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From YouTube: State of the City Address 2009
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Cupertino Mayor Orrin Mahoney presents the 2009 State of the City Address, recorded January 28, 2009 at the Quinlan Community Center.
A
It
is
my
pleasure
to
introduce
our
mayor
or
in
Mahoney,
everyone
I
think
in
this
room
knows
Oren.
When
I
came
to
cupertino
eight
years
ago,
he
was
very
active
both
as
an
employee
at
one
of
our
major
businesses
here,
HP,
but
also
volunteering.
His
time
working
hard
with
the
Chamber
of
Commerce
and
their
leadership.
A
He's
worked
hard
at
rotary
and
been
your
president
and
I
would
like
to
think
that
that's
really
the
route
to
public
services
when
you,
when
you
run
of
other
jobs,
to
do
when
you
have
to
just
keep
on
going
the
next
level
running
for
office
and
now
serving
as
our
mayor.
It's
it's
a
pleasure
to
work
in
the
city
with
somebody
as
as
astute
and
is
a
long-range
thinking,
is
Oren
mahoning.
So,
looking
forward
to
hearing
your
remarks,
horn
welcome.
A
B
Alright,
we're
good,
alright,
so
first
of
all,
I
want
to
again
thank
everybody
here.
The
three
organizations
that
that
put
on
this
event,
the
chamber,
a
rotary
and
a
city
and
you've
heard
earlier
and
you're
going
to
definitely
get
that
message
out
of
my
state
of
the
city.
This
place
is
very
unique
in
having
all
the
groups,
all
the
community
groups
work
together
towards
common
goals,
and
that's
going
to
be
one
of
the
themes
here.
So
the
title
of
my
talk
is
who's
our
city
and,
you
might
say
well
why'd.
B
He
picked
that
kind
of
grammatically
awkward
phrase
and
the
reason
is
it's.
Based
on
a
book
who's,
your
city
I
had
the
opportunity
last
september's
at
the
League
of
California
cities,
to
hear
the
author,
Richard
Florida
talk
on
this
topic
and
the
things
he
was
saying
really
resonated
with
me
and
with
my
experience
here
in
cupertino
and
some
of
my
other
experiences
and
as
I
thought
about
what
I
was
going
to
do
for
the
state
of
the
city.
B
I
thought
this
was
a
good
framework
to
do
it
in
so
Florida's
had
a
couple
of
interesting
thoughts.
The
first
thought
is,
you
know:
everybody's
most
people
have
read
the
book
or
know
about
you
know
the
freedmen
book
the
world
is
flat.
We
all
know
the
basic
concept
of
that
with
modern
communications
means
anything
can
be
done
from
anywhere
place
is
not
important.
That's
kind
of
the
message
that
book
and
Florida
doesn't
agree
with
that
and
I
think
people
a
lot
of
people
in
this
room
won't
agree
with
that.
B
If
you
remember
that
a
few
years
ago
is
going
to
be,
you
know,
since
Communications
was
there
all
the
people
are
going
to
move
at
a
Silicon,
Valley
and
move
to
stockton
and
modesto
whatever
that
didn't
exactly
happen,
and
it's
certainly
not
not
happening
right
now.
So
Florida's
messages,
in
fact
the
world
is
very
spiky,
is
the
term.
He
calls
it
and
if
you
look
at
a
couple
of
different
ways
of
looking
at
it,
the
first
here
is
population
population
centers
are
definitely
not
evenly
distributed.
B
There's
you
know
big
gaps,
obviously
in
Africa
and
stuff,
but
more
interesting
is
light
emissions,
and
this
is
really
a
proxy
for
economic
activity.
You've
all
seen
the
you
know
that
the
pictures
from
outer
space
with
you
know
different
amounts
of
light
glowing
and
that's
kind
of
a
proxy
for
economic
activity,
and
it's
probably
more
interesting,
but
where
it
really
gets
interesting.
B
If
you
talk
about
patents
and
if
you
talk
about
scientific
citations,
if
you
talk
about
the
future
of
what
we're
going
to
be
innovation,
entrepreneurial
ships
and
whatever,
this
is
a
much
more
interesting
view
of
how
spiky
the
world
is,
so
we
may
have
spikes
in
Beijing
in
Delhi
in
London,
and
certainly
Silicon
Valley
and
back
in
East
Coast,
but
when
you
get
out
of
that
area
on
any
of
those
countries
that
goes
down
really
fast.
