1 CITY COUNCILMEMBER REPORT
Meeting: September 16, 2025
Reporting Councilmember: Vice Mayor Kitty Moore
Report Dates: 8/26/25 to 9/8/25
Item Date, Title, and Description:
August 27, 2025. Special Santa Clara Valley Water Commission Meeting. This Special meeting included a tour of the Anderson Dam project in Morgan Hill. The Anderson Dam was built in 1950 and had very high lifts up to 30’ prior to compaction for part of the earth dam. This and other issues increases the potential for failure in an earthquake. Additionally, where there was once farmland at the foot of the dam is
now residential
neighborhoods which
would be inundated in a
dam failure. The water
level in the dam has been
reduced to make it safe and
tunneling has proceeded. The dam is being
lowered and rebuilt in a ten year process and
when it is complete it will be able to hold the water of all of the other dams in the system combined at a volume of approximately 90,373 acre-feet.
Factsheet on the Anderson Dam project: https://s3.us-west-
1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-
public/08272025%20SCVWD%20Water%20Commission%20Agenda%20Packet.pdf
City Council Vice Mayor Moore Report
2 September 3, 2025. End of Summer recess. Special meeting Closed Session and Special City Council Meeting. September 4, 2025. Attended CAREA event at Quinlan Community Center. https://www.carea.org/event/bay-area-cities-development-updates/ Several area Economic Development managers presented including Cupertino’s Daniel Degu who provided excellent information on the city. There were developers presenting as well. The entitlement process using state laws is very lucrative, and while not stated, this may be a contributor to the costs of development when an entitled project would cost less than $2M to achieve while increasing the value of a $30M project by over $20M as an example. September 4, 2025. Attended Ad-Hoc Legislative Review Subcommittee on-line meeting to receive legislative update from our lobbyists and provide input and recommendations for other bills and pending legislation. See LRC Report for that item in this agenda packet. September 8, 2025. Agenda review with Staff and Mayor.