City of Sunnyvale

Meeting Minutes - Final

Community Event and Neighborhood

Grant Distribution Subcommittee

Friday, December 6, 2024

1:00 PM

Online and Bay Conference Room (Room

145), City Hall, 456 W. Olive Ave.,

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

CALL TO ORDER

Chair Srinivasan called the meeting to order at 1:02 p.m.

ROLL CALL

Present: 2 - Member Linda Sell, Chair Murali Srinivasan

Absent: 1 - Member Alysa Cisneros

Chair Cisneros (excused absence)

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

None.

CONSENT CALENDAR

Councilmember Sell moved and Chair Srinivasan seconded the motion to Approve

the Community Event and Neighborhood Grant Program Subcommittee Meeting

Minutes of July 8, 2024 as submitted with the amendment to include "above/below

250 household tiers for neighborhood association funding thresholds".

The motion carried by the following vote:

Yes: 2 -

Member Sell

Chair Srinivasan

No: 0

Absent: 1 - Member Cisneros

24-1217

Approve the Community Event and Neighborhood Grant

Distribution Subcommittee Meeting Minutes of July 8, 2024

Approve the Community Event and Neighborhood Grant Distribution Subcommittee

Meeting Minutes of July 8, 2024 as submitted.

GENERAL BUSINESS

24-1186

Review of Calendar Year 2024 Grants and Consideration of

2025 Community Events and Neighborhood Grant Program

Applications

Youth and Family Resources Manager, Angela Chan, provided a presentation on

the Community Events and Neighborhood Grant Program. Highlights included:

overview, outreach, grant requests and funding options.

Councilmembers inquired and staff responded:

Did staff make a presentation to the quarterly neighborhood association meeting?

Yes.

Can we have a third tier for neighborhood associations to accommodate larger

groups? Yes, staff will review and provide options at the next CENGP meeting.

Can staff include a category for applicants specifically interested in funding for block

parties? Yes, we can include a category for applicants to check off.

Can staff include information on the application to direct groups on how to register

as a neighborhood association? Yes, staff will include directions on the next

application packet.

Chair Srinivasan opened for public comment.

Valerie, Sunnyvale resident, asked that funding should be based on year-end report

instead of application. Staff should adjust funding based on attendance.

Max, Sunnyvale resident, informed the subcommittee that his street is located in the

Ortega Park Neighborhood Association. He asked if his block could submit a

separate application for their Heron street block party.

Chair Srinivasan closed public comment.

Staff will update application next year to include language that allows smaller

neighborhood groups within an established neighborhood association to apply for

block parties. Smaller neighborhood groups would need to work with their umbrella

neighborhood associations and submit together in one application. Subcommittee

recommends reserving $5,000 total, $500 per party, for block parties. Priority will be

given to umbrella associations before block party allocations.

Councilmember Sell moved and Chair Srinivasan seconded the motion to approve

recommend funding levels outlined in the 2025 Recommended Funding Summary

tables be submitted to Council for final approval.