COUNCIL ITEM REQUEST FORM
City of
Santa Clara
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RECEIVED
JUN l 5 2022
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The Council Item Request Form is for members of the City Council to submit written requests to the City Manager's Office for inclusion of an item on a future City Council meeting agenda. At the meeting where the initial written request is heard, discussion should be limited to whether the item should be added to an agenda and a date, not the merit of the item. A majority vote of the City Council is required for the item to be added to future Council meeting agenda foraction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Requesting Member of City Council : Suds Jain
Contact E-mail_ [email protected]_
Contact Phone 408-499-2955 _______ _
Today's Date.5/18/2022
WRITTEN REQUEST
I, Suds Jain ______ , hereby request that the following item be placed on the City of Santa Clara Council and Authorities Concurrent meeting agenda:
Recently the City Council approved an annual renewal of the Parking Maintenance District at the Convention Center. Parking is free but there are no accumulating reserves to make any major repairs to the parking structure which is aging.
I recently attended a Boy Scout breakfast event at the Santa Clara Marriott on Mission College Blvd. They were charging $5/car parking
I also recently visited the Baylands Park in Sunnyvale. They charge $6.00 per car.
Valley Fair Shopping Mall has also started charging for parking including for employees. Valley Fair just did a very large expansion which included adding a lot of parking in a parking structure which probably cost more that $50,000 per spot. Valley Fair is trying to get people to carpool and to use public transit or other forms of mobility.
When I brought up charging for parking at the convention center, I was told that the City has a policy against charging for parking. I'm asking for a discussion of changing this policy since providing free parking is very expensive as explained in Donald Shoup's book: "The high cost of free parking". Perhaps charging for parking at the Convention Center could be used to put aside money for future repairs of the parking structure.
Reference: Council Policy 030-Adding an Item on the Agenda Resolution No. 20-8895