council, and one of them was, W 9 adopt a citywide ban on single use disposable plastic foodware. This recommendation from the city staff is very much in line with what the task force recommended. And I hope that you will endorse it. Just 10 days ago. I was part of a cleanup group, sponsored by the Mountain View rotary along the Stevens Creek Trail. My wife and I spent probably 25 minutes picking up plastic foodware and other plastic items from a homeless encampment just off the Stevens Creek Trail near Middlefield Road. So much, um, Styrofoam, so much plastic. Um, I'm really hoping that we'll, you know, create a future where that doesn't need to be done. I just want to read one paragraph from the Sustainability Task Force's description of this problem. Plastic pollution and climate change or parallel global emergencies. For our society to move away from reliance on fossil fuels and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with them, we must also reduce our production and consumption of plastic products. Market research shows that the use of single use disposable plastic items is increasing. These convenience items all generate GHDs during production, manufacture, transport, and ultimately disposal. 1000000s of tons of plastics are now contaminating our oceans and threatening wildlife. Let's take the very sensible action in 2021 to stop this. Thank you very much.

[01:01:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Next is Kevin Ma.

[01:01:56] Kevin Ma: Hello, again. I like to echo all what Bruce has said. To give some personal background, I'm with the Unitarian University of Chappal Alto, which has proposed a plastic policy to try to get rid of, you know, singer use plastics, but we found that to be incredibly difficult in the area, just because, you know, COVID, notwithstanding, everything, if not mandated, is just gonna be plastics. So it is at the time where it has become public policy, via ordinances like this, so that we can create a world we don't see plastic bags in our streets, or in our oceans, and ensure that, you know, what we actually create does eventually get back into, you know, the renewable economy we're looking for, not just thrown into another landfill. Thank you.

[01:02:41] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hey, I don't see any other hands to raise, so I'll bring this item back for council, uh, deliberation, and note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the ordinance that's being introduced. Council member Hicks.

[01:03:01] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I'm strongly in support of this ordinance. for, and I think for 2 reasons. One, are the sustainability reasons that Bruce Carney, uh, detailed much better than I can, so I won't repeat them. But the other one that staff also recognized, and that I thought I'd add a little detail, too, is the health reasons. When I recently took nutrition classes for cancer therapy, they emphasized how bad plastics are and plastic containers are for one's health. And I really hadn't known the extent of it before. So I hope that in the education we do, I hope this ordinance passes, and that in the education we do around it, we emphasize both the health of the planet and the health of the people, of ourselves involved. I know different people are motivated by different things. So I think putting both of those together should be very motivating. And then I was just gonna add that, uh, one of the things that staff talked about was the financial impacts to restaurants, and I I would really like to encourage our outreach to be, um, in part positive in nature, because I know I'll be, I am much less likely to order out, um, because I, because of the amount of plastics that collects around my house, and that I eat off of, and feel as unhealthy. And when I talk to friends and neighbors, they feel the same way. So I think, you know, advertising yourself. I'm hoping that restaurants will see this as a positive thing. and will, you know, maybe even embrace it earlier than they have to, because I think an additional financial impact may be that they get more customers. So, with that, I would be willing to, um, make a motion to move this ordinance forward. Although, I would like, if, since I think it's a very important thing, I would like to hear comments from other council members as well.

[01:05:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: So to clarify, council member Hicks, are you making emotion or are you not making?

[01:05:18] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes, I'll make a motion for both staff recommendations.

[01:05:23] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: You would just need to...

[01:05:25] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Go ahead.

[01:05:26] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Right. You just need to read the title of the ordinance and then the staff recommendation for, uh, the reusable bag, but you do need to read the... Read the title.

[01:05:37] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Can you put the title up? Was it in the presentation? I am paper challenged and screen challenged at this point.

[01:05:46] Jennifer Cutter: Yes, I can bring that slide back up.

[01:05:48] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Thank you. So, I will be introducing an ordinance of the city of Mountain View, repealing and replacing Article 5 of chapter 16 of the Mountain View city code related to food service well, where to be read, entitled only further reading, waived, and set a second reading for December 14th, with Section 16.96, as amended by staff. And then I would also like to direct staff to explore the amendment, uh, regarding the reusable bag ordinance.

[01:06:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So we have a motion by council member, Hicks. Council member Abi Koga?

[01:06:50] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I get the notion.

[01:06:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, so we have a motion by council member, Hicks seconded by council member, Abbe Koka, and we'll just do a roll call book. Council member Hicks?

[01:07:02] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[01:07:04] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Abbe Koga.

[01:07:05] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Hi.

[01:07:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Labor.

[01:07:07] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Uh,

[01:07:08] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Mattachek?

[01:07:10] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[01:07:11] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member show Walter?

[01:07:12] Councilmember Pat Showalter: An enthusiastic, yes.

[01:07:14] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[01:07:16] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[01:07:17] Mayor Ellen Kamei: I'm Mayor May? Yes. Motion carries unanimously. Great. Thank you. So we'll move on to item 6.2, which is our mandatory organic waste disposal reduction ordinance, and we'll have a solid waste program manager, Jennifer Cutter. We'll present the report Assistant public works director, Damian Skinner, and public works director, Don Cameron will also be available for questions. Go ahead, Jennifer, you can take it away.

[01:07:48] Jennifer Cutter: Thank you so much, Madam Mayor. Good evening. I'm Jennifer Cutter, the city's solid waste program manager. And tonight I'm presenting the mandatory organic waste disposal reduction ordinance to comply with Senate Bill 1383. The goal of Sp 1383 is to reduce other pollutants that result from landfilling organic material, such as food scraps and yard trimmings that contribute to climate change. These materials are the 3rd largest source of methane in the state. A greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This landmark solid waste legislation. establishes statewide targets to reduce the landfilling of organic waste by 75% from 2014 levels and divert at least 20% of currently disposed edible food to food recovery organizations by 2025. In anticipation of SB 1383, the city's 0 waste plan and new hauler collection services agreement with hercology include measures to help meet these requirements. SB 1383 mandates all jurisdictions to adopt an enforcement ordinance by January 1st, 2022 and implement additional measures to comply with the new law. The ordinance is based on model language provided by the state regulatory agency Calvercycle. It places requirements on many community stakeholders that are shown here. Separate from the ordinance, there are other provisions the city must meet, such as providing organic waste collection services, I'll start with an overview of the ordinance requirements for stakeholders, and then discuss the city's responsibilities. The ordinance requires all single family and multifamily properties to use the city's organics service and properly sort to keep trash out of the compost. Multifamily property owners or managers must distribute organics program information to their tenants, and the city will help by providing them with educational resources. Like residents, all commercial businesses must use the city's organic service and properly sort. They must provide employee training, feedback, and monitor compliance. To reduce food waste and food insecurity, SB 1383 aims to redistribute surplus edible food that would otherwise be disposed to feed those in need. There are 2 tiers of edible food generators shown in this illustration. Tier one includes large generators, such as grocery stores and food distributors. And they must begin donating edible food in 2022. Tier 2 generators, which aren't regulated until 2024. includes restaurants, hotels, and large venues. These entities must recover the maximum amount of surplus edible food to feed people, and have contracts with food recovery organizations such as local food banks. Moving on to the city's requirements under SB 1383. The city must provide organics collection and processing. Mountain View is already well positioned to meet this requirement, since we now have organics collection programs available for all single family, multifamily and commercial properties. We will continue to recruit the remaining multifamily and businesses with no organic service to help get them into compliance with SB 1383. The law also mandates consistent statewide collection container colors of blue for recycling and green for organics. Container replacements to meet this requirement are already underway. Starting in 2022, the city must procure organic waste products and recycle content paper. Examples of organic waste products include compost, mulch or renewable natural gas. Mountain view's population-based procurement target, set by Cal recycle, is over 6500 tons of organic waste annually, which is significantly more than the city's current compost in mulch purchases. Most cities are not yet sure how to meet this requirement. Staff is researching all options, including resonant compost giveaway events and potential regional partnerships. For recycled content paper products, the city has an existing policy that directs employees to purchase recycled content products when feasible in alignment with this new state law. The city or its designee must establish an edible food recovery program, conduct business outreach, document food recovery activities, and report to the state. The city is participating in a regional approach led by Santa Clara County to provide consistency for edible food generators and food recovery organizations across jurisdictional boundaries. Mountain View is using the countywide edible food recovery model ordinance as a basis for this part of the mandatory organics ordinance. In 2022 and 2023, the city and recology will distribute educational resources to help businesses and residents, and other stakeholders to understand the new requirements and provide technical support for compliance. Starting in 2024. The state directs the city to provide official warnings, and then enforcement penalties to non-compliant entities. The city or its designee is required to conduct contamination monitoring through annual collection route audits and provide feedback to residents and businesses that have unacceptable materials in their containers. The new recology services agreement includes a route auditor position that will help to fulfill this requirement. And this brings us to our staff recommendation, which is to introduce the mandatory organic waste disposal reduction ordinance and set the 2nd reading for December 14th. Thank you.

[01:15:09] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Does any member of the council have a question? Council member Hicks.

[01:15:20] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I just wanted a little more clarity on how the annual audits or the any kind of inspection will proceed because I've had, um, I've had questions both from, um, from people in apartments and people working for restaurants, uh, about how that's employees working for restaurants, not those in charge. So I'm wondering if I could have a little detail on how that will happen.

[01:15:50] Jennifer Cutter: Definitely. I just wanted to 1st emphasize that, um, we are required by the state to, um, conduct the enforcement, but, um, we're going to be starting out for the 1st 2 years in 2022 and 2023 with doing a lot of outreach to try to help businesses and multifamily complexes to, um, gain compliance. Um, but that in 2024 is when we will have to start with the enforcement. Um, so in terms of what that's going to entail, Uh, the city is going to be required to have route inspections done, um, which we will be using the hauler, um, throughcology primarily to help conduct those route audits. So they're going to be looking in the containers for all sectors, to, um, observe if there's any contaminants, and then we're going to be educating via cart tags and direct communication to those accounts, to let them know what materials, um, are allowed in the container. And then after those warnings is when we would have to issue penalties, if the account continues to be non-compliant. But the goal is to work closely with them to gain that compliance with the new law.

