City Council on 2024-06-11 4:45 PM - JOINT MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL (REGULAR), SHORELINE REGIONAL PARK COMMUNITY (SPECIAL), AND CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FINANCING AUTHORITY (SPECIAL)

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What topics are covered in the closed‑session agenda and how is the public invited to comment?

Pat Showalter 2:52

All right, good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us for our closed session. City Attorney Logue will make a closed session announcement and then we will welcome public comment on the items listed for closed session. City Attorney Logue. Good evening, this is Jennifer Logue, City Attorney for the City of

Durvana Wokido 3:09

Mountain View. There are two items on this evening's closed session agenda. Item 2.1 is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8. The property is 112 North Ranksdorf Avenue and 2312 Alma Avenue. The agency negotiators are Angela LaMonica, Real Property Program Administrator and Acting Public Works Director at Arango. The negotiating party is Zeng and Zao Hong and Dow Dow Holdings. And under negotiation are price in terms of purchase. Item 2.2 is a conference with labor negotiators regarding labor unions with service employee union SCIU Local 521, the Eagles Association, the Police Officers Association, the International Association of Firefighters Local 1965,

Durvana Wokido 4:08

UNREPRESENTED FIRE MANAGERS, UNREPRESENTED POLICE MANAGERS, UNREPRESENTED DEPARTMENT HEADS, AND UNREPRESENTED CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54957.6. THE AGENCY DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVES ARE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ARN ANDRUZ, HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR MAXINE GULO, HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER LINDSEY BISHOP, AND ALLISON HAUK OF SLOAN, SICAI, YOUNG, AND WONG

Pat Showalter 4:33

LLP. THANK YOU. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide a public comment on the closed session items listed on tonight's agenda? I don't see anyone in person and I don't see anyone online. Do you see anyone online, City Clerk? No, okay, well seeing none, then we will recess to the plaza conference room for the closed session and return to the council chambers at the close to continue with the regular session. Thank you.

Pat Showalter 5:48

Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call this order, this meeting of the Mountain View City Council and the Shoreline Regional Park Community and the City of Mountain View Capital Improvements Financing Authority to order. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pat Showalter 6:37

City Clerk, will you please take roll call? Council Member Abacoga? Here. Council Member Hicks? Here. Council Member Ramirez? Here. Council Member Ramos? Here. Vice Mayor Radicek? Here. Mayor Schulter? Here. We have a quorum with Council Member Kamei absent. Thank you. All right, this evening, we're going to start our meeting with some presentations. These are presentations only, and the City Council doesn't take any action on them at this time. Public comment will occur after the presentation items. If you would like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the City Clerk now. So our first presentation is going to be on the Caltrain City Partnerships Toolkit.

How does the Caltrain electrification update and city partnership toolkit presentation unfold?

Pat Showalter 7:23

We are happy to be joined this evening by Sam Sargent, the Director of Strategy and Policy for Caltrain. He's going to provide us update, welcome.

Sam Sargent 7:34

Thank you very much, Mayor. It's wonderful to be here this evening, members of council. Before I get started, do I advance with a... No, okay. Okay, wonderful. So tonight, I'm going to give a quick update, because I know you've got a long agenda ahead of you, on Caltrain electrification, but also our city partnerships program. Second slide, please. Next slide. So real quick, and first off, I just want to say thank you to both the council and to the people of Mountain View, because we are at a truly exciting moment in the life of this railroad. It's a railroad that's existed for 106 years. It's been a part of this community for, by my mark, 122 years. And we have completed, in essence, electrification, which is a dream of over a century long and has been in the works for, I don't need to tell everyone here for how long.

Sam Sargent 8:31

So, you know, 2,500 plus pulls, all of our train sets delivered, first responders trains, the entire corridor energized. And we also appreciate the patience of all of our customers and community members over this past weekend because we were shut down for the whole weekend to test our new schedule and confirm that our power system works.