The
next
interesting
point
that
Florida
made
is
is,
is
this
point
about
the
chicken
or
the
egg?
B
Do
people
follow
the
jobs
or
did
the
jobs
follow
the
people
and
traditional
wisdom
is
that
people
go
where
the
jobs
are
and
his
breakthrough
in
that
thinking
was.
He
originally
was
a
professor
at
Carnegie
Mellon
in
Pittsburgh
and
at
that
time
one
of
the
things
if
you
go
back
to
the
previous
slide
about
kind
of
you
know
the
the
innovative
areas
they're
all
started
out:
clustering
around
a
university,
typically
Silicon
Valley
started
with
Stanford,
spun
off
HP,
etc,
etc.
B
You
know
the
East
Coast
did
the
same
thing
with
the
universities
around
the
Boston
area
and
around
the
world.
I
think
that's
true.
Pittsburgh
went
through
a
big
transformation
a
few
years
ago
from
an
old,
rust
belt,
steelmaking
city,
to
a
pretty
modern
city.
Now,
and
a
lot
of
that
is
because
of
the
universities.
Are
there
carnegie,
mellon
university
university
of
pittsburgh
and
therefore
you
know
they
spun
off
innovative
companies
and
they
grew
up
around
there
and
the
model
was
working.
What
what
really
was
the
Epiphany
for
florida?
B
For
the
author
florida-
and
this
was
he
a
few
years
after
that
he
had
moved
back
to
boston.
He
picked
up
the
paper
one
morning
and
read:
you
know
in
a
business
section
that
basically
I
fit
the
company's
name,
but
it
was
the
poster
child
for
that.
Spin-Off
in
pittsburgh
was
moving
to
boston
and
he
couldn't
understand
it.
It's
like
well.
Why
would
you
do
that?
It's
certainly
not
because
it's
cheaper
to
be
there.
It's
not
because
it's
easier
to
do
business
there.
B
So
what
makes
a
great
city?
What
makes
a
city
that
that
will
attract
and
retain
the
type
of
people
that
we're
talking
about
here,
and
he
goes
on
to
that
in
his
book
as
well
and
there's
a
survey,
they
did
called
the
geography
of
happiness
and
they
had
27
thousand
respondents
to
this
and
they
all
ranked
various
factors.
But
in
the
end
those
factors
got
grouped
into
into
five
areas:
physical
and
economic
security,
basic
services,
leadership,
openness
and
aesthetics.
A
A
A
B
B
B
So,
first
of
all,
let
me
your
applause
is:
is
well-deserved?
That's
due
to
a
rape,
eat
and
Robert
our
audio-visual
team
for
the
city
Cupertino
for
those
of
you
who
don't
remember,
they
wanted
a
national
award
last
year.
They
are
the
greatest
people
in
a
world
to
work
with
and
did
a
fantastic
job
on
this
video
interesting.
B
So
let
me
go
back
down
to
those
five
areas
and
really
talk
in
a
little
bit
of
detail
about
how
we
fit
the
first
is
physical
and
economic
security
kind
of
on
a
Maslow
thing.
This
is
like
the
base
level
thing
that
the
city
should
provide
and
Florida's
definition
of
that
or
perceptions
of
crime
and
safety,
the
overall
direction
of
the
economy
and
availability
of
jobs.
Let's
take
a
look
at
how
cupertino
fits
their
ok,
Public
Safety.
You
heard
a
little
bit
about
how
we're
doing
these
are
some
statistics.
B
This
is
from
the
city
Cupertino's
annual
report,
so
that
kind
of
our
fiscal
year,
which
ended
last
June,
but
basically
the
trend
stay
the
same.
Basically,
things
are
stable
or
decreased,
which
is
great.
The
only
area
that
that's
increased
was
burglary,
a
lot
of
thats
automotive,
burglaries
and
actually
that's
probably
the
single
area
where
you
can
do
the
best
job.
Don't
leave
your
laptop
sound
when
you're
parking
at
the
elephant
bar
so
that
that's
really
what
that
increase
is
about.
B
There
were
a
series
of
thefts
and
not
just
in
cupertino
but
around
the
whole
Bay,
Area
and
whatever,
and
that
led
to
that
that
decrease
so
again
that
the
Sheriff's
Department
continues
to
do
an
excellent
job
for
us
there.
