Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting on 2025-05-13 5:30 PM - May 13, 2025
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Santa Clara City Council
4h 46m
5 speakers
7 agenda items
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What is the opening agenda and roll call for the joint council and stadium authority meeting?
Good evening everyone and welcome to the City of Santa Clara joint meeting of the City Council and the Stadium Authority Board. I'd like to call the meeting to order. May I have a confirmation of a quorum, City Clerk?
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, confirming the quorum.
All right. We're gonna start with our
note that uh Councilmember Gonzalez is participating remotely this evening.
Okay, so for the rest of the evening everything's a roll call vote?
That's correct. And we'll mention that at seven o'clock as well.
Okay, very good. Thank you. Okay, so the first item we have and only for our study session is a study session to review the proposed fiscal year twenty twenty-five-twenty-six and fiscal year twenty-six-twenty-seven biennial operating budget and fiscal year twenty-five-twenty-six capital improvement program budget changes. Uh City Manager.
Council Javon Grogan, City Manager. Uh very excited to be before you uh tonight. Uh as you know, this is the first of three meetings on the proposed budget. Uh the second study session will occur on May 27th with a planned final adoption on June 10th. Important to note, this budget continues our biannual process of alternating between
the operating and capital budget each year. The proposed budget includes funding to continue day-to-day
operations without any reductions in personnel or services to the community. I want to know note a few key highlights of the budget that is before you. It includes most importantly the funding of twelve grant funded firefighter positions for a grant that was due to expire, that is due to expire on March twenty twenty six. We know that that was a significant financial challenge for the city in prior years, and glad to announce that the proposed budget includes funding for those positions. Additionally, the budget includes unfreezing of uh half of the police the frozen police officer position, so it unfreezes three sworn police officers. It restores our budget stabilization reserve to the policy level of twenty-five percent that this city had uh before the COVID nineteen recession.
It also provides implementation staff so that we can ensure that we implement the capital projects in the voter approved capital bond. Uh council will note that there was a expressed intent to have as much of the bond proceeds go toward ACT projects and make sure that uh as much project management cost uh and overhead uh was funded elsewhere. And so we've been able to accomplish that in the proposed budget before. Yeah. Additionally, the budget includes support uh as well as reimbursement to move forward with our execution efforts for Super Bowl and World Cup next year. Other key investments in the budget include funding for council's priority focus areas and enhancements to programs and services across the organization, and you'll hear a little bit about that tonight, most notably increasing our services for the homeless, improving our community development permit review, as well as an additional position for our environmental sustainability efforts.
It's also important to note that this budget is not without challenges. And in fact, the ten year forecast shows that our revenues will outpace um our expenditures will continue to outpace our revenues in future years. Uh and we do not have the funds to fully restore all of the frozen positions that were f frozen during the the COVID recession. And we do not have the funds to fully fund all of our capital maintenance needs. And so that remains a challenge for the city. Uh I know council is well aware that we are uh in the process of uh planning and will soon launch a fiscal sustainability project. That will occur over the next 12 months following the beginning of next fiscal year, really to grapple with our fiscal challenges and at the end of the day bring you a series of recommendations and strategies to address that uh on a long-term sustainable basis.
With that, I want to acknowledge the work of our very delic dedicated budget team. You'll hear from Finance Director Kinley in a moment, but I just want to take a moment to acknowledge uh
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Agenda
7 items
1
What is the opening agenda and roll call for the joint council and stadium authority meeting?
8:20–1:09:14
2
How does the City Manager present the FY 25‑26 budget highlights and fiscal challenges?
1:09:14–1:23:33
3
What are the key fiscal sustainability concerns and long‑term funding issues discussed?
1:23:33–2:40:43
4
What concerns were raised about adding more data centers in the northern part of Santa Clara?
2:40:43–3:09:51
5
How did the council decide on the Great America Parkway Street‑Light Replacement contract?
3:09:51–3:47:03
6
What are the key terms of the proposed Event Services Agreement with Fanatics for non‑NFL events?
3:47:03–4:21:46
7
What updates were presented during the public HUD‑fund hearing and the salary‑setting commission discussion?
4:21:46–4:46:02
Speakers
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