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Item No. 2
City Work Program Goals
and Prioritization
Updated Staff Report
Desk Item
CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
Meeting: April 21April 19, 2022
Subject
Consider Fiscal Year 2022‐2023 Council goals and prioritize potential items for the FY 2022‐2023 City Work Program
Recommended Action
Adopt Fiscal Year 2022‐2023 Council goals and prioritize potential items for the FY 2022‐2023 City Work Program
Discussion
Council Goa
ls
On February 18, 2020 City Council adopted the following goals to provide a framework for the City’s priorities and City Work Program:
Public Engagement and Transparency
o Creating and maintaining key conversations and interactions with the Cupertino Community.
Transportation
o Providing access to an efficient, safe multi‐modal transportation syst em for our community, and advocating for effective, equitable mass transit in the greater region.
Improving Traffic Flow and Alleviating Congestion
Housing
o Contributing meaningfully and in a balanced manner to the housing inventory in support of our community needs, including affordable housing (from extremely low‐income to moderate‐income lev el housing) and addressing homelessness. Sustainability & Fiscal Strategy
o Continuing Cupertino’s commitment to building a sustainable and resilient community for future generations.
Quality of Life
o Furthering the health and well‐being of all Cupertino community members. Air Quality and Noise
Public Safety
Recreation
Access to Goods and Services
Amended to correct language for Dogs Off Leash Area (DOLA) 2 While these are intended as multi‐year goals, they are reviewed annually by the City Council. The Council may adopt the same goals or revised goals as the Council sees fit. A community survey on goals was conducted earlier this year and the results were presented at the March 8 Council meeting. The results were generally aligned with existing Council goals.
Prioritizing Potential FY 22‐23 City Work Program Items At the April 5 City Council meeting, Council reviewed the prioritized list that resulted from councilmembers’ preliminary ratings after the March 8 City Council meeting. After discussion, Council made the following changes to the list:
Added a “Housing Ownership Strategies” item and a “City‐Owned Properties” item. Amended the “Senior Strategy” item to include staff’s recommendation regarding an additional survey component and a component for the elderly aging in their homes. Amended the “Housing Program for De Anza College Students” item to include a home sharing program and BMR or middle‐income housing funded by the $819 million bond measure.
Amended the “Dogs Off Leash Area” item to include the following language: “two new trials should start as soon as feasible, and the new trial should last aboutat least 6 months unless the trial is adjacent to an athletic field or playground or there are other unexpected considerations.”
Removed the “CalTrans Adopt‐a‐Highway Program” item and removed items that received a sum rating of one or two that staff recommended to not include.
Council also decided that no additional items would be added after the April 5 meeting. These amendments have been incorporated into Attachment A. Staff recommends that this list be prioritized by Council at the April 19 meeting.
A rating sheet has been included as Attachment B to facilitate the Council’s rating process. As discussed at the prior meeting, it is recommended that each Councilmember prioritize the items with the same rating system as before: up to five items with a “5”, up to thirteen items with a “3”, and up to thirteen items with a “1”. A rating of “5” would indicate the highest priority while a rating of “1” would indicate a lower priority. Any unrated items will be considered a ”0” and will considered lowest priority.
It is recommended that Councilmembers submit their ratings during the April 19 meeting to ensure adequate time for staff to draft a proposed FY 22‐23 City Work Program based on the ratings. Staff recommends a 15‐minute break during this agenda item to allow Councilmembers to make any final adjustments to their ratings and to submit them to staff. The Councilmembers’ ratings and resulting priority order will be included with the next FY 22‐23 City Work Program discussion on May 17.
Once the items are prioritized, staff will evaluate the prioritized list and draft a proposed FY 22‐ 23 City Work Program for Council’s consideration at the May 17 City Council Meeting. The development of the proposed FY 22‐23 City Work Program will take into account an item’s prioritization, cost, and staff bandwidth.