You
know
a
wonderful
organization,
but
many
people
don't
know
that
part
of
we
have
a
special
clause
in
our
contract
with
them.
B
Labour
force
again,
these
are
some
statistics.
One
of
the
kind
of
the
high-level
message
I'm
going
to
give
is
that
it's
not
that
there
aren't
some.
You
know
little
clouds
out
there
or
whatever,
but
you
know
you
heard
it
earlier
compared
to
basically
every
other
city
that
you're
reading
about
in
a
paper,
certainly
compared
to
the
state
and
compared
to
other
cities
around
the
country,
we're
in
very
relatively
good
shape
and
here's
an
example.
Jobs
is
a
key
thing.
How
do
you
feel
about
your
job?
Nobody's
job
is
protected.
I.
Think
everybody
knows
that
now.
B
If
there's
anybody
that
doesn't,
but
we
have
some
great
companies
here,
large
and
small
that
continue
to
do
well
continue
to
make
good
announcements
about
their
earnings
instead
of
bad
announcements
about
their
earnings
and
overall,
our
unemployment
rate
has
been
going
up,
but
as
of
October,
which
is
just
a
few
months
ago,
it
was
about
half
of
what
the
county's
unemployment
rate
is.
So
again,
you
know,
is
that
good
is
that
worse
than
it
was
you
know
a
year
ago?
B
Yes,
it
is,
but
you
know
relative
to
the
rest
of
the
economy,
we're
holding
our
own
and
that's
the
same
with
housing,
a
lot
of
what
funds
the
city
and
a
lot
of
what
how
people
feel
about
their
own
economic
security
is
tied
up
on
a
net
worth
and
a
lot
of
thats
in
people's
housing.
Again,
this
is
some
data
from
Silicon
Valley,
Realtors
Association,
you
know,
is
it's
going
up
and
to
the
right
like
it
used
to
know?
B
B
So
speaking
of
city
of
Cupertino
financial
plans,
we're
our
revenues
have
flattened
out,
and
our
expenses
have
gone
up
some
of
the
expenses
that
you'll
see
here
kind
of
the
dashed
line.
Those
are
some
projects
I'm
going
to
talk
about
later,
that
are
kind
of
big
capital
projects.
Those
are
those
are
fundamentally
done
and
and
in
the
budget,
so
we
don't
have
that
looming
over
us
and
they'll
be
completed
this
year.
This
is
all
so
I'll.
B
Just
stated
for
everybody,
this
is
the
2009
/
j
action
is
our
chief
administrative
director
of
administrative
services
got
that
right
this
time
and
she
is
very
fortunately
for
us
she
is
very,
very
conservative,
so
we
are
hoping
as
usual
it
that
the
revenue
thing
is
a
little
bit
higher
than
she's
projecting
and
expense
it
a
little
bit
lower,
but
the
city
is
doing
the
right
things.
We've
already
at
our
next
council
meeting.
We
don't
have
time
at
the
last
council
meeting
when
we
finished
at
2am
to
do
a
mid-year
budget.
B
Look
where
we're
going
to
take
another
million
dollars
out
of
the
budget,
with
some
savings
from
an
expense
point
of
view
and
make
those
numbers
look
better
at
the
end
now,
having
said
that,
the
general
fund
reserves
continue
to
do
well.
You
know
they've
dipped
down
primarily
because
of
the
capital
projects,
but
they're,
not
too
many
other
cities
of
our
size
that
have
you
know
15
to
20
million
dollars.
B
In
reserves
for
economic
uncertainty,
so
we
put
away
money
for
rainy
days
so
that
when
the
rain
is
there
that
we
can
actually,
you
know,
pay
for
an
umbrella,
unlike
certain
other
organizations
in
the
state
of
California
business
climate.
You
know
how
are
things
doing
so
last
year
we
you
know,
even
in
a
tough
economy,
we
had
27
new
businesses
that
open
a
lot
of
them
were
and
I'll
talk
more
about
cupertino
square.
B
A
lot
of
them
were
were
restaurants
in
the
food
court
there,
but
other
restaurants,
but
we
had
more
acai
and
some
other
non.
You
know
I.
Where
plays
hair
places,
you
know
wolf.