[01:17:12] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, I'm I'm, thank you. I'm very interested in that because I've had, as I said, I've had both residents of apartments and workers in restaurants who feel they're powerless to make the change themselves or even ask for it, hoping that the city will be able to enforce it, audit, and enforce. So thank you.

[01:17:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Any other questions from council members? All right, not seeing any, I'll move on to public comment. Would any member of the public on the line, like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. We'll display a 2 minute timer. And, um, we have Bruce Carney.

[01:18:01] Bruce Kearney: Thank you, Madam Mayor. I usually try to limit myself to 2 comments per council session, but tonight I may have to go to 4 because you have so many interesting environmentally sustainable topics on your agenda tonight. This item, which is a state law, so that sort of simplifies things, was also a recommendation of ESTF 2 3.5 years ago. We called it recommendation W5, expand Mountain View's composting program to all residential and commercial properties. It essentially encompasses what Jennifer has recommended. So, I'm strongly in support of this, and I'm sure that our task force would well have been in support also. I'm personally a user of the excellent compost at the smart station. It's helped turn the adobe clay soil in my yard into something that you can actually grow vegetables in. I wanted to mention that if Mountain View goes ahead with this, we would not be the first local community to do so. Stanford and the city of San Francisco have had very aggressive, edible and compostable recycling programs for many, many years. And so we would just be catching up. So I encourage you to say yes to this excellent proposal.

[01:19:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Very much, Monton.

[01:19:30] Serge Bond: Yes, can you hear me?

[01:19:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[01:19:32] Serge Bond: Okay, um, yeah, my name is Serge Bond. I am a mountain view resident. So, um, I support the, you know, uh, obviously these type of programs, uh, plus, you know, um, as Bruce Carney mentioned, that's below. Um, but I have some, some, some qualms about the, the way the other one seems to be treating um, residents differently uh, in Mountain Dew, when they live in a single family homes where uh, as opposed to a number, uh, family, um, uh, residents. First, I think it's it's pretty clear, you know, for my own experience, but not too many people in multi-family, residents have access to compost for a variety of reasons. So I think that needs to be more education and more involvement from the city to make it accessible to all these residents. But then if you look at the ordinance, it's pretty much all the sticks that you have, you know, in terms of requirements, in terms of inspection enforcements. They all fall onto multifamily residents. none of them are for single family. residents. So, um, I think it's, you need to do a better job. So if you want to inspect and in false. Um, you know, compliance, you should do it also for single family homes, and there is also requirements to notify tenants. But it's only of the regulations, but it's only for multifamily units. Many, uh, single family homes are rented, every long-terms or short-term, their Airbnb, and they should be a requirements to notify your tenants, even if it's just for a weekend on the Airbnb. Thank you.

[01:21:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. That concludes public comment, so I'll bring the item back for council deliberation action. And note that a motion to approve the item should also include reading the title of the ordinance being introduced. Castle member Abi Coca.

[01:21:39] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mary. I don't see any other hands, so I'd like to go ahead and make a motion. Um, To introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View, adding article 6 of chapter 16 of the Mountain View city code to mandate organic waste disposal reduction to be read in title only for the rating waived and set a 2nd rating for December 14th, 2021 and thank you to staff for all of your hard work on this item. Thank you.

[01:22:07] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you, council member show, Walter.

[01:22:10] Councilmember Pat Showalter: I'm gladly 2nding the motion, and I also wanted to bring up that, that this is one of those things that, um, is going to require a lot of assistance. I mean, there, there, we're going to be converting, I think, I think you said, Jennifer, you said there were 80 multifamily housing units now in the program, and there's something like 600 in our community. So that's a lot of apartment complexes that have to come on board. And, um, uh, there will be many opportunities for, um, uh, volunteers to help with this, I'm sure, as well as the staff is gonna be very, very busy. So I just would urge all of us to, you know, over time, use our, you know, our social media and our talking to people to outlets to encourage this, um, because it's something that that each of us will, you know, will need to not only carry out, but, um, kind of be, uh, be messengers for. And, um, but anyway, thank you very much to, to the staff for this work, and to the sustainability task force, and, um, and also to the, uh, the technical advisory committee, um, the County Wise Technical Advisory Committee on Solid Waste, that, um, that brings together many of, um, the programs for, um, all the, all the communities in our county.

[01:23:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. We have a motion by council member Abby Kuga, seconded by council member Show Walter. So we'll do a roll call them. Can I remember Abby Coca? I,

[01:23:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member, Show Walter?

[01:23:55] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes?

[01:23:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Hicks.

[01:23:57] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[01:23:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Labor? Council member Manachek?

[01:24:02] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[01:24:03] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[01:24:05] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[01:24:06] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Mayor, can I?

[01:24:07] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes. Motion carries unanimously. Great. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, staff. We'll move on to item 6.3, which are minor East Wisman precise plans, P dash 41 and our zoning code amendments. Principal planner Eric Anderson will present the report. Assistant city manager and our community development director. Archie Shravastova is available for questions. And I think both. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Buster are making their way over.

[01:24:48] Eric Anderson: Thank you, America May. I made it. Uh, you can hear me, right?

[01:24:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Good. Yes.

[01:24:53] Eric Anderson: Awesome. Okay. And there we go. Hopefully people can see this. Awesome. So this item is some minor East Wisman precise plan and zoning code amendments. So the East Wisdom precise plan includes a program called the Jobs Housing Linkage program. The purpose of the program is to improve the ratio of housing to jobs and to encourage housing projects to be developed in the area. Um, back when the precise plan was adopted, Council Direction supported a solution for combining this program, uh, with a, uh, previously authorized Los Altos School District Transfer Development Rights program. Uh, so these amendments codify that direction to ensure that it can be implemented. It allows certain exemptions from the jobs housing linkage program for some projects and limitations for partnerships for other projects, and also allowing flexibility on BMR requirements for residential projects to ensure that they stay engaged with the TDR program. In addition, we're taking this opportunity to bring some minor typos and map corrections, uh, to, uh, in the East Woodman precise plan to counsel for correction. We are also bringing forward some minor code amendments to the Affordable Housing section of the zoning code. Firstly, to support flexibility for precise plans to supersede the code. This is necessary for the previously mentioned council direction, but also to ensure that the North Bayshore precise plan affordable housing guidelines can be implemented as well. Uh, and we are also uh, doing a minor cleanup amendment to ensure that affordable 100% affordable projects are not required to comply with parts of the code that they're not intended to, um, uh, have to comply with, such as providing multiple income levels. The EPC recommended approval and the airport land commission, found it consistent with the club. That is the request for counsel tonight. Here's a lot of words on the screen. that we are recommending that you say tonight and look forward to your questions and discussion. Thank you.

[01:27:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Would any member of the council have any questions? All right, I am not seeing any hands. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom, or press star 9 on your phone. We'll display a 2 minute timer. All right, I am not seeing any hands on this as well, so I'll bring the item back. Um. For council deliberation and action, and uh, for this motion, we'll need to include the reading of the title of the ordinance being introduced and the title of the resolution attached to the report at Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[01:28:23] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, mayor. I'm going to move the staff recommendation. uh, and say a lot of words, including, one, introduce an ordinance of the city of Mountain View, amending article, uh, 14 of chapter 36, uh, the city code related to the application of affordable housing program standards and exemptions, and finding that the amendments are exempt, from review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Sequel, pursuant to Sequel Guidelines, Section 15061 B 3 To be read, entitle only, further reading waived, and set a 2nd reading for December 14, 2021. And to adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, amending the East Wisdom precise plan, P dash 41 related to project authorized before plan adoption and other minor modifications. Finding that the amendments are exempt from review, under the California Environmental Quality Act, pursuant to sequid guidelines, section 15061 B 3.

[01:29:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So we have a motion by the vice mayor, Council member Hicks.

[01:29:35] Councilmember Alison Hicks: A 2nd.

[01:29:37] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, and a 2nd by council member Hicks. Um, not seeing any other hands. I'll just call for the roll call vote. My fair Ramirez.

[01:29:47] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[01:29:48] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Hicks?

[01:29:50] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[01:29:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Abby Coca?

[01:29:52] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I

[01:29:53] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Lieper?

[01:29:55] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[01:29:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Mattachek?

[01:29:57] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[01:29:58] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Sher Walter?

[01:30:00] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[01:30:00] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: I'm American May?

[01:30:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes. That's interesting, unanimous. Great. Thank you. Thank you, staff. So we'll move on to item 6.4 declaration of stage one water shortage emergency condition. Water resources manager, Elizabeth Flegel will present the report. Assistant Public Works, Director Lisa Al, and Public Works Director Don Cameron, are available for questions.

[01:30:30] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hi, Elizabeth.

[01:30:32] Elizabeth Flegel: Hi, good evening. Let me share my screen. How's that? Can you see the presentation?

[01:30:43] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, perfect.

[01:30:45] Elizabeth Flegel: Look, good evening, honorable mayor, members of the council. I'm Elizabeth Flagel, the water resources manager, and tonight's public hearing. Is to discuss the declaration of a stage one water shortage emergency. The city of Mountain View provides water service to the majority of residents and businesses within the city boundaries. With most water going toward residential uses and large landscape irrigation. The majority of Mountain View's water comes from the San Francisco regional water system, sourced primarily from the Tuomney River. Mountain View also purchases water from the Santa Clara Valley water district, operates local groundwater wells, and receives recycled water from the regional water quality control plant in Palo Alto. Earlier this year, Valley Water declared a shortage emergency due to significantly reduced water supplies. and requested 15% conservation county wide. In July, Governor Newsom added Santa Clara County to his growing list of counties experiencing water shortages, and requested all Californians conserve 15%. Although San Francisco did not declare a water shortage this summer, they supported the governor's voluntary request and implemented a conservation outreach campaign. System storage in late October was approximately 12% for Valley Water, and 66% for San Francisco. In late August, State Water Resources Control Board ordered curtailment of diversions from the tributaries of the San Joaquin Sacramento Delta, including the Tuolumne River. As a result of this action, and to discourage high irrigation use during a potentially warm winter, San Francisco is expected to consider declaration of a water shortage emergency later this month. At the time of this hearing, staff understands a 10% system wide reduction is being considered her recommendation. Customers have already begun conserving water and have achieved cumulative 21% conservation of value water managed supplies, including groundwater. 7% conservation of all potable supplies, and 4% conservation of San Francisco water. Upon declaration of a water shortage emergency, staff will implement Mountain View's water shortage contingency plan, which was adopted by council in June, and is contained in the city's urban water management plan. At this time, staff recommends implementation of stage one, which focuses on increasing public outreach. Staff will continue to monitor conservation savings and precipitation levels this winter, as well as possible actions taken by the state in the city's wholesale water suppliers, to determine if additional action becomes necessary. Staff has already assembled a team and begun planning new outreach efforts, including bill inserts, mailings, electronic messaging and signage. At this time, staff recommends council adopt a resolution, declaring a stage one water shortage emergency, and directing implementation of stage one water demand reduction measures.

