February 13, 2024 Regular Meeting of Mountain View City Council

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[00:01:11] Mayor Pat Showalter: Good evening, everybody. I'd like to thank you for joining us for our closed session. City Attorney Logue will make a closed session announcement, and then we will welcome public comment on the items listed for closed session. City attorney announcement?

[00:01:26] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: Thank you. There are three items on this evening's closed session agenda. Item 2.1 is a conference with labor negotiators, pursuant to California government code section, 54957.6. The agency designated representatives are assistant city manager, RN Andrews, Human Resources director, Maxine Gulo, Human Resources Manager, Lindsay Bishop, and outside council, Charles Sakai. Item 2.2 is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code, section 54956.8. The property address is 939 San Rafel Avenue. The agency negotiators are Angelo LaMonica, real property program administrator, and acting public works director at Orango. The negotiating party is Vizan Young, under negotiation, our price in terms of purchase. Item 2.3 is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code, section 54956.8. The property is 2231 West Middlefield Road. The agency negotiators are Angelum Lamonica, real property program administrator, and acting public works director at Orango. The negotiating party is Zach Azari and Angelina. Um, Andre and under negotiation are priced in terms of purchase. Thank you.

[00:02:52] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right, now we come to public comment. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session items listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please click the raised hand button in Zoom, or submit a speaker card to the city clerk. We will take in person speakers first. Each speaker will have three minutes. I don't see anybody in person. Is there anyone on Z?

[00:03:21] City Clerk Heather Glaser: We don't have any in Zoom.

[00:03:22] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. So, since there is no public comment, we will now recess to the Plaza conference room for closed session, and return to the council chambers at the close to continue with our regular meeting. Thank you. February 13th, 2024. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Roll call. Clerk, will you please call the roll?

[00:04:18] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Councilman Rabbi Coca?

[00:04:19] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Here,

[00:04:20] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Council member Hicks.

[00:04:21] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Here.

[00:04:21] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Council member Rick May.

[00:04:22] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Here.

[00:04:23] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Council member Ramirez.

[00:04:24] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Here.

[00:04:24] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Couns member Ramos?

[00:04:25] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Present.

[00:04:26] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Mayor Scholter?

[00:04:27] Mayor Pat Showalter: Here.

[00:04:27] City Clerk Heather Glaser: You have a quorum with vice mayor Mattachek absent. Thank you.

[00:04:31] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. In recent weeks, several of our neighboring elected decision making bodies have been subjected to disruptive, racist, verbal attacks by anonymous callers during virtual public comments. The city of Mountain View is fully committed to racial, religious, and cultural equity and justice, as we strive to create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive community for all. The council welcomes respectful and non threatening public comments regarding matters over which the council has jurisdiction. Comments deemed otherwise, pursuant to the code of conduct in the government code, may be grounds for terminating a speaker's comet period.

[00:05:15] Unknown Speaker: Mayor, if this is the appropriate time, I'd like to make a motion to modify the agenda. appreciating that we have state and federal representatives who are going to participate under item 6.1, and who are under a time constraint. So I'd like to move that we rearrange the agenda to hear item five, oral communications after item 6.1 legislative program priorities for 2024.

[00:05:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: So as I understood it, it would just be to hear from our elected officials, not the whole presentation and discussion. Is that correct?

[00:06:02] Unknown Speaker: You would take the whole agenda item. So you would be moving 6.1 above five. So you would just swap their space. You would hear the whole agenda item, 6.one.

[00:06:13] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. All right. Is there a second?

[00:06:21] Unknown Speaker: Okay.

[00:06:27] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. Do we have any questions or comments about this?

[00:06:36] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, well then I'll, um, call for a vote. Okay, it passes 411 abstain. So we will move the agenda around, but what that means is, first, we're going to do the next part, which is our presentations. These are presentations only. So the city council doesn't take action, and public comment will occur after the presentation items. If you would like to speak on the items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. Okay, well, the first one is about American Heart Month. And I've asked all of the council members to wear red to commemorate American Heart Month. And I'd like to have Dr. Frederick St. Gore from El Camino Hospital, join me at the lectern. Whereas American Heart Month was established by President Lyndon Johnson under Presidential Proclamation 3566 in December, 1963, 10 days after Congress issued a joint resolution requesting the President to issue annual proclamations. So the first Friday of American Heart Month is also National Wear Red Day. So we're doing it a little bit later, to remind people of the importance of heart health, particularly women's heart health. So go red day is an ideal time to remind everyone to focus on their hearts and encourage them and their families and their friends and their communities to take good care. Hardiovascular disease affects men, women, and children of every age and race in America. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women in the United States, killing more women than all forms of cancers combined. Now, therefore, I, Patricia Show Walter, mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim the month of February as American Heart Month, and urge all residents to show their respect for the fight against heart disease by increasing awareness, speaking out about heart disease, and empowering others to reduce their risk for cardiovacular diseases that can save thousands of lives each year. And I invited Dr. St. Gore here to speak. He is a cardiologist at El Camino Hospital and has been involved in some innovative developments over the last 20 years or so. So take your bed.

[00:09:53] Dr. Frederick St. Gore: This side? This side? This side. So, and the slides, do we use this slides? Oh, woman, you better come. I'm sorry, yeah, so you can sit. Here you go with the population. Wow, that's wonderful. Well, Mayor Shal Alter, and all the city council, thank you very much for taking this opportunity to acknowledge American Heart Month. It's a special month, and we really appreciate it. I also really appreciate the red. It's wonderful. Good to see. Um, I'm not sure whether or not I'll get slides or not, but we can always wing it if we don't have them. So, I'm Fred Sankor, and I have had the privilege and the pleasure of practicing, and yes, still practicing. I haven't got it totally down. We're always trying to get better. As a cardiologist at El Camino Health now for 32 years. And it's really been an extraordinary experience for me. I also serve as a medical director for the Normal Malco Heart Ambascular Institute. And, um, I just quickly want to give you just a little taste of El Camino health these days and a little bit about what we're doing around the world. And then finally, I want to leave you with a pearl at the end of my conversation here, that hopefully you will all sort of take and digest a bit as we talk about heart disease. So, am I moving the slides, or is someone else? Great. Well, as I'm sure you probably all know, El Camino, help is a real jewel. It's been, it was established 62 years ago, so it's been around for a while. It's a not for profit community hospital. Actually, it's one of the few not for profit community hospitals in the country. And that makes it very very special. It can really stand out and do exceptional, exceptional work. It's a very busy place, and most importantly, it is really an extraordinary, It provides an extraordinary quality of care. In fact, it's been named one of the Newsweek's world's best hospital in 2023. And why is that? Why are we so good? Well, there are quite a few reasons for that. First and foremost, we have an extraordinary nursing staff. And they're the ones who are there at the bed taking care of the patients. We have a remarkable group of physicians, who are also working at the hospital, and we have a really deep group of employees, who roll up their sleeves and really do their very best to provide optimal care. We also have an extraordinary board, who some of you probably have interacted with. And we also have an extraordinary foundation, which is remarkably supportive of improving care at El Camino, whenever the next live, please. And one of the things that's really extraordinary about the institution, and one of the reasons why it's so unique and so special, is every patient who comes into the hospital, depending on what their diagnosis is, is cared for not only by the physicians, not only by the nurses, but we have service lines, where there's a group of nurses and clinical specialists who also take care of the patients. You can see, there's eight separate service lines. I'm involved and oversee the heart and vascular service line, if we give the next slide. And just to give you an example of the recognition of the service line, I'm of course, proud of heart and vascular, and the top line there, we have the national database designation, and specifically what that indicates is, basically, every patient who comes into El Camino and has cardiovascular disease will typically end up in a national database. Now, why is that so important? Well, it's very, very important that not only is the physician, not only the nurse overseeing how the care is delivered and managed, but the outcome, and that is what we have our service lines doing. And because of that, we have received all these remarkable recognitions of an extraordinary institution. Next spot, please. And that's allowed us to get the national distinction of excellence in heart health, so National Heart Month, we have a very special place that delivers special care, and it's recognized, actually, around the country. Next line, please. The other thing that we have on the El Camino campus, which was really a jewel, is an organization, a nonprofit called Fogarty Innovation, which has been around for 18 years, which houses projects that are pushing the, basically, the needle in medical innovation and care. We typically have between 15 and 20 projects at a time, they'll spend, anyway, from six months to four or five years, and they've had an extraordinary impact, not only locally, but globally. And that's a really important point, we are really fortunate to have right here in our backyard fogy innovation, next line piece. So we have 30,000 square feet in the Nusobrado building of the third floor, and we have this mission, the mission to advance human health worldwide by forging stronger alliance among innovators, industry, and government. And again, why is that important for Mountain View? Well, it's very important. that we not only really push the quality of care here in our community, But we take the responsibility that comes with being such an extraordinary community, and trying to scale it nationally, and, if possible, even globally. An example of this. Next line, please. 25 years ago, I proposed the concept of, instead of having open heart surgery to fix your valve, why not use a catheter, why not put in a little device that goes in through the groin up into the heart, and where the valve leaks, let's put a little clip on it. This has become a system that's called the mitroclip. First done 20 years ago. And so we just had our anniversary, next slide, please. And this is a drawing that I made in 1998 when I was a physician at El Camino, the concept. And then that upper picture is the first patient we treated at El Camino Health. It's an amazing story of a woman who was 87 years old. She was totally bedbound. She had a mitroclip place, and she lived another five years, and she was up working in her garden the month after she had a mitroclip. What's even more impressive, I said that we would like to make sure that we have a global impact. This is now a procedure that is performed in over 70 countries around the world, for Pornbin over 250,000 patients. And it's really made a huge impact on how patients who suffer from mitral insufficiency microgreguration are managed, and they don't need open heart surgery. So a big global impact. The other project, which is also I'm very proud of, next slide, is in the women's health space. We also have a significant interest in women's health, which is an undersertive area of innovation. This is a device that we developed at Fogarty on El Camino campus, specifically focusing on the most significant cause of maternal morbidity at the time of delivery. It's called postpartum impairment. When bleeding occurs, and across the world, women expire from this more than any other reason at the time of birth. And we have developed this little device, which goes basically into the uterus, collapses down the uterus, and stops the bleeding within a couple of minutes. This was introduced, and first you utilized about four or five years ago, it was approved three years ago, and we have already helped 60,000 women in three years around the world, basically saving their lives. So extraordinary. And again, this was conceived here in Mountain View on our campus. So it really is an incredible privilege and honor to work at an institution like that, that is committed to the highest quality of care, not only for our patients, but having an impact around the world. Last slide, please. All right, tomorrow, Valentine's Day. Don't forget, I want to leave you with a little heart health pearl though. As Mayor Shalalter explained, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer around the world. That's not debated. It's the number one killer. But here's the pearl that I want you all to take home tonight. And that is that developing cardiovascular disease, and then eventually expiring from it, is optional in 2024. And what do I mean by that? Optional. And what I mean is, we have such a good understanding now of cardiovascular pathophysiology. We understand why it happens, and why it develops, and most importantly, the amazing things we can do to make sure it does not progress. We know that certain things such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, obesity, nicotine, all have very direct effects on the development of cardiovascular disease. And if you, not passively, but actively, take a role in impacting all those different addressing, all those cardiovascular risk factors, you shouldn't develop progressive cardiovascular disease. It's an amazing change, even in the 30 years that I've been practicing cardiovascular medicine. We now know that how much lifestyle, how much diet, just overall wellness plays into the development of this problem. So happy Valentine's Day. Let's all make sure we have good hearts moving forward, and let's go out and celebrate our wellness and mountain view. Thank you very much, you guys.

[00:19:24] Mayor Pat Showalter: And thank you very much, Dr. St. Goir. I visited the Fogarty Institute in 2016 when I was mayor before, and I was really just blown away by the innovation there. It's I had never known it lived here. It's quite, you know, an impactful institution in worldwide. Does anybody have any comments? No. Okay. All right, thank you very much. And then, next, we have a presentation for Black History Month. We're happy to be joined this evening by Jeremiah Linberger on behalf of the African American Community Service Agency to accept this proclamation. Will you please join me at the lecture? How you doing? Hi, Jere Thanks so much for coming.

[00:20:28] Jeremiah Leimberger: Of course, thank you for having me. Yeah. Do I faces this way or that one?

[00:20:34] Unknown Speaker: way. Yeah.

[00:20:38] Mayor Pat Showalter: Whereas February... February is designated as Black History Month, and is observed in our diverse community and local schools, with a series of special presentations and exhibits, and this observation affords a special opportunity for all to become more knowledgeable about our Black Heritage, and what and to honor the many people of African descent, who contribute to the progress of our nation and our community. And whereas such knowledge can strengthen the insight of all of our residents regarding issues of human rights. The great strides that have been made to eliminate the barriers to equality for all ethnic groups, and the continuing struggle. against racial discrimination. Now, therefore, I, Pat Show Walter Mayor of the city of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim the month of February as Black History Month. And thank you so much for coming. Thank you.

[00:21:33] Mayor Pat Showalter: And for the work that you do, and I'm sure you'd like to say a few words.

[00:21:38] Jeremiah Leimberger: Yes, no, thank you. Thank you, mayor and city council members. My name is Jeremiah Leimberger, Development Associate at the African American Committee Service Agency. A lot of people know it as AACSA, and I'm here on behalf of our amazing executive director, Milan Balancing and Team AACSA, Happy Black History Month. AACSA was founded in 1978 to serve Santa Clara County. Our mission is providing quality education. services, cultural, social, and then recreational programs and activities in order to keep going and straighten our African-American community. AACSA recently, just celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Day by hosting our 44th annual MLK luncheon at San Jose State for the 1st time, having over 600 people come together, which included sponsors, elective officials, community leaders, like LMKA, as we've seen here. We see you and thank you for your support. This past Saturday, we also like to acknowledge that we held our get lifted Black History Month kickoff event, which held a keynote speaker, Latasha Brown, who was the CEO, founder of Black Voters Matter, and then the CEO of Jack and Jill, Adrian Brandon, who was our moderator. There was also a panel filled with African-Americans who work in the corporate world and a part of Black ERG groups to talk about the impact and effects that are experiencing daily towards the community as we can all learn. AACSA does remarkable work to help the community feel safe and confident. And we thank everyone here, all the council members for you guys to support. And as Milan balancing our executive director would say, be the light. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:23:26] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. So now we have item 3.3, the life moves Mountain View, interim housing community. We're happy to be joined this evening by Aubrey Merriman, the chief executive officer of Life Moves, to present us with an update.

[00:23:46] Jocelyn Michaelson: Hi. I am not Aubrey Merriman, as you can tell. Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, council members. I believe Aubrey is going to be joining us virtually. I'm also here with my colleague, Sarah Fields, director of community engagement, and political affairs, and I, myself, I'm Jocelyn Michaelson, associate vice president of Impact and Learning for Life Moves.

[00:24:07] Aubrey Merriman: Yes, I'm here.

[00:24:08] Jocelyn Michaelson: Yep, Aubrey's gonna T us up, and then I'm gonna walk us through some of the finer points of the data.

[00:24:15] Aubrey Merriman: Good evening, Mayor Sher Walter. The entire city council, city manager and staff. I regret that I couldn't be there. I had a, um, a prior commitment that popped up when we had to reschedule the date, but I just wanted to express and underscore our gratitude and appreciation to the city of Mountain View for our partnership. This project in Mountain View was truly groundbreaking for life moves. It unlocked our ability to begin to develop projects like this. It was the first of its kind for life moves. And with that prototype, it came with tremendous opportunity and learning. And I also want to thank you for your significant help in helping us launch our Palo Alto project. We were able to use that learning to carry us forward in the projects that we were involved in in the navigation center in Redwood City, and in the projects that we're developing in Palo Alto and San Jose. So there would be no navigation center. There would be no pow wow. There would be no San Jose. If there was not Mountain View, because it all started with Monkey Mount View. So for that, we are incredibly grateful. A couple things that I want to frame up, and then I will, um, transition to Joston for the actual presentation is... Our fundamental operating model was based on embracing the fact that we knew that we would be learning and iterating and improving, um, through our life moves, Mount View Project, and that we didn't expect perfection, and that this was the expected journey that we signed up, um, for, that this was gonna be learning. And as partners with the city of Mountain View, we agreed to move quickly, given the unprecedented needs during the peak of the pandemic. Um, and we knew that we'd have to continuously learn and adapt quickly as we move forward. So, um, we want to present you today the opportunity to share some of those trends, outcomes, and, as importantly, the learnings, and how we want to apply those learnings moving forward. I'll end with just doubling down on our commitment. And I'm so thankful to city manager McCarthy for the way in which she's leaned into our really doubling down on transparency, accessibility, and accountability as partners, and really creating opportunities to share learnings, access information, and data, and site visits, and accountability. We want to hear where we're falling short. We want to hear when you're seeing things that are important for us to know and understand, and we want to do that in the most responsive way. One of the things that life moves has done is really invested in, uh, new data capabilities, and being able to unlock, and tether research and data with learning, and Jocelyn Mickelson, who is our associate vice president of impact and learning, is representative of that ship that life moves his making. So I'm pleased to introduce her and have you walk you through the presentation, and happy to answer any questions that come from that.

