By Robert Haugh
Tonight’s Santa Clara City Council meeting has a relatively short agenda.
Here are the agendized items:
- Closed session — Conference with Labor Negotiators — Employee Organization(s): Unit # 6 – AFSCME Local 101 (American Federal of State, County and Municipal Employees) Unit # 9 – Miscellaneous Unclassified Management Employees
- Closed session — Public Employee Performance Evaluation – City Attorney
- Recognition of Srivalli Adarapu for a Community Appreciation Project for JW House and City Departments and Anushka Jain for the publication of a book
- Proclamation of November 2024 as Sikh Awareness and Acceptance Month
- Action on a Resolution by the City of Santa Clara City Council Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation for the Hard Work and Professionalism of City Staff
- Consent calendar — Action on the Historic Preservation Agreement (Mills Act Contract) (PLN24-00264) for 1756 Fremont Street
- Consent calendar — Informational Report on Stadium Authority and Stadium Manager Meetings for the Period of April 1 to June 30, 2024
- Action on a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and Route Approval for the Silicon Valley Power 115 kilovolt Transmission Line from the Northern Receiving Station to the Kifer Receiving Station (Continued from October 8, 2024)
- Public Hearing: Actions on a Rezone from PD – Planned Development to HI – Heavy Industrial and Variance for the Property Located at 2201 Lafayette Street to Allow Reestablishment of Industrial Uses for a Product Engineering Development and Manufacturing Business
- Action on Resolutions Accepting the Benton Street Bikeway Planning Study, Selecting a Preferred Design Concept and, as Appropriate, Taking Related Actions Regarding Parking and Curb Modifications
- Report from the City Manager on the Request to Provide Information Regarding State of the City

1986
SC CITY COUNCIL STANDS ALONE
LEAGUE OF CITIES ATTEMPTS TO OPPOSE PARTISAN COMMITEES FROM MAKING ENDORSEMENTS
38 years later
Suds Jain seeks SC Dem Party endorsement
Jain endorsed.
But policy of Sc Dems
You get endorsement, you support other candidates who are endorsed.
Jain supports Park not ONeill
A rule of
Democratic Central Committee
Members alex lee, dave cortese, ash kalra are subject to it
Endorse only local candidates endorsed.
Kevin Park?
Kevin Sloat
Hired by 49ers to lobby for stadium
2009
Fppc determined Sloat’s violated the lae
Issued $ 135,000 fine.
49ers only professional team to be subject to fppc fines.
Thumbs down on the bike study.