Jun 23, 2026 Joint meeting of the Council, Shoreline Regional Park, & Capital Improvements Authority

All right, everyone. We're going to get started. It is now 5 o'clock. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our close session. City Attorney Log will make a close session announcement and then we will welcome public comment on the items listed for close session. Can you hear me? All right, I'll just Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. Uh, city attorney Jennifer Log. There are four items on this evening's close session agenda. Item 2.1 is a meeting to consider appointment of a city attorney pursuant to government code section 54957B1. Item 2.2 is a conference with legal council regarding existing litigation pursuant to government code section 549-56.9. The name of the case is San Francisco Baykeeper versus City of Mountain View and City of Sunnyvil, United States District Court case number 20 CB00824. Item 2.3 is a conference with legal counsel regarding two items of anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D2. And item 2.4 is a meeting um with legal counsel to discuss the initiation of litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D4. Thank you.

Thank you. Now, would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the close session items listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a speaker card to the city clerk. We will take in-person speakers first. Each speaker will have a minute and 30 seconds. All right. Um, we'll have Monica come up and then Brandon after that. Hi, my name is Monica Tyisher and I have been a resident of Mountain View for over 27 years. Thank you for making sure our city remains a community for all. I commend city council for drafting the no staging policy and presenting it to you in such short time. I also want to congratulate city attorney Jennifer Lo for her appointment to serve as a judge on the Contraosta County Superior Court. I am speaking today to urge you to join the amicus brief with local jurisdictions throughout the Bay Area and Central Coast to support and strengthen the lawsuit filed jointly by Santa Clara County and AG Bont to block the illegal development of the ice facility near Gilroy. The amicus brief is being prepared by the county of Monterey with the public rights project. They plan to file by the end of June, so you must act promptly. Hollister, San Jose, PaloAlto, Alamita, and the counties of Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Mateo have already signed on. If you're here in support of filing this amicus brief, please stand up. Adilanto and California City are concentration camps, prisons for profit, run by corporations that ICE uses to shuffle and hide detainees to deprive them of their legal rights. We need to block what will most probably become an enforcement and removal operations office in our vicinity. ICE continues to violate human and constitutional rights and we should not allow them to do so in our country in our county. Thank you.

Thank you. Next we have Brandon.

Hey there, my name is Brandon. I've lived in Mountain View for more than 20 years. I'm here tonight to also comment on the proposed lawsuit against the Gway facility and I'm asking the city to join the amicus brief. I'm here to comment because I've seen what ICE and the federal government are doing to our neighbors and I don't like it. Um I don't know how to say this in a way that is uh not it doesn't sound like it hasn't happened to me. It's so crazy. But um the same agency that shot a nurse in the face or excuse me, a poet in the face, a nurse in the back and left a 5-year-old boy in the snow to act as bait to grab his mother wants to open a concentration camp in Gilroy, a place I previously had known for its garlic ice cream. Um I'm glad that you passed the resolution recently to not help ICE with staging and now I'm asking you to do more. Um, as a citizen, I I know what I'll be doing. I'm going to be there with my sign and I'm thinking garlic, not goologs. But, um, since you're our elected officials and I know you can do more, I'm here tonight to ask you to do more. Um, tonight, I'd just like you to ask you to help our neighbors join this lawsuit. Thank you.

Thank you. We will now take virtual speakers and I am seeing none. So, council will now recess to the plaza conference room for close session and return to council chambers at the close to continue regular session. Do I read this part? Okay. All right. To close session we go. Yeah, I forgot All right, we're going to get started again. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the joint meeting of the Mountain View City Council, Shoreline Regional Park, and City of Mountain View Capital Improvements Financing Authority of June 23rd, 2026. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, the city clerk will take attendance by roll call. Council member Hicks

here. Council member Kame

here. Member Mallister. Council member Ramirez

here.

Council member Sha Walter

here. Vice Mayor Clark

here.

Mayor Ramos

here. You have a quorum. Thank you. In recent weeks, the city along with a few of our neighboring elected decision-making bodies have been subjected to disruptive racist verbal attacks by anonymous callers during virtual public comment. 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, non-threatening public comments on matters within our jurisdiction. Comments deemed otherwise pursuant to the council code of conduct and the government code may be grounds for terminating a speaker's comment period. I will also say in advance that all public speaking comment periods tonight will be limited to 90 seconds or 1 minute and 30 seconds. Um so now we will move on to item two, close session report. City attorney log, do you have a close session report? Yes. Um good evening mayor, vice mayor, and council members. In close session this evening, the city council took final action on item 2.4 four on the close session agenda which was a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956D4 regarding the initiation of litigation. Council voted with four eyes's, zero nos, and two two abstensions by Vice Mayor Clark and council member Mallister to authorize the city to join a legal brief with other Bay Area local governments supporting a request for a court order to halt construction of a proposed US immigration and custom enforcement detention facility in Gilroy.

Thank you, city of I believe it was five eyes.

I apologize. That's right. It was Five Eyes.

Thank you. All right, we will now move on to item three. Please note, these are presentations only. The city council will not take any action. Public comment will occur after the presentation items. If you would like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. Now, so we have item 3.1, National Immigrant Heritage Month Proclamation. We are happy to be joined this evening by Maria Marin, executive director of the dayworker center to accept this proclamation. Maria, would you join me at the lectern?

Absolutely.

Thank [applause] you.

Okay.

All right. So the proclamation reads, "Immigrant Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate our origins as a society built on the strength and diversity of immigrants from every corner of the globe. And whereas generations of immigrants have courageously left their homes, lives, and loved ones in search of refuge, opportunity, and freedom in the United States, driving our economic innovation and enriching our cultural fabric." And whereas immigrants continue to build businesses, strengthen our workforce, and create jobs, significantly contributing to the vitality and success of our community. And whereas this month allows us to celebrate this rich diversity, reflect on the essential contributions of newcomers, and reaffirm our commitment to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environment for all residents. And now therefore, I, Emily Anne Ramos, mayor of the city of Mountain View, the best city, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim the month of June as immigrant heritage month in Mountain View. And I encourage all residents to celebrate their diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contributions that make our community a vibrant place to live. Miss Maria, would you like to say a few words?

Most definitely. Good evening, Madame Mayor and members of the council. Thank you for this proclamation. Receiving this recognition during National Immigrant Heritage Month is a profound honor. But not just for me, but for the entire community I stand here representing. The heritage we celebrate today is not just about the traditions we bring or the hard work we perform. It is about resiliency. is about the courage of who came before us who sacrificed everything to build a foundation so that we could stand here today. But heritage is not just a gift for the past is a moral responsibility for the present. Do you remember the moral responsibility from H Lopez? I know you do.

[snorts]

Um, as you move into today's agenda, you will have the power to make decisions that directly impact the stability and prosperity of our community's most vulnerable members. Those who are too often overlooked, but yet form the very backbone of Mountain View. We honor our way history not only with words on paper but with the legacy we leave for those who will come next through leadership means ensuring that the doors and opportunity and stability remain open and secure. Therefore, I urge you consult to honor our shared history, but making choices tonight that protect, lift up, and guarantee the dignity of our community. Let's build a legacy that we all can be proud of. Thank you so much. [applause] And we have the proclamation right here. We're going to take a picture with the

[applause]

All right, we have lots of proclamations, lots of things to celebrate this uh evening. So, item 3.2 is the 100th anniversary of the Kiwanis Club, a Mountain View proclamation. Yay. We are happy to join be joined this evening by Marina Marino, the foundation's grants committee chair with the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View to accept this proclamation. Miss Marina, will you join me at the lectern? [applause]

All right. So the you can be right here. It's better for the pictures. [laughter] All right. So the proclamation reads, "Whereas the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View was officially chartered on March 15th, 1926, beginning a century of service dedicated to improving the lives of children and strengthening the Mountain View community. And whereas the Kiwani Club of Mountain View is part of Kiwanis International, a worldwide organization of volunteers committed to improving the world one child and one community at a time. And whereas for nearly 100 years, members of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View have volunteered their time, leadership, and resources to support youth programs, local nonprofits, educational initiatives, and community projects benefiting the residents of Mountain View and neighboring communities. And whereas through the Kiwanis Foundation of Mountain View, the club has provided significant grants and financial support to dozens of local organizations each year, helping expand programs that serve children's families, and those in need. And whereas members of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View have actively supported community engagement through events, partnership, and volunteer service, including youth leadership, development, and programs that encourage civic participation and community pride. And whereas the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View continues to bring together civic-minded volunteers dedicated to improving the community and creating opportunities for future generations through service, leadership, and fellowship. Now, therefore, I, Emily Anne Ramos, mayor of Mountain View, along with my colleagues on the city council, do hereby proclaim Kiwani's Club of Mountain View Centennial Day in recognition of 100 years of service and commitment to the Mountain View community. We extend sincere appreciation to all past and present members for their lasting contributions to the well-being of the city and its residents. Now, before I ask you to say a few words, I'll use this opportunity for our mayor's um call to service, call to community, and call to action. So, as you take this mic, please let people know how can people join and support the Kiwanis Club.

Okay. Well, thank you so much, Emily. I'm going to call a couple different members up for this. Dee is our president here. First of all, thank you so much. City of Mountain View and everybody that's served. We've all been to the Harvest History Festival and the city of Mountain View's helped so much collaborating with that and um anyway, come up Dei and um thank you. Okay, just say a few words. [gasps]

Hello and welcome. Um, the Kuanas Club of Mountain View is, as I said, a group of volunteers. Um, we have been in service now for a hundred years here. Um, Kuanas International is our I don't know what you'd call it, like

umbrella.

Umbrella group. Thank you. Um, and that has been in service now for 110 years. And Kuanis is in over 80 countries around the world. and we do quite a bit of um different things. I'm sorry I'm not prepared for [laughter] this.

Come on up.

But if you would like to join us um we would love to have more members. Um you can contact either myself or Marina um we have a website so you can go to that and find outm.org.

kabanasmountview.org. Yes. Um, and we will be having a lunch meeting this coming Friday if anybody's interested and you'd like to join us. Um, it will be held at, uh, Restaurant Don Giovani's at noon here in Mountain View on Castro Street.

The first lunch is on us.

Yes. So, if you're interested in joining, we will buy your first lunch there. It's very good. So, please come out.

Okay. Robert,

our vice president.

Yes, Robert.

I'm I'm the vice president of the local chapter, and I'm just here to tell you about our century of service here in Mountain View and our big celebration that's coming up. The Kuanas Club of Mountain View is proud to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2026. Since 1926, local Kuanas volunteers have worked quietly behind the scenes to strengthen our community through scholarships, grants, youth leadership programs, service projects, and support our local nonprofits. Over the years, we have given away more than $4 million to the community through these efforts. To commemorate this historic milestone, the club will host its 100th anniversary gala on Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at Don Genevanis in Mountain View. We especially would love to hear from and celebrate with individuals and organizations that have been touched by Kuanas over the years. If your school, nonprofit, family, child, or community group has benefited from a Kowanas grant, scholarship program, or volunteer effort, we warmly invite you and the entire Mountain View community to join us. This will be an evening of community memories and appreciation for the generations of volunteers who have helped make Mountain View a better place. And there will be a live band featuring Marina and her uh her band

and her husband Jeff. [laughter] Okay. We will only be selling 100 tickets, so early reservations are encouraged. We hope to celebrate with many of our neighbors and community partners who have been part of our remarkable 100-year journey. Thank you and we look forward to your attendance. [applause]

Shall we take a picture with the proclamation?

Okay, come on.

Kiwani.

We got other Kiwanis here. You call them or likew [laughter]

are we balanced? Are we good?

And [applause] it took so long. All right. Now, we're at our final proclamation of the night. Um, it's item 3.3, proclamation honoring city attorney Jennifer Log's appointment to the judiciary. We are happy to be joined this evening by city attorney Jennifer Log to accept this proclamation. City attorney log, would you join me at the lectern?

[applause]

All right. The proclamation reads, "Whereas city Attorney Jennifer N. Log has been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsome to the Contraona County Superior Court and will conclude her service to the city of Mountain View on July 3rd, 2026. And whereas Jennifer has served the city of Mountain View for 4 and a half years as city attorney. And whereas Jennifer earned her jurist doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. And whereas Jennifer has dedicated her legal career and to public service. And Jennifer strengthened the city attorney's office by building an experienced team of legal professionals by incorporating new technology and best practices into the city attorney's office. And whereas Jennifer has assisted in the city in navigating complex legal issues with a calm demeanor, sharp intellect, and unwavering commitment to the city of Mountain View and its residents. And whereas Jennifer possesses the rare combination of intellectual proudness and compassion that makes her uniquely qualified both as a Mountain View city attorney and as a judge. And whereas city attorney log leaves a lasting legacy and impact on the city of Mountain View and will always be appreciated by the city council executive team and city attorney's office. Now therefore I Emily Anne Ramos, mayor of the city of Mountain View along with my colleagues on the city council do hereby express gratitude and appreciation to Jennifer N. Log for her special exh exceptional leadership, service, and dedication to the residents of Mountain View. City Attorney Log, would you like to say a few words?

Yes, please.

I wrote this down so I didn't forget or get nervous or cry or get overwhelmed.

Um, [laughter] thank you, mayor and coun council members, for this incredible, incredibly meaningful proclamation. I am deeply honored to have have been selected to serve as city attorney for the city of Mountain View. Serving this community has been one of the greatest privileges of my career and I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to work on behalf of the city, its residents, and its elected and appointed leaders. As I prepare to begin my new role, I am overwhelmed by the many warm wishes, kind words, and expressions of support I have received regarding my judicial appointment. They mean more to me than I can adequately express in words. I also know that whatever success I have had during my time here was only possible because of the remarkable people with whom I have had the privilege to serve and work with. I am especially grateful to my fellow appointees and city colleagues whose partnership, dedication, and friendship have made this work both rewarding and enjoyable. While I have been fortunate to work on many complex, challenging, and interesting matters during my tenure, I believe my greatest achievement has been helping to build a strong and talented legal team. I am confident that this team will continue to provide the city with outstanding legal representation and the support it deserves for many years to come. Leaving Mountain View is truly bittersweet. Although I'm excited for the opportunity to serve the public in a new capacity, I will greatly miss the many people who have made my time here so meaningful. And there are many of you that I will not forget ever. Alex, I'm talking to you. [laughter] Thank you again for this honor and for allowing me the privilege of serving as your city attorney. [applause]

[applause] [applause]

Alrighty. So, would any member of the council like to say a few words?

Council member Hicks.

Well, I'll keep it short and sweet and just say to uh city attorney Low, welld deserved.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Council member Kame. Great. Thanks, Mayor. Um, I love all of our proclamations because I think it shows how we're a community for all. We're a community of immigrants. We're a community of community servants and soon to be judges. It's very exciting. Congratulations most especially to city attorney log. It's hard to believe that half of our time has been together for for some of us. Um, and it's been so wonderful to work with you. Uh, I'm happy that um you you know me and and you know in case anything ever comes up, I don't want to be on on any side of that. Um but um the the hardest working person um the the court is lucky to have you. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Kame Council Member Mallister.

Here's a phrase that you'll probably enjoy for the rest of your life. Here come the judge. Here comes the judge. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Mallister, Council Member Joe Halter.

It's been a pleasure to work with you. I've really enjoyed all those explanations you've given me over the years. So, thanks very much. We'll miss you.

Thank you, Council Member Scho Walter. Uh, city manager Kimber McCarthy. Thank you, Mayor. So, uh, many of you may know and council will know that when we have one of our executive team members or department head, uh, or someone who's been with the city a very long time retire, they get the privilege of having their very own, uh, official street name sign. And, uh, we felt that even though this is not an official retirement, that you certainly have earned the right to have your own official street sign. So, I just want to thank you on behalf of the whole organization. Thank you for your partnership, for all of your hard work, unwavering dedication to all of the residents, to the organization. It's just been a pleasure working with you. I'll I'll tell everyone when I uh talked to uh one of the folks that that was vetting you and they asked uh what I thought you would be like as a judge um and I just said that this role was suited for you. you know, your temperament, your your commitment to fairness, uh, to rigorous research of the law and making sure that you're applying it in a way that, um, is fair to all and also with compassion and empathy. You're going to be absolutely fabulous. And let's hope none of us have traffic tickets in Contraosta County or do anything else. So, without further ado, I want to congratulate you and present you with your sign. And you do have to open it in front of everyone because it's very fitting.

[applause]

If I may say, this is going up in chambers for sure.

Our staff are so clever. All right. Um, Vice Mayor Clark,

just to briefly say what a pleasure it's been to work with you. And when I was filling out the I received a uh similar feedback form um when we found out um that you uh that you were up for the appointment, it was really really hard to fill that out knowing that it was basically um ensuring that you were going to move on to bigger and better things, but we were really going to miss and I but but then you know it hits you that what a feather in our cap to have someone who not only has worked so hard for the for the residents of Mountain View um not just for for us but for all the residents of Mountain View to um you know to be at a in a branch of government um judiciary where I think you're just incredibly well suited because of all the characteristics that our city manager articulated. You're going to do an incredible job and we're so proud of we'll be able to say we knew you. So, thank you so much for all you've done and good luck.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Clark. Uh any other comments? We are good. Congratulation again, uh city attorney log. All right. Um we will now 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 click the raise hand button in Zoom or a blue speaker card on to the city clerk. We will take in-person speakers first. Each speaker will have 90 seconds. um or one and a half minutes. [laughter] All right, we will take our only uh speaker in person, Alex Brown.

Uh your honor and may as of the council. Uh congratulations. Thanks. [laughter]

All right. Thank you. We will now take virtual speakers. Seeing none, this ends our presentation items. We will now move on to item four, consent calendar. So these items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration. If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following the approval of the balance of the consent calendar. If you would like to speak on these items or the next items, oral communication on non-aggenda items in person, please submit a speaker card, a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. Would any member of the council like to pull an item? Okay. It's a very large consent calendar, y'all. Um, Council Member Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor. Sorry, I have to pull 4.14.

Why do you do this to us?

4.14.

Yes. Council member Shoalter.

