TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 - 5:15 PM  
CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW  
COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND VIDEO CONFERENCE, 500  
CASTRO ST., MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94041  
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA AND NOTICE  
Pat Showalter, Mayor  
Lisa Matichak, Vice Mayor  
Kimbra McCarthy, City Manager  
Jennifer Logue, City Attorney  
Heather Glaser, City Clerk  
Margaret Abe-Koga, Councilmember  
Alison Hicks, Councilmember  
Ellen Kamei, Councilmember  
Lucas Ramirez, Councilmember  
Emily Ann Ramos, Councilmember  
Council Chambers and Video Conference, 500 Castro  
St., Mountain View, CA 94041  
5:15 PM  
Tuesday, October 8, 2024  
JOINT MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL (REGULAR) AND SHORELINE REGIONAL PARK COMMUNITY  
(SPECIAL)  
This meeting is being conducted with a virtual component. Anyone wishing to address the Council virtually may join  
Webinar ID: 843 5126 7142. When the Mayor announces the item on which you wish to speak, click the “raise hand”  
feature in Zoom or dial *9 on your phone. When the Mayor calls your name to provide public comment, if you are  
participating via phone, please press *6 to unmute yourself.  
5:15 P.M.-CLOSED SESSION  
1. CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT (OPEN SESSION)  
2. CLOSED SESSION (PLAZA CONFERENCE ROOM)  
2.1  
6:30 P.M.-REGULAR SESSION  
1. CALL TO ORDER/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE  
2. ROLL CALL  
3. PRESENTATIONS  
These are presentations only. The City Council will not take any action.  
3.1  
3.2  
4. CONSENT CALENDAR  
These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the Council or audience wishes to remove  
an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of ordinances and resolutions will be waived unless a  
Councilmember requests otherwise.  
4.1  
Acting as the City Council and Board of Directors of the Shoreline Regional Park  
Community, approve the meeting minutes of June 11, 2024, June 25, 2024, September  
10, 2024 and September 24, 2024.  
Recommendation(s):  
Attachment(s):  
4.2  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Accepting a Grant  
from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in the Amount of $25,000 and  
Approving an Appropriation Amendment to Increase the Fiscal Year 2024-25 Capital  
Projects Fund Revenue by $25,000 and Expenditures in Sustainability Project Capital  
Improvement Program (CIP) Project 20-99 by $25,000, to be read in title only, further  
reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Recommendation(s):  
Attachment(s):  
4.3  
1. Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Authorizing  
Temporary Closure from Public Access of 15 Parking Spaces Within Parking Lot 7 from  
3:00 p.m. through 9:00 a.m. daily, from November 1, 2024 through April 15, 2025;  
October 15, 2025 through April 15, 2026; and October 15, 2026 through April 15,  
2027, for Use by Santa Clara County’s Cold Weather Shelter Program Staff and  
Participants, to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the  
Council report).  
Recommendation(s):  
2. Authorize the City Manager or designee to enter into a no-fee license agreement  
with the County of Santa Clara for the temporary use of 15 parking spaces within  
Parking Lot 7 between the hours of 3:00 p.m. through 9:00 a.m. daily, from November  
1, 2024 through April 15, 2025; October 15, 2025 through April 15, 2026; and October  
15, 2026 through April 15, 2027, for use by Santa Clara County’s Cold Weather Shelter  
Program staff and participants.  
Attachment(s):  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Amending the  
4.4  
Recommendation(s):  
Senior Center Hot Water Systems and Community Education About Building  
Electrification Grant Agreements with Silicon Valley Clean Energy to Extend Project  
Completion Dates to December 31, 2025 and Authorizing the City Manager or Designee  
to Execute Ministerial or Administrative Amendments to the Agreements, to be read in  
title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Attachment(s):  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Directing Staff to  
4.5  
Recommendation(s):  
Apply for a Noncompetitive $148,010 Grant From the Formula Energy Efficiency and  
Conservation Block Grant Program, and Accepting and Appropriating Awarded Grant  
Funds to City Hall HVAC GHG Offsets, Phase I, Project 22-34-01 (Mountain View Senior  
Center), to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council  
report).  
Attachment(s):  
4.6  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Adopting Volume I  
and Mountain View’s Annex within Volume II of the 2023 Santa Clara County  
Operational Area Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, to be read in title only,  
further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Recommendation(s):  
Attachment(s):  
4.7  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Authorizing  
Recommendation(s):  
Overtime and Portal-to-Portal Pay for Employees When Staff are Deployed to Assist  
with Wildland Fires and Other Emergency Incidents, to be read in title only, further  
reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Attachment(s):  
1. Waive the City Council Policy A-16 requirement that ballot measures be referred to  
4.8  
Recommendation(s):  
staff for analysis by a majority vote of the City Council before Council takes a position  
on a measure in order to consider Proposition 5.  
2. Adopt a Council Policy position of support for Proposition 5, a statewide measure  
which allows local bonds for affordable housing and public infrastructure with 55%  
voter approval. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.  
