Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting on 2025-05-20 5:30 PM - May 20, 2025

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Santa Clara City Council 4h 1m 8 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 3 days ago official recording ↗

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Unknown 0:29

Good afternoon everyone. I'd like to call this special meeting of the City Council, special joint meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission to order. Confirmation of a quorum, Assistant City Clerk. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, confirm confirming a quorum. All right, we have one item in closed session. City Attorney. Thanks, Madam Mayor. Yes, one item conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section five four nine five seven point six. The city representatives are as an indicated on the agenda. The employee organizations are Unit Two, Police Officers Association, Unit Four, the Engineers, Units Five, Seven and Eight. Uh the General Employees Association and Unit Ten, Public Safety Non-Sworn Employee Association.

Unknown 1:14

Thank you. Uh do we have any member of the public that would like to speak on the closed session item? Or anyone online? We don't? All right. We are going to adjourn to closed session. We will be back for the special study session at seven PM. Thank you.

Unknown 8:05

Is this microphone working? Can you hear me? Is this working sound microphone?

Unknown 8:23

Testing yeah, there we go.

Unknown 8:34

Okay, roll call, city clerk. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilmember Gonzalez. Councilmember Shahal? Councilmember Hardy? Council Member Park. Councilmember Jane. Vice Chair Cox. Or Vice Mayor, sorry, and Mayor Gilmore. Thank you. Planning Commissioner Cretchlow. Okay, thank you. Uh Planning Commissioner Botnagar. Planning Commissioner Biogini. Planning Commissioner Chirikuru. Planning Commissioner Huang. Chair Salim. And Vice Chair Buza. Thank you. The statement of behavioral standards the city of Santa Clara has adopted a code of ethics and values and behavioral standards for public meetings to promote and maintain the highest levels of conduct. This includes mutual respect, robust discussion, and allowing city business to be done in an efficient and consistent manner.

Unknown 9:36

Please note that as a presiding officer, the mayor's direction in matters of process and decorum should be followed and that use of the gavel indicates all conversations must conclude and everyone in attendance should come to order and attention. Welcome and thank you for your participation. For those that may be joining us this evening in the capacity as a registered lobbyist, we ask you to please identify yourself as such and disclose the clients andor organizations that you may represent. This is pursuant to City Code section two point one five five point one one zero. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. For today's meeting the city council Public is welcome to attend in person and the city continues to use a Zoom feature to allow participation from your home or office.

Unknown 10:24

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'd 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 you're while the item you are 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. Actually, we don't have public presentations this evening. But if we did, um you'd have three minutes to speak on them.

Unknown 11:05

Uh 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 now move on to the council agenda. So today we are um pleased to to have a joint meeting with our planning commission. A joint session to talk about data centers and related development regulations within the city of Santa Clara. So if you'd like to kick us off, city manager. Welcome. Oh, did I miss something? You have something to report? All right, very good.

Unknown 11:58

Thank you very much for keeping me on track. Thank you.

Jovan Grogan 12:03

Sure. Thank you, Mayor Gilmore, Javon Grogan, City Manager. Uh so to the Mayor, the members of Council and the Planning Commission, uh, as well as the public both watching here and at home.