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CC 10-17-2023 Item No. 7 Options for construction of a City Hall facility_Written Communications (2)CC 10-17-2023 Item #7 Options for construction of a City Hall facility Written Communications From:Alok Mathur To:City Council Subject:Replacement of sports center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 9:41:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi, My name is Alok and I have been a Cupertino resident for 15 years. I am very surprised to hear on plans to remove the sports center for a new city hall etc. Our sports center is a unique facility allowing various city members to gather and offer a place to be healthier. I would strongly suggest relooking at this plan. Please feel feel to reach me if you have any question. Thanks -alok mathur 1222 Bubb Rd, Cupertino CA From:Debi Chessen To:City Council Subject:Golf Course and Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 9:28:23 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. City Council Members We have lived in Cupertino over 30 years now. We would like to support keeping the Golf Course AND please leave the Sports Center Cupertino needs Recreational Activities intact. We bought the Sports Center on a Bond - we bought Blackberry Farm on a Bond. Leave them!! If you want to change - we need Public imput and another Bond Measure. Please keep Cupertino Citizens aware of any changes to our City. Not have us learn through the Grapevine. Thank You Debi and Stuart Chessen From:rajeevk@gmail.com To:City Council Cc:Hung Wei; J.R. Fruen; Sheila Mohan; Kitty Moore; Liang Chao Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 9:04:49 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, I am writing to urge you to not consider the Cupertino Sports Center as an option for the construction of a new City Hall facility, scheduled for consideration by council on October 17. I have been a member of the Sports center for over 10 years. I use it regularly -- both gym equipment as well as the tennis courts, Both my children attended various classes over the years. It is the most important facility for our family, and we are not alone. I am a Saratoga resident, and many of our friends and neighbors use it similarly. It would be a great loss to our entire community if the sports center were to be affected in any way. Please preserve the sports center as is, and remove it as an option for any new construction or modifications. Thank you. Best Regards, Rajeev Krishnamoorthy 12676 Kinman Ct, Saratoga, CA 95070 (408) 857-0479 From:Donna Lee To:City Council Subject:NEW City Hall Proposal to Turn the Sports Center into Mixed Use Housing Facility Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:52:10 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear city council, We are against the proposal for a new city hall that will replace the current sports center. With the new proposal, our community would lose its tennis courts and sports facility in exchange for mixed-use projects for a new city hall and more housing units. A great city provides art, sport and leisure facilities. Cupertino can't grow into a city only emphasis on housing alone. Please reconsider. Donna Lee & Eugene Wong From:Tom Gallup To:City Council Subject:New City Hall Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:18:40 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please count me as OPPOSED to the proposal to build a new city hall and cover the cricket field with high density housing. Tom Gallup From:Helen Z To:City Council Subject:protect CSC Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:05:05 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello. I'm Helen Zhang, an avid member of the CSC tennis center, a cupertino resident. I'm shocked to hear the city is considering replacing CSC with something else. It's such an important part of me and my family and my friend. Please protect it. Helen Zhang. From:Loretta Lu To:City Council Subject:No CSC Expansion Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 6:51:28 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Sent from my iPhone From:Richard Lowenthal To:Hung Wei Cc:Pamela Wu; Kirsten Squarcia Subject:Item 7: Keep the Cupertino Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 1:44:26 AM Dear Mayor Wei, I urge you to continue to use the Cupertino Sports Center for sports programming. Our residents count on you to provide services like tennis, racquetball, pickleball, badminton, ping pong, basketball, and even chess. It’s what makes our City fun. The tennis program at our Sports Center is very popular and almost always fully booked. Hundreds of people are using the sports center and we shouldn’t let them down by tearing down the sport center and eliminating these popular programs. As we provide housing that allows us to accommodate more residents, we will desperately need more opportunities for recreation, not fewer – let’s not go the wrong direction by eliminating options. Our City Hall should continue to be part of our Civic Center complex with our Community Hall and Library. Housing in Cupertino should continue to be provided by the private sector with supportive policies from our City Council and City staff. Speaking of our City Center, one of our best decisions there was to build a two-story library in order to save the field next to it. The theory being that once you remove a recreational facility you will never, ever get it back. Let’s not go backwards by eliminating recreational choices for the people of Cupertino – there’s no good reason to do it. Thanks for reading, Richard Lowenthal From:Karen K To:City Council Subject:Opposition to repurposing of the sports center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:51:32 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I understand that Cupertino sport center is on the table as an option to be rezoned/ rebuilt for a new city hall and mixed use development. As a Cupertino resident of 20 years, I am very disappointed and strongly opposed to this consideration. I lost my mom 2 years ago during the peak of the Covid Pandemic and it was absolutely devastating. My mom exercised every day at the Cupertino Sport Center shortly after her stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis because she believed she was going to beat cancer. I remembered how she talked about how lovely CSC was and how much she enjoyed running on the treadmill as she watched people play tennis. She talked about how she liked to use the facilities. She talked about how she looked forward to going to Csc because it gave her something to look forward to everyday between the chemo and radiation treatments. The only reason we joined Csc was to continue her legacy. CSC has enriched my family’s life through the countless tennis lessons and group exercise classes and court times that we have taken to rebuild after the death of my mom. Without the Cupertino Sports Center and the wonderful relationship and connections of the good people of this community, we would would not have the courage to live life as fully as we are able today. So I kindly ask the council to not repurpose the sports center and consider other alternatives that has nothing to do with the sports center Thank you Carey From:Jean Bedord To:City Council; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk; Matt Morley Subject:Agenda Item #7 City Hall options, Oct. 17, 2023 City Council Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:17:54 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Honorable Mayor Wei, Vice-Mayor Mohan, Councilmembers Fruen, Chao and Moore, and staff I am writing to urge the council to authorize staff to pursue the potential public private partnership (P3) option for a city hall and income producing development at the Sports Center location. The current city hall is seismically unsafe which has been known since 2005 so there is substantial legal liability for the city. This out-of-the-box thinking is essential to financing such a project, which will require $20 million to $80 million to mitigate. I've sat through all the discussions over the years, and this is the best option that has been proposed (other than the rejected Vallco Town Center which included a new city hall) since it directly addresses financing. Here are some of the factors: * Ideal location for income housing to offset costs of municipal offices. The location on the VTA Stevens Creek bus line reduces the need for parking which reduces the cost of building housing, which might make below market rate housing possible in this location. Market rate "senior friendly" housing would be even better -- single level independent living, walking distance to grocery store and restaurants, walking distance to the India Community Center, Cupertino Senior Center and recreational spaces. Senior transportation is a major issue for our aging population. Potentially, senior services could be potentially shared with the new high end Atria assisted living facility being built at Westport/Oaks. That complex will include public retail space, mostly restaurants, but could include senior related services such as a medical supply store. * Adjacent to DeAnza College, which provides additional partnership opportunities, including parking and transportation. COVID has changed student dynamics. In addition, there are plans to build a county healthcare clinic on the DeAnza campus. The Sunday Farmers Market is in the DeAnza parking lot. DeAnza has gym facilities which can be made available for public use. In addition to the 6 tennis courts in Memorial Park, there are 7 underutilized tennis courts at DeAnza. * Building a city hall on a different site eliminates the need for a temporary move. The library had to do this for the