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File #: 25-14326    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Action Calendar Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/17/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/7/2025 Final action:
Title: Subject: Request Cities Association of Santa Clara County (“CASCC”) to amend the Joint Powers Agency Agreement and Bylaws to rectify undemocratic practices pertaining to the election of Executive Officers, the method of selecting the Chair of the Legislative Action Committee, and to remove the requirement that Executive Officers be elected during a specific month; and to appoint Vice Mayor Kitty Moore to the CASCC Board for the 2026 term and support her election to the Executive Committee
Sponsors: Lauren Sapudar
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Council Report by Mayor Chao, 3. A – Draft Resolution Requesting Amendments to the JPA Agreement and Bylaws, 4. B – Draft Resolution Appointing Vice Mayor Kitty Moore to JPA Board of Directors, 5. C – Joint Powers Agency Agreement for the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, effective January 26, 2024 (redline), 6. D – Bylaws of the Cities Association of Santa Clara County Joint Powers Agency, approved May 9, 2024 (redline)

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Subject:   Request Cities Association of Santa Clara County (“CASCC”) to amend the Joint Powers Agency Agreement and Bylaws to rectify undemocratic practices pertaining to the election of Executive Officers, the method of selecting the Chair of the Legislative Action Committee, and to remove the requirement that Executive Officers be elected during a specific month; and to appoint Vice Mayor Kitty Moore to the CASCC Board for the 2026 term and support her election to the Executive Committee

 

Recommended Action

1.Adopt Resolution No. 25-083 (Attachment A) requesting the Cities Association ofSanta Clara County amend the Joint Powers Agency Agreement and Bylaws to: 1)require all Executive Officer offices be held by member cities, not by individual councilmembers or appointed directors, and that all Executive Officers be appointees or alternates to the Board of Directors; 2) require the members of the Legislative ActionCommittee to elect that committee’s chair from its membership; and 3) remove theBylaw provision setting the time for annual elections of Executive Officers in November or soon after.

2. Adopt Resolution No. 25-084 (Attachment B) to appoint Vice Mayor Kitty Moore to the Board of Directors of the Cities Association of Santa Clara County for the 2026 term beginning in January 2026 and endorsing her candidacy in the election for ExecutiveOfficers.

3. Authorize Vice Mayor Moore, the appointed representative to the CASCC Board, to send a letter to the CASCC to inform them of the above resolutions approved by theCouncil and attach this Council Report by Mayor for information.