CC Exhibit 08-18-15 Item #12 Agreement for Citywide parks, open space, rec master planAndrea Sanders
CC 08 -18 -15 Item #12
From: Susan Sievert <susansievert @yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:23 AM
To: City Clerk
Subject: Dear City Clerk...
Dear City Clerk, I just sent a written communication, with typos, to you, the city council, and Mr. Brandt.
If it's not too much trouble, please use what I've included below for the record.
Thank you.
Susan Sievert
Agenda Item 12: Agreement for Consultant Services for the Citywide Parks, Open Space and Recreation
Master Plan
Dear Mayor Sinks, members of the City Council, and Mr. Brandt.
My biggest concern is if relevant information continues to be concealed from both our City Council and
concerned citizens, decisions with harmful unintended consequences will continue to be made.
For example, there was a significant omission in a December 11, 2013 Request for Proposal (RFP) for a
project with many aliases. Missing from its "Familiarize your firm with existing agreements" list was an
"addendum" to the approved 2006 Stevens Creek Corridor Master Plan and Mitigated Negative Declaration
(MND). Also, I am unable to locate both the 2006 RFP and the 2006 addendum on the 2006 master plan's
webpage timeline...
"It's about disclosure," cautioned the consultant for the project with many aliases. The City Council, the
public and the consultants were not made aware of key mitigations contained in that addendum until after
a lot of taxpayer time and money had been taken.
1) Obfuscation wastes everyone's time: For continuity purposes, please refrain from changing the Master
Plan name listed on this Agenda Item: Citywide Parks, Open Space and Recreation Master Plan. Producing
an acronym will make document production easier (CPOSRMP).
Why: All the aliases for what started out in MAY 2013 as the Stevens Creek Corridor "Chain" Master Plan
make it difficult to examine how and why that project was eventually derailed (...at a final cost of what;
more than a half million dollars ?).
Or, was it the Stevens Creek Boulevard to McClellan Road Creek Corridor Master Plan? Or — as if approval
and certification of the 2006 Master Plan and MND never happened — the Stevens Creek Corridor Master
Plan. Example, dated 2015:
"City Council Meeting - Adjourned Special Meeting Stevens Creek Corridor Master Plan Study Session
CANCELLED and RE- NOTICED for 2/3/15
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2) For Agenda Item 12, Tuesday, August 18, 2015, please include a link to the RFP that staff reports was
"issued in June 2015." Reason: Should anyone want to know what's been going on before this project is
publicly introduced, they will want to review the RFP.
3) Please provide a link to the June 2015 RFP on a master plan webpage timeline for the same "reason"
stated in #2.
4) As a service to overbooked concerned citizens, please record all public meetings related to this new
master plan process, and post the videos to a master plan webpage timeline. It need not be anything
special; a single video camera on a tripod with audio will be satisfactory.