[01:34:18] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Great. Thank you. Um, does any member of the council have any questions? Okay, I see you, Councilman Michelle Walter. ahead.

[01:34:32] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah, um, Thank you so much for bringing this to us and putting together a very, uh, well researched, um, report. There's lots of good information in it. I was particularly interested in the, the state boards action. That's unprecedented. I never heard of that before. really, um, really an amazing, uh, um, decision for them to make, to protect, uh, the habitat of the Delta. Anyway, um, I wanted to ask about, uh, ways that Mountain View residents can can know how much water they've saved. You know, I, um, when I get my water bill, it reports, um, what my water use was for the previous two months, you know, so it's two months in a rear. So I can't, you know, I, I, and the, and the weather changes a lot. So the water that we need to use outdoors is very different, you know, two months down the road than it was the previous two months, really, throughout the whole year. So I find that this is a big problem. And, um, I'm wondering if I know that we don't have meters. We don't have a way to get this information out to people very rapidly on an individual basis. What other things can we offer?

[01:35:59] Elizabeth Flegel: Thank you, Council member Show, Walter. Uh, yes, the city does only read our water meters for residential accounts every two months, uh, which can make it difficult, certainly, to track, uh, your real time water use. And that is one of the reasons why we focus, in particular, on activities that use water. So what we're asking customers to do right now is to reduce irrigation. We have had a wet winter, uh, the last couple, wet couple of weeks, so people have turned off irrigation. But if that doesn't continue, we encourage people to be mindful, in particular, of their irrigation. Um, We have a couple of websites through conservewater.mountainview.gov that outlines all of our conservation programs, which include rebates and water audits, where you can measure how much water your fixtures use inside. and look for ways to conserve.

[01:37:02] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Um, do we have a program to get, uh, meters that are, there, there was a program I thought we discussed years ago about, um, in a very slow way getting meters changed? What happened with that? So that you would have real-time data?

[01:37:20] Elizabeth Flegel: Yeah, we do have about half of the city is deployed with a certain version of smart meters, and it allows our meter readers to collect the reads by driving by instead of walking by. And in cases where customers call, if they have a leak, we can go, and we can get the hourly water use data, and we will do that one or two times as a courtesy to help them assist customers in their leak detection. Of course, we can't do that um, for all customers at all times. But we do have an unscheduled capital improvement program, to install a network, that would allow us to have remote reading and provide that information to customers on a more real-time basis.

[01:38:08] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Well, I think that would be very helpful. I know it's not something we can do on the fly, but long term. I think that it would be very helpful for people to be able to do that. I know that there are meters that you can buy, phone meters. I think they cost almost $400 apiece that, um, allow you to, uh, um, regulate your, your, um, your irrigation from your phone and, and also tell you about your water use. But that's, you know, that's just on an individual basis. It would be interesting to have a, you know, a program where, uh, to look into a program where we could, could we buy something like that? Um, uh, en masse? Um, for people? I mean, are... Is that, would that be helpful in addition to a system that you're talking about will be online in a number of years?

[01:39:09] Elizabeth Flegel: Yeah, we have done several pilot studies over the last 10 years. One of the difficulties we encountered, where it was, uh, that the technology didn't perform, as well as we liked. But in this last round, um, of pilot programs. We did identify technology that we were happy with. And so that's why we've been looking at, at, um, this CIP to possibly convert the city over a large portion of the city over to what we call advanced metering. And that would provide hourly data through a portal for customers.

[01:39:42] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Well, that's great. So when would, where is that in the, in the process, that project?

[01:39:51] Elizabeth Flegel: Well, it has not been scheduled yet. So I can certainly, um, touch base with Lisa and Don, and we can try to get you some more specific information about, um, when a rollout of a program like that might be possible.

[01:40:04] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Okay, so you're in the research still. Okay, good. All right. Well, yes, keep, please keep us posted. I think that that, um, the programs that will provide us with short term feedback on on water use would be very helpful. Thank.

[01:40:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Hey, thank you. Does any other member of the council have any questions? Okay, not seeing any. Um, I'll, um, ask for public comment. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide public comment on this item? If so, please raise your hand in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. I am not seeing any hands. So I'll bring the item back for council deliberation and action. A note that a motion to approve the item should also include reading the title of the resolution that's attached to the report. Cousin Robbie Coca.

[01:41:11] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to go ahead and make a motion. I didn't see other hands, but hopefully. Counselor Shelter is going to 2nd session, but, um, I would like to make the motion to adopt a resolution of the city council, the city of Mountain View, declaring the existence of a stage one, water shortage, emergency condition, and directing implementation of stage one, water demand, reduction measures, and let's hope for a wet winter.

[01:41:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Council member Shel Walter?

[01:41:42] Councilmember Pat Showalter: And yes, I would like to 2nd it, and also, um, in item eight, I'm going to be giving a report on our recycled water committee, which is about something that we're doing, um, to, uh, to help with drought proofs of supplies.

[01:42:00] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. So we have a motion by council member, Abbe Kuga, 2nded by council member, Show Walter. Council member Lieber.

[01:42:08] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, Mayor. I think that this is a very necessary step and it's, um, something that I'm strongly supporting. I've actually been contacted by a number of constituents who have asked, um, why why this step wasn't already being taken, and I, I think that it shows, uh, that our community in Mountain View, um, is very water conscious. And, um, I think that this will be a very helpful step in increasing, uh, that behavior, and it's something that is, is very necessary, um, moving water equals energy. And, um, that that adds to our climate crisis. And so I want to join others in, in thanking staff for putting these steps together because this really does make a difference, um, for our community and, and the wider environment.

[01:43:14] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Um, any other council members like to say anything? All right. Not seeing any. Um, I think we'll we'll ask for the roll cover.

[01:43:29] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Councilman Bradby Koga?

[01:43:31] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: I,

[01:43:31] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member show alter?

[01:43:33] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[01:43:34] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Hicks?

[01:43:35] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[01:43:36] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Lieber?

[01:43:37] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I,

[01:43:38] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Council member Metachek?

[01:43:40] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[01:43:41] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[01:43:43] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[01:43:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: American May? Yes. Motion carries unanimously. Great. Thank you. Thank you, staff.

[01:43:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: We'll move on now to item 7, which is our new business. Um, item 7. is our downtown parking strategy adoption. First, we'll have remarks by city attorney Chopra.

[01:44:06] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Thank you, mayor. Because the parameters of this project have changed since the council last reviewed it. Council members Abbe Koga and Hicks, who had previously recused themselves, may now participate in this item.

[01:44:22] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. And, um, we have business development specialist, Tiffany Chu, and principal planner, Eric Anderson, that will present the report. Assistant city manager and community development director, Archie Shravostova, economic vitality manager, John Lang, and the city's consultants from Nelson Nigard, Phil Olmstead, and Alex Mercury are available for questions as well. Thank. Take it away.

[01:44:55] Tiffany Chu: Good evening, mayor and counsel, let me just share my screens at the PowerPoint.

[01:45:05] Tiffany Chu: Good evening, mayor and city council. Tonight, we are discussing the downtown parking strategy. The parking strategy work began in August of 2020 with Nelson Nygar to develop a comprehensive strategy. In May 2021. City council discussed and agreed with the proposed framework principles and solutions and recommended a multifaceted approach to address the parking shortfall. The next few slides will be a quick refresher on the council approved gold and early findings. During the development of the strategy, input was collected from key stakeholders, including residents, businesses, developers and visitors. Perceptions were that parking is inadequate and customers need assistance in finding parking, parking management is a problem, and resulting in spillover in residential areas. Businesses are not sure of what the next normal will be after COVID-19. The parking strategy is based upon 4 primary goals identified by counsel and shown here on the slide. The strategy provides a comprehensive approach that that reviewed historical data and collected new parking data, reviewed the impact of development projects, serves as an overarching document to manage current and future parking demand and provides direction for these projects. Our study area, shown here, is larger than the downtown boundaries to recognize that parking behavior does not limit itself to the parking district or the precise plan. After review of parking utilization data, parking requirements, and stakeholder input, findings were developed to provide a basis for the strategy, toolkit, and implementation plan. Some of the key findings include on street parking is free and unrestricted, and as a result, do not adequately encourage turnover. Parking duration on Castro Street can exceed 10 to 12 hours and are not available to customers. In addition, public off street parking, which is the focus of the city's investment and policies, only account for 20% of all parking in the study area. Almost 2 thirds of the spaces are available for downtown parking permit program with office users utilizing most of the permits. As a reminder, there are 6 guiding principles of the downtown parking strategy, a comprehensive package to support the recovery of COVID-19 in the near term, and guide growth and development in the long term. Provide an equitable balance of public costs and benefits to meet the efficient needs of everyone who lives, works, and visit downtown. Efficiently manage the existing public parking supply. Be flexible to support downtown growth, aligned with city sustainability goals, and last, support the vision of a vibrant, accessible, walkable, and bikeable downtown. Implementation of the strategy is broken into 4 strategy types. Management, supply, zoning on regulations, and accessibility and mobility. Management and supply support the parking demand while zoning and mobility can influence the market for parking. There are 18 strategies and 82 implementation action items identified in this strategy. Parking management supports more efficient use of existing and future parking supply. Management strategies will include parking regulations, management structured curb management, and supporting programs such as valet parking. Parking supply provides framework for creating new public parking supply in downtown. Supply strategies, address shared parking opportunities, parking requirements, and partnerships. Access and mobility helps inform choice or change driving behavior by supporting both efficiency in finding parking, Finding an address demand. Solutions include multimodal incentive options, informal and informational and communication campaigns, and improved parking technology. Last, zoning and zoning and regulations will manage parking demand by supporting and incentivizing alternatives to driving. Strategies include TDM ordinance, adopting bike plan requirements, and changes to parking standards. Nelson Nigard has modeled revenues and costs associated with modifying existing parking programs along with adopting new strategies. The estimates are based upon a proposed phasing implementation plan. The downtown parking strategy provides a 10-year horizon and implementation plan with a specific vision to manage down parking demand and supply as the needs in the downtown evolves. Staff is recommending approval of the downtown parking strategy. The next steps is to further find the near term implementation plan, and associated funding plan, and return to council consideration at a future meeting. This concludes staff presentation.

