CNA Board Meeting Minutes

Date:  April 14, 2021

Start time:  7:00 PM – 7:52 PM

Where:  Zoom meeting

Attendees: Art Maurice, Kirk Vartan, Kathy Moe, Georgie Leonis, Linda Brennan, Willard Sims, Faye Mowery, Lana Chou, St. John Johnson, Felicia Hipps

Items to discuss:

1. Approval of March minutes
   1. Approved

• Finance report – Kathy Moe: 
  • Chase $4,417.27
  • Meriwest $10,084.61
    • $0.86 interest

• Next General Meeting – April 26
  • San Jose Chief of Police Anthony Mata 
    • 10-15 min speech, thoughts for policing, Q&A, hard stop at 7:30
    • We have wanted police chief for a while
    • 30 minute total
  • State Assemblyman Evan Low 
    • 30 minutes, unknown topic
  • Councilwoman Dev Davis
    • 15 minutes and Q&A
  • Housekeeping, request for neighborhood artwork
    • Artwork link: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1IJX-pPKmiC8qVLEfVXmRdSsAY7ePRPNo

• Single Family Housing Proposal Debate
  • QUESTIONS LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AaDzmciQnJDxBGl34Z4PBRMEHKAMJRMTxgxIM4w8V4/edit?usp=sharing
  • 1 hour
  • Debating for the proposal – Mathew Reed, Silicon Valley@home
  • Debating Against the proposal – Pierluigi Oliverio, SJ Planning Commissioner
  • Willard will moderate, Art will be timer
    • Summary of topic at the beginning
    • 30 minutes to instruct speakers, opening statements for each
    • Statement for, statement against, counterstatement for, counterstatement against
    • Hit time limit, 5 seconds over, then mute
    • Timer, not moderator will give signs for minutes left
      • 7 min for open, 3 min for rebuttal, 20 min Q&A
      • Red card for stop
    • 30 minutes for Q&A
      • Felicia will screen questions
    • Mock debate Wednesday, April 21
      • Willard, Art, Felicia, Faye

• Neighborhood artwork request to be included in General Meeting before debate

• Email forwarding from personalized emails from coryneighborhood.org
  • President@coryneighborhood.org
  • VP@coryneighborhood.org
  • Treasurer@coryneighborhood.org
  • Secretary@coryneighborhood.org

• Open Forum:
  • Art proposes to have in-person meetings
    • Group wants to hold off
    • Wait until everyone is vaccinated
  • Proposed updates to website
    • Board meetings
    • Recordings
    • Calendar
  • Yard signs
    • Faye did research, didn’t find what she had in mind
    • Safety signs, keep speed down
    • Pick up after your dog
    • Not ready to move forward
  • Bike lanes update
    • Complete Streets program
    • Nextdoor thread with over 100 comments
    • Federal grant, $350k, to study the roadway
    • No money to change, only to study 
    • Multimodal usage for bikes, scooters
    • Year and a half before they present to council