04-13-2026 Governance and Ethics Committee Meeting - Apr 13, 2026
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4h 4m
5 speakers
8 agenda items
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What are the opening procedures and consent agenda approval?
Okay, uh welcome everyone. Um, I would like to call this meeting to order. I have a statement to read on Zoom. 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. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you are done speaking. Please lower your hand when you are finished speaking. If you're calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press star nine on your phone to raise or to lower your hand. Press star six. on the phone to unmute or mute yourself. Thank you very much.
Uh do we have roll call?
Georgine.
Yeah.
Committee member Shahal.
Does it?
Committee member Park. Thank you.
Okay, very good. Um We have one item on consent. That is approval of the March 30th, 2026 Governance and Ethics Committee. Special meeting minutes. Uh is there a motion? Motion to approve. A second.
Second.
Okay. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Oh, do we need public comment on the minutes? Yeah, sure. Is there any public comment? Online. Going online. Okay. Um opposed? Stain, okay, passes unanimously. Now we move on to public presentations. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak on a item that is not on the agenda? Please come forward.
evening everyone. Um Anthony Becker here. Head on. Yeah, I think it is.
Okay.
Did you hear me? Yeah, I can hear. Okay. Uh Anthony Becker here, uh Councilmember, former council member for the city of Santa Clara. Um what I'm here for uh basically it's not on the agenda. I ended up reading a little bit, I think it is on the agenda later on and I'll get to that in a moment. Um When you look at us compared to other cities and you kinda look at other council meetings, uh, through their YouTube channels, I I think our YouTube channel needs a little cleanup. Needs a little, I think, uh tender loving care uh because it is a little disorganized. Uh but when you do go through our meetings and you do watch them. It is very hard to sometimes follow along, especially if you're not there present at the meeting or you're watching from afar.
For example, the city of San Jose, I know Cupertino. They have a ticker during the entire meeting of council meetings. And it tells you exactly where they are on the agenda. I know that the city of Santa Clara, I think, experimented with this in two thousand nineteen. I'm maybe you might remember uh Councilmember Chahal. Uh it was a very short period of time. They t they tested it. And I know that they had like a little crawly thing on the bottom and like it was on Fox News or CNN or something.
How do public presentations raise concerns about meeting technology and agenda transparency?
And that was very short lived. I know that takes a lot of effort, but if we can do just something which shows where we are on the agenda, what's going on, because then it helps people out, especially seniors who really are like, Hey, nine o'clock is my bedtime. They're like, Anthony, did you ever do anything on council to fix that? And I said Well, I tried and I think this is probably the best uh uh place to bring that up here is at the governance and ethics um MIDI. Uh and then secondly is it I'll get into it a little more, I think, when it gets to uh stuff on your guys' uh future agenda uh items where you guys have it out listing. And um I have to split up that time, I think, is the zero thirty policy.
Um, I I know when I was on a city council, I voted against that policy. I said, let's not change it. I know that there was times that there were people that came in that had some really either great ideas or really outrageous ideas. There were people that I didn't honestly agree with, but I had to give them the as a public servant, I had to give them that opportunity to speak, to put something on the agenda, to bring it up, to to debate about it. And see if the council sees it as a a good thing, then the council votes for it. If the council doesn't, the council doesn't vote for it. But the policy I saw when I was up there and I voted against it in the change was I felt
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Agenda
8 items
1
What are the opening procedures and consent agenda approval?
0:23–3:38
2
How do public presentations raise concerns about meeting technology and agenda transparency?
3:38–20:40
3
Why are committee members debating workload, the zero‑thirty policy, and meeting‑schedule reforms?
20:40–1:20:30
4
Why are council members concerned about ethics, travel policy costs, and meeting priorities?
1:20:30–1:53:30
5
How does the discussion shift to public access, TV broadcasting, and meeting‑management challenges?
1:53:30–2:18:13
6
What solutions are proposed for meeting schedules, policy reviews, and voting procedures?
2:18:13–2:41:59
7
What charter amendment timing and budgeting issues are being debated?
2:41:59–3:12:39
8
How does the committee address the new SB 707 online‑meeting policy and related technical challenges?
3:12:39–4:04:42
Speakers
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