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What is Prioritize Santa Clara?
Prioritize Santa Clara is a series of interactive discussions with the community about necessary infrastructure improvements in the city. Residents are invited to participate in conversations about these future improvements with their neighbors and City staff. Check out our behind-the-scenes virtual tours and online meetings hosted in late May/early June 2020.
The City Council is exploring different sources to fund needed infrastructure improvements and upgrades. To assist in their decision making, the Council wants to hear from the community about the following infrastructure topics:
- Fire station upgrades and modernization
- Parks, Recreation and Library amenities
- Safe street improvements
- Flood protection & stormwater improvements
To learn more about the impacts the City is facing, check out this presentation given to the City Council at their budget study session on May 12, 2020. As illustrated in the presentation, the City will face $299.4 million in unmet needs as part of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget.
The City Council will be discussing the feedback from the tours, community meetings and survey at their June 23, 2020 meeting. Tune in so you can hear more and maybe even join the conversation yourself.
How do I get involved?
Watch a Virtual Tour
Join City staff for a series of live virtual tours on the City’s Facebook page of Santa Clara’s infrastructure projects and investment. This is an opportunity to go “behind the scenes” and see what projects are being done to maintain and improve critical infrastructure, including what needs we have in the future.
Filmed each day from Wednesday, May 27 through Saturday, May 30 at 3 p.m., you can follow along as we:
- Take a walk through our Santa Clara streets to see how we keep pedestrians, cyclists and drivers safe (Wednesday, May 27)
- Learn about how you and your family are protected from floods and what happens to stormwater in Santa Clara (Thursday, May 28)
- Explore a Santa Clara fire station and experience firsthand how our firefighters live and work (Friday, May 29)
- Tour Santa Clara's Central Park and see what goes into keeping one of our most iconic resources so amazing (Saturday, May 30)
Watch a Community Meeting
The City sponsored five community meetings that were conducted online using Zoom. Residents had the opportunity to engage with City staff about different infrastructure projects, followed by a facilitated discussion to hear resident’s feedback. If you missed them, you can watch some below:
- Monday, June 1, 3-4:15 p.m. - check out the recording of the meeting here.
- Tuesday, June 2, 3-4:15 p.m. (no recording available)
- Wednesday, June 3, 10-11:15 a.m. - check out the recording of the meeting here.
- Thursday, June 4, 6:30-7:45 p.m. - check out the recording of the meeting here.
- Saturday, June 6, 10-11:15 a.m. - check out the recording of the meeting here.
View and download the Prioritize Santa Clara flyer.
Take an Online Survey
For those unable to attend the virtual tours or meetings, an online survey that mirrors the content of the community meetings is available for residents to share their opinion with us. Follow this easy three-step process to weigh in:
Step 1: Watch our behind-the-scenes tours about critical infrastructure needs on the City's Facebook page.
Step 2: Watch the recording of one of our online community meetings or go through the presentation to get a better idea of what the City's critical needs are.
Step 3: Take the survey (Survey is now closed) and let us know what you think!
The community meetings and online survey are being facilitated and monitored by the Public Dialogue Consortium (PDC) (www.publicdialogue.org), an independent, non-profit organization committed to fostering high-quality communication in the public sphere. Input and comments gathered from the meetings and survey will be included in a report to be presented to the City Council to assist them in making decisions related to funding the infrastructure needs.
For More Information
Become a Prioritize SC advocate! Sign up to receive notifications of future community meetings and learn more at PrioritizeSC@SantaClaraCA.gov.