APPROVED MINUTES CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL Regular Adjourned Meeting Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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1 APPROVED MINUTES CUPERTINO CITY COUNCIL Regular Adjourned Meeting Wednesday, June 10, 2009 ROLL CALL At 4:06 p.m. Mayor Orrin Mahoney called to order the regular adjourned joint meeting of the City Council and the Redevelopment Agency. The meeting was held in the Council Chamber, Torre Avenue, Cupertino, California. Council members present: Mayor Orrin Mahoney, Vice-Mayor Kris Wang, and Council members Dolly Sandoval, Mark Santoro, and Gilbert Wong. Absent: none. Redevelopment Agency members present: Chairman Orrin Mahoney, Vice-Chair Kris Wang, and Agency members Dolly Sandoval, Mark Santoro, and Gilbert Wong. Absent: none. STUDY SESSION 1. Study Session on the proposed 2009/10 Budgets for City Council and the Redevelopment Agency (continued from June 2). No documentation in packet. City Clerk Kimberly Smith distributed s in support of the School Resource Officers from Vivian Franklin, Principal of Stevens Creek Elementary School, Lorrie Wernick, Principal of Regnart Elementary School, Nancy Wood, Principal of Garden Gate School, and parent Debbie Anderes. Administrative Services Director Carol Atwood distributed 2009/10 Budget Study Session, Council Follow up Items which listed questions and requests for information from Council from May 27 and June 2 Council meetings. She reviewed the documents and the City Council members discussed them and provided direction to staff as noted below. Item 14 proposed an independent website usability assessment and evaluation of the search functionality, as well as PDF document posting guidelines. Councilman Santoro asked for more information about cost and availability of a fiber link to the Comcast node on Imperial Avenue for data and television, not necessarily on the same cable. During discussion of item 19, regarding Housing Element costs to date, Council member Wang suggested that residents be encouraged to sign up for ed notices, so that citywide mailings can be gradually shifted from paper to digital. Mayor Mahoney noted that citywide notices are done as a courtesy to the residents, but the legal notice requirement is for a certain radius.

2 June 10, 2009 Cupertino City Council Page 2 Item No. 15 was a letter from Captain Terry Calderone recommending that the City Council maintain the second School Resource Officer (SRO). Council member Wang suggested that the schools be asked to pay a percentage instead of a fixed amount for SROs. Atwood agreed it would be wise to add an escalation clause. She said that staff has asked the school districts if they can contribute more, but they said they can t commit at this time because they don t know their budget outcomes. Item No. 16 was the FY 2009 COPS Expenditure Plan summaries. Council member Wong asked for a list of which cities have SROs, and the number, and how those positions are funded. Later I the evening, further discussion was held about the request for the number of School Resource Officers in other cities and how those positions are funded. Council concurred that Council member Kris Wang would survey representatives of other cities at the next Cities Association meeting, and would report back to the City Council with that information. Item No. 20, staff time estimate, referred to a traffic study, but that was corrected to reflect the total cost of staff time for housing allocation, estimated at $15,049. Item No. 21, State Loan/Take Away Impacts and Options, was amended to indicate that this was a mandated loan to the State of California. Item No. 22 was a list of Cupertino Services provided to the elementary school, high school, and college districts, including sports field maintenance, etc. for Cupertino Union School District. The Parks and Recreation Director was asked to provide aggregated information about how much the City subsidizes the costs of school sports fields and what sharing arrangements are in place. Erik Walukiewicz said he was currently the Coordinator of Safety and Operations for the Fremont Union High School District, and has worked as an assistant principal and teacher at Monta Vista High School and as assistant principal at Cupertino High School. He said that the benefits of the SROs far outweigh the costs, because they increase student safety and don t pull police officers away from other calls, which could increase response times. He talked about the valuable relationships that the SROs have with students, teachers, and parents. He also noted that Sunnyvale has four similar positions, called Neighborhood Resource Officers, and that the school district does not plan to cut any positions at this time. Peter Robinson, Cupertino School Resource Officer, talked about how the responsibilities of beat deputies and SROs differed. He explained that beat deputies should be the ones responding to emergencies, such as bank alarms, car crashes, etc., and the SROs take load of 13 schools off their shoulders. However, the SROs are still sworn deputies and can respond if there is an alarm call nearby. The SROs have first-hand knowledge of student personalities and past histories, and get to know parents, grandparents and staff. While at the school the SRO may also talk to a student who has been the victim of abuse, talk to

