Raj Chahal

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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

We allocated some funds into the land use fund basically.

If it is $20 million, does that mean the city manager can make a decision of buying a land piece of $20 million without a council approval?

Those checks and balances, I want to see what checks and balances we can incorporate into the wording of those.

The only issue was because if we are trying to encourage more people to be on commissions, we don't want the person to serve on planning commission two times, then go to park and rec commission, then go to civil services commission.

That's why I was trying to expand that term limits.

We kept the same language of the non-discrimination clause.

So I was trying to say, because they were talking about religion or...

other aspects why, how you can be discriminated.

So state always come up with the classes of discrimination.

So we can add that.

My suggestion was we can add that into this clause that we'll follow the state guidelines on that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I have some comments about the design build part we are discussing basically.

if we know we already have very few bids for our regular projects, so not that I'm trying to be in a negative sense, how can we ensure that when we move to design-build versus design-bid-build, we'll have a more number of contractors because now we are even squeezing

the parameters that, oh, there will be very few bidders or companies or vendors who can do that design and build both at the same time.

So we are squeezing the panel which can do that work, but

At the same time, if we may have a broad ordinance, my idea would be we should have a great project estimate so that nobody is way outlier what we are thinking basically.

Let's say we have to build a fire station, right, and our team thinks this cost for design, this is for the build, and total project cost is let's say $50 million.

So we should have that number in our audience that, hey, this is the estimated cost.

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