Kevin Park

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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

I can tell you a little bit about that.

But I feel at this point I really want to push that referral because there are a lot of things that have happened since the last issues that have made this come before council, and I'm really concerned about what's going on there.

I just wanted to underline that point.

Yeah, I mean I understand why people think this is a ridiculous comparison But I also understand why councilmember Jane is bringing this up.

I think that when we look at compensation 2% is not really that much and when we look at the compensations across the board for staff You will see that is among the lowest.

I don't know that unless the we count the

groups, the units that thank you very much for your service took zeros during COVID because that's what we needed.

I don't know that I've seen any percentages, yearly percentages in the 2% range ever.

At the same time, I would like to address the council salaries, which is the council salaries, I mean, it's 30 hours, and I would say in some cases it takes more, and these aren't just, well, do it on your own leisure, because I know a lot of council members don't put in 30 hours.

I think that when we look at the number of people that come to events, that respond to emails, that do the work of talking to the people, that varies depending on the individual.

But I do know that there are lots of roles that we take that we are required to be there.

I mean, we can be sued.

I mean, the reason that we're part of some of these committees and some of these commissions is because of a measure that was passed and we are required to have a meeting.

There are lots of issues where if we are not part, if we do not participate, then we lose voice as the City of Santa Clara.

And because a lot of the agencies that we work with are...

city or county agencies and regional agencies, those meetings don't occur after hours, they occur in the middle of the day.

I have had a lot of meetings that occur, whether they're update meetings, whether they're VTA meetings, whether they're other meetings, they occur at one o'clock in the afternoon, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

This is very difficult for people who have a job.

I know that I've complained about this quite a bit, but we start a lot of our closed sessions at 5 o'clock, and even when I was working, I was working in Fremont, and I got out at 5, and it took me not even 30 minutes to get down here.

It took me sometimes 40, 45 minutes to get down here.

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