Kevin Park
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18,803 appearances
75 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 6d ago
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Um, including stadium authority, there used to be sports authority, the housing authority, there used to be a number of authorities that used to meet separately.
We used to close the the specific meeting we were on and open the sports authority meeting.
The uh you know, close the sports authority meeting and then open the housing authority meeting.
We used to do that separately.
Um we had a member of the p uh the public complain that well, in a lot of cases those meetings had no had no agenda.
And if those meetings had no agenda, then it would have been better to simply cancel that meeting.
Uh rather than open it.
accept the meeting the minutes of the previous meeting, which is there were no minutes because there was no there were no items, and then close it and then pay each council member an additional thirty dollars.
Well now I think we get paid additional thirty dollars for each meeting that's attended and we just lumped them all together.
And I I'd I'd like some clarity there.
Because that's you know, we have a stadium authority, we've got um
We've got um an enterprise fund, we've got SVP that we talk on all these different things.
And the fact that our council meetings take longer, some of it is due to robust public input.
robust discussions, but that's not the entire story.
And I'd kinda like to remind the public why we have so many issues and why there are so many items that the city of Santa Clara considers that other cities may not.
city.
Well, what we punch above our weight because we've got a $1.7 billion budget, which is multiple times any other budget, you know, any other city our size.
We've got a general fund that is larger than entire city budgets of neighboring cities.
I think that this is one of the reasons that we do that.
I brought up that SVP, um, not, you know.
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