11-03-2025 CULTURAL COMMISSION

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

Unknown 0:01

Okay, good evening everybody. This is a meeting of the Cultural Commission. Today is November third, two thousand and twenty-five. Turn it over to Chair Von Hymn.

Deborah von Huen 0:12

Hi, um this is Deborah von Huen, the Chair of the Cultural Commission. Today is Monday, November 3rd, 2025. This is a hybrid meeting. 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 ends new when we'd like to speak on the item. And to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you are done 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 and lower your hand. Press star six if you are participating by phone to unmute.

Deborah von Huen 0:59

I now call to order the Cultural Commission regular meeting, November third, twenty twenty five at seven oh five PM. And we'll do a roll call. I believe Commissioner Diaz informed us that she tried to attend in the Zoom meeting.

Rafael Mandelman 1:15

Deborah von Huen 1:15

she present? He is

Rafael Mandelman 1:19

not present at this time.

Deborah von Huen 1:20

Yeah. Uh Commissioner Gard? Sure. Commissioner Das here. Commissioner Roy. Present. Commissioner Otias. Here. Ishir Samara, and myself. Um, do we wish to excuse Commissioner Diaz or do we just want to see if she Um If she attends online. If we don't excuse her now, Kim, would we excuse

Unknown 1:48

her at the end of

Deborah von Huen 1:48

the meeting?

Unknown 1:49

You may. Okay. We may but if she does attend, she'd be attending as a member of the We'll just

Deborah von Huen 1:57

wait and see if let me know if you see her certainly joined. Move on. Our first item on the agenda device is set calendar. One item on the consent calendar this evening. Did everyone have a chance to review the minutes from our October sixth meeting? Any comments or suggestions for edit? Okay.

Rafael Mandelman 2:36

Yeah, me too. Okay. Mr.

Deborah von Huen 2:42

Gark. Commissioner Das? Yes. Commissioner Roy. Mr. Patias, Mr. Samara

Unknown 2:50

and

Deborah von Huen 2:50

Patty. We will now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This part of the meeting is reserved to 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 southclairca.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill on speaker's card or raise your hand in Zoom.

Deborah von Huen 3:35

To accommodate all speakers, we will request that you complete your comments within one minute. Staff, do we have any members of the public that would like to speak?

Unknown 3:43

There are no members of the public on screen at this time and no members

Deborah von Huen 3:48

in pres present. Then we will move on to general business to discuss. uh potential and the discussion and potential action on cultural commission's work plan goals and activities for FY twenty twenty five-26. So let's start with Are you going

Rafael Mandelman 4:10

to show it? Mind sharing a feature.

Deborah von Huen 4:16

Rule number one, host and enhance multicultural events to encourage and acquaint Santa Santa Clara residents with cultural diversity. So activity number one is plan and implement summer concerts. Um starting in looks like July twenty twenty. Uh uh this it should be twenty twenty-six, I think.

Unknown 4:38

These are the because these ones happened um in this fiscal year. They're still in here. We don't have any dates for next year. Not yet. I see. Waiting for the E DMC to move along a little bit further to figure out what our dates were going to be. So um And Very important dates. Uh For our summer concerts we are looking to Move up and start the summer concerts early uh to give the city time to complete all the updates that they need to complete the central part. Uh so I think our is it our last? Concerts that we were thinking to closing out in uh The notch side? Is that that's what we're looking at.