3 Sustainability Impact
There are no sustainability impacts associated with this report.
Fiscal Impact
The estimated budget for each item is indicated in Attachment A. After the prioritization process occurs, a draft FY 22‐23 City Work Program will be developed and an estimated total cost will be determined at that time.
Prepared by: Katy Nomura, Deputy City Manager
Reviewed by: Chris Jensen, City Attorney
Dianne Thompson, Assistant City Manager
Approved by: Jim Throop, City Manager
Attachments:
A – Proposed Items from April Council Meeting with Council Amendments B – Councilmember Rating Sheet
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Item No. 2
City Work Program Goals
and Prioritization
Written Communications
From: winnie Chan
To: City Council; City Clerk
Subject: More DOLAs please!
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:32:51 PM
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Hi,
I am a dog owner of a 20 month old Shorkie(Shihtzu/Yorkshire terrier mix.). I need more DOLA so I can take my pup for some socialize and a place for him to burn some pup energy. Please give more DOLA a 5 point vote tonight so we can get more future DOLAs in place. Future DOLAs can be managed by DOLA organizations which won’t cost the city any extra money or extra employee staffs. If more DOLAs are approved, this project can be operational mode with the city staff this fiscal year and not take up any more valuable time from the council in the future.
Thanks in advance for all your help. Looking forward working with the city. ~Winnie
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From: radler digiplaces.com
To: City Council
Cc: Darcy Paul; Liang Chao; Kitty Moore; Hung Wei; [email protected]; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk
Subject: Please keep senior strategy as a priority
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 12:49:13 PM
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As the Council finalizes the priorities for its 2022-23 workplan, I urge you to keep the development of a senior strategy for the city as a high priority. As the Age-Friendly Cupertino committee has documented, older adults are the fastest growing age group in the city.
Historically, their needs have not been systematically addressed. but now is the time to do this.
Cupertino's Senior Center appears to be doing a good job in serving a portion of the city's older adults, but a senior strategy needs to deal with the entire spectrum of older residents -- including those who do do not use the senior center -- and deal with issues such as housing, transportation, civic engagement, design and use of (all) public spaces, social and digital inclusion.
One good starting point would be to conduct a survey that looks broadly at this group and its needs and interests (the survey done by the city last year focused more narrowly on the services that it was providing). A good option is the CASOA survey, which as been used by several surrounding communities, including Saratoga. (A copy of the report on their survey results is attached.)
Best,
Richard Adler
Age-Friendly Cupertino
From: Dayna Wu
To: City Clerk
Subject: DOLA speaking session tonight Cupertino City Council Meeting 4.21.2022 Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:19:42 PM
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Hello,
I’ve registered to speak tonight about the Linda Vista Little Dog Delicate Dog Group and if someone would play this before our speaking session, that would be appreciated. It’s a video shot on an iPhone as an FYI.
It’s an example of the data collection highlighting what happens at our dog group organizations for an eventual DOLA trial.
Warm regards,
Dayna Wu
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From: Anthony Chan
To: City Clerk
Subject: Video to be played at beginning of my speech
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:11:09 PM
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Dear City of Cupertino,
I would like to present this video, could you please play it prior to my speaking time slot. It is recorded on an iphone and need to be playback using IOS compatible program. This video is an example of the data that we are collecting for our dog group organized for future LindaVista Little & DelicateDogs DOLA trial. It shows a typical gathering of the dogs and owners.
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Yours truly,
Anthony Chan
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From: Manu Sharma
To: City Clerk; City Council
Subject: Request for your vote for DoLAs
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:31:05 PM
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Dear Sir/Ma'am,
I wanted to take a moment to request you to give a 5 point vote to enable more DoLAs in the fiscal year FY22-23 as one of the highest priority items. I have a 4 month old puppy named Wally who loves to play with other little dogs. We live near Linda Vista Park and it has a nice stretch that can be used for the purpose. There are a lot of other dog owners that are interested in similar facilities. Being a working parents of two high schoolers, we do not have a lot of time to drive around into nearby areas for the same.
