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City Council Meeting
Minutes
2024-2025 Budget Study Session
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION:
Council Chambers - 200 E. Santa Clara Street
MATT MAHAN, MAYOR
ROSEMARY KAMEI, DISTRICT 1
SERGIO JIMENEZ, DISTRICT 2
OMAR TORRES, DISTRICT 3
DAVID COHEN, DISTRICT 4
PETER ORTIZ, DISTRICT 5
DEV DAVIS, DISTRICT 6
BIEN DOAN, DISTRICT 7
DOMINGO CANDELAS, DISTRICT 8
PAM FOLEY, DISTRICT 9
ARJUN BATRA, DISTRICT 10
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• Call to Order and Roll Call
Present: Council Members - Mahan, Kamei, Torres, Jimenez, Cohen, Ortiz, Davis, Doan, Candelas, Foley, Batra.
Absent: Council Members - All present.
Staff: City Manager, Jennifer Maguire; Assistant City Manager, Lee Wilcox; Assistant City Attorney, Kevin Fisher; and Deputy City Clerk, Yasmin Johnson.
2024-2025 BUDGET STUDY SESSIONS
2024-2025 Operating Budget
• Overview (9:04 a.m. –11:04 a.m.)
Budget Director, City Manager’s Budget Office, Jim Shannon offered the 2024- 2025 Proposed Operating Budget Overview presentation.
Director, Economic Development & Cultural Affairs Department, Nanci Klein offered the Overview presentation discussing the following: National, Regional and Local Economic Outlook; General Fund Revenue Sources; Fiscal impact and Land Use Decisions; and Implications.
Nanci Klein spoke to key economic data and factors impacting the City such as: inflation, interest rates, property tax, and the services that can be provided.
Vice Mayor Rosemary Kamei open the floor for questions from Council.
City Service Area Review
• Community and Economic Development (11:06 a.m.-11:45 a.m.) Director, Planning, Building & Code Enforcement Department, Chris Burton offered the presentation.
Mayor Matt Mahan open the floor for questions from Council.
Director, Economic Development & Cultural Affairs Department, Nanci Klein responded to questions.
Mayor Matt Mahan announced that Council questions would conclude at 11:45 a.m. to allow members of the public to speak.
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• Public Safety – DEFERRED TO 5/9/24
City Manager, Jennifer Maguire excused the presenters and staff pertaining to the Public Safety portion of the meeting, due to the time-limit being exceeded discussing the prior items on the Agenda.
Publ
ic Safety will be the first item to be heard at the May 9, 2024 2024-2025 Budget Study Session Council Meeting.
May
or Matt Mahan announced that public comment was limited to one-minute for the remainder of the Study Session Council Meeting. Speakers using interpretation services are allotted two-minutes to allow time for translation.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Katherine Hedges (Catalyze SV/ SURJ), Mary Helen Doherty (SURJ- Sacred Heart), Andrew Siegler, Lori Katcher (SURJ), Leslie (Showing up for Racial Justice @ Sacred Heart), and Kayla Cuvelier (SURJ) offered public testimony pertaining to the 2024-2025 Budge Study Session.
ADJOURNMENT
Ma
yor Matt Mahan adjourned the Study Session at 11:56 a.m.
Minutes Recorded, Prepared and Respectfully Submitted by, Yasmin Johnson
Deputy City Clerk, City of San José
Approved at Council on: 2/11/2025
# of Actions: 0
Attest By:
Toni J. Taber, CMC
City Clerk, City of San José