Well, I'm [clears throat] not going to pull an item, but as is my um my custom, I do go over the consent calendar very very carefully and I've there [clears throat] were a mere 34 items this time. So, I felt the need to make a chart and I divided that chart into eight categories which I'm going to share with you. So, uh, clerk, can you open it up? And there are a few that I thought were particularly meaningful, so I made them red. Anyway, uh, every [clears throat] every year at the end, the last session before we go into summer, there is just a plethora of consent calendar items. And that's because the the city staff needs to get things finished and they needs to get they need to get approval for all of the contracts that they may want to carry out during the summer. So we expect to have a lot. Last [clears throat] year we own I think the last the most I have ever seen before is 28. So this is this is a new record. Okay. Next uh this this also means that the city staff is and your city is doing a lot of work. Um, so the first category I made was ballot issues and and policy changes. And there are five of those. Um, and I think in particular the one that's probably of most interest to people is the prohibit the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities. Um, but there are other ones that are um, uh, for instance, I think the last one, 416, Mountain View employee home buyiner assistance. That's an idea to um allow uh employees to get loans to help them live closer. And that's for our retention uh program. Okay. Next one is housing. We all care a lot about housing. We've been um we've been recognized as a pro-ousing city, but this is uh the largest um affordable housing grant that we've gotten. Um [clears throat] the total award is from this program which is for affordable housing and sustainable communities is um is $50 million and 35 million of it is for the Evelyn Avenuef affordable housing project and then 14 million is for sustainable transportation. That's pretty amazing. Then we go on to budget. This is the final um uh meeting of the session and we will approve the budget later on but there are some se some separate budget items. Then public works public works took took two screens. Um lots of nine consent calendar items. uh the urban water management plan which is a a an important regulatory requirement uh we do every five years and um just all sorts of other things that we have to do to keep our uh our infrastructure in good working order. So the next one uh next one. So some more thing building plan checks. We one of the things that we do is inspect things and check plans and make sure that what we build in Mountain View is safe. And also we have to do things that um like keep up the uh uh with with getting our keeping our sewer mains re repaired. Not necessarily sexy work but very very important. Next, transportation. We all care a great deal about transportation in particular. We talk about the importance of um repaving our streets, having active transportation, all that sort of thing. So, $14 million of this grant that was um the 50 million grant goes to sustainable transportation. We also every year get a report on the North Bayshore um trip cap [clears throat] and we're well within those thresholds. Next uh category is sustainability and climate change protection. We do a lot of work on sustainability and climate change protection. We we don't just plan, we actually do it. And so um the last three uh items on this are literally things that are related to our sea level rise protection program. and we completed uh the construction on pond A2W. I hope most of you have gone out there and enjoyed the area and the new um and the new trail that's there. Next slide. Um everybody in Mountain View seems to love parks and we don't think we have enough of them. Well, now we're getting two more and that is really something to be to celebrate. One of them is the purchase of property of 2.4 acres um on San Rafale Avenue in in the Tirabella area. And this is an area that's park deficient, but at the same time, we're expecting to build some more housing there. So, there'll be more need for parks. So, this is it's this great news that we were able to purchase these properties. And um for those of you who live in the area, you might want to think about taking part in the um the design of the park which the parks and wreck department will be initiating um shortly. And then this is one uh the back back. Yeah. The other one I think is is caused for a great deal of celebration is the city has made arrangements with Google to lease uh a facility on Clyde Avenue to make a new pickle ball facility. And that is um pickle ball has been something that this uh this community has been tossing around for three or four years about where we should do it. So we've come upon this this facility has been identified and um we should have room for I believe it's 12 or 20 um pickle ball

12

up to 12 uh pickle ball uh courts there which which should be great fun and I couldn't resist saying pickle ball pickle resolved. Okay. So then the last one is just administrative things. They're always administrative things. The minutes, the youth advisory committee appointments, uh we always have to advertise for um uh legal things. And um this is the first this land management assessment advisory service item. That is the first uh uh consent calendar item of our new IT director, Michael Seenor. So with that, I think that's more than enough. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Shoalter. Council member Hicks.

So, I'm not gonna I am not going to pull anything. I do want to uh make a comment on 4.27. So, mayor, just tell me when you would like me to do that.

We could do that after public comment.

Okay. All right. Would uh any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on these items? If so, please click the raise 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 90 seconds. So, our first speaker is Alexander Amaroso. Let's see. Evening, uh, madame mayor, evening, council. Um, so I only really had, uh a couple thoughts regarding, um, items 4.7, 4.8, and 4.13. So, in regards to, uh, 4.7. Um I very much enjoyed the strategic energy innovations and climate core um strategies to to those that end and even with [sighs] representative uh or sorry council member uh Sha Walter said about again this being a sustainable um city let's keep going that direction and I would actually suggest when plans are made on these items let's look towards uh regenerative agriculture because we have the gardens for it we have the local um the local uh what do I look for? Um farmers market folks to work with and let's keep uh rolling that direction. Now, a couple concerns I would say for 4.8 is um when we're looking for uh plans for development towards like you know these parking structures and these parking areas. There has been some complaint and some constraints over where folks are going to park in places like the spot in front of 24-hour gym. So maybe we can work on possibly helping folks find better parking in that sense. And also when it comes to the Mountain View Go uh missing the mark on that uh contractors uh contractor's uh deadline, let's see what we can do proactively to prevent that from happening in the future. Thank you.

Thank you. Seeing no other in-person Oh, we have an inperson uh Miss Joan. Hello. I live at Sunset Estates, a mobile home park for seniors on Silvin Avenue. We always are uneasy about our stability since we own our homes, but we just rent the space that they sit on. What are we going to do if Mountain View one day allows our spaces to be sold from under us? So, on page 18 of the COAP, the community ownership action plan, uh, that is included,

Joan, this is the wrong item that that item is, uh, item 6

7.1.

7. Oh, we're on only on the very first one. We're still on consent calendar.

Okay, I will come back then.

No problem. Thank you, Miss Joan. Um, now we will have we will take virtual speakers and we have one online. Bruce England.

Thanks, Mayor. This will be really quick. I just wanted to call out the item um 415 Pat already brought up prohibition on the use of city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activities. might be a no-brainer to approve that, but I just want to at least voice one person's support for your approving that. Thanks.

Thank you so much. We will bring the We will uh now bring the item back uh for Oh, here we go. We will now bring this back for council action and note a motion to approve to a motion to approve the consent calendar should also include reading the title of the ordinance and resolutions attached to consent calendar items 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.8 uh through 4.18 not including item 4.1 uh 4.14 and 4.22. 22. Please note that the adoption of items uh 4.4 reflect the updated policy text attached to the council Q&A document and posted online. I see um I see a motion by council member Ramirez, seconded by council member Kame, and I will let you be a mass. Oh. Oh, council member Hicks, go ahead and have your uh comment.

Thank you, mayor. Um, so I just wanted to bring I I wanted to thank first uh council member Sha Walter for bringing some of the among these 30ome uh consent items. There were some that were I think um really notable and that uh members of the community have been uh very interested in or would be including the the large um $50 million grant and the two perks. I was just going to bring I will be um voting for this motion and accepting everything including uh 4.27 but I wanted which is the North Behore trip cap monitoring where we count how everybody is using how everybody's going into uh North Beayshore. I did however want to bring up um I wanted to bring that to people's attention as well um because since 2015 um transit use is down by half biking is down by 2/3 car pooling is down by one quarter and single occupancy vehicle cars are up but use is up by onethird so at the same time there's a lot of change going on in the transportation arena, you know, positive things like micromobility, electric cars. There's also automatic vehicles, which you may deem positive or not positive. Um, so and also I believe that our Stevens Creek trail use is way up. So I just wanted to d bring the trip not continue to ignore I mean I'm sure you're all reading it, but not ignore the trip cap monitoring. I think it's really time for some creative thinking around this to turn those numbers around. Um, you know, I think that uh we should incorporate that into future agenda items. And with that, I'm ready to um I'm ready to vote.

All right. And that brings us to Council Member Ramirez. Take it away.

Thank you, Mayor. I have to read a short Steinbeck novel, so if you have to use the restroom, now's the chance. Uh, I move to approve the balance of the consent calendar, including item 4.2, adopt an ordinance of the city council of the city of Mountain View, amending chapter 2, article 8 of the Mountain View City Code, to add section 2.86.25, governing the selection of arguments for city ballot measures and to make other clarifying modifications to be read in title only. Further reading waved. Item 4.3, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View establishing the fiscal year 2026 to 27 appropriations limit to be read in title only. Further reading waved. Item 4.4 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View modifying city council policy A-11 financial and budgetary policy to be read and title only. Further reading waved. Item 4.5. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View adopting the city of Mountain View 2025 urban water management plan to be read and title only. Further reading waved and adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View adopting the city of Mountain View water shortage contingency plan to be read and title only further reading waved. Item 4.6 Six. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View adopting the recommended fiscal year 2025 to 27, sorry, 2026 to 27 capital improvement program, including all amendments to existing projects excluding the shoreline regional park community to be read and title only. Further reading waved and adopt a resolution of the city council of uh adopt a resolution of the board of directors of the shoreline regional park community adopting the recommended fiscal year 26 to 27 capital improvement program for the Mountain View shoreline regional park community including amendments to existing projects to be read and title only further reading waved. Item 4.8 Eight. Adopt a resolution of the city council of uh of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing temporary closure from public access to parking lot number 11 for a minimum of 66 consecutive months beginning October 2026 to be read in title only. Further reading waved. Item 4.9, adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing the city manager or designate to amend the professional services agreement with Opttony uh incorporated to increase compensation by $32,950 for technical and financial advisory support services for municipal solar and battery storage projects for a total not to exceed amount of $285,950 to be read and title only. Further reading waved. Item 410. adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View finding that the action taken and activities approved herein are not projects subject to California Environmental Quality Act procedures and authorizing the city manager or their designate to one enter into a memorandum of agreement with the resilient facilities coalition or RFC a multi-organization coalition for climate and community resilience projects and two apply for grant funds available under California Proposition 4 and related programs in the in an amount estimated to be a maximum of $35 million including as a lead or partner agency for a not to exceed amount of $285,950 to be read and title only further reading waved. Uh 411 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View declaring that the city is authorized to accept and incur an obligation of the affordable housing and sustainable communities grant funds and enter into and execute standard agreements uh 213 with the California Department of Housing and Community Development for a total not to exceed amount of $285,950 to be read and title only. Further reading waved. Um for 12, adopt a resolution of intention of the city council of the city of Mountain View to vacate the public street and street easement known as Gamma Way in its entirety to be read in title only. Further reading waved and set a date for a public hearing to consider the vacation for September 8th, 2026. 413. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the uh of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing the public works director to execute program supplement number F0 uh 027 to administering agency state agreement for federal aid projects number 04-5124F15 with the California Department of Transportation for the city of Mountain View Transit Center mobility hub pilot project 23-27 to be read in title only further reading wave saved. Uh 4.15 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View adopting council policy A-24 prohibiting the use of city property for civil immigration enforcement activities to be read in title only. Uh further reading waved 4.16 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View amending city council policy D-13 Mountain View employee home buyer and relocation assistance program to be read and title only. Further reading waved. 417 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View appointing 15 members and nine members at large to the youth advisory committee for the 2627 school year term to be read in title only. Further reading waved 418. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View authorizing the acceptance and appropriation of a cannabis tax fund grant from the state of California in an amount up to $498,397.20 20 cents contingent upon award and receipt of the grant funds to help reduce and mitigate the impacts of impaired driving in Mountain View and authorizing the city manager or designate to take all steps necessary to receive the grant funds to be read and title only. Further reading waved. Uh and 422 adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View. One, approving a special event permit and sound amplification permit for the October Fest special event subject to conditions. two, approving the closure of certain public streets in the downtown area on Saturday, October 10th, 2026 at 2:30 a.m. through Sunday, October 11th, 2026 at 10 p.m. for the October uh October Fest special event pursuant to California Vehicle Code section 21101E and 3 delegating authority to the community services director for future Octoberfest events to be read and title only. Further reading waved. And I think I forgot to include the staff recommendation for item 4.4. This is council policy 8-11, financial and budgetary policy to include that last underlined sentence. Under 4G, the use of proceeds from the sale of excess city-owned properties shall fund this reserve as directed by the city council.

Thank you, Council Member Ramirez. I hope people record that for their own ASMR. Um, all right. And it was seconded by council member Kame. We are ready for a vote for the balance of the consent calendar. The balance of the consent calendar has passed unanimously. We will now move on to item 4.14, which was uh pulled by council member Ramirez.

Uh, thank you, Mayor. Uh, and I'd like to remind the public that the charter requires us to read all of these things. So, if you don't like that, do something about it in November. Um, so item uh 4.14 um is uh council policy A-13B governing community engagement uh in public meetings. I was conferring with the city manager and uh city attorney earlier. Um I think there needs to be a little bit more time to um uh review the language and the policy. So, I'll I will request that we uh defer consideration until um September. I think that was Okay, that would be the motion. We have a motion by Council Member Ramirez, seconded by Council Member Scho Walter. Uh let's take it to a vote. Motion passes unanimously. We have now completed our consent calendar. Thank you so much everyone. We will now move on to item five, oral communications. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons speak wishing to address the council on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic within the city council's subject matter jurisdiction for up to three minutes during this section. State law prohibits the council from acting on non-aggenda non-aggenda items. If you would like to speak on this item or the next item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. Now, Spanish translation services are available for this item. We will hear from our interpreter. Fore in Persona consecut.

Thank you. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise 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 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. So, um we have our first speaker. I'm going to start listing them all. So, you can go run right after the other. So, Eric Pon is our first speaker. Then, Deborah uh Tabalof uh Gianen Sun and Elizabeth O'Grady. So, Eric, please make your way up to the podium. Good evening, Mayor Ramos, Vice Mayor Clark, and council members. My name is Eric Bon. I'm a member of the HRC as part of and part of the rapid response network here as myself along with IPEN and many community leaders. First, I want to thank council member Kame for leading the no enforcement zone conversation. It has meant a great deal for our impacted community members and it's the kind of leadership we need right now. Many others and I are glad to see this policy passed on tonight's consent calendar keeping the city property off limits for immigration enforcement uh protecting our neighbors and our city employees. And we're grateful the council took this step. If anyone in the audience who supports this work could stand with me for a moment. and there's so many more who couldn't be here tonight but emailed you to say the same thing. We all stand with you in these decisions. We are also here to thank council in joining the amicus brief supporting the lawsuit from Santa Clara County and the attorney attorney general to stop the ice facility near Gilroy. This one matters. It's not one of a symbolic gesture. It adds real legal weight to a case that could keep the facility from ever opening. and it tells people in our community something they need to hear that mouth view isn't going to stay quiet while families in this region are under threat when the city signs onto that brief. Immigrant families here know the city is standing with them. As many already know, our community is living in fear of losing their families with facilities proposed in both Gilroy and Dublin. That fear is going to grow in Mountain View whether we want to or not. Cities and counties across the region are

Thank you, Eric. All right. Next we have Deborah followed by J E and then followed by Elizabeth O'Grady Deborah. Okay. Uh we'll go back to you Deborah Gioen or J E. Oh

so do I have like three minutes or like one and a half?

You have uh 90 seconds. Okay. Um, hello. Um, I'm here to talk about a problem on Gemini Avenue that keeps getting worse. Uh, Gemini Avenue is one of the roads where the oversized vehicle are allowed to park, but still 72-hour parking rule applies. Um, which meaning uh they are not allowed to park in the same spot more than 72 hours. But this is not the reality. Um, RVs are sitting in the same spot for over a month. Um, so last week, you know, there is a RV parked directly in front of my own front door. It was so close I could almost touch it. So it took like more than five days to to move. So this morning when I was leaving my house for and work another RV parked right in front of my neighbor's house as well. I have lived here uh for two years, but it keeps getting worse. Here's what enforcement looks like. Um they come uh to check the tires uh once or twice a week, but the Arby's don't move. I've talked to the officer in charge myself, but after more than a month, the city finally post a towing warning. I was told from the officer it's the first observation of violence after a month. So this is the happening on Gemini Avenue. Gemini Avenue is a quiet street of family homes. It's a 100% pure uh residential area. How did it end up like this? And why is the city not just failing to enforce its own rule, but actually adding more RVs parking spots? Um making rooms for RV dwellers not listening to the residents who actually live here, who own these homes, uh rent these homes and pay taxes here. I know a lot of this comes from the Navaro settlement which is set to expire in early 2027, but will it really end?

Thank you so much for your time. Next, we have Elizabeth O'rady and then uh we'll bring it back to Deborah if she is still there. Elizabeth? Um is Deborah here? Okay, we'll what we'll do is that we'll move on to our virtual speakers. Um and then from there we'll try back to Elizabeth and Deborah. Um so our first virtual speaker is um uh Bruce.

Thanks again, Mayor. Bruce England Wisman Station Drive. Very quickly, just want to uh voice my support for Eric's uh points that he made earlier in person. Thank you. Um, we're going to circle back to our in-person speakers, Elizabeth and Deborah. Are are you here? If not, we're going to have to move on to item six. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We have

uh Jason feel free to you will have uh 90 seconds.

Yes. Thank you very much u mayor and council members. I just wanted to say that I live near in sunset states mobile home park near the new Evelyn Park that was made. Um it's a wonderful park but I mentioned earlier too there is no parking. So no parking for people to visit. the park is surrounded by a a private residential building and there is no um no parking whatsoever and also when cars unload they block the bicycle lane which I've also mentioned a couple times. So I really wish you would consider doing what Sunnyvale has done make that road a one lane road at theart and to be able to allow temporary parking for people who visit the park and for vehicle loading and unloading when trucks come to move people in and out of the facility. Thank you.