[00:27:21] Jocelyn Michaelson: Thank you so much, Aubrey, and I think we're ready for the slide presentation, please. Okay, so, as Aubrey mentioned, we really want to showcase our new ability with data. So we're gonna be speaking about trends, outcomes, and opportunities, um, and hopefully showing you data that you haven't seen before, some different slices, um, that has definitely increased our understanding, and we hope that will increase your understanding as well. Next slide, please. So Aubrey shared a good amount of this background in context. I'm just going to touch on a couple of framing points so that we're all remembering exactly who the site serves and how long it's been opened. So it's a community open since May 2021, really opened at the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. It's 100 units, and that is a mix of family, couple, and single. And it's a dignified and service rich environment. We have this new capacity to use data internally, and we really want to use that capacity in partnership with the city and the county, with the overall goal to grow client successes. So we hope that that will be reflected in what we're about to share, right now. Next slide please. So I'd like to talk first about who we serve at Life Mo's Mountain View. Next slide. So since opening, in 2021, we have served 547 unique clients. I've broken it down here to show what types of households have been served, so again, the mix of singles, couples, and families. Since opening, it shakes out to about two thirds of clients, being single adults. The rest a mix of families and couples. Over time, out of all of those 547 clients, about 10% have been over 65. So we're definitely keeping our eye on that kind of aging segment of the population there. Next slide, please. So atlife moves a Mountain View, we provide what we call tailored services through a really holistic staffing model. So the services that are available on site for clients to engage in are 3 meals a day, one on one case management, behavioral health, classes and workshops, employment and housing support, all kinds of enrollments that could be within public schools, daycares, enrollment and safety net benefits, vocational career training, GED, higher education. And then, of course, referrals and connections to any and all type of services that a client might need, depending on their unique situation. So medical and dental care, legal resources, credit repair. It really runs the gamut, depending, again, on client need, and client goal setting. To support all of those services, we have a 247 staffing model. We have a current staff headcount of 20. Three staff are on site and available at any point during the day, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. are really the richest service hours for us, and that is a 7 day a week model. So we've got a combination of leadership staff, direct services staff, including case managers, children's services coordinator, a licensed vocational nurse, housing employment and benefits specialists, and then, of course, facilities and maintenance operations staff who really wrap around the program staff and provide support within the built environment. Over the lifespan of the program, almost 9 and 10 clients have engaged in multiple services on site actively. So we're really keeping our eye on not only what is available, but what are people making use of? And that figure is encouraging to us because it really is a high level of client engagement, and not just one, but in really the full menu, of what folks have access to on site. Next slide please. One of the things that we wanted to share with you tonight is how folks represent their affiliations with the city of Mountain View and the North County area. So nearly eight and ten clients have one or more prior North County affiliations. That includes 60% of households who had a member living in the city of Mountain View proper prior to living at the Life Move site. Two thirds of households who said that before moving to this site, they regularly used city amenities like parks or libraries or other common spaces. Almost half of households said that they had a member working in the city of Mountain View. And then just over half of household said that they attended a house of worship here. So those are some really diverse and deep community ties that people are bringing to this site. prior to moving into the community. Next slide. As well within our client community, we're seeing an interesting trend that we wanted to lift up tonight. So, over the life of the project, we're seeing roughly equal numbers of clients enter as first time homeless, or chronically homeless, right? Those groups are about the same size in our community. Couples are the most likely to enter as chronically homeless. They are the smallest group on site, and they skew more toward the single adult population demographic wise. I will talk about that in a slide or two. This slide is important because it speaks to how we use our resources and what clients are entering the site needing. And so, by no means is this prescriptive, but it isn't an interesting trend, and it speaks to how we need to train and equip case managers and other staff to support the diverse set of needs that are showing up in our client populations. Next slide, please. So I wanted to unpack a little bit those two different demographic sets or characteristics that are really strong on site. So we've got a large single adult group. Again, they represent about two thirds of the clientele on site. And we have a family group who is roughly one third of the clients on site. The single adult client characteristics, the average single adult coming in into the community is more likely to be white and non Hispanic. They're more likely to be male, they're more likely to have a much shorter stay at site. That's in terms of days or weeks, rather than, you know, weeks or months. They skew older. So 55 years or older would be the average. They're more likely to be chronically homeless, to have a diagnosed disability. And the couple characteristics mirror those that I just mentioned. On the other hand, families who are coming in are much more likely to be Hispanic or Latin X, have a female headed household, much younger, 25 to 34 years of age. They have a much longer stay in terms of months, much less likely to be chronically homeless, have a diagnosed disability. So these two groups, again, it's not to elide any important differences or diversities that are on site. That's really to help us understand who's coming in and how we use our resources best to support those groups and their needs. Next slide, please. So within that client population, we want to share with you some of the service outcomes that we're seeing on site. Excellent. So I just touched on what we call length of stay. When people enter program, how long are they with us? How long are they staying at sight? So this is unpacked, excuse me, a household type. We've got single clients, couple clients and family clients, over the various program years that we've been serving folks on site. You will see that for, excuse me. For our two main client groups. Length of stay has been increasing year over year. So this is really telling us, ignoring couple clients in the middle there for a second. I can explain about that in one moment. Length of stay has been increasing. Time in the program has been increasing you over a year. People are moving in and staying one fiscal year into the next fiscal year. We are retaining clients at this site, much longer than was originally intended, right? You'll see that if a single client's length of stay is 190 days, that is about 6 months on average, right? Family clients, almost a year. A couple client dip in this current fiscal year, can be explained because a group of couple clients who were there at the end of fiscal year 23 moved out at roughly the same time. And so a new batch has moved in. So it's not actually a dip in couple length of stay. It's more a new cycle of clients who are in couple households who have moved in. Within this group, we have about 50 clients currently residing on site who have stayed for a year or more, of those 50, 10 have stayed for two years or more, and of those folks, five have been there for 900 days. That was as of late November. And so one of the things that we have used our new data capabilities to unpack is really why are folks not moving on as intended? How are they getting kind of stuck in this interim housing site? Uh, we want to keep our eye on that is we do not want it to become de facto permanent housing. That is not the intention of the site. So what we've noticed in that long stayer group is that these folks are much more likely to have a primary language that is not English, to be older, to have a diagnosed physical disability, to be single adults, and to be Hispanic or Asian American. So those are important learnings for us at a programmatic level of how can we partner with the city, with the county, how can we identify resources that can help speak to those characteristics of the long stairs, and find good next step solutions for them, right? So that's something that we're really keeping our eye on very closely, and working with our program teams on. Next slide please. So, wanted to touch on exit rates as well. Here, I'm comparing what I've labeled COC system performance, COC stands for Continuum of Care. Of course, that is the countywide, uh, homeless services funding system, and I wanted to benchmark life moves against how that system overall is performing, so that we get an idea about how this site, uh, over its, you know, three or so years of maturation, uh, is performing. So, the continuum of care sets the benchmark, or the goal for emergency shelter, exits to permanent housing, at 32%, over the life of the program, we have begun to approach that, and now we're exceeding it. So, um, fiscal year 21 was a partial year. That was when the program opened, and it was only open for a couple of weeks, maybe six weeks before the end of the fiscal year. That is not representative. I'd say that fiscal year 22 was really exhibiting of growing pains and site maturation coming fully online. And then really exceeding hitting and exceeding those benchmarks over the next two years. So you'll see that for fiscal year 23, we moved out 41% of Life moves Mountain View folks to permanent housing destinations, and that this year, we're at 38%. That was, again, at the end of November. The drop in placements in this current fiscal year was driven by no family exits to date when we pulled the data. That is probably a different story at this point, and so that number will likely look a little bit higher. Next slide, please. We also wanted to unpack the exit rate to permanent housing. for our different household types. I mentioned earlier in the demographic section that single adults are really a challenging population to find permanent housing exits for. And so it's really encouraging to us that we've grown that number year over year, and that we're really exceeding both our previous numbers and the county wide system wide benchmark for the current partial fiscal year. Same for our couple clients, and well exceeding it for families as well. So these are encouraging trends that we're quite excited about. On average, across all of our client groups and household types. Six out of 10 folks are exiting with some kind of voucher or other rental assistance. So that's an important group. Since opening, I will note that about a quarter of clients, 26% have returned to homelessness. So they could have abandoned the project, they exited the project of their own volition, or they had a safety or behavioral exit. We are not discharging directly to homelessness. We do everything in our power to keep someone in program as long as we can. I highlight that to say the difficulty in serving, especially chronically homeless populations. That is a number that is a reality and then we really want to keep our eye on. In addition to these positive exits to permanent destinations, We also have another 21% of folks who have exited to temporary destinations. So that could be temporarily living with friends or family. That could be inpatient treatment for substance use, or other lateral necks that moves that are really positive for that person. Next slide, please. The good news is that when folks are able to secure permanent housing, they stay housed. So this is a graph showing, When folks leave life in his mountain view to a permanent housing destination, how likely are they to keep that housing? And for both single adult and family households, they are keeping that housing at high rates. So, 3 out of 4 of our single adult clients and couple clients, and almost 100% of family clients are keeping permanent housing once they are placed. So it's an intervention that's really working. Next slide, please. So, from all of that, that's a lot of data and numbers. We wanted to show our learnings and next steps. What are the data telling us, how are we connecting the dots that we can work better in partnership? So, there are some program successes and limitations. Some of the great successes are the program, are that the staffing model is flexible, and it allows clients to receive that really tailored and individualized support that responds to their unique needs and goals. We have more clients year over year exiting to permanent housing destinations. We have almost 9 out of 10 clients engaging since the beginning of the program, making use of multiple services on site, in ways that really speak to them, and again, their needs in a client driven way. And we've introduced and continued to refine some low barrier maintenance request processes, and also grievance processes, so that clients voices are heard, reflected that we can know about and elevate issues on site, and resolve them in a way, that is timely, and that response to client needs. Some of the limitations that we wanted to highlight are that we are working in an ecosystem, right? So the coordinated entry system, we are one player in it, that is the system by which we're getting referrals and through which exits are made. So it's not life moves matching up folks to vouchers or determining what their next step is. We're doing the work to help get folks stabilized and ready to sustain permanent housing, but we're not ultimately making that match, right? That's up to the system and what kind of vacancies and eligibility and vouchers there are. And so we're doing our best to match and work within that ecosystem. There's just a scarcity of all types of vouchers, all types of Next Step housing. That is not a mountain view issue or even a Santa Clara County issue. That's a statewide issue, and one that's pretty well documented as well as, you know, increases in average market rate rent. So for those 40% of folks who are not exiting with a voucher or other kind of rental subsidy, that really becomes a challenge. And then, finally, our line staff turnover rate. That is just a challenge, um, in the field and certainly across all of our sites. Life moves Mountain View has not been immune, and that's something that, with our 8R department, we're continually working to refine so that we can keep staff as long as possible, and it's not as disruptive to the client experience. Slide, please. So, some action steps going forward. What have we learned? What have we done about it? So those staff transitions can be challenging, right? We have learned that key data and processes can get deprioritized during those transitions. So part of what we did to solve that was to hire a highly skilled program director, who did stabilize staffing, has been stable in that position for a while. We're always in the process, ongoing, of creating a robust documentation and training plans so that staff turnover isn't quite as jarring and disruptive to the site. As Aubrey touched on at the top of the presentation, this was a pilot site created during a global pandemic. It doesn't get more won off than that. And yet, we've used this now as a template for other sites and really moved this forward to keep housing folks in the region. Um, I think, a takeaway that we've applied going forward in those next sites that we've used, for which we've used this site as an inspiration, is that we want to make any site modifications and plan further sites in partnership with a county's lived experience advisory board. We use that at our Guadalupe site in San Jose, and it's been really positive and productive for the community. We want to be more transparent with data in our learnings as well, to show what's performing well, what's not, and get ahead of problems early, course correct. Use data to make good decisions about programs. So, about six months ago, we restructured our internal data teams. We hired a senior leadership level data staff. That is yours truly. In an ongoing way, we're investing in a new database. We're beginning monthly and quarterly data reviews with all life moves teams, including this program. And then beginning quarterly data reviews with the county. So again, get ahead of problems early, highlight successes, course correct, all along the way, rather than just kind of all at once on the fiscal year ends. And then, of course, single adult placements into permanent housing. They are challenging. Again, not a life who is mountain view issue, not a mountain view issue, not a Santa Clara issue. It's a statewide issue. At site, we added a specialist staff to work intensively of clients on housing employment benefits. So that's a wraparound to the one on one case management that they're receiving. This is on top of, in addition to specialized support in those areas, and we're really orienting that housing specialist work around fostering landlord relationships within Mountain View. So that folks who are exiting, either with a voucher or to market rate housing, have the best options possible. Next slide please. And as my final side, I just wanted to share a client success story. So we had a client, I'll call Pete, had been at the site, before coming to the site, had endured decades of intimate partner violence. She finally decided to leave that relationship and sought refuge at the site. That was in 2021. Um, she was really, uh, kind of a resilient and inspirational resident at the site. She was able to find employment and contributed regularly. Most of her paycheck into her housing fund. Using the support of her case manager and other staff. Of course, she learned to advocate. and really had quite a remarkable turnaround. By the end of her time with us, which was about a year in total. She managed to save $11,000, and then after a stay of about a year, as I mentioned, she was able to move into her own apartment and still housed there today. So, wanted to lift up that story as a kind of a cap to all of the data heavy. We're doing this for our clients. We want to, you know, have transparency with the numbers, and do deep dives into the data, so that, at the end of the day, we have more stories like this one to share and more positive exits. Thank you.

[00:47:38] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Do we have public comment first? Council questions? Council member Robbie Coca?

[00:47:53] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. There's a slide that talks about the, I think it's 40% who, or the issue being the lack of vouchers, I believe. If there were, would you see that 40% actually being able to move to permanent?

[00:48:14] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, I believe so. It would depend on the voucher type as well, quite transparently. So, of course, the longer the voucher, the more successful the person is in their next step placement, the shorter or more shallow the voucher. The more quickly those amounts step down. We're seeing across all of our sites that that is a less successful voucher type. But, of course, any connection and any financial support that we can bring to bear for our clients, absolutely helps facilitate that next step movement for them.

[00:48:48] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you.

[00:48:50] Mayor Pat Showalter: Council member Hicks?

[00:48:52] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation. I, um, really appreciate the, especially the part, the action steps moving forward, and the transparency about data and learning, and I look forward to future checks back with us. There are a couple things on my mind. I also appreciated when Aubrey Merriman said that this is a pilot project. We expect to learn from it. I think, you know, building it. It's better to build it quickly during the pandemic, than build it perfectly, maybe 10 years later. So I think that we all share that perspective. I'm just wondering, I have heard that you learned from the construction of this site, and that other sites, thankfully, in other cities, benefited from that. But I'm wondering whether you've circled back and, like, fixed some of those things. And in particular, I was talking to one client who said, It was built maybe because we live in sunny California, but then it got stormy, or it gets stormy from time to time, and that there's a lot of, you know, people have to go to the restroom, or the... kitchen, or whatever meals. They have to go outside, and whether there's, whether any of those things, whether you can share any things that you, you said you learned, but any things that you fixed, you learned, and then circled back and fixed.

[00:50:16] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, absolutely. So I think the immediate things that we focused on fixing, after our learnings and after folks had lived, lived with the physical environment, a little bit, were in terms of health and safety. So the decking, for example, the decking in the common areas, has had a tendency to warp, unfortunately, or become slippery and inclement weather. And so there have been several fixes on that front, so that's looks like nailing down boards that are coming up so that everything lays flat and smooth. We also apply to product that reduces the slipperiness even if it's rainy or icy, as has been the case in some of these winter months. Um, so that it is safer to walk on. We've also got water movers. They look like giant fans, and those push the water off the decks if it's dewy or rainy in the mornings. So that it is easier for people to get around the site. I think that some of the more temporary structures, there were kind of cloth gazebos, or sunshades at the site, and the early iterations, and those have been replaced with wooden gazebos, as outdoor client areas. And so adding more permanent layers to the site, that will not be so weather affected, are some of the steps that we've taken, for the common areas that, as I say, as folks have moved through the site and lived with it, based on client feedback that we've been able to correct thus far.

[00:51:35] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, thank you. And then I know another challenge is the staffing. I'm not gonna ask you about that, but my comment, because you've commented on it a bit in the presentation. But just to let you know, I know that's super challenging. And so I'm hoping, in the future, to get updates on how that's being, what the learnings are, and how that's being worked out. What is there? I gonna ask one final question. You said you had 20 staff altogether. What's the number of clients? I'm trying to kind of visualize the client, roughly. I know it changes, depending on the size of families.

[00:52:14] Unknown Speaker: I believe it's about 140 right now.

[00:52:16] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, okay, that gives me a good kind of ratio perspective. Okay, thank you very much.

[00:52:21] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Council member... Ry Mouse.

[00:52:25] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. Um, I want to learn more about the, the process that you will be working with the county's Live Experience Advisory Board, and it says it's ongoing. Now my understanding is, will the people in the Lib Experience Advisory Board on this site, will they be the ones on this site or will it be a countywide board?

[00:52:49] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, my understanding is that it would be a county wide board who's available to advise on things like design input for new sites. So that predates me. I can find out that information about the specifics that we used, for example, at our San Jose Guadalupe emergency interim housing site. My understanding is that through that board, we didn't have any residents specifically from that site, but the board was available to work in community to make advisements on the site, everything from configuration of common areas to colors for the exterior building, to make the site appealing, palatable, have people want to move in. So my understanding is that that would be the process that we would follow going forward. for future sites and potentially for refinements to this existing site.

[00:53:38] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: And what are the mechanisms of accountability between this group and life moves?

[00:53:46] Unknown Speaker: Yep, that's a wonderful question. I'm wondering if my colleague here has any light that she can shed on that.

[00:53:57] Sarah Fields: Good evening, Sarah Fields, also with life moves. Um, yeah, I mean, it's really been sort of a dialogue. There hasn't been a particular metric around an accountability structure with the lead, the lived experience advisory board. But I can tell you that there's been guidance and there's been sort of an increasing interest in having sort of a feedback model that includes both the lived experience advisory board, that now has sort of kind of a more professional structure to it, and then incorporating clients living on site. And I can tell you that on the Guadalupe site, they've done a handful of sort of social events that have been sort of in an attempt to recruit a couple of members to then have a more sort of ongoing feedback process. We're sort of the more beginning processes in mountain view in starting that, but certainly we would look to incorporate accountability model. But we're not there yet.

[00:55:02] Unknown Speaker: Thank you If I could also add to that answer, one of the ways that we're intending to solicit client feedback at a site level and at an agency level is by instituting a client survey, we expect that that will be live in the early part of the coming fiscal year. And so that would be either a quarterly or every 6 months survey of every eligible client at site offered in all of the threshold languages so that we can get that feedback at site level, and it's not just participation in an advisory board, but that every client has a chance to voice their concerns, positives, questions about the site, and interact with leadership in a way that has direct implications for how program and the site are run.

[00:55:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Well, I have a question. Do you have just an old-fashioned suggestion box that people can put anonymous suggestions in?

[00:55:55] Unknown Speaker: Yes, yes, we do. So that's one of the ways that folks can either give feedback on site or submit their grievances. So we have an anonymous feedback box on site. It is locked. Folks can put as many anonymous feedback forms in there as they like. They can do that in a way that is supported by staff so staff could read the form, help them write it, or they can do it all on their own, their choice. That box is cleared out and read by program leadership once a month. and then responded to whatever the content is.

[00:56:26] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Council member Ramos. It was just the fault.

[00:56:32] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you, Mayor. Just a follow up to the mayor's question with the suggestion box. Do you have any metrics on how many of those suggestions have been successfully implemented, successfully addressed? Um, I worry, um, about, like, the suggestion box, a.k.a. a black hole?

[00:56:49] Unknown Speaker: Yes, very much so. So there are 2 mechanisms, as I understand them, right? Not specific to the suggestion box per se, but to introduce a measure of accountability and responsiveness into the community. So that has weekly community meetings that are organized by program director or associate program director on site, open attendance. There are bilingual staff on site to facilitate folks who are not primary English speakers participating and answering questions and having exchanges with leadership staff. So that's one regular, regular community check-ins. And in my experience, our community members are not shy about asking for what they need on site. and getting follow ups. Um, and then the other would really be that, uh, well, I guess there are 2 others. The grievance procedure, which is more documented and has more formal, you know, chains of command, layers of accountability built in. And then the 3rd would be maintenance requests. So those are logged in a central system, when they're handled by our life move staff, and so there's a trace of when they got logged, what the issue was, how long they took to resolve. And so we're looking at those all the time to understand, kind of, how we are, the issues that come up on site, that affect livability and client experience, how we're clearing out that backlog, and making responsive decisions.

[00:58:08] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, thank you very much. All right. Well, now we'll take public comment for the presentation items. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the presentation items listed on the agenda? If so, please raise, please click the raise hand button and zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the clerk. We will take in person speakers first. Each speaker will have three minutes. And we have one here, Jackie Cashin. Welcome.

[00:58:41] Jackie Cashin: Thank you. It would take me three hours to go over everything I need to say after that presentation. For the two of you, I am a life moves resident. I have been since last August. You guys need to stop focusing on data and start focusing on what's going on in that shelter. None of these requests ever get fulfilled. We've had requests for maintenance that were open months ago. They're hazardous to people's health. There is still ice all over the place, people are falling. Nothing is being done. The suggestion box is right out where anybody can be seen putting it in there. There's no anonymity, no nothing in there. Data are fine. I have a PhD in sociology from Stanford. I understand data. But data is not gonna improve the quality of life in Mountain View. I have already sent a document to city council members and several state legislative members telling them how poorly things are going in that facility. And you really need to step up and start coming in and walking around and looking at the disgusting levels of mold in the shower, looking at the boards that keep coming up. Looking at the raw food we get served, this business about all these people, leaving. I've known maybe five people who've gotten permanent housing in the past eight months. People get thrown out for various reasons. When I got there, there was no job search effort. Nobody even understands how housing works. There's no job postings. There were no case managers. So whatever you're doing, you're not doing it right, and you need to start coming in there and talking to people who live there and finding out what it is like to live in that shelter, because all that you are saying it. Some of it's probably true. I believe that. Like I said, I have the degree, and I have the background to understand it. But what's really going on there is, it's just, as far as the people who live in life moves are concerned in Mountain View, we've been abandoned by the corporate office by the nonprofit entity. And I've told that directly to Andrew Nicholas, that everybody there feels abandoned, that once they get through the pilot project, they're like, Okay, we don't have to deal with them anymore. There's so many issues there. We can't walk. We need ski boots to walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We need... We have people there who are visually impaired, and they have to have other people inspect their food to make sure it's been properly cooked. We get stuff that is inedible. We get all our staff members. We have some great staff members, and I have made sure that the people who are that good are praised whenever we get the opportunity, and the new assistant director. You're just hired. People were really do like her. So it's a step in the right direction. But you guys need to come live there for a week and see what we actually live through and see if you would still give that same presentation to city council. Because much of what I heard is not a reflection of the truth or the reality.

[01:02:01] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. So now we will move on to the consent calendar, right. Okay, these items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to remove an item for discussion. If you would like to speak on this item or the next item, um, oral communications or nonagenda items in person, please submit a blue card to the city clerk now. Would any member of the council like to pull an item? Did you push one, Margaret? Okay, seeing none. Would any member of the public, joining us virtually or in person, like to provide comments on these items? If so, please click the raised hand button in Zoom, or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. We will take in person speakers first. Each speaker will have two minutes. Does anybody have a comment on the consent calendar? Seeing nine, nobody on Zoom, either. Nope, okay. Give it a try. Then now I'll bring back the item for council action, and note that a motion to approve, the consent calendar also requires reading the title of the resolutions attached to 4 1, 2, and 3. Council member Ramos. You made the motion.

[01:03:33] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you, Mayor. I moved the consent calendar, including item 4.1. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, one accepting and appropriating Estate, California, Permanent Local Housing Allocation, PLHA Program Award in the amount of $1,094,136 to allocating $930,000 of the PLHA funds to the 96 West El Camino, Real Affordable Housing Project, 3, allocating $110,000 of the PLA PLHA funds to the below market rate down payment assistance pilot program. For authorizing the use of up to $54,136 of the PLHA funds for eligible administrative costs, and 5 reducing the previous appropriation of $80000 from the Housing Impact Fund for the 96 West El Camino Real Project by 930,000 to be read entitled only further reading waived. Item 4.2, adopt the resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View, authorizing modification of the terms of the exclusive negoti with a firm housing for an affordable housing development at 87 East Evelyn Avenue to increase the initial negotiating period to 210 days, and the optional extension period to 108 180 days, and authorizing the city manager or doesn't need to execute the modified ENA to be read entitled only further being waived. And item 4.3. Adopt the resolution of the city council of the city amount of view, one accepting an appropriating state of California, local housing trust fund, grant in the amount of $4,205,452, allocating $2,400,000 of the LHTF grant funds to the 1020 Terabella Avenue Affordable Housing Project, and $1,600,000 of the LHTF grant funds to the 1012 Linda Vista Avenue Affordable Housing Project, three, allocating the remaining balance of the LHTF grant funds in the amount up to $205,000, $205,452 for eligible administrative costs, for reducing the previous appropriation of $13,500,000 from the below market rate in Loo Fund to the 1020 Tarabella Avenue Project by 2 $2400000 and 5 reducing the previous appropriation of $10000000 from the below market rate in Loo Fund for the 1012 Linda Vista Avenue project by one 1600000 to be read in title only for the reading waived.

