101-Draft Minutes.pdf
DRAFT MINUTES
CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL
Special Meeting
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
ROLL CALL
At 11:18 p.m. Mayor Gilbert Wong called the special meeting to order in the Council Chamber,
10350 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, California.
Present: Mayor Gilbert Wong, Vice-Mayor Mark Santoro, and Council members Barry Chang,
Orrin Mahoney, and Kris Wang. Absent: none.
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
The City Clerk presented a letter from Mayor Wong to the Citizens Redistricting Commission,
regarding final draft maps on redistricting
NEW BUSINESS
1. Subject: City Council’s position on redistricting maps
Recommended Action: Authorize the Mayor to send a letter expressing the City
Council’s position on redistricting maps.
Jennifer Griffin stated that it was important to keep the city all in one district as much as
possible. She also believed that Lehigh Quarry should be in Cupertino. Furthermore, she
commented that she had been unable to read and print out the redistricting maps on the
city’s webpage.
Council asked staff to put a link to the www.wedrawthelines on the city’s website to
assist those who had difficulty reading the maps on the city’s website.
Mahoney moved and Chang seconded to authorize the Mayor to send the letter to the
Citizens Redistricting Commission and, if appropriate, to send delegates to state that
Cupertino should be all in one district and to add words to the effect that the city wished
to be supportive of the redistricting commission’s concept of communities of interest.
The motion carried unanimously.
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ADJOURNMENT
At 11:25 p.m., the meeting was adjourned.
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Kimberly Smith, City Clerk
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