My family and I will really appreciate you giving your vote and high rank to prioritizing DoLA in Linda Vista Park.
Sincerely,
Manu Sharma
1016 Cranberry Dr
Cupertino CA -95014
From: Taghi Saadati
To: City Council
Cc: City Clerk
Subject: DOLA
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:30:46 PM
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Hello, the purpose of this email is to request your approval of more DOLA. By having more DOLA in the City people can walk to a close location with their dog rather than driving to a location far from where they live.
By walking to a DOLA they help reduce traffic and carbon footprint.
Thank you for your support.
Taghi Saadati
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From: louise saadati
To: City Clerk
Subject: Video to be played at beginning of my speech tonight during Item 2. Speaker Louise Saadati Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:28:41 PM
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This video is made and sent on iPhone so you might need to make some tech choices to enable it to download for you in city tech system. Thank you for your help with this.
Louise Saadati
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From: [email protected]
To: City Council
Cc: City Clerk
Subject: RE: DOLAS - TOP 10 Priorities for 2022-2023
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:26:04 PM
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Dear Council Members,
We would like to respectfully request putting DOLA in Cupertino a high priority. Dogs are humans’ best friends, they provide endless love, happiness, and comfort to us, not to mention their love is unconditional. This is only a minimal ask for our best friends/family members and it is so important for our mental health. They never ask for much from us humans and most of the dogs I know are well behaved and their owners are conscientious. I pray that this request touches your hearts, and that the council would consider granting more DOLA for our loyal furry friends.
Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Katie
From: Louise Saadati
To: City Clerk; City Council
Subject: Video related to previous email from [email protected] Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:23:08 PM
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From: Peggy Lee
To: City Council; City Clerk
Subject: Request for more dog off leash areas (DOLA)
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:21:41 PM
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Dear City Council members,
I'm writing to you today to ask for prioritizing the addition of more dog off leash areas in Cupertino. I kindly ask that DOLAs gain the highest number of votes in tonight's meeting.
Implementing more DOLAs should be a small achievable project, since we have DOLA community leaders willing to run this effort. They are experienced, self regulated and consistently collect data required for a successful DOLA.
Off leash dog parks are known to have HUGE benefits for the dogs and their owners. My dog was very shy, bringing him to the off leash area helped him sharpen his social skills. New dog owners need a place to allow their puppies to socialize with other dogs, an off leash dog area accomplishes this perfectly.
Other benefits include sharing of tips and tricks with each other and even trade dog sitting services. Dogs with off leash experience is known to be better socialized and more friendly.
A dog off leash area is very important for the socialization of not only the dogs that frequent it, but also for the community and neighbors. I've met many of my neighbors just walking my dog around the neighborhood. Having dog off leash areas allows for neighbors to stop and talk while allowing their dogs to play. It builds a stronger sense of community when you can walk to a neighboring park and allow your dog to run and play with other dogs while you get to know a fellow dog owner who is likely a neighbor.
Please rank adding more DOLAs as the highest on your list, I truly believe that the addition of more DOLAs is very beneficial to the community. With the experienced DOLA community leaders, this project can be kicked off quickly and in operational mode before the end of the year and the city council will not need to revisit this point year after year.
Thank you for your consideration.
Peggy
From: Maureen Lee
To: City Council; City Council; City Clerk
Subject: More DOLAS for small dog - Linda Vista Park Dog Group Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:19:56 PM
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To: Cupertino City Council and City Clerk,
We are dog parents of a 21 lbs mini goldendoodle. Her name is Miso. She is 1.5 years old and love both 4-legs and 2-legs. While she provides much joy to my family, friends and neighbors; I am not able to offer her a safe off-leash place to social with her 4-legs friends in Cupertino. It's much needed for more dog parks especially one that exclusively for small dogs in Cupertino. There have been way too many incidents where small dogs were hurt by big dogs (when they run, they have no idea the consequences of just one wrong step on the little dog's paw or one wrong turn knocking down the small one).