Thank you. Um that ends our oral communication on non-aggendaide items. We will now move to item six, 6.1, the biodiversity and urban forest plan adoption. Assistant community service director Brenda Sylvia and senior management analyst Lindseay Wong will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. and we are ready for your staff report.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and council members. My name is Brenda Sylvia, assistant community services director and project lead for the biodiversity and urban forest plan. I'm joined this evening by Lindseay Wong, senior management analyst, John Marshant, community services director, and Russell Hansen, urban forestry manager. Also joining us virtually this evening are Selena Pang, environmental scientist, and Sasha Heath, senior ecological scientist, both with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, SFBI, which supported the development of the plan. Tonight, staff is bringing the updated draft plan forward for council adoption following the April study session and subsequent refinements. The biodiversity and urban forest plan updates and expands the city's 2015 community tree master plan into a larger and broader, more integrated framework. The plan focuses on biodiversity, urban forestry, habitat connectivity, climate resilience, and community well-being. It is intended to serve as a long-term policy and implementation framework to help guide future city projects, programs, investments, and decision-making. The plan also supports the city's broader sustainability and resilience goals while helping foster a healthier, more connected and climate ready urban environment. The plan was developed in partnership with SFI and a cross-d departmental city and project team through a multi-year planning process. The process included technical analysis, interdep departmental collaboration, and review by both the parks and recreation commission and environmental planning commission, as well as city council review at the April 2026 study session. The project also included extensive public outreach and engagement through community workshops, multilingual engagement opportunities, pop-up events, surveys, a stakeholder meeting, and neighborhood-based activities. On April 28th, 2026, city council held a study session to review the draft biodiversity and urban forest plan and provide feedback and direction. Council expressed overall support for the plan and gave input related to implementation accountability and staffing, adaptive management and reporting, integration of plan concepts into city projects and green infrastructure efforts, expanded native planting where feasible, and support for partnerships, volunteerism, and community-based implementation. Council also directed staff to consider input from community partners and stakeholder organizations and emphasized that the plan should serve as a foundational city policy document to guide future projects, programs, and investments. In response to council feedback and additional stakeholder input, staff and SFBI refined the plan for ease of review. Updates made to the draft plan are highlighted in yellow throughout the attached document. In response to council feedback, the implementation framework was strengthened to support long-term coordination, accountability, monitoring, and adaptive management. The updated plan identifies a designated staff lead to oversee the city implementation team and coordinate plan efforts across departments. Annual reporting was also expanded beyond the parks and recreation commission to include city council and the public along with additional community-f facing engagement opportunities. The adaptive management approach was further reinforced to support adjustments and responsiveness to evolving funding opportunities, scientific knowledge, community priorities, and lessons learned over time. The revised plan further clarifies its role as a foundational city policy document intended to guide future projects, programs, investments, and decision-making. Updates also support incorporating plan concepts into future objective standards. roadway design approaches and green infrastructure strategies were feasible and appropriate. The plan also recognizes opportunities to incorporate greening urban forest and green infrastructure improvements into future capital improvement program projects and broader infrastructure investments over time. Overall, these refinements are intended to support long-term coordination and alignment across departments. Revised language places additional emphasis on the use of native and regionally appropriate species, including refining definitions to better clarify ecological compatibility and regional applicability while continuing to balance site conditions, maintenance considerations, species diversity, and long-term resilience. Refinements also underscore the protection and retention of mature trees, habitat features, and ecological resources alongside future enhancement efforts. You may recall the discussion of the term near native during the adoption of the parks and recreation strategic plan. Staff subsequently updated the biodiversity and urban forest plan in response to that direction. After receiving additional public input following publication of the council agenda materials and draft plan, staff is recommending several refinements to the definition section to improve clarity and better distinguish native species. We will discuss those refinements shortly. Overall, these updates are intended to support a healthier, more resilient and ecologically connected urban environment over the long term. The updated plan strengthens language recognizing the important role that community partnerships and volunteer efforts can play in supporting implementation and stewardship throughout the city. As implementation moves forward, staff will explore funding opportunities to support these collaborations and stewardship efforts. The revised language also acknowledges opportunities for community science and biodiversity monitoring efforts, including the use of publicly contributed ecological data where appropriate. Staff also considered and incorporated select recommendations from community partners and stakeholder organizations, oh, excuse me, that were received during the study session process. Following publication of the council agenda materials and draft plan, staff received additional public input and is recommending the following refinements for council consideration as part of the adoption action. We removed the definitions of near native species and non-native species from the native species category. We added the term biodiversity anchors as defined in the parks and recreation strategic plan to the native species section. And we replace the term near native species with functional species to better describe species that provide biodiversity benefits. This slide shows the specific updates made to the definition section. Native species are now defined by a given species status as being native to or having a long evolutionary history within a specific local. Native species can contribute to biodiversity anchors defined in the Mountain View Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan, supporting ecological relationships and functions in native ecosystems. Functional species are not included in the native species category and are defined by species that are not regionally native but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region. Functional species as defined in this plan, particularly those closely related to regionally native species, can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions such as climate resilience, pest resistance, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support. These revisions clarify terminology, incorporate the concept of biodiversity anchors, and more clearly distinguish native species. Staff believes these changes improve clarity and consistency while maintaining the intent of the plan. Following plan adoption, staff will establish the city implementation team to support long-term cross departmental coordination. Early efforts will focus on advancing actions identified as in progress and upon plan adoption while continuing to incorporate plan concepts into ongoing city projects, programs, and initiatives. Staff will also begin developing baseline metrics, monitoring approaches, and reporting procedures to track progress and support adaptive management. In addition, council will also consider a CIP funding request this evening to support the development of a web-based tree selector tool in partnership with SFI. The tool is identified in the plan as an early implementation action and will support future city projects, development review, and community tree planting and educational efforts. In summary, the biodiversity and urban forest plan establishes a comprehensive long-term framework to guide biodiversity, tree and habitat preservation and enhancement and climate resilience efforts throughout Mountain View. The plan supports coordinated implementation across city departments, projects, partnerships, and future planning efforts while advancing broader sustainability and well-being goals. The updated draft plan reflects extensive community engagement, technical analysis, interdep departmental collaboration, advisory body review, and council direction. This plan positions Mountain View as a regional leader in biodiversity and urban forest planning and helps establish a strong foundation for long-term environmental resilience and stewardship. staff is recommending that council adopt the biodiversity and urban forest plan including the additional refinements outlined in this presentation. We appreciate your time and consideration and we are happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Council member Hicks. Okay. Thank you very much. So my only question is I um like you have been contacted by a number of uh local and regional groups um too numerous to name right now. Uh and I just want to make sure that with I really appreciated the slide on refinements and the recommended uh recommended staff recommendation. I just want to double check because I've been contacted so many times um that uh in your refinements the native is uh only used with regards to regionally native and California native now.

Correct. And near native no longer is in the plan. Instead you are using functional species.

Correct.

That's what I was told to check for.

Thank you. Um and you also have modifications uh regarding the uh biodiversity anchor. Is that true or not true?

We added that on slide is that slide 10?

It [clears throat] highlights uh how things will be laid out in the plan. Native species is now defined as a given species status as being native to or having a long evolutionary history within a specific local. Native species can contribute to biodiversity anchors defined in the Mountain View parks and recre recreation strategic plan supporting ecological relationships and functions and native ecosystems.

Okay. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Council member Mallister.

So, I have a couple of simple self-centered questions. So, if I wanted to improve the butterfly population that once was here when I grew up, what plants would I grow and would that information be in this plant?

I'm going to let SFBI specifically answer that. They're on the line virtually. Um, they're going to give you a better list than than I can. If you are there, please raise your hand so that our our city clerk can bring you up. Oh, here we go. Is it?

Thank you. Hi, this is Selena Pang at the San Francisco Eststerary Institute. I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had to raise my hand. So, um yeah, thank you for that question. Um I think the plan does address the um biodiversity benefits um for insects and pollinators. Um but we do not it does not get as specific as like telling you exactly which um plants you would want to plant. And as Brenda highlighted, um the next step of this work is to look at um a virtual plant selector tool which is highlighted in several um actions of the plan. And um yeah, the work on that it hasn't been funded. So um it's not quite underway, but um but that tool would be um I think the next step in in answering your question.

So it is coming. Yes,

council

is voting on that tonight.

Oh, okay. Well, okay.

Hopefully, it's coming.

And my next question is, which is a long stretch. So, in Arbor Day, we get free trees we can request. Can we apply that type of program to the plants? So if somebody wanted to put in a native plant that the city have some stockpile or options to be able to go down the city MOC and say, "Okay, I want a few plants to put in their yard to be part of this uh program."

Well, we currently don't have the the the space or the funding for that, but we can certainly explore it. I I like the idea.

[laughter]

Well, I mean, you're doing trees and so, you know, this is this is implementing the program faster than if we relied. Everybody would have a piece of opportunity to do that. So,

when we do the tree program, we take requests and then we go purchase the trees and deliver them right away.

So, is that what you're saying you're going to implement? You'll purchase.

We will take a look at that and and look at our space and capacity and resources for that.

Okay. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you, [laughter]

Council Member Mallister. if you could join me in volunteering with the pollinator habitats. They always have wonderful plants.

I'd like to do that in my front yard. So, thank you. You could come by because we used to have the bees and the the uh caterpillars in my front yard and the butterflies and all the other birds. So, let's see if we can get that going. So,

all right, Council Member Shoalter.

Yeah, I'm going to go back to the these definitions. I'm [clears throat] a little confused about what would be a functional species. Can you can you tell me an example of a tree you know about that we use a lot that's a functional species?

Sure. I'm going to defer to SFI and possibly our urban forest manager on that.

And SFI you're able to unmute now.

Thank you. Um I'd like to invite Sasha to answer that question. Um she has a very strong ecology background stronger than mine.

Hi, thank you. Do you have me? Okay. Um so what we mean by functional species was specifically these used to be non the near native species and so these are um excuse me the chat's in the way. um species that aren't regionally native but that might provide a similar function to a near to a species that's either phoggenetically related by genus or is near and um from an ecosystem that is similar to the ecosystems in Mountain View. So specific species um are listed in the tree selector tool um or I'm sorry in the tree plant list and in another Santa Clara or Santa Clara Valley plant list that could provide some options. Um it would be a species that would provide fruits um nectar um that is associated with that has been demonstrated to be associated with some of the butterflies that that um the other council member mentioned. um support for bird nesting. Um might help improve soils in a particular habitat by bringing water into the area. Um acts as a refuge for bird migrants during migration because of the foliage and the insects that might um be foraging on the tree. So functional species meaning it is still providing some of the functions that a native species would provide but um is planted is not a regionally native species and is planted perhaps because of not difficult growing conditions or that sort of thing. That makes sense.

Well, you're not quite getting to what I'm interested in. So I'll I'll try and ask it a different way. When I think about the plants that we plant here, we we we talk about native plants. We talk about lowwater tolerant plants. Those are things that we often try and promote the planting of. Um [clears throat] the uh the low water tolerant plants are often from uh New Zealand and Australia. They're not near they're not near at all. And that doesn't mean we're saying you should never have these in our in our area, but they're they're not near native to a close by area. We're not and we're not trying necessarily get rid of them except maybe eucalyptus because they you know they're like they burn.

But um but so I so I'm having a little trouble with this. And then the other thing is that the truth of the matter is um the root tree cultivars that we've used in agriculture for decades aren't native anywhere. Um they're you know they are produced plants that um uh were um uh humans uh um morphed over many many generations into things that were wonderful agricultural producers like orange trees and apple trees and that can have blossoms etc etc. So, so this inclusion of the word native in here I think is a little I mean I'm confused by it. What what um

I'm going to have our urban forestry manager Russell Hansen take question.

So thank you first first and foremost Russell Hansen urban forest manager with CSD. Um, yeah, it we we could get into a lot of different species, but just to kind of put a few examples out there when we talk about our native coast live oak, quirkus agrioglia that we have within our community. Um, where I go to when we talk about these functional species is I go to like Quirkusi. It is not native to California, but it is from I'll say the southern desert areas from Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico on over even into Texas. We have several other species of oak trees that we can draw upon that we feel will be adaptable to our climate and it's about getting them here, trying them out, making sure that they absolutely will survive within our community for the life expectancy that we're really truly looking for. And so that's the first example. I I could come up with a lot more, but you're absolutely correct. The hybridization of our fruit trees, of all of those other types of plants that we have done over time, has shown that they do adapt to our climates, that they do provide some benefits or otherwise. And that's where we're going with the functional species,

but they're not native,

not native to California. Correct.

They're, you know, those those hybridization those hybridized trees are really aren't native anywhere. you know, they're they're an architect. They're an architect ar agricultural [clears throat] product, which is great. I love them. I I don't I but but they're not native. So, I think that that term in here is um I I think it's misplaced.

It's it's not it's not under the native species category.

It says, yeah, it's not under the category, but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region. That's not necessarily a requirement. You want functional trees, but they don't have to be native. Um that that you want trees that are going to do well here. That we're we're when we get to this functional species, we're kind of out of the native category. We're we're talking about other things. And um and that's okay. you know, there's lots of great trees, but I just um I think that we're when we when we keep this native nomenclature in here, we um it's it's just it it it's uh it just strikes me as as um being incorrect and and this and I have to say I am so excited by this plan. You know, I've read it a couple times and um I've been working in restoration work for many many years and we are doing a great job. This is the only thing that's kind of sticking in my [laughter] and when I and I and I just feel like this utilization of the term native here is um is uh unnecessary and um and and kind of negative. So, so I would um in the in in the functional species part everywhere else we want to have it be at the forefront. Um thanks. That's my

Thank you, Council Member Shoalter. I see Council Member Hicks, you're back in the queue.

Yes. So, I'm going to ask uh Council Member Shoalter because this is kind of the core of what a lot of these organizations are are getting at. Maybe they will speak up for themselves after our questions. Um, but I know not all of them could be here tonight. So are what I want to make sure that I understand the change you're asking for in so what you're asking for is on slide 10 under in the small print under uh functional species that it say you're hoping that it would that when it says functional species as defined in this plan um particularly those closely related to regional native species I'm I'm not sure what word you wanted you want taken out of that because it seems that it's saying functional species are not regionally native which you are also saying oh you want the part that says but are native to a nearby ecologically similar region you want that half of the sentence taken out.

Yes. Okay. That sounds fine to me. If it's fine with staff, I just wanted to make sure I know what you're saying because it is kind of the core of what a lot of people have been asking about.

I'm gonna uh also SFBI just chimed in. They'd like to to address that and answer a few questions now that they they said they better understand what you're what you're asking for. So, if we can go ahead and have Sasha on the line.

All right.

Hi. Thank you. Yes, I think I understand. The reason we have um native to another region in that section is just to point out the idea that nativity is defined by the region it is native to, right? So we are defining native species to this for the Mountain View biodiversity plan as being those that are either within California or those that are regionally native. And so when we use that term in the way that you're describing in a functional species section, we're saying these individual these species may be native to another region. So like Russell explained, maybe south of California in Mexico, they might be able to move further north, that sort of thing. They're native there. They're not native here. I do understand your point that the horicultural trees like fruit trees are so long from being native from a given place but they did originate let's say in Asia or Europe that sort of thing. So when we're using the word native we're saying you know everything is native to its location wherever it happens to be. We're just differentiating between what's native here regionally versus elsewhere. But if that's confusing um I'll leave it to Brendan to decide whether to change that. Yeah. Well, I guess my question would my additional question would be is what are we trying to do with this functional? We're trying to say that there's other trees that aren't or species that aren't native that are still valuable here, right? Isn't that really what we're trying to say? That's exactly what we're trying to say. There are other the plan is called a biodiversity. The word diverse is in there. So, we're trying to say that there's other species that may not be native, regional, or California that provide functions that support biodiversity.

Stop. That's it. Just Just say that.

No, it says

you got it. Yep.

You're native. Get out. Yeah, that's You got it.

I saw you going up to the podium, Mr. Marsh. Was there anything you needed to add or you're good? Okay. Um, is that it? Council member Sho Walter on your end.

I think so. Yes. Thank you.

Council member Hicks, you're back in the queue.

No, I I just didn't but but I'm fine with taking out, but that's a comment. So, that's really

Okay. So, do we have any more questions?

Quest. Council member Kame.

Thanks, Mayor. So, apologies. I'm just seeking clarity. So this this will come up when we take an action if there's an edit to you'll you'll clarify for us before we take the

Yes. Okay. All right. And just to further clarify it's the the the kind of link like the nomenclature of the word. It's not the use of these trees. That's it's it's more Okay. Thank you. I have species that can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions such as climate resilience, pest resilience, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support. Simple.

I think that's much better. Thank you so much.

You got it. All right. Do we have any more questions from my colleagues? Questions? Questions? Seeing none as um some of the members of the public seen that back and forth of questions please let us know in your public comment if we are in a good place. Uh so we will now uh with any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. A timer will be displayed on the screen. Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. We are going to start with our in-person speakers first. Uh Robert Cox, followed by Daniel Shane, followed by Tracy Faria.

All right. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. For the years of work that have gone into putting this plan together, I recently completed for the second time our local LMA Prietta CR Club environmental sustainability program. At our last spring session this year, one of the program directors announced Mountain View is the first city in our chapter area that has a biodiversity plan. This plan is one more example of how our city is leading the Bay Area in the adoption of programs that support and sustain our environment. In particular, I appreciate the parts of the plan detailing the ecosystem surrounding the Stevens Creek Trail near my home. I would like to add my support to the letter sent by Shaunie Klein House from the Silicon Valley Bird Alliance and a host of local environmental groups recommending some final changes to the plan document that you've just discussed. In particular, I do support removing the reference to near native species and support strict advocacy for true local native species. the near native language could be used as a loophole excusing us from using truly local native plants while planning our biodiverse environment. But I appreciate the discussion that you just had and I think you're all on the right track. So just keep going. Thanks for listening to my concerns and thanks once again for a great job on this biodiversity plan.

Thank you Mr. Cox. Uh Mr. Shane

and I agree with Mr. Cox. you've done a great job on this plan. Um, I'm really happy to see that the planting of trees in public spaces for increasing urban canopy was expanded to incorporate private lands and development. That was really really great to see. Thanks. Uh the plan will will hopefully increase the chances and opportunities to protect, preserve, and enhance natural urban forest ecosystems by requiring developers to consider these important natural resources early in the planning and design phase of proposed housing, commercial, and transportation projects. And sometimes it's not just the tree that's important. I said most times it's not what's most important. It's the ecosystem that they're in. And so native trees and plants provide the food and the shelter, sources of food and shelter for native animal species. And that's one of the key things about why we are promoting native species maybe over other types of species. But I agree with Councilwoman Shoalter that, you know, I love fruit trees, too, and we should uh be very diverse in how we think about planting more trees. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Daniel. Miss Tracy.

