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Written Comments
From:louise saadati
To:City Clerk
Subject:Please have the below made for presentation during my presentation at CityCouncil Meeting tonight at 7:45 pm.
Date:Tuesday, March 8, 2022 2:52:37 PM
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Please have the below text in black be ready for presentation tonight. Please arrange to have it displayed on the Zoom meeting during my presentation tonight. Another speaker
has already emailed you asking for her speaking time to be given to me. Thank you!
Please phone me or email me if you have any questions. (408) 314-9357.
I am Louise Saadati, one of the main leaders in the DOLA Leadership Group. Our DOLA Leadership represents over 300 dogs and 500 people, and 6 different dog groups and
growing in Cupertino
Though more DOLAS have been on the city work plan for the previous 2 years, NO new DOLAs have been started since 2019.
In the March 8, 2022 meeting staff addendum C, Item 54, the city staff have inserted “an additional year of Jollyman DOLA observation by the City to occur BEFORE more
DOLA trials can start”
This was NEVER discussed with the Jollyman DOLA leadership in the many meetings we had with the Parks and Recreation Director, Parks and Recreation Commission,
nor the former Interim City Manager, Greg Larson! The Parks and Recreation Commission NEVER recommended nor approved this.
This additional at least one more year of city staff time and resources observing Jollyman DOLA also CONTRADICTS the CITY COUNCIL prioritisation of more DOLAS for the last
two years and the current recommendation of priority number 1 from Parks & Recreation.
Jollyman DOLA has been observed since October 2019; its extensive 3 year trial was a success and it is now successfully on-going.
Instead of city staff observing Jollyman DOLA for at least another fourth year from 2019-2023, the city staff could use the city resources to actually start more DOLA trials.
We in the DOLA community have already organized four trial DOLAs and are ready to start trials on them in the following order to begin:
July 2022
Linda Vista Park-Little Dog/Delicate Dog Memorial Park
Leaders Louise Saadati, Sangetta Kopardeka Deepa Mahendraker, Connie Chao
Sheriffs
Louise Saadati, Sangetta Kopardekar,
Lav Pachauri, Sunder Ranganath Deepa Mahendraker
January 2023
Monta Vista Park Jollyman Little Dog/Delicate Dog Park
Leaders Vasantha Niranjan, Stan Moriya, Su Chen Louise Saadati, Gauri Dutt
Sheriffs Vasantha Niranjan, Stan Moriya MaryEllen, Gauri Dutt
If the city staff would accept our help, it would significantly decrease use of city staff resources and facilitate prompt, efficient and successful DOLA trials.
Linda Vista Park Dog Group is first among our recommendations for DOLA trial because it is the most organized group with over 78 dogs and 150 people and growing.
During the recent City Goals Survey 35 Linda Vista DOLA users submitted surveys stating “more DOLAs” never stating “Linda Vista”. We had misunderstood the survey
was asking about the general category of more DOLAs. If we had been told that specific park names needed to be stated, then all 35 of the Linda Vista Park surveys would
have stated “Linda Vista Park” instead of just more DOLAS. Therefore a correct Sub-topics graph would show:
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Instead of using staff resources to observe Jollyman DOLA needlessly for a FOURTH YEAR to attend meetings and sending emails resisting more DOLAS, that same staff
time and resources could be well used INSTEAD to working WITH the community to:
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start 2 DOLA trials in July, 2022 and then
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start 2 more DOLA trials in January 2023.
Please vote to give a higher priority to more DOLAs. Instead of the previous low priority of 29th out of 30 projects, more DOLAs should be given a higher priority closer to the 4/30
Senior Strategy achieved. A large part of our DOLA users are seniors. Everyone’s mental, physical health and well being in the DOLA is tremendously improved by being amongst
playful, happy dogs, fresh air, nature and the very friendly DOLA community.
Instead of isolation and depression, DOLA users feel happy, refreshed and connected to community.
We in the DOLA community successfully performed 85% of the organization, data collection, self-regulation and are STILL collecting data daily at our successful Jollyman DOLA.
Delaying starting new DOLA trials will just increase community frustration with a THIRD year of no new DOLA trials.
Starting new DOLA trials at the beginning of the 2022-2023 fiscal year with acceptance of the DOLA leadership and community help, with its experience and proven success at
Jollyman DOLA, will help to take this RELATIVELY SMALL ITEM already prepared by the local community into an ACHIEVED STATUS..
Whereby more DOLAs will not need to be needlessly brought up to our very busy council year after year after year.
Thank you for your time, your dedication and service to our community.
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From:Stan Moriya
To:City Clerk
Subject:Monta Vista Park DOLA request
Date:Monday, March 7, 2022 1:14:34 PM
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I have lived in Monta Vista since 1974. I live 4 blocks from Monta Vista Park and have always owned dogs during
these years and currently use the park twice daily for my 15-year old Shitzu and 5-year old Golden Doodle who is
a registered trained service dog for my wife. Since he is a working dog, the park gives him and myself a chance to
take a mental break and get outside and enjoy the outdoors in the company of other dog owners. This gives me a
sense of community and is excellent for everyones’s mental health.
Many of us have tried going to other parks such as Jollyman, but besides being inconvenient for our neighborhood it
adds to the load usage for those parks. The majority of dog owners that congregate at Monta Vista Park are in
close enough to walk to the park on a daily basis. For that reason a DOLA for Monta Vista Park is needed and
has been needed for years. I respectfully ask the members of this council to please make starting more DOLAs to be
a higher priority in the 2022-2023 city work plan. Please take this into consideration for future enhancements of our
neighborhood parks. Thank you.
Monta Vista Resident