07-14-20 Closed Session_Late Written CommunicationsCC 07-14-20
Special Meeting
Closed Session #1,
City Manager
Evaluation
Written Comments
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Cyrah Caburian
From:Lauren Sapudar
Sent:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 7:54 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Fwd: Subject: Public Employee Performance Evaluation (Gov't Code Section 54957(b)). Title: City
Manager
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From: Neil McClintick <neil.mcclintick@berkeley.edu>
Date: July 14, 2020 at 7:19:00 PM PDT
To: City Council <CityCouncil@cupertino.org>, Cupertino City Manager's Office
<manager@cupertino.org>
Cc: Joseph Fruen <jrfruen@gmail.com>, Brian Babcock <BrianB@cupertino.org>
Subject: RE: Subject: Public Employee Performance Evaluation (Gov't Code Section 54957(b)). Title:
City Manager
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Hello,
I had not realized that the employee review was a closed session, so I'm going to basically say in this
email what I wanted to say at the mic (well figurative one I guess).
As a resident of the city, I just want to say how deeply appreciative I am of Deb's work as city manager. I
hope we are able to retain her as long as she wishes to remain. We live in a small city that's often
relatively quiet in terms of big‐ticket issues. Much of our community is privileged enough to worry about
more mundane issues, rather than those concerning life‐or‐death like many other cities in our region.
Still, I would never say that this is an easy city to run, so I would like to give the CM's office credit where
credit is due.
Our community faces deep polarization, especially over sensitive issues such as land use and planning.
Much of it is a difference in generation, with most of the younger generation wishing for something
dramatically different from what we're seeing now. While many of the older residents would like
Cupertino to stay relatively the same. Some of it is on the stark difference in priorities between
homeowners and renters. Regardless of these splits, Deb does an excellent job navigating the messiness
that is Cupertino politics—with poise and consistency.
Cupertino is in good hands with this City Manager, and I hope that she's able to stay for the foreseeable
future. We need someone like her during this extremely difficult time. As Cupertino confronts a
pandemic that continues to grow in the US and also reconciles its difficult departure from quiet suburbia
(inevitable as a result of RHNA), we need someone in charge who makes a concerted effort to hear
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multiple sides of the issues—and someone who is readily available regardless of how overflooded she
might be with various CM duties. That person is City Manager Feng.
Thank you,
Neil
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Neil Park-McClintick
UC Berkeley '19
Grassroots Organizer, Cupertino for All
Housing Justice Organizer, Working Partnerships USA
"Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant
homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every
human being deserves it."