Please give more DOLAs a 5 point vote to enable more DOLAS. More DOLAs can be a small, efficiently achieved project. And it can be in operational mode with the city staff this fiscal year.
It is very important to put more DOLAS in the TOP 10 priorities for the 2022-2023 City Workplan. Linda Vista Park Dog Group is the first among our recommendations for DOLA trial because it is the most organized group with over 78 dogs and over 140 people and it's growing.
We used to drive to Jollyman park, but we stopped going there since we witnessed a small dog being severely hurt by a big dog (just a wrong turn) and the poor dog was on dog stroller for 4 months!! I live in Monta Vista area and there are many dog parents, especially since Covid, like myself, have been hoping that a new off leash dog park is available in the neighborhood so that we can walk our dog there instead of driving. We want to do exercise and reduce carbon footprint. We would like to connect with other dog owners and build a better community.
We urgently need enabling more DOLAS. We know how much our dogs have helped us and the community going thru the difficult time during Covid and it's time we address the needs of the 4-legs and the community.
Thank you!!
Regards,
Maureen, Andrew and Miso
From: Louise Saadati
To: City Clerk; City Council
Subject: Email for 4/21/22 council meeting
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 3:18:48 PM
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Mayor Paul, Vice-Mayor Chao and City Councilmembers:
Thank you for your service and attention:
The video shows what happens at our dog group prepared for eventual LindaVistaLittleDog. It shows an example of our ongoing data collection.
We in the DOLA community have already organized and
operating our dog groups in readiness for our proposed trial DOLAs, modeled after the successful Jollyman DOLA
Instead of observing city staff Jollyman DOLA for an additional year, the same city resources could be more effectively used to:
issue notifications to pertinent surrounding park areas observe the relevant parks,
and to actually start more DOLA trials.
More DOLAs can be a SMALL PROJECT by:
using our DOLA community’s assistance.
using our already organized preDOLA dog groups already
collecting data for DOLA trials
using our DOLA “leadership and Monitoring” system that
reinforces compliance with City DOLA policies
Our DOLA community is ready to assist the city in completing each trial with efficient use of city staff in 6 months INSTEAD OF 3 YEARS.
1- Please could each of you councilmembers give more DOLAs a 5 point vote to enable more DOLAS to have a high ranking of 5 or above amongs all the city projects. This high rank will insure that more DOLA trials will ACTUALLY begin soon THIS fiscal year.
2- More DOLAs can be a small, efficiently achieved project with the help of the organization and data collection by our dedicated DOLA community.
3- if council votes a high rank for more DOLAs, this project can be in operational mode with the city staff and NOT continue to take up the council’s valuable time year after year.
Thank you for your service and high vote to more DOLAS! Louise Saadati
PS-
I’m sending a separate email with the video .
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From: louise saadati
To: Liang Chao; Hung Wei; Darcy Paul; Jon Robert Willey; City Council; Kitty Moore; City Clerk Subject: Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 2:31:27 PM
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The agenda for 4/21/22 does NOT a show the corrections as as outlined below in previous emails on this thread in either the staff report on DOLAS or in Attachment A.
The corrections are completely MISSING in Staff Report. In Attachment A the words “at least” 6 months still has NOT been deleted from the project description for DOLAS.
Please ask that the corrections are made BEFORE a the council meeting to vote on these projects tonight.
Thank you!
Louise Saadati
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On Apr 19, 2022, at 3:14 PM, Liang Chao <[email protected]> wrote:
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Liang Chao
Vice Mayor
City Council
[email protected]
408-777-3192
From: Liang Chao <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 9:17 AM
To: Louise Saadati
Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander
Subject: Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations
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Thanks for letting me know ahead of time so that the staff can go back to check the meeting recording and make the correction before the 4/19 Council meeting.
