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From YouTube: State of the City Address 2012 with Mayor Mark Santoro
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Cupertino Mayor Mark Santoro presents the 2012 State of the City Address, recorded January 25, 2012 at the Quinlan Community Center. The annual State of the City Address is co-sponsored by the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club of Cupertino, and the City of Cupertino.
For more information about the State of the City (SOC) 2012, visit:
http://www.cupertino.org
A
They
are
state
of
the
city.
Address
will
be
delivered
by
Mayor
Mark
Santoro
mark
was
elected
2008
to
fill
a
partial
two-year
term
and
reelected
in
2009
mark
has
a
PhD
in
electrical
engineering
from
Stanford
and
has
worked
for
apple
and
sun.
Microsystems
currently
mark
is
also
the
CEO
of
his
own
company,
a
design
software
computer
chips.
It's
my
great
pleasure
to
introduce
you
mayor,
mark
Santoro.
B
Thank
you,
I
I
guess
you
already
know:
I'm
mark
santarém,
the
current
mayor
of
Cupertino
and
welcome
to
the
state
of
the
city
2012.
This
is
the
part
Rick
was
going
to
put
in
the
fireworks,
but
I
guess
we
didn't
have
the
money
for
that
were
conservative.
So
anyway,
I
like
to
be
to
the
point
so
I'm
going
to
save
you
all
the
suspense
and
I'ma.
Let
you
know
that
the
state
of
Cupertino
is
good.
B
So
so
that
didn't
take
long
enough,
so
somebody
suggested
I
play
the
guitar
or
sing
or
dance
and
I
hurt.
My
fingers
I
can't
play
the
guitar
and
trust
me.
You
don't
want
to
hear
me
sing
and
I'm
not
about
to
dance
in
front
of
you.
So
one
of
my
council
members,
so
she
remain
nameless
for
the
point
in
time
said:
why
don't
you
juggle
because
it
a
event,
the
training
session?
One
time
somebody
tried
to
juggle
it's
been
about
15
years,
but
since
I
couldn't
any
other
we're
gonna.
Try
this
you
have
your
bump.
B
You
got
the
ball.
Okay!
No,
not
yet!
Ok!
So
anyway,
juggling
is
kind
of
I
guess
at
reasonable
skill
for
a
mayor
to
have
because
you're
always
juggling
lots
of
things,
sometimes
you're
trying
to
keep
certain
things
in
the
air
while
keeping
an
eye
on
something
else.
So,
however,
I
think
the
most
important
thing
with
being
able
to
juggle
when
you're
the
mayor
is
making
sure
that
someone's
got
your
back.
B
B
Okay,
I
see
by
my
watch.
I
got
to
feel
a
little
more
time.
So
so
not
only
is
the
state
of
the
city
good,
but
cupertino
is
a
great
place
to
live
in
I
know
all
of
us
that
live
here,
love
it
and
we're
going
to
run
a
little
video
that
the
staff
is
prepared
to
show
you
just
how
wonderful
a
place
it
is
here
in
cupertino.
C
C
The
city
offers
a
bounty
of
leisure
activities,
hiking
and
nearby
open
space
preserves
attending
out
for
concerts
and
festivals,
wine-tasting,
golfing
and
participating
in
thousands
of
city-sponsored
recreational
programs
and
classes
for
all
ages.
The
Cupertino
community
is
made
up
of
residents
from
every
part
of
the
world
drawn
to
the
city
by
its
job
opportunities
and
outstanding
public
schools.
Here
education
is
a
strong
community,
valued
more
than
half
of
the
residents
hold
college
degrees
and
the
high
school
graduation
rate
at
ninety-five
percent
is
one
of
the
highest
in
the
country.
C
C
B
C
Office
and
shopping
complexes
and
beautiful
parks
and
open
spaces
are
hallmarks
of
this
vibrant
city.
A
well-informed
in
diverse
citizenry
and
an
open
inclusive
government
are
key
components:
innkeeper
in
cupertino
the
dynamic
and
progressive
city
that
it
is
with
its
strong
community
values
and
healthy
economic
base.
