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Item 8.3. approve staff recommendation.

Item 8.2 Substitute Motion by Councilmember Davis Seconded by Councilmember Foley to approve Memorandum from Mayor Liccardo to 1. Accept Staff’s recommendations, with the direction to the City Administration to make the changes below to recommendation (a)(4): a. For the HHAP youth set-aside appropriation of $2 million to Bill Wilson Center, extend contract period to June 30, 2022. b. Expand Bill Wilson Center’s efforts under HHAP funding to include emergency shelter, transiti...onal housing assistance and rapid rehousing in addition to the Transition in Place program AND item #4 from Memorandum from Councilmember Jimenez to Provide a plan to each Council District that receives an emergency interim-housing development on how and when enhanced services will be implemented. Enhanced services include, but are not limited to: a. Increased police patrol; b. Proactive parking enforcement; c. Increased litter and blight services; d. Increased homeless outreach and abatement; and e. Other actions and services that enhance the quality of life around BHC and interim-housing development locations, to be determined in collaboration with the Council office AND Item #2 from Memorandum from Councilmember Jimenez to Review and revise the evaluation criteria used to determine site viability and readiness, specifically to: a. Reconsider all City sites that had been evaluated for BHC in 2017-2018 and deemed suboptimal; and b. Open up additional potential sites that had not previously been considered. AND accept the staff proposed plan for families. See more

Item 3.3 approved Memorandums from Councilmembers Arenas, Carrasco, and Esparza to request City Administration take the following actions and return to Council on May 5 with updates on: 1. What it would take to prioritize and quickly expand community Wi-Fi in San Jose, including: a. What would it take to substantially accelerate the planned deployment of Access East Side to Yerba Buena High School? b. What would it take to rapidly add additional schools, including expanding A...ccess East Side and potentially bringing this model to other areas that face similar need? c. What would be needed to invest in immediate solutions as part of our emergency COVID response, that address the lack of internet access in targeted communities? 2. Coordination with Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara County Office of Education on areas for expanded collaboration and specifically on strategies to identify reimbursable funding streams to San Jose or a partner agency, in collaboration with the consultants supporting our COVID-19 reimbursement funding strategies. 3. Work with the Santa Clara County Office of Education and school districts in San Jose, requesting a report on students’ emergency access to laptops and other web ready devices, gaps in online access, and distance learning plans. Request the underlying need they’ve assessed and the steps necessary in their districts to achieve universal access for students. 4. Request that the administration support efforts to outreach to private internet providers with suggested changes to their COVID-19 responses processes and end-dates. 5. Update Council on the role that digital inclusion fund grantees are playing in the COVID response and the role that community fundraising can play in the response. And approved Memorandum from Vice Mayor Jones to Accept staff report and add the following: A. Direct staff to work with Santa Clara County Office of Education to: 1. Identify the most heavily concentrated areas where digital connectivity is unavailable and students are unable to access education, 2. Locate sites, such as schools and parks, where a range of connectivity solutions, including Rapid Deployment Sites, and other technologies may be deployed. B. Direct staff to explore and determine appropriate short-term solutions for bridging the gap in connectivity until long-term solutions are identified. C. Direct staff to locate funding sources, including those reserved for digital inclusion grants for rapid connectivity solutions to bring access to unconnected areas as quickly as possible. D. Allow the City Manager to negotiate with Joint Venture and telecom companies to enter into an agreement to deploy a range of rapid connectivity solutions, such as rapid deployment of Telco programs and infrastructure and standing up Rapid Deployment Sites, in areas identified as highest need. E. Direct staff to return to Council May 5th with an update on the progress of the aforementioned direction. See more

April 21 (my Mom's birthday!) and consent calendar was all approved.

Tomorrow's Council Agenda can be found on our website here: https://sanjose.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx

All items on 4/14 were approved. item 8.1 is a lengthy motion. Memorandum from Councilmembers Carrasco and Peralez to 1. Direct the City Attorney to return with an emergency ordinance that would impose a moratorium on rent increases for units subject to the Apartment Rental Ordinance (ARO) during the declaration of the national emergency; and 2. Explore retroactivity to April 1st, 2020. 3. Explore the extension of a moratorium on rent increases to Mobile Homes ADDED LANGUAGE...Continue reading

Boards and Commissions Spring recruitment has begun. Planning Commission has four upcoming vacancies. Many other vacancies on other commissions as well. Apply by May 3rd for consideration for all.

San Jose Housing Authority Item approved.

Item 8.3 rent suspension did not move forward. Agendize for a future meeting without going through Rules and Open Government Committee an item related to a rent freeze, and define ways that any landlord that is receiving relief would be able to pass that on to the tenant. The City Attorney submitted a memo explaining that the rent suspension was unconstitutional, so the matter as it was written was not moved forward.

Item 8.2 approved. I was working on a technical issue and missed the nuances of this item. this will be included on our draft minutes later this week.

Motion 8.1 Approve the memorandum from Mayor Liccardo, Vice Mayor Jones, and Councilmembers Peralez and Davis to 1. Ratify the Shelter Crisis Declaration declared previously by the City Manager. 2. Direct the City Manager to reallocate $17,232,510 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) funds towards the lease, purchase, and/or construction of emergency housing, including prefabricated modular units, during the declared Shelter Crisis for individuals impact...ed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including: a. $13,000,000 that was previously directed for the development and operations of a potential navigation center b. $4,232,510 that was previously directed for innovative housing solutions And #2 from the memorandum from Councilmember Arenas to 2) Exclude from the reallocation the HHAP funding dedicated for programs that serve families with children (including Motel Vouchers and Safe Parking programs).

Item 6.2 approved.

Consent Calendar approved including Land Use consent Calendar (10.1). 3.3 Approved Councilmember Arenas's memo. 3.4 approved staff recommendation with amendment to section 11.b to say within 2 weeks of effective date for people who work in healthcare.