Liang Chao
Vice Mayor
City Council
[email protected]
408-777-3192
From: Liang Chao <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 9:14 AM
To: Louise Saadati
Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander
Subject: Re: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations
The staff wrote:
“Our apologies and I thank you for your follow up and understanding. “ And they will make the following corrections.
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Liang Chao
Vice Mayor
City Council
[email protected]
408-777-3192
From: Louise Saadati <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:42 PM
To: Liang Chao; Darcy Paul; Hung Wei; Jon Robert Willey; Kitty Moore; Cupertino City Manager's Office
Cc: Mary Ellen Chell; Deepa; Anthony Tony Alexander
Subject: Staff Report on DOLA revision does not follow your recommendations
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The agenda was just posted for City Council Meeting for April 19, 2022. The video of the City Council Meeting for April 5, 2022 was posted. The staff report and Attachment A was included for item 27 regarding MORE DOLAS.
The correct wording should be “two new trials should start as soon as feasible, and the new TRIALS should last ABOUT 6 months unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field or playground"
https://youtu.be/0XeUT606KCk?t=1738. This occurs 28:34 minutes into the April 5, 2022 meeting.
As the video recording starting at 23:34 shows:
1-Vice-Mayor Chao never said that the new trial should last “at least” 6 months.
The addition of “at least” indicates that trials will be a minimum of 6 months rather than about 6 months.
2- Vice-Mayor Chao said unless the trial is adjacent to an “athletic” field... The deletion of “athletic” from athletic fields, indicates that all DOLA trials on fields will be LONGER than 6 months since ALL DOLA trials will be on fields (versus athletic fields).
3-Vice-Mayor Chao stated that staff statement under Staff Justification/Consideration……” Trial ended October 2021. The on-going program is to be observed for one year” was unnecessary and should be deleted since Jollyman DOLA is already successful”, has been completely ignored. The unnecessary statement is still there in the Agenda for April 19, 2022 Council Meeting; Attachment A Item 27 under Staff Justification/Consideration.
The staff seems to intend to observe Jollyman DOLA for a third year; though their staff time is so limited.
4- https://youtu.be/0XeUT606KCk?t=10471. This occurs at 2:54:3/7 into the video of the April 5, 2022 meeting.
At this second point in the video (at 2:54:3/7) Vice-Mayor Chao said “about 6 months” ; she never said “at least”. She again stated that she wanted the statement “The ongoing program is to be observed for one year” deleted. It is still present. She also again stated that …”trials should last ABOUT 6 months (NOT AT LEAST) unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field (NOT FIELD) or playground or there are other unexpected considerations.” Again the wording “at least 6 months” was substituted for her words “about 6 months”. Again her words “athletic
field” was changed to “field” which since all DOLAs are on fields will mean MORE than 6 months observation on all future DOLAs
It seemed the purpose of Vice-Mayor’s comments was to make DOLA formation more efficient without prolonged observations as occurred at Jollyman DOLA for 3 years (with an additional year intended now by staff).
The word changes could lead to major delays in MORE DOLAS with required prolonged observations of DOLA trials beyond 6 months especially if they are on or next to a field (which they all will be.)
The CORRECT WORDING carefully following the specific wording read by Councilmember Chao TWICE during the meeting and accepted by city council would help to avoid confusion leading to prolonged delays and unnecessary prolonged use of city staff time for MORE DOLA trials to start and to achieve permanent status.
The correct wording should be “two new trials should start as soon as feasible, and the new TRIALS should last ABOUT 6 months unless the trial is adjacent to an ATHLETIC field or playground"
IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF THE CITY STAFF WORDING COULD BE CORRECTED (FOR ITEM 27 IN THE STAFF REPORT AND ATTACHMENT A) and WOULD CAREFULLY AND EXACTLY FOLLOW VICE-MAYOR’S
CAREFUL READING TWICE THAT WAS ACCEPTED BY COUNCIL
Thank you to Councilmember Chao for twice reading her statement and to the mayor and city council for accepting it. Thanks to Mayor Paul for accepting Vice- Mayor’s Chao’s motion. Your help with the city manager in correcting the wording for Item 27 would be tremendously appreciated by all of us that are advocating for MORE DOLAs in Cupertino.
