03.02.2026 Neighborhood-University Relations Committee - Mar 02, 2026

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What was discussed during the opening roll call and consent calendar?

Suds Jain 0:00

Welcome to this. Welcome to this meeting of the Neighborhood University Relations Committee or NERC. It's now 6 p.m. So I'll call this meeting to order at 6 p.m. We're going to take roll call first. So I'm taking roll. Member Chahal has notified the staff that he will not be attending tonight. So he's taking care of us. Member Gonzalez. Present. Member Ross. Present. Member Collins.

Unknown 0:33

Present.

Suds Jain 0:34

Member Mulqueeny. Member Zeng. Present. Member Forge.

Marina Brio 0:42

Chair Jane, I think that Member Mulqueeny let me know that she needs to leave the meeting a little early today. I think it's 7.30, just so people are aware that she will not be staying the entire time.

Suds Jain 0:56

All right, so... Would anyone like to make a motion to excuse Member Chahal?

Unknown 1:06

Second.

Suds Jain 1:07

All in favor?

Unknown 1:09

Aye.

Suds Jain 1:11

Opposed? Okay. Passes. Now we're moving on to the consent calendar. Consent calendars may be enacted approved or adopted by one motion unless requested to be removed by anyone for discussion or explanation. If any member of the NERC commission staff or a member of the public wishes to comment on a consent item or would like the item to be heard on a regular agenda, make this request now. Items listed on the consent calendar with associated file numbers constitute public hearing items. We have one item on the consent calendar, that is the meeting minutes of October 20th, 2025. Is there a motion to approve those minutes? So

Albert Gonzalez 2:03

moved.

Suds Jain 2:06

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? This is unanimously. Now we move on to public presentations. Would any member of the public like to address this committee on any items that are not on the agenda? We'd like to please step forward and make your comments. One, two, three. We'll move on to...

Marina Brio 2:42

Chair Jane, I think there is a member of the public. And as I see a lot of... Come on forward. As I see a lot of new faces in the audience, the consent period of time is when you have an item on the agenda, we will have an opportunity for members of the public to speak on the item. So if there's something that isn't on the agenda that you want to speak about, we allow this time at the beginning of the meeting for someone to bring that up.

Jerry Pono 3:06

This is not on the agenda. Hi, good evening, everybody. Nice to meet everybody here on Zoom and on Face. For those of you who may not know me, I'm Jerry Pono. Nice to see some familiar faces. I bring to this council because I tried to handle this internally, but I don't have, the university doesn't have a dedicated app team from what I recall. I tried to include a fun updates like live turn parking so that students doesn't block my driveway, non-smoking campus so that way students don't, I still see students smoking on campus. So I thought, you know, this would be fun updates. And I thought, you know, I could handle this internally, but IT bounced me to access because I thought they were a student, but I'm a resident.

Jerry Pono 3:52

I live next, for those who don't know me, I live next to the hut. So I thought, I could help out the app, but I think the app could need better improvements because it's 2026 and there's no non-smoking or anything. It's a static app. It's not I'm disappointed. It's more like I'm... It's more like I'm... I'm really just, yeah, I'm going to say I'm disappointed that I didn't have to handle this internally instead of handling it with you guys. And I'm not saying that you guys are bad. I'm just like, I'd rather handle it directly because Steve knows my process. I call him trash cans, done, deal. That's it. That's my process. So hopefully with talking to you guys, I can have a dedicated team for the app. Thank you.

Suds Jain 4:42

Thank you. We don't generally comment on public presentations, but there is a My Santa Clara app for residents that don't know about it. It's for any issues with the city, trash cans left out, illegal dumping, potholes, et cetera. So if any member of the public is interested in complaining about something to the city, you can do at the My Santa Clara app. It's tracked there, issues get resolved pretty quickly. The other member of the public would like to Amen. Yes.

Jane DeRosa 5:24

Good evening.

Suds Jain 5:26

My name is

Jane DeRosa 5:26

Jane.