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APPROVED MINUTES
CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL
Thursday, April 21, 2022
SPECIAL MEETING AND CONTINUATION FROM APRIL 19, 2022
At 8:00 p.m., Mayor Darcy Paul called the Special City Council Meeting to order in the Cupertino
Community Hall Council Chamber, 10350 Torre Avenue and via teleconference.
ROLL CALL
Present: Mayor Darcy Paul, Vice Mayor Liang Chao, and Councilmembers Kitty Moore, Hung
Wei, and Jon Robert Willey. Absent: None.
ORDINANCES AND ACTION ITEMS
1. Subject: Consider scheduling of interviews to fill unscheduled vacancy on Bicycle
Pedestrian Commission
Recommended Action: Reschedule interviews to fill unscheduled vacancy on Bicycle
Pedestrian Commission to begin at 7:00 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. on April 26, 2022
Mayor Paul reviewed the item.
Mayor Paul opened the public comment period and, seeing no one, Mayor Paul closed the
public comment period.
Moore moved and Chao seconded to reschedule the interviews to fill the unscheduled
vacancy on the Bicycle Pedestrian Commission to begin at 7:00 p.m. instead of 5:30 p .m.
on April 26, 2022. The motion carried unanimously.
ORDINANCES AND ACTION ITEMS – CONTINUED FROM APRIL 19
Council continued the hearing, consideration, deliberation, and decisions for Item 27 on the
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 City Council Regular Meeting agenda.
2. Subject: Consider Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Council goals and prioritize potential items for
the FY 2022-2023 City Work Program (Item 27 continued from April 19, 2022)
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Recommended Action: Adopt Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Council goals and prioritize
potential items for the FY 2022-2023 City Work Program
Presenter: Katy Nomura, Deputy City Manager
Written Communications for this item included a staff presentation, an Amended Staff
Report (Redline), and emails to Council.
Deputy City Manager Katy Nomura gave a presentation.
Mayor Paul opened the public comment period and the following people spoke.
Jennifer Griffin supported setting up a plan for the Stocklmeir House.
Sudisha Kumar supported prioritizing the student internship program.
Don Veith supported prioritizing the gun storage ordinance.
Louise Saadati supported starting more DOLA trials. (Submitted a video).
Sundareshwar Ranganeth supported prioritizing more DOLAs.
Dayna Wu supported prioritizing more DOLAs.
Caroline supported prioritizing the student internship program.
Anthony Chan supported prioritizing DOLAs. (Submitted a video).
Snehal Pachigar supported the expansion of DOLAs to other parks and other areas.
Manu Sharma supported prioritizing DOLAs with five points.
Jean Bedord was concerned about too many projects on the list and staffing and supported
limiting the number of major projects and a faster prioritization process.
City Clerk Kirsten Squarcia read emails on behalf of Deepa Mahendraker to prioritize the
DOLA trials and Michael Fujita in support of giving DOLAs more five-point votes.
Mayor Paul closed the public comment period.
Council members asked questions and made comments.
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Council conducted straw polls for consensus on proposed language revisions to the item
descriptions.
Council recessed from 9:51 p.m. to 9:57 p.m.
Council further conducted straw polls and approved the following language revisions:
6. Cupertino Store Implementation
Implement the Cupertino Store plan, which will be adopted by Council as part of the
current City Work Program Item "Cupertino Store at Chamber of Commerce". This would
include identifying a location if one is not identified in fiscal year 2021-2022. With some
help from the Fine Arts Commission for some of the items with art designed by
community members, items would be designed and selected for the store, for sale to the
public, and also available for exchange purposes for formal delegations to and from the
City, with an at-cost charge structure for the latter purposes. Staff will present a plan to
the Council on item selection and art design selection.
Approved by unanimous consent.
Add new Item 9a in addition to existing Item 9:
9a. RHNA related General Plan updates and rezoning (Housing Element)
Review preliminary RHNA numbers. Look at strategies for RHNA compliance including
evaluating sites for potential upzoning, and jobs-housing ratio and statistics. Identify
Priority Housing sites, update Housing Element and complete rezoning by September
2023.
Consider Heart of the City Items from 2019-20 Work Program as appropriate:
Amend the Heart of the City Specific Plan;
1) For clarifications the minimum street side set back requirements.
2) To review street tree requirements to allow larger trees increase diversity of tree
type and encourage drought tolerant and native tree types.
3) Update sections such as transit corridors in the City.
4) Maintain existing setbacks and consider minimum retail percentage to maintain a
commercial strip.
Approved with Chao polling no.
16. Support for the Unhoused combining:
- Homeless Jobs Program
- City Plan to End Homelessness
These items should be combined into formulating Formulate a City plan to address the
issue of the unhoused and how to provide services in as effective a manner as possible
with the resources available. A specific plan would be generated which includes
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consideration and recommendations for:
- City-driven jobs program. Could be fully independent or work in collaboration
with a partner or partners, including the County.
- Facility development with supportive services. With non-profit organization
partnership, space would be identified and a plan for supportive space with an
ultimate aim to provide a pathway to permanent sustained housing would be
made.
- Funding strategy. This would require significant resources, but the social costs of
not addressing this growing issue are more significant. With grant money and
possible private partnerships available, the deliverable here would be to provide
the City with actionable recommendations for securing financial support for this
program.
- Attempt to be aligned with the SCC roadmap.
Approved by unanimous consent.
2. Consider options to develop ELI and BMR housing units for Developmentally
Disabled individuals on City-owned property along Mary Avenue as well as the
County-owned Outback Steakhouse location
- Consider strategies to preserve existing BMR units
Approved with Wei and Moore polling no.
Council provided direction for staff to generate a newly revised description sheet of the
votes as reflected in Council’s discussion and redistribute to Councilmembers on Friday,
April 22; and Council will return votes by end of day on Monday, April 25; and bring the
item back to Council on May 17.
ADJOURNMENT
At 10:38 p.m., Mayor Paul adjourned the Special City Council Meeting.
Kirsten Squarcia City Clerk