{"id":485078,"date":"2026-10-04T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485078\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:08:09","slug":"election-2026-cupertino-council-candidate-forum-set-for-oct-14-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485078\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Cupertino council candidate forum set for Oct. 14 \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council candidate forum<\/p>\n<p>Cupertino Rotary Club\u00a0and the Cupertino\u00a0Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a Cupertino City Council candidate forum on Oct. 14 at noon at the Quinlan Community Center, 10185 N. Stelling Road, The in-person forum will be moderated by the League of Women Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates vying for the three at-large seats up for election Nov. 3 are Planning Commissioner Tracy Kosolcharoen, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Gopal Kumarappan, J.Z. Wang, Planning Commissioner Santosh Rao, Mark Fantozzi, Councilmember J.R. Fruen, Planning Commissioner Seema Sharma Lindskog and John Tang.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/lwvcs.clubexpress.com\/election-forums\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/lwvcs.clubexpress.com\/election-forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CASA grads<\/p>\n<p>Child Advocates of Silicon Valley swore in 29 new Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>All graduates completed 30 hours training on topics including child development and outcomes planning. Additionally, the graduates attended a mandatory tour of the courthouse before being sworn in by Shawna Schwarz, the supervising judge of the Santa Clara County Dependency Court, better known as foster care.<\/p>\n<p>CASA volunteers advocate for youth in the county\u2019s foster care system. To better serve children currently on the waitlist for a CASA volunteer, Child Advocates aims to diversify its volunteer base by recruiting more male, bilingual, Spanish-speaking, and LGBTQ+ advocates. The recent class helps advance that goal, with three bilingual Spanish speakers, five male advocates, 12 languages represented and three volunteers who identify as LGBTQ+.<\/p>\n<p>CASA volunteers are not required to have a particular background or experience. Each volunteer undergoes a thorough training process and is supported by Child Advocates staff once they\u2019re matched with a youth or siblings in foster care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council candidate forum Cupertino Rotary Club\u00a0and the Cupertino\u00a0Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a Cupertino City Council candidate forum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1400,184,7,409,186,584,23,205,100,13,88,90,89,198,183,200],"class_list":["post-485078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-elections","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-city-politics","tag-cupertino","tag-events","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-santa-clara-county-elections","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}