Camera
moved
into
the
city
from
out
of
the
city,
and
then
Susie
reminded
me
that
most
of
you
I
think
some
select
VIPs
here
didn't
get
in
because
we
ran
out
I'll
have
a
bag
there,
a
city
of
Cupertino
bag,
to
remind
you
to
shop
Cupertino,
because
that's
the
way
that
we're
going
to
keep
this
going.
We've
got
to
get
the
businesses
there.
B
We've
got
to
go
there
and
shop
there
to
keep
them
in
business
cupertino
square.
What
could
have
state
of
the
city?
Be
without
an
update
on
cupertino
square
actually
is
some
again
I'll
use
the
term
relatively
there's
some
relatively
good
news
there.
If
you
haven't
been
over
there
lately,
there's
there's
definite
signs
of
positive
life.
The
international
food
court
is,
is
open
and
about
half
full
and
the
other.
Half
are
people
that
have
signed
contract
and
they
just
haven't
moved
there.
B
Now
you
know:
does
that
mean
Pollyanna,
rose-colored
glasses?
No,
you
know
Mervyn's,
as
a
company
went
bankrupt,
Shane
company
has
declared
chapter
11,
but
they're
still
going
to
stay
in
business
and
they're,
one
of
our
top
tax
sales,
tax
producers
and
then
the
friday's
closed
and
again
that
wasn't
a
national
thing.
It
was
a
local
thing
where
the
owner
of
three
of
the
fridays
out
here
got
overextended,
who
would
have
thought
and,
and
they
just
ended
up
closing
but
again,
the
team
over
there
is
working
on
a
fridays
thing
of
releasing
that
space
and
stuff.
B
So
we're
cautiously
optimistic
about
the
state
of
retail.
So
you
know
what
about
it
as
a
place?
Are
people
still
investing?
You
know-
and
we
have
you
know
two
main
new
projects
where
that
at
least
symbolize
that
people
still
think
Cupertino
is
a
good
place
to
invest
their
money
and
and
and
that's
optimistic
as
well
as
far
as
looking
through
the
future,
the
Shah
she
hotel.
This
is
on
a
gas
station
site
down
the
block
here
kind
of
back
behind
target,
and
are
they
really
back
behind
the
marketplace
there?
Rainfall?
B
B
Another
very
exciting
project
is
is,
what's
what's
being
called:
Main
Street
Cupertino.
This
is
in
the
big
empty
land
along
stevens,
creek
boulevard,
in
fact,
the
same
land
that
we,
the
city
council,
approved
a
project
several
years
ago,
the
so-called
tall
brothers
project.
Now,
at
that
time
I
was
one
of
the
three.
It
was
a
3-2
vote.
B
I
was
one
of
the
three
people
that
approved
that
project,
because
I
thought
it
was
the
best
trade-off
between
some
benefits
that
the
city
of
Cupertino
was
going
to
get
a
three
acre
park,
some
retail
and
whatever,
and
the
price
you
pay
for
that
at
a
trade-off
you
make
was
some
significant
housing
and
and
therefore
we
impact
on
the
neighbors
and
and
and
perceived
or
real
impact
on
the
schools.
At
the
time
I
made
that
decision,
because
I
thought
well.
B
This
is
this:
is
the
best
project
we're
going
to
see,
and
you
know
if
we
let
this
go,
it's
going
to
be
a
mistake,
a
group
of
concerned
citizens
didn't
like
that
or
didn't
feel
that
that
was
the
right
trade-off.
There
was
a
referendum
and
that
project,
along
with
another
project,
got
overturned.
I'm
here
today
to
say
and
I've
said
this
in
public
on
and
the
City
Council
as
well.
I
was
wrong.
This
I
think
this
project
is
a
better
project.
So
I
learned
a
lesson
there.
This
project
contains
the
biggest
thing
in
here.
B
If
you
can
see
on
the
left,
there
is
the
town
square
right
to
the
left.
It's
got
retail
around
it.
It's
got
some
senior
level
housing,
so
no
impact
on
schools
and
it's
got
either
an
athletic
high-end
athletic
facility
or
some
more
retail.
That
town
square
is
going
to
be
the
start
of
our
downtown
I
mean
people
have
been
talking
about
a
downtown
for
Cupertino
forever.
This
is
going
to
be
that's
square
just
to
scale
it.
It's
point,
eight
acres,
it's
almost
as
big
as
the
whole
cali
plaza
in
front
of
their
except.