[01:06:26] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you, and we have a 2nd from, um, council member Kamei. That was quite a bit to read. Good job. So now, do we have any comments by council members or on the motion? Okay, then let's vote. The motion passes unanimously. All right, so now we are going to go to item six, the study session. 6.1 is the legislative program priorities for 2024. And the purpose of this study session is to receive city council input on the proposed legislative program issues to guide the city's regional, state, and federal legislative advocacy during the 2024 session. Before staff's presentation, we will hear updates from Congressman Anna Issues Office, District 13, and Senator Josh Becker, and District 23, Assemblyman Mark Berman. We will begin with comments from Nicholas Hargis, senior field rep, from Congresswoman Anna Eshu's office, and I believe he's going to be joining us via Zoom. There he is. Welcome, Nicholas.

[01:07:48] Nicholas Hargis: Good evening, counsel. Thank you for having me here tonight. I'm happy to be here to read this legislative update in the form of a letter from Congresswoman Eshu. Dear Mayor Show Walter and members of the city council. Thank you for inviting me to participate in your study session on the city's legislative program priorities for 2024. Pleased to share with you my legislative priorities for the coming year. 1st in the area of appropriations. Passing a budget is one of the most important tasks for Congress each year, but due to partisan disagreements over spending levels, Congress has yet to pass appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024, which began last October. In a challenging fiscal environment, my top priority is to prevent harmful budget cuts to programs that communities like mountain view rely on, including community development block grants, the home investment partnership program, and assistance to firefighters grants. I'm proud to have secured $1000000 in the house appropriations bill for the Evelyn Affordable Housing Project, which, as you know, will address housing and security by providing affordable rental units for extremely low income residents. The house in the Senate will pass the fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation in the coming weeks. And I'm working hard to ensure this vital funding is included. Shortly after Congress finalizes appropriations, for fiscal year 2024, I anticipate the appropriations committee will announce the criteria for community projects for fiscal year 2025. And I will follow up with you at that time regarding how the city can submit projects for me to consider it. Next in the area of transportation. I'm very proud to have voted for the infrastructure investment and Jobs Act, the largest investment in public transit, water infrastructure, and broadband, in our nation's history. The Bay Area will receive $45000000 in guaranteed funding over the five-year life of the law, and cities can apply for an additional $1400000000 in competitive grants. I succeeded in including $3000000000 for grade separations in the law, establishing the 1st dedicated federal funding for grade separations. These infrastructure projects are critical to improving safety and reducing traffic, but as you know, they are incredibly costly for cities to build. I understand that Mountain View is seeking federal funding to help address a $31000000 funding shortfall for the Ranksdorf Avenue grade separation project. And know that I stand ready to assist you should you apply for any federal grants for this or any other projects in mount. And finally, in the area of climate change. In 2022, Congress passed the inflation reduction act, which includes the most significant investments in addressing the climate crisis ever passed by Congress, lowering our carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. The Biden administration is working hard to stand up the various programs established by the law. And one of my priorities for this year is to ensure they are implemented promptly and effectively. I also voted several times last year against efforts to undermine and repeal the law, and I will continue to do so. Many of the inflation reduction act programs are tax credits that our mutual constituents can use to save money on electric vehicles, solar panels, heat pumps, and other energy efficient improvements to their homes. Others are grants that cities can apply, or to support their efforts to reduce their emissions and improve resilience, to climate change. The White House has provided a full list of available programs at cleanenergy.gov. And my office can assist you in identifying the best funding opportunities, Meet the city's priorities. I hope this information is helpful to you as you consider the city's legislation priorities for 2024. I'm honored by the trust you've placed in me to represent you in Congress and look forward to advancing our shared priorities in the year ahead.

[01:12:25] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you very much, Nicholas. Would it be possible? Please take any questions and relay them to the office and get answers.

[01:12:33] Unknown Speaker: That's great. Well, my 1st question is, can you send us a copy of your remarks?

[01:12:39] Nicholas Hargis: Yes, absolutely.

[01:12:40] Unknown Speaker: Yeah, that would be appreciated. There was a lot of detail in there that I didn't get down.

[01:12:48] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, so are there questions for, um, Mr. Hargis? I don't see anybody now. We may have some questions after the other representatives speak. Thank you so much. All right, so the next representative, um, uh, will be Congressman... will be Senator Becker. And he is also participating via Zoom, is he available?

[01:13:18] Unknown Speaker: Excellent.

[01:13:19] Unknown Speaker: You hear me? you are?

[01:13:20] Mayor Pat Showalter: Welcome.

[01:13:22] Senator Josh Becker: Excellent, excellent.

[01:13:23] Senator Becker: Yeah. Zooming in from Sacramento. Um, and, um, good to be here with all of you, and, uh, really fascinating, uh, presentations, uh, particularly in El Camino Health, and, uh, to get the life moves, uh, update, um, really, really, uh, fascinating, useful stuff. So glad I was able to hear that. Um, Yeah, happy to talk about legislative priorities. Um, you know the budget situation in Sacramento is, um, not as rosy as it has been in previous years. So we're working to address the budget. Um, and, um, work it out for this year, and I hope that we will, uh, then also start to consider some of the longer term issues. We do have substantial reserves of $30 billion plus. I'm sure we will tap some of that this year, but hopefully, um, not more than a 3rd to half of the reserves, uh, climate funding, which goes through my subcommittee, um, is of uh, a most priority for me to protect and is uh, subject to a lot of cuts in the governor's budget. So I'm sure there'll be much discussion around coastal resilience, as well as all of our climate priorities. Um, been happy to engage with the council with any of you on critical issues, uh, the El Camino uh, project, uh, of utmost uh, importance and top of mind. And we had a good town hall on that in the fall. including with city staff, um, was able to get uh, 1500000 for the, uh, community services agency of Mount Fumo Saltos, and we had a really nice, um, presentation of that in the fall. Some of you were there for us as well. Um, and great to hear the update on uh, affordable housing and the work that, uh, Mountain View's doing, what had affordable housing roundtable in my office, where the council was represented, and discussed, um, how do we, uh, build more affordable housing, of course, a lot of that comes down to uh, dollars, and, um, one update is that I have a new role as chair the Bay Area caucus. And that's chair of our 27 member, a Bay Area caucus, and so that gives me a platform to work on regional issues, uh, like housing, homelessness, transportation, public safety. And, um, at our last meeting, we did present a presentation on Bafa. And, um, as you know, that it's potential to, uh, deliver significant dollars for Mountain View and for a region for affordable housing and we'll be, um, hearing more about that campaign. I'm sure soon. In addition to that, we have the need for a new housing bond that help will get on the ballot in November, um, different than the bond that will be on the ballot. In March. That one, of course, is about behavioral health, housing, uh, targeted to build 11,000 units, uh, that we were all voting on right now. Um, but there would be series of bonds that, um, maybe on the ballot, November, uh, housing bond, and also a, uh, resources bond, a climate bond, dealing with water, uh, wildfire, and, uh, as well as hopefully some clean energy provisions in there, uh, as well that, uh, that I'm working on. And a lot of that comes through my my subcommittee, my budget subcommittee. Um, so we'll continue to work on, um, uh, in collaboration with you and with your feedback on, uh, all those issues that I mentioned, um, housing, homelessness, uh, public safety as well as, um, transportation will expect to have a bill this year, to uh, authorize the regional measure in 2026, to uh, make sure that we've sustained funding for a transportation as well as implementing many of the aspects of my seamless uh, bill that I believe the council supported. to make sure that we're actually getting much more coordination, starting with schedule coordination and spare coordination of our overlapping transit agencies, um, in the Bay Area. And, um, we are, you know, MTC is already working towards that now. Um, but we expect to put more provisions in there. So people know that there'll be an improved transit system as well as a sustained funding, and then also the safety provisions that have been worked on. Um, for Bart, particularly, um, but really across, uh, across the system. So as we go to electrified Caltrain, um, we know that we've got a safe and well funded, uh, system um, going forward. So that's a lot of work to be done. I'll mention another area, um, Um, well, 2 more areas, one, education, you know, is a big priority, uh, as we roll out, um, universal, uh, TK. So that's a great preschool, making sure we roll it out hopefully in the right way. Um, and, um, uh, and, you know, it is an additional, um, I've heard from schools in, in state Northern Santa Clara County, where, um, they're not taking more dollars for this. We're kind of looking closely at the implementation of that. Um, but also continue to make sure that K-12 funding is protected, um, as well as UCs and CSUs. We actually have the highest number percent ever of California students in the UC system, for example, and that was product of some work that we've done at the legislature. And lastly, another big priority this year for myself in the list that you will be looking at artificial intelligence. And, um, AI regulation, um, this technology is moving very quickly. Um, and I mean, this technology comes from our California companies. there'll be lots of benefits from it. But we also have real risks in terms of election disinformation, in terms of deep fakes, um, and other things that we're seeing, uh, including cloning of audio and video, um, that are, you know, deeply concerning, and I've introduced an AI transparency act. I have another bill. I'm working to make sure that doctors have the final same medical decisions and not algorithms. So, um, those are pieces that I'm specifically working on, but there'll be a number of uh, bills uh, this year uh, on that topic, and I look, look to continue my uh, leadership with the delete act, which is really a national uh, model, one of the biggest things in privacy in the last 15 years that I've passed uh, last year. But there's already built a week in that. So we'll have to continue to work on that one as well. So I'd say that in the technologies here, it'll be a big year, uh, in addition to a lot of the other, uh, issues that we've worked on together in the past. Um, That's my update and look forward to being in, uh, to hearing your discussions and, um, and being dialogue going forward.

[01:20:21] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you so much, Senator Becker. And, um, now we're going to hear from uh, assembly member Bergen, uh, Berman. He should be precipitate, precipitating. I went to a sediment workshop, and that would have been a term for that, participating via Zoom as well. Some even Bergen. Welcome.

[01:20:47] Assemblymember Berman: Thank you, thank you, Mayor Show, Walter. It looks like y'all can see me, so that's great. I appreciate the chance to come chat virtually with all of you, and it was good to see some of you at the wonderful Lunar New Year celebration at the community center on Saturday, and just to see so many folks from the community turn out and celebrate was a lot of fun. So thank you again to especially the city staff, who put on that really fantastic event. Senator Becker did a good job of sort of laying, you know, the groundwork on some of the big issues that we're struggling with, especially the budget. So I won't repeat some of those details. But maybe I'll just dive right into some of the bills that I've introduced, or we'll be introducing soon. that I'll be focusing on this year. And one of my top priority bills this year is AB 2097, which is the computer science for all act, which continues my work in pushing for equity and computer science education across California. Also want to thank Senator Becker for being a principal co-author of that bill, and it's sponsored, among other folks, by the state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond. Maybe 2097 would guarantee that all students in California have access to computer science education and establish computer science as a high school graduation requirement. The sad reality is that 27 other states already require every high school to offer a computer science course in 5 states. Arkansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, and Tennessee, already require a computer science course for high school graduation. So we are looking up to Arkansas and South Carolina. When it comes to good education policy, good computer science education policy here in California, and that's embarrassing. Um, California has fallen behind 40 other states in the percentage of high schools offering at least one computer science course. And too many of our students, even in Silicon Valley. Grow up in the shadows of these tech companies that are creating world changing technology and offering good paying careers, but they go to schools that don't give them the skills they need to one day try to get jobs at those companies. And this is something I saw before I got elected to the Assembly when I was working at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation in San Jose. And it's an effort that I've been working on for years on computer science education. I'm confident that 2024 is going to be the year that we really pushed this, pushed this through and guarantee access for all students. Uh, the senator mentioned that there's going to be a big focus on artificial intelligence, uh, and regulating AI. He's absolutely right. That's actually something that I 1st had introduced and had 2 bills signed into law in 2019. So 5 years ago, I was working on our artificial intelligence, in particular, deep fake technology, one bill, in particular in the election space. And I think it was that work that I had done 5 years ago, that led to the California District Attorneys Association coming to me a couple of months ago with a problem that they were having, which is that they were finding people in California, who were in possession of, who were creating, who were selling, um, child sexual abuse material, otherwise known as child pornography, that was made using AI technology. Uh, and that was uh, taking advantage of a loophole that we had in California law, uh, that said that that the image had to be of an actual child. Now, I would argue that every image of child sexual abuse material that's created using AI is victimizing thousands of actual children, because this technology actually scrapes the internet. It goes, you know, the technology goes across the internet, takes images of children from people's public social media feeds, even from school websites, and they feed all those images into the algorithm that spits out, um, uh, an AI generated image. And in this case, a sexually explicit image of a child. And so we're going to close this loophole. It's critical that we pass legislation to stop people from perpetuating child exploitation and to protect the children of California. And so that is AB 1831, uh, which will add AI generated obscene images into the definition of of child sexual abuse material to prohibit the possession, distribution, and creation of these AI generated child sexual abuse material images. Uh, another bill uh, that I want to talk about that we haven't introduced yet. I think we're planning to introduce it tomorrow is legislation to provide health insurance coverage for wigs for Californians experiencing medical hair loss due to health conditions like alopecia. And this bill actually came out of a meeting with constituents, including a Mountain View high school student who shared her story, about living with alopecia and how essential a wig is to her for self-esteem and feeling confident in her own skin. Uh, the bill is a really, really uplifting example of the courageous advocacy uh, that comes out of my district, and in this case came out of Mountain View. So we don't have a bill number yet, because we'll be introducing this bill in the next couple of days. Um, but I'm really excited to lead this effort. One of my best friends, when I was growing up, had alopecia. And so I know the impact that I can have and was grateful to these youth that came to my office a couple of months ago to advocate for this. Um, and to turn it into action. Uh, I also want to touch upon an issue that has been getting a lot of attention that Senator Becker and I have been working together on, uh, which has to do with income-based fixed charges by, by, by the investor owned utilities. And I'm a joint author of a bill that was just introduced last week in the Assembly, AB 1999, to repeal the income-based fixed charge for utility bills. If the if AB 1999 is approved. Uh, this, oh, excuse me, if, uh, income-based fixed charges, uh, at the rights that that the investor owned utilities are proposing, uh, are, um, approved, then they will reduce the incentive for energy conservation, and they'll provide a break to some of the biggest energy users, uh, in our communities, while they're penalizing smaller, uh, energy efficient homes, and penalizing working class Californians. And an income-based fixed charge would have disproportionately burdened Californians living in high cost areas like the Bay Area and like Mountain View. So, uh, this was, uh, you know, I was really kind of moved to take action, moved to get involved, moved to take a leadership role in this because of the passionate, uh, advocacy that I heard from constituents, especially when I was having community coffees in the fall and winter. So I'm excited to help lean on this effort. I know this is an important effort for Senator Becker as well. And lastly, a lot of you know that for a couple of years now, I've been passionate about, looking at different ways that we might reform the governing structure at VTA. Uh, and I think that's only become more important over the last month, month and a half, uh, as we've learned more, uh, as VTA's own inspector, uh, auditor general came out with a report talking about how staff, uh, at VTA, had misled, the board of directors, didn't give them, uh, accurate and full information that they need to do their job, as we've seen costs overruns, uh, for the BART extension, um, multiple times. So right now, the state auditor is doing an audit of VTA. And the results of that audit should be coming out. I think in, uh, late spring, early summer. So we're going to wait to see what that report says. And then my hope, as it's always been. And as I've said, it is to lots of folks, who are involved and who have asked, is my hope really is that VTA and the VTA board will take it upon themselves, because they have the authority to do so already, to make some significant reforms to the governance structure to make sure that Santa Clara County taxpayers and writers of VTA are getting the oversight and accountability that they need. So that'll be another important effort, but we won't know the details for that for a couple of months. Thank you, Mayor. So, Walter. Appreciate the chance to zoom in and say hi.

[01:29:22] Mayor Pat Showalter: Well, thank you, Assemblymen. Berman, we're very glad to have you. And I know that my colleague, council member, Hicks, has some questions for all three of you.

[01:29:34] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Hi, yes, thank you so much for sharing your coming, spending the time sharing your work with us. I actually, I had 2 questions on sort of the tech realm, which is something that I think we don't have in our legislative priorities. Senator Becker did mention this a bit. So, the two things I was wondering about was what work was being done in Sacramento, around AI, which you mentioned, but also automated vehicles, as those have started, you know, AV ride hailing, is now exists in San Francisco, and it's coming down the peninsula from what I hear. So I'd be interested in any number of things you may be looking at in terms of city ability to regulate them, kind of making sure they move responsibly towards the mass transit, space instead of just more single occupancy vehicles, laboring implications. I think they have tremendous labor implications, um, safety, particularly for pedestrians, and, uh, bikers, as they seem to have so far in San Francisco, have more accidents with them than they seem to be looking out pretty well for other cars. So anything about automatic vehicles. And then, yeah, I was also interested in any anything you're looking at regarding AI, although you did talk about that a bit. But also in terms of, I have to say, I've talked to residents who have been recently laid off from our tech companies due to AI and their families. So anything regarding sort of the changing labor landscape also. So those are my questions. For any one of the 3 of you or all three?

[01:31:28] Senator Becker: Sure, I'm happy to jump in on the autonomous vehicles front. There is some legislation that's been introduced. We'll update you and the staff once we kind of get more details on that. on the autonomous vehicles. Um, There was a bill on trucks. last year that got vetoed by the governor. Um, but I think you're asking particularly about the more passionate vehicles that are now, um, supposed to be, uh, coming down the peninsula. So we'll get updates on that. Obviously, there was one provider that had significant incidents in, um, in San Francisco, and I don't think that's one that's currently contemplated on the peninsula. Um, but um, happy to update the staff once we get more influence on that.

[01:32:15] Assemblymember Berman: Yeah, I just to follow up quickly upon Santa Burger's comments. It'll definitely be an area of focus. The one thing I would want to emphasize, uh, is is that over 40,000 people, uh, die, uh, on the roads in America due to car crashes today. Uh, and those are, those are, those are human caused car accidents. And those are deaths. Uh, those aren't serious injuries, uh, which are higher. And so it's important, I think, as we're having this conversation that, A, you know, we do absolutely make sure that the rollout of autonomous vehicles is safe, um, and it's safe for all members of our community, but I also think it's important that we consider how desensitized we've gotten as a society, uh, to the death and the significant injuries that occur every day, uh, in our communities. I have another bill that I didn't mention, um, that's around, uh, reducing speeds around schools to reduce, uh, uh, injuries and and and fatalities to students, uh, which which is, uh, happening more and more. And communities have done a lot to try to get to this Vision Zero, uh, sort of goal, um, but haven't necessarily seen any any real significant improvement towards accomplishing that. So, um, it's it's definitely going to be a big topic of conversation. I just think that we need to have a holistic conversation about it, and that includes the status quo today, which I think is far too many people dying from traffic accidents.

[01:33:48] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, thank you. I just want to clarify, I certainly didn't mean that I thought autonomous vehicles were going to be less safe. I'm just curious what people are talking about in Sacramento, because this is the beginning of this industry, and I want to make sure we do it right. I don't think we have in terms of regulating, say, social media and other tech. So I'd like to make sure that we try and get this right from the beginning.

[01:34:11] Assemblymember Berman: Totally agree, and appreciate the comment, and I've lectured the AV industry for a decade now, that they need to do a better job of working with labor, um, and of identifying the impacts, and, uh, amongst other things, insurance, uh, you know, other parts of the regulatory framework that, that I'm, uh, often disappointed that they don't seem to be making more, more progress on those important issues also. So totally agree with you.

[01:34:40] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, do any other council members have comments for the legislature? The legislators? Okay. Well, thank you, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. And we do also appreciate how you are such active members in our community. You come to a great many events, and that provides an opportunity for all of us to talk to you, which, um, is just golden. So thanks for doing that. Okay. Thank you.

[01:35:09] Mayor Pat Showalter: And you, of course, are welcome to stay and listen to our discussion of legislative policies, but maybe not. Okay. So I think now the next step is a presentation. Our, uh, our intergovernmental relations manager, Christina Gilmore and Dane Hunching. Hutchings, who is the managing partner for RPPG, will present the item.

