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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-10-03 City Council Emails 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 10/03/2022 Document dates: 09/26/2022 – 10/03/2022 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:2022 Athena Leadership Award - Honoring Gina Dalma Date:Monday, October 3, 2022 10:00:32 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of openingattachments and clicking on links. Register Now Athena 2022 Leadership Award Presentation October 18th, 2022 5:30 – 7:30pm Sheraton Palo Alto Honoring Gina Dalma Executive Vice President Silicon Valley Community Foundation Reserve Your Tickets or Table Here WITH VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO Stanford University Comcast | Bright Homes Real Estate | Castilleja | Homewood Suites Stanford Medicine | Town & Country Village Palo Alto Weekly | Sheraton This email was sent on behalf of Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce 355 Alma St Palo Alto, CA 94301.To unsubscribe click here. If you have questions or comments concerning this email or services in general, please contact us by email at info@paloaltochamber.com. Some people who received this message don't often get email from mshamim@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant From:Shikada, Ed To:mshamim@gmail.com Cc:Transportation; Kamhi, Philip; City Mgr Subject:RE: Near death experience on Palo Alto road tonight Date:Sunday, October 2, 2022 5:40:08 AM Attachments:image003.png image001.png Dear Munira, I am very sorry to hear about your experience, obviously an unnerving one! Thank you for contacting us to share your concern. We will have our staff review the conditions at this crossing and confirm its operation. Please take confidence in knowing that train crossings in Palo Alto and throughout the state are designed and operated in cooperation with the railroad (in this case Caltrain) with oversight by the California Public Utilities Commission. This ensures consistency in the experience and safety measures provided for the travelling public. Best regards, --Ed Ed Shikada City Manager (650) 329-2280 | ed.shikada@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: Munira Shamim <mshamim@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2022 10:58 PM To: Transportation <Transportation@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Safe Routes <SafeRoutes@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Near death experience on Palo Alto road tonight CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Caregivers of Palo Alto, I had a near-death experience in Palo Alto tonight and I am wondering if the city can make relevant changes to increase driver safety for those who find themselves in the same situation as I did tonight. I am a resident of Saratoga. Around 8:45pm tonight I was at the red light at the intersection of Charleston and Alma (I had made a right onto Charleston from El Camino Real, having come out of the Crowne Plaza), headed towards 101S. See attached screenshot. At the red light, I stopped past the solid white line, very close to the railway track. I assumed that because the red and white barrier was not down, no train passage was impending and that in a few minutes the red light would change to green. A minute or so later, as I was expecting the light to turn green, without warning the barrier came down. Because I was past the solid white line, the barriers came down on the hood of my Ford F-150. I had the presence of mind to back up my truck as the barriers contacted the hood (thankfully, no car had pulled up behind me so I had the space to back up) and just a few seconds later a CalTrain went whirring by. I could have been in the way of, or eerily close to, the passing train had I not backed up in time! Could this have been avoided? My personal experience from the railway crossing in downtown Campbell is that: 1. the red-and-white barrier typically goes down several minutes before the passage of a train, and, 2. more importantly, the solid white line where cars are expected to stop at the red light is far enough away from the tracks so that a line violator such as myself still does not come fatally close to the tracks. Of course, I was negligent in stopping past the solid white line, but I can't imagine another driver not making a similar negligent move. I think there are some simple ways of avoiding what I experienced tonight: 1. bringing back by 10-30 feet the white line at the red light; 2. sounding a bell to announce the barrier coming down; 3. bringing the barrier down a few minutes (not few seconds) before the train is scheduled to pass. I am happy to describe what happened over the phone or in person to any safety committee/board the city has. My truck and I are both unscathed. But my family's life could have been turned upside down tonight. Thank you. Munira 408-828-3387 From:Munira Shamim To:Transportation; Safe Routes; Council, City Subject:Near death experience on Palo Alto road tonight Date:Saturday, October 1, 2022 10:58:31 PM Attachments:Screen Shot 2022-10-01 at 10.30.37 PM.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from mshamim@gmail.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Caregivers of Palo Alto, I had a near-death experience in Palo Alto tonight and I am wondering if the city can make relevant changes to increase driver safety for those who find themselves in the same situation as I did tonight. I am a resident of Saratoga. Around 8:45pm tonight I was at the red light at the intersection of Charleston and Alma (I had made a right onto Charleston from El Camino Real, having come out of the Crowne Plaza), headed towards 101S. See attached screenshot. At the red light, I stopped past the solid white line, very close to the railway track. I assumed that because the red and white barrier was not down, no train passage was impending and that in a few minutes the red light would change to green. A minute or so later, as I was expecting the light to turn green, without warning the barrier came down. Because I was past the solid white line, the barriers came down on the hood of my Ford F-150. I had the presence of mind to back up my truck as the barriers contacted the hood (thankfully, no car had pulled up behind me so I had the space to back up) and just a few seconds later a CalTrain went whirring by. I could have been in the way of, or eerily close to, the passing train had I not backed up in time! Could this have been avoided? My personal experience from the railway crossing in downtown Campbell is that: 1. the red-and-white barrier typically goes down several minutes before the passage of a train, and, 2. more importantly, the solid white line where cars are expected to stop at the red light is far enough away from the tracks so that a line violator such as myself still does not come fatally close to the tracks. Of course, I was negligent in stopping past the solid white line, but I can't imagine another driver not making a similar negligent move. I think there are some simple ways of avoiding what I experienced tonight: 1. bringing back by 10-30 feet the white line at the red light; 2. sounding a bell to announce the barrier coming down; 3. bringing the barrier down a few minutes (not few seconds) before the train is scheduled to pass. I am happy to describe what happened over the phone or in person to any safety committee/board the city has. My truck and I are both unscathed. But my family's life could have been turned upside down tonight. Thank you. Munira 408-828-3387 From:Aram James To:Binder, Andrew; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Enberg, Nicholas; Rebecca Eisenberg; Tannock, Julie; Figueroa, Eric; Foley, Michael; Michael Gennaco; Reifschneider, James; Josh Becker; chuck jagoda; Wagner, April; Human Relations Commission; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com Subject:An Off-Duty Cop Pulled a Gun on Teen Waiting for a Bus, How Will the Cit... Date:Saturday, October 1, 2022 5:49:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/e8pNAStgQyc Sent from my iPhone From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:Affordable Housing Date:Saturday, October 1, 2022 4:46:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Why are you all carrying on about building apartment blocks on West Bayshore and San Antonio when apartment blocks on Curtner and Ventura sit half empty? I’ve been out cavassing for Julie Lythcott-Haims all day and I just found that out for myself. Why doesn’t City of Palo Alto do like City of Mountain View has already done and buy some of the half empty buildings? These now city owned properties in Mountain View are all designated low income housing. Why intiate the building of more apartment blocks that will sit half empty because they are so miserable to live in? Apartment blocks in distressed locations are not the housing Palo Alto needs. I don’t know why it’s even being discussed. Deborah Goldeen 2130 Birch St. Palo Alto, 94306 (650)799-3652 From:Aram James To:Planning Commission; Council, City; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; city.council@menlopark.org; Winter Dellenbach; Human Relations Commission; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Stump, Molly; Jay Boyarsky; Binder, Andrew; Enberg, Nicholas; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Vara Ramakrishnan Subject:My Name Is Liza Kalvelage—(Nuremberg-and mass guilt) Song by Pete Seeger Date:Saturday, October 1, 2022 4:00:42 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.   https://youtu.be/nayr_r-oApo  ( Don’t close your eyes to the danger and threat of weaponized police canines eating human flesh -as we approach Yom Kippur) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/15/mauled-when-police-dogs-are-weapons From:Aram James To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Joe Simitian; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Roberta Ahlquist; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Planning Commission; chuck jagoda; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Wagner, April; Perron, Zachary; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:From The Mercury News e-edition - Clearing out two largest homeless encampments Date:Saturday, October 1, 2022 6:43:32 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I saw this The Mercury News e-edition article on the The Mercury News e-edition app and thought you’d be interested. Clearing out two largest homeless encampments https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=0f8fcb07-eb6b-4ee0-9ca9- f39c37ad367d&appcode=SAN252&eguid=8f1393ed-50d7-42de-8b2d-152878a4f909&pnum=1# For more great content like this subscribe to the The Mercury News e-edition app here: Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Vara Ramakrishnan; ladoris cordell; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; chuck jagoda; Roberta Ahlquist; Rebecca Eisenberg; Joe Simitian; Human Relations Commission; EPA Today; jdong@paweekly.com; Jason Green; Diana Diamond; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com; Betsy Nash; Greer Stone; Planning Commission Subject:Rebecca Eisenberg for Santa Clara County Water District Board District 7 Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 5:44:48 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Folks: Please check out Rebecca Eisenberg’s extraordinary website ( see link below) for the Santa Clara County County Water Board. And please don’t forget to vote for her. Sincerely, Aram James https://rebecca4water2.com/ Sent from my iPhone From:Doug Lusk To:City Mgr; Council, City Subject:rental house Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 5:38:31 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from dlusk22@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. We have a rental house in our residential neighborhood that a business is being run out of. Is that against city guidelines? No one actually lives there, only cars coming and going thank you From:Aram James To:Binder, Andrew; Enberg, Nicholas; Tannock, Julie; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Jeff Rosen; Richard Konda; Jay Boyarsky; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Perron, Zachary; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Jason Green; Human Relations Commission; Julie Lythcott- Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; ladoris cordell; Greer Stone; Raj Jayadev; Greg Tanaka; Planning Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Joe Simitian; Cindy Chavez; ParkRec Commission; Pat Burt; Lydia Kou; Vara Ramakrishnan; chuck jagoda; Cecilia Taylor; Roberta Ahlquist; Tony Dixon; Afanasiev, Alex; Braden Cartwright Subject:The silent tragedy of police dog training practices - Pivot Legal Society Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 4:58:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://www.pivotlegal.org/the_tragic_truth_of_police_dog_training_practices_in_bc Sent from my iPhone From:David Coale To:Council, City Cc:Abendschein, Jonathan; Hoyt, George; UAC; Shikada, Ed Subject:SCAP and reach code Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 4:03:39 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from david@evcl.