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The following transcript is provided for your convenience, but does not represent the official record of this meeting. The transcript is provided by the firm that provides closed captioning services to the City. Because this service is created in real-time as the meeting progresses, it may contain errors and gaps, but is nevertheless very helpful in determining the gist of what occurred during this meeting. >> Mayor Reed: Good morning. I'd like to call the San José city council meeting to order June 15th, 2010. I'm sorry we're late, trying to be early. We are starting earlier than usual because we have a very long agenda today, and we'll do it again next week to get all of our work done before the July recess. Started with the closed session. We'll have a report out of the closed session in a moment. First we need to take up the orders of the day. Have a couple of changes from the printed agenda. Items 2.3A and 2.3B rules reports for May 19th and 26th will be deferred for one week. Item 8.2 on the redevelopment agency agenda, amendment to the inclusionary housing policy, will be deferred one week. One other change in the order of business today, 11.6, the Diridon station supplemental environmental impact report, will be heard first in the evening. And we hope to be done with the afternoon session. No promises, got a lot of stuff to do here. Any other changes on orders of the day? >> Councilmember Liccardo: Mayor. >> Mayor Reed: Councilmember Liccardo. >> Councilmember Liccardo: On item 11.2, I'd request a continuance until August. >> Mayor Reed: 11.2 is rezoning on the West side of north 3rd street. >> Councilmember Liccardo: Yes. >> Mayor Reed: And Hensley. Do we have a date in August? We can take that up at the Rules Committee meeting, we can pick a date. >> Councilmember Liccardo: That will be fine. >> Mayor Reed: Okay, so that will be continued until August, 11.2. Any other changes under orders of the day? >> Move to approve. 1 >> Mayor Reed: I have a motion to approve orders of the dare, all in favor, opposed, none opposed, that's approved. Closed session report, City Attorney. >> City Attorney Doyle: Mayor, we -- the council met in closed session this morning pursuant to notice. We were given authority to file a complaint in one action. We will reveal the name and the title of the action upon filing, upon request. >> Mayor Reed: City Manager. >> City Manager Figone: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. It gives me great pleasure to introducing to you, City of San José's new fire chief, Willie McDonald. As he's coming down I'd like to say a few things about Willie and acknowledge that his wife Barbara is here with him today. Barbara, if you could please wave to the council. Willie has more than 30 years of progressive experience in the fire service, with the majority of his career spent here in northern California. Early in his career he served as firefighter, paramedic, engineer, captain, assistant training officer, and deputy fire chief. For the last 17 years he has served as fire chief in three Bay Area communities: Fremont, San Mateo, and Foster City, as well as most recently in Scottsdale, Arizona, his current position. In Scottsdale he led and managed the city's transition from private fire protection to the city's first service municipal fire and emergency services department. He also created the city's first performance-based emergency ambulance service model with standards based on clinical criteria and performance measures. In addition, he instituted a fire department labor management team to foster a positive relationship with the fire employees. Other highlights of his career include the creation of a joint powers authority for emergency medical services which brought every city and fire department in San Mateo County together to provide advanced life support services which also led to a public-private partnership for emergency medical services across the county. Willie has a reputation for building strong relationships with community members, business and with fire department employees and labor. Notably he has emphasized to me his strong belief that a positive relationship with the fire union is the key to a successful organization. He holds a master's degree in business administration from CSU East Bay and a BA from biology from CSI Fresno. Willie is also a graduate of the executive officer 2 program of the national fire academy and the Harvard program for senior executives in state and local government. Willie will replace Darryl Von Raesfeld, who begins a well-earned retirement at the end of next week, after 33 years in the fire service, tremendous service to the City of San José. And Willie will start his new position with us on August 2nd. Please join me in welcoming fire chief Willie McDonald to the City of San José. [applause] >> Willie McDonald: Thank you. >> City Manager Figone: Willie, just a few comments for the council and the public. >> Willie McDonald: Thank you very much and thank you for the welcome. Mayor Reed, members of the council, I can almost not tell you how excited I am to be here and how honored I am in your confidence in me to lead the San José fire department. I wanted to be here for a long time and this opportunity for me is the pinnacle of my career and I really am looking forward to joining the family and working with the incredible members of the organization. So thank you very much for inviting me here and thank you for this opportunity. >> Mayor Reed: Thank you. We're delighted to have you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Mayor Reed: Anything else from closed session report? All right, we will take up the consent calendar. Before we do that, I just want to talk about the order of business today, it's in the agenda but it is different than we usually do it. Because of all the things we have today. So we'll take up the consent calendar, and after that we'll do the redevelopment agency agenda items, including the joint agency agenda items which would be 8.1 and 9.1. Then we'll go back into the 3, section 3, which we're skipping most of everything on section 3. And work our way through the agenda as far as we can until we get time to break for lunch. We will take up the budget-related items of section 3 at 2:00 and continue working through the rest of the items on the agenda, whatever's left, there will probably be a lot of them before we recess, sometime before 7:00 so we can start again at 7:00 and we'll take up 3 the environmental impact report that we mentioned under orders of the day first under evening agenda, then the general plan change, the administrative hearings and rezonings. We will be done sometime before tomorrow. I'm not sure what time before tomorrow. So that's the order. It's out of order because we started earlier in the day, and we have a lot more on the agenda and we're almost into July, that's the good news. On the consent calendar, what I'd like to do on consent calendar is a little bit different than usual because of our time constraints. I'm going to take all the public testimony on the consent calendar first, and then the council can decide if you want to pull anything on -- for separate action. So Mr. Wall, you had several tems on the consent calendar, so come on and talk, this is one action, so I'm going to give you two minutes. >> David Wall: First I want to say I can see why the Arizona boycott was softened with our new fire chief. With reference to 2.3, the CED agenda, proved to cast Councilmember Herrera in a false light. She was not as late to the meetings as her contemporaries, Kalra. All being so horribly late for today's proceedings. The agreement with David Powers, 2.9 is an ongoing quasientitlement which I think the auditor should take a peek at. That says enough right there on that agenda item. Item 2.14, Senate Bill 974, I believe that the city should actually support this, because it gives more competition to the allocation of these tax credits, and as a function of education for our youth. In reference to 2.18, the low income housing credits, I think these developers have been given quite a perk with the City of San José for all too long. Each time they get these tax credits, they benefit immensely not only for the housing credits, but also pressures then put on the back door not to allow for the funding of public parks that are required for these projects. So neighborhoods suffer because of these things. There's a tremendous housing glut already, and I say there is enough low-income housing tax credit. And closing on that issue, governments need some tax revenue instead of giving it to developers. I believe that concludes the consent calendar issue. Thank you. >> Mayor Reed: All right. Is there anything the city council would like to pull off of the consent calendar for further discussion? Councilmember Liccardo. >> Councilmember Liccardo: Just very briefly, mayor, item 2.13 and item 2.21. 4 >> Mayor Reed: All right, 2.13 is the downtown property based improvement district and 2.21 is the traffic control program for outdoor special events.

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