[01:50:20] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. Does any member of the council have any questions? Council member Mattachek.

[01:50:36] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. Um. Let's see, in the past, we talked about, um, looking at changing the location of where permit holders can park, uh, so that they are not parking in the lots that are closest to Evelyn. Um, I didn't necessarily see that in the material and I was wondering, was that included or not?

[01:51:08] Tiffany Chu: Council member, I can respond to that. It is. We are looking at revamping the employee permit parking program, not just, um, in terms of how many permits are handed out and the rate, as well as whom they're handed out to, but also the locations of where people will be parking.

[01:51:26] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Great. Thank you. Um, I should have sent this one in, but I didn't think about it at the time, this question. Do we have any data? On the utilization of bike racks downtown? If you don't have it off the top of your head, I can't look it up on, I'd love to have that as a follow-up. Um, item.

[01:51:52] Tiffany Chu: Council member, I believe we'll have to follow up on that.

[01:51:55] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. Thanks. Um. Let's see, I noted um, that. Some of the parking was going to parking areas, we're going to be categorized as, um, like premium versus value. And in looking at the map, I was, I guess I kind of had a different perspective on maybe what should be premium and what should be value. And I was wondering, was that the final map? I think it was on, I saw it on page 36 of, I think it's Attachment one. Um, or was more work gonna be done on that?

[01:52:44] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Um, I think this could be responded to by one of the consultants, Phil.

[01:52:49] Phil Olmstead: Sure. Yeah, good evening, mayor and members of council, can you all hear me okay? Great. Good to see you all again. Great question. So this is not final. Um, this is one potential recommendation. What we, as looking at the data that we saw from the study, both historic utilization data as well as data that we collect. during the study. Um, as what appeared to us to be kind of the, uh, the distinction between premium and value. But this would be very much something that you know, could be revised as a paid parking program is rolled out, certainly, as more data is collected. Um, but, uh, it is up for discussion and, um, further consideration with with y'all in the community.

[01:53:43] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: So, um, you said you did look at utilization when figuring out uh, premium versus value?

[01:53:50] Phil Olmstead: Correct. Yeah. So we, we looked at historic data from previous studies, uh, prior to COVID as well as some of the data feeds from the city that the city collects on a ongoing basis. And then we also went out and collected data. Um, I believe during, I'm trying to remember the exact timing. I think it was October, November of 2020. Um, and that also informed, um, some of the the, uh, some of the recommendations.

[01:54:23] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. Um, let's see, um. On page 65 of attachment one, it talks about providing a mobility wallet to people who live downtown. And I was trying to figure out, how would that help with parking issues?

[01:54:56] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Uh, Phil, maybe you could...

[01:54:58] Phil Olmstead: Yeah, so the mobility wallet is uh, a concept that we've seen be really successful in other communities. Um, Portland, uh, in particular, has uh, adopted a program, um, where they give uh, mobility, what they call a mobility, uh, basically discounted, um, package of, um, subsidized mobility pros, so a transit pass, bike share, um, eat, uh, in Portland, Ride Hill, e-scooter. Um, and they distribute that not only to employees within the downtown or within the district in which the mobility wallet is offered, but also um, residents. And what they've seen from the data and what they've shown is, um, it's been successful, uh, particularly in their, um, responding to some of their conditions that they have in terms of reducing, um, overall, um, parking demand. So residents actually giving up that 2nd car, which frees up a, uh, frees up a space, either in their building or on the street, if they're parking on the street, and they've actually seen a fair number of residents give up, um, in in their lo- this location, um, residential permit, um, parking because they don't have that 2nd car. They found that they can now get around with these other mobility options.

[01:56:22] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Got it. Thanks. Um, And I, um, was also wondering, um, kind of like the next steps for all of this. So, um, I had a conversation with the city manager about this, and I was wondering, does any of this come back to the council? Clearly we saw some things were coming back to us. Um, and I kind of assume if we need to allocate additional money or, um, there's an ordinance or an amendment to, uh, the zoning or a precise plan or something like that, it would come back to us. Um, because I feel like maybe there are some things. Um, I have a perspective on that I want to comment on, but I'm not sure where we're going to do a deep dive on all of these tonight. So I'm trying to figure out the balance here of, you know, how much do we go into these tonight versus are they going to come back to us so we get to comment in more detail? Um,

[01:57:25] Aarti Shrivastava: I could maybe answer, answer that, council member. Um, um, so we are planning to create, um, an immediate interim and then long-term plan for the implementation. Um, Many of these will need council input in terms of ordinances. For example, downtown precise plan phase 2, when it comes back on the council's work plan, would address some of the zoning and other regulations. Um, or if we move forward, the parking administrator position, we would come back for funding. Um, and really the idea is if we do come back, I think we'll certainly provide information, even if the council doesn't have to specifically make a decision, so you could see the package that's coming forward. Um, and how we're starting to implement that. So there'll be, um, you know, funding requests, we might tackle some in terms of, um, um, you know, precise plans, ordinance amendments. For example, we are planning to do a TDM ordinance and that will come back to council. Um, so you'll see elements of this come back in various in various parts. Okay. And then you could do a deep dive at that time. when we start tackling these projects individually.

[01:58:39] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay. Great. Um, and then one last question based upon, um, the council Q and A, and, um, That somebody sent in the question about um, the cost of an utilization of valet parking. And I feel like that question was asked before by the council, and we determined that it actually was, um, less than what was stated. And I went back and found it, and it had the same answer as this one. So I'm wondering, was this really um, let's see, I can't find what page it's on. Um. But it seemed quite high, and I think we figured out that it wasn't, the number of vehicles per week, but that was the number of vehicles per day or something like that that made the cost come way down. Does that ring a bell to anybody?

[01:59:41] Aarti Shrivastava: Well, I, you know, I think the best person to respond to that is Tiffany, um, since she has been, um, involved with providing information on that. I know we also took another look at this for tonight, and she can give you the update.

[01:59:57] Tiffany Chu: Council member Mattachek, yes, this question was asked when we took the downtown parking strategy to council in this study session regarding the costs of valet parking, and we were, it was caught based upon an average number of cars parked there per week. Because at that time, we weren't getting a consistent number every day, but we looked at it per week. And I, I think what we, what we need to think about the valet program as is, it's a way to provide temporary parking in our downtown when we have a high demand versus, uh, uh, it's the cost, the yearly cost of running the valet program is still, uh, cheaper than the cost of building one parking space. So it was, the intent of the program was to, uh, create more available parking more and then an immediate future and also let the city test the program. So I know that I hope that answers your question. I know not specifically, but I just wanted to also provide some context on that.

[02:01:09] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yeah, so I appreciate that. Um, I, you know, I've heard a lot of great things about the valet parking program. Um, so I'm not necessarily questioning the, the value of it, but, um, I think I'm gonna see if I can go back and listen to that council meeting, um, to figure out what I'm remembering about that discussion.

[02:01:30] Tiffany Chu: And this is one of the items that we will bring back to council as if council decides to adopt tonight's parking strategy. That is part of the scope that we'll need to look at.

[02:01:41] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Okay, great. Um, I think that's it for now. Thanks.

[02:01:46] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Council member Hicks.

[02:01:49] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I was gonna ask a similar question on what things would come back to council. So, um, I think that one was mostly answered. Um, and I think, but so I'll just add that I think that's super important. Um, not just for the reasons that counsel Mattachek kind of outlined what she wants to weigh in on, but it also, things are changing rapidly in terms of car use with, we don't know how things will, um, change with the pandemic, hopefully winding down and response to climate crisis and so forth. So, my, so I'm glad that question was asked. My question, my remaining question is on, um, Uh, it's changes to, it's under M6, on page 13, revising and modernizing the residential parking permit program. Um, also described as updating that program to help mitigate parking spillover into the residential neighborhoods, et cetera. So I've seen very successful residential parking programs around downtowns recently, so I'm very interested in maybe you can provide more detail on, um, your thoughts on how to modernize it. I know that currently, it's mostly a resident initiated thing involving one or more blocks, and I'm thinking that's not appropriate for, you know, it's not the job of residents, in my opinion, to organize our downtown parking strategy. That seems, uh, may work in other neighborhoods, but not adjacent to the downtown. So I'm very interested in, um, what your thoughts are on, on how to revise that program in this particular space, you know, the downtown.

[02:03:47] Aarti Shrivastava: Um, Kelso Viber Hicks, if I may just give you an update, um, the public works department has already begun that process of, um, looking at the residential permit parking program or what we call, um, the RPP. And I believe it's expected to come back to council next year sometime in March or April. So we could certainly, um, uh, it, it's not an item, um, that's gonna specifically, um, uh, you know, we, they've already begun work, um, on it. And, and I don't have the exact specifics unless maybe, um, public works director Don Cameron is here, but we can certainly get you an update after this meeting. Um, to let you know where it is in the process and when it's expected to come back to council. So,

[02:04:39] Councilmember Alison Hicks: okay, that would be great. Maybe I can ask the question in a slightly different way. Are the updates that you're working on? Are you, I think a residential permit program in a downtown and in a place like, say, Mauna Loma or Waverly Park are 2 very different creatures. So, on one, they've served very different purposes. So I'm wondering, will the update, as you understand it, will it be different? Are you envisioning it, that it be different in the downtown, uh, versus, uh, neighborhoods that are purely residential?

[02:05:15] Aarti Shrivastava: I believe that the focus of it is to try to take some of the burden off the residence. You know, right now, it does place a certain burden on the residents. Um, and so I know it's working its way through the council transportation committee. Um, and and, um, that's about all I know. They're going to look at a pilot program to start with. Okay, so I guess.