[01:35:43] Assistant to the City Manager Christina Gilmore: Thank you, Mayor Show Alter. Good evening, Christina Gilmore, assistant to the city manager. As the mayor mentioned earlier, at the start of this item, this is the purpose of the study session is to receive council input on the proposed legislative program priorities and issues to guide the city's regional state and federal legislative advocacy during the 2024 legislative session. Joining this me this evening, as previously introduced, is Dane Hutchings, managing director from running public policy group, and our city's legislative advocacy consultant. Dane and I will present the proposed legislative platform to the council for your discussion and input, and after which we will be available to answer any questions about the proposed platform. go. Excuse me. So as background, um, the city council, um, as part of their fiscal year, 2021, 22 and 23 strategic action plan priority, um, reaffirm their commitment to implementing an an enhanced legislative um, program and maintaining an ineffective intergovernmental partnerships, um, under the organizational strength and good governance strategic priority. In November 2021, the city engaged RPPG as our legislative advocate. And in February of 2022, the council adopted the 2022 legislative platform, which was the first legislative platform adopted here in the city of Mountain View, the platform included 11 issue areas with 97 policy statements. Last year in February 2023, we adopted year 2 of the legislative platform with 11 issue areas and increasing the policy statements from 97 to 100 policy statements. The purpose of the legislative platform is to serve as a guiding document for the city to promote and preserve its interest at the regional state and fertile levels. It also provides direction to city staff and the legislative consultant on how to engage on a variety of legislative issues. It allows the staff and legislative consultant to quickly triage and assess legislative matters upon introduction, as you well are well aware. There are 100s of measures that advance every year through the legislative process. And finally, it provides a focus and supports proactive council member engagement to help advance the city's priorities. So for 2023, uh, we had a really successful year. The city engaged on 11 regional issues, as well as 16 pieces of legislation with the desired outcome on 12 measures, and we engaged in one federal legislative issue. We also were, we had our 1st piece of sponsor legislation that was signed by the governor in October of last year, AB 971. And we were also successful in securing federal funding earmarks, which you heard from Congresswoman SU, a $10000 for the Evelyn Affordable Housing Project, and as well as we expanded our state and federal federal intergovernmental affairs program. The 2024 legislative platform that we have before you this evening is based on the adopted 2023 platform. We receive input from each of the department on the 2024 platform. We are carrying forward the 4 the 11 policy issues that was previously established in 2022 and 2023. We are modifying one issue area title, the environment, climate, change, and resilience, issue area, and we will be substitute, we're proposed to substitute resilience for sustainability. And the 2024 platform modifies 11 policy statements, adds 5 policy statements and deletes 2 across 5 issue areas within housing and community development, economic development, environment, climate change, and resilience, water quality, and water supply, and natural hazards. So we have also increased our policy statements this year, proposed policy statements to 125 total policy statements. We wanted to touch on very briefly about the CBRT, which is the taxpayer Protection and Governmental Accountability Act. I'll give a brief high overview of this ballot measure that will be coming forward on the November 2024 ballot, and then Dane will also touch upon this and other ballot measures that are being teed up for the March and November ballots. As you may recall, council has adopted resolution of opposition to this measure, that was that action was taking place in March of 2023. For those who are not aware of this measure, the California Business Roundtable measure is a measure that proposes that all new or increased local or state taxes would require a two-thirds voter approval. It would be retroactive to January 1st, 2022. And what it would do is it would approximately jeopardize approximately $2 billion in local government tax and fee revenues at risk statewide, and it would have a significant impact on public service delivery. The, basically, in a nutshell, the CBRT measure would really impact cities and local government's abilities, to adopt fees, to collect revenue or any type of income to help the city provide services to our residents. There are 2 legal challenges that have been filed. The 1st is an Amicus letter filed by the governor and the legislature that was filed in the fall of 2023, um, to remove the initiative from the November 2024 ballot. And then this January last month. League of California Cities filed an amicus brief in support of the legal challenge. Dane will talk a little bit more about this. We do have some additional information that we can share with you today. But at this point, I will transition the presentation from myself to Dane. So please give me a moment and if you want to introduce yourself and I will get your presentation up and running for you.

[01:42:30] Dane Hutchings: Good evening, mayor and council, Dane Hutchings, managing director with the Renny Public Policy Group. While Christina is pulling out the presentation, Mayor Showalter, I did want to highlight one bill that you had inquired about. Senator Cortese has introduced and then built 915 that just this year. with respect to autonomous vehicles and what that measure would do, is it would permit local government entities to enact their own ordinances and regulating autonomous vehicles. So, the bill was introduced a couple of, maybe perhaps a week ago. It needs to sit in print for 30 days being before it can start moving through the process. And I would imagine that between now, and the end result of the legislative process, it's going to be amended, and with more stakeholder engagement, but from my understanding, this is the senator's attempt to try and provide local agencies with discretion on how autonomous vehicles are regulated within each of our communities. And so, I'm certain it'll be a bill that will be highly discussed as we move through the legislative session, but I know that that is something that one of your Santa Clara county colleagues is running with this year. So, a little info free on that. So that's off off script of the presentation, but I wanted to provide that information since it came up. Um, so, um, what we'll do, what we'll start out with, um, really is just looking at a snapshot of, um, some of the highlights from last year in our work with, uh, the city. As Christina mentioned, we tracked over 1,500 individual pieces of legislation on behalf of the city. It was a banner year last year. I mean so many pieces of legislation introduced. Not to say we engaged, certainly on all of those, but considerable high volume of bills this year that had some type of impact or tangential impact of local government. We did successfully enact AB 971. This is going to help further the development of the projects both on shoreline and Charleston Avenue for our mass transit lanes and reducing GHDs and getting cars off the road. And so really, really happy, and really, I got to tell you, just a stellar job by your city staff on providing technical guidance and really working with me in the trenches on navigating some of the technical amendments that were needed throughout the process. We had an 80% effective rate on legislation for the city this year, and 550 combined deliverables and touch points, which, you know, it's a measure that we try to track each and every day about times that we are advocating on your behalf, every time we're connecting with the city. We're drafting a memo, you know, anything that we're doing on behalf of the city, for the city, or on behalf of the city, to their delegation. We track it and like to share that stat with you to let you know that we're always working for you year after year. Um, Moving on to a little bit more detail into the budget. I know that both Senator Becker and Assembly member Berman touched on it, but yes, budget challenges are upon us this year. just a couple of high level items I wanted to touch on based on the priorities of the council. Um, overarching. We are looking at what was originally projected at about a 37.9 billion deficit. That, frankly, is likely to increase with revenues coming in short each month. But touching on a couple of policies, you know, there's the governor's proposed budget, looks to delay some funding, and homelessness, delay some funding, and drought, and flood resilience by about $1.4 billion. Um, you know, that's one of the issues in and around the climate. natural resources, that funding that Senator Becker alluded to, that, you know, him being the chair of the, of that Senate budget subcommittee is really critical, given that's one of his priorities. And so, um, something that we'll continue to engage on on behalf of the city. You know, one thing I did want to highlight, too, on the housing front. I know that the city has worked absolutely tirelessly to become a pro housing designated city by HCD. That is no small feat. It is an incredibly high bar, and you are amongst a small number of cities statewide that have achieved this. I will say, one of the benefits of being a pro housing city is that you are entitled to having preferential access to both the infil infrastructure grant program and the multi-housing family program. Unfortunately, the governor's proposing to reduce those funds considerably. So, it is something that I think, from a policy perspective, will certainly want to work with your delegation and others to try and restore that funding, because, one of the carrots in the housing policy discussion is saying, hey, if you're a good actor, you're doing the right thing. We want to reward those folks. And so seeing considerable reductions in those two buckets, where local governments can try and help bridge that funding, is gonna be critical as we advance your priorities this year. So more to do on that. I know transportation is a huge issue for the city as well. And so, um, you know, seeing a $200 million reduction, proposed reduction in active transportation, reductions in, um, in, um, electronic, uh, infrastructure, um, is certainly a challenge, and then we did see actually an increase in, um, uh, funding for, uh, law enforcement efforts to combat, retail, uh, organized crime, and theft, uh, and things like that. And so, again, it's important to note that this is a proposal for this is the governor's opening proposal. We have a deliberate legislative process, whereby your delegation, who does a credible job of representing its district, fighting for the funding. And so we had this given pull process where at the end of the day, we'll be able to hopefully come up with a compromise in some of these issues. Next slide. So just a couple of different aspects that the governor has proposed to try and close the funding gap and so delays on funding. One of the challenges that we've seen is there have been, you know, earmarks throughout the state of California or community projects that have been essentially included in the 2324 budget that the Department of Finance is trying to freeze those funds and pull those funds back, or even delay them for three or four years. And so we're seeing delayed funding as being proposed. We're seeing fun shifts and some drawdowns, potentially of our strategic reserves. However, it would require the governor to enact a fiscal emergency declaration to be able to access those funds. That this is more procedural, but nonetheless, there is some steps the administration we need to take, in order to draw down some of the strategic reserves to bring the budget to balanced. And then, you know, clawbacks of state earmarks, which I had touched on earlier. One more note is that, you know, as things are shifting quickly, when, before I submitted this presentation, I should say, after, the legislative analyst's office reported that, uh, on Friday that, um, there was a projected $24 billion additional reduction or forecasting and decreased revenues based on the governor's original projections. And so again, all that to say, we could see up to a $35 billion increase by May. It just really depends on how much collections we that come in between now and the tax filing deadline. And so more to come on that, but it is something that we will continue to track. So just from a timing standpoint, you know, we have budget hearings that are now commencing, the administration is releasing a series of budget trailer bills that touch on all of these sort of broader ideas. In mid-May, we will see the governors may revision, so he will have a secondary proposal to the legislature based on updated forecasting. Really, from mid-May to June 15th is really where you have, the budget deal will be negotiated between the legislature and the administration, by June 15th. The legislature must vote to approve the budget, and then by June 30th the governor must sign the budget to adhere to constitutional deadlines. So more on that as we progress. And then just looking more broadly with respect to specific legislation, that is, that is being introduced and moving through the legislature early this year, um, that a line or that are of importance to the city, um, that we've seen, uh, really, um, major themes that we're seeing in the legislature thus far over next slide, please. Oh, sorry, on one side ahead. So from the legislative calendar perspective, right now, February 16th would be the bill introduction deadline. So as of today, 919 bills have been introduced in the 2nd year of the session, and we anticipate another, maybe 1200 bills being introduced between tomorrow and Friday. And so, um, a lot of these bills that are, are, are being introduced, we need to then, uh, sort of triage and see which ones that we think apply to the city, uh, tag those bills by by both subject matter and priority. and then start doing our assessments on those bills that have a real direct impact to the city. And so if we ever ask the question as to why we have so many policy statements in our platform, it's because we have over 2000 bills a year that get introduced and it allows us to have the flexibility to be able to assess those bills and engage on your behalf. Um, and so, um, more to come on, on, on the final, on the final, on Friday, but we will be providing that in our monthly legislative update to you as well. So moving on to just major initial themes thus far. A series of AI bills have were introduced after this presentation was submitted, so that's not on this list, but AI is something that we are tracking, and we'll keep you apprised on. But housing production, of course, there's lots in the housing world that is being introduced. Um, there have been, um, there's issues, bills that are touching on on homelessness and in the unhoused. Um, technological issues, such as Brown Act and public records, acroform measures that are being introduced, that we are currently assessing. Bills that have to do with different approaches on public safety, some proposition 47 technical reforms, that can be done without going to the ballot, although there is a measure being circulated to try and reform 47, but that is still in the signature gathering phase. And then as a assembly member, Berman mentioned assembly bill, 1999, which is that 8205 fixed utility rate fee charge, that is being looking to be repealed. And so, that has certainly garnered a lot of attention, particularly in this region. And as the assembly member alluded to, he and Senator Becker really are helping lead the charge on trying to get that repealed, and I would anticipate there will be considerable support in the community for that. So touching, you know, somewhat high level on some of the update, upcoming March and November ballot propositions. Really, the governor was very clear in the end of, in the conclusion of the 2023 session to really, as he put it, kind of clear the decks for the March primary wanting proposition one, being the only statewide proposition on the ballot. Now, in, you know, the positive for that is that voters would have just one proposition to consider and review. The downside is, perhaps, is that November is going to be a very, very lengthy ballot, with lots of propositions for consideration. So, moving on to, um, proposition one, the behavior of Health Infrastructure Bond Act, it's a total of 6.38 billion dollars in total proposed funding, um, myself, along with our other local government advocates. And of course, Cal cities were successful in securing and getting the bond amended to include an additional one.5 million dollars that would actually be directed directly to local government for these behavioral housing projects. Our firm is actually pulling together a pretty comprehensive memo about opportunities for funding for that one. 5 billing and that will be sharing with the city. A couple of just key points in that is that there's by right development provisions and labor requirements attached to the funding associated with that. So I know that aligns with the values of the city. And so, um, um, you may be, particularly for housing designation, you may be more competitive for those fundings, sources. Next slide. And so really, this is the final slide, pretty high level, but happy to answer more questions in detail, but there's a total of so far 10 initiative measures that are for consideration, just in the statewide level. Um, and the ones that are of particular interest, um, uh, ACA one. This is the measure that would lower the threshold from 66, uh, uh, .67 down to 55 for local, uh, special taxes and bond measures, uh, for critical infrastructure. And so one of the quality, one of the benefits of this would be that you could, a critical infrastructure is fairly widely defined, it would allow the city to conceivably issue bond issue revenue measures to build, things like affordable housing, and the critical infrastructure to support those affordable housing developments. And so, uh, it is certainly another tool in the tool belt for local governments, as they try and grapple with, um, uh, uh, you know, they're unhoused population and just the affordability crisis that we're having in the state. ACA 13 is in really in direct response to the California business roundtable measure. One of the provisions of the California Business Roundtable measure is that while it takes only a majority vote conceivably to be enacted, it does tie the future hands of any future voting Californians by saying it's going to take a majority vote to pass, but two thirds of Californians to make any repeals once it has passed. And so, ACA 13 was qualified by the legislature that would essentially say it's very simply that if you are going to raise the voter threshold to say it's going to take more than a majority vote, to make future changes, that you have to secure higher than majority, whatever vote, threshold, you are trying to raise, that is the vote threshold, you have to have it be passed by the voters. And so the way it's crafted is that it would, in effect, impact the California Business Roundtable measure, meaning that, that if ACA 13 were to pass, and a CBR 13 measure were to pass, if CBRT only passes with a majority plus one, and ACA 13 passes with a majority plus one, CBRT would be invalidated. So I know it's a, it's a, you know, it's an interesting, it'll be an interesting November, nonetheless. Um, uh, you know, there's, uh, a couple of other measures I wanted to, um, highlight, um, the California right to marry and repeal, proposition 8 amendment, that was something that this, uh, council supported, uh, getting on the ballot, and so I would imagine that, that, um, at the appropriate time that the council will likely, um, pass a resolution of support, uh, given they supported that we supported the bill and advocated on your behalf to try and get it approved by the legislature. And there's also two other ballot measures. One is the Justice for Renters Act, which is a full repeal of Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, and then the California, remove voter approval requirement for public, low housing projects, amendment, the longest title, that you can think of. But this was done by the legislature, and it is trying to repeal Article 34 of the Constitution that currently prohibits local agencies from financing local government funded affordable housing projects in their communities without a two thirds vote. So, um, this is, uh, these are all really kind of hot button issues. The last thing I'll mentioned on CBRT, a little bit more on timing here. So as, as, um, Gilmore mentioned, um, the governor, the legislature, uh, did file, uh, um, brief to try and, um, uh, get the CBRT measure pulled from the ballot. The High Court, California Supreme Court has actually agreed to hear their case. And so, it's actually something that wasn't even expected to be heard by the California Supreme Court initially, but they have decided to hear it. Arguments are, will likely be set for March and April. Decision will likely happen prior to the June printing deadline for the ballot. And so we will see some resolution on this one way or the other. The governor argues a couple of different legal parameters as to why the measures should not be on the ballot, saying that it would have a critical impact for state and local agencies to have to provide any services whatsoever, and that it an unduly impedes executive and state and local authority. And so the Supreme Court will deliberate and have a ruling on that. But, you know, the CBRT measure would, in effect, reverse nearly every appellate win for government and supports of Prop 13, Prop 218, 26, and 62 over the last couple of decades, that retroactivity provisions are incredibly problematic. Um, it is something that, um, will have a pretty considerable impact, uh, to uh, to services across the state. And so, um, something that we would very much encourage voters to understand. Don't let the name of the title fool you. And certainly something that we will continue to try to provide education on in our role as your legislative advocates. And with that, that concludes my presentation. Thank you.

[02:01:37] Mayor Pat Showalter: Um, Because this is a study session, we will have public comment first. And so, I need to find the people who would like to comment on this item, uh, please come forward, or raise your hand in Zoom, and we'll have the, the people who were with us in the um, council speak 1st. Everybody is going to get 2 minutes. Um, and uh, I hope that's enough. So please come forward. Welcome. Nice to see you, Ms. Connolly. Thank you.

[02:02:17] Devin Connolly: Good evening, mayor, show Walter and honorable council members. My name is Devin Connolly, and I'm the president of the Mountain View Wisman School Board. I'm going to try to get through all my comments, but I'm pretty sure I won't in two minutes, so I'll email them in later. I want to thank you for leveraging Mountain View's voice to advocate at the state level on so many important issues. In my own advocacy experience. I'm also the regional director for the California School Boards Association representing Santa Clara County. I've seen that having concrete examples from the local level to share with state legislators really does impact decision making. So I wanted to share a couple of examples from our school district related to 2 policy areas in particular, homelessness and childcare. Our district sees firsthand the impact of a lack of housing on our most vulnerable students and families. Our homeless student population has jumped in the last 5 years, from 175 students in the 2019 2020 school year to 333 students last year. This is data that's publicly available on eddata.org, data repository managed by the state of California. This year, approximately 20% of the students enrolled at Castro Elementary School are homeless. We know that our homeless students really suffer academically. They fall significantly behind their peers, and they have higher rates of absenteeism. In the last school year, 22, 23, 32% of our homeless students miss 10% or more of the school year. We have also heard loud and clear the voices of parents asking for more access to childcare. As a district, we have a mandate from the state to provide transitional kindergarten. This is relatively new. We've been expanding it, but we don't get additional funding as a community funded district. We're having to pay for it out of pocket. We also have a preschool program that serves families that has some state funding and we paid for, but we're trying to expand that as well. And our goal is eventually to have extended day daycare for all of the need in Mountain View. Thank you.

[02:04:23] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Next speaker.

[02:04:28] Salim: Hi. I'm Salim. I want to thank counsel for their tireless work on the housing crisis and homelessness in our community. It's been dedicated attention over years, which is why I was surprised to read the language about eroding local control. Um, and unfunded mandates in the staff uh, report, which I think are at odds with the city's values and the city's own priorities. It reads like language that you could find in a Huntington Beach staff report. It really is not in line with the priorities you've set for the city. Voters don't want politicians to bicker over who has power. What voters want are real solutions to housing crisis and homelessness that our communities face. We need regional solutions to regional problems. And it is completely, it is completely in line with Mountain View's local control to use its powers to support legislation that advances its goals on the housing crisis. Because we know just like we need regional solutions to climate change. We also need regional solutions to a regional housing crisis. Thank you.

[02:05:41] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Mr. McKenzie, welcome.

[02:05:46] Tim McKenzie: Hi, Al. Tim, he, him pronouns. I want to call out a couple things. I just, I appreciate the specificity in the updated draft legislative priority. There's a lot of things that of changing the language, but it doesn't feel like just wordsmithing that there's some real strength, for example, under, I think, under C support child daycare legislation to increase childcare within the community, whereas before it was a little bit more wishy-washy. I appreciate that sort of proactive type thing. We don't want to see another situation where Google suddenly shuts down childcare centers that it has had for years and years after doing a bait and switch where it called workers back and then laid off a lot of people. being proactive as a city. Really appreciate that. We can have a voice. And I like seeing that we've been at regional, statewide, and even federal things, we can raise up and have our voice as a city and have a broader impact. One of the things that we often like to say, or that comes up a lot, is that Mountain View can be a policy leader in a lot of ways, and this is a good way to amplify our impact by actually using our voice. So it's good to see that happening, and we can impact nationally or even as was said in the El Camino health presentation. We could perhaps even have a global impact when we speak up. So thank you.

[02:07:15] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Miss Tang? Welcome.

[02:07:21] Eva Tang: Hi, counsel, Eva Tang, live in Old Mountain View. I wanted to bring attention, in terms of public safety, to, if there is legislation out there to support legislation to require responsible retirement and handling of law enforcement equipment, including military weapons and firearms, surrender to or otherwise seized by police departments. I've recently been made aware of a problem through the New York Times, where police departments hand over guns to disposal services who destroy just one component and sell off the rest of the parts of the gun in a kit, effectively creating more ghost guns. And I know that many of you are pro gun safety, responsible gun control. So I wanted to bring that to your attention. In terms of education. I know that you are not a school board, but since he mentioned it, I don't support assembly member Berman's initiative to make computer science, a high school grad requirement. We are in the biggest chronic absentee and behavioral crisis right now in classrooms. There is more to Santa Clara County and to living in Mountain View than being on a computer. You need people who can do all the other things. Please don't make graduation harder by making computer science a graduation requirement. I yield the rest of my time to the mayor. Thank you.

[02:08:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you, Ms. Webster, welcome.

