February 2007 Meeting Summaries

City Selection Committee:

Appointed Dean Chu, Sunnyvale, to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to a four-year term, beginning in February 10, 2007
Appointed Kris Wang, Cupertino, and Barbara Spector, Los Gatos, to the Airport Land Use Commission. Both terms expire in May 2008.
Appointed Steve Glickman, Los Gatos, to the ABAG Hazardous Waste Management Facility Allocation Committee to an ongoing term.
After the appointments were made, the committee passed Section 5 of the Rules and Regulations of the Santa Clara County City Selection (CS) Committee: “Appointments. Appointees chosen by the CS Committee shall be an elected official of a Santa Clara County City or Town at the time of the CS Committee’s appointment.” The previous 4 sections were passed at the January 2007 meeting.

Board of directors:

Received a presentation from Ken Kirkey, ABAG’s Planning Director, on “San Francisco Bay Area: Focusing our Vision.” Ken discussed, answered questions and received input from Board members on making the connections on Urban Limit Lines and Infill Development; Climate Change, Resource Conservation, and Open Space and Agricultural Land; Infill Incentives, Fiscal Need, Revitalization, and the Regional Transportation Plan; and the Regional Housing and Needs Allocation (RHNA), Housing Cost and Production, and Affordable Housing.
Carl Guardino, CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, presented Their Silicon Valley “Clean and Green” Energy Action Plan and focused on three of the Initiatives: Cool Commutes: A Competition to Reduce Greenhouse Gases; CEO/Celebrity Challenge: Cycle-to-Work Day; and Municipal Practices and Standards for Green Building. Los Gatos Mayor Joe Pirzynski is chairing the Cool Commutes effort and Palo Alto Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto is leading the effort for cycling to work.
Discussed Policy Priorities for 2007. The Board chose the following three issues to focus upon this coming year:

The Board will also continue to share best practices of the 15 cities of the county and to collaborate with the League of California Cities on their goals for the coming year:

The next Cities Association meeting will be a Joint General Membership meeting with our City Managers on Thursday, March 15 at 6 pm at Michaels at Shoreline Restaurant in Mountain View. All council members are encouraged to attend. (A reminder: Please get your reservations in prior to March 7.)
Member Reports: Members are encouraged to share information about upcoming events, recent milestones, best practices, etc. with other Board members. Members reported that State of the City Addresses would be held in Los Gatos on Feb. 20, Morgan Hill on Feb. 28, and San Jose on March 7. Gilroy Mayor Al Pinheiro invited everyone to Gilroy’s Downtown Celebration of their newly designed downtown. Dean Chu, League of CA Peninsula Division Vice President announced the Bocce Ball Tournament on April 26.