new building -- it was expensive to move out, then move back in, with reduced services for a couple years. (Patrons were asked to keep their checked out books and return them when the new library opened). * Cupertino has to plan for 4,588 new housing units in the next Housing Cycle. This is an opportunity to add a substantial number of housing units. Council has given token support to adding housing on city properties. This is an opportunity to follow through. In conjunction with redeveloping the Sports Center parcel for housing and municipal uses, I recommend pursuing a partnership with Sand Hill Properties for a sports center complex in whatever new design is developed for Vallco. They are required to provide parkland - so why not allow tennis and pickleball courts to be counted as parkland? It would also be much closer to the new dense housing that will be built there, as well as the park-deficient eastern part of Cupertino. The current Cupertino Sports Center Complex, though well-loved, is aging. The city doesn't have the money to upgrade the current 25,000 sq. ft. building to current standards. My understanding is that overall it's a money-loser for the city, and has been for years. I urge the council to take a broader view of the needs of our city, not just the barrage of emails concerned with preserving the status quo. New ways of doing business and developing partnerships are essential to the well-being of our city, given the financial challenges. Jean Bedord Concerned Cupertino Resident From:Jean Bedord To:City Council; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk; Matt Morley Subject:Agenda Item #7 City Hall options, Oct. 17, 2023 City Council Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:17:54 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Honorable Mayor Wei, Vice-Mayor Mohan, Councilmembers Fruen, Chao and Moore, and staff I am writing to urge the council to authorize staff to pursue the potential public private partnership (P3) option for a city hall and income producing development at the Sports Center location. The current city hall is seismically unsafe which has been known since 2005 so there is substantial legal liability for the city. This out-of-the-box thinking is essential to financing such a project, which will require $20 million to $80 million to mitigate. I've sat through all the discussions over the years, and this is the best option that has been proposed (other than the rejected Vallco Town Center which included a new city hall) since it directly addresses financing. Here are some of the factors: * Ideal location for income housing to offset costs of municipal offices. The location on the VTA Stevens Creek bus line reduces the need for parking which reduces the cost of building housing, which might make below market rate housing possible in this location. Market rate "senior friendly" housing would be even better -- single level independent living, walking distance to grocery store and restaurants, walking distance to the India Community Center, Cupertino Senior Center and recreational spaces. Senior transportation is a major issue for our aging population. Potentially, senior services could be potentially shared with the new high end Atria assisted living facility being built at Westport/Oaks. That complex will include public retail space, mostly restaurants, but could include senior related services such as a medical supply store. * Adjacent to DeAnza College, which provides additional partnership opportunities, including parking and transportation. COVID has changed student dynamics. In addition, there are plans to build a county healthcare clinic on the DeAnza campus. The Sunday Farmers Market is in the DeAnza parking lot. DeAnza has gym facilities which can be made available for public use. In addition to the 6 tennis courts in Memorial Park, there are 7 underutilized tennis courts at DeAnza. * Building a city hall on a different site eliminates the need for a temporary move. The library had to do this for the new building -- it was expensive to move out, then move back in, with reduced services for a couple years. (Patrons were asked to keep their checked out books and return them when the new library opened). * Cupertino has to plan for 4,588 new housing units in the next Housing Cycle. This is an opportunity to add a substantial number of housing units. Council has given token support to adding housing on city properties. This is an opportunity to follow through. In conjunction with redeveloping the Sports Center parcel for housing and municipal uses, I recommend pursuing a partnership with Sand Hill Properties for a sports center complex in whatever new design is developed for Vallco. They are required to provide parkland - so why not allow tennis and pickleball courts to be counted as parkland? It would also be much closer to the new dense housing that will be built there, as well as the park-deficient eastern part of Cupertino. The current Cupertino Sports Center Complex, though well-loved, is aging. The city doesn't have the money to upgrade the current 25,000 sq. ft. building to current standards. My understanding is that overall it's a money-loser for the city, and has been for years. I urge the council to take a broader view of the needs of our city, not just the barrage of emails concerned with preserving the status quo. New ways of doing business and developing partnerships are essential to the well-being of our city, given the financial challenges. Jean Bedord Concerned Cupertino Resident From:Navina Rehesh To:City Council Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:16:40 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To whomsoever it may concern I am a resident of Cupertino and would like to strongly object the conceptual plan of redevelopment of CSC. I am a member of CSC and would like to assure that CSC is well kept and any redevelopment at this point is futile and exorbitant. CSC is a thriving center widely used by residents for various activities and would like to earnestly appeal to drop the redevelopment plan. Thanks Navina Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone From:Munisekar To:City Council; City Clerk; Cupertino City Manager"s Office Cc:Muni Subject:Item #7: Options for construction of a City Hall facility Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 11:54:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor & City Council, My name is Muni Madhdhipatla, a long time resident of Cupertino and serving on the Planning Commission as well. I am writing this email in my individual capacity as a concerned resident. I am extremely troubled and appalled by what is happening in our city under your leadership. With the actions you are pursuing today, you are basically putting a BIG FOR SALE sign on public properties owned by taxpayers of Cupertino. This is unacceptable by any standards and I don't think we elected you to carry out this egregious act. Your actions are quite opposite to the previous council majority actions which acquired public properties like Lawrence Mitty Park, Byrne Residence and 10455 Torre Avenue during their tenure between 2018 to 2022. Since you are trying to hand off public properties owned by the community to private owners, they have to be voted on by the public directly through a ballot measure. Failing which, we will not be afraid to force the issue by collecting required signatures. We have done this before a few times and it is not a stretch for us to do one more time. I highly recommend you consider the options of City Hall Seismic retrofitting which is the least expensive option and look at cutting operational costs of the city to balance the budget instead of selling city owned public properties. Thank you. Muni Madhdhipatla Cupertino Resident From:Irene Nishimoto To:City Council Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 11:23:13 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, I have been a Cupertino Sports Center pass holder for as many years as it has been in existence. I was dismayed to hear that there was a possibility of it being displaced. This facility is very dear to my heart. The tennis courts are some of the best in the area, the lights on the courts are bright enough for oldies like me to be able to see clearly at night, the work out area has helped me recuperate from injuries, and the classes offered are so popular. Most of my friends are those that I have met at CSC. It is a friendly, welcoming community. Financially, I am not able to afford membership to the private clubs in the area. CSC provides a place that is affordable, clean, safe, and a joy to play tennis. You might think it would be a good idea to expand or change the Sports Center, but any disruption or closure impacts so many people. For many that are elderly, like me, it is the main social outlet to be able to interact with people. Also, this facility enables us to keep our bodies moving and our minds active. Please we need the Cupertino Sports Center to stay open. Sincerely, Irene Nishimoto From:Adele Chen To:City Council; Cupertino City Manager"s Office Subject:Objections to turn Cupertino Sports Center into other development project Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 11:21:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino City Council and City Manager, I recently learned about the City's proposal to consider a potential P3 development on the Cupertino Sports Center site. With all due respect, I am opposed to this proposal and ask you to please keepCupertino Sports Center outside of your consideration for such a rebuild. Cupertino Sports Center is currently supporting below use cases:1. Residents and their children go to CSC to take year-long sports classes andsummer camps 2. Kennedy Middle School