Respectfully,
Louise Saadati
From: Stan Moriya
To: City Clerk
Subject: DOLAs
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:29:51 PM
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To the City Council regarding the item on DOLAs in Cupertino. I have been a resident as well as dog owner in Cupertino for over 50 years. During this time I have seen many orchards disappear and replaced by residential developments and commercial developments, but very little in facilities for pet owners. Cupertino has grown to a size where it can support more services like DOLAs for its citizens. I look forward to the time when I don’t have to go outside of our city limits to our neighboring communities to find more dog friendly facilities available. Thank you for including this in your discussions.
Stan Moriya
From: Deepa Mahendraker
To: City Clerk
Subject: Fwd: Public comments: Please read 9& April 19
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:12:48 PM
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Please read this for current discussion item
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From: Deepa Mahendraker <[email protected]>
Date: April 20, 2022 at 4:27:00 AM GMT+5:30
To: Kirsten Squarcia <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Public comments: Please read 9& April 19
Hi Kirsten
Last minute change to my speech as I need to remove a couple of lines which might hurt our cause
Updated speech is embedded below
I am going to be out of pocket after this as I am flying just about the time so won’t be available beyond now
But thank you so much for reading my speech and thanks to mayor Paul darcy Deepa
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<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Deepa, I will read this version.
Regards, Kirsten
Kirsten Squarcia
City Clerk
City Manager's Office
[email protected]
(408) 777-3225
From: Deepa Mahendraker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 8:10 PM
To: Kirsten Squarcia <[email protected]>
Cc: City Clerk <[email protected]>; louise saadati <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Public comments: Please read 9& April 19
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Thank you very much
Mayor Paul is a very kind man and I appreciate him making the exception
I am sending a slightly revised version of my speech here - please use this one below the line for reading out during agenda item for public DOLAs public comments ( I thin it is agenda item 27)
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Dear city council member
I am sending this communication to be read during the
discussion of agenda item 27 during the city council meeting on April 19th
I request that you please understand that I am sending this email earlier than usual because I am traveling and out of country ( in india in fact and in a different time zone) The DOLA programs are very near and dear to over 500
community members along with their pet dogs We thrive on the jollyman DOLA and look forward to open more DOLA
trials I am leading the request for Quinlan knoll DOLA to be one of the first ones for trials during the year 2022-23.
Rain or shine, there is one community of users who will always use the park - it is the dog lovers/owners group.
What we are seeking to do is to duplicate the success of jollyman DOLA to other parks so the demands of the
increasing dog population can be met with.
I urge you all to prioritize the DOLA trials for a minimum of two identified DOLA parks ( Linda vista park and Quinlan knoll near memorial park). Neither are near athletic fields and hence a lot easier to enable.
This is a low cost high impact program and will bring the community together much more
Thank you very much
Deepa Mahendraker
DOLA leader an an avid DOLA advocate
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On Apr 19, 2022, at 5:34 AM, Kirsten Squarcia
<[email protected]
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Good evening Deepa, the Mayor has agreed to
accommodate your request. So I will plan to read your
comments aloud during the public comment period for item
27. Regards, Kirsten
Kirsten Squarcia
City Clerk
City Manager's Office
[email protected]
(408) 777-3225
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From: Deepa Mahendraker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:17 AM
To: City Council <[email protected]>
Cc: City Clerk <[email protected]>; louise saadati <[email protected]>
Subject: Public comments: Please read 9& April 19
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Dear city council member
I am sending this communication to be read during the
discussion of agenda item 27 during the city council meeting on April 19th
I request that you please understand that I am sending this email earlier than usual because I am traveling and out of country ( in india on fact and in a different time zone) The DOLA programs are very meaty and dear to over 500
community members along with their pet dogs We thrive on the jollyman DOLA and look forward to open more DOLA
trials I am leading the request for Quinlan knoll DOLA to be one of the first ones for trials during the year 2022-23.