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor and City Council, I would like to thank Staff and the Ad Hoc committee for all their great work on the SCAP update and reach codes. I fully support the Staff’s recommendations for the SCAP and Advanced heat pump water heater proposal. We will need a lot of out-reach to make this happen as it is almost 3 replacement HPWH per day for a year, but this is what we need to do. I also support the reach code for replacement of water heaters with heat pump water heaters as stated for substantial remodels. This should be expanded to home space heating as originally proposed in the reach code. Since this will only affect about 100 homes as stated in the staff report, this will not be a big impact on the grid as staff has stated. We should not wait until the next code cycle to implement this. Also, replacement of Gas-pack HVAC units with heat-pump based HVAC units should also be in the current reach code for commercial buildings. The updating of the bike and pedestrian plan is also a must. This has been put off for too long now and is critical to improving our GHG emissions and quality of life in Palo Alto. Currently, alternate transportation makes up about 60% of the mode share in our schools. Most of this is through biking. This needs to be expanded to all Palo Altens and this requires an updated and robust bike/ped plan. I was glad to see funding for our development center in the SCAP. While there have been many improvements in this area, a lot more needs to be done. The Peninsula Conservation Center has run into a lot of problems while trying to upgrade to heat-pump HVAC units in their building. Even with Phil Bobel’s help, this was difficult to navigate. Doing the right thing should not be so hard to do. This needs to change if we are to really move forward with electrification programs. Thank you again for all your good work on the SCAP and reach codes. Sincerely, David Coale From:Aram James To:Foley, Michael; Michael Gennaco; Enberg, Nicholas; Binder, Andrew; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; Afanasiev, Alex; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Jethroe Moore; Gennady Sheyner; Diana Diamond; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; jdong@paweekly.com; Jason Green Subject:The long version of why Tasers should be banned by attorneys Richard Konda & Aram James ( must read if you want to understand the complexity of the Taser issue) Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 3:49:00 PM Attachments:Aram James (DJ-1-12-18) (00000003).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Date: September 30, 2022 at 1:40:51 PM PDT To: Betsy Nash <BNash@menlopark.org>, Cecilia Taylor <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>, Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>, Tony Dixon <Wadixon@menlopark.org> Subject: The long version of why Tasers should be banned by attorneys Richard Konda & Aram James ( must read if you want to understand the complexity of the Taser issue)    Sent from my iPhone From:Allan Seid To:CHOpinion CHOpinion Subject:Fwd: We stand against AAPI scapegoating Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 1:47:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Stop AAPI Hate <hello@stopaapihate.org> Date: FRI. Sep 30, 2022 Subject: We stand against AAPI scapegoating FRIENDS,, For generations, people of color, including AAPI communities, have been blamed for various economic challenges, national security threats, and systemic failures that are out of our control. This is called scapegoating. Scapegoating is a tactic used to great effect by government leaders hoping to mobilize public opinion against a common enemy. In 2020, Asian Americans were scapegoated for causing the COVID-19 pandemic, with political leaders like former President Donald Trump leading the charge and circulating anti-China rhetoric responsible for increasing anti-Asian sentiment online by a factor of 174. With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, politicians continue to cross that line, parroting anti-Asian talking points — in particular, anti-China rhetoric – to scapegoat Asian Americans at the expense of our safety and welfare. History shows us the horrific toll this can take on our communities. We need politicians to stop using our communities as scapegoats on the campaign trail. Will you help us amplify our message by sharing our Instagram post with your networks today? SPREAD THE WORD Thank you for your support, Stop AAPI Hate Stop AAPI Hate 17 Walter U Lum Place San Francisco, CA 94108 United States Stop AAPI Hate is a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism across the U.S. The coalition was founded by the AAPI Equity Alliance, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and San Francisco State University’s Asian American Research Initiative. We are a coalition of nonprofits, organizers, and educators who are committed to addressing the rise in anti-AAPI hate incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic together. Our goal is to be responsive to the needs of our community. If you would like to report an anti-AAPI hate incident, click here. REPORT AN INCIDENT unsubscribe This message was sent to allanseid734@gmail.com From:Mark Grossman To:Council, City Subject:SUPPORT Advanced Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Pilot Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 1:24:18 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from grossman_mark@yahoo.