CITY COUNCIL ACTIVITY REPORT
Meeting: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Reporting Councilmember: Councilmember Kitty Moore
Report Activity Dates: 4/5/2023 to 5/28/2023
Event Date, Title, and Description:
April 5, 2023, Discover Stanford for You: Preventing Housing Displacement – One Family at a Time. End of COVID protections: funds and arguments which protected families struggling with rent payments resulting in housing displacement. Discussion of how Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County (and Law Foundation of Silicon Valley) help with housing displacement.
April 6, 2023, Santa Clara Valley Water Water Ambassador Program, Moore initiatied – application approved by SCVW BOD member. Attending multi-week course on water challenges, role of Valley Water, Valley Water Projects, and Organizational structure. Course begins today.
April 8, 2023, Cupertino Big Bunny Fun Run! Participated in the 5K, helped Parks and Recreation Staff give out all of the prize medals, placed 3rd for age group : ) Great and healthy fun for the community!
April 10, 2023, CPUC meeting, voluntary attendance.
April 12, 2023, Santa Clara Valley Water Commission, Chair was unable to attend, as Vice Chair I ran the meeting. We had a robust discussion on the water rates and proposed rate hikes and recommended the BOD not approve the rate hike, elected to hold the August meeting and will hold it at the Advanced Water Purification Center.
April 13, 2023, Apple site visit RE Agenda item project on Vallco Parkway and Tantau. 1
April 16, 2023, Continuing Environmental Studies program: Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Prevention: Energy, Chemicals and Waste April 20, 2023, Santa Clara Valley Water Water Ambassador Program, Moore initiatied – application approved by SCVW BOD member. Attending multi-week course on water challenges, role of Valley Water, Valley Water Projects, and Organizational structure. Deep dive into the water system.
April 22, 2023 Attended Cupertino Earth Day from 11-2:20pm and visited many booths and collected lots of information. Great to see the event growing from last year! Cupertino has a lot to be proud of regarding Bird Safe/Dark Skies, Single Use Plastics, Climate Action 2.0, Reach Codes, and more!
April 24, 2023 Attended Senator Josh Becker and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s press conference in support of Transitional Housing SB 643 to help provide sites for transitional homeless housing as a step to permanent housing.
April 26, 2023 Attended Supervisor Simitian’s 8
th Lehigh Cement Plant and Quarry Community
meeting. Of note was the mention of a 15 M gallon spill of potable water in 2022. (That is equivalent to 46 acre-ft which is 46 times the amount of water an average family of 4 would use inside and outside in a year). Efforts underway to ensure that the plant is permanently closed and begin remediation.
April 27, 2023 Attended Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention meeting by Destination Home. Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention System (HPS). Emergency financial assistance was analyzed and found to be very effective. HPS has had to turn away about 2/3ds of the people seeking assistance due to lacking capacity. Since starting the Eviction Diversion and Settlement Program in April 2022, they have served 167 cases, $2.9 M award, $17,608 average award per household, demand is great. Average rent for HPS participants is $1,987/month which is an increase of 12% YOY. More than half of the households HPS serves were not earning enough income to cover their monthly rent. More cost effective to prevent homelessness than to provide for homeless. Needs more funding, Measure A does not apply to this program.
April 29, 2023 Attended Cherry Blossom Festival and toured all of the indoor exhibits. Very well-attended and organized!
April 29, 2023 Attended the Grand Opening of Berraco Coffee at Stevens Creek Blvd. and S.
Tantau across from Main Street Cupertino. This new shop is one-of-a-kind and features specialty coffee.
April 30, 2023 Ongoing Environmental Studies Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Provention: Energy, Chemicals and Waste, this week’s topic: Solid and Medical Waste Management: Legal and Technical Aspects. Very timely subject which included an overview of MRFs and Santa Clara County landfills with multiple videos on waste processing.
May 4, 2023 Santa Clara Valley Water Water Ambassador Program, Moore initiatied – application approved by SCVW BOD member. Attending multi-week course on water challenges, role of Valley Water, Valley Water Projects, and Organizational structure.
May 6, 2023 Attended Supervisor Simitian and the City of Mountain View’s Asian American Pacific Islander AAPI Heritage Month Celebration in Mountain View. Beautiful fusion of classical and contemporary music along with classic dance, fellowship, and community celebration of the founders of the local Asian Americans for Community Involvement and AACI’s 50 years of service to the community.
May 7, 2023 Continued Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Prevention course.
Waste: Current Topics & Issues.
May 8, 2023 2-hour Budget review with Senior City Staff, provided to all Councilmembers individually.
May 13, 2023 Ongoing Environmental Studies Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Prevention: Energy, Chemicals and Waste, this week’s topic: Chemical and Chemical Products: Legal and Management Aspects. Excellent overview of the Toxic Substances Control Act and its historical ineffectiveness (as compared to the FDA which requires drug testing prior to coming onto the market).
May 18, 2023 Santa Clara Valley Water Water Ambassador Program, Moore initiatied – application approved by SCVW BOD member. Attending multi-week course on water challenges, role of Valley Water, Valley Water Projects, and Organizational structure. This week’s course included Purified Water projects, Emergency Services, Racial Equity, diversity and Inclusion, Civic Engagement, Government Relations, and Communications.
May 20, 2023 National Creek Cleanup Day at Regnart Creek! Volunteers pulled out 300 pounds of trash. I am holding part of a shopping cart:
May 21, 2023 Ongoing Environmental Studies Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Prevention: Energy, Chemicals and Waste, this week’s topic: Evaluation and Design of Chemicals and Chemical Products, in depth look at TSCA and the Green Chemistry initiative.
May 23, 2023 Santa Clara Valley Water Salt Pond Restoration update May 24, 2023 Santa Clara Valley Water Anderson Dam update May 25, 2023 Cupertino CREST Awards to congratulate our community volunteers! May 26, 2023 Material Recover Facility Tour. Extensive tour of a MRF with Councilmember Chao and our Environmental Programs Manager: Ursula Syrova. Resource recovery has come a long way from the days of sending everything into an unlined open pit dump to optically sorting plastics, baling plastics, cardboard, aluminum, and grinding food waste to be dried and pelletized for animal feed.
May 28, 2023 Ongoing Environmental Studies Environmental Resource Management and Pollution Prevention: Energy, Chemicals and Waste, this week’s topic: Chemicals and Pesticides: Current Topics and Issues. Overview of PFAS, Paper making process using Green Chemistry, Paper recycling, Chemical Safety Board activities, Safer Choice labeling, Underground Storage Tanks, Right-to-Know Network’s Risk Mgmt Plan database etc.