Okay. I'm Dr. Tracy Faria. I'm a Mountain View resident and um I just want to say these revisions They really created a clearer and more transparent framework and preserve the distinction between native and non-native plants that helps ensure that biodiversity anchors remain focused uh on supporting local ecological um relationships and food webs. Now that we have a plan or hopefully will soon have a plan and I like the wording. Um, I just want to say that I think this is going to help us to have a city where the next generation will be able to sit underneath the trees, enjoy the birds and butterflies with Council Member Mallister. And uh, I want to thank all the staff, the council, the commissioners, and all the people who had input on this. And um Council Member Mallister uh in the bottom definition of natives that they had here, they have Cowscape and you can put in your you put in Mountain View. You can look up all the plants that are in Mountain View and they will list the butterflies that are uh that will use those plants as host plants. So it's by California Native Plant Society. Thank you all.

Thank you so much, Dr. Tracy and we will now move on to our virtual speakers. We have Dasha Leeds.

Hello, my name is Dasha Leeds. I'm the conservation coordinator for the Sierra Club LMA Pria chapter. I'd just like to thank staff and council for all your work on this plan. Uh we do appreciate the recent modifications that have been made and we just hope that as you proceed forward that you do everything you can to ensure that we're prioritizing the use of native plants uh locally wherever possible. Um native plants have vastly superior uh biodiversity benefits as opposed to non-native even functionally non-native plants. Uh so we hope that where you wherever you have the discretion to use native plants that you do so. Uh thanks and we look forward to revisiting this in a year. Thank you. Uh we will now move on to Bruce England. Bruce England again. Can you hear me? Okay,

we can hear you.

Great. Okay. Uh short, but I got a couple of questions. I know you can't answer them directly, but I'm going to raise them anyway. So, the question about turf, artificial turf versus natural. um wondering what the changes are that we should be looking for because a lot of times the discussion around turf doesn't make it clear whether they're talking about plastic fake grass or natural grass and even if it's natural grass whether the grass choice is appropriate for our area just like the native plants and trees discussion that um you already have been talking about. [snorts] Second is um I'm just not sure if you're going to refer over to the plan from the active transportation plan as well as the parks and wreck plan which was mentioned. So as you know green streets are called out in that plan as it stands the act transportation plan that is and they do cite the biodiversity plan there but with no explicit direction regarding tree choices at least that I'm seeing. So are they shooting for something more explicit in the parks plan to point that out? I'm I'm sorry. In the U active transportation plan. Just wondering about that. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. England. Uh Ronit Bryant.

Yes. Thank you very much. Uh mayor, council members. Uh this is a culmination of a long process to position our city as a place where people in nature can thrive together. Biod diversity means supporting our native wildlife, birds, butterflies, and all forms of life that call California home, not planting a wide range of plants from across the entire globe. And so biodiversity anchors must be based on native plants, preferably locally native plants, or else they will not be supporting biodiversity. I thank staff for for clarifying the definitions and and listening to the community and making changes even at this late late uh late stage. I'd like to say that functional species provide environmental benefits such as canopy and water and soil retention, but not the kind of biodiversity that native plants can supply because our local wildlife has evolved with native plants, not with functional plants from elsewhere. Uh so I hope that that helps the discussion that that council had earlier and I look forward to next year's PRC meeting to hear how the plan has been implemented and what adaptive changes might be necessary though. Thank you very much.

Thank you former mayor Bryant. Um next we have Rashmi.

Hi can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Great. Thank you. Yeah. Rashmi Sahai, a member of green spaces Mountain View. And I just want to echo something um some of the things other folks have been saying. Uh thank you so much to staff and council for moving this plan forward and staff all your hard work in um incorporating feedback along the way. Um I really have seen that and appreciate it especially in this late stage process and I um I strongly support the changes in the definition and like Ronit said um the reason we're focusing so much on native is that they provide to they provide the biodiversity of all the other life um within within Mount. So, it's less about diversity of plant species, but diversity in the ecosystem that we have. And we just want to make sure that when we're saying native, we're we're when we're talking about protecting biodiversity, that's what we mean. And we're not confusing it with other functions that plants can provide. Um, and um, yeah, I don't have too much else to say. I wanted to say one more thing for Council Member Mallister. Um, the library has seeds and there's native seeds there. So maybe if the city is not giving out plants, you can always get seeds at the library to start your garden um once you look at that plant list. So hopefully with that, that'll get you started. Um thank you so much and looking forward to um seeing the PR plan implemented.

Thank you. And our last virtual speaker is April Webster.

Hi, thank you. Um I also like the other speakers um want to um give a huge shout out to staff um and consultants for putting in all the work to in integrate um the comments from the various community groups. Um the final into the final um buff plan. Um the final plan is a lot stronger for it. Um and uh yeah just really excited about it. Um, I also just related to the the previous letter, the the draft that was sent in. Um, I want to uh say that I I appreciate that the plan now more clearly recognizes um this document as a foundational city policy document. That action one better integrates biodiversity and um urban trees into transportation and capital improvement projects. that active action 17 now includes a shade goal for active transportation corridors, not just parking lots, and that action 22 creates a stronger annual implementation and reporting framework. Um I also um support the joint letter around the definitions for um native. I think that's really important as well. And um just finally I want to say I you know moving forward I think um the focus should be implementation um and I hope that um this plan and the goals can be considered early in transportation and the parks and public realm projects. Um thank you so much.

Thank you April. And that was our speakers. I will now bring the item back for council deliberation and action. Uh Council Member Ramirez. Thank you, mayor. I'll allow uh another council member the privilege of making the motion to um approve uh the plan, but I did want to share a few hopefully quick uh reflections. Um first, uh and I think every council member uh will agree with this. Um this is a remarkable work and it would not have been possible without uh the persistent advocacy from our very well-informed community uh and also um the the remarkable work by our staff who I feel have been very proactive in uh working with our community including right up until the very last minute uh to address some of the the concerns that we've been hearing. Um, uh, you know, we we take all the credit sometimes as as council. Um, but but really I think the credit goes to to all of you who have been engaged, uh, in the development of this plan for for so many years, and it's been a privilege to sit here and watch you all do the work. Uh, and I'm grateful I have the opportunity to to vote yes before I disappear uh, at the end of the year. Um, uh, there were a couple of things in the plan that I did want to uh, elevate though. Um, uh, I think me members of the council will talk about the the different, uh, forms of advocacy that we've seen, but I I I love to call out, uh, my friend Daniel Shane, uh, who I've met with, uh, over the years. Many of us have met with. Um, there are, um, I feel the plan meaningfully incorporates a lot of the specific concerns I' I've heard from you and from others that you've worked with. Um, and I I plucked out uh sections and put it on on a word document. Um, one of the actions, uh, includes a specific, uh, commitment to reviewing the general plan, um, uh, the municipal code and capital project requirements to identify opportunities to codify plan commitments, uh, such as pursuing canopy cover, uh, or landscaped area targets. And I think that's remarkable that to have objective standards that go beyond the things that we've historically included like setbacks. Um but uh now uh objective standards uh and roadway design approaches, green infrastructure strategies that incorporate biodiversity elements too. That's really cool um and worthy of emulation. And so I'm excited for uh future councils to uh implement this plan um and and I think help View become even more of the role model that we already are in doing this work um uh incorporating objective standards that apply to private property as well. Um the biodiversity strategies that we've worked very hard to to bring to fruition. Um I don't want to belabor the points. There's a lot of cool stuff, but two other things that I thought were really neat. Um, uh, I've, this strikes me as a a really hard thing to do, but, uh, so important and wonderful if we could achieve it. Uh, there's a a line item here about, uh, Permanente Creek and Stevens Creek. Uh, and the plan, uh, includes recommendations, uh, to, uh, pursue restoration efforts like daylighting stream sections, softening channels, planting trees, and building green infrastructure. Uh, that would be great to see. I would love to see it uh in my lifetime. I know that's not easy to do. Um but I would love uh for us, you know, for for the future council as you implement the plan to consider uh opportunities to to uh elevate that that action item. And I think uh we we once upon a time had a part of that in uh development uh proposal from a major uh employer in the area and unfortunately that didn't move forward. But that's the kind of innovative thinking that I think we ought to to to continue to explore. Um, and the last thing I'll leave you with is um there are a lot of um interesting opportunities uh that more clever people than I u hopefully can help uh realize and that's looking at um uh challenging properties or or private properties where we've long had an interest in finding you know uh useful ways to uh to make that property uh valuable to the community. Uh Quest to Annex comes to mind. I think that's hard work, but with a lot of uh community outreach, I think we could find something that has lasting value that helps fulfill the strategies in this plan. Um, but also I think about the Francia property, which some of you on the council for for many years have been looking at how can we do something that's a lot of land. Uh, and it's it's it's in a strategic location where there will be some uh growth probably in the near future. And uh wouldn't it be wonderful to see that land um uh utilized for some purpose that helps achieve the goals in this plan? Um and there are I wrote a few other examples down, but I think the long and short of it is um as as the staff report I think I I put it away now, but I think there was a commitment to ensuring that this becomes a foundational document. It's not a regulatory document per se, but it helps influence a lot of the work that we we will do in the next few years. Right? So when there is private property that's redeveloped, biodiversity elements are incorporated or when we look at strategic property acquisitions uh or partnerships with governmental agencies or or um you know developers, we can help achieve many of the goals and the action items that we have listed here. So I'll stop there. Uh very exciting. Um kudos to everyone except for me. I've done nothing except vote yes. Um but uh very excited for you uh and and those of you who are um who who will replace me on this council to to see this this work to fruition. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Ramirez, Council Member Shoalter.

Yeah, I am very excited about this plan. It it has been a long time coming and you've done a really good job of it. um uh you've brought together uh a very diverse group of experts to work on it both in our community and and um uh in the staff and and in our consultants and and it just shows. It really shows and I really appreciate your just a few minutes ago correcting that that um uh definition that had really been bugging me for a long time. So, thank you for that. um kind of uh ditto to everything Council Member Ramirez said and um I um one of the things that I'm really happy about with this is to see the impact it's already having. Uh we um for instance one of the things that was on the consent calendar, the 34 items was um some actions related to the public safety building. And one of those was that um instead of going with the selection of plants that had been made initially that that many people working on the biodiversity plan had said no we don't like that. Um a a new um a new process was put in to send that list back to the PRC and come up with a list that is much more in line with what we are doing with the biodiversity plan. That's just perfect. I mean, that's really the kind of thing that we're supposed to do be doing and integrating these programs. So, I'm so pleased to see that. The other thing I think that's important to recognize is this kind of science is really kind of new. I mean, for for cities, it's new. And so, it isn't going to um everything that we have in this plan that we we want to um the actions we want to take, they're not going to all go just as planned. We're going to learn a lot as we go through. And so I think the fact that we've built in this adaptive management, which means that we will bring back every every year, every few years to the PRC to to look at how the plan is going, that's just really healthy from a point of um view of our uh of our transparency as a community and it's also just best scientific principles. So, I'm really delighted to see that going on and I think that it will be a wonderful way for um our the experts [clears throat] in our community to stay involved and and kind of make sure that we we keep on task with this. Um and uh then I I guess I feel the same way in a sense that my colleague uh Mr. RmIrez does. We we've sat back for years and watched this go on and not really done very much. So, [laughter] um uh we recognized that that's that that there were other people who were really really um working hard and that's just very appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Shoalter. Do we have any other comments from my colleagues? Council member Hicks. So, I'll just say very briefly, a deep thanks to all the staff and all the community members who've been working so hard on this. I remember when I I first heard about uh the the possibility of having a biodiversity plan. Um it it seems almost counterintuitive to have a biodiversity plan within an urban place. Um but but uh I have I have read that with aggro business and heavy use of pesticides actually urban places are some of the best places to make sure we have biodiversity not only of plants but of the small creatures that keep keep everything going for us. But one of the things that I like best reading in the plan was it said it's not just for uh habitat and species well-being that it's also for community well-being because I think it does come. I think people thrive not just small creatures but larger creatures like ourselves thrive more when we have um when we have live among diverse plants and tree canopy. Um so thank you again. I hope I understand uh council member Sha Walter what the actual motion you're making is because you made a few changes.

Um it yes it's it's just the to approve the um the plan. That's what we're supposed to do, isn't it?

So as on the last slide on the last

we actually updated the slide based on the recommendation that council was looking for.

Okay. Recommendation to adopt the biodiversity and urban forest plan, including the additional refinements outlined in this presentation with a revised definition of functional species that reads species that can be selected for planting to provide specific desired functions as climate resilience, pest resistance, urban compatibility, or native biodiversity support. That's it. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. So, we have a motion made by council member Scho Walter, seconded by council member Hicks. I will also like to echo the thanks uh of that my colleagues have made to staff and the community at large. Um there are a lot of items that go before council. It's not a reasonable expectation of all seven of us to be absolute experts at all the things that come before our council. Um, we rely so heavily on the experts in our community for this and we rely on you to care very strongly to go through the rigomearal of government bureaucracy uh to to get something quite amazing through. This is a a a plan that has been um really really worked through through community engagement. I thank staff for their work and their willingness to incorporate so many of the suggestions from our community like um I've had the opportunity with a number of the people who volunteer with the pollinator habitats green spaces mountain view I I have not met with uh Mr. Shane that is not his fault that's my fault um and but I see your emails and I read your emails and then try to reread it again to understand it and I still have to reread it again to understand it. um but is because uh people like that in our community are just so um determined to making sure that this plan is something truly special and truly worthwhile for essentially the best city and um essentially true very much so. Um and I say that in other cities too. Um, but thank you so much to our community for for getting us through this finish line to through the very end because there were changes uh right there at the end. And thank you to staff for your work on this. So with that um we are all ready for a vote. And that motion passes unanimously. Congratulations everyone. And with that, I'm actually going to call a 10m minute break. Um, and we will reconvene back at 8:51. And I have a surprise for my colleagues in council in the break room. All right, let's head back to our seats, y'all. We have one uh

No, we are not going to get We have one, two, three, four. We have five items left tonight. Let's Let's get this done before 1 1 a.m. tomorrow. Let's go.

Oh, we lost our quorum.

So, if you all can make your way back to your seats. Uh, we're calling this meeting back to order. I really like using that. Um, all right. We are item seven. 7.1 adoption of the community ownership action plan housing element program 3.2 too. Spanish translation services are available for this item. We will now hear from our interpreter. Interpreter. We're back.

Oh, but they're not going to make an announcement.

Hi. Oh, there we go.

Thank you. Thank you. Uh, housing director Wayne Chen will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. Now, Miss Joan, this is the item. Um, go ahead. We're ready for your staff report, Mr. Chen.