[02:08:52] April Webster: Hi, thank you, April Webster. I'm a resident of Mountain View. I'm also a green complete streets advocate, and I sit on a number of active transportation committees at the local, regional and state level, and I am here today to encourage you to watch, support, and endorse 2 transportation bills. The 1st is SB 960. It is a complete streets bill rewrite. It is being introduced by Senator Weiner, and it is sponsored by Cal Bike, Streets for All and Spur. It's basically bringing in the latest language from Caltrans in their policies and their design guidelines, guidelines to be more explicit in that bill. One of the overriding goals is to ensure all transportation projects funded or overseen by Caltrans provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets, facilities, unless an exemption is documented. So basically, complete streets by default. It also aims to address Caltran's accountability and transparency. And I'm really excited to be working with that team to integrate green streets language. I'm basically pulling in the language that is in Dib 94, which is Caltran's complete streets designed, sorry, design guidance, which was signed on January 16th. What you're seeing in there is a focus on flooding. And one of the quotes in there I quite like. It is a flooded street, is not a complete street. And so some of the hope in bringing that in is that it can help create the carrot, namely, funding that can help MountainView deal with things that are requirements for our MRP 3.0, our commitments for our water permit.

[02:11:00] Mayor Pat Showalter: Do you want to quickly tell us what the other bill was?

[02:11:02] April Webster: It's 961. It is speed governors, and it's basically an innovative approach to use technology for traffic calming. Thanks.

[02:11:11] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. All right. Next, speaker.

[02:11:19] Alexander Amoroso: Hello there. I actually wasn't planning on speaking today, but here we go. My name is Alexander Amoroso. I live off of Moffat and Middlefield Road. My wife and I have been residents of this city for 4 years, and I also serve and work here as well as a rotary club member and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. So my love for this community, let alone this country is Marrow deep. That said, I did want to register a bit of a recommendation to the council as far as the mechanics behind fixing our housing, since it's a reoccurring theme with this city and with the state, nonetheless. So there's been a lot said about affordable housing and cheaper housing for low income individuals. Frankly, what about just building more housing period? That is just the question that needs to be posed. So the affordable housing situation that you saw, um, presented by life moves, you don't see any more of those reoccurring problems because you have folks leaving these recommended life, um, excuse me, these, um, before about housing plans going back into the regular housing market, and then they get priced out anyway. And then they're back on the street. So, My suggestion would be to look towards opening up more for development, more for housing. And if subsidizing materials for housing that could actually be cost effective and cheaper for the city, could be a good suggestion. And by and large. I support everything that has been mentioned and said with the council today on affordable housing and support for the homeless and all the other stuff, especially for veterans, but just doing more in lieu of just building more housing that's environmentally friendly and available and cheap for others would be fantastic. Also, to leave you with a thought, possibly looking to land values taxation and what that entails. Thank you.

[02:13:22] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Alex Brown? I love ending off with surprise Georgeism.

[02:13:32] Alex Brown: Hey, how's it going? My comments are going to be mostly structural because the list of priorities for the legislation is too long. It is granular in really odd ways. I think that the comment about the local control. Yeah, I've got issues with just having that be a top order priority, but I also don't like that it's just scattered in application, if you look at the list. Just asterisks on every other item sometimes. So some things you accept eroding local control, but others who don't. It's just, it, it's too much. It is a lack of focus. It feels like... Some things are called out for no, but I can't tell why one item would get a call out, but not others. In this case, for the one that you're looking at now, in terms of splitting, the electrification of homes or businesses, and also carbon sequestration, were both sub-items of one, but now they're 2 separate items. First of all, carbon sequestration? It's a diversion from actual addressing issues. Not gonna go into that. But now it is its own item. That's a thing that we will support funding of. Maybe. One of the things is allowing for missing mental housing that doesn't specify funding or legislation just as like things that allow. I don't know. It needs editing. It needs an editing pass. It needs to be trimmed. I think that, uh, it's harder for the community to see what is going to be focused on what the city actually wants concretely, when you have so many things that you can't tell what is, like, what is, what is chaff? Like, clean it up. tighten it. So you know, it's more something that everyone can read. Not 140 items. Thanks.

[02:15:18] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. All right. So, um, that closes the public comment. And we'll bring it back to council for deliberation.

[02:15:28] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Mayor.

[02:15:29] Mayor Pat Showalter: Yes?

[02:15:29] City Clerk Heather Glaser: You have public comment on Zoom.

[02:15:32] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Can you pull up the first person?

[02:15:40] City Clerk Heather Glaser: I don't. First, we'll hear from Bruce England. Bruce England?

[02:15:47] Bruce England: Thank you. Yes, thank you and thank you, mayor. Um, I, uh, Bruce England Wisdom Station Drive. I expect you'll hear more from the community tonight about this situation in Gaza, but at this point, I'd like to pose a question for intergovernmental relations staff and the RPBG team. That is, could there be opportunities for our city to weigh in on the tragic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, one that is becoming worse by the hour, as you know. Well, we might assume we have no place beyond city matters to advocate as this agenda item demonstrates, that is not so, strictly speaking. So I hope that you'll be able to consider that question during your deliberations. Thanks.

[02:16:31] Mayor Pat Showalter: Are there any other speakers on soon?

[02:16:33] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Next, we'll hear from James Guzmo.

[02:16:35] James Guswell: Thank you. Good evening. James Guswell speaking on behalf of myself. I genuinely think that I think the whole legislative advocacy stuff is a good thing for the city, especially when it enables us to do things like that because see those mentioned with SB 971. Um, However, like a couple of the prior speakers, I do have some concerns about the eroding local controlling, which it has been carried over from last year. I would expect the goals of the cities to be, to do what is best for the residents, and sometimes that may mean the state doing things. Um, it's not local control is not in and of itself a good thing. Sometimes the state provides greater flexibility to the city to do good things, like with the transit links. Sometimes it's simpler for the state to do it, good things. And even similar for the city because it means maybe staff doesn't have to do as much work. Sometimes it's good for the residents of the city because it forces other cities to be good actors or Mountain View wasn't, or once sometimes it will be the case, the Mountain View is doing something wrong and this state will do something right. So I would encourage us to strike that language both because it's ambiguous and and broad as, um, Alex was alluding to and because we should be prioritizing good things over bad things and not parochialism. Thank you.

[02:18:00] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Next to Steph Hennington.

[02:18:13] Ed Hendrickson: Hello, my name is Ed Hendrickson, and I'm speaking on behalf of the Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning. Firstly, we would like to thank city staff for the attention to detail and comprehensiveness of the proposed legislative program priorities. Overall, we feel the list reflects the right topics for Mountain View's advocacy, and the state at the state level. We particularly appreciate the emphasis on housing affordability and multiple income levels and the anti-displacement legislation. As we feel maintaining Mountain View's economic diversity is a critical aspect of our community's vibrancy. In the letter that we sent you, we mentioned some specific items we'd like the city to advocate for from broad ideas like incentives for microgrid development to very local equity building, community amenities like public restrooms and water bottle refillers. We mentioned simplifying electrical efficiency upgrades for homeowners and ways the state can incentivize minimizing water, use and maximizing reuse. But our most mountain view idea, if you will, is to have the city encourage more innovation at the state level, particularly in construction techniques. Mountain View can represent the best of the Silicon Valley mindset in our advocacy and encourage the state to create funding mechanisms that incentivize developers and construction companies to use emerging carbon negative or neutral construction technology. The state can help create market opportunities and attract those pioneering companies to work in California. And state led policy and funding mechanisms can make it easier for developers to select these options as viable business choices. We also encourage the city to advocate for strong and specific standards to define green, complete streets in the Caltrans design manual. For example, through SB 960 as April mentioned. Um, and then also I just have to mention, please advocate for the bicycle safety stop law at the state level. We know the governor has vetoed it. Um, but we really believe that this makes things safer. And guess what? Idaho, North Dakota, and even Arkansas have passed this law. So we can't imagine those states are more bike friendly than California, right? Thank you so much for the opportunity.

[02:20:23] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you, and thank you for your letter. Our final speaker is B. Hansen. Welcome, B. B, are you there?

[02:20:56] B. Hansen: Oh, I think I found the problem. Uh, can you hear me now?

[02:20:59] Mayor Pat Showalter: We can hear you, yes.

[02:21:01] B. Hansen: Hello, council members. We at the mobile home alliance appreciate our city government's recognition that other Bay Area cities have rent stabilization ordinances that have more reasonable AGAs for mobile home space rents than those defined in our cities, MHRSO. We appreciate that the current proposed legislative platform for 2024 includes monitoring and evaluating our current RSO, and we hope that evaluation will focus on lowering the AGA and codifying our ordinance to make it part of the city's charter. I am also a member of the statewide mobile home residence coalition, which is attempting to extend protection to all of California's mobile home residence. Currently in the state legislature, there is a build in progress amendment, assembly member, Maritsuchi's AB 1035, to place space rent caps and add vacancy decontrol to mobile home parks statewide. We feel that the time is now, and since we already have an RSO, in mountain view, it's time to improve and codify that local legislation. Thank you.

[02:22:19] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. All right. Is that our any more speakers?

[02:22:24] City Clerk Heather Glaser: That did it.

[02:22:24] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, great. So we'll bring it back to council for deliberation and comments. At this point, do we have any questions from staff that we're supposed to be working on?

[02:22:50] Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour Ramberg: Okay. So up on the screen, we have the council, the input that the staff is seeking from the council on the following question. Are there any policy issues, priorities or policy statements that council would like to discuss, seek further clarification on, modify, add, or remove from the proposed 2024 legislative platform?

[02:23:16] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. Well, we've heard lots of comments from the public and I'm sort of looking for my fellow council members to very good council member Ramos.

[02:23:31] Councilmember Emily Ramos: All right, thank you, mayor. Let's rip off the Band-Aid. So I'll start with some questions that I had. Um, I'm gonna start very locally and then just expand to a little bit more broader. Um, so, um, I had the opportunity to join y'all um, at the Cal City summit last year is one of the 1st things I got to do. And I watched the process where we advocated for the legislation that we managed to pass. Um, I don't see. How do I say this? We pass legislation to help make things easier for things that we are doing specifically to Mountain View. I don't see something like that apparent in our platform. If we wanted to do something like that, how would we put it in? The way we're structuring our platform is very different from how. It's different from how I would almost, as a guideline of how we want it to be used as we go into advocating, how we want to direct our lovely staff, to do. Like, if, how do we have, what kind of catchall would we have for something like that? We run into something in another study session on the bike safety? I don't know. And then we're like, oh, we can't do that because something's something state law. Where does that good thrown into our legislative priority? Because I feel like having that direct action would be very helpful and more directly appealing to and more directly affecting our residents.

[02:25:14] Dane: So if I can just repeat what I, what I heard, um, Council member Ramos, you're asking for, and to understand in our, within our exist, our proposed platform, is there a general catchall statement that would allow the city to pivot and respond quickly to emerging issues that are not particularly captured within the, the 125 policy statements that we are bringing forward for your consideration?

[02:25:40] Councilmember Emily Ramos: I guess the variation of it is more how much it directly affects what we're trying to do as a council. And that would be essentially like a higher priority than a general statement of values that our platform is currently largely structured around.

[02:26:03] Dane: So, As I had indicated earlier, on average, we see over 2000 pieces of legislation introduced every year. And so part of what the platform, um, enables us to do, which is frankly why we have so many statements, is because you can see measures, um, you know, as I mentioned, we attract 1500 bills that have, uh, that could have some sort of impact, um, not only to the city, not, but to just, you know, local government, you know, statewide. And so the platform allows us to then go down a little bit, you know, um, down a little bit more of a layer to say, okay, what are the priorities of the city? Are there ways, does it help, it provides us, gives us guidance that we can engage on legislation. And so, as part of the platform. We also have, I believe, in the document that outlines positions that can be taken. One of those is being a sponsor of legislation. So if there is something that the council would like to try and advocate for, because I'd mentioned, you had said passing legislation that, you know, sponsoring, um, that aligns with those, uh, platform guidelines, um, conceivably, we would be able to do that so long as it's within the time frame of us being able to, um, secure an author and have a bill introduced on our behalf. But really, the platform's design is really more of a, um, of an assessment tool for when legislation is introduced. It allows us to take a little bit of a finer approach, analyze these bills, to say, hey, does this align with the values of the city? And if so, we will, you know, look to support, if it is, if it is not, align with the values of the city, are there ways that we can, either, you know, seek amendments to make it workable, uh, or if we just get to a point of impasse, taking a formal, you know, oppose position in trying to stop the legislation. But it's our hope, of course, that we can try and, um, compromise with the legislature and and seek amendments that make the bills more workable. But that really is the, um, the guiding principles allow us to be a little bit more nimble and assess all of those bills that are introduced. Um, to effectively advocate in your behalf.

[02:28:21] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you for that. Now, for the next question is a different topic. Now, I love benchmarking. How does our legislative program compared to other cities? Like, in terms of, is the difference, the legislative platform, is the difference with the level of engagement? Is the difference with how nimble it is? Is the difference? How are other programs? How are other city programs structured compared to ours? I would love to know more about that. I was recently told that you don't have any clients in Santa Clara county so that you would avoid any conflicts of one city wanting one thing in another sitting line, a different thing. But, um, Cal matters recently, um, uh, did an article about lobbying, and one of the interesting things was how other cities were also doing lobbying. And I, we found, I found Mountain View on that list. We pay 87,000. And that ranks us at 1333rd, most lobbying. Um, Chevron's number one, um, in case, um, but, um, but, but, I went and checked out the other cities, for example, San Jose ranked at 39th, one, 1400000 is one.5 million-ish, uh, Santa Clara, ranked that 47 with 12 million-ish. And then it gets a little bit more reasonable with Palo Alto at 189,000 at 445th place, still a little bit more. And then, then, then, Mountain View. And then um, Cupertino at 59 K, Milpitas, at 40 K, Los Altos Hills at 36 K, and then that covers our county. But how does that compare? What is done by those cities, what is done by, I guess, you probably have clients other cities outside of Santa Clara County. How does that compare and what do they do?

[02:30:25] Dane: Well, it sounds like you're getting a screaming deal. Um, comparison. So I'll lead off by that. But, no, I will, and frankly, I can't, I can't compliment, or I can't, I can't comment on the specifics that other legislative advocacy firms have with respect to how they advocate for their clients. You know, I will tell you that, well, 2 things. Number one, you're right, we do not have any other cities in the county, but it's not necessarily to avoid direct conflicts. However, I will say that the city has done such a tremendous job on housing and being a leader in housing policy that, you know, you are a, you have a unique place in the county, and we'd like to be that unique voice for you, particularly on the housing front. And so, when we've been approached by jurisdictions in the county that don't align with your policies. We have, you know, decided to not throw our hat in the ring for those types of things. But, um, so I can't comment on what, uh, you know, what, what, other jurisdictions that have other representation do, but what we aim to do is to work very closely with your city staff, um, really devise a, a, um, program that is very unique to the values of our clients, um, and then work very hard to try and advance those policies and tell your story. And so, that is part of, you know, I've had the honor and privilege of working with your colleagues, and we have sat down with lawmakers, with committee staff, advocating for the city, particularly last year, when we advanced our sponsored piece of legislation, and that was our opportunity not only to, you know, showcase the great work we're doing in the area of transportation, but tell the reasons, or tell the story as to why it's so critical that this particular piece of legislation should advance. And so, again, I can't comment on what other folks are doing, but I believe that, you know, we provide the city with an annual report each year that highlights all of our metrics of performance, and I would, I suppose I would say, I'd refer you back to that report for a more detailed account. And I would just add that legislative advocacy by city really is dependent upon that city's council's priorities and their focus. So San Jose is the largest city within the county. They have a lot of unique issues that they're dealing with. And so that's possibly reflected in the amount of money or funding that they put forward for their legislative advocacy. And so I would say that that's probably, it's going to be dependent on each city and city council. There are several cities within our county, smaller cities that don't have as robust legislative platforms or programs as mountain view or city San Jose or city Santa Clara. So, if that helps adding some additional color to that question.

[02:33:31] Councilmember Emily Ramos: I guess the question is, is what, what are the criteria of what would make a robust program versus, uh, like a premium plus program versus like the, the freebie program kind of difference? Like what criteria are we using?

[02:33:46] Mayor Pat Showalter: Excuse me, council member? The city manager has a comment.

[02:33:51] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, mayor, council member Ramos. So, I'd also like to add that one of the things that we really wanted to focus on this past year was learning from how our program can develop. This is the 2nd year of having a legislative program, and our assistant to the city manager, Ms. Gilmore, is actually spending most of her time now on intergovernmental affairs, and is the city's intergovernmental affairs manager. One of the things that was just started in the county. So this is to your question about what's happening, what are other cities doing? There recently was a countywide, excuse me, intergovernmental affairs group convened. This is the 1st time, just this past year that staff was even able to get together at a staff level to even talk about what's your city doing? What's your agency doing? So I think it really depends on the level of engagement at the staff level too. Sometimes, um, cities don't have, say, uh, the size of the organization doesn't allow for, um, a dedicated staff person or even staff in the departments that are able to review legislation or work with our legislative advocacy firm or work with Ms. Gilmore. Um, so that would certainly contribute to the cost. Um, the time that we spend, the request that we ask of um, Dane and his team. That would all contribute to a retainer, essentially. And I think, you know, this is something that we can continue to look at and revise over time. If we do want to be more engaged, if we do feel like we want to bring in several pieces of legislation moving forward. How much time that may take, um, their Renee public policy group. So I think there's just a lot of factors involved, but I do know that this is something that a lot of cities in our county are just kind of starting to ramp up and do more of. But it's certainly something if council's more interested. It's absolutely something that we can look at, and even as staff, talk about what we might need to do. If we do want to become more engaged, and what that means, and talk to staff in other cities that, like, on that list you mentioned, what are they doing for, you know, a 1000000 and a half dollars? Because I'm not really aware. And as I mentioned, this is really the 1st year that we've even had the staff countywide legislative coordinators committee. So we can certainly look into that further. Okay,

[02:36:25] Mayor Pat Showalter: council member Ramos, is that all your questions?

[02:36:29] Councilmember Emily Ramos: If we wanted to add last question, I promise. If we want to add something on bike safety, what category would that actually be under? Because there's public safety, and then there's transportation, um, but I'm not entirely sure where or it could be under environmental sustainability, but if we wanted to add like a plank on bike safety, where would that go?

[02:36:51] Dane: It would most likely go under section K transportation and public works.

[02:36:55] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, thank you. Council member Hicks.

[02:37:01] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, mayor, maybe you can clarify for me. Are we just doing questions now, not comments? Are we doing questions and comments together?

[02:37:10] Mayor Pat Showalter: I think it would be appropriate to combine them.

[02:37:12] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay. Yeah. Okay, good.

[02:37:14] Mayor Pat Showalter: Uh, then, Council member Ramos will take a second round, I think. at the end.

[02:37:21] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, um, first, I'll say I'm, um, personally not really looking to make major changes. I've been, you know, as mayor last year, working with you all, I was pretty happy with the way it worked out. Um, you know, tweaks here and there, but I'm generally happy. Um, I'm not looking for a major remodel. Um, so, and then I, there wasn't a member of the public, actually, more than one, though, who asked me how they could keep track, how they knew what the progress was. Um, so maybe you can answer that for members of the public. Of course, they can read this staff report. And attend this presentation. But beyond that, maybe what's available on the website in terms of reports back, 'cause I know your report back to council, but members of the public don't receive those emails. So how can they keep track, or is it mainly because I don't actually know that? Um, because I just get your direct reports. So, how would members of the public... Is there anything on the website and anything besides this meeting?

[02:38:34] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: So currently on our legislative and intergovernmental web page, we have the adopted platform that the council adopts, that list out all of the council policy statements, as well as the city council's priority for legislative advocacy. If the council, you know, direct staff, you know, we can certainly, um, begin sharing, um, copies of the letters that council is, um, sending to the legislature or to regional bodies. We have not previously posted those letters on our webpage, but if that is council's direction to staff that you would like to see those shared publicly going forward, then certainly we can make that accommodation.

[02:39:18] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Yeah, I'm not sure. The people I talked to were looking for that level of minutia. But, um, I it may, I know you give us periodic reports. Are those available on,

[02:39:29] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: at this time, those have been internal, um, to the council. So we provide monthly reports to the council and our legislative activity that kind of summarizes what has been happening in the state legislature, as well as summarizes the engagement, intergovernmental relations engagement. So those have been internal reports that to appraise the council as well as our executive teams on emerging issues that are happening within the legislature.

[02:40:01] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay. That's what I what I wanted to know on that. And then several members of the public had brought up specific bills. You know, our legislative platform doesn't specify, you know, its general statements of things we're looking for. But I'm wondering how you, like, one was, if I got took my nose right, I didn't get the bill number, but was, it was a responsible retirement of weapons. Do you think we have a category? You don't have to respond to this right away, if you have to look it up. But you think we have a category that would...

[02:40:42] Dane: Yeah, well, public safety as the general category. But something more specific that would have you reporting back to us on that.

[02:40:50] Councilmember Alison Hicks: And then the other one was, um, the wiener bill, SB 960, and then also SB 961. You know, are those encompassed in terms of watching and monitoring them, and you don't have to answer right now. You can.