[02:05:41] Phil Olmstead: Oh, sorry. Oh, I was just going to jump in and offer just add a little bit of flavor to that. Yeah, we worked closely with Dawn and her team and really made sure that the strategy is syncing up with the latest thinking. So as already mentioned, um, really making the process more streamlined and easy, uh, for residents to, uh, initiate or start up an RPP. One of the things as we talk about a phase plan, there's some low hanging fruit on the RPP just around the policies that could apply, not just in the downtown, but citywide. But when we think a little bit longer term, some of the most successful RPP programs in many cities are doing this now is moving things digital. Um, so really reducing the, um, the administrative burden for staff, but also making it super user-friendly for for residents to sign up their cars, change their cars, um, and all that's uh, done digitally now. There's a lot of systems that allow that. Um, so really making it um, more customer friendly. So those are all things that are in this strategy that we need to build to, but are included as part of the reform to the RPP system.

[02:06:53] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I guess I'll just ask one more piece of this question. So, I visited cities in Colorado that had, essentially, residential parking permit programs that drove a lot of their access to downtown parking for restaurant customers. And it wasn't something that was implemented, you know, one or two blocks at a time by residence. It was implemented by the city to sort of blanket the whole downtown area, um, and and make people, employees park in their underground garages. Um, or, uh, make sure people didn't park for eight to 12 hours on the street, and it gave residents free parking permits. I'm wondering if anything, a larger program for a downtown has been envisioned at all at this point, or if we're sticking more with what it sounds like you're talking about, which is, um, streamlining the current, sort of small, uh, small program, uh, initiated by neighborhood residents, as opposed to a full downtown strategy.

[02:08:06] Aarti Shrivastava: Um, Council member Hicks, I could say that, um, um, this is probably gonna require a response after this meeting, but based on my understanding, I don't believe that a special program for the downtown is being considered, um, but it's certainly something we can follow up on.

[02:08:25] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you so much.

[02:08:33] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Any other council members have any questions? All right, not seeing any, we can turn it over to public comment. So if any member of the public on the line, would like to provide public comment, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press turn it on your phone, and we'll display a 2 minute timer on the screen. Our 1st speaker is James Kuzumal. Hi James, are you there? It looks like you're unmuted, James, but we don't hear you. Okay. So James, we still don't hear you. So I think what we'll do is we'll try to, um, come back to you, um, at the end and hopefully, I don't know if you have to connect to a headset or something, um, but hopefully we'll be able to hear you then. All right, so we'll reset the timer and we'll go to Bruce Carney.

[02:09:49] Bruce Carney: Thank you, Mayor Kameh. Once again, this is an item the council is considering which was recommended by the sustainability task force 3.5 years ago. We called it recommendation T6. Restrict parking to encourage and fund alternative modes of the 36 recommendations from the task force. This was the only one that was a net revenue generator for the city of Mountain View. Essentially, it's a paid parking recommendation. There were 5 points. I'd like to read them briefly. The 1st was, implement modest fees for parking in downtown public lots and parking structures, and use the funds collected to underwrite investments in bicycle and EV charging infrastructure. .2, charge for on street parking downtown .3, implement neighborhood parking permits for a modest fee. Number four, unbundle parking from rents for residential and commercial tenants citywide, and number five, rent parking spaces to autonomous EV fleets to recharge and park at night. Part of the thinking of the task force was that autonomous EVs, essentially an Uber without a driver, wasn't that far away. And when it came into force, the need for parking would really diminish not only downtown but elsewhere. So, for example, instead of driving to Castro Street to go to dinner, you'd take an autonomous EV, you'd go to dinner, but the EV would continue to circulate and not park, and then you'd call another one when it was time to go home. I know that in Redwood City and San Mateo, that are modest charges for public parking. I would really like to see that in Mountain View as well. I think that because of the compact size of our city, many who would otherwise drive will begin to bike or walk to downtown. So let's do what we can to make that happen. Thank you.

[02:11:52] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Robert Cox.

[02:11:56] Robert Cox: Can you hear me?

[02:11:57] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yep.

[02:11:59] Robert Cox: Uh, Honorable Mayor May, Vice Mayor Ramirez, and city council members. I am Robert Cox, co-chair of the old Mountain View Neighborhood Association Residential Parking Subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity comment on this item. Our subcommittee thanks staff and the consultant for this excellent parking strategy document. For many reasons that we listed in the letter that we sent to you. I believe it is the best document of its kind, which I have reviewed in my deck, I long involvement in neighborhood and city work. Since we've already sent in a letter, I won't repeat all the details, but I would like to hit the main points. With regards to the RPPP. We strongly support the programs providing at least one permit per household free. Without this, we feel there will not be sufficient support for the program. The result will be a continued lack of adoption causing even more serious parking problems for residents. As the city rolls out, it's paid parking in the downtown. Secondly, we strongly advise against selling permits to non-residents in the residential areas. From the beginning of our discussion with the city, the city has acknowledged primary reason, for parking spaces in the residential areas, is to provide parking for the residents, and their guests selling permits to employees, and our residential areas is a violation of that fundamental premise. We also support the recommendation to create a parking administrator, and an increase in parking in Luffy's to better reflect the cost of providing parking, or employees and business customers. We believe that if the downtown parking district is expanded, residents should not be saddled with additional taxes, if they end up being included in the district. Finally, as COVID winds down, please let us know if you change parking enforcement. Thank you for the opportunity to express our views.

[02:13:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Cynthia Guerrero.

[02:14:03] Drew Meyerssek: Oh, hi, mayor and council. I apologize. I'm totally logged into the wrong account. My name is Drew Meyerssek. I work for Santi Guerrero at California Strategies. But I do want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I'm speaking to you on behalf of our client, Clever City, which is a technology forward parking service that helps move drivers into parking spaces more efficiently. Clever City supports the proposal today. Uh, and we are, um, very excited about the changes to the downtown parking strategy in Mountain View. Clever City, as I just mentioned, offers innovative transportation and wavefinding solutions to move drivers into parking spaces, excuse me, space is more efficiently, through low profile sensors, discrete digital signage, and flexible app integration. This, in turn, reduces carbon emissions, increases movement through business centers and creates an overall convenience for drivers. As cities in California, including Mountain View, rethink their parking strategies, it's our hope that cities can maximize the use of existing parking assets before constructing new ones. These proposed changes, coupled with thoughtful technology solutions, will do just that. Should these changes be approved? We hope the Mountain View will continue to pursue additional solutions to improve mobility and parking downtown. As projects such as the Castro Street closure extension are considered. We believe these parking strategy updates will become even more crucial. fostering a walkable, livable mountain view. Uh, we want to thank the council and city staff, again, for the opportunity to speak, uh, as well as all the hard work that's coming to this plan. We're very, very excited to see this move forward, and for all the reasons previously stated, we will request, excuse me, respectfully request that the mayor and council approve the downtown parking strategy this evening. Thank you.

[02:15:37] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Sorry about that, Drew.

[02:15:40] Drew Meyerssek: That's right.

[02:15:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Alright, Peter Katz.

[02:15:47] Peter Katz: There we go. Thank you, Mayor Commay, and esteemed city council members. I'm Peter Katz, president and CEO of the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. On behalf of our 750 members, we wish to state our strong support for the proposed parking strategy framework. Transportation and parking in particular remains a critical issue for our businesses and our community at large. It is also a complex and multifaceted issue for which there is no single, simple solution. The staff recommendation for a long term multi tiered strategy, focusing on management, access and zoning, not just supply, recognizes this fact. All of these areas are critical and interrelated, components to success. We cannot simply focus on one alone. We are particularly excited about the technology focus strategies that Mountain View is considering. Mountain View is one of the world's most important tech centers and continues to offer technology solutions to typical problems. Parking should be no different. Investigation into creative approaches to wayfinding and guidance systems, such as Clever City is mentioned a few moments ago, park stash, Google Maps, and other technologies, helped create a more sustainable and accessible parking program that is so sorely needed. At the same time, we are pleased the plan calls for parking alternatives to be found during construction, especially those projects that will overlay existing parking lots. We also support improvements to mass transit and non vehicular modes of transport that encourage less vehicular use. Improved efficiency in transport, access, and parking needs more visitors and shoppers to our city and increases the vibrancy of our commercial and public centers. Thank you for this comprehensive plan. We are excited to work with the city on exploring the actions more deeply in implementing solutions.

[02:17:40] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Daniel, who'll say?

[02:17:49] Public Speaker: You can hear me?

[02:17:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[02:17:51] Public Speaker: Yeah. Um, so I, I'm a Mountain View resident. I just wanted to say I reviewed this huge strategy document, parts of it. There were some things that I thought were really good. And then there were some things that gave me a little bit paused. Um, the 1st thing and the main thing that I think was good is, uh, you know, it has proper parking enforcement and, you know, the whole idea of charging fees and having parking permits. Um, this is a way that the city can get money. These parking structures were not cheap to build, and so it makes sense that we should be trying to recoup some of that capital cost. Um, We're not like, uh, community that is can't pay for parking. Parking is not like a huge cost. I, back in my college student days in a tiny college town, had to pay for parking. It was fine. Um, So I think, and the big thing that we need to think in terms of fees is the effect on incentives for people. So a Caltrain ticket costs like $4 to $15. Buses cost around 250. Uh, if we can't get people, uh, change the incentives so that, uh, uh, that is the better option for people, people aren't going to take it. Um, and so if we start paying for fees, uh, or having parking fees, we can change those incentives. We can also uh, fund uh, transit subsidies for people in the downtown if we want. Um, so that was a thing I like. I liked the bike parking requirements. I liked that it got rid of individual parking. Things that gave me pause, were increased supply, having a shared parking requirement, and, uh, yeah.

[02:19:49] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. Kevin Ma.

