City Council on 2024-04-23 5:00 PM - REGULAR MEETING

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What topics are covered in the closed‑session opening and agenda items?

Pat Showalter 0:08

Good evening, everyone. Um Uh Thank you for joining us for our closed session. Uh City Attorney Log will make a closed session announcement and then we will welcome public comment on the items listed for closed session. City Attorney?

Jennifer Loeb 0:25

Thank you, good evening. This is City Attorney Jennifer Loeb. There are two items on this evening's closed session agenda. Item two point one is a conference with labor negotiators regarding labor negotiations with. Service Employee International Union Local Five Two One. The Eagles Association, the Police Officer Association. International association of firefighters Local nineteen sixty five. Unrepresented fire managers, unrepresented police managers, unrepresented department heads, and unrepresented confidential employees pursuant to California government code section five four nine. five seven point six The agency designated representatives are Assistant City Manager Arne Andrews, Human Resources Director Maxine Goulow.

Jennifer Loeb 1:11

Human resources manager Lindsay Bishop and Charles Sakai of Sloan Sakai Young and Wong L L P. Item two point two is a meeting regarding public employee performance evaluations pursuant to California government code section five four nine five seven. For city council appointees, city attorney, city clerk, and city manager.

Pat Showalter 1:33

Thank you. All right, would anyone um member of the public joining us either virtually or in person like to provide a comment on the closed session items listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please click the raised hand button on Zoom or submit a speaker card to the City Clerk. We will take in-person speakers first, but there don't appear to be any. So are there any are there any um zoom and there are no virtual speakers. So with that, we will adjourn to the Plaza conference room and return to the chambers at the close of the uh at the close to continue with the regular meeting. Thanks very much.

Pat Showalter 4:36

Good evening, everybody. I'd like to call the regular meeting of the Mountain View City Council of April twenty third, two thousand twenty four to order. Will you please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Pat Showalter 5:11

Roll call please.

Unknown 5:13

Councilmember Abekoga. Here. Councilmember Hicks? Here. Councilmember Ramirez. Councilmember Ramos? Here. Vice Mayor Matichek. Here. Mayor Shoulter. You have a quorum with Council Member Committee absent.

Pat Showalter 5:24

Thank you. Um recently the city has been subjected to disruptive racist verbal attacks by anonymous callers during virtual public comments. The City of Mountain View is fully committed to racial, religious, and cultural equity and justice as we help strive to create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive community for all. The Council welcomes respectful and non-threatening public comments. regarding matters over which the council has jurisdiction. Comments deemed otherwise, pursuant to the Code of Conduct and the Government Code, will be grounds for terminating a speaker's comment period. Sally, so moving on to presentations. Um these are these are presentations, so the council doesn't really take action.

Pat Showalter 6:14

Uh public comment will occur after the presentation items. And if you would like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker cur card to the city clerk now. So the first one we have tonight is for um National Volunteer Week. And um I'm going to go up to the lectern and I'd like to be joined there by John Coogan, who is a volunteer for the police department.

Pat Showalter 6:57

Hi John. Hi, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah. All right. Well I have this I have this presentation for you. And um uh John is a volunteer with the Police Explorer Program and he's here today to accept accept this proclamation on behalf of um of that program. And Whereas every day in the city of Mountain View, people exemplify the spirit of community by volunteering their time and efforts to support and behalf and enhance the well-being of our city, they forge strong social connections and they bridge divides among individuals from diverse backgrounds. And whereas the impact of volunteerism exemplifies the values of empathy, kindness,