The
city
of
Cupertino
will
continue
to
move
forward,
enhancing
innovative
solutions,
creating
community
partnerships
and
continually
exploring
new
ideas
for
a
better
tomorrow.
B
Makes
you
wish
you
live
there?
Doesn't
it
so?
Yes,
the
state
of
the
city
is
good.
It's
a
wonderful
place
to
live,
but
not
only
is
the
video
thinks
so
our
residents
think
so
in
a
recent
survey.
Ninety-Five
percent
of
the
residents
love
living
at
Cupertino,
and
not
only
do
we
know
it,
but
Forbes
knows
it
as
well.
Cupertino
was
ranked
fifth
on
their
list
of
towns
to
live
well
in
and
we're
going
to
get
even
better
I
hate.
B
Being
fifth
I
would
be
number
one,
so
we're
adding
a
lot
of
new
things
coming
up,
there's
Main
Street,
which
will
give
our
residents
their
long
wanted
downtown
area.
The
Rose
Bowl
project,
which
has
broken
ground
out,
hopefully
will
continue
to
march
forward.
Olmsted
shopping
center
is
being
upgraded
crossroads,
retail
is
also
being
upgraded.
Things
are
just
not
sitting
still
in
town.
Cupertino
village
is
adding
a
couple
new
buildings
in
a
parking
structure.
B
The
little
fruit
company
down
the
streets
going
to
land-
something
here
at
some
point:
rumor
has
it
stevens
creek
trail
has
been,
you
know,
renewed
and
restored,
and
also
the
creek
itself
has
been
restored.
If
these
pictures
were
actually
the
creek
after
restoration,
it
looks
like
it's
been
there
for
a
hundred
years.
It's
a
phenomenally
good
job
for
anybody
who
hasn't
been
out
to
to
that
area.
Looked
at
the
creek
or
a
blackberry,
farm
and
Cupertino
is
also
financially
strong.
B
We've
had
the
luxury
of
not
having
our
property
values,
crater
like
most
of
the
country,
so
our
property
tax
revenues
that
remain
fairly
intact.
Also,
our
businesses
have
been
doing
well,
so
our
sales
tax
revenue,
retail
revenue
has
done
quite
well.
What
that
means
is
we
haven't
had
such
a
big
hit
in
revenue
in
some
areas
and
therefore
it's
allowed
us
to
keep
our
services
of
so
our
expenditures
have
remained
relatively
intact.
We've
tighten
their
belt
a
little
bit
and
I
must
say.
B
The
council
was
good
about
in
the
city
about
tightening
the
belt
long
before
everyone
else
realized.
There
was
a
problem
coming
to
make
sure
that
we
kept
our
money
in
place,
we're
a
lot
better
shape
in
our
surrounding
cities.
Gilroys
lost
71
city
workers,
Santa
Clara
lost
more
than
100
well,
Seattle's
lost,
eight
percent
of
their
workforce,
Cupertino's
lost
zero
city
workers.
We
maintain
our
level
of
services
that
our
residents
have
come
to
expect
and
I
think
deserve.
B
B
Thought
the
yo-yo
thing
went
well
with
the
next
group,
which
is
their
schools,
even
though
Ward
winter
might
have
gotten
me
in
trouble
of
heat,
so
I
mean
doing
that
class
but
anyway,
so
now
you
know
how
I
spent
my
youth,
so
we
also
have
some
of
the
best
schools
in
the
country,
our
elementary
schools
for
10th
highest
performing
district
in
the
state,
with
an
average
API
scores
of
a
phenomenal
955
they'd
received
numerous
awards.
Our
high
schools
are
no
slouches
either.
B
Every
single
Cupertino
high
school
is
on
Newsweek
magazine's
list
of
top
high
schools
in
the
nation,
everyone
and
seventy-seven
percent
of
our
students
when
they
graduate
go
immediately
to
college
just
a
phenomenally
good
record.
They
do
other
things
as
well.
For
those
of
you
don't
know
our
local
homestead
band
played
in
the
Macy's
Day
Parade.