uses CSC courts for their tennis teams 3. Monta Vista High School gets their top tennis players from Kennedy Middle School, therefore gets impacted indirectly 4. Mitty High School uses CSC courts for their tennis teams Please keep Cupertino Sports Center as is and we do not want this city's public facilityturning into some private developer's land. Please keep the CSC for residents'recreational use and keep the current CSC intact. Thank you, Lan Chen From:Veena Puranik To:City Council Subject:oppose elimination of Cupertino Sports center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 9:53:47 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello City Council, The Cupertino Sports Center is a crown jewel of Cupertino. It has Cupertino residents who have been members for decades. It is fully occupied usage starting 8am and stays fully occupied to closure at 10pm. There are 16 tennis courts which are used to teach 100s of your Cupertino kids per day. In addition it provides facilities for coaching badminton, ping pong, gym, personal training, basketball, pickleball, chess and racketball. Cupertino Sports Center is home to at least 5 - 8 USTA competitive league teams each season and there are multiple seasons (18+, adult, seniors in men’s and then the same for womens, then each of these across different competitive levels, after which likewise there are combo seasons and mixed seasons.). All in, any given year, there may be 60 - 100 league teams that call the Cupertino Sports Center home. Each league team on average has 20 players. This means at least 1200 - 2000 league players could be impacted, but if you reduce by 75% for duplicates, that still leaves at least 500 league players who call Cupertino Sports Center home affected. Suffice to say this. Court bookings open at 8am 7 days ahead. All courts are booked within 10 seconds of bookings opening. To recap, courts get taken 7 days in advance within 20 seconds of bookings opening. This happens daily. CSC is revenue generating and self sustaining. Patrons pay an annual or monthly membership. Annual memberships run from $400 - $550. In additions court time is leased to Lifetime which conducts kids lessons. We CSC patrons are therefore shocked that Cupertino city staff would even think of putting a proposal forward to eliminate the Cupertino Sports Center. I request you all to kindly oppose the inclusion of Cupertino Sports Center in agenda item 7 and reject any city staff recommendations to fund a conceptual plan involving the Cupertino sports center. Kindly do not allow even the start of a conceptual plan for the sports center. Pleas save our sports facilities. First the city proposed replacing BlackBerry farm golf course. Then it was memorial park softball fields. Now it is Cupertino sports center. Please leave our sports facilities alone. They are not meant to be handed over to developers. Veena Puranik Cupertino Resident and taxpayer Sent from my iPhone From:Milind Naphade To:City Council; Hung Wei Subject:Misplaced priorities for the city? Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 9:09:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear council members It was brought to our attention that the city council is planning to replace popular spaces like the tennis courts at Cupertino sports center and the cricket ground near the library with mixed use and high rise properties to pay for a mammoth 100 million plus Cupertino city council building! This is preposterous and is clearly against the wishes of the tax payer residents of the city of Cupertino. As a tax paying citizen of Cupertino I protest this hijacking of my city from a beautiful place of residence to tracts of land to be sold to the highest bidder in the name of development. I oppose these plans and strongly suggest you to involve us citizens whom you claim to represent to participate in the debate on these issues instead of using procedural loopholes to steamroll a predetermined agenda just because you seem to have a majority at the present moment. Let there be no doubt in your minds in terms of whether Cupertino residents know who on the council is pushing this agenda. We know. Milind Concerned cupertino citizen Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone From:Shirish To:City Council Subject:Please veto the new city hall proposal Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 8:51:47 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please do not spend our tax dollars on the new city hall. We need to financially prudent decisions that support our city services. Thanks, Shirish Seetharam 10198 Richwood Drive Cupertino From:rose rose To:City Council Cc:Hung Wei Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 8:15:54 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino Mayor and City Council Members, I am writing to express strong concerns and disagreement with the current consideration to demolish the Cupertino Sports Center, in place of an establishment of expanded City Hall and multi-tenant housing. My family and I are longstanding members of the Sports Center. It is a blessing to have this center for our well being. It is also a community space that enables and fosters support system for us. I see multiple commercial areas that are empty and unoccupied in Cupertino ( on De Anza blvd, Etc). I think we should consider converting those areas to be multi-tenant housing, since I agree Bay Area needs more housing to reduce price hike. But please don’t include a well-used, much needed community based Sports center. Thank you in advance for the consideration. Rose Hiu  Sent from my iPhone From:P Hershey To:City Council Subject:new City Hall/Sports center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 8:05:07 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear city council members, Today I am writing you to ask you to please keep our sports center for the health of the community . Exercise and outdoor activities are very important to being healthy and active ! Once we loose it we will not he able to replace it . Also, please know that we oppose oppose the luxury City Hall Plan that Cupertino cannot afford without either taxing us residence more or cutting more city amenities. Thank you for your consideration. Pam and Bill Hershey Concerned residents Sent from my iPhone From:Pat Frischmann To:City Council Cc:Cindy Jeung Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 7:59:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council: I urge you to reconsider any plans to raze Cupertino Sports Center. It is a valuable and affordable resource for Cupertino residents and the wider community. I have been a member of the sports center since 2010 and I prize it so much that I served on the Cupertino Tennis Club board for several years. The center serves its community in many ways. The 17 tennis courts and eight pickleball courts are full from 8 a.m. to closing, providing people from ages 5 to 95 with a ready source of healthy exercise. The club also has heavily used indoor racketball courts, a popular fitness center and well-subscribed classes ranging from Zumba to Bootcamp to Pilates. Your consultant’s draft strategic programming and marketing analysis claims that the Sports Center land is under-utilized. That is far from the truth. Rather, it is an invaluable community resource and should be treasured, not removed. Pat Frischmann patfxd@gmail.com 650-804-9229 (c) From:yuan hu To:City Council Subject:Objection of Cupertino Sports Center reconstruction Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 7:39:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino City Council: This is Yuan and I work at a tech company in Cupertino. I've been a member in Cupertino Sports Center (CSC) for about a year now. CSC has been a fantastic place to work out and meet other residents in Cupertino through sports. The facility has thousands of active members and its's impact on the well-being of Cupertino resident is immeasurable. I was in total shock today to hear such a landmark in Cupertino is considering reconstruction. CSC keeps Cupertino diverse, active and healthy. Although other alternative plans may bring short-term gains, the long term loss of CSC would significantly outweigh such gains. I hope to voice my personal opinion to support CSC, thank you in advance for considering. Best, Yuan From:Sherleen Ong To:City Council Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 6:06:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Council members, I am here to show support to the hundreds of members and their families who have made CSC a critical part of their lives. CSC is unique - a place where kids learn how to play tennis and badminton, a place where adults enhance their health using the workout facilities and classes, and a place where tennis players congregate to play recreationally and competitively. It’s a model facility that is the envy of many neighboring cities and one that needs to be preserved and retained for the current community and the generations to come. I echo the many CSC members and the folks in the community who have voiced this same sentiment. Please take this into consideration as you vote on making any changes to the CSC. CSC is very much cherished just the way it is. Sherleen Ong From:Dhanaseker Kandhasamy To:City Council Subject:Please leave CSC untouched Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 5:33:00 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino city council, My kids attend Kennedy Middle and Monta vista High, who extensively leverage CSC Tennis and other facilities. Please don’t impact or redevelop or repurpose the CSC for city hall and/or housing and other developments. It is the only facility serving broader sports needs of the city from young to adults and please don’t mess with that. Dhanaseker Kandhasamy From:Nicole To:City Council Subject:Please leave Cupertino Sports Center alone Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 4:53:58 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi, Please do not destroy the Cupertino Sports Center whenredeveloping City Hall. It is the only facility of its kind in this area and it servesthe community well. Thank you,Nicole Sivan (Cupertino resident) From:Irene Niazov To:City Council Subject:Save Cupertino SportsCupertino Sports Center Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 4:42:16 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My name is Irene Niazov, and I am a resident of Cupertino. I was a member of Northwest YMCA for 17 years till 2020. In August 2021 I joined Cupertino Sports Center for Zumba because in Northwest Ymca they did not have Zumba in the morning, and also monthly membership in YMCA is very expensive. More than twice as expensive than in Cupertino Sports Center. I am 70 years old and I have osteoporosis. Zumba classes that I go 3-4 times a week are very beneficial for my health. The teachers are professional and communicate with the class in a nice manner. it’s going to be devastating and sad for me not to be able to go and take Zumba classes in Cupertino Sports Center. Please consider not to close it. Thank you , Irene From:txchoy@gmail.com To:City Council Subject:Please Leave CSC As-Is! Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 4:42:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City of Cupertino Council: Please do not make any changes to the Cupertino Sports center. I have been a member for 10 years and it is part of my livelihood there. I have made many tennis friends & families at CSC as probably all members have. The facility is such a prized gem for Cupertino! It provides so much for so many people, for wellness, health, friendship. If the city really needs space for whatever purpose, please do not tear down a beautiful, functional, and much loved facility that provides so much for so many people, residents and non-residents, young and old! Tearing down & rebuilding doesn’t make any sense at all, both financially and environmentally! I have converted to a family membership for my household of 4 since the pandemic and we vehemently object to any changes to CSC, even any temporary shutdown, much less the removal of the facility. I hope the Council will do the right and sensible thing. Sincerely, Tammy Choy Tammy From:Kareen Lambert To:City Council Subject:EXCLUDE CSC - for the children Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 4:33:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Are you a current Kennedy or Mitty parent? If so read on as the below affects a key sports program at Kennedy, Mitty schools. Are you a Monta Vista high parent? The below affects a key feeder into a sports program at Monta Vista High. Below are steps you can take to save the impact to your sports programs. The city of Cupertino staff are proposing to city council to redevelop the Cupertino Sports Center (CSC) site with a construction effort that will build a city hall and some combination of housing. CSC conceptual plan go forward approval is sought in agenda item 7 of the 10/17 Cupertino city council meeting coming up (Tuesday). Call to action: Please write in to city council to ask that they EXCLUDE the Cupertino Sports Center from any redevelopment plans and to cause ZERO disruption to the sports center. No redevelopment, no closure for construction, no approval to go ahead with conceptual plan. Just leave CSC alone. Write to: citycouncil@cupertino.org. Why? Kennedy Middle School - the school team has been using CSC's courts since 2014. KMS tennis team gets coaching and practice time on CSC courts. Loss of CSC disrupts the KMS tennis program. Monta Vista High - CSC plays a crucial role as a feeding program to Monta Vista's nationally ranked tennis team. Closing the Cupertino Sports center will not only impact Kennedy middle school tennis program, but the ability for Monta Vista to continue to get local juniors (who are nationally ranked) to play at local top level high schools and move on to playing in college. The pipeline of top level tennis players into Monta Vista High will be affected as Kennedy is a main feeder school into MVHS. Mitty High School - since 2009, the high school and CSC have had an agreement to use CSC coaching staff and CSC courts for their boys and girls programs. Taking this away will provide a huge obstacle for Mitty high school to secure courts for their teams. CSC is an integral part of the success of Mitty’s tennis program success. If you care about the impact to the tennis program at Kennedy, Mitty and the feeder impact into Monta Vista then you need to take action now. Write to Cupertino city council at citycouncil@cupertino.org. Ask that they EXCLUDE Cupertino Sports Center from their conceptual plan go forward approval, ask them to leave CSC alone as is. We don’t want construction at CSC. We don’t want a city hall or anything else at CSC. Leave CSC out of their development. Public city owned lands are not up for grabs by developers. From:Kareen Lambert To:City Council Date:Monday, October 16, 2023 4:29:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, I urge you to reject agenda item 7 staff recommendations and refuse to grant permission to move forward with conceptual plans to replace the sports center with alternate uses. Use the money for education and road work! The city needs to support and encourage sports facilities. The city has previously gone after the golf course and the softball field and is now going after the sports center. Leave our sports facilities alone and don’t touch our sports facilities in Cupertino. “ I’ve played tennis for many years at the Sports center it’s a place to see and communicate with community people laughing, enjoying activity! PLEASE leave some happiness in our beautiful Cupertino community. I’ve been a resident for 60 years! Children and adults need a place for activities and exercise. We don’t need more closed spaces in Cupertino. We need community. Think of Cupertino’s future and leave the Sports Center as is! We do NOT agree on agenda item #7. I would vote NO WAY! Regards, Kareen Hagenlocher-Lambert and Family From:Michael Knauer To:City Council Subject:Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:52:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. The Sport Center has been a vital resource for the communities surrounding it for the large variety of it’s offerrings to a wide audience,i.e. children, young adults all the way to the elderly. Although I am primarily user of the tennis courts, I am impressed with the various classes offered and attended as well as the youth programs in the summer and other vacation periods. The advent of the pickle ball craze is also felt increasingly at the Center. This facility is a real gem for Cupertino and is irreplaceable. Thanks for listening!-- Michael Knauer From:Liana Crabtree To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:written communication, 10/17/2023 Council Meeting, Agenda Item 7, Options for construction of a City Hall Facility Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:37:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Honorable Mayor Wei, Vice Mayor Mohan, Council Members Chao, Fruen, and Moore: Please include this letter as public comment for the 10/17/2023 Council meeting, Agenda Item 7, “Options for construction of a City Hall Facility”. I am writing in support of the City’s existing plan ($27 million cost forecast, 2022) to: renovate the current City Hall for seismic retrofit and modernization; 
 maintain the 20-year-old Community Hall building for public meeting use;
 construct a new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on a parcel purchased by the City for this purpose at 10455 Torre Ave;
 retain and preserve all of Library Field, “as is,” as a recreation venue and community shade oasis. Cupertino’s projected budget shortfalls and diminished sales tax revenue projections are now well-documented. “Cupertino Reserving $56.5 Million to Repay Tax from Apple Sales,” by Laura Mahoney, Bloomberg Tax, 10/6/2023, https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax- report-state/cupertino-reserving-56-5-million-to-repay-tax-from-apple-sales By engaging its public land for public use, the City maintains its ability control its facilities' costs and build and maintain exactly what the community needs, separate from the construction-square-footage and rent-seeking goals sought by a private property owner and their investors. I support efforts by the City to create subsidized housing located on land currently zoned for homes. Other jurisdictions are creating community land banks by investing in residential land that they hold indefinitely for development of subsidized rental and for-sale homes (homeowners own the home; the city retains title to the land). Jurisdictions with land banks often work with community land trusts and non-profit developers to build the homes that are subsidized and preserved for long-term housing use for people who need safe, sustainable homes. I hope Council can refocus on work that prioritizes its not-yet-approved Housing Element draft and the creation of instruments—such as a public land bank and a public land trust—that can be used to construct and maintain the subsidized and sustainable homes inside the community that people need. Sincerely, Liana Crabtree Cupertino resident Resources “The financialization of housing is…contributing to the degradation of the planet, driving the unsustainable construction of housing, sometimes just to be used as an instrument of investment, and eating into the global carbon budget…It is fueling the housing crisis by…driving unaffordability, evictions, and homelessness in cities across the world.” – Julieta Perucca, The True Cost of Financialization The Shift, #RIGHTTOHOUSING: https://make-the-shift.org/ National Housing Conference. Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: https://nhc.org/policy-guide/land-based-solutions/land-banks-and-community-land- trusts/ From:Amit Barave To:City Council Subject:Please SAVE and Keep Cupertino Sports Center (CSC) intact Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:07:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Office-bearers, I trust this message finds you well. I hope that my email reaches you in a spirit of open dialogue and shared concern for the well-being of our community. My purpose in reaching out to you is to convey my deep distress upon learning about the proposal to repurpose the Cupertino Sports Center (CSC). We moved into Cupertino three years ago, and have always looked at CSC as a crown jewel in Cupertino city infrastructure. Through the pandemic and after, it continues to be one of the best maintained and run community facilities in the bay area. For our family, CSC played a huge role in finding our feet and making connections within the community. I personally was simply able to visit the center and ask about how I could get plugged into social tennis. The members and staff were amazingly welcoming. The fitness classes, badminton etc turned out to be additional attractions and really helped us get settled into the Cupertino community. CSC plays such a vital role in fostering a sense of community, health and well-being across multiple generations of residents - from school kids getting coached to seniors staying active. It would affect us deeply and negatively if the facility was to get re-purposed. The tennis courts that become available for booking a week in advance, are all booked, often within the first 10 minutes of the reservations opening up. If you aren't actually playing or taking a class at the center, and just walking by or driving by, the scenes of active kids, adults are uplifting for the spirit. Kennedy Middle School tennis program, the summers of active fun, learning, socialization for kids are all possible thanks to the CSC. My friends who are not Cupertino residents often mention how they are in awe of the CSC and are thrilled when I tell them even non-residents can participate! We put our faith in you all as our elected officials. Please consider our request and kindly keep Cupertino Sports Center intact (and please do not consider repurposing as an option at all). Best regards, Amit Barave Cupertino resident From:Badri Narayan To:City Council Subject:CSC thoughts Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 11:34:49 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Greetings from badri . As a CSC member before and one who comes there regularly from Folsom , The passion for tennis is amazing and everyone this is their second home . Many have put in a lot of heart and soul into tennis and other sports out there. It is my humble request to keep CSC as is and expand with it and not at the cost of tennis . Thank you badri Sent from my iPhone From:JOHN KOLSKI To:City Council; Pamela Wu; Jean Bedord; City Attorney"s Office; Christopher Jensen; Chad Mosley; Jean Bedord Subject:Fwd: Cupertino Matters: Blackberry Farm Golf / City Hall; TONIGHT - City Council, Tues., Oct. 17, 6:45 p.m. Regular Meeting; 5:30 Special Meeting Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 1:58:53 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. YOU CAN PUT THE CITY HALL ANYPLACE YOU WANT, EXCEPT AT THE MONTA VISTA PARK SITE AND YOU CANT HAVE THAT SITE AS A TEMPORARY CITY HALL EITHER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD [AS WAS PROPOSED IN THE PAST] DOES NOT WANT THE TRAFFIC AND PARKING ISSUES IT WOULD BRING HERE. CUPERTINO IS STILL THE PEOPLES CITY. NOT YOURS! 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Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jean Bedord <Publisher@cupertinomatters.org> Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 1:39 PM Subject: Cupertino Matters: Blackberry Farm Golf / City Hall; TONIGHT - City Council, View translation in your browser Friends, 2024 elections are only a year away, with changes in electoral districts to be completed by early 2024. The Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD) will transition Governing Board elections from At-Large Elections to By-Trustee Area Elections. Board members will be elected from trustee areas, instead of by all District voters. As part of this transition, the Board is seeking input from the community on the development of the trustee area boundary map by requesting that a Community Trustee Area Districting (CTAD) Committee be formed to facilitate the process of gathering input and developing the draft maps that will be considered by the Board. The CTAD Committee will facilitate the process of gathering input and developing maps, to be considered by the FUHSD Board of Trustees for elections from 2024 to 2032 (i.e., until the next national census). There will be multiple community meetings to gather public input. The Committee will then submit a set of focus maps to the Board of Trustees to be considered. The Board of Trustees’ goal is that the CTAD Committee will represent the diverse Tues., Oct. 17, 6:45 p.m. Regular Meeting; 5:30 Special Meeting To: <ducksfly10@gmail.com> communities, interests and experience of the residents of the District. The CTAD Committee application is now available on the Trustee Areas webpage<https://www.fuhsd.org/newsroom/trustee-areas>. The application window closes on October 30 at 4:00 PM. In addition, there will be a FUHSD Board of Trustee Meeting on Tuesday, October 17th beginning at 5:15. There is an Item 8.2. Public Hearing: Input Regarding Composition of Trustee Areas, in order to receive public input (NB: this procedure does not anticipate Board discussion of the item only the receipt of public input). FUHSD has posted 4 sets of draft maps and a public input questionnaire at this webpage: https://www.fuhsd.org/newsroom/trustee-areas Note that this process does not affect school attendance boundaries nor does it result in the closure of schools. The city of Cupertino received yet another threat of a lawsuit, this time from former council member Darcy Paul complaining about the Civil Grand Jury process and the city’s response to it. His letter and the scathing response from the City Attorney are available as Public Record Request 23-121 as an 8-page PDF with both letters. UPCOMING - CITY COUNCIL - Tues, Oct. 17 6:45p.m., Regular Meeting; Special meeting 5:30 p.m. Agenda and Presentations Special Meeting Agenda Item No. 1: Approval of Joint Powers Agreement to establish the Cities Association of Santa Clara County Joint Powers Agency. Over thirty years ago, the cities and towns in Santa Clara County ("Member Agencies") established the CASCC to improve cooperation on issues of common interest. This action would formalize the relationship by establishing a Joint Powers Authority. Regular Meeting. The Ceremonial Item is Recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month The Consent Calendar has 5 routine items. Members of the public may speak on any or all consent calendar items when the mayor asks for public comment on the Consent Calendar. If a member of the council pulls an item from the Consent Calendar, it will be addressed after all action items. Members of the public may comment on that item when it is considered. Item No.7: Options for construction of a City Hall facility. The current city hall is seismically unsafe, potentially endangering employees, a known liability since 2005. The HVAC and electrical systems are also well past the manufacturer’s useful life, and subject to breakdowns–breakdowns that are extremely expensive to repair because of the lack of available parts and relevant expertise to repair them. Various alternatives have been investigated over the years, but previous councils “kicked the can down the road”, including rejection of a new city hall included in the Vallco Town Center project in 2019. The city now faces financial challenges, with an extreme structural deficit stemming from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration’s audit of a major sales taxpayer in Cupertino. As a result, funding options for infrastructure are severely limited. The staff report for this item proposes exploring a new option, which is a private public partnership (P3). This approach involves a development which produces an income stream to offset the cost of new and better municipal facilities including a city hall. At this point, the most feasible option for an income stream is rental housing, potentially below market rate housing funded through tax credits and grants. Only two city owned parcels are large enough for such a mixed-use development: (1) the Sports Center parcel with a 25,000 sq. ft. building and 17 tennis courts occupying most of the site and (2) City Hall plus Community Hall (the Library and adjoining field would not be impacted). In either case, the current one story buildings would have to be demolished to build multi- story buildings in order to replace and expand the existing civic uses. Staff is requesting direction to further explore these options for financing a new City Hall, due to lack of other options for sources of funds for building improvements. P3 projects are inherently complex, and difficult to deliver, and the economics may change over the time required to implement such a project. No decision taken today would result in any change to current operations. Item No. 8: Blackberry Farm (BBF) Golf Course Feasibility