City Council on 2025-10-28 6:30 PM

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What ceremonial actions open the City Council meeting?

Ellen Kamei 4:23

Good evening, everyone. We're honored to welcome this year's elementary school mayor of the day winner. And it's Hannah Kirshner. She's going to call our meeting to order. She has the gavel. She can hit it as many times as she wants. I told her, whatever you want, you're the mayor. So please call our meeting to order.

Dylan Rich 4:54

I call to order the Mountain View City Council meeting of October 28th, 2025. And I

Ellen Kamei 5:06

think before we get to our second Mayor for a Day winner, did you want to share a little bit about the essay that you submitted or is that okay? Just talk right into there. When I wrote my essay, I wanted to give a bit of

Brian Jones 5:23

what I felt when I

Ellen Kamei 5:25

wanted to include everybody and

Rafael Mandelman 5:29

treat them all with kindness. And when I mean everybody, I mean everybody everywhere.

Ellen Kamei 5:47

Okay, great. Thank you. Have you sit down. And then we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. And I want to, we're honored to welcome our middle school winner, Ishan Koshal. Ishan, will you please come up to the lectern and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Ellen Kamei 6:11

I can just talk right into it because it's on TV too. Okay. So I'll just ask.

Nikita Sinha 6:16

Could everybody please stand up? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

How does the council announce volunteer opportunities and take attendance?

Ellen Kamei 6:52

All right, the city clerk will now take attendance by roll call.

Malia Pires 6:58

Council Member Clark. Here. Council Member Hicks. Here. Council Member McAllister. Here. Council Member Ramirez.

Rafael Mandelman 7:03

Here.

Malia Pires 7:04

Council Member Showalter. Here. Vice Mayor Ramos. Here. Here.

Ellen Kamei 7:10

Great. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. It's such an exciting meeting today. And as such, we have an announcement. The city is seeking volunteers to serve for the following upcoming vacancies. One seat on our Parks and Rec Commission, one seat on the Senior Advisory Committee, and three seats on the Downtown Committee. Specifically, applicants who are property owners in the downtown or representatives of businesses in the downtown. Please visit mountainview.gov backslash BCC to apply by 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 6th. Interviews will be held on the evening of November 17th. We'll get back to the fun. We're gonna move on to item three, which is our presentations. Please note, these are presentations only.

Ellen Kamei 7:56

The city council will not take any action. Public comment will occur after the presentation items. If you'd like to speak on these items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. And for our mayors who kicked off our meeting, we actually have recognition for both of them. So I'm gonna head back down to the lectern.

Ellen Kamei 8:33

So our Mayor for a Day essay contest ran through the month of September and elementary and middle school age Mountain View residents wrote about one problem they would solve if they were mayor for a day. We decided to do an elementary school and a middle school age winner that were selected. This is something that I did when I was mayor in the pandemic in 2021, so it's so nice to be able to do this in person. And as we had earlier, we are happy to have Hanna back to join us as the elementary school winner. She attends Theracoff Elementary School and is in the fifth grade. And I know you kicked us off and you told us a little bit about your essay. Did you have anything more you wanted to share with everyone?

Ellen Kamei 9:18

All right, no. Well, then let's take a picture, maybe the two of us, and then we can invite your family. How about that? And we'll invite the whole council to stand as we present it to you. Awesome, thanks.

Ellen Kamei 10:17

All right, and for item 3.2, we're gonna have Ishan back for the middle school recognition.

What presentations and recognitions are given before the consent calendar?

Ellen Kamei 10:23

Ishan attends Graham Middle School and is in the seventh grade. Ishan, if you wanna join us at the lectern, and I know you're gonna share a little bit about your essay.

Nikita Sinha 10:34

Yeah. Thank you so much for this honor. Thank you to Mayor Kamei and the members of the City Council. Thank you also to my parents and my brothers, David and Jane, for always supporting me. I am fortunate to have lived in Mountain View for all 12 years of my life. I went to Imai Elementary School and I'm now a seventh grader at Graham Middle School.