01-05-26 CULTURAL COMMISSION - Jan 05, 2026

meeting

Santa Clara Boards and Commissions 52 min 1 speaker 8 agenda items transcribed 3 days ago official recording ↗

▲ 0

Transcript

jump: agenda · speakers · find in transcript

Transcript

Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

What is the purpose and structure of the Cultural Commission regular meeting?

Unknown 0:10

Speaking.

Unknown 0:21

Okay, stop. Okay, that's good. Today is January fifth, two thousand twenty-six. This is the meeting of the City of Santa Clara Cultural Commission. Do you chair one hand? Okay. This is the regular meeting of the Cultural Commission on Monday, January 5th, 2026. This is a hybrid meeting and this meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on an item and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you are done speaking. If you're calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item.

Unknown 1:13

Press star nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand. Press star six if you're participating by phone to unmute. I now call to order the Cultural Commission regular meeting of January fifth, twenty twenty six at seven oh three PM. And we'll do a row call. Commissioner Diaz, present. Commissioner Doss. Commissioner Roy,

Rafael Mandelman 1:41

Present.

Unknown 1:41

Commissioner Pontius. Commissioner S Samara. And myself. So both Commissioner Doss and Commissioner Samara have asked to be excused from today's event. And I will entertain emotion. To excuse them. Ex uh in one motion excuse both of them. Why is Commissioner Boss like that? She's traveling. Oh, okay. Um I motion to excuse both of them from the meeting tonight. Is it? So we'll take a vote on that. Commissioner Diaz, I Boy, conscious. And myself by the motion passes. Welcome to the Cultural Commission meeting. Our first item on the agenda is our consent calendar. There is one item on the consent calendar this evening. And that is the action on the cultural commission regular meeting minutes from the December first, twenty twenty-five meeting.

Unknown 2:49

Are there any comments or suggestions for edit? Mm-hmm. Any public comments? And I would like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes from the December first, twenty twenty five meeting. I motion to approval minutes. Okay, we'll take a vote on that. Commissioner Dears, right? Go ahead, kind. Roy Pontius and myself. I so admission. Motion passes. We will now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This part of the meeting is reserved for the public to address the Cultural Commission on any matter not on the agenda that it was that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission. The law does not permit action on or extended discussion of any item not on the agenda except under special circumstances.

Unknown 3:54

The commissioner staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed, and committee may request staff to report back at a subsequent meeting. As a reminder, comments can be emailed to clerk at sanaclaraca.gov. any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker's card or raise your hand in Zoom. To accommodate all speakers, we request that you complete your comments within one minute. Staff, do we have any members of the public that that would like to speak? On it this time. So we'll move on to general business, which is the discussion and potential action on the Cultural Commission Work Plan Goals and Activities for FY2526. So we'll start with goal number one. Host and enhance multicultural events to encourage and appoint Santa Clara residents with cultural and cultural diversity.

Unknown 4:52

Excuse me. Um Item number one, plan and implement summer concerts in FY twenty twenty-five-twenty six. And all those dates are set. I believe uh we also have the Mm. The bands booked? We don't have the bands booked, but we have the genres slated. Oh, okay. So And the promoter has the dates. So be working on. Okay. Great. Yeah, I just saw that we did have some band names on. on the agenda. I mean on the work plan. So But sauna orchestra of That's from twenty twenty five. Oh, excuse me. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Rafael Mandelman 5:41

Okay.

Unknown 5:42

So then let's move on to the street dance. And um Is that the same status that we have the date but not the band?

Rafael Mandelman 5:53

Yep.

Unknown 5:53

Okay. Okay, plan and host Friday night live events that's on hold until