09-14-2026 Parks & Recreation Commission - Sep 14, 2026

meeting

Santa Clara Boards and Commissions 1h 34m 1 speaker 8 agenda items transcribed 1 hour ago official recording ↗

▲ 0

Transcript

jump: agenda · speakers · find in transcript

Transcript

Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

What agenda items are being addressed at the start of the Parks & Recreation Commission meeting?

Unknown 0:00

Into the crowd. Yeah. Good evening. Today is Monday, september fourteenth, two thousand twenty six. This is the regular meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission. This is a hybrid meeting and it will be recorded. A zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded upon your entry to the room. 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 upon to speak and mute yourself when you are through speaking. If you're calling in by phone, please identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press star nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand, and press star six if you're participating by phone to unmute.

Unknown 0:43

Welcome, friends, to the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. I now call to order the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting of September 14th, 2026. 7 03 PM. Please note, Chair Gupta has provided advanced notice of remote participation and he will attend the meeting remotely as noted in the agenda. As Vice Chair, I will preside over the meeting tonight and for our first business we will take role. Uh Commissioner Caldwell? Here. Commissioner Chu.

Rafael Mandelman 1:08

Here.

Unknown 1:09

Commissioner DeMarco is here. Commissioner Forte. Yeah. Commissioner Ganesh. Yep. And Commissioner Susa. Here. And Chair Gupta. Yeah. Perfect. I love the unanimous attendance. You all are knocking it out of the park. Keep it up. And for the minutes purposes, we're gonna be reviewing our oh okay. Um Yep. Don't have to do that. Great. We're now down to our consent calendar. We have one item for the consent calendar. That's the item one dot A twenty six dash nine seven zero. Approval of the parks and recreation commission meeting minutes of August tenth, two thousand twenty six. Make a motion to approve the minutes. If that hold hold your horses, friends. Is there any discussion either from anybody in the waiting room or in attendance on the minutes from last meeting before we call for a motion?

Unknown 2:01

Love it. Yeah, I'd like to make a motion. Second the motion. Perfect. That was motioned by Commissioner Forte and seconded by Commissioner Chu. We will uh take a vote now on the passage of the minutes. Commissioner Caldwell. Yes. Commissioner Chu. Waiting for Maureen to answer for me. Here I guess that's Commissioner DeMarco is a yes. Commissioner Forte, Commissioner Ganesh? Commissioner uh Susan? Yes. And Cher Gupta. Yes. The motion passes unanimously. We will now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This portion of the meeting is reserved for members of the public to address the Parks and Recreation Commission on any matter not on the agenda that is within the Commissioner's uh subject matter jurisdiction.

Unknown 2:48

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 commission may request staff to report back at a subsequent meeting. As a reminder, comments can be emailed to prcustomerserve at santaclaraca.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out a speaker's card if you're in the room or raise your hand on the Zoom application. To accommodate all speakers, we request that you complete your comment within two minutes. Snaff. Do we have any members of the public that would like to speak? Not online and there are none in the room.

Unknown 3:29

They're so captivated by us, they're holding their comments till the end. Okay, um we'll move right along then to general business. Um item two, two six dash nine six nine, discuss and make subcommittees for parks and recreation commission work plan goals and activities for fiscal year twenty six, twenty seven. I did go to that city council meeting where we uh had rigorous debate and discussion about our proposed work plan goals. They certainly did not just l uh batch all of the commission work plan goals together in one consent item.