CC 01-25-2021 (Special)
APPROVED MINUTES
CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL
Monday, January 25, 2021
At 6:00 p.m. Mayor Darcy Paul called the Special City Council meeting to order. This was a
teleconference meeting with no physical location.
ROLL CALL
Present: Mayor Darcy Paul, Vice Mayor Liang Chao, and Councilmembers Kitty Moore, Hung
Wei, and Jon Robert Willey. Absent: None. All Councilmembers teleconferenced for the
meeting.
COMMISSION INTERVIEWS
1. Subject: Interview applicants for commission terms expiring on the Planning
Commission, Library Commission, and Fine Arts Commission.
Recommended Action: Conduct interviews and make appointments to the Planning
Commission, Library Commission, and Fine Arts Commission; and select alternates
Written communications for this item included emails to Council.
Mayor Paul opened the public comment period and, seeing no speakers, closed the
public comment period.
Council conducted the interviews and made the following appointments to the Planning
Commission, Library Commission, and Fine Arts Commission, and alternates.
Planning Commission Voting Round 1 for primary seats:
Vote for 3 full terms ending 1/30/25 and any alternates
1 Venkatesan Ranganathan
2 Jack Carter
3 Sundar Narayanan
4 Rajiv Puranik
5 Kiet Nguyen
6 Timothy Gorsulowsky
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7 Neha Sahai
8 Eric Crouch
9 R Wang was reappointed to full term ending 1/30/25 (Moore, Willey, Chao, Paul)
10 Muni Madhdhipatla was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (and will vacate
current seat on Bicycle Pedestrian Commission) (Moore, Chao, Paul)
11 Steven Scharf was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (Moore, Willey, Chao,
Paul)
12 Deepa Mahendraker (Willey)
13 Dinelle Rudd (Wei)
14 Ravi Kumar
15 Neil Park‐McClintick (Wei)
16 Frances Hu
17 Kriti Garg (Wei)
Planning Commission Voting Round 2 for alternate seat:
Jack Carter (Moore, Paul)
Deepa Mahendraker (Willey, Chao)
Kriti Garg (Wei)
This round did not result in an appointment for alternate seat.
Planning Commission Voting Round 3 for alternate seat run off:
Jack Carter (Moore, Paul)
Deepa Mahendraker was appointed as alternate (Wei, Willey, Chao)
Library Commission Voting Round 1 for primary seats:
Vote for 3 full terms ending 1/30/25 and any alternates
1 Archana Panda was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (Wei, Willey, Paul)
2 Esha Rao (Moore)
3 Priscilla Grille
4 Vidya Murthy
5 Vijaya Chavva
6 Govind Tatachari was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (and declined
Library Commission appointment and accepted Housing Commission
appointment of 1/26/2021) (Moore, Willey, Paul)
7 Latha Chandrashekhar
8 Himani Singh (Willey)
9 Seema Swamy
10 Sheela Sreekanth (Moore, Chao)
11 Sreekanth Bhaskar
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12 Liyan Zhao was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (Wei, Chao, Paul)
13 Kriti Garg (Wei, Chao)
14 Xiuqing (Winona) Chen
Library Commission Voting Round 2 for alternate seat run off:
Sheela Sreekanth was appointed as alternate (and will fill appointment
declined by Tatachari) (Moore, Willey, Chao, Paul)
Kriti Garg (Wei)
Fine Arts Commission Voting Round 1 for primary seats:
Vote for 2 full terms ending 1/30/25 and any alternates
1 Madhusudan Tare was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (Moore, Willey,
Chao, Paul)
2 Archana Panda
3 Esha Rao was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (Moore, Wei, Willey, Paul)
4 Neha Sahai
5 Sonia Dhami
6 Kalpana Aroda (Wei, Chao)
Willey moved and Paul seconded to appoint Kalpana Aroda as the alternate. The motion
carried unanimously.
Summary:
Planning Commission Appointments
R Wang was reappointed to full term ending 1/30/25
Steven Scharf was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25
Muni Madhdhipatla was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (and will vacate current
seat on Bicycle Pedestrian Commission)
Alternate
Deepa Mahendraker was appointed as alternate
Library Commission Appointments
Archanda Panda was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25
Govind Tatachari was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25 (and declined Library
Commission appointment and accepted Housing Commission appointment of 1/26/2021)
Liyan Zhao was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25
Alternate
Sheela Sreekanth was appointed as alternate (and will fill appointment declined by
Tatachari)
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Fine Arts Commission Appointments
Madhusudan Tare was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25
Esha Rao was appointed to a full term ending 1/30/25
Alternate
Kalpana Aroda was appointed as alternate
ADJOURNMENT
At 10:30 p.m., Mayor Paul adjourned to the Special Meeting of Tuesday, January 26.
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Kirsten Squarcia, City Clerk