Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority
Board of Directors Special Meeting
Friday, December 12, 2025
10:00 am
Juniper Hotel Cupertino
California Ballroom C
10050 S De Anza Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
MEETING MINUTES
Call to Order:
Chair Tyson called the meeting to order at 10:03 a.m.
Roll Call
Present:
Directors
George Tyson (Chair), Los Altos Hills
Larry Klein (Vice Chair), Sunnyvale
Zach Hilton, Gilroy
Rob Rennie, Los Gatos
Bryan Mekechuk, Monte Sereno
Pat Showalter, Mountain View
Tina Walia, Saratoga
Alternate Directors
Maria Ristow, Los Gatos
Linda Swan, Los Altos Hills
Absent:
Directors
Elliot Scozzola, Campbell
J.R. Fruen, Cupertino
Sally Meadows, Los Altos
Garry Barbadillo, Milpitas
Yvonne Martinez Beltran, Morgan Hill
Otto Lee, Santa Clara County
Alternate Directors
Sergio Lopez, Campbell
Sheila Mohan, Cupertino
Tom Cline, Gilroy
Pete Dailey, Los Altos
Evelyn Chua, Milpitas
Lon Allan, Monte Sereno
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Mark Turner, Morgan Hill
Chris Clark, Mountain View
Belal Aftab, Saratoga
Margaret Abe-Koga, Santa Clara County
Murali Srinivasan, Sunnyvale
Regular Calendar
1) SVCE Workshop: Strategies to Meet SVCE's Mission Amidst Changing Conditions Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Monica Padilla welcomed attendees and SVCE staff provided brief introductions. CEO Padilla introduced Beth Vaughan, CalCCA CEO, Mindy Craig and Bianca Hutner from BluePoint Planning, who outlined the workshop agenda.
Directors and Alternates in attendance engaged in an activity to discuss different SVCE stories with varying key elements and program focus, identifying how much each story resonated with them.
The next activity presented various electrification trade-offs and Directors and Alternates were asked to select, in their opinion, which were the more valuable trade-offs for SVCE.
Directors and Alternates shared their responses and discussed common themes amongst the group.
Chair Tyson opened Public Comment.
Terry McCarthy, Monte Sereno resident, participated in the exercises and shared his thoughts on the prompts.
Chair Tyson closed Public Comment.
CEO Padilla outlined next steps in connecting with Directors who were not in attendance and preparing the next set of discussion items with the Board of Directors at a future meeting.
Adjourn
Chair Tyson adjourned the meeting at 11:57 a.m.
ATTEST:
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Andrea Pizano, Board Secretary
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