12-01-2025 CULTURAL COMMISSION - Dec 01, 2025

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

Rafael Mandelman 0:18

Pony. One.

Unknown 0:24

I think we are ready to go. Hello everyone. Today is Monday, December first, twenty twenty five. 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 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 and press star six if you're participating by phone to unmute.

Unknown 1:02

Um I now call to order the Cultural Commission regular meeting for December first, twenty twenty five at seven oh two PM. Gonna do a roll call, Commissioner Diaz. I am present. Commissioner Gard. Commissioner Doss? Yeah. Commissioner Roy.

Rafael Mandelman 1:17

Here.

Unknown 1:18

Commissioner Pontius. Here. Commissioner Samaran.

Rafael Mandelman 1:20

Here.

Unknown 1:21

And Commissioner von Hun is absent. Um Commissioner Von Hun let us know that she is at a choral meeting tonight. So would anyone like to motion to excuse uh Commissioner Von Hun? Who should we okay on just. Okay. Um would you all uh if you're in favor of this motion, please raise your hand. It is unanimous.

Unknown 1:57

Okay, so welcome 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 that's the action on the cultural commission regular meeting minutes from November 3rd, 2025. Does anyone have any changes or comments for these minutes?

Rafael Mandelman 2:19

I can actually approve as published. Small, is there a second?

Unknown 2:24

I think. Seconds and if you're in favor, please raise your hand.

Unknown 2:44

We'll now move to the public presentation 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 Clara CA.gov. If any member of the public would like to comment, please fill out a speaker's card or raise your hand on Zoom to accommodate all speakers.

Unknown 3:19

We request that you complete your comments within one minute. Staff, do we have any members of the public that would like to speak? Is there anybody um online that would like to address the commission at this time?

Unknown 3:37

Thank you. Um that takes us to our item under general business, which is to discuss any pot or take any potential action on the Cultural Commission's work plan goals and activities for fiscal year 2025-26.

Unknown 3:59

We take one from the after. Yes. Yeah, after your discussion

Rafael Mandelman 4:02

on Yeah.

Unknown 4:07

Uh so let's go through our goal number one is to host and enhance multicultural events to encourage and equate Santa Claire residents with cultural diversity. Our first item is to plan and implement summer concerts in fiscal year 2025-26. Do you have any more information on that? So we have a Potential lineup. Or the month of July, he Training us into August. And Before we had them at different uh With that. Can we say it? We we've it's based them out and stuffing out, but this time Um We want to have a through July and ending in August.

How are attendance and roll call handled at the start of the meeting?

Unknown 4:59

And it looks like a good lineup because it's uh kind of follows what other cities are doing and we want to stick with with Friday. So it it looks like a good lineup. So Kim has the the dates. Those are not the dates. I think no no these were the 2025. Okay. So the 2026 dates um we have on hold our But turn. Um the seventeenth. question for

Rafael Mandelman 5:33

Yeah. Seven and then obvious street

Unknown 5:38

would be the street dance. And then the last concert would be the fourteenth the fourteenth of my book.