City Council on 2025-10-21 6:00 PM - SPECIAL MEETING
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Mountain View City Council
1h 35m
9 speakers
8 agenda items
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What is the opening agenda and who is present at the City Council special meeting?
All right, good evening everyone. Welcome to our city council special meeting to interview environmental planning commission applicants. We'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, so please stand.
All right, and we'll move on to item three, which is the roll call. The city clerk will take attendance by roll call.
Councilmember Clark? Here. Councilmember Hicks? Here. Councilmember Ramirez.
How does the council conduct the roll call and establish a quorum?
Here. Councilmember Shawalter? Here. Vice Mayor Ramos? Here. Mayor Kameh? We have a quorum with Councilmember McAllister absent.
Great, thank you. So we'll move on to item four, which is our study session. The purpose of the meeting this evening is for the council to interview applicants for two openings on the Environmental Planning Commission and make a recommendation for adoption at the December 9th, 2025 City Council meeting. Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on this item? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. I'm not seeing anybody in person. So I'll move to virtual. Do not see any hands. So I'm gonna close public comment and we'll move forward. So per the selection process outlined in council policy number K-2, the interviews will be conducted in a panel format.
Each applicant will receive the same amount of time to answer each question, and the questions selected by the council will be asked in randomized round round. Order. The council may ask a limited number of clarifying questions in the event that an applicant's answer was unclear or otherwise not understood.
What are the five interview questions planned for Environmental Planning Commission applicants?
Clarifying questions should not be used to allow an applicant an additional opportunity to expand on an original response. On February 18, 2025, the council posed the following questions to EPC applicants. in the denoted time limit for each category. Would any member, would any council member like to suggest changes to the questions or propose a time allocation per question? And I think just because maybe not everyone has the questions in front of them for the purpose of the public, I'll just read the questions quickly. Um, and then people can um queue up if they like. So for the first question at one minute, it was what would you bring to the environmental Planning Commission that is unique. For question number two, that was two minutes.
What are your thoughts on the city's existing plans, like the general plan and precise plans, specifically the downtown precise plan? Question three for 90 seconds. How would you evaluate proposals to implement the housing element components? Question four for two minutes. How does good land use improve our city and what is good land use? And question number five, one minute, what is the role of a planning commissioner? So those were the five questions with the time allocation. I see Councilmember Hicks in the queue.
So the one that I think I might want to change, and I have to say I am not a person who's supermarried to to Changes I suggest or the questions in general, but The number three, which is how would you evaluate proposals to implement the housing element components? Since we're a little further through the housing element, we we seem to never be done with it. But um I'm wondering if we could uh say uh what do you think will be the big issues facing uh the city or the planning commission um over the next several years, which could include the housing element. So I'm up for people can say that's terrible. I will not be insulted or we can
go with that. So for question three, can you just say it one more time? Um would it be the same?
What do you think would what do you think will be the big issues facing The uh План і комісію неxt ту яр. including and it could as part two it could include um addressing the implementing the housing element.
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Okay. So would the time be the same, a minute and a half? Yes. Okay. So For question three, what do you think the big issues facing the planning commission will be? For example
How are the interview questions administered to each applicant in a round‑robin format?
implementing the housing element. Yeah, is that right?
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the opening agenda and who is present at the City Council special meeting?
8:12–8:53
2
How does the council conduct the roll call and establish a quorum?
8:53–10:17
3
What are the five interview questions planned for Environmental Planning Commission applicants?
10:17–13:18
4
How are the interview questions administered to each applicant in a round‑robin format?
13:18–17:48
5
What insights did the first applicant (Hala Alshawani) share about her unique contributions to the commission?
17:48–30:02
6
How did the council members discuss the role of good land use and its impact on Mountain View?
30:02–50:09
7
What was the voting process for re‑appointing incumbents and selecting new commissioners?
50:09–1:14:39
8
When is the next City Council meeting and what are the final actions before adjournment?
1:14:39–1:35:07
Speakers
9 identified
Ellen Kamei 15 min
Shwetha Subramanian 7 min
Tina Pham 6 min
Alison Hicks 5 min
Lucas Ramirez 5 min
Pat Showalter 4 min
Emily Ann Ramos 3 min
Chris Clark 3 min
Rafael Mandelman
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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