Study, considering options to complete minimal repairs and improvements to the BBF Golf Course (Option 1) or convert BBF Golf Course to a Natural Habitat (Option 3). The need for improvements to this property owned by the city since 1991 has been on council agendas for several years, without any definitive action. The latest effort started in 2020 and has involved extensive studies and community outreach, culminating in the staff recommendation to proceed with minimal repairs to maintain the golf course. “While the conversion to natural habitat might provide environmental/sustainable benefits, the City would need a compelling reason, either cost benefit or a clear directive from the community, in order to dismantle an established public facility that is strongly supported by a significant segment of the community. While balancing the desirability of the existing recreational use with the potential to restore natural habitat is research and public outreach conducted by staff has not provided a compelling reason to remove the existing golf course.” Community support has focused on running the golf course as a business, raising fees, and reducing water use, as well as making improvements which could increase natural habitat areas. There is also the potential of leasing the golf course to an outside vendor to reduce city expenditures and increase City revenues. Council Reports (now submitted in written form) were provided by Vice-Mayor Mohan, and Councilmembers Fruen and Moore. Mayor Wei submitted her report as a Supplemental Report. There is no report from Councilmember Chao. Informational Items: (1) Receive the Monthly Treasurer's Report for September 2023 and (2) Receive the Monthly Treasurer's Investment Report for September 2023. YOU CAN EXPRESS YOUR OPINION: Readers are encouraged to speak at council meeting, either at Oral Communications on any topic, or on specific agenda items. Speakers have three minutes, and coaching is available! Readers are also encouraged to email individual council members, the council as a whole, the city manager, and the city clerk. Note that emails to city council as a whole are forwarded to the city manager, whereas emails to individual councilmembers are not. Clearly include in your subject line the topic or agenda item on which you are commenting: These become part of the public record. Contacts at CupertinoMatters.org/express-your-opinion City Manager Pamela Wu: manager@cupertino.org City Clerk Kirsten Squarcia: cityclerk@cupertino.org City Council: citycouncil@cupertino.org Mayor Hung Wei hwei@cupertino.org Vice-Mayor Sheila Mohan smohan@cupertino.org Councilmember Liang Chao: liangchao@cupertino.org Councilmember J.R. Fruen jrfruen@cupertino.org Councilmember Kitty Moore kmoore@cupertino.org RECAP - CITY COUNCIL - Tues, Oct. 10, 6:45 p.m.,rescheduled from Oct. 3 Regular Meeting YouTube: 3 hr. 32 min. (Ended at 10:20 p.m.) Agenda and Presentations Consent Calendar: Item No 10 Stevens Creek Boulevard/Calabazas Creek Storm Drain Repair Emergency Work Declaration, and authorization for the City Manager to negotiate and execute contract(s) for the repair work was considered first and out of order since is it is an emergency repair to start immediately that requires closure of a portion of Stevens Creek Boulevard. Council approved unanimously. Item No.11: Establish a General Fund Sales Tax Repayment Reserve. There was an extensive staff presentation outlining the situation regarding the potential liability of required sales tax repayments through the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) due to an audit of a major Cupertino sales taxpayer. The initial funding allocation is $56.5 million, corresponding to sales tax revenue received between April 2021 and June 2023–the legally permissible look-back period. Staff was authorized to augment this reserve as needed as additional disputed sales tax revenue is received. The initial funding for the $56.5 reserve is as follows: $40.5 million from General Fund Unassigned fund balance. $10.0 million from the General Fund Capital Projects Reserve. $6.0 million from the General Fund Economic Uncertainty Reserve. Impact on city operations to be determined. Approved 4-0 with Moore abstaining. Consent Calendar: Item No 5: Updates to the Policies and Guidelines on Sister Cities, Friendship Cities, and International Delegations was pulled and heard at the end of the meeting. Council spent over 50 minutes hashing over minor changes, and low reimbursements, i.e. $25 for gifts for visiting delegations.. Agenda item approved 3-2, with Moore and Chao voting nay.. Consent Calendar Item #9: Award a construction contract for the McClellan Road Separated Bike Corridor Phase 3 Project to Redgwick Construction Company for improvements at the intersection of De Anza Boulevard and McClellan Road/Pacifica Drive and approve a budget modification in the amount of $975,000 was also pulled. This project is externally funded, and corrects a dangerous intersection. Thanks to the foresight of Public Works several years ago, an easement from property owners, crucial to the project, was granted to the city, so this was a no-brainer for unanimous approval. CUPERTINO COURIER: October 13, 2023 The front page photo and article on page 5 is entitled ‘Real Talk About Fake Pills’: School districts tackle illicit fentanyl poisonings and overdoses, Educating families on the dangers of fentanyl. Community briefs are (1) Electric Showcase winner and (2) Othering and Belonging. There are no legal notices. Warm regards, Jean Bedord, Cupertino Matters, Publisher and Editor P.S. If you have received this from a friend and would like your own copy, go to CupertinoMatters.org to subscribe to our mailing list. If there's something you'd like to see included in Cupertino Matters, please feel free to email Publisher@CupertinoMatters.org. NB: Over 50 language translations of the newsletter are available by clicking on the “translate” link at the top of the newsletter, which directs users to a webpage with translation options at the upper right corner. Copyright © 2023 Cupertino Matters, All rights reserved. This email was sent to ducksfly10@gmail.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Cupertino Matters · Stevens Creek Blvd. · Cupertino, CA 95014 · USA From:Ravi Shankar To:City Council Subject:Leave the Cupertino Sports Center alone Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 1:58:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.  Hello Council Members, My name is Ravi Shankar. I have been residing in Cupertino for 30 years, and have been a member of the Cupertino Sports Center for the past 27 years. I spend almost every day of the week at CSC either playing tennis or working out at the gym. I can emphatically say that the thousands of hours I have spent at CSC have had a huge effect on both my physical and mental health — the tennis, the exercise, and more importantly, the numerous ongoing social connections with fellow CSC members, I want to highlight one activity at CSC that I have been intimately involved with all these years - The United States Tennis Association (USTA) Adult Leagues. USTA organizes team tennis competition all round the year for both men and women in different age groups (18+, 40+, 55+ 65+, 70+) , different skill levels (from beginners to advanced), and in different tennis formats (singles, doubles and mixed doubles). Teams from many cities around the Bay Area participate in a round-robin fashion. The top-ranked team out of the local matches advances to the Northern California Sectionals, and possibly from there, to the Nationals, where it gets to compete against teams from around the country. I am the USTA coordinator at CSC, and help organize a multitude of teams that call CSC their ‘home facility’. I also have been captaining teams out of CSC for the past 16 years. At the local level, our teams compete against teams out of neighboring cities, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Milpitas and Palo Alto. On a rare occasion with one of my teams, we had played against teams in the East Bay, in Alamo, San Lorenzo and Fremont. The way the league works is that we host half the number of matches at CSC, and the other half at our opposing teams’ facilities. Our teams out of CSC compete well and have made several trips to the Sectionals, and a few times to the Nationals. In fact, this year the Women's 65+ team has won the Northern California Sectionals, and will be proudly representing CSC and Cupertino at the Nationals in January 2024. Go CSC! Go Cupertino! Besides the tennis, I want to strongly emphasize an important aspect of USTA leagues — social camaraderie. In these days of polarization, it is amazing to see how people from different areas of the Bay Area, from different political and socio-economic backgrounds come together for a healthy competition. Not only has CSC promoted strong bonds within its membership, it has truly facilitated social connections across the Bay Area, and beyond. With all my experience in USTA, I can emphatically say that Cupertino will not be able to support such a citizen-building activity without the services of the Cupertino Sports Center. I will not be exaggerating when I say that CSC is my second home, and its members are my extended family. Please do not disrupt the positive influence that CSC is imparting on our lives. Please leave CSC the way it is, and where it is. Please let CSC thrive as the crown jewel of Cupertino for many generations to come. Ravi Shankar 21852 Gardenview Ln Cupertino (408) 691-2271 rdshankar@gmail.com From:Bharat Dighe To:City Council; hung@hungwei.org; Liang Chao; Hung Wei Subject:Opposition to Eliminating the Cupertino Sports Center and Converting it into a Mixed Use Facility Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:13:31 