Uh, thank you very much, uh, mayor and council. Uh, Wayne Chen, your housing director. Um, I'm very pleased to be here tonight after a two-year process to present the community ownership action plan or the COPE, uh, for your consideration. Um, I'd also like to note that, um, our consultant, uh, David Driscoll with Community Planning Collaborative is also on the line in case questions come up. I'd like to thank him and his team along with Echo Northwest, the joint consultant who helped us get um to this stage here today. Um I'd also like to recognize the COPE advisory committee who spent many hours of their time to participate in uh advisory committee meetings as well as meeting individually and with other stakeholders to talk about and provide input about um how we can be successful in supporting uh groups to achieve successful community-owned projects. Sorry, this mouse is very scrolly. Um just very quickly an overview of the recommendations is um for your consideration to adopt the uh the cope u to consider additional uh project funding to consider additional capacity building funding and to um authorize the city manager designate to establish a more streamlined funding process to uh meet the requirements of acquisition preservation projects. The um as a reminder, the COPE is part of housing element program 3.2, which is the city's comprehensive tenant displacement response strategy. And the uh goal or the requirement in the housing element is to facilitate the acquisition and preservation of at least 50 community-owned housing units. And as discussed with uh council in previous meetings, um the focus of these 50 units would be on uh units covered under our community stabilization fair rent act or CSF uh units because those um have been the units that are most susceptible to um market rate development pressures and redevelopment causing tenant displacement. Just a brief overview of the um timeline. Um shortly after the housing element was adopted in 2023, we held a study session with council in early 2024 to talk about the COPE and other items. Um that's where we also recommend the um allocation of $4 million of funding which was later appropriated um of October that year. Um we um started the process with our consultant team, convened an advisory uh uh committee um and then brought back uh guiding uh principles and vision and an initial $75,000 to support um technical assistance um grant funding uh last year. Since that time, we've been working to develop the COPE um and other um program requirements. And here uh we are tonight for your consideration. U the cope has five sections. Um it is informed by council direction and the copact the advisory committee uh input and I'm going to go over uh each one very briefly. The first section is uh essentially an overview of um how we um got here and the process um talking about the underlying reasons and causes for the need for this type of uh plan which to our knowledge is really one of a kind at the local level and the redevelopment pressures that exist because of the strong economy here. Um the cope can help um create more market stability and stability for residents and it's part of a larger response by the city including production, preservation and protection. Um the notion is that the cope can lay a foundation and a framework to not just achieve 50 units but with um all the extensive work that is being done it lays a foundation for scaling up uh potentially well beyond uh 50 units uh pending uh funding availability and really developing the capacity of the system to do this work. Section two is focused on people centered housing and uh further uh explaining what that means. Um the concept was presented and unanimously supported by council back in September of last year, but it is really about starting with people first and figuring out the financing needed to make it sustainable over time. Um three levels of change of at the household level of integrating the community and finding new ways of doing things. And so that's the system levels change. And uh the notion that community well-being, health, and these other items that are typically not part of real estate um conversations is really central to this type of real estate um development, this type of housing uh development. It's guided by six key principles and conditions for success. Those six guiding principles um are shown here with the first three decommodification resident roles in governance and community stewardship as definitional to what community ownership housing means in Mountain View. The remaining three items are key ways in which we would need to undertake in order to make community-owned housing successful. That includes capacity building, systems transformation, and continuous improvement. uh the conditions needed for success are somewhat straightforward but we need um a lot more funding. We need the funding to be more flexible. We need to build up the capacity of the organizations missiondriven organizations who want to undertake projects and the ecosystem of the partners and um other organizations that help support that process. um we uh need to have sort of a new way of looking at um what compliance and accountability might mean because these projects might be operated differently from the traditional affordable housing projects that we may be used to. Um the partnerships and ecosystems are foundational and resident education and participation is critical. Um most folks um as residents may have never participated in uh governance or making policies about the housing that they live in. Um, that's both an amazing opportunity and also an area that will need to be supported. Section 3 defines community-owned housing. And one of the things that really stood out certainly for me is that as we went into this research and talking with folks um is that there's not one form of community owned housing. And many folks use community owned housing or um even referring to organizations like community land trusts or co-ops interchangeably and in different terms. And so what we wanted to do with the cope is to create a framework that we understand what these terms mean in Mountain View. Um at the core it's the three core elements of decommodification, resident governance and community stewardship. The actual housing project can be structured in many different ways. It can involve different organizations. Um and there are generally four models that I'll go over in just a moment. Um but the cope is intended to be flexible and allow organizations to propose the type of housing project that generally would fit into one of these four models but variations can also be supported. Uh so the cope is intended to be clear but flexible. Um the four common models overall um there's sort of a rental model and then um there are many types of ownership models that we we came across. So, um, largely speaking, ownership has been a focus of these community-owned housing projects. Um, in Mountain View, the conversations that we've had have really been centered on having a rental project, and certainly want to be able to support that. And even having rental projects that could evolve over time to become ownership units. By ownership, we mean the residents ownership in the building, whether it's the individual units or shares in the building. Um, if it's numbers two, three, and four. Section four is talking about making communityowned housing work. Um the importance of having organizations that can undertake a project for the entire life cycle and all the aspects needed to acquire, own, operate for the long term are really key and gaps in any one of those areas can u really impact the viability of a project. Um the ecosystem for this type of work is very nent. there's a lot of interest. There are projects throughout the region, but as a percentage of all the types of housing um that is being done, it's very very small. And so um this requires some sustained long-term investment. And the city has already undertaken the roles of being a convenor, a funer, capacity builder, and policy leader. And the recommended goals and actions will continue to support those those roles. I'll talk about the funding in a moment. Uh very briefly, these are the different categories and areas that we see as the project life cycle in a missiondriven organization that wishes to do this work if u they're requesting city funding is to be able to demonstrate the ability to execute on these different functions um over over time. We did want to note that um we felt that was very important to be able to support different types of organizations whether they are locally created and formed in uh Mountain View which are community- based organizations and are very key um they bring uh much of the relationships the trust with the local community and tenants but may be new to development and wanted to uh note community oriented organizations who may not have developed uh in Mountain View to that extent. but um are oriented in a way where they do projects elsewhere that have the values of um the cope. Um they could bring a lot of technical knowledge and expertise of the various parts of a project life cycle that can really help support build up our ecosystem and the recommendation is have the cope be able to support both types of organizations. Um, regarding the project funding, a couple of years ago when staff made and council approved the recommendation to allocate $4 million in project funding, that was based on this idea that it would require $20 million of subsidy to be able to achieve the 50 units. Um, and we recommended this 4:1 ratio. Um, last year when we came to council, that amount um had increased to 25 million and we didn't make any changes to project funding at the time. Tonight, we're recommending uh increasing that amount by 1 million for a total of 5 million to achieve and maintain that same 4:1 ratio. And we would continue to undertake efforts to um fund raise, establish partnerships, or um apply for grants in order to try to achieve u growing that fund. the capacity building efforts. The recommendation tonight is increase the initial $75,000 um by $425,000 for a total of of 500,000 to support capacity building. Um after the meeting last September, we had identified um three additional options besides providing grants to missiondriven organizations to build their capacity and identified partnerships as being really critical for transferring knowledge and supporting projects and that requires more resources. Section five are uh five-year goals and an action plan. Um the intention for this is to provide again a clear actionable framework but provide some flexibility to allow us to um be able to implement see what works uh modify or update as needed and iterate over time. Um we along with our partners are doing this really for the first time in this region and in the city and there will be learning involved and so uh we um have provided this clear and hopefully flexible framework but with clear actions that we would implement uh over time and it is intended to be a five-year uh time frame. Uh these are the goals where we um again hope to have very sort of clear goals. But the first one is achieve at least 50 units by the end of the five-year period um uh in partnership with our um local um organizations and our regional organizations and to uh create the ecosystem that can allow us to increase that over time is to continue to build the community owned housing fund to try to achieve the $25 million. um building capacity within organizations and the and our partners in the broader ecosystem with a goal of being able to stand up at least one organization uh locally formed and founded in Mountain View to be able to um stand up projects on their own. Um number uh goal four is to um transition the city-led uh leadership of this process into a more shared and regional uh process. we would remain a vital part and play a leadership role but um it would be more sustainable to do this if the regional if the leadership were shared. The goal five is that once a project is up and running that there would be uh metrics and accountability measures to uh monitor um if the projects are being operated according to the the cope requirements. Uh regarding recommendation four for streamline funding approvals. Um last September we had made a recommendation to um identify and work with a third party agent to allow us to um transfer the funds allow that party to be able to receive funding requests and uh underwrite and approve the the requests. because of the nent nature again in our county, we have not been able to identify an organization that could fulfill all of those roles. So, we will continue to look. Um, however, we are also recommending to um allow staff to identify um another option, which is to um keep the funding process within the city and identify a more streamlined process that could meet the timing and the needs of community um owned housing um and to delegate that authority to to the city manager designate to identify and then to approve uh projects and funding requests. Um we would um recommend in doing so that there would be the appropriate safeguards and transparency measures and be able to provide um uh sort of uh very current updates to the public and to the city council if a funding recommendation um is made. In terms of next steps, um we would update and finalize the cope um any um identified cleanups um but also updating the funding amounts um um should council approve them tonight. and then we would uh begin implementation and continue to convene the cope at least for uh a period. Again, these are the recommendations here and that concludes staff's presentation and very happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks very much.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? I'm

staring you all down. Seeing no questions, we can move on to public comment. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on any item on item 7.1? If so, please click the raise 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 90 seconds. So, our first speaker, Joe Bowski. Thank you, council. Um, as you know, I live at Sunset Estates, which is a mobile home park, and uh, I was already telling you about how uneasy we are, which isn't very uneasy, but it's always there, uh, about the fact that we only own our homes and not the land under it. And then I saw on page 18 of the COAP, the community ownership action plan, that is included in today's agenda. Uh the mobile home community ownership is actually mentioned specifically as eligible for support under this plan. And I thought that's really great. So that's what I'm here to say. Um I it might not apply to us because as I understand this all of this is uh for new housing, not for what's already there like us. But in any case, thank you very much city council for remembering that mobile home parks are a a place where a lot of place people live and uh we hope that you make this plan work for us mobile home owners or renters. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Joan. Uh Jason Clark

followed by I'm assuming Alex Brown.

Yeah, thank you councel. So before moving from New York and Washington DC, I think we have never seen home ownership on rental property and hope we can end it in favor of housing stability. Um I too live in a mobile home park sensitive states. Uh rent increases without justification with no positive changes into the park have been happening. Um, I don't thank you for your work to reducing the annual increases, but let's work to have all 1130 mobile home owners in our six parks own the land. Um, current problems fix incomes. I live in a 55 plus park uh supporting my mother. Fear of park sale, fear of retaliation and eviction. Mobile homes are considered affordable, yet the owner is able to raise rents annually and when sold substantially. Currently, Sunset Estates has many homes for sale with rents that make it hard or impossible for 55 plus, often retired buyers. Many applicants fail to meet the income requirements of the owner. Some have returned to work to help cover their rents of more than 2,000 a month. Ownership would stop unnecessarily for profit rent increases if we owned it. Um, it would also support owner renter conversations. We have had no input in any decisions that affect our park. For example, we have wanted a ADA automatic door and uh accommodable restrooms and have been denied that. Since rent control, the owner has been able to pay for a monthly magazine, the directory, annual holiday party, which was hosted by his family for 50 years. I'm thankful neighborhood grant has helped us to continue to offer that free and um and for a summer bash. So, thank you for that.

Thank you, Alex Brown.

Hi, friends. Uh, Alex Brown, president of San Diego Villa Mobile Home Park in North Behore. Uh, guy who does stuff sometimes, I guess, for the Mountain View Mobile Home Alliance. Uh, thank you for including us in the process. I really appreciate being a part of the COPAC. Uh, I'm excited to see this come to council and to have progress because knowing that we have the the support of the city is huge. Uh, it helps people feel much more secure. Uh we've had a lot of fear in the mobile home communities of that the parks are going to get sold for redevelopment, people are going to get forced out and this gives us a much stronger chance to be able to use that as an opportunity to make it better to actually take control of our homes, our lives. Uh so thanks and also thanks to the consultants who are I assume on the call uh for putting up with me in all the meetings.

Thank you Mr. Brown. We will now move on to virtual public comment. Um Sandy Perry.

Hello. Thank you. Um my name is Sandy Perry. I'm a vice president of the board of South Bay Community Land Trust and we were privileged to be part of the community ownership action plan advisory committee in Mountain View. South Bay Community Land Trust was the first CLT uh that was formed in Santa Clara County and we're very happy to be joined by now not just one but two. We have Mountain View CLT and Soul CLT uh that are emerging in Mountain View. Uh we're very pleased to support this uh Mountain View community ownership action plan initiative. Um, last week in San Jose, we just closed on a $6 million rehab loan from the city of San Jose for our second property, which is a 18 unit apartment building in East San Jose. Preservation creates affordable housing by taking unsubsidized affordable housing units permanently off the speculative market, which prevents people from being displaced and prevents those units from being lost as affordable housing. when uh rent increases uh drive up the rents and make them unaffordable. Preservation is more economic uh than new construction. Uh it it's uh much faster and it's easier to win over public support and I'm running out of time. It's also an opportunity for ownership that

Thank you Sandy. Next we have Bila B, are you there?

Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Uh, hello, council. Uh, this is B. Hansen from the mobile home alliance. Uh, and I'd just like to start by thanking you for directing city staff to work on COPE over two years ago. uh their current task is to find funding and develop processes to implement cope for Mountain View residents who are most vulnerable to displacement. And I hope you'll direct staff to continue that work. Uh as you know, Mountain View's six mobile home parks are naturally afforded affordable housing, but have a large proportion of residents who are seniors living on fixed incomes. Some have heard rumors that one of our parks might be sold and two years ago another one did sell. Uh our carefully crafted MHRSO which passed in October 2021 helped our entire community immensely. But it's time to start thinking about future challenges. Because our ordinance could be weakened by a future council. Having a co-op housing model in one of more of the parks would assure mo mobile home residents that they won't be displaced. One of the current v uh goals starting with uh 50 CSF units is a good start and I hope you'll keep cop moving forward by approving all of the recommendations in the council report. Thank you.

Thank you be and our final speaker online is Anna Marie Morales. Hi, can you guys hear me?

We can hear you, Anna Marie.

I thank you so much. Good evening, mayor and council members. Uh, my name is Anamarie. She her from the mobile home alliance as well. I'm definitely going to echo what B and Alex just said. I'm a lifelong resident of our beautiful city and I'm speaking in strong support of the community ownership act plan being adopted tonight. I hope all of the in in its entirety. I appreciate the direction and goals outlined in this plan. I also deeply appreciate that our mobile home communities received due consideration throughout this process. It matters to see us recognized as a vital part of Mountain View's housing landscape. This plan represents a crucial step toward greater stability for our neighborhoods. None of you residents of all incomes and all types of housing deserve to live with stability and dignity. For many of us, the goal is simply to stay in our homes without fear of displacement. Please give us the resources and support we need to be active partners in shaping the future of our homes. Whether through ownership or other models of community control, we want to ensure that our communities have security, dignity, and a real say in where we live. Thank you so much for your lead leadership on this critical issue.

Thank you, Anna Marie. That was the last of our speakers. I will now bring the item back for council questions and deliberation. Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to the report. Uh do we have any deliberations? I know that we have a motion uh by council member Kame and it's seconded by council member Ramirez. I will let council member Kame go first.

Great. Thanks. Thanks so much, mayor. Okay. Well, it's very exciting we're here. Um, and I um it's uh I feel so apt that the secondary is council member Ramirez because I feel like this work um was motivated by the very painful experience happening in our community where we saw um naturally affordable units um getting demolished, our residents displaced, and a real frustration on our council on what we could do um to to help our residents. um m stay in Mountain View, but also how to how to preserve housing affordability generally overall in our city. And over the seven and a half years, we've been grappling with that. And part of that um comes to fruition tonight with our community ownership action plan. I think similar to the biodiversity and urban forestry plan, you know, these are plans, but it's all about the actions that that go along with it um to bring it into reality. But I think that um what we can really be, I think, excited about is how staff and the incredible work of Mr. Chen, his team, and how he has really tried to um not only bring I think guiding principles but also the five-year goals. Um and I appreciate um how um the the different models it start you know one of the models is is rental but there's also you know three opportunities for potential ownership which I think we've often heard as a council our residents goals. So um very excited um that we're here tonight. I want to thank the co-op is that and uh our residents for their input, their collaboration on um how we can both preserve and create more affordability um in the city of Mountain View um while putting our residents first. So, it's just very exciting. So, just want to keep it brief. We still have a ton of other items um but just wanted to add that. Thanks.

Thank you, Council Member Kame. and uh you were the one that made the motion, seconded by council member Ramirez. Council member Hicks.

Yes, I will be supporting the motion. And I just want I wanted to thank staff and and everybody who worked on this. I I also wanted to say that so in in another life before uh before I lived in Mountain View, I worked for a community land trust for 10 years. And so going over this work um you know it's really heartening to see that for example the guiding principles are very much speak to the work I did in the past so I think we're really on the right path in particular I will not read all six of them but de decommodification resident roles in governance etc. You know, these are all the things that I worked on successfully in in the past and did see that preservation can be more affordable than starting from scratch. So, I hope that will happen here as well. Um I also wanted to highlight another thing that seems like going on the right path is um I asked in our council written questions whether uh uh staff or community- based organizations have been talking to any potential um community oriented organizations or developers because I think that's really key and the answer I got was that it's a long answer which I won't read but um that uh staff has spoken with at least three communityoriented developers who've expressed interest in supporting this. So that's another thing that tells me we can be on the road to success. So I will be supporting the motion.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Before we go to the vote, I'll just like to say thank you to staff and thank you to our community for pushing this. a lot of programs relating to um this kind of preservation strategy of community land trust, limited equity co-ops and and um the other one is a community development corporations. Um a lot of the ones that exist now existed without a a lot of help from their local government or cities. This is this is a way Mount View can lead to create that ecosystem that that is needed especially in the time where the the recovery of our our economy is is very K-shaped has been really since even before the pandemic but then not supercharged after the pandemic. Um and and it has been getting worse. One of the ways to really negate a lot of that um pressure is essentially looking into housing. And as we look into housing, you have the three P's framework. And this is very much in the preservation of the P's, which has always been the squishiest of the P's. Um, a lot of us know the production, a lot of us know tenant protections. Um, and we we've also led on that. We have records of leading that. very few cities lead on preservation because it's hard to do. It's it's hard to grapple with. Um and this is where where Mountain View is leading. This is an incredible framework that other cities have not even looked at that don't even know where to even begin. We are beginning it. And I'm really proud of the work of our staff and our community because there's no way we can make this happen without the community pushing. very similar to the item before this, the um the biodiversity strategy. This is where not necessarily the we're relying on our community to be experts, but we're relying on our community to really carry a significant amount of work to make this happen. And so I am I'm really grateful to having the community do that. Particularly, I'm also highlighting this does cover the mobile home parks. So it's not new development. It's it's existing. So all our wonderful mobile home parks are uh would be under this framework. So um I remember a long time ago there was a a great documentary about how vulnerable our mobile home parks um just in general because it was a it was a national doc it was a documentary that covered mobile home parks nationally. However, they did do a focus on some of our parks here in Mountain View and interviewed some of the residents there. This was before we had our our rent stabilization program for the mobile home parks. But they it did cover not only getting protection set but the next step. This is that next step of the possibility of the mobile home park residents owning their park. What kind of system that would take and there are resources out there on a national level. But it is so important to really highlight how much our city is looking at putting that investment ourselves. We are taking that step forward. So I'm really glad that this is a big step forward for everyone in our community to really addressing um preservation and protecting our naturally occurring affordable housing. So with that, let's take it Oh. Oh yes, Council Member Kame.

I'm so sorry. Resolution.

Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View to transfer and appropriate $1 million from the below market rate housing fund to the acquisition and preservation sub fund to help fund communityowned housing projects as part of the community ownership action plan to be read in title only to be read in title only. Further reading waved and adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View to appropriate 425,000 from the general housing fund to fund capacity building efforts as part of implementing the community ownership action plan to be read and title only. Further reading waved

and just the motion also includes the the items you didn't have to read just the it's the staff recommendation plus those items.