They
were
one
of
only
ten
schools
selected
to
play
in
that
parade,
so
it's
phenomenal
honor
and
you
should
hear
them
sometimes
or
they're
very
impressive,
or
should
go
back
and
look
on
youtube
and
find
a
video
of
the
parade.
B
One
other
thing
I'm
going
to
mention.
We
gave
this
young
lady
wore
the
other
day.
Angela
John
is
the
winner
of
the
seamen's
scholarship
for
math,
science
and
technology.
This
is
a
national
competition.
There
were
thousands
of
kids
that
participated.
She
came
in
first
number,
one.
What
she
did
was
quite
incredible:
she's
only
17
she's,
a
senior
Monta
Vista.
She
got
ability.
Do
some
research,
also
at
Stanford
and
she's
developed.
What
may
turn
out
to
be
a
new
cure
for
cancer.
B
Bleeder
she's
combined
a
gold
molecule
with
some
iron
oxide
managed
to
attach
a
drug
to
it
and
then
have
it
delivered
to
the
site,
work
actually
glom
onto
the
stem
cells
in
the
cancer
cancer
stem
cells
and
then
by
hitting
it
with
a
light,
it
releases
the
medicine,
and
so
it's
worked
phenomenally
well
in
early
test,
and
it's
just
an
amazing
thing:
it's
whenever
I
look
at
our
youth
in
this
town,
I
think
we're
in
good
hands.
So
our
schools
are
just
amazingly
good.
B
Unfortunately,
even
in
a
great
place,
bad
things
can
happen.
Last
year
the
city
lost
to
our
own
employees,
John
records
and
Robert
Hooke.
We
had
some
issues
with
some
gas
lines
in
town
and
we
had
a
shooting
at
a
nearby
cupertino
a
cement
plant.
I
want
to
stress
the
news
got
this
wrong:
the
shooting
was
not
in
cupertino
was
in
Santa,
Clara
County,
sorry,
flows
from
County
and
in
the
later
potential
car
hijacking
also
was
not
include
routine.
B
B
D
E
B
So
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Steve
Jobs.
Personally,
it
was
a
wonderful
company
to
work
for
many
years
ago.
I
still
love
the
products.
I'm
happy
I've
got
one
sitting
right
here
that
them
cheating
from
so
in
our
community.
Lots
of
people
have
lots
of
requests.
You
know.
Can
we
have
this?
Can
we
have
that?
What
do
you
guys
think
and
one
of
the
important
things
that
the
City
Council
does
is
try
to
provide
what
our
residents
want
and
need
so
I
thought
I'd
talk
about
now.
B
So
there's
a
lot
bigger,
listen
to
this,
but
some
of
the
things
that
councils
done
in
the
last
few
years
approved
and
helped
happen
in
the
community.
The
first
thing
we
were
asked
for
was
additional
library
hours.
The
council
is
not
only
in
the
last
three
years,
kept
the
additional
libraries
open,
but
last
year
we
even
voted
to
increase
the
number
of
hours
in
the
library
so
I'm
going
to
give
us
a
check
mark
for
that
I
think
we
succeeded
very
well.
B
The
library
fountains
were
shut
down
by
the
county
temporarily.
We
had
to
retrofit
them
and
spend
a
lot
of
money
on
them,
and
I
must
say
that
not
as
exciting
right
now,
but
when
summer
comes
the
fountains
are
back
on.
So
I
think
we
got
to
check
mark
for
that.
One
traffic
congestion
around
the
schools
has
been
an
ongoing
problem
and
there's
quite
a
few
things
that
had
been
done
to
address
traffic
congestion.
When
I
first
got
on
the
council,
people
said:
don't
even
try.
B
It's
just
keeps
getting
worse,
there's
nothing
you
can
do,
but
the
council
has
actually
added
new
crossing
guards
and
striping.
We
started
the
work
bike,
walk
bike
carpool
to
school
program
which
out
of
that
came,
the
now-famous
Wow
walk
one
week
program
and
that
it's
clear
to
me
that
Shelley's,
better
at
acronyms
than
I,
am
because
nobody
remembers
WBC
that
everybody
remembers
wow.