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Date: 10/17/2023 To: Cupertino City Council Members, 10300 Torre Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Subject: Opposition to Eliminating the Cupertino Sports Center and Converting it into a Mixed Use Facility Dear Hung Wei, Liang Chao, Kitty Moore, Shiela Mohan and JR. Fruen, I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. I am writing as a concerned resident of Cupertino to express my strong opposition to the proposed conversion of the Cupertino Sports Center into a mixed-use facility. Cupertino Sports Center, has been a cornerstone of our community, serves as a vital hub for exercise, recreation, and social engagement for countless residents. The Cupertino Sports Center has played an integral role in the lives of many Cupertino residents, offering a wide range of amenities that cater to the diverse needs of our community. It provides an exceptional setting for residents of all ages to engage in physical activities and maintain their well-being. As our population ages, the need for outlets to exercise, socialize, and enjoy recreational activities becomes increasingly important. The Cupertino Sports Center has, for years, been a valuable resource for our seniors, allowing them to remain active and socially connected. The availability of group and private tennis lessons, fitness classes, personal training, and a multitude of programs catering to various age groups makes it an invaluable asset for our community. In addition, the Cupertino Sports Center fosters a sense of community and unity. It provides a platform for residents to come together, share experiences, and form friendships through socials, inter-club tennis events, and other programs. The presence of a pro shop on-site and the option for ball machine rentals further enhance the accessibility and convenience of the facility. I understand that public mixed-use facilities serve a unique purpose within our community. However, converting the Cupertino Sports Center into such a venue would result in the loss of a valuable resource that caters to the pressing needs of our residents. We need spaces for physical activity, recreational sports, and social gatherings, especially for our aging population. It would be a disservice to our community to eliminate or diminish a facility that offers such a wide array of opportunities for the well-being and social connectedness of our residents. I urge the City Council to reconsider the proposal to convert the Cupertino Sports Center into a public hall and to explore alternative solutions that can coexist with the existing facility. Maintaining the Cupertino Sports Center in its current form is vital to preserving the health and quality of life for many residents. Thank you for your time and consideration. I am hopeful that, together, we can find a solution that serves the best interests of all Cupertino residents. Sincerely, Bharat Dighe Cupertino Resident 4083060826 From:Liang Chao To:City Clerk Subject:Fwd: Item 7 City Hall Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:08:26 PM Please enter thus email into the written communication for the 10/17 Council meeting. Thanks. Liang Chao​ Council Member City Council LChao@cupertino.org 408-777-3192 From: Liang Chao <LChao@cupertino.org> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 10:15 AM To: Pamela Wu <PamelaW@cupertino.org> Cc: Matt Morley <MattM@cupertino.org> Subject: Item 7 City Hall Sorry to be a little late. I was feeling sick .... Q1: The staff report states "In pursuing this direction, the assessment considered city properties where a private use could be combined with a municipal use, thereby creating the partnership that could make for a financially feasible project. Two properties are of a size to make an evaluation worthwhile: City Hall (including Community Hall) and the Sports Center. In both cases a project would involve removing the existing facilities and constructing a mixed use facility that meets a private development need as well as replacing the municipal need." As far as I can remember, the Council has not ever given the direction to consider any city property for "private use" or removing any "existing facilities" in the past. Please indicate on when and how this direction was given to the staff. Q2: The staff report states "Staff enlisted the assistance of the Cumming Group and the Concord Group in a Go/ No Go assessment, leveraging other City properties". Have we signed a contract with both companies? This contract with the Cumming Group was signed on August 29 for $170,000. How much is the contract with the Concord group and when was it signed. I understand that the consultants often start their work before a contract is signed, like the consultatnts for the Housing Element and the concil workshop. When did each of the consultant start their work? How much of the contracted amount has been spent so far? An estimation is good enough. Q2: Compared with other cities, Cupertino does not own many properties for municipal uses. Has there been any assessment done for the future needs for municipal uses, given the fact that the draft Housing Element is required to plan at least 4600 housing units and almost 6000 units with a required 15-25% buffer. Thus, the total households would increase from 20,000 to 26,000 in 8 years. Q3: Question from a community member: "What exact areas are considered part of the “Civic Center”? Is it City Hall? Community Hall? Cupertino Library? Library Field? The plaza area? Or is it all of it?" Q4: The 2022 Council has approved a plan to renovate the City Hall, given that the city staff is quite concerned with the safety of the Cith Hall. With the PPP, what would be the timeline from planning to finding a partner etc. Q5: Has the city stopped the renovation of the City Hall annex (Torre Ave building) completely? When was that stopped? Thanks, Liang Liang Chao​​​​ Council Member City Council LChao@cupertino.org 408-777-3192 From:Lisa Warren To:City Clerk; City Council Subject:Comments for Item 7 Oct 17 2023 CC meeting Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 4:01:43 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am completely in line with the input that Liana Crabtree submitted via email today, Oct 17, related to Item 7 - Quoting the most urgent input here: I am writing in support of the City’s existing plan ($27 million cost forecast, 2022) to: renovate the current City Hall for seismic retrofit and modernization; 
 maintain the 20-year-old Community Hall building for public meeting use;
 construct a new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on a parcel purchased by the City for this purpose at 10455 Torre Ave;
 retain and preserve all of Library Field, “as is,” as a recreation venue and community shade oasis. Cupertino’s projected budget shortfalls and diminished sales tax revenue projections are now well-documented. By engaging its public land for public use, the City maintains its ability control its facilities' costs and build and maintain exactly what the community needs, separate from the construction-square-footage and rent-seeking goals sought by a private property owner and their investors. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I also support comments from Former Mayor Patrick Kwok. Quoting here: "While City Council is elected by our residents to make decisions on behalf of our residents, I strongly urge the City Council to put measures on the ballot that allow for our residents to make such decisions, should the fiscal impact in excess of ( a determined dollar amount ) similar to the measure the City took for the construction of the new library." I ADD that: ANY DECISIONS to be made related to CITY OWNED property and the sale or gift of such properties, be properly decided by residents (the land/property owners) via an appropriate and legal voting system. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: In order to make Public Comment deadline, I will cut this email short and sent a separate message with more comments. Thank you. Lisa Warren From:Ravi Rajagopalan To:City Council Subject:Opposition to Cupertino Sports Center repurposed or modified - personal note Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 4:01:33 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino City Council members, I have read about the options being considered for repurposing or modifying Cupertino Sports Center (CSC) for a multiple use facility/ new city hall/ housing. I would like to describe what CSC has meant to me over the past several years. I lost my wife to a brain tumor in 2013. The following few years were spent dealing with the loss as well as taking care of my daughter and in general just keeping myself and family afloat. As you might understand, I was quite depressed. In May of 2018, on a whim while walking to Memorial Park, I walked in to CSC and asked if there were beginner group tennis classes. As luck would have it, they had one starting the following week. I registered, brought a tennis racket right there, picked it up the following Wednesday and walked in to my first tennis lesson. That was the start of something magical. I both loved tennis and the group sessions. I also got invited by one of the members to join practice on the weekends. That was the start of both my journey in tennis as well as reestablishing a social life. Over time, my tennis improved as I played 3-4 times a week, took regular group classes followed by semi private classes and joined an USTA team at CSC. During COVID, I practically lived on the tennis courts, playing 2-3 hours daily. My closest friends now are from the tennis group which I got invited to. From that invitation and meeting people playing practice at CSC as well