[02:19:55] Kevin Ma: Evening again, counsel. My name is Kevin, Mom, again, a resident of Madam, you in the San Antonio neighborhood. I believe I would hope that from this plan, you can determine that we don't really need any more parking garages in the area. I understand that every time usually people get confused about, like, I ran out of on street parking, they always say, Why don't we just build more parking? And fundamentally, that should not be the new jerk reaction. Where there are garages where there are parking spots. And at some point, if there's too much parking, there's too many cars, and the correct thing is, is to property priced parking. At the end of the day, the vibrancy of a downtown is determined by the number of people, and that doesn't matter about how to get there, whether it's by a Caltrain, whether it's by VTA, by biking, walking, whatever else. But fundamentally, a parking garage, and parking spots in general, is a giant public subsidy, to cars above everything else. As the previous speakers mentioned, everything else has, if you take Caltrain, if you take VTA, there are fees associated directly to the consumer. Whereas for a car, obviously, you just bundle it into your, you know, gas budget for that month, or two months. Now, how expensive our gas is in the future. And fundamentally, there's no equivalent subsidy for people who take, you know, the more environmentally friendly sources, environmentally friendly knows of transit, which is important, given that carb has known to itself that cars, as it stands, we cannot just transition to EV's fast enough to be able to meet our current emission targets. And eventually we will need to reduce vehicle miles traveled, which means we need to give people a way to get to the places they want to be, not in a car. And fundamentally, a car garage and parking is a choice land use idea that makes an impact over many years that we cannot do it around on anymore. Thank you.

[02:21:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: 1811?

[02:21:56] Adina Levin: Good evening, mayor and council members, Edine 11, with friends of Caltrain, and Seymour's Bay Area, wanted to commend the city for a really well developed and fleshed out parking and access strategy for the downtown. Uh, really being multidimensional and putting adding supply as the last resort starting with managing supply most efficiently and providing good, uh, incentives for people to avoid driving and getting to downtown to make downtown thrive. Um, wanted to call attention to, um, several uh, trends and opportunities at a, uh, the transit at the regional transit system that might be able to help the city in achieving its goals. Uh, 1st of all, there is a uh, all agency transit pass that is um, moving forward at a regional level. It's going to start as a pilot with things like schools and affordable housing, but moving on to serving employers and importantly to serving transportation management associations to provide these to employees of smaller businesses, potentially even to neighborhoods. Um, also with Clipper 2.0 coming out, there's a possibility of potentially uh, doing a transit validation for guests who come downtown taking transit and not just, uh, validating, uh, uh, parking, if there is paid parking, and uh, lastly, as Caltrain is electrified, there's the potential to have service hours that support a wider variety of uh, work hours and a wider variety of trip types. So wanted to support what others are saying in terms of using these strategies to balance the incentives, making it attractive, to come to downtown without driving. Thank you.

[02:23:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, James Kuzamal. Let's try again.

[02:24:00] James Huesman: All right, working better this time?

[02:24:02] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes, we hear you.

[02:24:03] James Huesman: Yay. All right, great. James Hughesman, I'm speaking for the letter from NBCSP, Mountain View, Yum, being Green Spaces MV. There's more detailed comments in the letter, but I want to call out 2 main points. Personally, who would ask that to meet the council's own guiding principle that parking and driving coming across the community? We should explicitly adopt a policy of maintaining a constant, effective parking supply, to ensure that when we add the shared parking, we simultaneously are removing some physical parking so we don't increase traffic in Mount View. We would not want to make our physical parking more efficient, and then end up with more people driving to downtown. Instead, we should be taking advantage of those efficiencies, to reuse the surface loss for housing parks or other productive uses. And to be clear, this does mean not owning any apartment garage it. Um, Secondly, while the proposed reforms for the parking and loop fees and strategies, strategy Z3 do represent progress, it is still sort of fundamentally backwards to be charging fees for not building parking, despite that being the more sustainable choice. Instead, we should move in the same direction that San Jose has begun exploring and actually charge fees when developers do build parking to better represent the true externalities that additional drive and brainstart community. while using that funding to fund better public transit and active transportation improvements. Uh, we also hope that the city will consider the other recommendations we listed our letter, um, like more possibilities for using the curb space, avoiding spending TMA funding on wide share subsidies, um, explicitly programming some teammates funding for working with increased transit service, like Adina mentioned, as well as the concept of transit validation for the TDM rather than allowing sort of the concept of parking validation to create the right, uh, incentives when people are visiting businesses. Thank you and thank you for starting looking to the technical difficulties.

[02:25:50] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Salim, Demartici.

[02:25:57] Salim Demartici: Hi, yeah, Salim, uh, I live in work in Mountain View. Uh, and I agree a lot with James's comment. Um, I think he actually said it better than I could. I really hope Mountain View doesn't add another parking structure. I'll admit I'm a little biased. I was biking through Castro 2 days ago and I almost got hit by a car. Um, so I really hope that we have a castro that's walkable, bikeable. It's a lot more vibrant that way. So yeah, thank you.

[02:26:26] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. David Watson.

[02:26:33] David Watson: Hi, I'm David Watson. I'm a member of Mountain View Yimby. Uh, it's, I, again, James's comment was terrific. I mostly am just echoing what he said, but it seems clear to me that we shouldn't be building extra parking structures in downtown. It's premature to be doing that. Also, we shouldn't be charging, uh, charging commercial property that doesn't build part, uh, doesn't build parking when we, you know, would prefer that we don't add a bunch of unnecessary parking, because each car that drives to downtown right now imposes costs on our infrastructure, and there are much more effective ways to ensure that we have available ways for people to travel to downtown. Modest fee programs that target 90% utilization of parking spaces, can be very successful, possibly only needing to charge during the absolute peak hours. Um, payment for parking is constantly getting simpler uh, with widespread adoption of smartphone uh, payment systems, uh, which will further reduce friction for payment. This is a great way to limit vehicle miles traveled in mountain view, to meet our environmental goals while continuing to build our downtown, which I'd say is already the nicest of our pure cities.

[02:27:57] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. All right, I don't see any other hands raise, so I'll bring the item back for council deliberation and action. I believe for this item, it, uh, would just be the staff recommendation, which is, um, to adopt the downtown parking strategy.

[02:28:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Vice Mayor Ramirez.

[02:28:28] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, mayor. I didn't see any other hand, so I'll go ahead and move the staff recommendation. Just a couple of quick comments. I think, uh, council members Mattachek and Hicks were right on and asking what will come back to the council. That also was a question I had asked us, um, uh, during the briefing that they provided. Thank you for that. It was very helpful. Um, I, I think, many, I won't say most, but many of the, uh, items of greatest significance, uh, brought up by members of the public will come back to us in, one form or another, through an appropriation or, uh, an amendment to the zoning code or the precise plan. Um, capital improvements, that kind of thing. Um, so I'm, I'm not too terribly concerned about, um, providing direction that, uh, we're, we, where we won't have an opportunity to solicit significant, uh, stakeholder and community input later, later on. Uh, or if we have a change of opinion, because there's, uh, a significant change in circumstance, I think there, there, there will be opportunities for us to, to reconsider some of the more significant items, but I do think, as a whole, this is, um, a very well thought out set of strategies, um, and, uh, I think, you know, takes a lot of the input that we've provided over the past several of years, and, uh, Sets us in a very good direction. I think when it comes to managing and addressing concerns about parking in downtown. Um, so I'll just move the staff recommendation.

[02:30:13] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. So we have a motion by the vice mayor. Council member, .

[02:30:20] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. I'm happy to 2nd the motion. Um, I just had a couple of comments. Um, I'm happy that this has all come together um, into one cohesive strategy. Um, although it's got a lot of uh, Action items there to do the implementation. And, um, I do think it's important for many of these for them to come back to the council because, um, one of the things I'm concerned about is, while, um, a lot of stakeholders were, um, contacted and provided input, that the, the one that I felt like was, maybe not represented as much as I would like it to be, is people who live outside of the downtown area. Um, visitors from other cities. while the businesses might be able to represent their views. Um, I think it's important that we hear from them directly. So I want to make sure they have the opportunity to comment. And because it is those folks who come here. Uh, not just from downtown, who contribute to the success of our businesses. And when I went around and spoke with businesses with Tiffany, actually. Um, We heard, I, I think it was from every single business downtown that parking was an issue and that, um, some businesses are losing revenue because customers can't find a place to park. And, um, while I totally agree that public transportation is the way to go, um, walking, biking are also great ways to get there. Not everyone is going to take advantage of those ways. And in many cases, we really have not provided people with effective, efficient public transit. So I feel like at some point we have to just recognize that and say, we either need to solve the public transit problem, and that's a big problem. We can't do it on our own. Granted, there are some good forms. Caltrain, I think our community shuttle is are good, but they don't go everywhere, um, and not everyone can take advantage of them. So, it'd be great if we could solve that public transit problem. But in the meantime, a lot of people are opting to drive, and I don't want our businesses to suffer because they can't find a place to park when they get here. So, um, I am, am happy, this is all come together, and I'm really looking forward to, um, especially the quick hits, getting implemented. So, I'm very happy to support this. Thanks.

[02:33:17] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Council member Abikova.

[02:33:21] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to staff and to um, the members of Nelson Night Guard for this um, comprehensive uh, report and strategy. I'm very excited to see it. I'm very supportive of it. Um, I agree with Echo and agree with uh, a lot of what council member Medachek has mentioned. Um, you know, I, the one thing I guess I, my biggest concern, frankly, is the implementation, um, and I look forward to seeing uh, the phases and, and frankly, just getting to doing, get implementing as quickly as we can. Um, I'm probably, I don't, I, Counselor Matter Check may have been around too, but we actually went through this exercise probably about 10 years ago. Um, and we did have some, um, strategies. Uh, then, you know, I, I turned out and, um, came back and was wondering what had happened to a lot of that. Um, quite a bit or actually I don't know how much is implemented. So in some ways, um, this is a repeat for me, um, which is fine because I think with time, um, we've been able to, um, improve and modify some of our strategies to to be more current. Uh, so I can appreciate that. But I really think, you know, we've talked about parking downtown parking for years and years and probably decades. at this and, um, you know, it's it's great. Um, that we are uh, a destination, uh, downtown. I hear more and more people say, from outside of Mountain View, say, how they like to come to our downtown for our restaurants and so forth. So, you know, it's a real issue. It's a real challenge. And so, um, I think we do need to to move quickly into implementation. Um, I appreciate the concerns about, um, you know, parking, parking structure, do what we need it, um, the land juice, um, decisions. Um, I think, you know, again, things have changed. technologies have changed. Um, you know, whatever, even a parking structure can potentially be converted down the road now, that was not the case 10 years ago. So, um, I, I, I, I think this can be a, a flexible strategy, um, and we can revisit it. I hope we revisit it. Um, frankly, more frequently this time around, um, so that we can adjust accordingly. Um, so thank you again to staff, and I look forward to seeing the next steps.