So
that's
why
we
put
the
teens
on
that
there's
RFID
tag
system
at
Lincoln
and
Kennedy
to
monitor
bicycles.
B
However
notice
I
didn't
give
us
a
check
on
this
one.
That's
because
it's
gotten
better
in
the
last
few
years,
but
certainly
there's
still
more
work
to
be
done
so
I
think
we're
going
to
continue
working
in
that
try
to
make
it
even
better.
Next
blackberry
farm
was
renovated.
You
see
the
new
pool
slide
here,
so
that
turned
out
marvelously
well
for
any
of
you
who
haven't
been
there
and
as
I
mentioned
before,
the
creek
restoration
has
done
fine
job
on
that.
B
B
We
provided
an
access
path
through
scenic
circle,
for
kids
to
have
a
safer
route
to
school,
so
they
can
go
through
there
and
I
talked
to
some
people
the
other
day,
and
they
said
a
lot
of
kids
are
using
that
to
get
to
school,
so
give
us
a
check
for
that.
We've
also
been
asked
to
fix
the
roads,
and
this
is
an
ongoing
thing,
but
you
should
know
that
the
council
has
increased
funding
for
road
repairs
at
the
city,
spins
and
road
repairs
every
year
for
the
past
three
years.
B
The
other
thing
we
did
is
for
this.
Anybody
doesn't
know.
My
big
thing
is
open
and
transparent
government
we've
actually
put
a
list
on
the
cupertino
website.
It's
at
cupertino
dark,
/
roads.
You
can
go
there
and
you
can
see
rating
at
every
single
Road
in
the
city.
So,
if
you
think
your
roads
tore
up,
you
can
see
how
it
compares
to
other
roads
in
the
city
which
will
give
you
an
idea
of
how
far
down
the
list
it
is
to
be
fixed.
B
So
they're
all
done
scientifically
and
they're
all
listed
there
for
everyone
to
see.
So
nothing
is
hidden
from
anyone.
So
continue
around
with
that
transparent
government
thing.
I
believe
government
needs
to
be
for
its
people
and
to
be
for
your
people.
Your
people
have
to
know
what
you're
doing
so.
We
put
a
lot
of
effort
here
in
cupertino
into
making
things
more
transparent.
B
I
noticed
in
the
last
year,
I
think
that
the
community
as
a
whole
seems
to
be
much
more
favorable
towards
the
city
staff,
and
I
think
part
of
that
is
just
they
know
more
about
what's
going
on,
and
that
tends
to
ensue
more
now,
relative
to
the
council.
That's
hard
to
save
you
know
elected
officials.
So
what
can
you
do
a
little
a
little
a
little
concern
over
your
government
is
always
a
healthy
thing.
I
think,
but
government
certainly
owes
it
to
the
residents
to
tell
you
what
you're
doing
so.
B
We've
added
some
a
lot
of
ways
to
communicate
with
City
Hall.
You
can
see,
there's
old
fashioned
ones
like
walk-in
talk
to
people.
It's
always
a
good
one
use
the
telephone,
there's
also
a
lot
of
new
things.
One
that's
just
been
brought
online.
It's
called
ready,
950
14,
it's
an
app
that
runs
on
guess
what
iphones
and
ipads
and
if
you
happen
to
have
an
emergency.
If
you
love
that
app
it'll
tell
you
what
to
do
in
case
of
that
emergency.
Now
things
are
getting
better.
They
weren't
always
perfect.
B
In
fact,
when
I
first
got
on
the
council,
we
had
an
abysmal
data
rate
coming
out
of
City
Hall.
If
anyone
tried
five
years
ago
to
download
a
council
packet,
it
was
very
difficult,
very
time-consuming.
So
we've
now
upgraded
the
bandwidth
into
the
city
by
10,
eggs
and
things
are
better
there's
a
lot
less
complaints,
but
I
still
think
we
need
to
do
better
than
that.
B
I
think
they're,
streaming,
videos,
there's
packets,
there's
a
lot
of
stuff
need
to
be
downloaded,
so
I've
been
working
with
staff
and
they
have
not
had
a
request
out
for
a
quote
to
increase
that
bandwidth,
another
10
X.