B
This
will
be
in
the
middle
of
retail
and
not
you
know,
abutting
to
four
lane
streets
or
eight
Lane
streets,
and
it's
and
it's
bigger
wood
yeah!
It's
it's!
It's
quite
a
bit
bigger
actually
than
the
whole
square
in
front
of
the
community
hall
between
a
library
and
air.
So,
if
specially,
if
you
block
off
the
parking
around
there
for
events
and
stuff
like
that,
this
is
I
think
going
to
be
the
focal
point
for
just
future
community
events
and
just
a
great
place
overall.
B
So
this
is
a
project
again,
it
just
got
to
prove
the
other
night.
The
third
project
that
got
approved
last
year
opposite-
and
this
is
what
it
looked
like
you
know-
an
artist
conception
from
the
ground
floor,
so
very
high
level
details
very
pedestrian-friendly
I
mean
it's
going
to
it's
just
Class
A
and
we're
really
excited
about
it.
B
B
B
Basic
services
are
again.
This
is
Florida's
definition
in
the
book:
schools,
health
care,
affordable
housing,
roads
and
public
transportation,
public
transportation.
You
know,
I,
don't
even
think
I
have
a
slide
in
that,
because
it's
not
certainly
not
our
strength.
Although
I'll
talk
about
the
new
bridge,
but
in
an
affordable
housing,
we
were
making
some
small
steps
in
the
other
areas.
As
you
know,
we're
a
one
so
schools,
you
know
I'm
not
going
to
read
all
this.
Our
schools
continue
to
be
award-winning.
B
Our
schools
are
what
keep
our
housing
prices
up.
Our
schools
are,
what
make
this
a
you
know
an
especially
attractive
place
for
the
kinds
of
entrepreneurial
and
innovative
people
that
that
I
talked
about
earlier,
so
this
really
plays
together,
and
we
want
to
continue
to
support
the
schools
in
any
way
that
we
can,
because
it
really
comes
back
in
every
way
into
the
community
and
the
high
schools
as
well.
B
Both
both
both
sets
of
organizations
are
just
you
know,
first
class
and
award-winning
and
I
think
everybody
knows
that
basic
services,
medical-
we
don't
have
a
big
hospital
within
the
city
limits,
but
we
certainly
have
access
to
two
of
the
key.
You
know
premier,
medical
facilities
around
El,
Camino
Hospital
is
going
through
a
complete
transformation
where
every
building
that
was
there
will
not
be
there
when
they're
done-
and
you
know,
I've
been
on
tours
and
stuff,
and
it's
really
going
to
be
state-of-the-art
in
almost
every
way
and,
of
course,
Kaiser
down
to
block
it.
B
So
you
know
affordable
housing,
I
wouldn't
say
it's
a
plus
for
the
area.
But
what
we're
trying
to
do
our
share
and
there's
still
a
need
there,
and
especially
for
senior,
affordable,
housing
and
I
know.
There's
some
plans
out
there
for
addressing
that
in
the
future
and
you'll
hear
more
about
that
sometime
in
the
future.
I
don't
want
to
give
it
away.
I.
B
B
B
And
many
other
people,
but
you
know
when
the
original
bids
came
in,
it
was
a
concrete
design.
They
came
in
way
over
budget
ralph
through
his
network
and
connections
and
experience
put
together
a
team
to
redesign
the
bridge
into
steel.
Have
the
same
look
come
in
under
with
the
final
bit
under
where
the
the
estimate
was
and-
and
you
see
how
fast
it's
gone-
I'm
not
quite
as
fast
as
that.
B
Little
clip,
but
pretty
fast,
and
you
know
it's
not
just
a
public
transportation
thing,
but
I'm
going
to
talk
later
about
aesthetics
and
the
important
of
that
of
the
importance
of
aesthetics
to
in
that
list
of
things.
That
list
of
things
was
not
in
order
as
it
turned
out,
and
so
here's
just
another
example
of
the
difference
that
aesthetics
can
make
in
an
overall
project.
B
Leadership
is
another
category,
and
florida
defines
leadership.
Is
the
quality
and
a
fickes
e
of
elected
and
unelected
business
and
civic
leadership
and
the
opportunity
for
public
and
local
engagement.
You
know
we
strike
a
home
run
in
this
area.
These
are
just
a
few
of
the
organizations
that
work
together
and
I
really
mean
work
together,
not
just
talk
to
each
other,
but
work
together
to
make
things
happen.