Yes, correct. I just didn't read the things that we need to read right now, but pretty soon not. Yep. The voters can decide that this fall. Um, all right. So, let's take it to a vote. And that po motion passes unanimously. Thank you everyone for your work on this. All right. So, we have our next item, item 7.2. Call for a municipal election for November 3rd, 2026, and place a measure for the transit occupancy tax on the ballot. City assistant city manager Aron Andrews will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. And we are ready for your staff presentation. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council. Tonight's item is the culmination of one of council's strategic priorities. The fiscal year 202526 and 2627 council work plan included a priority item which was pursue a 2026 revenue measure to seek additional funding for priority community projects and services. To that end, in September of last year, the council approved a 2026 revenue measure ad hoc subcommittee and assigned the members of the council finance committee to meet to review revenue measure options. The subcommittee met five times between October 2025 and June of this year and tonight is the culmination of their deliberations with a recommendation that's coming forward this evening. One of the other things that have transpired since the ad hoc committee has been meeting is we also wanted to engage our community and let them know that this was a conversation that the council was going to have. And to that end, we did a mailer of about 40,000 of the homes in Mountain View, to which we actually got, from a marketing standpoint, a pretty good response. We actually received over 1,200 online responses and about 300 write-in responses. So, we actually heard from about 1,500 of our residents. In addition, uh the finance director sent an email to all 19 of the hotels in the city. We have heard from two of them. Uh basically their responses to us was they would be interested in meeting and speaking at some point. And so we've offered to meet with any hotel year that decides they would like to meet with us. From the resident survey, we asked them to look at six different priorities and rank them. And so you can see that the responses from residents, lot of interest in streets and roads, a lot of interest in public safety, affordable housing. We just heard the item before us, the interest in maintaining affordability in Mountain View. And then local parks, either the addition of new ones, the maintenance of existing ones, and then we also heard quite a few people just talk about infrastructure in general. There was the ability for residents to also just add other. And so we had a lot of residents that talked about other issues including oversized vehicles, commercial vacancies, appliance electrification, parking, pickup. We heard about that this evening as well. And then interest or lack thereof in road diets. So the item before you is a recommendation to update our transient occupancy tax or what we refer to as toot. A toot is a tax that assessed on hotel or motel room occupancy. Some call it a hotel room tax. The city's transient occupancy tax was last amended in 1991 and at that point it was increased from 8% to 10%. Since that time, almost all of our neighboring jurisdictions have updated their toot to rates higher than where we currently are. So, as a result, we have one of the lowest rates in the surrounding area. and also just looking at other large tourist and hospitality destinations in the state. The proposed increase because of how low we are would likely not have any impact on our competitiveness in the hospitality industry. And you can see that in the table that was included in the staff report and also before you here, our 10% is clearly one of the lowest in the area. And so the recommendation before you this evening, which we'll get into a little more detail later, is an up to recommendation which provides first the electorate to decide in November if this is something they want the council to have the latitude to do. And then if they agree, then ultimately the council could decide what they think an up to increment could be between the current 10 and up to 15%. staff went ahead and did some analysis on what this would have meant retrospectively and what it could have al so what it could mean prospectively. One of the takeaways if you just look at the baseline toot from 2023 24 to the current estimate you can see that it's increased from about 8 million to 11 million which shows that we do have strength in the hospitality sector coming out of COVID going from the 8 million to 11 million and retrospectively if somewhere between the 2% or a 15% rate were in effect it would have been an addition of about 1.6 6 million to about 5.5 million. And prospectively that same analysis, any increase from 12% up to 15% would be an addition uh estimated revenue of about 2.1 million to about 5.4 million. I mentioned that we're recommending what's referred to as an upto model. So you can see the recommended ballot question which talks about the areas that the community mentioned were of importance to them. and then compotes to what is known as an upto model. And you can see the language actually authorizes the city council to increase that at a point in the future. Working closely with the city attorney on this ballot language. So next steps uh August 7th is the last day for resolutions calling a measure. At a date to be determined, there will be a deadline for submitting primary arguments in favor of or against a measure. August 12th would be the last date to amend or withdraw a measure. A date to be determined would be the deadline for submitting rebuttal arguments to primary arguments in favor of or against the measure. And at a date to be determined that would be the deadline for submitting an impartial analysis by the new interim attorney. And then as I mentioned in the November December time frame, depending on the outcome of the election, staff would return to council to see what if anything action council would like to take to move from the current 10% to something up to 15%. So before you tonight, you have four actions. Adopt a resolution of the city council of Mountain View. First, calling a general municipal election and ordering consolidation with the statewide general election for the purpose of submitting to the voters a ballot measure to amend Mountain View City Code section 33.2 to authorize city council to increase the city's transatom tax. The second, authorizing members of the council to author an argument for the ballot measure. The third is directing the city attorney, as I mentioned, to prepare an impartial analysis. And then finally, authorizing the city clerk to contract with the county of Santa Clara for services to be performed in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3rd. It's supposed to say 2024 instead of 202 to be read in title only. Further reading waved 26. Thank you. I'm still back with measure G for brains. So that concludes our presentation and with that we're available for any questions.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Staring down. Staring down. I am seeing no questions. So we will go to public comment. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on any item on the consent calendar? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom. Sorry. Would any uh person like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. I am seeing no speakers in the queue. I am seeing no speakers online, so I will bring it back to the council uh for questions and deliberation. Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report. I see um Council Member Ramirez.

Uh thank you, Mayor, and I appreciate Council Member Mallister making the motion, so I don't have to read it. Um but there are two quick things. First, um uh I want to uh express um my appreciation, and I I I'm confident this is true also of the uh other ad hoc committee members. Um the appreciation to staff and the city attorney's office for the quick pivot. I know there was um a lot of work down a particular direction and um I think that was that was important work and I think that will have lasting value but I know the the toot increase was was not the thing that we were contemplating when we first started this journey. Uh so thank you for for putting this together in a relatively quick uh period of time. Uh and then second uh for uh the motion uh part two is authorize members of the council to author an argument. Um, I would request uh if the other members of the uh ad hoc uh uh revenue subcommittee would would join me. So, uh I request to council member Mallister to include um Mayor Ramos, Vice Mayor Clark, and and myself as uh the members of the council who would be authorized to um prepare that argument for the ballot measure. Thank you.

All right. See no other speakers. Council member Mallister.

Well, you know, Council Member Ramirez, you work so hard on it. I I think it's a disservice for me to read it. I think you should take the motion and and it's your honor to have it if you like.

Thank you. You can take it.

Is the seconder okay with that? [laughter]

Okay. Thanks, council member. Um, I will move to approve the staff recommendations, including uh adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View one, calling a general municipal election and ordering consolidation with the statewide general election for the purpose of submitting to the voters a ballot measure to amend Mountain View City Code section 33.2 to authorize city council to increase the city's transient occupancy tax. two, authorizing uh Mayor Ramos, Council Member Clark, sorry, Vice Mayor Clark and I uh to author an argument for the ballot measure. Uh three, directing the city attorney to prepare an impartial analysis. And four, authorizing the city clerk to contract with the county of Santa Clara for services to be performed in connection with the general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 to be read and title only, further reading waved.

Thank you for the motion. Council member Ramirez. It has been seconded by Council Member Hicks. Uh thank you to my colleagues on the ad hoc uh revenue measure committee, whatever it's called. I look forward to trauma bonding with you on the election camp on the election uh campaign trail. Um with that, let's bring it to a vote. And that motion passes unanimously. We're going right through these. Um, so now we will move on to item 7.3, resolution appointing a retired anuitant as interim city attorney under government code section 21221H. Human resources manager Lindseay Bishop will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. All right. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of the city council. Uh the item before you this evening is a resolution appointing Janney Quinn as interim city attorney. Earlier this evening, council recognized current city attorney log uh for her service and her appointment to the judiciary. At the direction of council, city staff is working with Terry Black & Company to identify a successor and to fill the position. Recruitment is underway for an anticipated appointment in the fall and onboarding of a new city attorney, excuse me, in this calendar year. Until the vacancy is filled, the city needs to appoint to appoint an interimm city attorney. Janney Quinn retired in 2019 after 24 years of service with City of Mountain View. In addition, Miss Quinn served as the interim city attorney in 2022 during the recruitment search that resulted in Miss Loe's appointment. Miss Quinn is available and possesses the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to serve as interim city attorney until council makes a regular appointment. Government code 21221H permits the city council to appoint a Kalpers's retired annuitant to a vacant position during a recruitment with several restrictions which include the following. The interim assignment is required to be a single appointment and may not exceed 960 hours in a fiscal year. The proposed interim assignment complies with all applicable Kalpers's requirements. Staff recommend appointing Miss Quinn as interim city attorney with an hourly rate of $17966 effective July 6, 2026. This concludes my presentation and human resources director Maxine Gulo and I are available for any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Seeing none, we are moving on to public comment. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise 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 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. I am seeing no public comment. And I'm seeing no virtual public comment. So, we will now bring this item back for council questions and deliberation. Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report. Council member Sho Walter.

Yes. Um I uh I had the pleasure of working with um Miss Quinn for many years um in earlier terms and she was a delight to work with. um very knowledgeable about the city and the law and very good at um explaining [clears throat] um to anybody who needed explanations and that's a major part of her job um how uh how that we could best go about doing things. So, um I think that it's wonderful she's been willing to step up and join us for a few months in this our time of need. And um so I'm very pleased to uh to um move the staff recommendation which is to adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View appointing Janney Quinn as an interim city attorney under government code section 21221H to be read and title only. Further reading waved.

Thank you, Council Member Shaw Walter. And it looks like it was seconded by Council Member Mallister. Uh with no other speakers in the queue, uh we will now take it to a vote. And we are just zooming right through this y'all. Um we will now move on to item eight, public hearings. Public item. Yes. Yes. Public hearings. All right. So, we have item 8.1, residential development project at 333 Franklin Street. Would any member Would any council members like to make disclosures? No disclosures. No. No one met with any. Okay. Um

Oh. Um, planning member George Schroeder. Schroeder, is that that correct? Okay. Um, and senior planner Philip Brennan will uh present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. And we are ready for your presentation when you are. Okay. Uh, good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council. My name is George Schroeder, planning manager, and I'll be presenting a residential development project for your consideration at 333 Franklin Street. Okay. The project site is located midblock on Franklin Street between California and West Dana Street in downtown Mountain View. The general plan land use is for mediumigh density residential which allows for 26 to 35 dwelling units per acre. Project site is located within the downtown precise plan and specifically it's within area B or the Franklin Street residential transition area. The project site is 7500 square feet in size and currently the site is vacant but previously contained an 8unit apartment building. Surrounding land uses consist of single family and multif family residential buildings. The applicant Silicon Valley Custom Homes is requesting a planned community permit and development review permit to construct a three-story residential building with 11 apartment units and two two-story detached accessory dwelling units or ADUs. DEP can also request a heritage tree removal permit to remove two heritage trees from the site. The site is comprised primarily of the residential building fronting the street and two ADUs located at the rear. The site is accessed from Franklin Street along a shared driveway with the adjacent multif family development located at 325 Franklin Street. Along the south property line is a pedestrian walkway to allow for access to the units. At the rear are two detached ADUs with parking spaces located beneath the ADUs. The project is providing eight below market rate or BMR units comprised of seven low-income units at 80% of the area median income or AMI and one very low income unit at 50% AMI. This exceeds the city's 15% BMR requirement. The project also meets SP330 replacement unit requirements for the eight previous rentstabilized units. I want to note that the city red tagged the previous apartment building in 2024 due to unsafe conditions. The city's tenant relocation assistance and right of fierce refusal provisions do not apply to previous tenants of the project site because of the timing of the formal planning application submitt which was submitted after the previous building was already vacated and because the city's previous tenant relocation assistant ordinance or TRO as applicable to the project exempted displacements due to a city enforcement order such as the red tagging. Aside from the concession requested, which I'll go over in a moment, requested for the unit distribution between the the main building and ADUs, the project complies with all the other requirements of the BMR ordinance. The project is eligible for a 50% density bonus because it provides more than 24% of the base units for low-income households. The applicant is requesting one concession under the state density bonus law to locate two BMR units in the ADUs in lie of the main apartment building as required by the city's BMR ordinance. The applicant also requests five waiverss that would otherwise preclude the construction of the development for open space floor area ratio landscape planting building eve height and trash enclosure dimensions. The design of the project is considered contemporary craftsman designed in conformance with the downtown precise plan design guidelines. Traditional building elements include horizontal and vertical cement plaster sighting, a street facing gable roof, an angled dormers integrated into the roof form. The design intentionally integrates the third floor massing of the roof dormers to serve as a better transition between downtown and the surrounding single family neighborhood. Here's a view of the project from the shared driveway showing the main apartment building to the right and the detached ADUs to the left with parking spaces located beneath the ADUs. The site contains two heritage trees, one redwood and one silver maple tree. The project will require removal of both trees to accommodate the new buildings and site improvements. Appin is proposing a total of four 24inch box replacement trees to offset the loss of the two heritage trees. The new tree replacements are anticipated to increase the on-site county coverage by 6% in full maturity. Auto parking is not required for residential uses located within the downtown precise plan. Akin is voluntarily providing two parking spaces on site, one electric vehicle or EV parking space and one accessible space located at the ground level beneath the ADUs. The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or SQUA under the class 32 infill development exemption and several public meetings have been held for the pro for the project. Project was reviewed at the design review consultation meeting in May 2025 where the applicant made some design changes in response to the DRC's recommendations. The applicant also held a neighborhood outreach meeting in February with 12 members of the community attending. Lastly, the zoning administrator reviewed the project on May 27th and recommended it approval to the city council. In conclusion, the project is found to be consistent with the applicable objective develop plan and housing element goals by increasing affordable housing opportunities in the city within close proximity to downtown and major transit routes. Therefore, staff recommends that the city council adopt a resolution conditionally approving the plant community permit, development review permit, and heritage tree removal permit pursuant to the conditions of approval for the project. And this concludes staff's presentation, and community development, housing, and public works staff are present here tonight to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. We will now hear from our applicant, CEO Jenny Kang and chief architect Haqing Liao with the Silicon Valley Custom Homes, Inc. You will see seven minutes on the clock.

Okay. Um I think most of the topics are well covered by George, so I'm just going to take a couple minutes just to reiterate some of the highlights of the project. So, just want to mention that this project replaces um deteriorated building that was old and unsafe and structurally um uh unsafe and with a a very safe and modern and code compliant uh building for the Mountain View downtown area. And this project also increases the housing supply from existing 8 units to 13 units which I believe it's making um more efficient use of the uh valuable downtown site and more than twothird of the units are affordable and the affordability levels ranging from low income to very low income which I believe is going to be contributing to the housing um issues in the in the in the city and the Mountain View downtown [snorts] and the site is located within excuse [clears throat] me located within the walking distance from the downtown Mountain View and uh less than half mile uh from the Cal Train station and which I believe it's going to make excellent transit oriented housing project and this is um uh in a nutshell the project turns a in my opinion safety concerns into a community asset and which uh also provides affordable housing and uh supporting local businesses and boosting the vitality of the downtown. Um and with that I encourage the council to uh support the exciting and responsible housing production project in Mountain View. Thank you. Any any questions? I'll be here to answer.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Uh, Council Member Shaw Walter.

Yes. I was just wondering why um you chose to build ADUs at the back instead of making the building larger. It just seems like an unusual decision. Um, I [clears throat] think the idea was that the city would allow detached ADUs, but in the new development, George can correct me wrong, but um, the attached ads, there's limitations of adding that in the new development.

So, it just allowed you to have a little more development.

Only in the detached building, the ADUs were allowed. That's how we were we were able to add more units. Okay. So, you couldn't have just made the other building larger.

No, then it becomes the attached ADUs which is not allowed in the new development.

Okay. Thank you. I get it now.

No problem.

And and council member, just to clarify, the the main building is limited by the limitations on the allowable density by the general plan and then the ADUs the state ADU law essentially gives more uh density with the just through the ADU development. They took advantage of the um the amount that they could build on with the regular building and the ADUs are additional to that.

Correct. They've they've maximized what the general plan density allows.

That's what I thought. But okay, thank you.

All right. Thank you, Council Member Sha Walter. Council member Hicks.

So, I'm just curious with 13 units and two parking spaces on site, how will you determine who gets those spaces? So those two, thanks for the question. Those two spaces are one for ADA parking and the other one is EV charging. So there's no tenant parking on site and um there has been some concerns raised around the lack of tenant parking spaces and um the because of the ROI of the project and also we looked into the options of putting in a basement parking and because of the narrow width of the lot um the clearance that requires to have a cars go in and out with the ramp down. It was not only not visible from the um layout perspective but uh it was very uh difficult to pencil um in the project just because of the um the affordability level that we had to take into consideration.

So maybe I missed something but who will get the who will get the parking spots? So the ADA parking will be more of a first first come first serve for the uh handicap individuals. Um and then the um EV parking charging station will be available for any tenant who wants to charge their

So the charging one will be rotating and the ADA one will be if there's a disabled person otherwise

correct

to be determined. Okay.

Yes. Thanks. Thank you, Coun. Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Um, do we have any other questions from council? Um, seeing none, um, would any member of the public on the line or on the line like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone. A timer will be displayed on the screen. Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. I am seeing no speakers and I am seeing no virtual speakers. So we will now bring this item back for council questions and deliberations. Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolution attached to the report. Council member Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor. I'm happy to move to approve the staff recommendations, including adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View conditionally approving a planned community permit and development review permit to construct a three-story multif family building with 11 apartment units and two twostory detached accessory dwelling units or ADUs on a vacant site which previously contained a multif family building utilizing state density bonus law and a heritage tree removal permit to remove two heritage trees on a 0.172 acre site located at 333 Franklin Franklin Street, EPN 158-12-069 and finding the project to be categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or SQUA uh pursuant to SQA guidelines section 15332 infill development projects to be read and title only further reading waved and I'll only add um appreciation to staff for their work on the project and also to the applicant. Uh I am I think all of us are impressed with the uh high percentage of affordability uh in the project uh which is always good to see uh and all also note that um the project um if it's constructed will help achieve our AFH goals affirmatively furthering fair housing um which is one of our uh critical housing element uh programs and if memory serves there's a specific call out for downtown um uh above and beyond lot 12. So, uh, this is a project that will help us achieve that housing element program as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Ramirez. Council member Hicks,

I will be supporting the motion and I I agree with the the merits that of the project that uh, Council Member Ramirez mentioned. I do want to say the one thing I'm disappointed about is that even that despite the low level of parking provided, the much of the site is driveway and hard and hardcaping on on all sides. So, I'm hoping that in the future we can get some objective design standards that can maybe reduce that. Um because I I personally don't want housing all surrounded planted in concrete in our our downtown or anywhere else in in the city for that matter.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Council member Mallister.

Yeah. Uh this project, when I look at a project, I always like to see how it enhances the neighborhood. It benefits the neighborhood. It doesn't impose anything on the neighborhood. And unfortunately, this unit, this project does not supply parking for those units. So, they're going to have to be parking on the street. And I go, "Oh, we got all this transit." Well, if we're looking at the demographics that are going to move in there, most of them will probably need cars to get to work. And so, it's just going to be an additional burden when lot 12 opens up that there are more people are going to be parking on the street. And it's going to detract from the neighborhood. It's not going to make the streets safe because there's visibility will be impacted. And I got a kick out of it that they're going to have an EV in there. And again, looking at the demographics, I don't don't I could be wrong that they're going to be buying EV vehicles to park in that area. So, because of that, I'm not going to support this motion. Uh I know it's it's um they're allowed not to do it, but they were also allowed to do it. And going forward, I will always continue to make sure that the neighborhoods are protected from unnecessary burdens. And you think of parking as an unnecessary burden, but I think it does because it affects the quality of life for the people walking around and just looking for the visual aspects of seeing when we were talking about the urban forest and so forth, all the cars out there and and not actually to see some open space.

