Liang Chao

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2,452 appearances 12 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 15 Sep

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Cupertino City Council · City Council February 19, 2026Televised Special Meeting (5:30) and Televised Regular City Council Meeting (6:45) (Moved for Holiday) - Feb 19, 2026 · 19 Feb 2026 meeting

we are providing all these services are the business contributing to the services we provide. podcast-host

So I do think we need more comparison with other cities for the business tax and like UUT, I don't know whether our percentage that we charge is comparable with other cities also. podcast-host

yes so if other cities have recently considered some type of business tax i'm assuming they would have done some comparison if we can maybe podcast-host

get some reports from that. podcast-host

And then I'm also interested, maybe it's just ballpark, what's their total business tax revenue versus the number of, not total business, the number of large enough business that's being charged at an extra, yeah, maybe if those two numbers would give us some idea. podcast-host

the average tax per major business. podcast-host

I'm just wondering, in terms of timeline, how much time it will take to get, you said, two consultants, and how much time it will take to do the polling and community outreach, and what is the ideal timeline? podcast-host

For example, polling outreach should be done by June, podcast-host

And when the council make a final decision Whether to put it on or not and we may finance the ballot language at that before August but maybe we what's the ideal timeline then that means the ideal timeline will be we should start pulling an outreach by What time and then that means we should? podcast-host

give direction to engage with consultants by what time and podcast-host

that might give us better idea. podcast-host

I would. podcast-host

And then we will have more information about comparison data with other cities so we know where we stand, podcast-host

Yeah, do we want more direction or maybe two things to focus on to get information? podcast-host

I would like more information on the business tax and the UUT, so we know whether our percentage of UUT is comparable. podcast-host

Okay, podcast-host

That's true, but for sales tax, I do wonder podcast-host

I do want to know what's the appetite of spatial texts for public safety because I think that's number one priority in our citizens' mind. podcast-host

So if there is a spatial text on that. podcast-host

That podcast-host

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