Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting on 2024-04-23 4:30 PM
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Santa Clara City Council
8h 0m
10 speakers
6 agenda items
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What topics are covered in the opening council and BART project briefing?
Good evening, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the joint meeting of the Santa Clara City Council and authorities concurrent uh Santa Clare Stadium Authority Board meeting. So I'd like to call the meeting to order.
Uh confirmation of a quorum city clerk. Yes, confirming uh the quorum of the council and I'd also like to note for the record that council member Jane will be participating remotely under the A B two four four four four four four four nine provision of just cause due to illness, which prevents him from attending in person this evening. So Councilmember Jane, please remember to participate through both audio and visual technology and before any action taken you must disclose whether any other individuals eighteen years of age or older are present in the room at your remote location and the nature of the relationship to you. Thank you.
Okay. And uh votes will be roll call votes? That's correct. We have one item for closed session, city attorney. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, one item, conference with labor negotiators, pursuant to government code section 54957.6. City representatives as identified on the agenda. The employee organizations are units 5, 7, and 8, Santa Clara Employees Association, and Santa Clara Police Officers Association Unit 2. Thank you, Mayor. Uh thank you. So do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment about our closed session? See none in the council chambers. Uh do we have any online? There are no hands. Oh, there are no hands? All right. We will be back here very shortly at five o'clock for our study session.
Thank you.
Too late.
Um we thought possible. So I'd like to call the council meeting to order. Confirmation of a quorum. City clerk.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, confirming quorum and we have Councilmember Jane remotely as well.
Thank you. All right, so we have a study session, an update on the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's BART Silicon Valley phase two extension project. City Manager.
Thank you, Mayor. In the interest of time, we will turn it uh directly over to VTA uh and Tom McGuire.
Welcome.
Evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to be here to talk about uh the latest update in the biggest investment in transportation infrastructure this county's made, the extension of phase two of the of BART to Silicon Valley. Um tonight's agenda that I'm going to share with you, again, this is informational, uh, is going to be an overview of where the project is at and what how much has changed since the last time we were before you about a year ago. Uh I'm also going to give you detailed updates on the recent redesign of the Santa Clara station. I think we made some mi very important uh progress in in redesigning the station in a way that hopefully will better meet the needs of Santa Clara residents and riders.
And we'll talk about Uh ways in which we're engaging the Santa Clara community, as well as some detailed information about the treatment at Champions Way as part of our plan. And of course, time for your questions. For those of you who haven't met me before, I'm Tom McGuire. I'm the Chief Mega Projects Officer for the VTA and that means I'm in charge of delivering the BART program. I've been with the agency for about five months and I have the pleasure of working with uh Councilmember Jane in his capacity as a BART director. Uh a VTA director rather. Um let's talk about where the project's at. And this is of course as you know phase two of the extension of BART to Silicon Valley, the completion of the decades-long dream bringing the regional rapid transit system into Santa Clara County.
The BART service is already open to Berriesta in North San Jose. We already do have BART service in the county and within the city of San Jose. But phase two is the final piece of the puzzle. It is bringing the service from the Berriesta road station through downtown San Jose through six miles of rail, five miles of which will be in a large single board tunnel, and the final mile uh at grade. in a total of four new stations, three of them in San Jose at Little Portugal, downtown San Jose, the Dirodon Intermodal Station, and the fourth will be here in Santa Clara, directly adjacent to the Santa Clara Caltrain station.
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Agenda
6 items
1
What topics are covered in the opening council and BART project briefing?
0:46–2:12:13
2
What is Law Day and Drinking Water Week and how were they introduced?
2:12:13–4:15:50
3
What are the key issues and options being debated about the municipal fee schedule and youth sports fees?
4:15:50–5:17:21
4
How does the council transition from the fee‑schedule debate to the update on the George F. Haynes International Swim Center?
5:17:21–6:04:40
5
Should the Fourth of July fireworks be moved from Central Park to Mission College?
6:04:40–6:20:44
6
How should the city address the parking garage maintenance district and its funding options?
6:20:44–7:49:33
Speakers
10 identified
Lisa Gillmor 85 min
Jovan Grogan 48 min
Kevin Park 27 min
Raj Chahal 21 min
Nora Pimentel 17 min
Suds Jain 9 min
Karen Hardy 6 min
Matt Dorsey 5 min
Ellen Kamei 4 min
Rafael Mandelman
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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