Karen Hardy

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Santa Clara City Council · City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2026-06-15 6:00 PM - Jun 15, 2026 · 15 Jun 2026 meeting

I like that.

I like the level one, level two, lumping that together, giving the clean version, giving the red line version with the annotations, because I know I read all that and I thought that really, really helped to understand why.

Out of the five things that are controversial,

My understanding is the property over $500, that was only controversial because it wasn't in there, it was taking something out, it was a, quote, a change.

And I can't even think of a size of property in the city that would be under 500.

Even a outhouse or a telephone booth would not even,

qualify there so So I think that I could feel very comfortable with the level one level two and and taking that property out the over 500 line I Do agree with councilmember Jane that the public works procurement is extremely important I would like to see it separate.

I know that will cost us more but when we talk about cost

We have, as was mentioned, $400 million in,

bond money that has been allocated to us to do our very best with.

And if we allow ourselves to have a design build option and other good procurement options, this money will go further and it will make a difference for our residents.

And I think if we couch it in at the allow, and as I alluded to before about our water treatment plant,

because you have one contractor, when we had a piece fail, there was no question about liability.

It was on them and it was part of the contract and it did not cost us anything more.

It cost us a bit of time, but that was built into the contract and this was a positive.

And that's because San Jose is allowed to do that.

And I want us to allow ourselves more options.

So as I said, I am tipping my hand that I would be amenable to moving forward level one, level two and taking out that property number and then separately doing our public work procurement and helping our residents understand why this is important because we have got to rebuild our fire stations,

We have got, we are rebuilding right now in phases our International Swim Center.

We have these large

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