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  Cupertino City staff proposed new Capital Improvement Programs for FY 2024-25 at 3/19/2024 Council Meeting. Six (6) new projects were proposed with total cost about $19.5M.

  At the same time, there are seventeen (17) existing projects with remaining funds more than $25.8M, 6 nearly completed projects, and 5 completed projects. See here for a complete list.

  Because Cupertino is in a budget crisis right now, the city's capital reserve is expected to drain out in two years.

  Weeks later, city staff proposed City Work Program (CWP) for FY 2024-25 at 4/3/2024 Council Meeting.

  Comparing with proposed CWP staff proposed one year ago (4/4/2023), the new proposed CWP staff proposed on 4/3/2024 has a noticeable change: the new CWP didn't include any budget information. Some of the CWPs appeared in the 2023 CWP list which contains budget information. But there are some new CWPs (like "Speed Limit Lowing") totally missing budget information.

  The list of new CIPs can be found here. Below are the screenshots for each of them.

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  Which CIP do you support?

• Cupertino Union School District
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  Since the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD) has faced several controversial issues, attracting significant media attention. You can find some media reports here, here and the story here.

  Long Jiao mentioned adoption of BP 6144 at the Board Meeting on September 26, 2024, a request also made by a group of CUSD parents at CurriculumIntegrity.org. Board members Jerry Liu, Phyllis Vogal, Sylvia Leong, and Satheeth Madhathil requested to add BP 6144 to future agenda items during the September 24, 2024, board meeting.

  BP 6144 appeared in the Board Advance on October 17, 2024, and will be revisited in the future.

  BP 6144 is a board policy regarding instructions related to controversial issues.
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  Some of the guidelines for instructions related to controversial issues are:

  The topic shall be age-appropriate. Instruction shall be presented in a balanced manner without bias and without promoting any particular point of view. In the classroom, teachers act on behalf of the District and are expected to follow the adopted curriculum, meaning they have limited freedom of speech in the classroom. Students have the freedom of speech without jeopardizing their grades or being subject to discrimination, retaliation, or discipline.

  Below are the full list of guidelines.
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  A group of CUSD parents supported BP 6144. And some members of the Cupertino Educators Association (CEA), or the Teachers' Union, opposed it.

  BP 6144 has been adopted by numerous California school districts, including the Fremont Union High School District, which encompasses the entire CUSD area.

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  It's much safer than current voting systems. Voters can be confident with the result because they can verify the results themselves.

• California
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  AB 2098 is wrong in several places:

  Unprofessional conducts should be treated the same, regardless of whether they are related to COVID-19 vaccines. Evaluating the long term effects of vaccines normally takes many years. It is against scientific method to say anything not align with current scientific consensus is misinformation. The vaccination/booster is still an ongoing process. It is impossible to say the current scientific consensus is settled. All vaccines have side effects. If a physician or surgeon promotes COVID-19 vaccines, and the patient is harmed by the side effects, should the physician or surgeon be hold responsible, too? Physicians and surgeons are protected by the First Amendment, too.

  There are many research shows the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines, like this one.

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  The mission of Pofetl Inc is to upgrade our society to Democracy 2.0.

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  Don’t make me wrong. I like the idea of Democracy. But I don’t like our current practices of Democracy.

  Our current practice is the Trustee Model of Representation. Voters vote for a candidate based on the belief that the candidate will represent them properly. Once elected, the representative works on their own for two, four or six years based on the length of the term. But voters basically lose control of their representative.

  This model fails in both theory and reality.

  There are only four ways of spending money.

  You spend your own money on yourself. Our everyday life works on this model. Fortunately it is also the most efficient way of spending money — you always try to spend your own money in a way that serves you the best. You spend your own money on someone else. Thinking of giving gifts for a coworker’s baby shower. You tend to not care about the gift, with staying under the budget being your main concern. You spend someone else’s money on yourself. One legal case is that if you are on a business trip your company can compensate for meals. You tend to spend as close to the limit as possible. You spend someone else’s money on someone else. You tend to not care about how much you spend and how the money is spent. Unfortunately, our Government falls in this model.

  The case is not only limited to money, but to everything, like natural resources and even the safety of the society. Even worse, most representatives are trying to convert some resources from Model 4 to Model 3, which is they can benefit from the resources they control for all the people. That’s why most people think their representatives are out of touch and even corrupted. Representatives who wholeheartedly work for the people are rare. You should cherish them if you are lucky enough to have some.

  Is there any solution? Fortunately, the answer is yes. With the help of modern technology, we can convert representatives to the Delegate Model of Representation. In this way, people as a whole controls how to spend their own money on themselves. Suddenly we return to the model 1 of spending, which is also the most efficient way.

  It will also be the first time to fulfill an American dream: the Government should be of the people, for the people and by the people.