Probably another long night. We were supposed to start with a closed session regarding labor negotiations, but it has been cancelled.
We start the evening with three different special orders of the day. First up is commemorating National Library Week. Then comes a proclamation for Equal Pay Day. The third recognizes April as Fair Housing Month.
Mark your calendars – the City of Sunnyvale will be having the Dedication Ceremony for the brand new Fire Station 5 on Saturday May 21st, 2016. This is a can’t-miss event, especially for kids, and an opportunity for the public to tour our newest, fully modern fire station.
Fire Station 5 has existed for decades as a single-engine station located at Mathilda and Innovation Way north of 237. As part of an agreement with the developer Jay Paul, the City entered into a partnership to replace Fire Station 5 with a fully-functional, modern fire station at its new location at Bordeaux Drive and 5th Avenue. The agreement has Sunnyvale swapping the current Fire Station 5 property with this new property (and gaining about a half acre in the process), with Jay Paul constructing the new fire station and paying for a new 100′ ladder firefighting rig (pictured in the flyer). The new Fire Station 5 sports the usual vehicle bays with modern ventilation, plus living facilities for the on-duty firefighters. In addition, Fire Station 5 includes a 25 yard tactical firing range for training our public safety officers. It has a permanent training classroom with modern A/V equipment for training and other meetings. And it has additional space for on-call officers who need to stop in to write up reports.
Note that our new rig plus two other new rigs all sport Sunnyvale’s new color scheme, as seen in the attached flyer.
In addition to the facilities constructed by Jay Paul, Sunnyvale has paid for an additional emergency services monopole (our second), which will be part of a new regional emergency response communication system.
This will be a great event, fun for the whole family. So don’t miss it!
There aren’t a lot of large items on this agenda, but we’ve got a whole lot of items, unfortunately. We carried over most of the general items from our last meeting, and almost all of the consent calendar was pulled by one councilmember as well, meaning we’ve now got a consent calendar of 17 items on top of eight general business items. So we may be at this for a while.
We start the evening with a rather long study session involving two items. The first has us looking at a study that was conducted to review water cost of service. The second is one that I’m looking forward to – an examination of the city’s IT services.
Another of those ubiquitous lists is out. This time, WalletHub looked at eight factors of personal finance to create an overall money management score. Out of 2,570 U.S. cities surveyed, Sunnyvale ranked 15th at best money management. The factors included credit scores, average number of late payments, and income ratios from credit card debt, mortgage debt, car loan debt, and student loan debt. Cupertino was ranked #1, with Saratoga, Los Altos, and Palo Alto also in the top 10. Mountain View was right behind us at #16, due mostly to mortgages and student loans.
Again, yay us, and suck it, Mountain View.
Priceonomics published the results of a study that took a look at the rate at which states and cities throughout the country click through banner ads on web pages. California’s residents ranked 39th most likely to click on banner ads, while our own Sunnyvale ranked least likely of all of the surveyed cities in the U.S. to click on ads. Yay, us.
Follow