MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL

 

 

SAN JOSÉ, CALIFORNIA                                                        SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2000

 

 

The Council of the City of San José convened in Adjourned Regular Session at 9:10 a.m. at the Willows Senior Center, 2175 Lincoln Avenue, San , California.

 

               Present:      Council Members -  Dando, Diaz, Fiscalini, LeZotte, Powers, Shirakawa, Jr., Woody; Gonzales.

 

               Absent:       Council Members -  Chavez, Diquisto (both excused)

 

               Vacant:       District 4.

 

 

PUBLIC HEARING

 

2             Public Hearing and discussion on the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund.

               Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services)

               (Continued from 8/19/00 and 8/22/00)

 

               Documents filed: (1) See the August 22, 2000 Council minutes for the hard copy of the Staff presentation. (2) See the September 5, 2000 Council minutes for memoranda from Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Director Mark Linder, presenting the Staff recommendations on the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund. (3) Documents submitted by five individuals who addressed Council at the Public Hearing.

 

               Discussion/Action: Mayor Gonzales called to order the third special public hearing the City Council has held in the neighborhoods for the purpose of receiving public testimony on the allocation plan, called the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund, proposed by the City Administration for allocation of the tobacco settlement funds which the City will receive. He stated Staff will make a presentation on its proposal for how the funds should be used, how the criteria should be determined, and how the funds should be processed. After this meeting, he stated Staff will take all the comments received from the public hearings thus far and prepare a final report on the criteria and funding process to be submitted to the City Council at its next meeting, which has been rescheduled from August 29, 2000 to September 5, 2000 at 1:30 p.m. due to absences on the Council. Mark Linder, Director of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services, presented the Staff recommendations, using a PowerPoint presentation. The following individuals addressed Council with various comments pertaining to the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund: Jose Mercado, Jr., Fair Exchange/Santee Neighborhood; Judy Chirco; Don Blankenship, San José Senior Citizens’ Commission; Thomas Frayne; John Cihi; Alice M. Frayne; Billie Wachter; Margo Leathers Sidener, Tobacco Settlement Resource Team; Linda Menker, American Heart Association; John Carson, San José Day Nursery; Danielle Boulé, Youth Commission; Forrest Nixon; Esther Rechenmacher; Beth Gonzales; Marty Peterson; Jane Hermann, Retirees Local 715 SEIU; Alex Bantis, Santa Clara County Office of Education; Candace Roney; Ken Hazen; RSVP; Nancy Bain, Family Education Foundation; Fred Hirsch; Ken Yeager; Helen Richardson-Davis, Evergreen Adult Day Center; Poncho Guevara, Assistant Policy Director, Working Partnerships USA; Jim Chou; Hwaja Choi; Minority Senior Service Consortium; Yolanda Garcia, Santa Clara County Office of Education; Tom McMahan; Claudia Torano-Taylor; PACT; Rosario Arias; Leticia Antonia; Joe Bolinar; Luam Tewolde; Frances Schwab, San José Senior Citizens’ Commission; Andrea V. Perry, St. Joseph’s Social Justice Commission; José Torres, Ph.D., San José Unified School District. Mayor Gonzales stated the public hearing on the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund would be continued to the Council meeting of September 5, 2000. By unanimous consent, the issue was continued to September 5, 2000. Vote: 8-0-2-0-1. Absent: Chavez, Diquisto. Vacant: District 4.

 

ADJOURNMENT

 

               The Council of the City of San José adjourned at 10:35 a.m. to meet again September 5, 2000, at 1:30 p.m. in Council Chambers, City Hall, for a continuation of the Public Hearings on the Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund.

 

 

RON GONZALES, MAYOR

 

ATTEST:

NANCY ALFORD

ASSISTANT CITY CLERK