Thank you, Council Member Mallister. I am not seeing anyone else in the queue. Um, so thank you staff for your work on this. I am like council member Ramirez. I'm actually impressed by the percentage of affordability on this. I'm a little annoyed about the um the tenants who were evicted because of the red tag that don't have that right of first return and that are the the recently adopted Treyo that we had uh doesn't affect them because we passed it a little later. Uh too late for these residents to um develop that that's that's on us, not on our not on the applicant. Um but uh I will be supporting this development. Um and with that, let's bring it to a vote. And that motion passes 61 with council member Mallister dissenting. Um it did is it 10 o'clock now? Oh, it's right there. 10 o'clock. Let's go. Um, do we have uh I'm assuming Council Member Clark, I already seconded it. Um, uh, go ahead and make your motion.

Yes, we only have one item left and it's a really important one. So, I'll move that we continue past 10 p.m.

Thank you, Council Member Clark. I will second that. Um, unless we don't want to do our budget. That's always an option. All right, we'll take it to a vote. And that motion passes 52 with council member Mallister and council member Ramire is not wanting to have a budget. All right, we will now move on to item 8.2 Two, adoption of fiscal year 2026 27 budget fee modifications and funding for fiscal year 2026 27 capital improvement projects. City manager McCarthy will kick us off and finance and administrative services director Derek Ramponyi and Assistant Finance and Administrative Services Director Grace uh Jen will present the item. If you would like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to city clerk now.

Thank you, mayor. I'm sure glad that you uh voted to go past 10 since we are legally required to have a budget by July 1st every year. So, uh with that, this is the culmination of many months uh that council has considered the budget, provided uh good feedback to staff, and so tonight is the official adoption of the budget. um and various regulatory things that we have to uh pass with the budget. So, with that, I'll turn it over to our finance director, Derek Rampone, to walk you through uh the changes that we've made and all the elements of this budget.

All right. Good evening. Thank you, city manager McCarthy. Uh good evening, Mayor Ramos, uh Vice Mayor Clark, and council members. Derek Grampon, your finance and administrative services director. And joining me is Grace Singh, the assistant finance and administrative services director. Um what the item you have before you tonight is the last step in the recommended budget process for 26 for fiscal year 2627. Uh the recommended budget is structurally balanced. Uh we have some new ongoing staffing requests that are limited and targeted. The budget focuses on maintaining strategic service levels and advancing council priorities. Investments are also included in the budget to improve operations and support economic vitality. Overall, this budget really balances fiscal sustainability with strategic investments in city services and priorities. This slide provides a highlevel overview of the fisc year 2627 budget development process. The process really begins each November with the budget kickoff and department budget request development. Throughout the winter, the budget team works closely with departments and the city manager's office to review requests, evaluate priorities, and develop funding recommendations. In February, we presented the midyear budget update to council, followed by the preliminary review of the recommended budget in April. The recommended budget was then published in May, providing the public and council time for review. On June 9th, the city council conducted the bud budget public hearing and tonight represents the final step in the process with consideration of the CIP budget and adoption of the operating budget as well. As a reminder, the general operating fund budget has an operating balance of 145,000. This is down slightly from the last time you saw this item, which was at 150,000. That's due to the the additional $5,000 of expenditures that are being appropriated for increased multicultural engagement programming which was discussed on June 9th and will be further discussed later in this presentation. This slide shows the 5-year general operating fund forecast. Fiscal year 2627 is uh structurally balanced with the projected operating balance of 145,000. Looking ahead, staff does project some modest operating deficits beginning in fiscal year 2728 as expenditure growth does outpace revenue growth. The forecast does return to a positive balance in 203031 and that's largely due to some projected reductions in pension costs and that's as of today. Um there were three adjustments since uh that were made after the recommended budget hearing on June 9th. The first one is to appropriate $100,000 for lease payments for property located at 485 and 495 Clyde Avenue, which was approved in item 4.31 this evening. The second one is to finalize the increase in the perterm stipend that council members receive from 3,800 to $5,000 per term as also discussed at the June 9th meeting. That has a cost of $12,000. And then the third one is the $5,000 increase ongoing uh increase in multicultural engagement programming that was discussed at the June 9th meeting. Before concluding, I'd just like to thank the city council for the guidance throughout the budget process and for the opportunity to present the fiscal year 2627 recommended budget this evening. I'd also like to stay thank the many staff members across the organization who contributed to the development of this budget. um with spe special recognition to the budget team for their hard work and dedication throughout this process. All recommended budget actions are detailed in the staff report before you tonight. Staff respectfully recommends that you approve these actions and adoption of the 2627 budget with the related appropriations. And with that, we are happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Does any member of the council have questions? Let's bring it home, y'all. No questions. No questions. All right. So, now we'll move on to public comment. Would any member of the public on the line or in person like to provide comment on this item or if so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star9 in your phone or turn in a blue card. A timer will be displayed on the screen. Each speaker will have 90 seconds or one and a half minutes. So, it looks like we have uh two inerson speakers. Uh Lauren Hatton, followed by Daniel Kelly. Good evening and thank you so much um for the opportunity to speak. My name is Lauren Hatton. I'm the managing director of Peninsula Youth Theater. We are a resident company of the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts and have been with MBCPA for decades now. Um, in the last few years, our expenses at MBCPA have increased astronomically and as part of this budget plan, you are projecting further increases, including increases to our patrons by eliminating the tiered facility use fees. We are doing everything in our power to absorb those increases and keep our programs accessible to our community, but when those fees go up on the side of the center, we have no control over that. So, we are asking that you please reconsider the facility use fee elimination at the $2 level. Um, and to just keep in mind how these fees impact um the organizations in your community. We are effectively being priced out of Mountain View by the raise in fees over the last several years. And we want to stay. We love it here. It's our home. Um we love the center. We love Mountain View. But um the fee increases have been really, really detrimental to our organization. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have Daniel Kelly.

Hi. Uh thank you. Uh, my name's Dan Kelly. I'm a longtime Mountain View resident. I'm a board member of PYT. I want to echo much of what Lauren said and add that I think PYT is a real asset to the community. My children participated. They're too old now. Um, but they got a lot out of the program and I think many, you know, the people who participate, you know, they we serve a lot of children over the course of the year and they all get a lot out of the program. Um, the the Center for the Performing Arts is a is a beautiful resource that the city has and the city can choose who uses it and in the choices they're making, they're pricing PYT out of using that space, which I think is a real shame. Um, that's all. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, I see no other inerson speakers in the queue. Um, we will now take virtual speakers. I am seeing none. We will now bring the item back to C for council questions and deliberations. Please note that a motion to approve the recommendation should also include reading the title of the resolutions attached to the report. Um so it looks like we do have a motion and a second. Uh before we get to that, I do have a question because I do want to address what was just in public comment. Um, it might be too late to do any action at least for this upcoming budget, but is there um is is it something that we can look into?

Um, mayor, I would ask that we hear from our community services director about about this. Um, I know the participants uh pay to participate in PYT.

Okay.

Good evening, council. John Marshant, community services director. And I first want to start by thanking PYT for being here and bringing this up. Um they certainly are a valued client of and user of our facility and have been for a long time and we want to continue uh that relationship um over over the time. So what we are recommending is that there is basically it's called a facility use fee. Think of it as a convenience fee. So we the city pays to have um as charges go through for the purchase of a ticket we have to pay for that service through the software company that provides that service. So previously the what we are um recommending to eliminate which was discussed the that tier any ticket that was under $30 would pay $2 as that convenience fee. Any ticket over $30 would pay a convenience fee of $3. What we're recommending is that everybody, no matter what the price of the ticket, to pay that $3. This fee has not been raised since 2009. So 17 years of not increasing that fee of which our costs go up and that's why we're making that recommendation. Do we have any follow? Oh, council member Hicks.

So, what are we talking in ter in terms of like if we for example, if we kept it at $2, what would we be talking about per year in terms of

I don't have that math in front of me and I'm sorry. Um, I also want to to highlight that as you're probably aware PYT offers a number of matinea programs for students and we do not charge that fee on on those tickets. Um, and so it is just the tickets that are available to the general public.

Okay. So, nobody knows like even roughly per year whether we're talking several thousand, 10,000, 50,000 like

I I just don't have the volume off the top of my head. I'm sorry.

Uh, council member Mallister, do you know the rough fee?

No, I don't. But, uh, I have a question for So, that's pass through fee, right? To the consumer,

correct? not to pa

that is that is that the consumer is charged that not not PYT as an organization

I one other follow-up question to that so uh the public comment speakers were talking about inreased fees so it was more than just this fee was there another fee that is affecting them in the increase

so over the past couple of years several actions have been taken with that program of which yes there have been some uh fee changes to bring us in line with what the market um average is um or even below. But we have been making changes so that we can staff appropriately. And when you staff appropriately, we're passing on some of those costs, which is the the greatest impact that they're they're seeing right now.

Okay.

Uh Council Member Kame. Great. Thank you. C would it be possible for council to get a off agenda memo with the information on maybe in aggregate what we've been doing related to the different fees and the costs and things like that. I think it' just be helpful for all of us to have that information if that's okay.

Sure. Absolutely.

Wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you council member committee. I didn't know how I was going to go with that. Um, so we do have the motion by Council Member Mallister and is seconded by Council Member Shoalzer. Did you already read the thing?

Oh, he did not read the thing.

All right.

I I figured I'd give him a break because I saw the length of this and I go, "Do I really want to make the motion on this one?" But you want me to read it now for you?

Yeah.

Okay. [clears throat] To in memory of Lucas Oh, I'm sorry, wrong line. Adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View. One, adopting the fiscal year 2026-27 city budget. Second, appropriate appropriating funds for to cover expenditures approved by said budget. Three, authorize the city manager or designate to execute funding agreements consistent with the nonprofit funding appropriations in the adopted budget. Four, adjust the budget license tax amount by the annual CPI. And five, authorize the finance administrative service director to adjust appropriations in various funds as needed to align with actual reserved earned and received as specific pacification. specifically set forth herein, make final adjustments to the community stabilization and fair rent act and mobile home rent stabilization ordinance budgeted and fees. adjust appropriations related to the Graham Middle School site based on bill invoices and determine final budget amounts based on council direction to be read entitleing wave and adopt the resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View amending the city of Mountain View master fee schedule to be read entitled only further reading waved adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Mountain View amending the fiscal year 2025 526 salary plan for hourly employees and adopt a physical 2026 salary plans for regular and honored hourly employees to be read in title only. Further reading wave and as acting as and acting as a Mount View Shoreline Regional Park Community adopt a resolution of the board of directors of the Shoreline Regional Park Community. One adopting the fiscal year 2026 27 Shoreline Regional Park Community Budget. Two, appropriate funds to cover expenditures approved by said budget. And three, authorize the treasur to adjust appropriations as needed to make payments in accordance with the tax sharing agreement with the Santa Clara County and the educational enhancement reserve joint powers agreement to align appropriations with actual reserves earned and received a specifically set forth herein and determined final budget amounts based on board direction to be read and title only. Further reading wave and acting as the city of Mountain View capital improvement financing authority. Adopt a resolution of the city of Mountain View capital improvements financing authority MVCA adopting the fiscal year 2026 27 budget for the debit service payments appropriating funds to cover expenditures approved by said budget and authorizing the MVCA treasur to make budget adjustments and determine final breathing amounts. based on FM MFCA board directed to be read and title in further reading wave.

Thank you, Council Member Mallister. And that has been seconded by Council Member Shoalter. I see Vice Mayor Clark on the queue.

It was just the same thing again. Um the just to clarify, the motion covers all of the recommendations printed in the staff report, including those that you read. Um for a few of these, it's you didn't do anything wrong. It's it's just the um um the staff recommendation includes things in addition to what what was read. So just just clarifying we're approving the staff recommendation plus everything you read.

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this is what I this is what I was told to read by the mayor. So I did

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it's in the record.

All right. Um with that I see no other people in the queue. Let's get this vote on. passes unanimously. We have a budget, y'all. All right. Now, we will go to item nine,

council, staff, and committee reports. Do we have any council, staff, and committee reports? I see council member Sho Walter. I'm going to let everybody else talk about all the fun stuff in Mountain View, but I wanted to share with you that last week on Monday and Tuesday, I traveled to New Mexico as your representative from Silicon Valley clean energy to take part in the celebration of the completion of the Sunzia wind farm and um transmission uh project. This is the largest wind project in the United States. It's literally [clears throat] um three times larger than the next two largest wind farms combined. It's huge. and includes um 3,650 megawws, nine um 9116 um wind turbines that are spread over 90 miles and 550 miles of high voltage direct current line that enables uh [clears throat] this this power to be transmitted over such a far distance. Normally when you use AC um lines you lose a lot of power as you know over over time but with the use of this AC um I mean use of the DC that that those power losses are are much much much smaller and so this was new technology um was developed in Sweden it's been used there but it hasn't been used here before and um so [clears throat] it uh went 550 miles from New Mexico to Arizona. Then it switches over into AC and it goes into California. And we and um uh Silicon Valley Clean Energy and a number of other CCAs or early customers in this. And one of the things that makes this so cool is that well the time, you know, we're in a time when wind power isn't really popular with everyone. So [clears throat] to have um to have completed this project is quite you know quite quite an accomplishment. It took 16 years uh to get through all the permits, the financing, a mere 11 billion dollar of financing and construction for three years. Um, and it's really a fabulous proof of concept that huge quantities of clean energy can be transmitted many miles from where they're produced to where they're used, which is which is just vital for us to transform into a clean energy country, which is one of the things I think most of us want to do. So, um, so I wanted to share that with you and say that really we should all be proud that we're part of this CCA movement that has been so effective at at um inspiring clean energy projects to be produced and this is just a great example of one. So that's that's what I wanted to share and we went to a lot of fun stuff but other in locally but other people can talk about that.

Thank you. Uh council member Kame.

Thanks Mayor. Um so I just wanted to um clarify when we were talking about item 7.1 about our community ownership action plan. I failed to highlight Council Member McCollish's advocacy that we we the city should own our own housing units. Um and and I I really um I'm so sorry that I omitted that and I've tarnished his legacy related to uh the city owning housing because I forgot. Is that good? You happy now? Okay. [laughter]

Ready? Perfectly.

Thank you. Okay. Um and now that he has his flowers, so um on June 10th, um Microsoft invited uh the council to and I attended um their data center grand opening. On the 11th, I attended the city's association um annual summer meeting. It was related to a resiliency. Really fascinating, really great. I think a majority of us attended. On the 16th we had our council transportation um committee and on the 18th I um attended the futurep proof your business our collaboration with like VTA and the chambers and then this past Saturday we had our pride.

Thanks Mayor.

Thank you council member Kame. Council member Mallister.

Uh well I guess I'll since she you she did mention a couple items. I did attend the city association and that was interesting to hear. Uh the uh response that the emergency response I we had a CTC meeting where we went over the ATP and I thought we gave some very valuable information uh our some of our thoughts on that one. And I was al also was uh honored to be with my fellow council members, most of them actually. [laughter] Uh, and that was that was my first attending to that meeting and it was quite impressive to see the the the activities and how it was set up. So, but I also wanted to bring up an item nine uh that uh it's been kicking around for a while, but we haven't addressed it. Um, I responded to a customer's uh consu uh constituent's concern about RV parking over on Gemini. So I went over there to look at it uh to talk to the lady and and for and it was interesting that when I was there the the what is it the NEP

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services were there uh checking on some of these RVs and uh I got a glimpse of what was actually taking place and what they did and how they went in there and tagged them. What was interesting is that there was about three unhitched trailers there and I asked them what could they do and I said could can since they don't move and I said well that's not part of your ordinance so we uh we can really can't do much med except registration or something like that and I go well that's that's interesting and uh I said are we getting a lot of those and they said yeah we're getting a lot of them coming from Powalto and other cities and I go oh um because they're they're putting in the regulations to do it. And in fact, there was one trailer that was sitting about 5 feet away from a fire hydrant. And I said, "Can we do something about that?" and um I left at the time so I'm not sure exactly what took place but I'm bringing this up now because uh we are increasing with a lot of unhitched trailers are coming along and I think that we've and also we just got a report from our assistant city manager uh giving us an update on the memo that we asked about going down and I was wondering is the council feels like should we adopt some new regulations to fill in the gap, especially like the vanlords that it was interesting how they said the the police said, "Well, I said, can you tag the register uh registr owner of the RV or the trailer?" And they said, "No, we have to go after the we we tag the person that lives in there." And I go, "Well, how do you get to tag the person if they're not around?" And there was a cat and mouse range that was always confusing on who was going to be responsible for moving the RV. And so, but since it wasn't in one of our agreements, and I could be soft on that idea, but I go, okay, whatever. But it would be interesting to maybe consider having staff because this last one was a memo to maybe write up a memo of saying as we move forward that we might have an action plan. And I just wonder if other people are interested that or had they gotten comments from the our constituents talking about the RVs up there. I I know I got a couple emails from businesses were saying that the people are their tenants are not coming in. The employees don't feel safe. The vacancy rates are up in that area. So there's is some economic uh hardship on the people that are in that area and some of the neighbors. So, I'm putting that out there to see if uh we can maybe look at having staff again spend about an hour or so writing up a memo potentially doing something about the unhitched trailers and the vanlords. So, I'm just opening it up for discussion and if I mean I was swer maybe you know if we should we ask the staff to look into some uh ordinance going forward with and hitch trailers.

I'm not entirely sure how we move forward on this. Um I guess this is a question if we want to add something to our work plan essentially um in this last six months now. Um do we do we want to take a straw poll to add an item onto our work plan? Will we have to remove items from our work plan in order to move this forward? A memo. Okay, we want a memo. Council member Hicks. So, I'm just a little unclear on what a memo a memo that is an action plan. How that's different than putting it on that's putting it on the agenda. Maybe spell out somebody can spell out what that is.

