City of Cupertino, CA Apple Inc. related, 18 Apr 2016

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From YouTube: Steve Jobs' City Council visit in 2006

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On April 18, 2006, Steve Jobs visits the Cupertino City Council to announce the purchase of the Hewlett Packard property. In 2011, Steve returned to announce the plans to build Apple Campus 2.

A

Now the aura communication I get one card here: I start honor to have the Apple CEO mr. jobs to be here and sharing the information with a welcome mr. job.

A

You can use it anyone at the microphone there.

B

Use this one, if that's all,.

A

Right, we purposely set a very light agenda tonight, just to highlight your prison.

B

Guy I don't have much of a presentation. I'm, obviously just came down to tell you something alright and get your feedback on it. um When you know we, we started apple in my parent's garage 30 years ago this month. Also, as we started on April Fool's Day. No and after about a year, we moved to Cupertino. So we've been here for 30, almost 30 years and been here ever since.

B

What's happened at Apple is that our business is basically tripled in the last five or six years gone from six billion dollars in sales to 20 billion dollars in sales. Basically, and what that's meant is that our headcount in cupertino is dramatically expanded, so we are now. You know we have this great campus down near 280, but we are in 30 other buildings.

B

Now I mean we got we've rented every scrap of building we can find in cupertino and to put our people and they just keep getting further and further away from the campus, which is in the whole situation, is pretty inefficient and and frustrating it's it's inconvenient frustrating for people. So we decided many months ago that we need to build a new campus and we didn't think we could do it in cupertino, because there ain't much there ain't a lot of apricot orchards left in cupertino, so we figured we would have to go outside of Cupertino.

B

We looked and you know, there's you can get land a lot cheaper than you can in cupertino in some other places in the valley generally towards 101.

B

But after looking at a lot of things, we found something in cupertino that was a possibility, is more expensive, a lot more expensive than we could get elsewhere. But it was something where we could stay in the area that we liked the best, and so we've actually gone ahead and.

B

Acquired this property, it's actually nine separate properties, and by putting these together, we can make approximately a fifty acre campus and you know, put 3,000 3,500 people on so we've actually gone ahead and acquired all of this land and it's basically the land, that's on 280 and pruneridge, and tan towel.

B

That piece of land right across the street from then I think it's the Hundred Acre HP parcel and it's got buildings on it. It's already zoned commercial. Our plan is to basically take down all the buildings and put up some more efficient structures and a campus basically build something nice. So we're pretty delighted. I mean we haven't, started, designing anything yet it'll. Take us. You know three four years to design and get all the approvals and get it build and stuff, and when we're done, we plan to use both campuses.

B

We we plan to keep the one we have and have a new one and and we will be able to hopefully fit all of our folks on both of them and we're pretty thrilled and I just want to tell you about it, and so will start to start a design process in the next few months to figure out what we're going to do come up with some ideas, but I think we found a way to stay in cupertino and since we're your largest taxpayer I thought you might be happy huh and we'll probably get larger still.

B

So that was really what I had tonight to just tell you we're. We found something very unexpected and its cost. It's going to cost us more than we like, but hopefully in five years, we'll have forgotten about that. Just have a nice campus. Second, nice campus in cupertino. Thank.

A

You so much that's great news. It's really yeah wonderful news.

B

A

Let us know: well, we great.

C

Congratulations on your decision. We've all seen you grow and we many of us up here utilize your products both at work and at home. Okay and we've been hoping that as you expand, you would be able to find enough space here in cupertino, and so congratulations on being able to do that. Yeah.

B

And it was a long shot, but we sure.

C

It was we were very lucky, but we appreciate you as both an employer and a service provider. So thanks great well.

B

Thank you very much. We like being here mr. job.

D

I think Apple has always been an integral part of Cupertino, so we appreciate all the efforts that you put in in cupertino and we're looking forward to continued to work with you on a win-win type of situation, thanks again great well, thank you and congratulations to your anniversary, yeah 30 years Clary.

B

Yeah wow we're getting old.

A

See the Cupertino getting old, not you and I. Just wondering would like to mention that you're talking about developing that area- and we do have a sub committees called Economic Development Committee and you might want to send a rep to that committee to work with, and you know, maybe from there. We can help you with great.

B

Steps that will be great- and you know we'll- have I'm sure lots of approvals for the Planning Commission and stuff like that. To the same, we got to get our act together. First, so we got the land okay,.

A

B

You got to figure out what to put on it, but I think we come up with something real nice. It's.

A

Like you get a child and then you just tell how to educate that cha great, that's very key! You got it. You know vacation.

B

That's great I think we got the last the last one in cupertino to.

A

C

B

We're pretty lucky well. Thank you very much. Thank.

D

C

For coming sure, you knew thank.

D

A

What a great news! Mr. start, with yeah wow yeah.