[02:41:08] Ms. Gilmore: And I would say that those particular 2 bills, SB 916, SB 961, you know, we met with staff and staff has flagged them, as bills of interest. And RPPG as Dane mentioned in his presentation, 1500 to 2000 bills per session based on our legislative platform. They do go through and they flag bills that they think will it be of interest to the city. And then that comes through to city staff. And then I coordinate with city staff to get their input on the bills and then we go from there and determine, you know, our level of engagement. And, um, you know, if we feel that we need to be engaged in the bill. So, um, yes, there is a mechanism to track bills and, and, um, Dane and his staff are very diligent, um, in, um, providing us with, with updates on bills and, um, keeping us appraise, especially if there are specific bills that the city has said, you know, we're very interested in this and we want to learn more. We provide us analysis, and if we determine that we need to meet with legislative staff, then we have the opportunity to have RPG coordinate that for us to provide comments and input on legislation.

[02:42:26] Mayor Pat Showalter: So I guess my specific question is, would you already be monitoring those 3 that were mentioned and can you get back? I assume that you already are, but I just worked.

[02:42:35] Unknown Speaker: That is correct.

[02:42:36] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, great. Thank you. Those are my questions.

[02:42:40] Mayor Pat Showalter: Council member, uh, Kameh?

[02:42:42] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great. Thank you. Uh, I just want to thanks Taff and RVG for all their efforts. I feel like this is something council talked about for a long time in terms of having, um, some legislative advocacy and now we're seeing this and each year, I think we refine it, we get feedback and um, make it an even better program and now to have dedicated staff is really, really great. So I just wanted to say thank you, especially going through thousands, literally 1000s of bills is no easy task. So, um, I don't uh, have any questions, but I think just have some response to and feedback for the question above us, which is um, underneath the platform item, something that I know, um, the city also participates, uh, so, I'm sorry, under purpose. So one of the things mentioned is the city will coordinate with advocacy services and regional partners as appropriate. And I know that we're part of the city's association. We're part of the Cal Cities Peninsula Division. And so I wonder if under that statement is where we're kind of talking about the regional partnerships because for some of the, um, you know, ballot measures. I know that the interest to, you know, all the cities, but also those 2 groups. And so I'd love to find a way for us to kind of, um, embody the work that we're doing on our regional boards and our regional partners, that we are also um, going forward not just as a city, but in those avenues, you know, MTC, A-Bag, DA, um, advocating for whatever our priorities and platforms are, because I know that that's already happening. But I don't, I just want to make sure it's kind of incorporated into the 2024 legislative platform in terms of refinement. So if it doesn't fit under purpose, but can fit somewhere else, I'd love for staff to be able to find a place for that. Um, And I know that those organizations too can sometimes take bill positions. And so just looking at, um, Mayor Hicks question made me think of it, you know, so bills in our introduced, you know, the deadline is this Friday, and then, let's see, so, you know, they're going to go through both houses. So I think at some point in our calendar, you know, our table one key legislative dates on page 6 of the study session memo, there is a point where the city will have weighed in on the positions on our bill on bills for this session. Can we build that in? Like, I don't know. I looked to Dane on where that is, but maybe that's what we can put on the website, is the bill positions that the city has taken, because I also agree. I don't necessarily feel like the letters are what people in the community are looking for, but they may be, oh, what did they take a position on SB 960 and they can go to the web page and they can see if we have or have not. And, you know, I also know that things have to go through committee. Sometimes it's gotten amends. Like, we don't know what the final final is. And so maybe we can build into this key legislative date, at least when the community can have an idea that the council will have weighed in on whatever final version we see, um, would be some feedback, um, for this question. Um, and then lastly, in terms of the um, platform, I appreciate that the comments from the community and that staff added kind of the, the asterisks and kind of qualitative, um, sentences there. I think that my understanding of the legislative process is or what I would hope the city can do is just be as nimble as possible. So I don't feel like those are necessary in my opinion, because we already have our priorities adopted. You know, we know that we're going to want to support things that are, you know, in the best interest of our city. So I don't feel and I don't know if this will come up in other people's comments, but I didn't feel like the asterisks were necessary for myself, because I know that things are ever evolving and changing. Um, and that's why we have to review the platform annually. So, um, and I would hope that, you know, to me, it's not necessarily. It's more about how do we prioritize our city and our residents first. So those are my final comments. Thank you, Mayor.

[02:47:41] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Council member Abby Coca.

[02:47:45] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to staff and thank you to RPG. So I'm one of the folks who's been on here for a while and had been advocating for having support in this field and for the longest time it didn't happen. But now that it has, I think we're actually getting a really good deal. Just the progress we've made in terms of being able to, you know, co-sponsor legislation and especially in terms of going out for grant money and earmarks, that's just something that we weren't able to do and we really needed it. And so I and I think we've shown that we really are benefiting from that. So thank you so thank you very much. Um, I would just say, one area that I've been concerned about is, um, or and I wanted to ask, if there's probably not, but any talk about replacing the RDAs, because my concern is that, that, as, and these are specifics that I'm realizing other cities aren't, uh, realizing them yet, but, you know, for instance, affordable housing, 100% of affordable housing projects, we have many, but, you know, I learned that we lose the property tax. We don't, and so my, you know, question or my interest is to advocate for some way of backfilling that lost revenue as our, as we're just going through the budget, we'll be going through the budget next week, our next meeting. More and more, I see that and that we are getting our ability to generate revenue is diminishing. And that's my concern with these mandates. So, um, there's that issue. There's the Excess Land Act, and I know we have a potential challenge with that with one of our projects downtown. And so, you know, as you know, our city, we've been able to generate revenue through use of our lands, and as that becomes diminished. that's a big concern for me. So I don't know if there's any talk about that. I think we're probably ahead of most cities, so there probably isn't, but I guess that's where then I would like for us to start taking the lead on some of these issues. Because these are the, what do they call it? I forget, um, the unintended consequences of these, the, you know, the desire to build more affordable housing, which is important, but it's starting to diminish our city's ability to generate the revenue, to be able to operate. So, that's an area that I hope that we can look at and take the lead on. My And so my interest is that, because we are taking the lead, I'd like for us to be able to provide our perspective on a lot of these things, because I think we are seeing things ahead of most of the rest of the Bay Area at least. The other area that I, um, would like to see if we could maybe focus more on is regional policy. Um, as you know, uh, well, I currently serve on MTC, and, um, my delegation is, uh, the other 2 colleagues are a county rep in the city of San Jose rep, and they have, um, staff that, that back them up. And I know that our staff is stretched and they try to do what they can. But I do feel that we're at a disadvantage because we don't have dedicated staff to some of these regional bodies and issues. And then, you know, it'll depend as I leave. I don't know if they'll be an MTC rep from Mountain View, but I think that even is makes it even more important that we have a voice at these regional bodies. So whether it's that A-Bag, um, air district. Those would be areas that I could I would like to spend more time on. And then this is just a very detailed or minor issue. Maybe it's not minor, but the city's association has the legislative action committee, and it's been always sort of a vague, vague as to how to vote on the legislation that comes to that body. Are we representing Mountain View, so then should the city be taking a position 1st or do we go to represent the association? So that's just an area. I think that I would think needs more clarification.

[02:53:00] Mayor Pat Showalter: Is it true that the city manager would like to speak?

[02:53:04] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Yes, thank you, mayor. So, um, just a couple things. And then I think, um, Dane or, um, Christina can answer some of council member Abbe Koga's questions. So just wanted to clarify a couple things. First, I think Dane might be sending us a bigger bill after tonight. And then the 2nd thing is, you all absolutely have the purview to expand our program. And what I'm hearing a lot of is a desire to be more involved with legislative efforts, like, was just mentioned, um, expand our regional reach. So I think these are all things that as staff, we can go back and look at what does that mean and how we might be able to enhance what we're doing now. I also wanted to make sure that council is aware that you'll absolutely have the purview to withdraw the asterisks or change that that actually was not a staff recommendation. That was something that was carried over from council last year. So the legislative platform was just built upon what you all had already adopted last year. So you, it's certainly within your purview to remove those. should you choose. So I just wanted to clarify that. And then if there are any specific bills or issues that come up along the way in the next few months, um, what we do as staff, just so you all are aware, there are often things that come like really fast, very, um, very spur of the moment, things that come up one day that we need to answer within like a day or two, you all have built in that ability for staff for city manager, um, our ledge team to respond to those things, um, knowing if they meet platform and your priorities. So we do have that nimbleness built in. And if there are things that come up in your regional bodies, we would seek, you all to let us know. You know, we're more than happy to, to help or figure out what's gonna help you in representing your regional, regional bodies, but also if there's things that staff just didn't think of. And there's just so much legislation happening. Um, and we're learning along the way. So you all may hear things too, in your regional bodies that maybe we're tracking, but we don't know if it's rising to the level of, um, something that's really, really important with the work that you all are doing. So I just wanted to let you know that, again, we can adapt and change this and grow this as we go. So the feedback is really, really good that we're getting this evening. But you can tweak whatever you want. So if I can just finish then, That was really where I was going is given what we've budgeted. This is what we've received, which I think is really tremendous, but I wanted to see, and I guess we could come, you know, ask for the bill on what it would be if we were to add these areas, but that's where I was trying to go to go is what could we get if we budgeted more for more? Thanks.

[02:56:21] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. Council member Hicks, did you? Well, council member Ramirez hasn't spoken yet.

[02:56:29] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I just, after I asked you whether I should add my comments, not just 2 questions, I forgot to add my comments. They're very short. Um, so, one is that, as I, uh, ask questions of our legislators, I would like to add something that says, uh, monitor legislation related to automatic vehicles, because I think they'll be rolling out, and, um, there will be, well, they're already is something, and I, uh, there's already something in Sacramento, and I think others may follow, and if they're on our streets. I think we may want to stay in touch with how that we interact with that. So that's one. I'm fine with removing the asterisks, but I think I would keep in the monitor watch measures that reduce local control, because I want to watch them. Um, and then the other, I was, I, maybe, um... I... maybe supporting what council member Abbe Koga said, but I wasn't clear on what it was. So you said something regarding RDAs and backfilling, can you just re explain what that was?

[02:57:45] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So, RDA's redevelopment agencies? That enabled tax increment in areas to...

[02:57:52] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So, I know what they are, but I want to know how, and now they're gone.

[02:57:55] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Now they're gone. Yes.

[02:57:57] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So now they're gone. What do you want to do in the future?

[02:58:01] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: There hasn't been anything to backfill. And on top of that with these new pieces of legislation. I am seeing more and more of taking away cities opportunities or ability to generate revenue. And that's the challenge of like, yes, we want more affordable housing. But if then we don't generate any property tax on those parcels, more and more the city loses revenue.

[02:58:32] Councilmember Alison Hicks: Okay, so let me see if I, so you're saying that RDAs used to, they used to have like 25% of the money would go to affordable housing and that money just disappeared.

[02:58:41] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Right.

[02:58:42] Councilmember Alison Hicks: And you would like to find some way, see, monitor whether there's some way to recreate those, or something different than,

[02:58:49] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: okay, yes, because on top of that now. Yes.

[02:58:53] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: And that's the 2nd thing, yes. We give tax discounts to affordable housing, but now it's inching up in terms of missing middle housing. And pretty soon. I don't know if we have property tax. We don't get any property tax on a 100% affordable housing project.

[02:59:10] Mayor Pat Showalter: Right, right.

[02:59:11] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: And there's more and more of that.

[02:59:12] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So that is something we have to monitor and see where that's going, I would agree with...

[02:59:18] Councilmember Alison Hicks: I would agree with that, and it's not just the property tax. It impacts not just housing, but schools, and a whole realm of things.

[02:59:25] Mayor Pat Showalter: Sure.

[02:59:25] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So it's definitely, then I would agree, that's something we have to watch.

[02:59:29] Councilmember Alison Hicks: And then, on top of that, the Surplus Land Act...

[02:59:32] Mayor Pat Showalter: Yes. requires us to offer excess land to... So we're being asked to do more and more with with an eroding tax base, and it hits some cities more than others. The bedroom communities, for example, who do very little affordable housing, will not be hit with this.

[02:59:50] Mayor Pat Showalter: Sure.

[02:59:51] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: And we've leveraged our land, um, you know, building a hotel, building other types of revenue generating projects, and our ability to do that is diminishing, and that's my concern.

[03:00:07] Mayor Pat Showalter: Right.

[03:00:07] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: So that's definitely something we have to watch. In my opinion.

[03:00:14] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. Uh, Celtic member Ramirez.

[03:00:18] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor, and I appreciate staff's work on this, and RPPG and Dane. Thank you for helping develop this legislative program. I know it's not an easy thing to create overnight. And, as, I think, what we're experiencing here is a continued desire to evolve the program to better suit our needs. And so this is, I think, a good opportunity to better understand how we could be more effective in achieving our goals. I also want to think the community for a lot of, I thought, very valuable public comment. And many of my colleagues have already spoken to many of the things I wanted to bring up, a lot of really interesting ideas that I'll do my best to summarize in my support. So first, I really agree with the members of the community and especially Salim, who articulated very well, I think, that we have historically a much more nuanced approach to concerns about local control. I think we've never been a city that has categorically opposed statewide efforts that, you know, that might, for instance, facilitate ministerial approval of affordable housing projects. And in fact, we've embraced them. We've said, in contrast, probably to many other cities in the state, that we want to use SB 35 for affordable housing on city owned land, right? Many other cities have been opposing SB 35, and the extension legislation SB 423. And we've said, no, we want to use it. We want to encourage affordable housing developers to, you know, go through the process more quickly to deliver the affordable housing that we need. And we've also been supportive of projects that have used AB 2162. That's the Danco project at the Kuzimano Mortuary, a different ministerial approval for housing that sets aside units for chronically, formally unhoused people. So I think the platform should reference that, that interest in taking advantage of these laws that make it easier for us to deliver housing expeditiously. And one thing that is noteworthy about most of the laws that we're seeing is they all actually respect the objective standards that we create at the local level. So it's not saying, you know, you can do anything that you want. It says, you must adhere to objective standards. And that gives us a lot of control, because we get to decide what those objective standards are. Um, so I, I, I appreciate and agree with, uh, Council member Kame's, um, suggestion to, you know, not include the, the asterisks. But I also think, you know, over time, we might want to think about how can we better articulate our nuanced approach to concerns about local control? So I think council member Abikoka brought up a good example where, you know, we really should be deciding what to do with our land. Public land is a different issue. And, you know, maybe that's where restrictions that make it harder for us to decide what to do with city land. That's one, an area where we might want to push back a little bit. So I think that those are really good suggestions. I also support the recommendation to, to the extent that we can. I'd love to learn more about how we can better engage at the regional level. Um, I, I, you know, I don't have the experience of serving on MTC, but I could appreciate how difficult it might be when you're working with, you know, the mayor of San Jose, who has 30 individual staff or a supervisor who might have, I'm not sure if it's 12 or 10 or thereabouts, and have, you know, dedicated personnel who can help them, you know, work on a whole array of complex issues. So I think to the extent, it makes sense. I'd love to have recommendations from staff and our legislative advocate for how to better engage at the regional level. And then the last thing I'd love to see included is support for legislation that regulates independent expenditures in campaigns. We're seeing, I mean, things have been bad for a while, but the level of toxicity that we've seen even in local campaigns is really disturbing. And there have been efforts to combat that at the state level. And I think it would be powerful for cities like Mountain View to say, you know, we really need to start working on this issue of money and local elections that really is unregulated. We might be doing some work to disclose it a little bit, but I'd love to see if there's more that we can do, especially to, you know, reduce the misinformation and disinformation that I think has become rampant. Those are, I think, the things I wanted to share for now. Thank you very much.

[03:05:26] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Um, Council member Ramos.

[03:05:31] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you. Sorry I didn't get into my comments on my long line of questionings. Um, so, uh, basic additions. Now that I asked about the bike safety question, in K1 is probably where it is, but the way the wording is structured. So it's a support legislation that would increase funding for local transportation projects, including roads. I didn't know at that final line, it says enhancing bicycle and pedestrian safety and safety for people with disabilities. Now, is that support legislation? Enhancing bicycle and pedestrian safety or is it support legislation that'll increase funding for local transportation projects, enhancing bicycle and pedestrian safety? Because that's when, um, Ms. Henningson brought up the, that bicycle safety law, about yield and stop, like, in the 1st interpretation of that, that, that bill goes under that, the 2nd interpretation of it would not. Do you understand what I'm saying? It could be the hour.

[03:06:41] Unknown Speaker: But I'm having a hard time tracking, uh, what the specific question is, um, from what from what I'm looking at here, it sounds as though, because we would be supporting both funding efforts and policy efforts that, depending on, again, I'd have to get into the specifics of SB 931 to ensure that there's no poison pills or, you know, language, we would want to, we would want to see amended into the bill, to make it more suitable for our needs, but it would conceivably put us in a position to support the bill. Um, I'm saying just from a high level, I had not had a chance to dig into the specifics of that bill, but I believe based on what I'm hearing, yes, I think this would give us the ability to support the bill, assuming it aligns with the city's priorities or the city's policy.

[03:07:33] Councilmember Emily Ramos: So just and the clarification of that. Basically, it's supporting transportation projects and legislation that would allow for safety. Both legislation and funding.

[03:07:42] Unknown Speaker: not a transportation project. Yes. And if we need more clarity, we can absolutely do that. And I, yeah, Dawn may be able to be more of assistance because we do work with city staff on these statements.

[03:08:00] Don Cameron: Good evening, mayor and council members, Don Cameron, acting assistant city manager, community development director. Been a mouthful. I'm still getting used to here. I do, thank you for the question, Counselor Ramos. The way we would interpret that particular policy statement is any legislation that would enhance pedestrian or bicycle safety in staff's analysis and opinion would then be supported by the city. If you don't mind, though, I would like to address the specific item of stop by yield, law that's being discussed. Interestingly enough, you know, we had not thought of that as purely a bicycle safety measure as much as something that could promote more bicycling, um, because we know that, um, you know, having to stop at every single stop sign for a bicycle, especially if they're speaking around them, can be a bit discouraging for people to bicycle. And yet they do have concerns that if they don't stop at the stop sign, could that create a safety issue, although they, you know, they, as we all know, and we hear from drivers frequently in others, we frequently see that happening as bicyclists not stopping at stop signs proceeding through. So there is confusion that can be created an intersection by this behavior. And so one of the advantages of a stop yield law is it can make it more known that this behavior is allowed and removes some of that confusion. So, I want to say that this is one where staff has not weighed in on previously, because, as noted, that legislation was previously introduced, and we didn't see it purely as a safety one, and we had not recommended at the time that the city take any position on that bill. So if council is interested in the city taking a position on a bill like that, hearing it directly from council will be important. I will say that when we've discussed it internally among the police department, our traffic engineering group, our transportation group. The greatest concern we've had about this legislation is confusion about who has the right away. And so, but one of the answers to that isn't that we don't support the bill is that we be clear, that as such a bill is passed, It needs to be accompanied by a major education effort. We need bicycles to understand what it means when it says, Treat a stop as a yield. We need motorists to understand what that means, so that as they're approaching an intersection together. They understand who has the right of way. What are the behavior expectations? They need to understand that this only applies to stop signs. This does not apply to traffic, signal red lights, because we do see bicyclists kind of not even stopping at a red light if they think it's totally cleared across. So, one, it would be helpful to staff because we have purposely not taking a position on this in the past, but we do strongly recommend that it's very clear that it needs to be accompanied by major education efforts, so people understands what this means.

[03:11:38] Councilmember Emily Ramos: I have a question, kind of in line with this. If we want to promote this bill. Would it be best to ask you to take it to be packed? So there could be a good discussion of it, both of staff and the stakeholders? Or what process? I mean, because this is quite a special thing. What would be the process that you would recommend?

[03:12:02] Don Cameron: Well, we could take it to the B pack for general discussion and input. We, you know, generally, at least everything I've heard is there's general support among the bison community for this legislation. And, um, but it definitely, we could take it to the BPAC, have them discuss it, not just discuss, again, that piece about the legislation, or whether it's a good idea, but this other piece of how do we make sure that if the legislation is passed, um, people understand what it really means. Or perhaps maybe if there is wide wide support in the bicycle community, it would be after it was passed to take it to be packed for discussion, a community discussion about what would be the education that we needed here. That's another way to approach it, yes.

[03:12:59] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Okay. All right. Thank you so much.

[03:13:01] Don Cameron: You're welcome.

[03:13:03] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right, um... Some more... some more comments?

[03:13:08] Councilmember Emily Ramos: No, I think I'm done with the bike safety stuff. I supported adding a plank on either campaign finance reform or campaign election reform. In addition to what council member Ramirez mentioned about, like, disclosures with IEs that have been kind of plaguing many cities and even probably even more so in the higher offices. But, um, But also, uh, our legislators have mentioned about the, the pitfalls and the threats of AI in relation to some of these and it's one of those things that it may not be an issue after a while, but it's starting to be an issue now. So that I would love to have that added too. Um, I agree with um, council member Kame Suggestion. I've even mentioned in the question comments, um, about the, basically the, um, Astris. Let's let's not do that. And then base on a basic level when this either comes back or in future, we received a wonderful end of year report from you. I think that's actually really helpful. I actually was looking at it while I was doing this study session, reading through the study session report. I think it'd be helpful to include it with the study session reports, at least in the future so that we can see that. side by side. I believe that's the rest of my comments. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed working with you. I hope you enjoyed working with us as well so that you could give us a friends and family discount.