So
at
that
point
will
we
should
have
over
100
megabits
per
second,
which
should
be
sufficient,
at
least
for
the
next
couple
years
for
our
residents.
B
Finally,
I'd
like
to
kind
of
wrap
up
by
introducing
three
new
things,
the
first
of
which
you
all
mostly
know
about
by
now
is
called
meet
mayor
mark.
So
it's
going
to
be
on
Wednesday
following
the
first
council
meeting
of
the
month.
So
first
council
meeting
is
the
first
Tuesday
so
that
Wednesday,
following
a
council
meeting
from
4
to
5
30
in
City
Hall
in
the
OC
room,
I'll,
be
there
hopefully
I,
remember
to
bring
some
drinks
or
cookies
or
something,
and
anybody
who
wants
to
come
is
welcome
to
come
and
sit
down.
B
B
The
next
thing
I'd
like
to
talk
about
our
businesses
in
cupertino.
We
have
a
lot
of
them
and
I
think
they
can
use
our
help.
Roll
the
video.
So
what
you
see
here
is
a
list
of
business
like
people
have
business
licenses
in
cupertino
now
you're
going
to
notice.
This
list
start
speeding
up
and
the
reason
it's
speeding
up
is
if
we
ran
it
at
a
speed
where
you
could
read
all
of
them.
B
We
would
be
here
for
a
really
long
time
and
you
all
know
how
I
like
to
not
talk
for
too
long,
so
we
sped
the
list
up
to
roll
by
and
it
turns
out.
This
is
only
a
partial
list.
This
doesn't
even
include
some.
More
thousand
names
doesn't
even
include
the
thousand
home-based
businesses
plus
in
cupertino,
so
we
have
a
lot
of
businesses
in
cupertino
a
lot.
B
There
we
go
and
we're
going
to
do
some
things
to
help
them.
The
first
thing
is
already
fallen
into
place.
This
is
a
slide
from
the
our
schools,
deca
club
and
there's
a
program
called
at
Cupertino
and
a
Cupertino
is
being
put
on
by
the
Chamber
of
Commerce
and
valko
shopping
mall
and
what
it
is
is
on
februari
10
through
12.
You
can
actually
worried
about
that.
You
can
actually
show
up
and
in
to
valco
or
marketplace
and
get
big
discounts.
In
fact,
here's
a
list
of
the
discounts
and
you
see
they're
fairly
substantial.
B
B
So
the
goal
of
this
is
to
help
our
small
businesses
do
better,
and
so
it's
just
a
workshop
to
run
a
bunch
of
ideas
by
to
try
to
give
us
some
better
ideas.
They're,
certainly
the
chamber
has
done
things
the
city's
done
things
but
I
think
there's
some
more
good
ideas
coming
out
and
that
will
be
held
tuesday
may
29th
from
12
to
4
in
community
hall.
So
hopefully
a
lot
of
you,
small
business
people,
there's
a
thousand
of
you
a
couple
thousand
of
you.
Hopefully
many
of
you
can
attend.
B
Finally,
people
make
a
community
cupertino,
as
you
all
know,
is
one
of
the
most
diverse
communities
cities
in
the
world.
Our
diversity
makes
us
a
great
place
to
live.
It
gives
us
wonderful
places
to
eat.
Great
festivals,
like
Diwali,
shows
wonderful
dances
of
all
different
types,
and
for
those
of
you
don't
know,
we
have
the
best
cricket
team
in
the
country.
Now.
So
there's
a
lot
to
that.
Many
of
you,
like
me,
probably
move
to
Cupertino
because
of
its
diversity.
Some
cities,
diversity
is
happens
in
it
and
it's
not
a
good
thing
in
cupertino.
B
B
We're
perhaps
one
of
the
best
examples
in
the
world
of
how
different
groups
can
make
a
community
better,
stronger,
more
fun
and
more
successful.