as USTA tournaments, I now have a big friend circle. I go to CSC 4-5 times a week and almost always meet someone I know. It is home away from home. As important, tennis played the key role in getting me out of my depression. I am happiest on the tennis courts. On the tennis court I forget the world, and over the years, slowly and steadily, I found my mental health improving to a point where after several years I feel normal now. Please keep CSC as it is. It provides a service that cannot be measured in dollars. It is a place that provides happiness, satisfaction and joy. It also provides a great place for making friends. Thank you very much, Ravi From:Magdy Bishara To:City Council Subject:Cupertino Sports Center Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 4:01:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Council Members, As a long time Cupertino resident and frequent user of the Cupertino Sports Center, I am writing to ask that you please strongly consider the other options in the proposal and to provide a full analysis before a decision is made. Specifically the proposed renovation of 10455 Torre Avenue to provide a customer serving facility during a City Hall renovation. According to the proposal that is still pending completion of design, so the final cost is presumably unknown. The city could sell the Byrne Avenue Single Family residence described to pay for that renovation ($2.73M) and eventually sell the current City Hall or 10455 Torre Avenue. The current City Hall seems far less utilized than the CSC which is used by many residents and their families for year round sports activities and children's summer camps. Thank you. Magdy Bishara 7562 Newcastle Dr, Cupertino, CA 95014 From:Rhoda Fry To:City Council; City Clerk Subject:Cupertino City Council Agenda Item #7 No to Building Housing on Civic Sites Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:59:51 PM Attachments:image001.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, For the Minutes Summary – Rhoda Fry said that we must not build housing on our civic sites nor enter into risky partnerships with developers. The Staff Report proposes to replace our civic centers, including the 20-year new Community Hall in which this meeting takes place, with housing in a public-private partnership that would be subsidized by the City. It appears that the City Staff has not followed the Council Direction given on February 21, 2023 City Council Special Meeting minutes reflect the following: “Fruen moved and Wei seconded: 1. That staff suspend all work on the City Hall renovation plan considered at the City Council meeting of November 15, 2022, not including the City Hall Annex project. 2. That staff, instead, return to Council with options for a new city hall and civic center up to approximately 80,000 square feet including flexible events programming space(s) suitable for events hosting up to 500 people and based primarily upon options previously provided with the City Council at its meeting on November 15, 2022, with alternatives for such flexible events programming space at other city­-owned locations, to be considered as part of the City Council's March 7 consideration of the Capital Improvement Program. Moore moved and Chao seconded a substitute motion to re-affirm the direction previously provided for the City Hall Renovation Project. The substitute motion failed with Moore and Chao voting yes. Fruen' s main motion carried with Chao and Moore voting no.” Source: https://records.cupertino.org/WebLink/DocView.aspx? id=1013790&dbid=0&repo=CityofCupertino First, we have not received an update regarding the City Hall Annex this year. Why not? What progress has Staff made on this project? And why is it suddenly being abandoned? Second, the Council direction was to provide options for a new City Hall based primarily on options previously provided. Housing was not one of them. Why didn’t Staff ask Council if it could consider looking at housing options BEFORE signing a $170K contract to do so? Where is the detailed justification for this? There are a dizzying number of problems with this proposal. It acknowledges that public-private partnerships are complex. The last thing we need is to add complexity to our economically-hobbled City. It also acknowledges that the City would need to subsidize housing – we don’t have money for that. It is not the City’s job to make money for developers. There are a number of projects that have been identified in the Housing Element for housing, we need to stick with those. It seems that it does not make sense to be building massive amounts in housing right now – otherwise, Marina and the Hamptons would have already broken ground. There is a BMR project slated for county-owned land near Vallco. Also, how can the City possibly tear down our Civic buildings when they are already essentially mortgaged with City bonds that have another 7 or so years to be paid off. It is not the City’s job to maximize revenue potential on City-owned land. We don’t do this for the library. Then why do it for the Sports Center. The Sports Center has tennis Courts that provide a service that is not otherwise privately available. That land cannot be replaced. Please STOP THESE EXPENSIVE STUDIES. You need to be focused on the HOUSING ELEMENT and the BUDGET!!! It feels as though City Council members are looking for ways to reward developers in this scheme. Furthermore, by your continuing to delay work on the housing element, you are inviting the dreaded “builder’s remedy.” I am deeply troubled by this contract. Council gave staff direction in February. A contract was drawn up in August and signed September 12. The work product was dated September 15. City Staff had plenty of time to reveal to Council what it had in mind and then the public could have weighed in. Think about it - $170K could add up to 2-person years of City employment and that means less services for residents. That’s not okay. Let’s keep the public-private partnerships to having the community sponsor concerts in the park – not for-profit housing schemes. STOP THE STUDIES. Thanks, Rhoda Fry From:Ping Gao To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:Construction of New City Hall Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:58:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Cupertino City Council, This is Ping, a 16-year Cupertino resident. Regarding today's council meeting agenda item 7, "Subject: Options for construction of a City Hall facility Recommended Action: Direct staff to pursue conceptual development of a mixed used Public Private Partnership for City Hall and the Sports Center properties", I just want to let you know that I am NOT in favor of constructing a new city hall. In April this year, the city has started a survey saying that "The City of Cupertino is experiencing financial hardships and anticipating changes in the City’s short- and long-term financial outlook, which may lead to reductions in some services. ". How come the city would consider constructing a new city hall? I believe the previous city council has already approved a city hall remodel plan of $27 million to save money. The remodel plan would be sufficient to meet earthquake safety requirements. In short, I don't see any urgent need to build a new city hall costing nearly $100M, especially when our city is facing financial hardships. Btw, just want to let you know that my neighbors participated in the "Earthquake Brace + Bolt" program and it works really well. Although this program is only for residential buildings, I'm sure there would be a similar plan that works for the city hall as well. I would be glad to find out more information if the city needs it. It would save tons of money than constructing a new city hall. Please keep my email in the record as part of the public comments. Thanks, Ping From:Joan Chin To:City Council Cc:Kirsten Squarcia Subject:Public Comment on 10/17/2023 Agenda Item 7 Date:Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:19:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Honorable Mayor Wei, Vice Mayor Mohan, Council Members Chao, Fruen, and Moore: Please include this letter as public comment for the 10/17/2023 Council meeting, Agenda Item 7, “Options for construction of a City Hall Facility”. We need to learn to live within our budget, hold onto City-owned property and definitely find better solutions for creating affordable housing than what is now being proposed. We do need solutions. Plus, we must not lose the City Center as our city-wide gathering place. It is spacious for events with some seating and shade. Again, we need to think about how to enjoy what we have without making huge investments. We have to think about future generations and climate change. We wish we could be as articulate as Liana Crabtree when she wrote the following. We applaud and endorse what she says below. Liana wrote: I am writing in support of the City’s existing plan ($27 million cost forecast, 2022) to: renovate the current City Hall for seismic retrofit and modernization; maintain the 20-year-old Community Hall building for public meeting use;
 construct a new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on a parcel purchased by the City for this purpose at 10455 Torre Ave;
 retain and preserve all of Library Field, “as is,” as a recreation venue and community shade oasis. By engaging its public land for public use, the City maintains its ability to control its facilities' costs and build and maintain exactly what the community needs, separate from the construction-square-footage and rent-seeking goals sought by a private property owner and their investors. I support efforts by the City to create subsidized housing located on land currently zoned for homes. Thank you, Joan and Wayne Chin