[03:14:43] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. That's a good idea. Friends and family discount. All right. Well, I, I, um, am coming last and, and, uh, I'm not going to add too much because an awful lot's been said, and then I'm going to sum up a little bit. But one thing I wanted to bring up is the concept of a 15 minute city. I was looking through this, and I'm not sure where you want to put it, but it's something that has been part of our deliberations the last year or so, a lot. So, and I think it's kind of a, it's kind of a, um, a... one of those concepts that combines a lot of things, like multi land juice designations, active transportation, complete, green streets, um, stop signs as yields for bikes, complete. So I thought maybe that would be something you'd want to think about, and where to put it in the priorities. And then another concept that came up, and some discussions I had with people who gave me feedback, and thank you so much for that. I did ask for feedback from a number of people, because this is really important, and I wanted to know what constituents thought. And one thing that came up was the idea that we want to make processes simpler, whenever possible, that the more complex they are, the more money they cost. And that means, sort of, the less we get for our money. So I'm not, again, I'm not quite sure where that would go in some sort of a governance change.

[03:16:26] Unknown Speaker: Streamline.

[03:16:27] Mayor Pat Showalter: I mean it's kind of streamlining, but anyway, I like the idea of, um, describing it as keeping processes simpler was, uh, instead of streamlining. It just seemed to look... They're both the same thing, I go suppose. So I wanted to add that. Okay, so with that, I'm going to kind of go through what I think we've heard to make sure that we... One, people brought up website improvements, the idea of listing the bills, that we had made support or opposition to. I think people would be interested in that. Withdrawing the asterisks. I think we had group support for that. Should I see, can I see a straw vote on withdrawing the Asterix from this? Okay. Um, yeah. I, in particular, think that the concept of, um, loss of local control is something we need to look at on a case by case basis, and, um, so we don't need asterisks. So budget, the idea of budget for more regional support, I, too, would like to really thank you for the support that you have given us thus far. I serve on BCDC, Bay Conservation Development, Kishman, and I ask staff questions from time to time about things, and they're always very helpful. And another thing that I do is I serve on the National League of Cities policy committee for energy, the environment, and natural resources. And before I go off to those meetings, I get a great deal of assistance, from staff on the resolutions that we're putting together. And that, that really allows me to do a much better job, and I think it's a way that we weigh in on policies at the federal level that's, you know, that's valuable. So, thank you for that. And I think that that falls under the... We might want to hear about what the budget is for that sort of support, a little more. Okay? There was a couple people who, or Council member Hicks, mentioned, monitoring legislation related to autonomous vehicles. Is that included at the moment? explicitly?

[03:18:54] Unknown Speaker: No.

[03:18:54] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay. Well, I think that would be one to add. And then the, um, issues that council member Abi Kogo brought up about the lack of the RDAs and the backfill for them. That's something that, I think there's general support for, is that, is that the case? Can I see a straw vote for that? Everybody who's interested in back filling? Okay. Um, and then, uh, The, um, another one is the support for legislation that regulates campaign expenditures. I think that's actually already in here somewhere. But, um, is that the case?

[03:19:40] Unknown Speaker: I have to confirm to verify, but we've noted it as an interest of the council to, um, essentially add it if it is not explicitly in the plot.

[03:19:48] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, all right. And AI is one of those and also monitoring AI as part of elections. But we heard from assembly member Berman that there already was a bill allayed about that, but I don't know the extent of it, so that'd be something to watch. So those were, um, and also, there was support for the stop by yield, um, concept for bikes. I mean, using a stop sign as a yield for bicycles. And the fifth...

[03:20:27] Unknown Speaker: My thought on that item, actually, is, um, if we're going to take a position, it would be supportive of amended, and adding the amendment being that there would be an education piece that, and I know there, it's probably not going to fly, but there are, there are bills like that where you add some funding for education. Because again, you can pass the bill and then it's up to the city is to figure out how to implement and I would rather just at least try to make an amendment.

[03:21:08] Unknown Speaker: If I may, with respect to the supportive amended position, the challenge with that is twofold. Number one, particularly in the transportation committee, the supportive amended is actually not a recognized position, so they won't be on record if you're supportive amended for both tenant and assembly transportation, because that's a sort of a nicer way of saying oppose unless amended. So they're just like, well, if you're going to be on record, be on record. And I think one of the challenges with support, if amended position, I think, generally speaking, is that there's, there's, it limits your ability to, um, to otherwise negotiate against, uh, uh, with an author or sponsor of a piece of legislation that you're trying to, um, uh, get substantive amendments that are suitable for your, for your city. So if, so in other words, if I'm an author or a sponsor of a piece of legislation and someone says, well, If you want, I'll support the bill, if you amend it in this way, but if you don't take any amendments, I'm not going to engage versus, you know, If you don't amend this bill, we may be forced to oppose the bill unless amended. It's a different, um, tactic that you can use to be more effective, but support if amended is a sort of this newer position that we've been seeing, and as of, as of, now there are policy committees, including transportation committees that don't recognize that position. So we would be unable to be on official record, to be a supportive amended. But I do hear you loud and clear with respect to the education piece, because it is vital. Um, and, um, with the stop and yield legislation. From my recollection, the governor, in his veto message, really, there's 2 sort of areas when the governor vetoes a bill. either he vetoes the bills and says, here's a roadmap to where I will sign this bill. And then there's the veto of essentially shutting the door on the issue. That is not to say that perhaps a different approach wouldn't be more effective, but from my recollection, the California High Patrol had considerable concerns on this from a public safety perspective. So I do think the education piece could, you know, help, but, um, I know that the governor was pretty firm in his, um... his objection, based on the, the liability, the public safety concern, but that is not to say that we can work with stakeholders engage, and keep trying until, uh, uh, he either signs it or the next, the next person's sitting in that chair. So, um, happy to work with staff and to look at that.

[03:23:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Would you like to speak again?

[03:23:50] Unknown Speaker: Yes, thank you, mayor. So I was just gonna suggest for the stop by yield legislation, I think staff has some significant considerations with this bill. And I would also add that in the city, we have had safety issues that have happened. with students. And so I would ask that council give direction for staff to just look at this further. Um, I think there have been statewide public safety groups that have had very serious um, concerns about this bill. And so before we really come out strongly or really wade into this, I would suggest that council just give that ability for staff to just dig a little bit further on this. Um, I'm just not sure that this is necessarily something right now that the city would want to put its stamp on. And so I would just ask for counsel to give staff some leeway in working with our firm and just really looking at this and taking a deep dive because I do think that there are other implications.

[03:25:04] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, so, um, how about we change it to following the city manager's direction? Is that, do I, um, can I have a straw poll on that? Follow the direction for to have staff. Take a look at this. Okay? That's, thank you. And, um... And then, uh, my colleague has brought to my attention that I didn't mention the 15 minute city. I guess I mentioned it as a sort of a, um, organizing principle, but, you know, adding it to the, adding it in here somewhere. The 15 minute city is something we'd like to see added. And then, also, the next time this comes around, having the end of the year report included as an attachment, that would be very helpful. So I think that that does it. This is, um... This is a very broad topic, and we do really appreciate your helping us to, um, to weigh in at other government levels. Thank you so much. Okay, so now we're at 10 o'clock. And by our rules, we have to vote to continue the meeting after 10 o'clock. So can I have a motion to continue the meeting, I have a motion from Emily and Ramos, and a second from Allison Hicks. So, can we have a vote on that, please? That passes unanimously. So we continue after 10 o'clock. We do have, and so now, we are, um, moving on to, uh, public comment, which I'm looking for the agenda flow to find exactly what I'm supposed to say. Here, where is it? All right. Okay, this portion of the meeting. Oral communications is reserved for persons wishing to address the council on any matter, not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic within the city council subject matter jurisdiction for up to one minute during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non agenda items. If you would like to speak on this item, or on the in person, please submit a blue speaker card. And I know that many of you have submitted blue speaker cards. So, um, are there any members of the public on this item? I mean, are there any members on Zoom? Oh, they're listed here. Okay, all right. So the first speaker we have is Eva Tang, and after that will be Sebastian... Sebastian Brebois. One minute.

[03:28:19] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Yeah. Um, mayor? I believe per year policy, you can only be a minute and a half. Oh, okay, a minute and a half.

[03:28:28] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you so much. Can I let them go first?

[03:28:34] Unknown Speaker: Sure.

[03:28:38] Mayor Pat Showalter: What's your name, sir?

[03:28:39] Public Speaker: I'm Nibial. Nibulophyad. I think I submitted a speaker card earlier.

[03:28:45] Mayor Pat Showalter: Great.

[03:28:50] Public Speaker: Can I start?

[03:28:50] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, cool.

[03:28:52] Public Speaker: Hi, my name is Beaufleod, and I'm a student activist. I'm here on behalf of many student youth activists in the South Bay. It has been 129 days of relentless bombings of innocent Palestine civilians. Over 30,000 instant Palestinian men, women, and children have been murdered by Israeli bombings in Gaza, and 1000s more still stuck under the rubble. Amnesty International just won a many humanitarian right groups, calling Israel's system of oppression against the Palestinians apartheid. There are no more excuses to support Israel's bombardment in Gaza. What's happening in Gaza is a textbook definition of genocide, and it must end. Since Israel's illegal creation in 1948. Israel has repeatedly violated over 28 international laws, including but not limited to United Nations Resolution 54, one on one, 233, 234, 236, 248, 250, and countless others, beginning over 75 years ago, murdering Palestinians in their own homes, destroying entire Palestinian villages, and making simple travel between villages in the West Bank impossible. One of the many in violations that Israel is committed is the 4th Geneva Convention, clearly stating that any shape or form of attacking medical facilities is illegal under international law, yet 0 of the 32 hospitals in Gaza, are fully functioning due to Israel's room at Lisbon buying. Let's that sink in for 2.1 million people. There are 0 functioning hospitals. The occupation of indigenous Palestinian lands and genocidal of intentions of the Israeli government did not just start 129 days ago over over 75 years ago during the neck, but a time when the Israeli government murdered over 20,000 Palestinians and pushed over 750,000 more out of their lands. Thank you for your time.

[03:30:28] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker.

[03:30:36] Eva Tang: Hi, counsel. Uh, Eva Tang, uh, Old Mountain View. Usually, I'm here to rouse the rabble, but today, I'm here to speak to you in a moment of vulnerability. I'm here to call for you to sign a ceasefire resolution. Some people may say that you need to focus purely on city matters, but personally, I think it's hard to focus on anything but Gaza, when we have the privilege to discuss preventing heart diseases in this really nice climate controlled building, while doctors in Gaza are running to recover bodies of people shot and around and in their hospitals. on a population 20 times, the size of Mountain View, and mostly children is living in tents, unsure if they will live another day, or if they will live to the age where they may have to worry about heart disease. We are a city that proclaimed a basic bill of human rights, of which Mayor Shoalter herself signed eight years ago, stating at this time, we need to stand up and say that human rights are very important and are part of the founding documents of our nation. And so, we need to recognize when those rights are being violated and join other cities at the forefront of calling for SC's fire. Thank you for your time and attention.

[03:31:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Sebastian?

[03:31:55] Sebastian Brebois: Hey. Hey, Council, um, my name is Sebastian Brisbois, and I'm actually also here to speak in favor of the city, passing Ceasefire Resolution. Uh, It's like other speakers mentioned, um, we, we can give our input to the national government by passing this, because even though we're here locally in one city, in the state, dealing with local issues and challenges, I think, you know, overall, it's nothing compared to what people are going through in Gaza. There has been tens of thousands of people killed there, and many are starving, and it's only gonna get worse, and it's been so bad already for months. And, yeah, I think everyone here needs to think about how they would feel in the situation, it must be horrible. I actually can't even imagine it. So I think we need to use our standing as a place that's, you know, pretty peaceful for the most part. Yeah, we have challenges, but we can spend a little bit of our time to just say, we support the people there and we don't want any more bloodshed anymore trouble for them that is completely unjust. And so, yeah, we can't wait, also, we need to do something soon to be more supportive. Thank you.

[03:33:35] Mayor Pat Showalter: Next speaker is, um, Jonathan, Madamba, and then Farrah, Shaheen.

[03:33:48] Jonathan Madamba: Hello, my name is Jonathan, and I demand that Mountain View City Council place AC's fire resolution on the agenda. We need to ask questions like why the foreign minister of South Africa is receiving death threats from the IDF, why the IDF declined further investigation into the Nova music festival, why the IDF dressed up as Palestinians at the Jenin hospital in the West Bank, only to kill people in their sleep. And why and how the IDF encouraged the Palestinian authority to become more violent towards their people and rushed them into fear. We need to be critical about the Zionist propaganda, even if it continues to push us into silence. And it's and how it's used for violence protected by the APAC. It'll affect our conversations and intimidate us as many of us are afraid to speak out and inform the public. The Palestinian people have died for our freedoms time and time again due to Zionism. Settler colonialism is really bad. It's time to rise up. Learn meticulously about Palestine, and please listen to the journalists, doctors, and lawyers on Al Jazeera. Thank you.

[03:35:31] Mayor Pat Showalter: Nahom? Oh, go ahead. Farah? Thank you.

[03:35:36] Farah Shaheen: My name is Farah Shaheen, and I am standing here as a human as a mother, as a healthcare worker working to serve our community, and I am urging you to kindly urging you to pass and call for a ceasefire in Gaza. It's been 128 days, plus 75 years of brutal occupation, killing and murdering of Palestinian men, women, and children on a daily basis. We have, in the past few months, we have witnessed, um, deliberate, murder, starvation, and, um, continuing of the occupation. We have witnessed a grandmother holding the hand of her toddler grandson being killed by an Israeli sniper, and dead in front of her grandson. We have witnessed entire families being wiped off. We have witnessed parents writing the names of their children on their body parts, in case they are unable to find them all in one piece. What else do we need to witness in order to call for a ceasefire, and to stand up for racial justice, iniquity. And I hope that with, we begin with a call for a cease fire, but I hope that our lives and the lives of our children will never need to depend on other people speaking up, so the least that we can do is start by speaking up for the Palestinians. Thank you.

[03:37:07] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Um, Naham, Alalu. And then Islet.

[03:37:17] Nami Yahoo: Hello, my name's Nami Yahoo, and I'm here today in support of putting a ceasefire resolution on the city council's agenda. Currently, what's happening in Gaza is a uniquely high tech genocide, where the Israeli military uses 1st of his kind, artificial tarantage system to produce 100s of targets for bombing a day, resulting in the death of 10s of 1000 of Palestinians and displacement of 1000000s, souths further into Rafa, an area about twice the size of Mountain View, and with 20 times the population. And through social media, we've witnessed horrifyingly unforgettable images, broadcasts for all to see. And I believe Mountain View, as the home of leaders in the tech industry, is in a unique position to speak out against this high-tech genocide and send a strong message against this form of AI utilization. Thank you.

[03:38:12] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you.

[03:38:22] City Clerk Heather Glaser: Give me one sec. Sorry. Your name so we can get it for the minute?

[03:38:28] Ayellet: Yes, my name is Ayellet, and I'd like to thank counsel for their tireless work. I'm a local community member, mother educator, and Mountain View voter, as a Jewish woman with Israeli heritage. I know, in fact, my Jewish faith has taught me that we, as humans, are all connected, and that our collective liberation is intertwined. Global affairs affect our local communities, those in Mountain View and surrounding areas who hold Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish, and Israeli identities are all grieving, all experiencing increased fear, pain, and immense loss, as well as experiencing more hatred, discrimination, and racism right here in our community, in our workplaces, in our schools walking around downtown. at the grocery store and living our daily lives here in mountain view. I urge you to vote to call for a ceasefire resolution that also allows us all to move forward without fearing for the lives of all of our loved ones in Israel and Palestine. Add a resolution that calls for the immediate bringing in of humanitarian aid that ceases. Collective punishment and caisin. So humans have a chance at living rather than suffering complete destruction and annihilation, as multiple Israeli officials have told us is that.

[03:40:02] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Next speaker is Noor, and then Salim. Welcome.

[03:40:18] Noor: Hi. I come today to speak to you with my human identity, with my identity as a mother of a two-year-old baby boy. He goes to a daycare just minutes away from here. In the last 48 hours alone. I have seen the images of murdered babies in Raza. Not just anywhere in Raza, but in Rafa, in the so-called safe zone. In the last 48 hours alone, I saw the shredded body of a 4 year old dangling from the ceiling of her freshly bombed safe haven. In the last 48 hours, I saw the body of a 3 year old boy, beside the lifeless body of his mother, who was just shot in cold blood by an IDF soldier, he bled beside her, until the world witnessed his final breath there on the floor. In the last 14 hours, I saw the Senate pass a bill for funding this genocide further with a promise of $14 billion more to Israel. We can stay silent. I ask you today to voice your opposition and be in the right side of history. We need to pressure Congress, our children will remember this. Our children will judge us for this. But more importantly, our children, our community, will celebrate you for standing up for what is right. Thank you.

[03:41:58] Mayor Pat Showalter: Sally?

[03:42:02] Sally: Hi, counsel. I want to thank you for your dedication of public service, and one of the unenviable parts of public service is navigating the most difficult discussions in democracy. Um, but if it's not in a democratic process where these conversations come up, then where would we discuss it? So, I wanted to lend my support. I think the international consensus is really clear. Even if this seems like a very divisive issue in our country. It's not a divisive issue elsewhere that when attacks mainly kill children and women, that they're not acts of legitimate self-defense. And the US government is involved both in the UN, and also with military aid in supporting these attacks, in the same way that this council takes positions on proclamations, on heart disease, where it doesn't have much say, on what happens, or on legislative advocacy. You can just as well take positions on other issues of great moral importance. Thank you.

[03:43:02] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. H.P. Peterson and then Paying Lee.

[03:43:17] H.P. Peterson: Hello, I'm a lifelong resident of Mountain View. I was born at El Camino Hospital in 97, and I've lived here my whole life. I just want to lend my support to the ceasefire resolution. I think the amount of people that came out here today, and have stayed out here today for over three and a half hours, really show that Mountain View cares about this issue, and cares about calling for a ceasefire. Many other cities in the Bay Area have done this, and I think it's literally the least that we could do to show our support. Thank you.

[03:43:52] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Peeling?

[03:43:57] Paying Lee: Hi. Yep, so I'm paying, she, her. I'm here with the community. We're here to call for ceasefire, be it a letter, official statement, some sort of urging. As you can tell, this has been 4 months in of recent events that are causing unprecedented loss, humanitarian crisis. We all are witnesses here. We know this from our conversations at home in our everyday lives. We must stand up for Palestine. We must stand up for Palestinians living within our community, living in Gaza, who are going through unprecedented brutality, bombs, targeting hospitals, schools. There's no shelter, there's no food, no water, just yesterday in Rafa, southernmost city in Gaza, people are told to go to Rafa to take refuge. That is not a safe place for Palestinians. We're going to hear more tonight from the community. I want to uplift a couple more things about protest. Shout out to Stanford, the students who are doing a sit in to stop genocide. These are all necessary. I have a quick poem by a Palestinian poet professor who was killed at the end of last year. It's gonna take a little bit more time. If I must die, you must live to tell my story, to sell my things, to buy a piece of cloth and some strings. Make it white with a long tail so that...

[03:46:01] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you, Tim McKenzie and then Clara Jessop.

[03:46:12] Tim McKenzie: Oh, there we go. Hi, y'all. Tim McKenzie, he and pronouns, 8 or 9 year resident of Monte Loma. It's tough to keep track these days. I am also joining in with the chorus of people from the community to ask that ideally during item eight, which will presumably come, or item seven, which will come up very shortly. One of you asked to put a ceasefire resolution on the agenda for the next council meeting. We just spent quite some time talking about how the city is trying to amplify its impact and have a say in things that the regional at the statewide at the national level. We are voice is something to do with this, as other people mentioned earlier. One, our tax dollars are going for this, but two, there's the much more direct, we're in the heart of Silicon Valley, and this is a high tech war that's going on. Collective punishment is not a legitimate form of self-defense. And yeah, it's, we need a ceasefire. I'll stop rambling now. Thank you.

[03:47:23] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Clara?

[03:47:30] Clara Jessup: Hello. My name is Clara Jessup, and I'm a mountain view resident. I previously requested a ceasefire resolution be agendized. I am here again to express this urgent need, as our federal government has refused to call for a ceasefire, failing to represent the majority of their constituents. After 129 days of genocide funded by our tax dollars, I am furious, angry, and disgusted by our leaders. They have deemed calling for a ceasefire as a radical anti Semitic act, which is dangerous, rhetoric, and untrue. Calling for a ceasefire is the bare minimum. Since its inception, Israel has relied on the erasure of Palestinians, committing daily violence for decades in order to uphold their racist apartheid state. Instead of being held accountable, Israel receives unwavering support, money, and weapons from the US. I am asking you the Mountain View City Council to represent your constituents. You claim that Mountain View is a place where all should feel welcomed and safe. The federal government has made it clear that they do not value Palestinian lives, that they feel comfortable with the brutal killings of over 28,000 people, and are fine with violence against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, occupied Palestine, and here in the US. I urge you to take a stand, and show that Mountain View values are Palestinian community, and condemns this genocide, ceasefire now.

