City Council December 16, 2025 Non-Televised Special Meeting Closed Session (4:30) and Televised Regular Meeting (6:45) - Dec 16, 2025
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Who is taking the roll call and what are the opening motions?
Of the United States of America and two Republic Policies stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you, Madam City Attorney. Will you please call the role? Councilmember Fruin? Here. Councilmember Mohan? Here. Councilmember Wong?
Here.
Vice Mayor Chow. Here. Mayor Moore? Here. Thank you. Madam City Attorney, will you please provide the closed session report? Good evening, Mayor. Uh
this evening we did discuss every item on the agenda and there no reportable action was taken.
And Mayor, I just want to announce that Councilmember Wong will be attending this meeting remotely this evening and so I will be qu we I will be requesting roll call votes votes for all council actions. Additionally, I will be relying on
Councilmember Wong to notify me of any members of the public requesting a speak at the teleconference location.
Okay. All right. Thank you. And we have no ceremonial items. Next we'll receive a presentation by our esteemed poet laureates Keiko O'Leary and Thomas Salerie. Yes, Mayor, and just a note
uh that Poet Laureate Keiko O'Leary's term is actually through twenty twenty five. Um it was
extended, so just an adjustment from what's listed on the agenda. Thank you. And are they present? And Keiko and Thomas, if you could please join us at the podium. And so Keiko, you will present first. Okay.
What does the City Attorney report about the closed‑session and ceremonial items?
And we will share
your poem on the projector. Thank you. Whenever you're ready. Um is this microphone good for everyone? Yeah, thank you. Um my poem is called Friends Create Cupertino. From the saltwater aquarium at the Cupertino Library, a butterfly fish gazes into my baby son's eyes, then flits off in a tiny spray of bubbles. My little daughter laughs and lifts her arms. My father swings her up and holds her to his heart. Grandpa, she says, with the certainty of being four years old, the fish are our friends. Another year when my son can walk, we dance in a circle with otter and the other animals, bronze statues that remind us of a characters from a book. They are real to my children. They are our friends. And later still, at McClellan Ranch, we draw the trees.
I realize they are our friends too. Oak, Buckeye, Redwood, accepting our attention with their silent smiles. My memories to me are also friends. My dad's job selling suits at Valco Mall. The joy I felt each spring on seeing blossoms of wisteria fill the trellis in the parking lot. The movie theater at the Oaks I went to as a teen. The Cherry Blossom Festival in Memorial Park. These memories are friends I visit, even though the landscape may have changed. I have human friends as well, writers and poets, practicing our craft together at Quinlan Community Centre, at restaurants and cafes. We share our lives through the work that we create. I see the future in the sky, in clouds that rise up brilliant and edged with sun.
Under that sky in Cupertino, other friends are working too. We create the city together through everything we do. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, uh Keiko, and uh thank you City Council and uh the library for the trust. Um my poem is called The Angel the Bass. Uh and I think it's gonna be projected. It's a poem I I wrote as I was um walking my my dog one morning, uh just close to home, uh and I saw something. Uh there's a QR code in the poem. If your phone is working, you can scan it and see a little video of uh what uh inspired me to write this uh this poem. So here we go. The angel's bath. In the light of the rising, fluting, there they are, the angels, spreading their wings, roaring, streaming, facing the mighty star. Maybe you see them innocent or frail. I see their auras shine with a thousand flames, flying, taunting the bowling deer in the distance, their wings flapping, a cloud of drops, prisms squirting, their silhouettes cut out.
A white chloe would like to touch them, or even with its clouds to grip them, dreaming of food tastier than cockroach, but supernatural, in turn locusts, doves, sleeping within a back rail, there they are the angels, spreading their wings. Green their adornments, blue and yellow irises, sparkling sparks, amazones.
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Agenda
8 items
1
Who is taking the roll call and what are the opening motions?
0:05–1:52
2
What does the City Attorney report about the closed‑session and ceremonial items?
1:52–6:16
3
What poems are presented by the Poet Laureates and what themes do they explore?
6:16–15:22
4
How does the public hearing on the new residential development begin and what are the key agenda points?
15:22–2:03:38
5
What tree planting and site‑maintenance issues are being addressed?
2:03:38–3:06:31
6
How does the council move from the public hearing to the motion and roll‑call vote?
3:06:31–3:12:52
7
What are the scope, cost estimates, and financing options for the City Hall renovation?
3:12:52–3:20:46
8
How do council members and the public debate the financing and options for the project?
3:20:46–3:57:30
Speakers
5 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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