3 June 10, 2009 Cupertino City Council Page 3 another who is in the Sheriff s Teen Academy, and help a staff member whose car was vandalized. This sort of work could absorb hours of a beat officer s time. John Sperinde, representing the Cupertino Tennis Club, thanked the Council for the project underway to upgrade lighting. He explained that this is a lighting improvement only, not lighting of additional courts, and there is still a shortage because of the nearly 400 members of the United States Tennis Association (USTA). He asked Council to consider adding lights to the pool-side courts. Mr. Sperinde mentioned that they had tried to buy time at DeAnza College but it was too expensive, and asked if the City and DeAnza College could come to an arrangement to make that more affordable. Laura Gonzales, Dean of Students at Fremont High School, thanked the City Council for funding the SRO position. She said the importance is less about programs and more about personal influence on students lives. When students make poor choices, suspension and citations don t change that behavior, but counseling with the deans and working with the SROs, parents and students tends to be what ends the conflict. She noted that if the staff knows the incident involves a resident of Sunnyvale, they call the Sunnyvale SRO to deal with the problem. Graham Clark, Principal of Homestead High School, said that each year they do large community out-reach programs such as Every 15 Minutes and Code Red. The SROs are invaluable at coordinating those events, which can involve as many as 40 or 50 other agencies. Jennifer Griffin, expressed her support for the SROs, and said that positive relations at the schools result in better behavior by students attending DeAnza College, and can serve as the first line of defense against gang problems, truancy, graffiti, and theft on campus. Ms. Griffin also cautioned Council against requiring residents to maintain the sidewalks, because if the City stops that maintenance the valuable street trees will be the next to go. She also thought it was important that legal notices go out on paper, since not all residents have . Council members discussed new items that they might wish to add to the budget, including the cost for sidewalk repairs. Atwood said that would be analyzed as a part of the fiscal strategic plan and the results of that study would give the Council a better sense of their options. Council members emphasized that, although there was a brief reference at a prior meeting to the possibility of someday having citizens responsible for sidewalk maintenance, there was no intention of doing that in the foreseeable future.

4 June 10, 2009 Cupertino City Council Page 4 Council concurred that they might wish to add these items to the budget, and asked staff for recommendations on how to fund them: City Channel re-cabling - $50,000 Website search engine - $50,000 Leadership Cupertino - $12,500 Dog park (5 options) Education/Outreach - $40,000 Fenced area - additional $40,000 Major park - $$300,000-$500,000 Use county property Placeholder amount (to be determined) Mandated loan to the State of California - $1.358 million (option #1) Linda Vista Park water feature - $700,000 Walk/bike to school program Council members discussed these items and concurred that they would remain in the 2009/10 budget as proposed: School field maintenance Heart of the City General Plan update Neighborhood/School Resource Officers (and can schools pay more?) Council members discussed these items but in the end there was consensus not to add them to the 2009/2010 budget: Skate park Additional tennis court lighting Sports court/pool at sports center Phase 2 of Stevens Creek Corridor Simms property Stocklmeier property City hall remodel Tank house completion Stevens Creek Trail to Bay monitoring Lawrence Mitty Park additional funding Stevens Creek Trail bridge over Union Pacific Railroad ADJOURNMENT OF REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY: RECESS OF CITY COUNCIL At 6:50 p.m. the Redevelopment Agency meeting adjourned and the City Council meeting recessed until 7:30 p.m.

5 June 10, 2009 Cupertino City Council Page 5 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 2. Consider General Plan Amendments, Application Nos. GPA , EA , GPA , EA , City of Cupertino, Citywide (continued from June 2). No documentation in packet: a) Adopt a draft Housing Element and forward to the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) The Housing Element was continued to this meeting for discussion purposes only; no action would be taken on the item at the June 10 meeting. Senior Planner Vera Gil distributed and reviewed documents titled Projections 2009 Frequently Asked Questions and Table F.4: Other Sites Suggested by City Council for Consideration. The City Council concurred that the Morley Brothers property, Glenbrook Apartments, and The Villages at Cupertino (shown on the top of handout Table F.4) should also be included on the list for consideration as Tier One sites. These items would be added to the other properties discussed at the Council meeting on June 2, (shown on Table F.1, page 17A-179 of the City Council packet). No rezoning is required for the Morley Brothers, Glenbrook Apartments, or the Valley Green section of The Villages at Cupertino. No rezoning is required for Sites 1-9 from Tier 1. Rezoning is required for Tantau, Pruneridge, North Tantau and North Tantau, which is now owned by Apple, Inc. Site 15 on Tier 1 is being considered a safety net site. Jennifer Griffin said that she feels the Council is allowing high-density housing in Cupertino without regard for any existing zoning. This is crowding housing in her neighborhood where the high school and junior high are already impacted. Tom Hugunin presented a list of possible housing sites to the Council at the last meeting. He distributed an updated list that includes possible sites for approximately 500 housing units. He requested that staff look at the sites to see if any of them would be viable options for rezoning commercial to residential sites. Aarti Shrivastava and Vera Gil will review the list. Keith Murphy asked Council to consider other sites in Cupertino for housing. He said that staff and Council should present goals, numbers and real information to the residents of Cupertino. This would reduce confusion and involve the community on a greater level. No action was taken on this item, and it was continued to June 16, Review summer schedule of Council meetings (continued from June 2). No documentation in packet. Wong/Santoro moved and seconded to cancel the regular City Council meeting of August 18. The motion carried unanimously.

6 June 10, 2009 Cupertino City Council Page 6 Council members concurred to review their workload again in July to determine whether to cancel the meeting of August 4 as well. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - None ADJOURNMENT At 8:52 p.m., the meeting was adjourned. /s/ Kimberly Smith Kimberly Smith, City Clerk Staff reports, backup materials, and items distributed at the City Council meeting are available for review at the City Clerk s Office, , and also on the Internet at Click on Agendas & Minutes, then click on the appropriate Packet. Most Council meetings are shown live on Cable Channel 26, and are available at your convenience at Click on Agendas & Minutes, then click Archived Webcast. Videotapes are available at the Cupertino Library, or may be purchased from the Cupertino City Channel,