City of Santa Clara
Minutes
City Council Special Meeting
5:00 PM Hybrid Meeting
City Hall Council Chambers/Virtual
1500 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
04/25/2023
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to the provisions of California Government Code §54956 (“The Brown Act”) and Section 708 of the Santa Clara City Charter, the majority of the City Council calls for a Special City Council Meeting, to commence and convene on April 25, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. for a Special Meeting to be held virtually and in the City Hall Council Chambers located in the East Wing of City Hall at 1500 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, California, to consider the following matter(s) and to potentially take action with respect to them. 5:00 PM Special Council Meeting
Call to Order
Mayor Gillmor called the Special Meeting to order at 5:05 p.m.
Pledge of Allegiance and Statement of Values
Council recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
Councilmember Jain recited the Statement of Values.
Assistant City Clerk Pimentel recited the AB 23 Announcement and Behavioral Standards.
Assistant City Clerk Pimentel also noted that any registered Lobbyist speaking during Public Meeting will need to identify themselves who they represent.
Roll Call
Councilmember Kathy Watanabe, Councilmember Karen Hardy, Vice Mayor Kevin Park, Councilmember Suds Jain, Councilmember Anthony Becker, and Mayor Lisa M. Gillmor
Present: 6 -
Councilmember Raj ChahalAbsent: 1 -
A motion was made by Councilmember Hardy, seconded by
Councilmember Becker, to excuse Councilmember Chahal's absence.
Aye: Councilmember Watanabe, Councilmember Hardy, Vice Mayor Park, Councilmember Jain, Councilmember Becker, and Mayor Gillmor 6 -
Absent: Councilmember Chahal1 -
PUBLIC HEARING/GENERAL BUSINESS
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1. 23-272 Consideration and Possible Actions on a Proposed 30-Unit Homekey Interim Housing Development on County-Owned Land Located at Lawrence Expressway and Benton Street, Including City Sponsorship and Partial Funding of Project Operations (CEQA: Statutory Exemption under Government Code Section 65913.4, SB 35 Affordable Housing Projects) Recommendation:
1. Authorize the Office of the City Manager to negotiate and execute a three-party letter of intent between LifeMoves, County of Santa Clara, and the City of Santa Clara defining the roles and responsibilities for the financing, operations and construction management for the Homekey application for the property located at Lawrence and Benton Street in a final form approved by the City Attorney.
2. Adopt a resolution authorizing the Office of the City Manager to apply for, execute, and submit all required documents for California Department Housing and Community
Development Homekey Program to participate as a
co-applicant.
3. Authorize the County of Santa Clara to update the City of Santa Clara’s California Permanent Local Housing
Allocation 5-year plan by adding activity six to the County’s PLHA plan to assist persons who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and allocating year 3,4, and 5 funding, after deducting administrative costs, to the Benton/Lawrence
interim housing to help fund operations.
Community Development Director Crabtree gave a Powerpoint presentation on the proposed 30-Unit Homekey Interim Housing Development.
Consuelo Hernandez, County Office of Supportive Housing, gave a PowerPoint presentation.
Heather Griffin, Director of Shelter and Services at LifeMoves gave a PowerPoint presentation.
President of Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg spoke in support of the proposed interim housing development.
Council questions and comments followed.
County Office of Supportive Housing Representative Hernandez, LifeMoves Director of Shelter & Services Griffin, and Community Development Director Crabtree responded to Council questions and comments.
