As you may have heard, we voted 6-1 on Tuesday to hire Deanna Santana as our next city manager. I’m looking forward to her start on June 2nd.
The San Jose Business Journal just published an interview with Mrs. Santana that gives good insight into her philosophies and the approach that she intends to take in her new position. It’s worth reading.
Big night ahead. We get right into it after a closed session regarding ongoing litigation.
We start the general meeting with two special orders. The first acknowledges Teen Awareness Month. The second is a fun one – celebrating Earth Day by handing out green business certificates and by awarding this year’s Earth Day poster contest winners. There’s also a presentation on the current status of the Grand Boulevard Initiative, which should be interesting.
The consent calendar is pretty typical. We’ve got a contract regarding our recycled water pipes, another tract map, another investment report, and the second reading of the R-3 height change ordinance. There’s also a resolution so we can apply for various bicycle and pedestrian grants.
I had the pleasure of cutting the ribbon on the new Iron Construction building in Moffett Park today, and I was pleasantly surprised by the facility. It isn’t often that a ribbon-cutting catches me off-guard, but this one did. Moffett Park has a LEED Silver requirement, and the owners went to LEED Gold, which is nice, but they didn’t stop there.
Mixed bag, but probably a pretty quick evening in the end.
We start the evening with a closed session regarding the City Manager recruitment, followed by an interesting study session. We’ll be going over the proposed Landbank office complex on Wolfe and Arques.
NBC Bay Area has a good story about a driver owning his mistake in the Cherry Chase neighborhood of Sunnyvale. Very nice read.
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