Well, okay. My thought is because we're going to be coming up on February and I rather have something in place that everybody has an idea what's happening the people out in the RV parks and the in the trailers that they all of a sudden they don't something happens but here they they're giving them opportunity to give input to what's going on and understand what's happening out there. Vice Mayor Clark,

I think what would be helpful, and I'm curious for feedback, um, after reviewing the memo that we received, and thank you for all the time and effort that went into that, the the one thing that I'm most concerned about, um, having some sort of semblance of either conversation or at least knowing what our options are is what exactly happens in February when the settlement expires because I don't think unless I missed it because I have I I I might have missed it in the memo but I think understanding exactly what happens in February you know one assumption is that measure she ma basically we go back in time to what August of 2022 where measure C governs and um the settlement expires and we're we're basically transported back in time then to when what the voters passed governs. I'm not sure everyone sitting at this day is necessarily wants that to happen. Um and but maybe I'm wrong uh as to what actually happens then. But I think understanding from a legal perspective what will happen if we take no action between now and February would be helpful for us to know and that can be a confidential memo maybe if it if it pertains um to the settlement. But I that aspect of it is kind of what I'm most curious about because that assuming we don't want to just sit here and do nothing and have everything expire and have an outcome we don't want, then we probably should start thinking about that. And I assume we probably don't necessarily need to authorize staff time. We would naturally, I would hope as a proactive city, think about these things in advance, but um I see Audrey, so I'll stop talking.

Uh thank you, Vice Mayor Clark. Um, uh, Mayor Ramos, members of the council, Audrey Seymour, assistant city manager. Um, what will happen at the end of February when the Navaro settlement agreement expires is that there will no longer be a requirement that the city maintain at least 3 miles of street where the parking of oversized vehicles is not prohibited. And we will no longer be required to provide a map that shows parking restrictions throughout the city and those segments where there are no restrictions that limit oversized vehicle parking. Nothing else. Well, and there are some noticing requirements regarding when the city does um its uh street cleaning program and also if a vehicle is uh oversized and parked um illegally in an area covered by the narrow streets ordinance or the bike lane ordinance. There are special noticing requirements for um how the police interface with those vehicles, letting giving them a copy of the map, for example, and not immediately citing. Those are the things that will discontinue with the expiration of the the settlement agreement. There will not be and so and that will mean that the narrow streets ordinance and the bike lane ordinance will continue to be enforced and in place. um and nothing else will change in the areas that aren't covered by those two ordinance um absent uh further additional direction from council. So, there were some things that happened around the same time as the Navaro um settlement agreement that related to specific criteria adopted by the council for where there would be the posting of no 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. parking. And um that criteria resulted in some changes to where that restriction um would apply. and there were signs removed in the areas where there once had been signs, that does not revert back to anything um automatically as a result of the the settlement agreement expiring.

Okay, that makes sense.

Okay. Yeah. I I think if there's a general understanding that it's okay for us to have conversations with staff and to start thinking about this before February without, you know, a giant study session or work plan. I think that's one thing because that's I don't necessarily desire that, but I I just don't want to be in a world where we have really kicked the can down the road to the point where we've created a mess for um we've just created an enormous amount of uncertainty for folks who are on our streets and living in streets and who who deserve to know what is or isn't happening on what timeline. And that's that's my concern and which I think council member probably shares too.

Uh, so that was Vice Mayor Clark. Council member Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor. I I think I'm um leaning more in the direction that Vice Mayor Clark just expressed that um I guess I I have two concerns. One is I don't want to uh delay or um remove existing work plan items that would might otherwise be completed by the end of the year um for for a new priority like this. This is not something that I'm personally um interested in spending a great deal of staff time on. Um, so I I wouldn't support um a proposal to have staff do new work that they hadn't been contemplating uh that would displace existing, in my opinion, higher priority work. Um uh but I also uh appreciate and agree with um the vice mayor's comment or observation that we don't necessarily want to leave uh everything in a state of total unc uncertainty. Um I think the the two memos that we've received from staff um are I thought pretty comprehensive. There's a lot of analysis, a lot of uh suggestions for u next steps including a significant amount of um activity ongoing right there. I don't know how much of this we can talk about because was it was I can't remember if the memo was confidential or not. Um it was not um but like there you know the there were tables uh with information about citations and toes and that kind of thing. um a significant amount of outreach and then um from what I recall staff working with major employers who are proactively um conducting capital improvements, right, installing bike lanes, which would also then trigger the bicycle um lane ordinance, the parking prohibition for for streets with bike lanes. So, I I I feel like there is a significant amount of attention being paid to this. Um but if there's something along the lines of what Vice Mayor Clark was describing where um especially the members of the council who are going to continue to serve um you know can work maybe at a more informal level with staff and talk about you know here are things that maybe some of you would would be comfortable with and also where are your red lines that would at least provide some clarity and then maybe even some guidance for staff you know come the end of this year or January February where have a pretty good sense of where the council's leaning. I mean, you're already very good about this, city manager. Um, so I'm I'm I I would agree. I'm not really interested in a big study session, but um some way for for the council to continue to receive the information that staff has already been providing, I think, very well. And then also maybe informally getting some guidance from the council members who are going to be staying on about what what might make sense for immediate term or near-term actions. Council member Mallister.

Yeah, I just had a question. Um, so the Navaro uh settlement that didn't include the unhitched trailers, did it? Is that I mean it's

include them in what? In in what way? The Navaro settlement didn't really it it just defined oversized vehicles and and references oversized vehicles. So, it didn't really um I I wouldn't when when you say did it include the unhitched trailers, do you mean in specifically allowing them to park?

Well, do they have the same 72 hours because it's a trailer and not a RV and not a vehicle? I'm a little confused of that. There may be some part of the thing, but it's not part of enforcement or they have their own type of enforcement. So, I wasn't sure how that actually worked. So, the Navaro settlement did not impact the 72-hour parking requirement that was left intact as even as a result of the settlement agreement. And um I'm not certain why unhitched trailers are not subject to the same 72-hour rule. I believe they are.

Here's somebody. Madame Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, uh Mike Canfield, Nom's Police Chief to answer the question specifically related to uh unhitched vehicles. They are required to follow the same 72-hour enforcement as vehicles with motors or if they were hitched. There is no exception.

What about notifying the person in it or the the register owner of the vehicle? Is there some confusion on how they somebody gets notified who in it or rents it so forth?

There is challenge associated to it. Specifically, if it is rented, it becomes harder to move. You have to find somebody that's then able to move it. Um, but the the complexity is more in the application of enforcement than the the law itself. But there is no carve out that that protects unattach uh unattached trailers.

Yeah, I was confused a little bit. That's why I asked for clarity because but it is more complicated to do whatever you have to do than

enforcement is a challenge has its challenges.

Okay. Thank you,

Vice Mayor Clark.

I think if it's clear and I see council member Hicks in the queue. I think if it's clear that we're um individual council members or um you know a group short of a brown act is is okay to explore concepts or things that came out of the memo more deeply with staff especially um concepts like um you know there there are more than just enforcement actions you know there are um there are incentives that I think other communities have explored um as long as I think there's an understanding understanding that it's okay to do that as long as we're not taking up so much staff time that we're taking them away from other things and other priorities and that they are very much authorized to say to close the door in our face and say we've we've got other things to do. That's that's all I'm asking for and maybe that's all always been implied. I just want to make sure that that's okay and we don't I don't get my hand smacked by my colleagues at some point later on. But um [laughter] I try not to do that every but every every now and then I deserve it. But

all right. Uh city manager McCarthy.

Thank you, Mayor. So So staff has an obligation to be preparing for the end of this settlement as it as it is now. So there's only a few months left. Um, as you all are aware, as you've heard from our assistant city manager, uh we have been uh working with and have been contacted by various uh businesses and residents. And so we are working with uh various people um to try and help solve some of the challenges that we're facing. So that will continue. And we do have our human services division. Um obviously our police department um is also working via the the neighborhood and event services division. So this this work will continue because we have to be prepared for what's happening um in February. So we don't necessarily need council direction for that. I believe that uh if there is interest in seeing what other options there are, that is something that staff can can work on. I don't necessarily see this as a work plan item because it's it's just part of, you know, kind of some of the day-to-day things that staff's having to address along with multiple other things that that we're working on. Um, if there is a desire tonight for council to give specific direction though for staff to look at anything specific, then I would ask that you take a straw poll. Otherwise, just know that uh I think what the vice mayor has suggested um could also work and staff's already working on various actions.

Thank you, city manager McCarthy. Council member Hicks.

Well, maybe what I was going to say is redundant at this point as several other people have spoken, but since I pressed my speaking button, I'll go on. Um, so I I think it's pretty clear that things are not going to go on. They're not going to continue the same. There are multiple things that we're facing that are very different. The expiration of Navaro, a pretty big change in council and uh legislative changes that are having, you know, having vehicles uh lived in vehicles stream into Mountain View. So I think for all those reasons we we all know there going to be changes and increasing comments from uh residents and companies here and so I just encourage although I don't want to displace items that um are on the as other people have said they're on the uh our work plan for the next six months. I also don't want to I think coming next year we're going to be seeing some changes and should be preparing for that. And um so the various things that people have mentioned to move that on and and be informed so that we can ramp up to those changes and and make those changes in a thoughtful way that I think our next council council should be engaged in. I think and also the comment that was made that the people living in vehicles on our street, I mean, this is the vast majority of our homeless individuals that they should have some hint as to what's coming so they can prepare because everything will not stay the same.

Thank you, Council Member Hicks. Council member Kame.

Great. Thanks, Mayor. Um, so I just had two questions kind of one, what what what did did we decide on anything yet?

Okay.

I don't know.

No. Okay. Um, the second is I I did want to follow up on one of the items. It had been of interest when um we spoke about this back in 2019 was the kind of the predatory practices that we're seeing related to those who um are unstably housed. I mean, lack of a better word, and in the memo, it's, you know, vanlords. Um, I know that there's three cities that have taken action against the type of predatory behavior. I think this like state legislature had like looked at maybe a bill or two about regulating that. Just kind of not sure um where we are with that. I think to me it's just kind of bifurcating the the issue a little bit. I think one of them is obviously related to the the three miles of parking, but the other is kind of more predatory practices and I think one of the actions we took this evening talking about, you know, um community opportunities for people to to purchase and um the the co-op co-op. Um, you know, I think this is another area I've personally been interested in trying to protect folks who are in um the situations where they're being in these um doiciles which cannot move and adhere to the 72 hours. um and they're the ones getting the you know notices and and perhaps ticketed and so I just I don't know how colleagues feel about that. I think that's one of the things that the councils whether this one the ones prior haven't been able to tackle. Um and I'm not sure as February approaches if that might increase. I don't know, you know, I don't know what could happen as people may feel um the strain of Navaro coming to an end. I don't know. I don't know how how else the council can tackle that, but that's one of the things that had been on my mind back in even 2019 that we've never spoken about.

I don't even know where to go from here. Um, did you want to make

Well, I don't I don't know. I mean, I think there's many different ideas getting floated and that's the and so I'm just bringing it up. There are cities which have already had that. I don't know if other people are curious for more information. I only saw a parag, you know, a short paragraph in our briefing. I don't know if there's more there if people are interested in that. I think that, you know, obviously there's another issue um which we're talking about is like the sunset of the settlement. So,

all right, Council Member Mallister.

So, were you interested in exploring how to prevent the landlords taking advantage?

Okay. because there are examples that you know I know some people are concerned about the work plan but if we already have examples you could ask city managers if they look at other uh cities what they do with their landlords that's what you'd like to explore or get get some answers on I I'm with that too. Yeah, because that is people are being taken advantage and some of those units if you look at them and they're rented, you go, how can anybody live in those things?

Council member Hicks.

Uh, so I don't know whether the previous two council members who spoke, are you talking about an expanded off an off another off agenda memo with more detail on that particular issue? It it can be. I just I think that council member Kalo started the conversation with a with quite a few different topics and this is the one I'm of interest to me which is you know we have made a lot of our work as a council protecting the most vulnerable and I have been out because residents and other businesses have reached out to me. So I have been out in different parts of the community and I have seen it. I went this morning. Um, and so it is something that concerns me. We do have three cities that are examples. There wasn't a lot of information in the off agenda memo, so we could get more, but I don't know how other people feel, but of the different topics that council member Mallister put forward. Um, you it sounds like staff's preparing for February and the sunset, but this was one topic that the c the council's never tackled this council or prior iterations. Council member Ramirez.

Thank you, Mayor. My my preference right now would be um what city manager was suggesting. I think there's there's I I feel like there's a substantial amount of work that is occurring sort of at an operational level on this including some preliminary investigations of policy approaches. Um some of I think vanlording was mentioned if I'm not mistaken in that memo. Um I I have a different perspective about the van llording proposal. um in part because of the the as a practical matter right when San Jose looked at it last year the ordinance it was ostensively about vanlording but it's it's very difficult to enforce and the primary enforcement mechanism is basically a prohibition against living in RVs. So like I I think it it is not a good thing and I don't think we should be encouraging it but you know if if you know moving too far down the road basically is just it's it's a de facto RV ban and I think that's something that a council can consider you know I'm not going to be on the council for very much longer but I I personally would be reluctant to you know suspend existing work to elevate that. That's just my opinion. um about any of it. Um my general preference is to not displace any of our existing workload. Uh that's kind of first and and foremost because a lot of the workload if if if we add this into a workload, it's going to change just by the nature of we're we're losing people on our council that may have different ideas about it. Um, I don't know when when this item will come back to council relating to the Navaro settlement. I'm assuming it will eventually. Um, and we could probably guide some feedback to staff. um as um council vice mayor Clark was mentioning um about like things that the policies that were in the off agenda memo that we recently had and there are still more policies that uh city staff are exploring when it eventually comes back to us. Um, and we probably are hearing from our counterparts in other cities about the different policies there, which we can also direct staff to consider when it comes back. I don't anticipate it coming back anytime soon. Well, I mean, I guess it depends on what you mean by soon. Um, I think if if if something is coming back to us, I wouldn't mind looking into vanlording. Particularly what I'm kind of interested interested in vanlording is how how prevalent it might be. I've been hearing different stories about it um from different contacts. I've been hearing from when we we did a while back um I I was with Vice Mayor Clark. I don't know if I was mayor yet at that point where we were just hopping into a vans and uh with the MVPD on a ride along. Um I don't remember when that happened but like it was a year ago um where there was discussion about vanlording and there were some stats that uh MVPD gave us. I don't think it was in the memo about the stats of like the percentage of how many our residents uh the RV residents were um renting the van from renting the RV from someone. Uh I've heard different numbers from like the law foundation on how actual prevailent it is. Um and they are different numbers. Um so it it would be kind of interesting uh to understand that when it becomes something. Um I see council me not council member um city manager McCarthy on the line. Save us.

Yes. Thank you mayor. So um to be clear about what's going to happen in February. So what will happen in February is everything will revert revert back to what the status quo was before. So the terms of the settlement that we're under now we will no longer be under the terms of those settlements. Um that also means that the city could explore options like looking at the predatory practices, um looking at the unhitched trailers, which um are problematic uh for reasons that the police chief said and and also um the restrictions that we're under in providing warnings. And then if no one's there, you don't even know who you're giving a warning to, who the owner is, who has it there. and we could have our officers spending hours or even days chasing down trying to figure out who a trailer belongs to. So, I think there is some lowhanging fruit there that would be more uh simple ordinances um that wouldn't displace the work that you all have prioritized for us to do. We are still working on all of that work plan and and that will not stop because of this. Um but I think just uh realistically from an operations level as folks have mentioned uh we just have to be prepared for um the messaging, the noticing u some sort of transition plan so no one is caught off guard um and especially those that are the most vulnerable. So perhaps what the easiest thing might be is for you all to just provide a general, you know, thumbs up or agreement um that staff will continue uh to work on options um that are related to the settlement ending. And then as far as timing goes, I think that can be a conversation that that I have with council members um and what's realistic with what the work plan is versus how long some of these things might take because we are still in the settlement until February. So, um we can be working on things, but there's still some things we just cannot change at this point. So, if council's comfortable with giving that direction, um it could be kind of a a medium between what all of you have said, knowing that we're going to be working on uh these items and then um coming back to you all at some point in the future.

Does that does that sound good to people?

Okay. [clears throat] Uh so uh next um I guess if that um council member committee you're still in the queue. Should we do this? Oh, go ahead.

Thanks. Um thanks city manager McCarthy. Thanks Mayor. I think that sounds fine. I just want to be explicit and clarify that my interest in and even discussion of vanlords was not to was not the same purpose as it sounds like perhaps the city of San Jose. Council member Ramirez, you know, I just wanted I think it's really important to to clarify that. I think mine is specifically related to predatory practices. I am seeing firsthand and how we're helping all of our residents, housed or unhoused, who are the most vulnerable. And I just wanted to clarify that it's not to obstensively do what other jurisdictions may have done. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Kame. Um, with that, should we thumbs up on on what uh city manager McCarthy All right. All right. Right, we have mostly thumbs up. Um, which is good enough. And, uh, with that, I don't see, um, anyone else in the docket for item nine. Um, so with that, I will, uh, report out that I, um, I went to the public art ribbon cutting. Um, there's a new public art at our transit station. Yay us. And I probably suffer from heat stroke. And this is why I don't go outdoors. Um then after that I uh joined uh several of my colleagues for the city's association Santa Clara County where we went over like emergency response essentially. Um and then I went to the wagon wheel ice cream social which was partially paid for by our neighborhood grants and they are very appreciative of that. On the 18th I went to the AAG general assembly. Um, and then on the 20th, we had our together in Pride event with these lovely t-shirts that are being modeled spectacularly by my two colleagues right next to me. Um, and then we had a another ribbon cutting for the breakfast club. Um, which is delicious. We ate so much food. RIP my diet. Um, and with that, um, thank you so much for joining us. Um, the council will enter summer recess. So, our next council meeting will be held on August 25th, 2026. And this meeting is adjourned at 11:05. And we are halfway through my mayor administration.