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Written Communications
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From:Santosh Rao
To:City Council; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; Christopher Jensen; City Clerk
Subject:Dear city council, THINK BIG, not SMALL.
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2023 6:54:39 AM
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Dear city clerk,
Please publish my letter in written communications for the next city council meeting.
Hello City Council,
Thank you to the council members who voted to support the sister cities commission last night
and retain a small spend on a program that builds lifetime bonding for families with the city.
On a program that involves students in ways that endear them forever to the city they grew up
in. On a spend that is unique to the culture of Cupertino. On a set of sister city commission
volunteers who give their heart and soul to the community for a genuinely GOOD cause.
Thank you to the council members who voted in favor of a decent and good program that
builds lifetime bonds for residents and the city.
To all of you, please volunteer your time to contribute so you personally experience the
program.
To the council members who gave the agenda item a laborious and protracted inspection on
smalmamounts of finances such as meeting room expenses, gift expenses, festival fee please
READ this.
We do NOT elect you to waste your time and the precious time on the Dias for such small
matters as meeting room expenses, gift expenses and certainly not to cut community festivals
which residents very much enjoy.
Your time on Dias is limited and precious.
As an active resident speaking for myself but with the typical interests of young families, I
would like to see my council members THINK BIG and do BIG things for our city such as
fund and prioritize in new trails, new parks, new equipment for parks, fund and
prioritize park festivals, attract business to Cupertino, prioritize getting a good tenant to
backfill the Sprouts location, attract and grow the retail clients in Cupertino so we shop and
eat local etc.
We DO NOT vote you to spend time nickle and diming on gift expense and meeting
rooms etc.
Please save your Dias time for BIG things and priorities. Please fund and prioritize
items that will outlast not only your tenure but all our lifetimes.
This means you spend time on Capital project funding that enables new lifetime lasting and
beyond services for residents such as parks, trails, local economy, safe roads, minimize traffic
and crime issues.
This means you ruthlessly cut wasteful spending like study projects on too many topics rather
than cutting actual services to residents or raising our fees.
All of you need to READ THE ROOM. Work like adults with each other, understand what
residents want and deliver BIG THINGS.
If last night were a meeting in a corporate company this morning you would be having a
performance conversation with your management and next performance cycle you would be
fired for what has now been repeat behaviors of going after small items, persisting with the
same behaviors despite feedback, NOT READING the room, not prioritizing resident
feedback, not prioritizing resident services that actually contribute something meaningful and
build a community bonding with the city.
Please THINK BIG, not small.
Thanks,
Santosh Rao