[03:48:56] Mayor Pat Showalter: Um, Hibah, Hastufa, and Jason sends.

[03:49:09] Hibah Hastufa: Good evening, everyone. I'm a 10 year Mountain View resident, and I'm here to ask you to call for a ceasefire now. It has been 129 days. There have been over 25,000 people killed. There have been over 3,000 Palestinians taken hostage by Israeli forces. There have been 90% of Palestinians have been displaced internally. This is a genocide. The ICJ looked into it. They also believe that this could be a genocide. The only morally defensible position is to call for a ceasefire. When we learned about genocide in school, What the question every student asked is, where was everyone else? And the question I ask you now is, what are you going to do about it now? When there's a genocide happening in the world, All you can do is call for a ceasefire. And I want to say to everyone, for people who feel that the silence of their government officials is deafening, in the face of this genocide, this is an election year, and please burn, but this time, we should vote for people who can uphold moral values, who can uphold humanity, and who are brave enough to say that when something isn't right, that it should be stopped. Thank you.

[03:50:11] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Jason Sins. And then Leslie Z. And then Edie Keating. Uh, it seems like Jason isn't here. So...

[03:50:28] Leslie Ziger: Hi, I'm Leslie Ziger. I have lived in Mountain View for the last 23 years. I want to tell you about my valentine. During all those 23 years that I've lived in peace and freedom in Mountain View, they have been under blockade or occupation. And these past four months, my valentine has suffered collective punishment, and near destruction of one of its parts. You've likely guessed. My Valentine is Palestine. And tonight, I'm here with an urgent plea that you share the love and agendize a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. As residents of this city, we are deeply impacted by the atrocities in Gaza, not only because we are financing the war, with our tax dollars, but also because our Palestinian neighbors, many of whom have family members who have been killed, injured, or displaced in Gaza, are facing anti Palestinian hate. It is our collective responsibility to speak up against Israel's gross violation of human rights, and in support of the Palestinian people, as a Jewish person, I say never again needs to meet me. Thank you.

[03:52:05] Mayor Pat Showalter: Edie?

[03:52:13] Edie Keating: Hello? Albany, New York, 98,000 population. Iowa City, 74,000 population. It is not only large cities that are passing ceasefire resolutions. Mountain View should be next. And I ask you not tonight to pass a resolution, but I ask you to agendize it. You can agendize it tonight, think about it. You have many choices, how you will vote on it, what you will say about it, but just get it agendized. I am here with the pain. I am here in need. Newspapers don't recognize individuals. They do notice cities and city councils. Our city wants to have, you don't want your city to be people who are feeling hopeless and, like, they can't do anything. When you agendize this, you are serving your local community, by giving them a place, a forum, to express their opinions, and perhaps to move all of you, to pass a ceasefire resolution. I am also here in hope that history is moving, that at least in these recent months, more people everywhere are finding the need to say out loud that Palestinians have a right to exist. Please agendize a possible ceasefire resolution, so our community can discuss this. Thank you.

[03:53:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Next speaker is Sammy? and then Omar and then Alex Brown.

[03:54:03] Sammy: Hi. My name is Sammy. I'm a Mountain View resident, and a Palestinian American, and half of my family is in Gaza right now, facing displacement, and endangered by U.S. applied weapons. I'm asking you to agendize this resolution because it is deeply impactful to members of this community. And, um, those who have family in the region and those who are experiencing, um, anti-Arab racism. And because it's the right thing to do. As of today, there are over 36,000 Gazans confirmed dead or missing under the rubble, presumed dead, from newborn infants to elders who were expelled from their homes into Gaza in 1948. And right now they're risking bombing, famine and dying of hunger, children dying of hunger in front of their helpless parents as they're even being spread as they're even being stuck in camps in tents with the spread of COVID and other disease. There are members of my own family who I don't know the current status of, hopefully because of the communications blackout. And right now, they're trying to invade Brafa, which I have an uncle and a cousin, and we need to stop this genocide. It is crucial to de-escalate the situation, preventing a regional war and just stopping the killing of innocent people. Thank you.

[03:55:31] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you, Omar.

[03:55:39] Omar: Good evening. My name is Omar, Mountain View Committee member, and Bay Area native, and as a first generation American. Most of my relatives reside in Gaza. And with extreme pain, I've been watching myself and my family have been watching our family in Gaza struggle to survive. Many of those have lost that struggle, as more than 80 of them have been killed over the last four months. Those that are surviving are among the 15 million, that are now squeezed into the small city of Rafa, which is the southernmost area in the Gaza Strip. As someone mentioned, it's about twice the size of Mountain View, and you have 1400000 people there, in tents, sleeping in the elements, starving, and getting bombed. In the last couple of days, more than 100 people have been killed there alone. They've been repeatedly displaced, and now I have literally nowhere else to go because he's really military. will not let them go anywhere else. Rafa was designated as a safe zone, is now becoming a graveyard. And while we sit here in warmth and safety, they are literally dying by the day. War crime after war crime. It is clear what is going on. It's our responsibility to speak up, being silent, is complicit. We need to have government every level, call for to cease fire. I want you to agenda, to cease fire. It is the right thing to do, it is proof that your hearts are still intact. Thank you.

[03:57:12] Mayor Pat Showalter: Next speaker is Alex Brown.

[03:57:16] Alex Brown: Hi, friends. So imagine a world where everything is peaceful, and you have a populace that is living in their intact homes with access to clean water and food and medical supplies, and everything's just nice. And you're offered, uh, to sign a thing that would, uh, give access to bombs and tanks, and rifles, and other tools that would destroy those people's lives. If that were the question, would you say, yes, I would like to enable that? I would like to start these things. I would start the fire. Um, and if the answer is no, and you're going the other direction. Like, would you call to end it, to try to stop it, to stop the harm? I think that's the question here, is, do you, if you wouldn't say, yes, we should do this, then I think it is also incumbent on you to say, we should not do this. We should stop doing this. We should try to go back to a state where people have some peace and can live in their homes and live their lives. All right, thanks. Call for Sease Fire.

[03:58:28] Mayor Pat Showalter: Alright. I, that brings, do we have any on, do you have any, uh, virtual ones?

[03:58:35] Unknown Speaker: Yes, Bruce England.

[03:58:37] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. Okay, something on mute.

[03:58:49] Bruce England: Uh, thank you, Mayor Bruce England, Wisdom Station Drive. As you know, a totally unacceptable humanitarian crisis is occurring in Gaza, when that's part of a larger crisis situation throughout that region. Members of the community, your constituents, are concerned both by this and by inadequate response from our federal government. Normally, we can be inclined to appreciate city governments need to remain confined to local matters, even though we have a history of acting more broadly beyond our borders. But this case rises well above that restriction. And cities across the country, or at least considering some kind of official response. And I, for one, obviously others. I'm asking, um, you for this consideration tonight, to provide a specific ask, we're calling on you to develop and approve a ceasefire resolution, largely in the interest of enabling full humanitarian aid to be delivered and provided to those in Gaza, and also to decrease the current level of death and injury, not to mention the extensive and devastating environmental destruction resulting from warfare activities. While we're willing to hear other suggestions, we feel strongly that such a resolution is the most appropriate choice. Not only add that some kind of efficient response is essential. Anything short of that will not reflect well on us as a self-declared community for all. I hope you can appreciate that I personally don't usually ask for things that rise to a level like this, but we're facing a situation that calls for all of us to respond, and to the fullest extent, we're able to. Thanks for your attention. Um...

[04:00:19] Mayor Pat Showalter: Finally, we'll hear from Brandon.

[04:00:21] Brandon: Thank you. Hello, can you hear me?

[04:00:28] Unknown Speaker: Yes, we can.

[04:00:31] Brandon: Hi, I'm Brandon. I have family loved ones in Mountain View. I just want to share with you how I've been doing. Um, I'm not okay. I don't know how to continue my day-to-day knowing that I am living through a genocide that I'm paying for. When I'm eating with my family and I cook for my for my family every day, I think of families rationing noodles made with cold, dirty water left in a pot overnight. How can I continue like normal? We have families of our neighbors, our loved ones. Our fellow humans are being mercilessly slaughtered. I stay up at night in my bed, under my roof, knowing families are using makeshift tents that can barely withstand rainstorms, not knowing if you'll see tomorrow. I am sleepless knowing houses, neighborhoods, have been leveled. Why should the city mountain beef take a stance on this crisis because we as constituents are powerless to put a stop to this humanitary disaster that we are complicit with. Please use your political power, that you are privileged to currently have, to tell our national leaders, to tell our President Joe Biden, to do something about this. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

[04:01:45] Unknown Speaker: The phone? That's the end.

[04:01:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, thank you. All right. Well, as you all, many of you seem to know, this is a subject that we can't respond to directly. Um, because it hasn't been agendized. So, um, we'll have to move on with our meeting. Thank you very much for attending and speaking to us. Okay, so right now, we have council, staff, and committee reports. Item 7, and, um, Council member Ramos.

[04:02:53] Councilmember Emily Ramos: Thank you, Mayor. I would like to report out that I attended the California League of Cities, Mayor and Council member Academy. It was my 1st time as a new council member. They actually made this academy, not just for new council members. They have evolved it. There were several other council members, there, from other cities, who, um, several other council members from other cities who, um, were there from multiple times. Cupertino brings like a whole contingent. And there was a fun thing during dinner where council member Hung Wei asked, there was 7 different cities represented in this one dinner table, and she asked, who here has a compliant housing unit? And guess who was the only person that got to raise their hand? So that was that was fun. And I got to go through several, um, uh, training seminars about, um, about conflict of interest, ethics, um, uh, public common, and how to probably address public comment, which was relevant. Um, and then how to, and various, um, the basics of being a council member, which I actually think is, is really good and really a good refresher. They also mentioned, um, uh, the state advocacy that League of Cities is doing. Primarily, they were letting us know how much funding has really been cut from the state budget for many of the things that cities want to do. And so that's something that they're hoping everyone will come forth and really pressure our legislators, which I hope that it was part of our previous items. So that was great. Um, so that was League of Cities, um, California League of Cities. I also got my 1st meeting on the VTAPAC. So that was, that was, uh, cool too. Um, We passed everything on the agenda. We have a new chair for the PAC, which is Yvonne Martinez Beltran from Morgan Hill. And Rosjahal is the vice sheriff from Santa Clara. Um, And, uh, they also announced who were who were the new chairs and the vice chair or the VTA board, which is um, the chair is Cindy Chavez, supervisor um, for the county. And Sergio Lopez is the new vice chair, our colleague in Campbell. So that was that was really cool. They also talked about MTC guidelines for they're doing TOC grants through VTA. And I brought up the concern of the minimum densities that we had when we brought it forth in our council before. So, hopefully they take that into consideration as they do their own grants from BTA. Thank you.

[04:05:49] Mayor Pat Showalter: Q. Council member Abby Coca. No. Sorry. Council member Ramirez is next.

[04:05:57] Councilmember Lucas Ramirez: Thank you, Mayor. I don't have a report other than, I think, what council member Ramos failed to mention, is that she was selected to be the successor A-Bag executive board alternate, a seat that I am vacating. So congratulations. It's nice to have a Mountain View representative on the A bag executive board. I did want to ask to see if there was support for my colleagues to make a referral to the council policies in a procedures committee. This is a conversation I had with the city manager, basically to take a look at the policy, governing study sessions, and just to have staff come back with recommendations to help the council, and also the staff improve the clarity of the direction that we provide in study sessions, and happy to defer to the city manager to provide any additional clarity if that's helpful. But I would appreciate the council support.

[04:06:56] Mayor Pat Showalter: Um, okay. Would you like to comment?

[04:06:59] City Manager Kimbra McCarthy: Thank you, council member Ramirez, Mayor. So I think that we've seen in some past study sessions that there could be more clarity for both council and staff as to what you're being asked and the direction that you're providing. So I think if staff is to have the opportunity to just kind of take a little bit of a deeper dive into how we bring study sessions to council and then once we do how those study sessions proceed, um, that would provide some clarity to council and staff. And I think that that's something that staff's absolutely able to bring to CPPC and kind of put some, hopefully helpful parameters and a process in place so that it'll help us in the future.

[04:07:53] Mayor Pat Showalter: Okay, so, um, council member Ramirez, is that emotion? Do we have a second? We do? So let's vote. Okay, that passes unanimously. Thanks for the suggestion. Anything else? All right. Council member, Abbe Koga?

[04:08:22] Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga: Thank you, Mayor. Report from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which I serve on. We announced today a big settlement. So, um, a year ago, we, I was proud to vote for Regulation 6, Rule 5, which limits major emissions or requires major emissions, reductions from refineries. And then we were sued by Chevron and the Martinez refining company, but we've reached settlement that will essentially have the 2 refineries following the standards and also some major payments of fines that they've owed in the amount of $138 million. And this rule drops, or is estimated to provide a 70% reduction of PM particulate matter emissions from the chevron, an 80% reduction from Martinez. And this is, really, it's a public health issue. And this is really quite a settlement announcement. We're really proud to have reached settlement, and a lot of the funding that we'll be receiving will be going to what we call our 617 communities that are tend to be the disadvantaged communities that experience higher emissions of BM and other pollutants. So, big news. It's quite an accomplishment and I just wanted to share that with everyone. Thanks.

[04:10:14] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Yes, that is quite a bit of money. That's great. Council member Hicks.

[04:10:21] Councilmember Alison Hicks: So I wanted to thank everybody who came out tonight and waited for 3 hours, those of you who are remaining to speak during public commentary. Um, you know, clearly, members of the public, I imagine everybody here, whoever watches the news or has, for the past several months, is in a great deal of pain over what's going on in the Middle East. And I'm hoping that we can address this in, and also, I want to add that it's, clearly, it's an ongoing issue, that's going to, you know, keep affecting us in many ways, including, um, as there's rising support for some kind of ceasefire, that it's going to affect the upcoming election, and so forth. I'm hoping that counsel can address this in some way, and I would first put out there may be a proclamation, we pride ourselves, or it's one of our goals, to be a community for all, and certainly the situation that we've been watching unfold over the past several months, has increased both anti Semitism and Islamophobia. I know in my own family. We have some Jewish members, some Middle Eastern, my husband is from the Middle East. So, you know, there's a lot of pain in my family, and in the community, and something that, clearly, members of the public share. I'm hoping that we can start off. I'm looking for what there's some appetite for on the council, and I'm hoping we can start off. We do mayoral proclamations, and I'm hoping we can start off with something like that. And I would refer it to the mayor or the city manager for whatever you think we might be able to handle in that vein.

[04:12:25] Mayor Pat Showalter: I, we do have a tradition. We are a human rights city, and we have a tradition of having a regular proclamation. Well, I don't know how regular it's been, but there have been proclamations against hate, and racial... And I think that perhaps this might be a subject that would be appropriate for a proclamation against hate, does that sound in the right vein for... Yeah, I think that's a good start. I'm open to anything that anyone else on council is open to, but I thought I would make that my opening bid. Something I will work together with the city manager on, and bring back. And I'll just say I also think this is an issue that, um, really needs education. So any tracking of, I've heard that the Los Altos Mountain View community foundation will be doing education around this issue, any kind of tracking... I know that the Mountain View Wisman school district, put out some kind of a reading list, this would be a children's reading list, of course. But anything, anything that you might be able to pack into that regarding education, I think many people are kind of in their own little bubble on this, and the more we talk, to each other, it's something we're gonna have to end up learning to talk about. You know, it's gonna, for example, it's gonna affect the election in November, and if, frankly, I'm a Democrat, if Democrats don't learn to talk about it, we're not gonna do very well. So, I would like anything that includes education, and start with an and I hate message. I think that's a good start. Yeah, I also think that this is an appropriate subject for the HRC. I don't know what's in their work plan at the moment, but that would be another thing to look into. In the past, they have had civility round tables on a variety of topics. And that's been a way to get a lot of education out to people and also provide a forum for exchange of ideas. So that's another thing that I think might be appropriate for us to work on as a community. Okay? Is that...

[04:15:05] Unknown Speaker: Yes, you're the mayor. Take charge.

[04:15:07] Mayor Pat Showalter: All right. Council member, Kameh.

[04:15:12] Councilmember Ellen Kamei: Great. Thanks, Mayor. Thanks, council member Hicks, for bringing that for bringing that forward. I'll then stick to reporting out on a couple different items. So, like, um, council member Ramos, I attended the Cal City's, um, Academy, um, in my role as a peninsula division president, we had our checkboard meeting, um, that evening, and then we had our, um, League of California City's legislative address. And so we, um, the peninsula division includes 3 counties. And so we had Senator Becker, Assembly Woman, Pappin, Senator, Wahab, and a family member, Berman. And so they were able to have over our dialogue kind of doing some Q and A, as well as speaking to the members of the cow cities peninsula division. And then, um, on the 30th or January 30th, we had our council transportation committee meeting, of which I chair. There were 3 items of interest for counsel. One of them is the interim, Castro Pedestrian Mall. We were talking about the central walkway treatment concepts, so that'll be coming back to council shortly. We also are working on a citywide TDM. So transportation demand management ordinance. I'm really trying to like, um, codify things that we've already done and put them all in, in one ordinance, um, to kind of streamline the city's efforts, um, And then we also discussed Shoreline Boulevards, specifically perhaps moving to phasing, our interim, community development, director Don Cameron. With her new hat, was sharing the phased approach kind of given. We're still waiting to see what we might want to do with the reversible lane. So it would allow for the um, pestrian and cyclist improvements as phase one, and then there would be a phase 2 and then a phase three. So there was kind of robust discussion about that. Um, and then we, I'm part of the, the, the community Health Awareness Council. We had an ad hoc committee, meeting, about the continued conversation and dialogue about the future of Czech. And so I should have more of an update for all of you, hopefully soon in terms of next steps. What we're really trying to make sure is that working in tandem with our school districts that we are able to continue to provide the services. Um, should check be absorbed into another agency or organization. And also how do we remain kind of committed to the cities we serve. So, Los Altos, Los Santos, Hills and Mountain View. And then, um, wanted to share, um, on Saturday, I also attended our city 2nd annual Lunar New Year event. Happy Year of the Trehekhen, the Wooden Dragon. It's really great luck and a very auspicious year. and really want to thank staff. I know that this came out of the Chinese Mandarin Civic Leadership Academy. Last year, it was managed through our city manager's office, and now it's part of our community services department, and 100s and 100s of people came, and appreciate the mayor and some of our other elected officials in the area. Council member Ramos was there to celebrate. So that's my report out. Thank you.

[04:18:59] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Yes, that was really a delightful event. I had a great time, and I couldn't believe how many people were there. If you'd said a couple 1000 were there. I wouldn't have questioned it. It was really... It was really well attended. Um, uh, I'm just gonna say a couple things. There's really been something every day. for being mayor, which is wonderful. But you probably don't want to hear about all of them. But I didn't want to share the Silicon Valley Clean Energy meeting in January. George Tyson and Tina Walia were elected as chair and co chair. We have our next meeting tomorrow. And also, we're going to have a North County health facility just over the border on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. It should probably open in August, and it's going to be a whole healthcare facility, 25,000 square feet. So that will be a big service to many of our residents who need county health services. Um, I, uh... I attended the city's association selection committee, and, um, Emily Ramos was selected as the alternate for the ABAG executive committee, and also, Lisa Matachek, was appointed to the um, airport land use commission. There wasn't anyone else who, there wasn't anyone who expressed interest, and so we were looking for a person, and I hope that she will be happy to do that for a year. We will find out. And then at the city's association meeting. It was really very important from a ceremonial point of view, because the old cities association was disbanded. We voted to disband it. And then we officially started the new JPA. And so most of the meeting was devoted to discussions about procedures related to the JPA and how it will move forward. And, um, I would just say, uh, council member Abi Koga, that's going to go on for months and months and months, so... Good luck. And, uh, yes, we welcomed in the Lunar New Year, and, um, uh, I, um, I attended two workshops, uh, with for BCDC related to the reuse of sediment, and how to change policies, and fund that. Having dirt that's available to build up the elevations for flood protection projects, and marsh restoration is crucial to our sea level rise protection projects as a region. So, this will be something that's kind of esoteric, but it's an important foundational thing for flood protection. So with that, I think that brings us... Oh no, that brings us to the city attorneys report. Do we have a city attorney's report?

[04:22:19] City Attorney Jennifer Logue: No, there's no report out from closed session.

[04:22:21] Mayor Pat Showalter: Thank you. Right. So I think that that brings us to adjournment. The meeting is adjourned at 10:56 p.m., and the next meeting will be February 27th, 2024. Thank you very much for attending.

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