03-02-26 CULTURAL COMMISSION - Mar 02, 2026

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What was the attendance and roll‑call at the start of the Cultural Commission meeting?

Unknown 0:04

Alrighty. Um Good evening everyone. Today is Monday, March 2nd, 2026. This is a regular meeting of the Cultural Commission. 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 call to speak and mute yourself when you're done speaking. If you're calling it by phone, identify yourself by name before before speaking on an item. Press nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand and press star six if you are participating by phone to unmute.

Unknown 0:43

Um so I am Vice Chair Diaz. I am calling this meeting of the Cultural Commission Regular meeting of March second, twenty twenty six. at oh one PM Still call. So I am present. Commissioner Garg. Commissioner does. Uh Roy. Uh Commissioner Ponches. Present. Commissioner Samara. Present. And Commissioner Von Hune is absent. Um, so we have two commissioners who are absent. Uh Commissioner Von Hune has and she notified us that she has another event with the choir, and then Commissioner Gark um Contacted last night and said that she was unable to attend today's meeting. So is anyone um interested in um putting forward a motion to excuse our commissioners from tonight's meeting?

Unknown 1:47

Okay, um let's um call for a queue. Or geoes. Thank you. Uh Commission is absent. Commissioner Does Uh Commissioner Roy. Okay. Uh Commissioner Ponches?

Rafael Mandelman 2:04

Aye.

Unknown 2:04

Uh Commissioner Samara.

Rafael Mandelman 2:06

Aye.

Unknown 2:06

Okay. Motion passes to ex here. To excuse. I'm sorry. Can you say their names? Uh oh to com uh to excuse Commissioner Garg and um Commissioner um Bonheo. Thank you. Okay, so welcome everyone to the Cultural Commission meeting. Our first item on the agenda is our consent calendar, and there is one item on the consent calendar this evening, and this is the action on the cultural commission regular meeting minutes from the February 2nd, 2026 meeting. Are there any comments or suggestions for edits for last month's meeting? Um, are there any publis comments? uh On our consent calendar.

Robin Thorby 2:59

I do have a public comment, but

Unknown 3:01

I don't know if this is the right So we're just talking right now about our um meeting minutes. Oh so in minutes. Thank you. And there are no members of the public. To comment? Okay. I would like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes. Massion that wouldn't. Is there a second? So let's call to a vote. I vote yay. Commissioner Garg is absent. Uh Commissioner Goss? Yay. Commissioner Roy.

How did the commission approve the consent calendar and previous meeting minutes?

Unknown 3:33

Uh Commissioner Ponchus? And Commissioner Sumar. Okay, motion house. Okay, so we'll now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This is reserved for the public to address the cultural commission on any matter not on the agenda 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. The commission or staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed, and the committee may request staff to report back at a subsequent meeting. As a reminder, comments can be emailed to Clark at Cemetery A.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker's card or raise your hand in Zoom.

Unknown 4:15

To accommodate all speakers, we request that you complete your comments within one minute and we will be using our timer. I'm staffed. Do you have any members of the public that would like to speak? Good members of the public here today. Um You can Yes, Yes. Yes, please take your time. Well we do have a minute. Um a minute. One minute. Yeah. Okay.

Robin Thorby 4:45

Um my name is Robin Thorby. And uh there's a co signer, Sharon Uyeta. She was planning to attend by Zoom. I don't know if she made it. Um I subscribe to the City of Santa Clara Cultural. Commission meeting. And meeting notes and um in the November twenty twenty five uh uh attachments there was a proposal for commemorative months And cultural celebrations.