Attachment(s):  
4.9  
1. Acting as the City Council and Board of Directors of the Shoreline Regional Park  
Community, approve deferring the bus lane elements of the project scope for  
Plymouth/Space Park Realignment, Project 20-40, to be a later phase of the project.  
Recommendation(s):  
2. Acting as the City Council and Board of Directors of the Shoreline Regional Park  
Community, authorize the Community Manager and City Manager, or their respective  
designees to amend the professional services agreement with BKF Engineers, a  
California corporation (Entity No. 599256), for Plymouth/Space Park Realignment,  
Project 20-40, to add $600,000 for additional design services for a total not-to-exceed  
amount of $2,155,565. Approximately 71% of the total costs from preliminary  
engineering through construction for the Plymouth/Space Park Realignment project will  
be funded by the Shoreline Regional Park Community Fund.  
Attachment(s):  
4.10  
4.11  
Authorize the City Manager or designee to amend the professional services agreement  
Recommendation(s):  
with BKF Engineers, a California corporation (Entity No. 599256), for SB-1 Streets,  
Project 23-03, to add $61,000 for a total not-to-exceed amount of $496,710.  
Attachment(s):  
1. Approve the acquisition of property located at 939 San Rafael Avenue (APN: 153-18  
Recommendation(s):  
-032) owned by San Rafael Partners, LLC, a California limited liability company.  
2. Appropriate $6.05 million from the Park Land Dedication Fund for the acquisition  
and closing costs of 939 San Rafael Avenue. (Five votes required)  
3. Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents and take all  
necessary action related to the acquisition of 939 San Rafael Avenue (APN: 153-18-  
032).  
4. Find that in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act requirements,  
under Public Resources Code Section 21080.28, the California Environmental Quality  
Act requirements do not apply to the acquisition of land for preservation of lands for  
park purposes; and acquisition of the property is categorically exempt under Class 25,  
acquisition to preserve lands for park purposes.  
Attachment(s):  
5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC ON NONAGENDIZED ITEMS  
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the Council on any matter not on the  
agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic within the City Council's subject matter jurisdiction for up  
to three minutes during this section. If there appears to be a large number of speakers, speaking time may be  
reduced to no less than 1.5 minutes. State law prohibits the Council from acting on nonagenda items.  
6. PUBLIC HEARINGS  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Approving a  
6.1  
Recommendation(s):  
Planned Community Permit, Development Review Permit, and Historic Preservation  
Permit to Construct a Three-Story, 5,733 Square Foot Building Addition with a Roof  
Deck Adjacent to an Existing Two-Story, 7,608 Square Foot Historic Building with Office  
and Ground-Floor Restaurant, and a Provisional Use Permit to Allow an Administrative  
Office Use on the Upper Floors of a Commercial Building on a 0.14-Acre Project Site at  
194-198 Castro Street, to be read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to  
the Council report). The project is categorically exempt from the California  
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15332 (“In-Fill  
Development”) and 15331 (“Historic Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation”).  
Attachment(s):  
6.2  
1. Authorize staff to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and  
Urban Development’s Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing Grant.  
Recommendation(s):  
2. Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View Establishing the  
City of Mountain View Acquisition/Preservation Subfund in the Housing Fund, to be  
read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
3. Approve and Appropriate $4 million from the BMR In-Lieu Fees Subfund to the new  
Acquisition/Preservation Subfund. (Five votes required)  
4. Increase appropriation of $4 million in the Housing Department in the Acquisition  
and Preservation Subfund for the purpose of implementing the  
acquisition/preservation program. (Five votes required)  
5. If awarded, authorize the City Manager or designee to execute the agreement and  
any required forms with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  
Upon execution of the grant agreement, authorize an increase in appropriation per the  
amount in the executed agreement, not to exceed $4 million, for the acquisition and  
preservation program in the Housing Department in the Acquisition/Preservation  
Subfund. (Five votes required)  
Attachment(s):  
7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS  
7.1  
Introduce an Ordinance of the City of Mountain View Amending Chapter 1, Article I,  
Section 1.2 of the Mountain View City Code to Modify the Definition of “Holiday” and  
Authorize City Staff to Return Directly to City Council with a Resolution Amending  
Section 8.05 of Council Policy D-7 Governing Holiday Leave for City Employees, to be  
read in title only, further reading waived, and set a second reading for October 22, 2024  
(Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Recommendation(s):  
Attachment(s):  
8. NEW BUSINESS  
8.1  
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Mountain View for an Exception to  
the 180-Day Wait Period, Government Code Sections 7522.56 and 21224, to be read in  
title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to the Council report).  
Recommendation(s):  
Attachment(s):  
9. COUNCIL, STAFF/COMMITTEE REPORTS  
No action will be taken on any questions raised by the Council at this time.  
10. CLOSED SESSION REPORT  
11. ADJOURNMENT  
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