1 CITY COUNCILMEMBER REPORT
Meeting: May 20, 2025
Reporting Councilmember: Councilmember J.R. Fruen
Report Dates: 4/29/25 to 5/12/25
Item Date, Title, and Description:
Event 1. May 2, 2025 – Meeting with McClellan Terrace Apartments owners – I met with representatives of the property owners of the McClellan Terrace Apartments with regard to the proposed urgency ordinance that would limit the prospective uses of the site. It was clear from the conversation that the property owner would challenge the legality of the ordinance if it were to pass.
Event 2. May 8, 2025 – Cities Association of Santa Clara County JPA Legislative Action Committee Meeting – I chaired this meeting of the Cities Association Legislative Action Committee in my capacity as 2
nd Vice President of the JPA. After a brief interruption caused by a remote noticed location being unavailable, the remote location access was restored and the LAC considered all four bills on its agenda: AB 650 (Papan) on Housing Element process reform, SB 79 (Wiener) on transit-oriented development, SB 457 (Becker) on housing development application denials; and SB 753 (Cortese) to reform state law on the retrieval of abandoned shopping carts. The LAC voted to recommend that the Board support AB 650 as amended, to defer further consideration of SB 457 (which had failed its first Senate policy committee hearing), and discussed—but took no position on—SB 79. The LAC also took a vote to support SB 753, but this vote failed to reach an absolute majority required to recommend support to the Board. I stayed for the Cities Selection Committee meeting and the Cities Association Board meeting immediately afterward to present an update on the LAC to the Board. The Board took up the matter of supporting AB 650 and adopted the LAC’s recommendation to support the bill. Materials for this meeting, which include bill summaries and copies of the pending legislation are available at the Cities Association website here.
Event 3. May 9, 2025 – Proposed Budget Staff Briefing – I attended this preparatory meeting offered by staff in preparation for the special meeting on the Proposed Budget for FY 2025-26. It
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2 was a very useful meeting that covered a host of granular details in the Proposed Budget and should help make for a more productive council meeting on May 15.