Rain or shine, there is one community of users who will always use the park - it is the dog lovers/owners group.
What we are seeking to do is to duplicate the success of jollyman DOLA to other parks so the demands of the
increasing dog population can be met with.
I urge you all to prioritize the DOLA trials for a minimum of two identified DOLA parks ( Linda vista park and Quinlan knoll near memorial park). Neither are near athletic fields and hence a lot easier to enable
This is a low cost high impact program and will bring the community together much more
Thank you so much
Deepa
DOLA leader and an avid DOLA advocate
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From: Fujita, Michael
To: City Clerk
Subject: Litem 27 speech
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:08:24 PM
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Hi my name is Mike fujita. I am very thankful to the city council for allowing me to speak in support of giving DOLAs more 5 point votes. Parks have a real role in the socialization of a city and Off-leash areas really expand upon that. I have witnessed firsthand how close DOLA’s have brought our community together. 'I honestly never knew my neighbors until I went to the dog parks.' I have meet all these wonderful people and the only thing that you have in common is that you have a dog and that you love dogs. This community will help in additional DOLAs to be a small, efficiently achieved project because Our DOLA Community is passionate, experienced, self-policing to maintain the environment’s integrity and assure excellent behavior with our dogs.
Off-leash parks are community centers for people just as much as they are for our dogs. With the positive impact DOlA’s have on our community, I am sincerely asking the council to give higher votes for additional DOLA’s, for Quinlan knolls DOlA trial to begin, and once successfully completed, be included in the capital improvement program for eventual park amenities.
I appreciate the city councils time and opportunity to speak for what myself an others are very passionate about. Thank you and have a great night.
Kindly,
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From: Peggy Griffin
To: City Council
Cc: City Clerk
Subject: 2022-04-21 CC Meeting - Agenda Item #2 FY 2022-23 Work Program Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 5:51:40 PM
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Dear City Council and Staff,
I am concerned about the wording of the “Objectives” of the following Work Plan Items.
Priority Item #6 CUPERTINO STORE IMPLEMENTATION
Revised Objective: Implement the Cupertino Store plan, which will be adopted by Council as part of the current City Work Program Item "Cupertino Store at Chamber of Commerce". This would include identifying a location if one is not identified in fiscal year 2021-2022. With some help from the Fine Arts Commission for some of the items with art designed by community members, items would be designed and selected for the store, for sale to the public, and also available for exchange purposes for formal delegations to and from the City, with an at-cost charge structure for the latter purposes.
REQUEST: Please remove the text in RED above. Change the text of the City Work Program Item to “Cupertino Store”, removing the “at Chamber of Commerce”.
Continuing to use that text is an implied selection of that location when there are several much more appropriate locations.
Priority Item #7 DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Analyze methods to limit the implementation timeline for entitled/future projects and encourage development. Monitor implementation of development agreements and conditions of approval.
Review and establish accountability in the project approval process AND once the project is completed monitor compliance to these agreements.
REQUEST: Please add the phrase in RED. Accountability monitoring needs to continue not just through the “project approval process” but once the development is built a process needs to be in place to monitor compliance to these agreements!
Thank you all for your work prioritizing and clarifying these work items.
Sincerely,
Peggy Griffin
From: louise saadati
To: City Clerk
Subject: LindaVistaLittle&DeliDogs.xlsx
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 5:50:02 PM
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Is it possible to show this tonight as I speak when I say “ please show the spreadsheet”.
Thank you!
Louise Saadati
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