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From YouTube: MAY 25, 2023 | City Council Special Meeting: Reallocation of American Rescue Plan Funds
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City of San José, California
City Council Special Meeting, May 25, 2023
Pre-meeting citizen input on Agenda via eComment at https://sanjose.granicusideas.com/meetings.
This public meeting will be held at San José City Hall and also accessible via Zoom Webinar. For information on public participation via Zoom, please refer to the linked meeting agenda below.
Agenda: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1105309&GUID=60DBAE8D-8BC9-49A7-ACA2-77CF7055CEC3
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Yes,
thank
you
mayor
and
good
afternoon,
mayor
members
of
the
city
council.
My
name
is
Jim
Shannon
and
the
city's
budget
director
joined
here
by
Rick
Bruno,
our
finance
director,
Sarah
Zarate,
our
director
of
administration
policy
and
intergovernmental
relations
and
City
manager's
office
and
on
the
phone
we
have
Leslie
Polner
from
our
Washington
lobbyist,
firm,
Holland
and
Knight
here
to
discuss
the
reallocation
of
funding
in
our
American
Rescue
plan
fund.
So
just
a
quick
oral
presentation
here.
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As
a
result
of
the
American
Rescue
plan
act,
the
city
received
a
total
of
about
212
million
dollars
of
ARP
funds.
The
technical
term
is
the
coronavirus
state
and
local
recovery
fisc
local
fiscal
recovery
funds.
We
never
call
it
that
because
it's
hard
to
say,
but
our
ARP
funds,
as
Council
know,
has
been
provided
for
critical
community
and
economic
recovery
support,
including,
but
not
limited
to
Food
Distribution,
homeless,
Support,
Services,
youth,
education
and
Workforce
Development,
small
business
assistance
and
child
and
youth
services.
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The
regulations
from
the
American
Rescue
plan
Act
require
that
local
governments
obligate
all
ARP
funds,
meaning
that
we
encumber
them
through
the
issuance
of
contracts
or
purchase
orders
by
December
31st
2024
and
to
expend
them
all
by
December,
31st
2026.
And
so,
while
we
have
spent
the
the
vast
majority
of
those
funds,
we
had
always
anticipated
expending
them
over
a
multi-year
period.
So
of
that
212
million
dollars,
we
have
budgeted
remaining
amount,
budgeted
in
2223
of
94.3
million,
of
which
we
have
about
45
million.
F
That
say
if,
according
to
our
calculation
formula,
if
your
revenues
today
are
lower
than
they
would
have
otherwise
been
had
the
pandemic
not
occurred,
you
can
use
those
those
funds
to
pay
for
any
governmental
services,
and
so
that's
because
the
calculation
exceeds
the
calculation
of
what
the
city's
Revenue
loss
is
across.
All
of
our
funds
exceeds
that
212
million
million
dollars.
F
So
at
the
end
of
the
day,
as
we
said,
we
can
continue
to
the
expenditures
of
the
American
Rescue
plan
funds
for
a
multi-year
period
without
any
impacts
for
what
may
happen
in
the
negotiations
on
the
federal
debt
selling
limit,
and
so
because
the
debt
selling
is
theoretically
going
to
be
reached.
On
June
1st.
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We
needed
to
have
this
really
short
notice
council
meeting
to
take
these
budgetary
actions,
but
just
want
to
really
confirm
that
everything
here
that
we
are
recommending
is
done
in
accordance
with
the
American
Rescue
plan
act
and
U.S
treasury
regulations
and
no
previously
authorized
Services
by
the
city
council
will
be
affected
by
this
action.
And
with
that,
I
think
we're
all
available
for
questions
thanks.
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Jim
I
want
to
thank
you,
the
budget
office,
Jennifer
McGuire
and
the
whole
team
for
being
so.
On
top
of
this
and
bringing
this
forward
in
a
timely
fashion,
everyone
sort
of
Uncharted
Territory
here
and
I
appreciate
that
you're
positioning
us
to
to
protect
the
interests
of
the
residents
of
San
Jose
I'm
waiting
here
to
see
if
we
have
any
hands
I'm
expecting
colleagues
may
have
questions.
If
not
I
suppose
we
could
entertain
a
motion.
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Now
I'm
going
to
be
very
very
clear
about
this.
This
is
the
most
racist,
most
idiotic,
absolutely
mindless
and
sociopathic
policy.
Aside
from
the
last
one
that
the
mayor
tried
to
give,
but
this
one
this
one
just
tops
them
all
and
I'm
gonna
love
this
straight
face
that
you
take
because
you're
going
to
look
at
the
street
and
like
oh
there's,
nothing
to
do
about
here.
