10-06-2025 CULTURAL COMMISSION

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What is the purpose and agenda of the Cultural Commission meeting?

Unknown 0:01

The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please continue on giving application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on item and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to ask and mute yourself when you are done speaking. I've been called to speak. I'm sorry. Unmute yourself when you're done speaking. Please identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. 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 October sixth, twenty twenty five at seven oh four p.m.

Unknown 0:48

And I'll take a roll call, Commissioner Diaz. Uh present, Commissioner Garg. Short does that. Fisher Roy.

Rafael Mandelman 0:57

Present.

Unknown 0:59

Mr. Pontius is absent. Mr. Smara.

Rafael Mandelman 1:02

Yep.

Unknown 1:02

And then myself. If there are absences and the commission wishes to excuse the commissioners. I will entertain a motion since Commissioners Garg and Pontius are absent. Is there a motion to exclude stem from him or her from the meeting?

Rafael Mandelman 1:23

Yeah. Did they submit that request or did they say what they were going to be asking?

Unknown 1:30

Uh Charles did tell C D indication and uh need to is apparently. She might be coming depending on her. And arrival, so

How were the roll call and initial motions handled at the start of the meeting?

Unknown 1:40

Okay, so I have motion and a second. So vote, Commissioner Diaz. Um buy. Mr. Gark. So here, couldn't commissioner doffs. Bisher Roy, Fisher Smara, and myself. So the motion passes. Who's the second? Right. I got Roy as the first and who is the second? Okay. Okay. 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 uh action on the Cultural Commission regular meeting minutes for August 4th, 2025. Any comments or suggestions for edit?

Rafael Mandelman 2:30

Make the motion that the minutes are approved as published. Okay. And

Unknown 2:41

vote, Commissioner Dears, five. Mission Us. Mr. Roy, Mr. Samara, and myself, and that passes.

Unknown 2:57

Okay, we now move to the public presentations 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 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 clerk at Santa ClaraCA.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 3:45

I don't have access to the To accommodate all speakers, we request that you can complete your comments within one minute. However, I'm going to ask that we do give our topic speakers since we only have one um ten minutes. So we do have a member of the public who would like to speak. And um we'd like to recognize Mr. Bob Ho. Who? Sorry, Bongo? Yes. Okay. Mr. Whoop? Okay. Um Um so now I do need to plug in.

Unknown 4:48

So um just as a quick introduction. Um Mr. Who was introduced to me by Kathy Wattenabi, one of the consit her constituents in um district one. And he has a building plan and proposal that he would like to present to us as a vision. And he sees a possible role of the Cultural Commission in this in the future. So I'm gonna run these slides on your behalf.

Bob Kung 5:18

Thank you. Could I introduce myself a little bit? Okay. Oh. Dear Cultural Commissioner Deborah and officers. Uh thank you. For giving me the opportunity to present my Proposal and share my design. For the landmark project. That celebrates both Silicon Valley and the city of Santa Clara. My name is Bob Kung or Hung was Hogs Bob. Okay. And my wife and I probably call Seta Clara home. For the past twenty five years. Along with our daughter's family. Over the years I have served the community various roles. As a retired engineer. A real estate agent, a restaurant owner. And now I'm the uh founder of uh I'm the founder of a non profit organization.