City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2025-09-23 5:30 PM - Sep 23, 2025

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Lisa Gillmor 3:09
Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to call the joint meeting of the Santa Clara City Council and Stadium Authority Board to order. Um confirmation of a quorum, City Assistant, City Clerk. Confirmation of a
Ellen Kamei 3:28
quorum. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes. Um confirming your quorum.
Lisa Gillmor 3:33
Thank you. We have one item for closed session. City Attorney, would you like to read that? Yes, Madam Mayor. Um one item Conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation, the cases Maela para Tinajero versus City of Santa Clara and others uh in Santa Clara Superior Court. Thank you. Do we have any public presentations for closed session item only? Okay, thank you. Um anyone online? Do we have anyone online? No one online? All right. We will adjourn to closed session and we're gonna be back pretty quick at six PM. Thank you.
Lisa Gillmor 8:12
Are we are we okay?
Lisa Gillmor 8:19
Good evening everyone and welcome to our Santa Clara City Council Stadium Authority uh City Council meeting. And we are going to start with a study session before our regular meeting. So uh let me have a confirmation of a quorum. City clerk.
Ellen Kamei 8:37
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, confirming quorum.
Lisa Gillmor 8:40
Thank you. So seeing that, uh, we have one item on our study session this evening, which is City Council study session update on the city's anti-displacement work plan. City Manager. Sure. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. Javon Grogan, City Manager. Tonight's presentation will be provided by our Director of Community Development, Afsha Hamid. Quick note staff is presenting a study session and requesting feedback from you on adopted policies in our housing element for anti displacement. The council adopted these policies in May 2024, and cities are required to implement the policy. With meaningful programs and actions. There are, and I count, 21 housing element actions related to anti-displacement and how displacement can be prevented in Santa Clara.
Lisa Gillmor 9:27
Compliance with these policies and implementation ensures eligibility for future funding under programs such as the One Bay Area Grant, or what we commonly refer to as OBAG. The city has committed to exploring a variety of new policies. policies to prevent displacement in Santa Clara and must follow through to ensure the housing element and our transit oriented development policy are in compliance. With that, I will turn the presentation over to the Director of Community Development. Thank you.
Avsha Hamid 10:07
Thank you. Good evening, uh Mayor, Council members. Let's begin the presentation. Um so first I'll do introductions. Okay. Um we have uh a number of staff that have been working on this. Uh Leslie Xavier, the planning manager, Adam Marcus, Housing and Community Services Manager, John Beatty, who's a critical staff to us, um, and he is available online. He's planning staff. And he also worked on the housing element itself. And then tonight we will also hear from the Community Planning Collaborative. Um they provide t technical assistance um across multiple jurisdictions and they're funded by uh ABAG, uh MTC ABAG. They're independent. But they've been helping multiple jurisdictions with housing elements a as well as
Avsha Hamid 11:05
This phase, which is the implementation phase. So the agenda for tonight is we will go over the purpose of this study session, housing element recap, what is displacement. The impacts of displacement, Santa Clara's work plan, update on the community planning collaborative, next steps, and then as the city manager said, we are seeking counsel discussion and feedback on this item before we come back to you in the spring. So the purpose is to provide an overview of residential displacement, its forms, drivers, and potential impacts, highlight existing state laws and actions that the city is already implementing to reduce displacement, identify potential new and expanded programs for evaluation, and of course obtain early input and feedback from city council.
Avsha Hamid 12:07
So this is a graphic and it really describes what we are working with and where homelessness and displacement work. A few weeks ago, staff presented a session on homelessness.

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