City of Sunnyvale
Meeting Minutes - Draft Excerpt
Community Event and Neighborhood
Grant Distribution Subcommittee
1:00 PM Online and Bay Conference Room (Room
145), City Hall, 456 W. Olive Ave.,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Friday, December 6, 2024
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Srinivasan called the meeting to order at 1:02 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Member Linda Sell
Chair Murali Srinivasan
Present: 2 -
Member Alysa CisnerosAbsent: 1 -
GENERAL BUSINESS
24-1186 Review of Calendar Year 2024 Grants and Consideration of 2025 Community Events and Neighborhood Grant Program
Applications
Youth and Family Resources Manager, Angela Chan, provided a presentation on the Community Events and Neighborhood Grant Program. Highlights included:
overview, outreach, grant requests and funding options.
Councilmembers inquired and staff responded:
Did staff make a presentation to the quarterly neighborhood association meeting? Yes.
Can we have a third tier for neighborhood associations to accommodate larger groups? Yes, staff will review and provide options at the next CENGP meeting.
Can staff include a category for applicants specifically interested in funding for block parties? Yes, we can include a category for applicants to check off.
Can staff include information on the application to direct groups on how to register
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as a neighborhood association? Yes, staff will include directions on the next application packet.
Chair Srinivasan opened for public comment.
Valerie, Sunnyvale resident, asked that funding should be based on year-end report instead of application. Staff should adjust funding based on attendance.
Max, Sunnyvale resident, informed the subcommittee that his street is located in the Ortega Park Neighborhood Association. He asked if his block could submit a separate application for their Heron street block party.
Chair Srinivasan closed public comment.
Staff will update application next year to include language that allows smaller neighborhood groups within an established neighborhood association to apply for block parties. Smaller neighborhood groups would need to work with their umbrella neighborhood associations and submit together in one application. Subcommittee recommends reserving $5,000 total, $500 per party, for block parties. Priority will be given to umbrella associations before block party allocations.
Councilmember Sell moved and Chair Srinivasan seconded the motion to approve recommend funding levels outlined in the 2025 Recommended Funding Summary tables be submitted to Council for final approval.
The motion carried by the following vote:
Yes: Member Sell
Chair Srinivasan
2 -
No: 0
Absent: Member Cisneros1 -
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