12-15-2025 Stadium Neighborhood Relations Ad Hoc Subcommittee - Dec 15, 2025

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What is the purpose of the Stadium Neighborhood Relations Ad Hoc Subcommittee?

Rafael Mandelman 0:24

Right.

Afshah Hamid 0:25

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Jovan Grogan 0:28

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for attending our very first stadium uh neighborhood relations ad hoc subcommittee. Um, we're very excited to be able to be kicking off the first meeting this evening um before the holidays. Do appreciate um the timing. I know it's a little bit early in the afternoon um with the holidays around and trying to schedule this uh meeting before January. There's very limited time. So we appreciate everyone's uh availability and and attending today's meeting. Um so we do need to just share that this meeting is um hybrid and it is being recorded. Um and then with that I'd like to uh call the meeting to order. And then um we would like to introduce uh the committee and the staff that's here to help support the committee members.

Jovan Grogan 1:17

So I will start with uh council member uh Jane. Um Yeah, I'm uh council member suds Jane. I was elected five years ago, then reelected in November. And I represent district five, which is the university area. And I've been asking for this committee for quite some time because the university for over a decade has had the NURC. the neighborhood university relations committee. Which has addressed issues with the students, the red solo cups, the parties, all of that. And so I thought that since we have issues around the stadium, we should have a committee similar to that, which is why I've initiated this committee. Thank you. Uh Council Member Hardy. Thank you. Um,

Rick Andrews 2:14

I represent district three, but in the eighties I lived here on Calle de Primavera. And so when we had Measure J coming, I walked precincts and talked to people, and we all had similar concerns, and some of them have come to pass, unfortunately. So that's why I asked to be on this because I am very aware. I watched them build the Forty Niners training

Unknown 2:39

camp from my window. That's how close I lived to that area. Thank you.

Jovan Grogan 2:44

And Councilmember Gonzalez. Robert Gonzalez here at District One uh Councilmember and uh currently live in this district, so definitely uh feel a lot of the uh challenges and opportunities that you face every day as well. So Here to listen to your uh input and uh Gather your thoughts. And then city manager Javon Grogan. Hi everybody, Javon Grogan, City Manager. Uh I've had the pleasure of being the city manager of Santa Clara since May of 2023. Uh and so here to support uh the committee. Uh many people really don't know what a city manager does. I think it's uh frankly the one of the best jobs that that people don't understand, but I am not elected. I am appointed by the city council. Uh and my core responsibility is to make sure that the council's policies are are implemented to uh oversee um

Jovan Grogan 3:39

Frankly, all of our departments ex uh except uh the the police department uh and our city attorney, uh all other uh department heads report up the chain of command to the city manager. And so it's sort of my job to make sure the trains run on time and uh oversee the operations uh in support of the policies that the city council adopts. And our police chief Corey Morgan.

Corey Morgan 4:01

Good afternoon. Corey Morgan, Chief of Police. I am the only elected chief of police in the state of California, so I am answerable to the people. Uh which gives me a level level of independence and autonomy that I appreciate and I appreciate working with the city manager a as a good working partner as we move our city forward. Uh, I am the first chief to have any command operational experience at Levi Stadium, and some of which I'll bring to bear uh during this subcommittee. And I'm interested in sharing that perspective and hearing from you. Uh in the audience is joining me, some members of my special operations division staff, as well as the leader of our community response team, who handles a lot of our quality of life life issues in the city of Santa Clara.

Corey Morgan 4:41

And I'm also joined by Captain Richard Fitting. Командер of the Special Operations Division uh that among other things, runs special events in the city of Santa Clara. And handle Levi Stadium.

Jovan Grogan 4:58

Um I'd also like to introduce Amy Escobar.