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The following members of the public spoke in support of the proposed 30- Unit Homekey Interim Housing Development:
Elysa Gurman - (16 minutes - Cam Coulter, Elizabeth Becker, Ann Krause, Bill DuMonthier, Dan, David Donaldson, Jill Nicole gave time) Sarah Foad (4 minutes - Wendy Foad gave time)
Alon Altman
Melinda Berlant
Shalini Venkatesh (6 minutes - Jeff Houston, Cassidy Kearins gave time) Irving Torres
Dylan
Anthony Medina-Alvarez
Asha DuMonthier
Darlene Day
Ali Sapirman
Steve Kelly
Jake Wilde
Dontae Lartigue
Cleo Cove
Jocelyn Arenas
Angelina Sanchez
Mya Carrasco
Christopher Perry
Jodan Grimes
Diane Harrison
Elizabeth Conlan
Ingrid Granados
Josh Selo, Bill Wilson Center
River Espinosa
Kirk
Ken Kratz
Matthew Reed, SV@Home
Alex Shoor
Cindy
Olivia Green
Marie Bernard
The following members of the public spoke in opposition of the proposed 30-Unit Homekey Interim Housing Development:
Bernadine Jagelski
Eric Crutchlow (4 minutes - Laura Crutchlow gave time)
Luisa
J. Pan (4 minutes - Ying Xu gave time)
Nanxi Li
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Bo Nie
Thomas MacDevitt (10 minutes - Tie Feng, Tai Mei Yeh, Helen Kwan, Cathy McGowan gave time)
Cherie Elliott
Ashish Verma (14 minutes - Kirti Gokhale, Mahendra Chaudhari, Sourabh Sinha, Anjali S, Anwesa Chatterjee, Ashish Patel gave time) Vishal Tanna
Brenda Gordon
Wilma Cadorna
Lynn Wang
John Sanchez
Kimmy
Kate Cao (4 minutes - Yang Jiao gave time)
Tom Lassen
Le Hui/Zhihao Li (10 minutes - Ishani Bhatt, Zeying Yuan, Jitesh Jain gave time)
Julia Zhao
Alex
Erji Wang
Gautum Kulkarni (6 minutes - Nisha online, Pavan gave time) Ken Heiman
Cindy Zheng (12 minutes - Deepak Rama,Vadiraj Hosus, Harsha Vashisht, Niranjan Manjunath, Chandra Maddipatla gave time)
Yueming Sun
Pomeroy Association
Jun Yang (4 minutes, Xiaoyun Chen)
John Haggerty
Yulin (Joyce) Huang
Dorothy Yamamoto (12 minutes - Haiying Wu, Jinyui Zhong, Riancy Dong, Amy Zhang, Joanne Yang gave time)
Ethan
Miranda
Maggie
Puxiao
Farokh Mehrshahi
David Ranch
Sarah
BW No Benton
Alex Wang
B West
Jacob
Danny
Ying Lu
Nitin
Rainee
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Li
Maggie's Husband
Neelu Kumawat
Jenny Yu
Wenyihu
Ramya Batta
Ruiyang Li
David Tran
Stephen Yang
Elisa Bao
Ally Vote No
Alex Chan
Eva Sun
Chaitanya
David Huoang
Jie Han
DG
Diwakar Kumawat
Ashlyn Ju
Dave
Jack
Bhargav Krishnamurthy
Ray
Julie Z
Jean
Daisy
[email protected]
Carl’s Mom
Manish Garg
Vineet
Christina Vo
Public Comment:
Wanda Buck
eComments
:
11 in support
294 in opposition
1 neutral
Mayor Gillmor called a recess at 9:04 p.m. and reconvened the meeting at 9:24 p.m.
A motion was made by Councilmember Becker, seconded by
Councilmember Hardy, to continue this item to a reconvened session at 5:00 p.m. on May 2, 2023.
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Aye: Councilmember Watanabe, Councilmember Hardy, Councilmember Jain, Councilmember Becker, and Mayor Gillmor
5 -
Nay: Vice Mayor Park1 -
Excused: Councilmember Chahal1 -
REPORTS OF MEMBERS AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES
There were none.
CITY MANAGER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT
ADJOURNMENT
There were none.
A motion made by Councilmember Becker, seconded by
Councilmember Hardy to adjourn at 12:07 a.m. to a
reconvened meeting on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 5:00 p.m.
Aye: Councilmember Watanabe, Councilmember Hardy, Vice Mayor Park, Councilmember Jain, Councilmember Becker, and Mayor Gillmor 6 -
Excused: 1 - Councilmember Chahal
The next regular scheduled meeting is on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 in the City Hall Council Chambers.