Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting on 2024-12-17 6:30 PM - Dec 17, 2024
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Santa Clara City Council
1h 58m
5 speakers
6 agenda items
transcribed 3 days ago
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What formal procedures open the Santa Clara City Council meeting?
Could I ask everyone to take their seats, please, if you have a seat?
I'd like to start the meeting. Could I ask everyone to take a seat or a wall? Thank you so much. I'd like to call the meeting of the Santa Clara City Council to order. If you'd please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for our statement of values.
Can you grab it out of them?
As we gather, we humbly seek blessings upon this meeting. May we act with strength, courage, and will to perform our obligations and duties to our people with justice to all. Let us seek wisdom so that we may act in the best interest of our people, our neighbors, and our country. All this we ask so we may serve our community with fairness and respect, putting their needs before all.
Thank you, please be seated. Roll call, city clerk.
Council member, board member Shahal.
Present.
Council member, board member Hardy. Present. Council member, board member Jane.
Here.
Council member, board member Watanabe. Here. Mayor and Chair Gilmore.
Here.
Thank you. and just let the record reflect that council member board member park is not present at the time at this time
but on his way yes i assume okay very good
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all right so good evening everyone for today's meeting the council's back in person and is conducting its meeting in a hybrid manner the public is welcome to attend in person and the city continues to use a zoom feature to allow participation from your home or office Members of the public can still join via the link and or call into the Zoom meeting phone number shown on the screen now. If you would like to speak on an agenda item or during public presentations, please raise your hand on the Zoom application or press star nine on your phone. Please only raise your hand while the item you're seeking to speak on is presented. Staff will enter your name or the last four digits of your phone number and I will call on you to speak.
As a friendly reminder, members of the public have two minutes to speak on an agenda item and three minutes on public presentations, and those are reserved for topics that are not on the agenda. Prior to each agenda item, staff will lower your hand to ensure that members of the public are seeking to speak on the appropriate agenda item. So we'll move on to the council agenda now. Reports of action taken in closed session. City Attorney. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Council did meet in closed session on December 16th on two items involving existing litigation.
Moonlight Associates LLC versus Santa Clara and Santa Clara versus Admiral Insurance at all. However, there is no reportable action.
Thank you. So we're moving to the item that we're all here for this evening, which is a general business item. Adopt a resolution declaring the results of the canvas of returns of the consolidated municipal general election held on November 5th, 2024 with the statewide presidential election. And online, you can see his face there. We have our city clerk, Hossam Magog, I would like to hand this over to you, Hassam. Thank you, Mary Gilmore. Can you all hear me? Yes, we can. Loud and clear. Amazing. Amazing. Well, I'm halfway around the world. I'm really sad that I couldn't be here tonight. I know tonight is a very festive and joyous occasion as it always is. But despite that, this is still my, I'm still the city clerk for not for long though.
And I'm here to report the results of the elections. And of course, I'll stick around with you all through the remainder of the ceremony and then get back to my family who are out waiting for me.
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Agenda
6 items
1
What formal procedures open the Santa Clara City Council meeting?
11:21–28:40
2
How were the 2024 election results for mayor, council, and measures presented?
28:40–48:49
3
What recognitions were given to outgoing elected officials and staff?
48:49–1:12:42
4
How were the oaths of office administered to the new chief of police and city clerk?
1:12:42–1:33:44
5
What pledges and priorities did the newly elected council members share?
1:33:44–1:50:43
6
What public presentations and community concerns were addressed after the oath ceremony?
1:50:43–1:57:56
Speakers
5 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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