I
take
this
for
granted
because
I
kind
of
haven't
grown
up
in
cupertino,
but
I've
been
here
almost
almost
thirty
something
years.
B
When
you
talk
to
people
in
other
communities.
This
is
not
what
happens.
This
is
not
the
schools.
Don't
work
together
with
rotary
to
make
a
project
happen
or
quota
doesn't
do
something
with
another
organization.
You
know
the
Lions
don't
come
out
and
do
something
in
the
parks
here
or
whatever.
This
is
very
special
and
you
know
it's
it's
something
we
just
needed
to
build
on.
You
know
and
I'd.
Also
going
back
to
the
topic,
I
said
earlier
a
lot
of
times
when
we
think
a
leadership,
you
know
we
talk
about
city
leadership
and
the
city.
B
B
So
Aaron
is
Environmental.
Services
Manager
pretend
your
manager,
Environmental
Services,
a
new
person
just
came
into
the
city
about
a
month
ago
to
head
up
our
environmental
services
or
so-called
green
activity.
It's
very
broad.
This
is
obviously
an
area
that
has
broad
impact.
If
you
look
at
the
legislation,
that's
coming
down
to
us
and
the
thing
bottoms
up
from
people
what
they
want
to
do,
we
needed
somebody
to
coordinate
that
activity
and
that's
Aaron
and
get
to
know
her
better
that
that's
a
hot
button
of
yours.
B
B
And
I
use
that
term
because
there's
some
there's
some
little
contractual
things
that
we
hope
to
solve
at
five
o'clock
today
and
basically
finalize
that
so
carol
has
big
shoes
to
fill
I.
Think
those
of
you
know
that
Chuck
Killian
retired
after
many
many
years
of
service
here
so
she
has
big,
fills
big
shoes
to
fill.
But
myself
and
arrest
of
accounts
are
very
confident
that
she's
the
right
person
to
do
that.
So
you
know,
we've
got
great
city
staff
in
all
different
ways.
B
You
know
see
democracy
in
action,
since
that
happened,
I'm
glad
to
see
many
of
them
working
together
with
us.
Now
you
know
being
our
kind
of
community
voice
out
there
and
being
very
constructive
as
we
work
forward.
So
that's
a
it's
a
key
part
of
leadership
as
well,
a
key
part
of
what
makes
what
makes
a
city
great
openness,
the
level
of
Tolerance
foreign
acceptance
of
diverse
demographic
groups,
including
families
with
children,
ethnic
and
racial
minorities,
senior
citizens,
immigrants
and
gays
and
lesbians.
B
You
know
again,
you
heard
it
earlier
that
that
this
place
is
unique
from
that
point
of
view
in
Don's
inspiration,
you
know,
and
we
didn't,
we
didn't
practice
ahead
of
time,
but
Don's
inspiration
was
the
perfect
inspiration,
in
fact,
for
for
the
message
I'm
delivering
here,
this
place
is
unique
and
it's
not
just
well.
This
is
something
we've
gotta
deal
with.
This
is
something
that
we
should
embrace
I'll
talk
about
that
more
later.
B
This
is
what
makes
Cupertino
unique
and
positions
us
as
a
great
place
to
again
to
attract
and
retain
those
people
in
the
future
aesthetics,
physical
beauty,
amenities
and
cultural
offerings.
The
surprise
in
Florida's
book
was
in
you
know
he
puts
at
last
I
guess
just
because
he
wants
to
talk
about
it
last
in
the
chapters.
But
in
fact,
when
you
rank
the
factors,
it
came
out
relatively
high,
and
that
was
his
another
surprise
as
he
went
through
this
concept.
B
B
People
live
in
a
bay
area
in
general
and
Cupertino
and
specific
because
of
this
aesthetics
and
Cupertino
definitely
embraces
that,
not
just
in
the
parks
around
here
where
we're
which,
which
are
the
county
parks
in
general
or
whatever
they
were
associated
with,
but
with
the
things
that
we
do
within
the
city
of
Cupertino.
So
our
second
big
capital
project,
the
bridge,
obviously
was
one
of
those
and
again
that
was
done
in
partnership
with
the
valley
transit
authority.
B
We
did
not
pay
for
all
out
ourselves
and
even
Sunnyvale
chipped
and
a
lot
of
little
money
did
very
little,
but
they'll
get
to
go
across
the
bridge.
