RULES COMMITTEE: 10/18/2023
Item: B.1
File ID: ROGC 23-367
TO: Honorable Mayor & FROM: Toni J. Taber, CMC
City Council City Clerk
SUBJECT: The Public Record DATE: October 18, 2023
October 5 – October 12, 2023
ITEMS FILED FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD
Letters from Boards, Commissions, and Committees
Letters from the Public
1. Letter from Blair Beekman, dated October 10, 2023, regarding: Blair Beekman. Tuesday, October 10, 2023..... Public comment, on SJ city council agenda items..10.3.23.
2. Letter from Gena Krupa, dated October 11, 2023, regarding: Live release rate for cats. ____________________________
Toni J. Taber, CMC
City Clerk
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in how to develop, their current mental health questions & concerns.
It is from this, I hope San Jose. at this time, will also be wanting to consider ideas, of how to work towards, a better balance, of human rights, reimagine, and health & human services, to address jail recidivism issues.
To continue to consider items,, 2.11 & 4.1, that were approved, at the SJ city council meeting, Oct. 3, SJPD, and city council, both talked about how the apps, of item 2.11, that are meant to monitor police actions, making routine traffic stops and to help better address, internal SJPD issues, by monitoring police traffic stops.
But they could not more openly talk about, and ask the question - Are the new new tech apps, of item 2.11, also to be employed, at this time, as part of overall, new local neighborhood, video surveillance tech, ALPR use, and smart streetlight technology, surveillance & data collection. And to be used, for example, to track the movements of persons, who are a part of the jail /incarceration system, of agenda item 4.1 ?
Are these tech applications possible,,with item 2.11 ? To be safe, I still think we need to learn, to more openly prepare, and to talk about - there is simply, a new level, of data collection & surveillance technology, that is starting to go to work, in local communities, We need to prepare, and to begin, more open conversations, that there is a wide range,, of new surveillance & data collection technology data collection, that needs to be openly discussed, at the SJ public meeting process. Open dialogue, should be welcomed & not feared, on the use & purpose, of neighborhood surveillance technology, when it is agendized, for the public meeting process.
Each time, you publicly talk about community surveillance technology. please learn how it can be, open & friendly. And so community surveillance technology, can work to be a more trusting, responsible, shared process. And not a closed, hidden, secretive process.
It is from this, I also have, a very specific point this fall, to make very clear, that in the public meeting process - We need to learn, that it can be safe, and to not fear, to more openly, clearly, and better describe, how our surveillance & data collection technology & practices, will actually be functioning, within a community.
Victor Sin, of Silicon Valley ACLU, and his work, with civil protections & concerns, with community surveillance & data collection technology, maybe a good addition, to the work of Angel Rios, Pancho Guevera, and Silicon Valley Debug, at this time. And to help address, a better balance, of a more open, progressive set, of ideas & ways, to address recidivism issues, for the future of San Jose.
And ways to better develop, the future of reimagine, and health & human services, before more jail & more police.
To conclude this letter -with agenda item 6.1, San Jose is considering to build, a municipal energy company, for a few, large industrial facilities, in North San Jose. It seems this project, is also meant to help, as ways to develop years of planning, for a more, downsized, yet well-focused future for PG&E.
We are simply trying to build, a more sustainable good future, with the practices, of more open participatory, community process, in the future, of local community energy, I worry there can become, some serious conflicts of interest, within San Jose City govt depts. And the ideas, of a specialized, San Jose municipal energy.
And from this, I worry of continued conflicts, between, a very high powered, and very questionable agency, like PG&E, compared to the needs & concerns of developing, a friendly, dependable, local community energy future,.with much public participation & input.
There were some incredibly important studies done, within the East Bay Municipal Utility District, EBMUD, about the future of local community energy programs, for the San Francisco Bay Area, from at least, the 1990s, to about 2015.
It simply helped set the standard, in how the future of local community energy, can function well, in the Bay Area.There should be a wide range, of study material, from this time. It should be available to yourselves, as good research & review.
And it can possibly be of help, with information & ideas, in how San Jose, can better understand, well intentioned, local community energy practices, municipal power applications, and also in what to consider, in downsizing the future of PG&E.
I think it will be important, to view this issue, from well- intentioned, local community energy practices & perspectives. And as better ways, that can help address & mitigate, future issues of conflict, between, what may be, two major energy sources, for the future of San Jose.
Of course, as always, this asks the question, if we should again go through, the propping up, of a major, new corporate project, when we will simply be, building it off of, the incredibly good practices, of smaller, familiar, more organic, good practices & principles. And as, smaller, well reasoned, more organic systems, is a future, large city govts & political systems, simply need to better consider, more often, at this time, in our human history.
sincerely,
blair beekman
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Here's a link to the Santa Cruz Animal Shelter. httP-s:Uwww.scanimalshelter.orgL It was incredibly disheartening to read that you are the director of such a dismal situation.
Sadly,
Gina Garcia
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