1 CITY COUNCILMEMBER REPORT Meeting: September 3, 2025 Reporting Councilmember: Vice Mayor Kitty Moore Report Dates: 7/8/25 to 8/25/25 Item Date, Title, and Description: July 9, 2025. Special City Council Meeting Closed Session. July 14, 2025. Meeting with Mayor and Interim City Manager. July 14, 2025. Attended Mayor Chat. Spoke with a long-time CERT volunteer regarding the program status. July 15, 2025. Regular City Council Meeting Closed Session. July 16, 2025. Reviewed all City Administrative Policies including ones which overlap with Council duties. July 16, 2025. Special City Council Meeting Commission/Committee interviews. July 17, 2025. Council Recess Begins. July 24, 2025. Water Ambassadors meeting at Valley Water. Learned about seismic retrofitting plans and asked questions regarding the status of the Stevens Creek Reservoir and earthquake safety plans. July 28, 2025. Audit Committee Meeting. Chair Schmidt and I were assigned to the Budget Format Review Subcommittee which has and will be meeting over the next few months to learn about the implementation of the Moss Adams/Baker Tilly
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2 recommendations to the budget format and provide feedback on navigation. This is part of an ongoing update to the internal processes and utilization of OpenGov and integration with the new ERP system. There will be community outreach during the process. July 30, 2025. Meeting with CAO, ICM, and Mayor. July 31, 2025. Attended Supervisor Abe-Koga’s Heidelberg Materials (Lehigh) update. Truck noise at pre-dawn hours was discussed without clear resolution. August 4, 2025. Special Meeting of the Audit Committee. (continued July 28, 2025 meeting) August 5, 2025. Meeting with SummerHill staff regarding various artists they have contacted to potentially provide public art for their project at the Staples location on Stevens Creek Blvd. Provided observations on the various art and noted that all had a range of color schemes and that they would need to decide whether they are interested in harmonious or contrasting colors for whatever type of work they decide to narrow down for their project. August 5, 2025. 1st Day of CERT training in Los Gatos. After speaking with a long-time CERT volunteer, signed up and requested others to join. Cupertino had excellent representation for this 3-week training program. August 6, 2025. 1st meeting of the Audit Committee Budget Format Review Subcommittee with Staff. August 6, 2025. Attended the Toyokawa Sister City Bell Ringing for Peace at Memorial Park. August 7, 2025. CERT class #2. August 12, 2025. CERT class #3. August 14, 2025. VTA Policy Advisory Committee meeting. This meeting had an important vote for Cupertino regarding obtaining grant funding for SV Hopper. August 14, 2025. Santa Clara County Cities Association Legislative Action City Council Vice Mayor Moore Report
3 Committee. Reviewed and made recommendations for various bills to support or oppose. August 14, 2025. Santa Clara County Cities Association Board Meeting. Supervisors Abe-Koga and Lee advocated for Measure A, however there was no vote of support or opposition on the matter. Concern was raised about ballot language and pay for physicians on Transparent Californa. August 14, 2025. CERT class #4. Due to overlap with the other meetings, this training was taken as a make up watching the recording. August 15, 2025. India Independence Day flag raising at Civic Center Plaza. Bhubaneswar Sister City in coordination with the City held the annual flag raising with music, dance, and refreshments. August 17, 2025. Attended FOG India Independence Day Parade in Fremont. Now the largest in California and possibly the US. Mayor Chao and I shared a convertible for this exciting parade.
August 18, 2025. Tour of the Sports Center and Blackberry Farm Retreat Center with ICM Kapoor, Director Sander, and Mayor Chao. August 19, 2025. CERT class #5.
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4 August 20, 2025. Attended the De Anza College/Cupertino Rotary Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony at De Anza College. The Peace Pole project brings messages in many languages on a crisp white pole with inscriptions wishing for peace. Chorale music with string accompaniment followed warm wishes for world peace. August 21, 2025. Audit committee Budget format Review Subcommittee meeting #2 with Staff. Subcommittee and Staff had a robust discussion regarding the draft which the Subcommittee was given one hour to review and prepare comments on. August 21, 2025. CERT class #6. August 22, 2025. Agenda look-ahead meeting with Mayor and Sr. Staff. August 22, 2025. Informal Vice Mayor meeting with VMs from across the Peninsula Division. August 23, 2025. Final CERT Skills Day with emergency drills and graduation ceremony! This course is highly recommended for community members to be trained to render assistance if needed, under guidance, in an emergency when first responders may
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5 be overwhelmed by numbers of incidents. This was a record class size, post -Pandemic with Cupertino representing the most numbers of students of any city with current and past electeds and commissioners and members of the public. The October class is already filling up and is in Cupertino at the Monta Vista Recreation Center. Links to register are here: https://www.sccfd.org/education-and-preparedness-overview/emergency-preparedness/cert/ August 25, 2025. Check in meeting with Mayor Chao, ICM Kapoor, CA Andrews, and ADCM Squarcia. Council recess ends September 3, 2025.