Do
but
really
the
valley
transit
authority
as
a
regional
as
a
regional
partner.
There
really
helped,
or
we
could
not
have
done
that
and
in
the
same
way,
the
stevens
creek
card
a
restoration
plan.
Many
of
you
have
seen
kind
of
the
work
activity
going
on.
This
is
a
really
big
change.
This
is
taking
changing
the
path
of
the
creek,
which
has
already
been
done.
B
Changing
blackberry
farm
from
Regional,
Asset
I'll
use
that
term.
You
know
something
where
there
was
parking
for
3000
people.
In
fact,
if
somebody
you
know
if
a
company
wanted
to
do
a
picnic
and
where
ninety
percent
of
the
people
that
reserve
picnic
sites
were
not
from
the
city
of
Cupertino,
it's
turning
that
upside
down,
making
it
a
city
of
Cupertino
project.
B
It's
a,
I
think,
a
17
or
ministry
14,
14
million
dollar
project,
but
not
all
of
that
is
city
of
Cupertino,
again,
partnership
with
the
water
district
partnership,
with
with
with
the
state,
getting
grants
and
again
the
city,
the
city
staff
is
absolutely
stellar
at
going
out
and
getting
other
money
to
partner
with
us
to
do
this,
and
let
us
do
this.
The
grand
opening
for
this
oh
and
the
key
to
this
is
a
trail
that
starts
on
McClellan
ranch
and
ends
up
at
stevens
creek
boulevard.
B
It
goes
all
the
way
through
there
and
ultimately
will
be
a
link
in
stevens
creek
trail
that
goes
from
the
bay
and
right
now
stops
at
el
camino
rial,
but
their
plans
to
have
that
move
through
and
go
all
the
way
up
and
into
the
hills
right
now.
We're
ready
to
do
phase
1
and
phase
2
is
on
my
list
of
things
to
try
to
move
forward
this
year
as
well.
B
These
are
just
some
activities
there
and
some
new
bridges
going
in
moving
trees
and
doing
some
things
and
a
lot
of
the
other
pictures
were
moving
to
creek.
So
it
was,
you
saw
them
in
the
video
earlier
kind
of
like
bare
ground
right
now
until
it
gets
restored,
but
a
great
project
when
this
is
done,
it's
going
to
open
july
4th
that's
going
to
be
the
grand
opening
and
there'll
be
a
series
of
events
there
to
celebrate
that
big
project.
B
Again,
thanks
to
our
Park
and
Rick's
people,
I
had
ended
up
by
mark
linder
and
also
obviously
in
partnership
with
Ralph
and
public
works
team.
Well
before
I.
Do
that
there's
another
part:
that's
going
in
this
year,
a
smaller
park
and
Sterling
Barnhart,
that's
going
to
go
in
and
and
that's
planned
it
to
to
go
in
at
a
part
of
the
city
does
not
have
a
park
today
we
try
to
have
a
certain
number
of
parks
for
each
thousand
people
or
areas
of
parks.
So
that's
another
one.
It's
been
missing
for
a
long
time.
B
It's
going
to
happen
this
year
for
those
of
you
who
drive
up
and
down
stevens
creek
boulevard.
You
may
have
seen
a
pretty
nice
looking
new
building
there.
That's
the
deanza
Performing
Arts
Center,
and
it
includes
the
eufrat
gallery.
This
will
be,
I
think,
the
grand
opening
for
the
center
is
march.
Sixth
and
the
grand
there
there's
an
opening
for
the
you
Fred
gallery
on
March
11th.
This
is
a
400-seat
er,
so
compared
to
flint,
which
is
2400.
B
B
You
know
another
interesting
thing
here,
and
this
is
just
one
of
the
more
recent
examples
you
know
for
a
long
time,
we
talked
about
the
Anza,
have
a
lot
of
nice
facilities,
but
you
wouldn't
know
it
from
from
the
city,
I
mean
everything
was
faced
internally,
the
old
student
union,
or
whatever
was
inside
once
upon
a
time
this
building
might
have
been.
You
know,
designed
to
show
its
back
to
the
city.
That's
all
changed.
B
So
what
are
my
goals
for
this
year?
