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ACTION MINUTES
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Special Meeting
January 30, 2021
The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in virtual
teleconference at 9:01 A.M.
Participating Remotely: Burt, Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Kou, Stone, Tanaka
Absent:
Council Introductions – “Why We Serve”
Governing in a Disruptive Environment.
1. Consideration and Selection of 2021 Council Priorities.
MOTION: Vice Mayor Burt moved, seconded by Council Member Stone to
select the following as the 2021 Council Priorities:
A. Economic Recovery
B. Housing for Social and Economic Balance
C. Social Justice
D. Climate Change- Protection and Adaptation
SUBSTITUTE MOTION: Council Member Cormack moved, seconded by
Council Member Tanaka to establish “COVID-19 and Economic Recovery” as
the 2021 Council Priority.
SUBSTITUTE MOTION FAILED: 2-5 Cormack, Tanaka yes
MOTION PASSED: 7-0
2. Discussion and Possible Revision to Council Procedures and Protocols
Handbook and 2021 Standing Committee Topics.
MOTION: Mayor DuBois moved, seconded by Vice Mayor Burt to allow Council
Members to submit to Staff their comments by the end of February 2021
regarding the Council Procedures and Protocols, for review and discussion by
the Policy and Services Committee.
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City Council Retreat
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MOTION PASSED: 7-0
MOTION: Council Member Kou moved, seconded by Council Member Stone to schedule the Policy and Services Committee discussion of the feasibility of
a CAHOOTS-type program for March 2021.
MOTION PASSED:7-0
MOTION: Mayor DuBois moved, seconded by Council Member Kou to amend
the Committee topics as follows:
A. Finance Committee:
i. Move Item 7 (Fiscal Sustainability Workplan) on the referred
topics list to the Policy and Services Committee
B. Policy and Services Committee, to add the following topics:
i. Town Hall planning
ii. State Bill Advocacy
iii. Review use of Stanford Medical Center funds
AMENDMENT: Council Member Cormack moved, seconded by Council
Member Filseth to move Part B. iii. to a new Part. A. ii.
AMENDMENT PASSED: 7-0
INCORPORATED INTO THE MOTION WITH CONSENT OF THE MAKER
AND SECONDER to add to the Motion a new Part A. iii. “Item 3 on the referred
topics be amended to state ‘affordable housing funding’”
INCORPORATED INTO THE MOTION WITH CONSENT OF THE MAKER AND SECONDER to change the Motion Part B. ii. to state “State Legislative
and Administrative Advocacy”
INCORPORATED INTO THE MOTION WITH CONSENT OF THE MAKER
AND SECONDER to add to the Motion a new Part B. iii. “Discuss a report on
Tiers 1-3 of the Safe Parking Program.”
INCORPORATED INTO THE MOTION WITH CONSENT OF THE MAKER
AND SECONDER to add to the Motion a new Part B. iv. “Review and
discussion of proposed amendments to the Tree Protection Ordinance.”
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AMENDMENT: Council Member Kou, seconded by Council Member XX to add
to the Policy and Services Committee topics to discuss expanding the policy
for the groundwater protection program.
MOTION FAILED DUE TO THE LACK OF A SECOND
MOTION AS AMENDED: Mayor DuBois moved, seconded by Council Member
Kou to amend the Committee topics as follows:
A. Finance Committee:
i. Move Item 7 (Fiscal Sustainability Workplan) on the referred
topics list to the Policy and Services Committee
ii. Review use of Stanford Medical Center funds
iii. Item 3 on the referred topics be amended to state “affordable
housing funding”
B. Policy and Services Committee, to add the following topics:
i. Town Hall planning
ii. State Legislative and Administrative Advocacy
iii. Discuss a report on Tiers 1-3 of the Safe Parking Program
iv. Review and discussion of proposed amendments to the Tree
Protection Ordinance
MOTION AS AMENDED PASSED: 7-0
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 3:22 P.M.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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City Clerk Mayor
NOTE: Action minutes are prepared in accordance with Palo Alto Municipal
Code (PAMC) 2.04.160(a) and (b). Summary minutes (sense) are prepared in
accordance with PAMC Section 2.04.160(c). Beginning in January 2018, in accordance with Ordinance No. 5423, the City Council found action minutes
and the video/audio recordings of Council proceedings to be the official records
of both Council and committee proceedings. These recordings are available on
the City’s website.
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