I
think
Cupertino's
a
shining
example
for
the
rest
of
the
world,
how
everyone
can
and
should
live
together,
but
I
think
we
can
do
even
better
rather
than
just
happen
and
naturally
occurring
I
think
we
can
also
leverage
that
process
more.
We
can
advertise
it.
B
We
can
make
it
clear
to
the
rest
of
the
world
what
we're
all
about
here
in
cupertino,
so
it
like
to
announce
the
leveraging
ethnic
diversity
workshop,
led
drinky
name
like
once
again.
I
need
to
show
these
health
for
that
acronym.
But
so
this
workshop
is
going
to
be
a
workshop
put
on
later
this
year
and
it's
actually
going
to
so.
B
The
question
is
who's
the
best
person
to
put
this
on,
and
it
suddenly
occurred
to
me
that
I
used
the
liaison
for
the
Sister
Cities
last
few
years,
and
this
is
what
better
grouped
and
sister
city
people
they
already
work
with
different
diverse
cultures.
They
understand
the
city,
they
understand
a
lot
of
different
cultural
things,
so
I'm
here
to
say
that
we
have
three
official
sister
cities
right
now:
toyokawa
shin-soo
and
booba,
nishma
and
India,
and
we
have
a
new
sister
city.
B
That's
that's
applying
to
become
a
sister
city
in
the
future
in
China,
and
those
four
groups
have
all
graciously
agreed
to
come
in
and
help
run
this
workshop
to
see.
If
there's
some
things,
we
can
do
better
and
I'm
sure
there
are,
and
when
I,
when
I
asked
each
of
them,
they'd
like
to
you
know,
ran
by
meet
it
to
jump
in
to
help
is
just
a
very
enthusiastic
of
people.
I
really
want
to.
Thank
you
guys.
B
You
should
give
yourselves
a
hand,
your
sister
city
church,
your
wonderful
work,
you've
done
speaking
of
giving
people
a
hand
once
again,
I
like
to
bring
up
my
fellow
council
members,
this
time,
I'm
not
going
to
make
them
do
any
tricks
come
on
in
the
reason
for
this
is,
as
I
said
earlier
and
I'm
going
to
repeat
again,
you
know
one
person
doesn't
make
a
community.
One
person
does
not
make
a
city
council.
B
B
B
B
Finally,
I
want
to
thank
all
of
the
employees
of
the
city.
This
is
there's
there's
about
150
of
them,
but
they'll
never
all
get
together
for
a
picture,
and
so
we
need
to
twist
arms
on
that
thrus
about
half
of
them.
You
guys
are
wonderful
group
of
people
there's
a
lot
of
them
here.
They've
worked
really
hard.
If
you,
if
you
like
this
presentation,
you
should
thank
them,
because
if
it's
just
me
you
saw
my
my
talk,
so
they've
done
a
wonderful
job
in
new
leadership
of
Dave
and
I
want
to
thank
them.
B
I
also
want
to
thank
the
sheriff
and
Fire
Department
who
met
earlier,
giving
out
some
awards
a
fantastic
job.
As
we
said
earlier
and
now
this
is
where
I
get
to
blame
the
staff,
because
I've
asked
him
for
a
list
of
everybody
else.
I
should
thank
so
it's
not
my
fault,
if
they're
not
here
and
also
got
John
to
do
all
the
dignitaries,
because
I'm
terrible
at
that.
B
So
a
lot
of
our
volunteers
in
the
city,
the
Audit
Committee
bicycle
pedestrian
committee,
Fine
Arts,
Commission,
Housing,
Commission,
Library,
Commission,
Parks
and
Rec
Commission,
Planning,
Commission,
Public,
Safety,
Commission,
teen,
Commission,
the
tick,
cupertino,
rotary
and
chamber
commerce
be
putting
on
this
event
today.
Thank
them
or
thank
your
cell
station,
saying
quota
optimist,
club
qantas,
Cupertino,
Lions,
West,
Valley,
Community,
Services,
Senior,
Center,
volunteers,
historical
society
organization,
especially
these
families,
block
leaders,
school
volunteers,
friends,
the
library
citizens,
Court
northwest.
Why
mca
got
a
lot
of
volunteers?