I
got
three
I
have
three
maintained,
a
city's
financial
health
and
in
turbulent
times
we
think
we're
doing
okay,
we're
planning
to
do
okay,
but
it's
going
to
be
certainly
not
business
as
usual,
and
the
rest
of
the
City
Council
and
myself
are
dedicated
to
keeping
things
under
control
not
getting
in
on
things
early.
We
have
a
hiring
freeze
on
right.
Now
we
don't
want
to
be.
B
We
want
to
avoid
any
kind
of
layoffs.
If
we
can
we,
we
have
the
reserves
to
do
that.
We
certainly
don't
want
to
cut
into
our
public
safety
and
and
other
things
that
are
key
to
the
city
and
we've
never
done
that
in
the
past.
I,
don't
believe-
and
we
don't
plan
to
do
that
now,
but
that's
something
we're
just
going
to
have
to
continually
monitor
I'll
move
forward
with
projects
that
enhance
the
reasons
people
want
to
live
here.
B
You
know
most
of
those
are
in
place
now
and
moving
forward
to
in
most
of
those
means
you
know
going
to
the
grand
opening,
which
is,
which
is
a
great
great
thing,
to
do.
The
only
exception
that
I
want
to
at
least
see
given
some
of
the
budgetary
issues,
whether
we
can
start
to
get
really
serious
about
phase
two
of
the
stevens
creek
corridor.
I'd
hate
to
have
a
trail.
It
goes
from
McClellan
ranch
to
you,
know
three
quarters
of
the
way
to
stevens
creek
boulevard
and
has
a
fence
there.
B
So
if
we
can
do
some
kind
of
short-term
thing
to
at
least
get
the
trail
through
and
maybe
work
on
the
other
amenities
later-
and
I
know
we
have,
you
know,
grant
opportunities
out
there
or
whatever,
but
those
are
going
to
be
harder
to.
You
know
from
the
state
for
sure
and
some
of
the
other
organizations.
Those
are
going
to
be
I'm
assuming
increasingly
hard
to
get
and
then
third
build
on
the
inter
cultural
spirit
that
sets
cupertino
apart
and
prepares
us
and
our
children
to
thrive
in
a
modern
world.
B
I
talked
about
that
earlier
that
having
the
the
groups
that
we
have
here,
work
together
do
things
together
that
just
sets
such
a
great
example
for
our
kids
and
the
rest
of
the
and
the
rest
of
the
area
on
how
things
are
going
to
be
done.
How
things
are
going
to
be
great
in
the
future.
So
you've
heard
me,
you
know
that's
my
view,
but
let's
just
see
some
other
external
views
of
how
we're
doing
here
so
Ford's
magazine
recently
did
a
survey
of
America's
most
educated,
small
towns.
This
is
in
the
country.
B
This
is
not
on
Santa
Clara
Valley.
So
in
the
country
cupertino's
number
18,
you
know
based
on
a
number
of
advanced
degrees,
but
their
description
of
Cupertino,
their
capsule
description,
I've,
always
neat
situated
on
the
edge
of
several
state
parks,
cupertino's,
natural
beauty,
proximity
to
wine
country
short,
commute
to
San,
Francisco
and
santa
clara,
attracts
Silicon,
Valley
entrepreneurs
and
well-educated
researchers.
That's
a
great
capsule
that
you
know
that
some
sums
it
up
right
there
top
20.
B
This
is
a
from
a
few
years
ago,
but
I'm
sure
it's
still
the
same
again
in
whole
country
number,
seven
and
total
number
of
patents.
Just
kind
of
going
back
to
that
theme
that
you
know
this
is
where
the
the
action
is
for
innovation
and
entrepreneurialism,
and
that's
of
course,
based
on
on
our
companies
that
are
here
and
as
well
as
all
the
startup
activity
that
continues
to
be
here
as
well.
This
is
from
a
few
years
ago,
but
I'm
sure
if
they
did
the
survey
again,
we'd
probably
move
up
in
it.
B
B
This
is
an
ad
that
was
in
Harvard
Business,
an
ad
in
The
New
Yorker
for
Harvard
Business
Review,
which
is
a
magazine
again
targeted
at
high
level
CEOs
or
whatever
and
I'll
blow
up
what
it
says
there,
which
is
kind
of
fun,
says
you're,
already
a
valued
member
of
a
winning
team
when
you
work
with
Beijing
challenge,
Houston,
debate,
Cupertino
and
collaborate
with
new
delhi.
So
you
know.