Albert Gonzalez

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Santa Clara City Council · City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2026-07-07 5:00 PM - Jul 07, 2026 · 7 Jul 2026 meeting

Thank you.

I will say that when we did make the motion, my understanding was that notification should have been part of that, and that was the intent.

I hope that council feels that way.

Also, I noticed we didn't have the meet and confer concerns on here this last time, and my understanding is if the unions had approved those, then that would not show up, and I just wanted to make certain of that.

When I go through, I will say the City of San Jose, that we own the water treatment plant with them, and they use design build, and it made all the difference in the dewatering treatment plant that we are just about to cut the ribbon on, because a very expensive piece of equipment did not work as it should, broke,

in a trial run, and so they were able to, right away, there was no finger pointing, it was the contractor, and it's being taken care of, and I could see firsthand how that design build on a large project made such a difference.

Now, when I look at page 32 and page 34, I did notice you had option A and option B over

And option A was the one preferred by the city staff and recommended by group six.

And that's where you took out the specific numbers.

And in option B, it gave the specific number of $250,000 as far as procurement.

I liked the idea of taking out a specific number and doing that by ordinance, which is what you had talked about, because this is part of the struggle we have with our old, outdated charter, is we have a number that was appropriate then but is not appropriate, and I like that you showed us that most cities have gone to this

I thought that was a much better way to handle it.

When we talk about financing,

Also, the water treatment plant, we are going to have a similar situation that we have now with our electricity.

There will be financing required because of a new state law and a requirement, and we've had to pivot very quickly.

They've only given us 10 years total to take care of a new requirement to reduce the ammonia content.

public record it would be part of our explaining to our residents why there was a change but we would not have to go out for a vote for that financing because it is utility if i'm understanding this change correctly which i think would be in everyone's best interest thank you councilmember park

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And I want to thank the...

Our city attorney and the Charter Commission for the work that they did, I think it's important.

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