[02:36:05] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, council member Sean Walter.

[02:36:11] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yeah, I'm going to be glad to support this report. I'm happy to see it, but one of the policy, um, questions that I just want to mention, and I, I'd really like to hear from my, um, uh, council colleagues on this is, is about, um, the revenue neutrality of it. I know that maybe five, six years ago, we put together the residential parking permit program, and it really hasn't been utilized at all, and I think one of the fatal flaws with it was that it was designed to be revenue neutral, which meant that all these people who'd been parking for free on the, um, on the streets for years were all of a sudden gonna be required to pay for parking permits, as well as, you know, go through all the bureaucracy of getting the system set up. And that really just wasn't a very appetizing idea for anybody. So I think that our driving policy shouldn't be revenue neutrality. It should be to make the parking that we have work as well as possible. You know, our, we, I think all of us have said many different ways that, that a core community value for Mountain View is a vibrant downtown. And having the parking work really well contributes to that vibrancy. So I think that's what counts. I mean, that's that's what the first level principle. The the cost of the revenue neutrality. I think that's a very, very minor issue relatively. And, um, so I, I just wanted to bring that up, because, um, as, as council member, Abricoka just said, um, Mountain View downtown is a destination. People love to come here. And we love to have them come, right? But, um, but they do, uh, need a place to park, uh, their cars or their bikes when they get here, and, um, and we, we need to have the, um, you know, the system that we have work effectively. And so I just, I just think that that effectiveness, um, that leads to vitality of the downtown, that's what I care about. The revenue neutrality is, of course, we have to be careful with our pennies, but the revenue neutrality is a secondary or tertiary kind of brewery, to me, relative to this. It's making the downtown, um, work better, um, because because the parking's better. And one thing I have to say, you know, and looking at what has worked is, you know, one of the things in the policy that we discussed maybe five years ago, were the way finding signs that are in the parking garages. And it took a long time to get those installed. But they're great. You know? I mean, it shows you, you can see from the lights, which stalls are empty or not. from quite a distance, and then there's a sign, right outside, that says, Well, there's either room or there's not. So you know, you know, not to drive in and waste your time. I mean, that's a huge improvement. So, um, getting what we can implement it as quickly as possible is also really important to me.

[02:39:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you to Steph. Council member Hicks?

[02:39:39] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Well, I will also be happily supporting the strategy adoption, and I was, um, very pleased to read the overall framework, and I'm also glad to hear that it's gonna be coming back to us piece by piece so that we can, um, adjust it over time as, as conditions change, and as we learn, Um, I agree with council member, show Walter, that this is, um, a very important, and one of the main things residents want when they talk to me is a vibrant downtown, and a parking strategy is key to that. Another thing residents want, I think, increasingly, is sustainability planning, and this is key to that, as well. I agree with council members show, Walter, that it doesn't have to be revenue neutral, as long as we're delivering on that, you know, that thing that is the vibrant downtown that so many people want. Um, I'm also hearing uh, two different things from, uh, some of the public comments. One, I've heard that people want from residents that they're worried about downtown businesses coming back and want to make sure that we have strong local restaurants and other businesses that people can easily visit, that people don't just, for example, drive to Los Altos or Palo Alto or wherever they can find parking more easily. At the same time, I very much sympathize with the speakers who've said, they don't want us to just go out and build a new parking garage. And I think that there are a couple things we can do to, I think, happily in this case. There are a couple things we can do in the short term, to kind of meet the needs of both of those groups of people. And one of the biggest is, is the one that I mentioned in questions, which is the RPP, that, um, I think, I think in council questions, I got from staff that they're over 3,000 parking places. And, um, what I saw in my recent travel to cities around Colorado is that they blanketed the whole downtown with, um, with parking permits, they gave residence free parking permits, they structured three hour parking. Um, so that, uh, employees parked in the underground garage, and the parking that they had already built was well used. And I think that if we do that, I think that's a pretty easy first step. We certainly have to do it if we ever have any paid parking, because if we don't, people will not pay for the parking. They'll just drive a block or two away. and park in the neighborhoods. So, I'm hoping we can do something like I've seen in other cities that will access much more parking, that will drive employees into the underground lots and access the street parking that we have. I also, um, like the idea, when I talked to staff earlier, of having our, uh, downtown parking permits sold in places that are not the, uh, the most favorable parking spaces, reserve those for, uh, restaurant and retail customers. So I think they're further away places, whether those be the top floors of our parking garages, whether it be the police slot that we're reconfiguring, or some other spaces. I think we can, I think we can better access a lot of the parking we have, and hopefully not have to build more supply, and then continue to tweak as conditions change, and as we go on. Other than that, I love a lot of the other suggestions, and I'm not gonna read them through one by one. I'm not gonna read them all through, but I hope to revisit them, you know, as they come back to council.

[02:43:43] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Thank you.

[02:43:45] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, Council member Lieber.

[02:43:48] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, Mayor. Um, well, I appreciate so much the, the comments of, um, my colleagues, and, um, I hope that as we receive pieces of this back and work our way through this process, that we can do it with the over, overarching, uh, way of thinking about this is, uh, having that vibrant downtown, And circulation in and out of our downtown, And easy access to our downtown. I think sometimes when you look at it from the question of, should we have a new parking structure? It's the tail starts to wag the dog. And, um, I think that as we, as we move through the planning for this, um, it's really important to take into account, um, the diverse ages and, um, ability of, of people that are coming to the downtown. I think it's great to say, uh, let's really incentivize people to jump on an expensive Caltrain and get to the downtown that way. Um, for, for the ages of folks who spend money in our restaurants that that may just not be a possibility. And we are in competition with every other downtown on the peninsula. Um, so I I think that, um, if it's easy for folks to get here. If it's appealing. Um, if a community shuttle is um, interesting and accessible, then we're going to do well in that competition. Um, but I think that we have to look at, um, age, how to young people, uh, get into the downtown, uh, how to, um, community members who are, are a bit older, um, get into the downtown. Um, how accessible is our downtown, and that's, um, uh, a huge issue. Um, I also think that as we talk about, um, bicycling to get to the downtown, we have to really grapple with safe bicycle parking. Um, most people who are serious, um, cyclists and, and we'll cycle at night and we'll cycle to their, their grocery shopping in their commercial transactions. Have really good quality bikes in Silicon Valley. And we don't really have the the infrastructure that makes them comfortable with bringing those bikes into the downtown. And and having a place to park. Um, so I just like to put in that plug for looking at it in terms of access and circulation, and having a vibrant, uh, workable downtown.

[02:46:54] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Um, so I believe everybody's had their opportunity to make their comments. So I think, um, See. Um, and we have a motion, um, by the vice mayor that was seconded by council member Mattachek. So I think we could do a roll call vote, but I just want to add in some comments as well, which is, um, just I'm so happy that the full council is able to talk about our our downtown parking strategy. I think kind of the robust comments that we're hearing just kind of shows the importance and it's so wonderful to be able to have a full counsel, be able to to weigh in, um, this time. Um, and so just want to echo the things that were mentioned earlier to our staff. Um, to our consultants as well as the community. I think one of the really kind of interesting silver linings of the pandemic has been the community outreach that we have been able to do. And so, um, I would just say as we're talking about phasing the various, um, um, implementing the various phases, trying to continue that. I think, um, you know, the, the goals and the strategies, um, make sense, the kind of new, uh, strategy study area also makes sense. And I think as we have been discussing looking at the Moffat area, being able to incorporate Willowgate into the Moffat precise plan is also another way to address that issue that we had seeing kind of permeating into our downtown parking, kind of challenges. So I'm happy to see that staff has been able to be creative that way. The strategy, um, toolkit with the 18 strategies. I think are very clear, um, and agree and echo the comments in terms of being able to continue to have counsel input onto the phasing and the implementation process. I think it will be kind of, um, looking at the details to make sure that it's successful. And then continuing to have the outreach. I like the, the comments about making sure we're not only including the the community and the, the business owners, um, that live right and in the downtown or have businesses right in the downtown, but also reaching out to all of our various, um, neighborhood associations and hearing kind of their use patterns. And I think that's what was, um, the great feedback we were able to receive when we looked at the pedestrian mall study. Um, and so would love to kind of kind of do that as well. Um, the only other comments that I would add is we're thinking about implementation is when we're discussing kind of wayfinding, when we're discussing, um, you know, strategies, making sure that we are doing that kind of in language, doing multiple languages, and even kind of maybe exploring that with our wayfinding opportunities, and I think that that will be kind of phased in later. Um, but I think we all know Mountain View is a very vibrant multicultural city, where you have people all around the world coming, and it would be great to, um, have signage in multiple languages. So that's the only other thing that I wanted to make sure that we included. So thanks, everyone, and we will call the question and have a roll call vote.

[02:50:06] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Nice mirror, Ramirez.

[02:50:10] Vice Mayor Lucas Ramirez: Yeah.

[02:50:11] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Mattachek?

[02:50:13] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Yes.

[02:50:14] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Abby Koca? Council member Hicks?

[02:50:17] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yes.

[02:50:18] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member Lieber.

[02:50:19] Councilmember Sally Lieber: I.

[02:50:20] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Council member, Shelter.

[02:50:21] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes.

[02:50:22] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Amir, can I?

[02:50:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Yes.

[02:50:25] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: Motion carries unanimously.

[02:50:27] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, staff. Thanks, Alex and Phil. All right, so that concludes item number 7. So we can move on to item 8, which is our council, staff, and committee reports. And I know that we have someone already in the queue, which is Council member Showalter. So, um, Council member Show Walter, we'll turn it over to you, and City Clerk Glazer will pull up your slides.

[02:50:59] Interim City Clerk Silvia Vonderlinden: You have, I'm sorry, Counselor, so you have to... There we go. Okay, all right.