Oh
that
guy's,
crazy,
yeah!
Well,
what
was
crazy
about
this
cop,
giving
a
meth
pipe
to
somebody
last
year
because
he
was
informant.
G
The
cops
are
putting
dope
on
the
street
and
you
want
to
continue
to
fight
tonight
to
continue
to
finance
them.
Man,
I
can't
even
talk
straight
I'm,
so
pissed
man.
This
is
disgusting.
It
is
a
disgusting
use
of
funds.
I
want
every
single
one
of
those
dollars
going
through
the
zip
codes
that
suffered
the
most
as
a
result
of
covet
I'm
out
of
here.
H
Hi,
hello,
words
of
Paul
and
thanks
a
lot
for
yourselves
that
you've
actually
brought
this
sort
of
item
to
the
public
for
public,
basically
for
public
debate
and
dialogue
and
Paul
has
offered
you
that
I
mean
he
stated
very
clearly
as
I
have
myself.
87
million
for
police
coming
up
I
hope.
That's
not
going
to
a
lot
of
new
surveillance
things
as
well,
and
if
it
is
that
we
certainly
have
open
conversations
about
that,
I
don't
think
it's
needed.
H
I've
been
trying
to
address
the
importance
of
you
know
with
all
the
fentanyl
issues
you
guys
have
been
making
police
have
been
making
a
drug
bust,
but
they're
it's
creating
a
certain
panicky
feeling
creating
new
forms
of
violence.
I
feel
that
we
have
to
be
monitoring
and
understanding.
So
this
is
a
delicate
situation
with
fentanyl
issues
that
you
guys
have
to
learn
to
more
openly
talk
about
you're
trying
to
totally
ignore
it.
Paul
has
brought
up
a
number
of
issues
that
you
guys
need
to
be
talking
about
with
the
fentanyl
issues.
H
I
really
hope
you
guys
make
the
effort
to
make
a
community
process
about
it,
and
and
what
are
we
going
to
do
about
these
sort
of
issues,
we're
not
leaving
it
up
totally
up
to
the
feds?
We
shouldn't
be
and
I
hope
you
guys
make
the
effort
other
than
that
you
guys.
Thank
you
very
much
for
for
making
this
an
open
process.
H
There's
there's
hopeful
things
in
this
in
this
what's
available
at
this
time
it
sounds
like
still
and
and
what
should
be
a
real
hopeful
next
couple
years
and
how
we
should
we
could
be
planning
for
ourselves.
So
thank
you
for
this.
We
can
also
be
counting
on
a
future
of
state
and
federal
funding
dollars
that
should
be
a
more
regular
processed
besides
this
arpa
funding.
So
an
overall
thank
you
and
good
luck.
C
I
Thank
you
for
the
question:
Rick
Bruno
Director
of
Finance
from
pure
Simplicity
standpoint,
it's
easier
for
us
on
the
accounting
side
to
make
the
transfer
within
one
department
for
one
lump
sum
so
that
we
were
looking
between
who
has
enough
budget
to
accommodate
90
million
dollars.
It
was
police
or
fire.
We
decided
to
go
with
police
for
Simplicity
of
they're
within
our
systems
same
time
keeping
system
flows
into
our
accounting
system.
So
really
from
administrative
standpoint.
It's
the
easiest.
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Thank
you
and
Jim.
Thank
you
for
that
presentation,
even
though
the
numbers
were
kind
of
hard
to
follow,
but
so
we're
we're
doing
this
to
preserve
the
ARP
fund,
so
we
don't
have
to
return
them,
should
a
claw
back
be
in
effect,
that's
great
and
I
just
want
to
confirm
that
we're
not
technically
increasing
the
budget
of
the
police
department,
where
we
we're
moving
funds
to
the
police
department
that
then
you'll
take
the
excess
funds
and
move
it
around
to
the
general
budget.
The
general
fund
is
that
correct.
F
E
F
F
D
B
I
want
to
just
clarify
that
there's
no
increase
in
funding
for
any
Department.
This
is
an
accounting
move
and,
as
I
understand
it,
we
need
a
department
whose
budget
is
large
enough
to
be
able
to
absorb
it
all
to
minimize
the
the
the
overhead
if
you
will,
of
or
the
the
basically
the
administrative
time
the
effort,
but
we're
just
we're
just
changing
it
from
an
accounting
perspective,
just
the
funding
source.
So
it's
not
that
there's
any
new
money
for
anybody.