[02:51:04] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Yes, if you could pull up the slides. I appreciate it, Heather. Clerk Glaser? Thank you. Okay, so, um, I serve on the, um, recycled water committee. That's a joint committee with Valley Water, Palo Alto, Mountain View and East Palo Alto. And I wanted to share with you, um, a little about the 2 advanced purification plants that we're working on. They're very important as a drought proof source of water. Why don't you go to about slide seven, I think it is. Put through. Keep going. Okay, stop. This is the site of an advanced purification plant, is a plant that takes the tertiary treated wastewater, and it puts it through, processes that we normally consider with desalination. So, essentially, it desalinates the already treated waste water. And our recycled water in the North Bay Shore is that tertiary treated wastewater. And unfortunately, the salt content of it is too high to work well for irrigating everything, such as redwood trees, or for going through cooling towers as many times as we want them to. Well, Valley Water wants to increase the amount of water in our county that's used that's recycled water, and, um, they have a pretty aggressive goal for doing that. And so one of the ways that they're doing that is with, um, sort of region wide advanced purification plants. And there is one plan that's currently being planned for the boundary of our community. If you, I don't, you can't, I don't have a cursor, but this road that you see is San Antonio Road, yeah, that's it. That's San Antonio Road, and that path, that's Terminal Avenue there. I imagine we've all walked out on that path in the Baylands. So you recognize, that's what this site is. Next slide. Then this is just what it will look like when it's built. And next slide. And this is kind of what the path by it looks like. Keep going. Um, this is another view of it. Keep going. And this is another view of it. Keep going. So, these are just perspectives of what this plant will look like after it's, you know, after it's built. Now it's properly in Palo Alto. But I wanted you to be aware of it, 'cause it's just across the street, for a mountain view, and they will be using our wastewater. That's what they will be treating at this plant. So, um, uh, this is still in the planning phases, and, um, uh, they're, uh, still doing sighting work, but, um, it's going to be an important source of water for kind of the rest of the, uh, the county. This water will be piped south, and used for recharge. If the, if the, um, requirements for potable use of recycled water are changed, and they're expected to change, there might be more uses of it. But the plan now is for it to be used for recharge, um, of the groundwater basin further south. Next slide. And this is the schedule. It's not expected to be finished until 2027. But, um, so we'll just stay tuned on that one. Okay, the next one, what I really want to talk about is that this is, stay here a second, yeah. Is the local salt removal facility at the Palo Alto wastewater treatment plan. You'll see this, where the edge, just that corner is going to be the facility, and they're gonna take, uh, about an MGD or more of our water, a million gallons a day of our water, and they're going to, after it's treated, and they're going to treat it. Um, for, and this will produce a water that's almost like distilled water. It's very, very pure. So they're gonna be blending that water in with our recycled water. And that's going to create a much better quality, recycled water, for use in the North Bay Shore. And, you know, as you all know, we have a purple pipe distribution system throughout the North Bay Shore, and, um, uh, it's used to irrigate the golf course and several other things. And we also are requiring large buildings that are being built in the North Bay Shore to have dual plumbing. And so, this will be the source, you know, this will be a good recycled water source for all those uses. Next line. This is a little bit about the schedule. And, um, you can see now, um, we're about it, December 2021. The 30% design has, has, uh, is where we are. And they expect to finish an early 2024. So that's when they, when that's commissioned, that's when the water, this clean water will start to flow into the North Bay Shore of Mountain View. And, um... This is, I think this is really exciting, because, um, it's a long term drought proof supply, because, no matter what happens, we're all going to continue flushing our toilets and, um, uh, and having, uh, you know, showers, shower water go out and all of those things. So there will be a source of water to our wastewater treatment plant that we're gonna be reusing and making to be just a really good supply. Next. Then the other thing, I wanted to bring to your attention, just because of its, uh, it's not really related to water, but it's at the same time. Palo Alto is going to be building another home key site that's very similar to ours. And it's in the area. The green area. You see, this is the same, uh, site of this is the same site of the Los Altos treatment plant that's on San Antonio Road near Terminal Avenue. And so that home key site. will make up part of that, and it'll be right on the edge of our community. And, um, I personally don't think this is a problem at all, but I just think it's good to know about, kind of like Sunnyvale needs to know about the Crestview Hotel. It's because it's you know, it's on the border. So, um, there will be another, uh, a homeless, uh, a facility to help homeless residents there. I think that's, you know, that's a good thing. So I just wanted to share, um, that information with you, and, um, uh, uh, that's, and be glad to answer any questions.

[02:58:42] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thanks so much, Council member show Walter, for updating us. Um, Do any, do any colleagues have any questions about her presentation? Council member Hicks.

[02:58:59] Councilmember Alison Hicks: This is more of a comment than a question, actually, but, um, yeah, I go hiking there a lot and it all sounds good to me. Um, I just say, put a lot of trees around it, 'cause not, because I don't need to see the treatment plant when I go hiking there, and, um, I'm sure that the people in the transitional shelter would, would like a lot of trees, 'cause I would have ever living there. So otherwise, all good.

[02:59:26] Councilmember Pat Showalter: You know, that's really an interesting point, because down there, you know, that's marsh and grassland, naturally. And there really wouldn't have been a lot of trees. But I think, under the circumstances, you're absolutely right, it would be beautiful to have trees to, um, to, uh, mark it off and provide shade and all of those...

[02:59:50] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, there wouldn't have been a lot of trees, but there wouldn't have been a building there, either, so.

[02:59:53] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Exactly. Now that there is a building,

[02:59:55] Mayor Ellen Kamei: what's that? Okay. That's great, Pat. Thank you.

[02:59:58] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Okay, thank you. Oh, and I also wanted to share that I attended, um, the, uh, a BCDC meeting, um, about two weeks ago, and one of the things that we, um, we approved was the new report called Bay Adapt, which is a regional framework, um, for, uh, planning, uh, sea level rise implementation. And I would be glad to share that information with anybody who, um, who was interested in it. And it's been worked on for about three years from a consortium of, uh, many agencies and groups, and, um, will really help as a roadmap for all of us moving forward. It particularly emphasizes, um, uh, collaboration, technical collaboration and environmental justice issues, and how to find funding. So, it takes, you know, very much a regional point of view, which is different from the sea level rise program that the city of Mountain View itself has put together that we're moving forward on. Um, and, uh, so I just wanted to share they adapt with, with everybody. Thanks.

[03:01:17] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Uh, council member, Abi Koget.

[03:01:20] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to report that, uh, last week I attended a 2 day MTC workshop, um, along with the board meeting. Um, the focus was on, um, what, the MTC's work on a blue ribbon task force, um, which is focus, originally focused on COVID recovery, and then it, um, it evolved into, um, a lot of what we talked about with been, we adopted the seamless transit principles. And how to move those forward. Uh, so, um, there's, uh, a lot more coming. Um, one of the, one of the items, um, being talked about to be able to implement a lot of the, um, strategies is a, uh, regional ballot measure. Although, um, timing is, of course, very important. Um, I also serve on the Baja, Bafa, the Bay Area housing finance authority, which you may have heard of, of, um, in that is a, Organization or agency created to, um, basically find funding to build more affordable housing. In Bahfa is also looking at a regional measure. Actually did some polling that did not come out very strong. So, um, it will not be happening in 2022, but I think, uh, 24 is being looked at potentially by both. Um, agencies. Um, so, um, please stay tuned. I think this is will be, um, you know, uh, hot topic of conversation as it makes its way through the various, uh, committees and communities. Thank you.

[03:03:11] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Council member Matachek?

[03:03:14] Councilmember Lisa Matichak: Thanks. Um, we had a meeting of the Santa Clara County Airport Land Use Commission, and we discussed once again. Uh, updating the comprehensive land use plan for the San Jose airport. Um, and, um, one of the things we talked about was, uh, the recent FAA. Study that shows airplane noise is even more annoying than previously thought. Which I can attest to. I live under the south flow for San Jose airport. And, um, you know, how we might factor that into the update to the club for San Jose Airport, if we factor it in. So, interesting discussions. Thanks.

[03:04:06] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you, council member Lieber.

[03:04:09] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you, mayor. Um, I, I was very pleased to see our community member, uh, Bruce Carney, be very present in tonight's meeting, and to raise the, the good work that was done by the, um, environmental sustainability to ask force. And, um, one of his requests was that we, we look at the recent actions of San Jose. And, um, see if it might be possible to accelerate our efforts, um, in time as well. And I know that we've received a lot of recent information about um, the amount of time that we have to, uh, take very meaningful actions. And so I'm not sure mechanically, um, how we can, uh, refer that to uh, the council committee that will be, um, meeting at some point soon. But, um, I would like to see, uh, the issue of accelerating the date for our, our carbon neutrality goals, um, referred to, to the committee.

[03:05:25] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, thank you. Um, let me turn it over, turn your question over to staff, if that's all right, council member Libra.

[03:05:32] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Please.

[03:05:38] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: I would ask if there's, um, interest to do this from other council members and find out if there's a consensus on this?

[03:05:51] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay. So it sounds like maybe a strong motion, then city manager McCarthy. Okay. Council member, Liber, do you want to just, um, restate your straw motion and then we can see if it gets a 2nd and take the vote?

[03:06:04] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Yeah, I'd like to offer us a straw motion that we, uh, refer to the council committee on sustainability. Um, uh, accelerating our carbon neutrality goals uh, to 2030.

[03:06:24] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great. Great. Thank you. Uh, city attorney Chopra, is that clear enough? Do you need anything else?

[03:06:31] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: Yeah, that's clear enough. Thank you.

[03:06:32] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Great, great, wonderful. Thank you. Councilman Michelle Walter.

[03:06:35] Councilmember Pat Showalter: Okay.

[03:06:36] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Okay, so we have a motion by council member Lieber, 2nded by council member, show welter. So we'll just do, I think, just a raising of the of the hands as it's a strong motion. So um, all those in favor. When I just raise your hand. All right, looks unanimous. Great. Thank you, Council member Labor. anything else?

[03:06:56] Councilmember Sally Lieber: Thank you. No, that's it. Thank you.

[03:06:59] Mayor Ellen Kamei: All right. Anyone else have anything to report for item eight? Okay. Alright, so then I think this moves us to item nine, which is our closed session report. City Attorney Chopra is our closed session report?

[03:07:13] City Attorney Krishan Chopra: There's no closed session report, mayor.

[03:07:14] Mayor Ellen Kamei: Thank you. All right, thank you. So we'll move on to item 10, which is adjournment. Thanks so much, everyone, for joining us tonight, and maybe some of you joined us yesterday too. And our next city council meeting will be held next week on November 16th, 2021. Until then, stay healthy and our meeting is adjourned at 9.37 p.m. Thanks everyone. Have great night.

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