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi, Council - I am very much in support of the HPWH pilot. Just a couple years ago I needed a new water heater and looked for someone to install a heat pump type, but it was impossible to find a contractor capable of doing so. Palo Alto needs to show that this is now easy to do, and residents would really benefit from the support for doing so! Most residents are concerned about climate change and getting rid of gas-fired appliances is a great, concrete measure they can take. Sincerely, Mark Grossman 2063 Byron St. From:Aram James To:Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Council, City; Binder, Andrew; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Manav Patel; Winter Dellenbach; Planning Commission; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Shikada, Ed; Joe Simitian; Enberg, Nicholas; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Otto Lee; Human Relations Commission; ladoris cordell; Josh Becker; Wagner, April; Perron, Zachary; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Rebecca Eisenberg; chuck jagoda Subject:The long version of why Tasers should be banned by attorneys Richard Konda & Aram James ( must read if you want to understand the complexity of the Taser issue) Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 12:25:04 PM Attachments:Aram James (DJ-1-12-18) (00000003).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Binder, Andrew; Shikada, Ed; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Council, City; Rob Baker; Roberta Ahlquist Cc:Jack Ajluni Subject:Ban Tasers in Palo Alto Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 11:02:51 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/pN8DdpS3yPc Sent from my iPhone From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:Supervisor Simitian Sidewalk Office Hours - Palo Alto Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 11:00:52 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Please join Supervisor Simitian for his Sidewalk Office Hours: Sunday, September 11, 2022 9:30 – 11 a.m. California Ave. Palo Alto Farmers’ Market New Sidewalk Office Hours Location Sunday, October 9, 2022 9:30 – 11 a.m. California Ave. Palo Alto Farmers’ Market New Sidewalk Office Hours Location Click here for the entire fall schedule This email was sent on behalf of Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce 355 Alma St Palo Alto, CA 94301.To unsubscribe click here. If you have questions or comments concerning this email or services in general, please contact us by email at info@paloaltochamber.com. View this email in your browser From:LWV Palo Alto Speaker Series To:Council, City Subject:Join Our Fall Kickoff Social Event Sunday, October 2! Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 8:18:03 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Please join us for wine and hors d’oeuvres at our Fall Kickoff Social Event Sunday, October 2, 2022 4:00 - 6:00 pm The Foster Museum 940 Commercial St, Palo Alto 94303 Join us for a fun social gathering and let's kick off the fall season together! This is a great chance to reconnect and meet new friends. Bring a guest! Featuring our Guest Speaker and Moderator Kemi A. Oyewole Register Now Kemi A. Oyewole is a Ph.D. candidate studying education and organization studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research centers on understanding leadership development and organizational learning to advance equitable education reform. Beyond her scholarship, Kemi enacts her commitment to community uplift by mentoring young people, volunteering with civic organizations, and building her faith community. The Spelman College alumna believes in the power of diverse coalitions, workers' rights, and radical imaginings. Kemi will discuss a multi-level advocacy framework that combines interpersonal, organizational, and governmental engagement for a layered, sustainable approach to policy change. The model is based on her personal journey and leadership as the graduate fellow in-residence at Stanford's Otero Public Service and Civic Engagement Theme Dorm. At a moment of political polarization and partisan gridlock, using a variety of approaches offers us the small successes necessary to continue empowering voters and expanding democracy. Kemi will then introduce the film: "Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote" and moderate a discussion and Q&A following the viewing This powerful documentary from Brave New Films is about the growing threat of voter suppression and election sabotage to our 2022 midterm elections. The film focuses on the recent wave of laws being enacted in a number of states and how the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp provides a case study for understanding today’s voter suppression laws across the country. It ends with an urgent call to action. Co-Sponsored By: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. San Francisco-Peninsula Alumnae Chapter Register early to help us plan for the catering. LWVPaloAlto.org Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Email Email Copyright © 2022 League of Women Voters Palo Alto, All rights reserved. From Voter Recipient List Our mailing address is: League of Women Voters Palo Alto 3921 E Bayshore Rd Ste 209 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Register Now From:M. Gallagher To:Council, City Subject:Housing for All of Us Date:Friday, September 30, 2022 12:50:03 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from writing2win@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Members of the Palo Alto City Council: Please make housing for all a priority and establish ways to provide housing for all. The reasons folks need housing seems obvious. The reason folks need rents to be stabilized seems obvious. As rents increase, so do evictions and homelessness. Please stabilize rents and establish a rent registry--this year, so we have a sense of where renters live, what their rent is, and how to limit rent increases. One size will never fit all, but stabilizing rents along with establishing a rent registry at least begins to address how we can provide housing for those of lean means and where renters are living at what price. Here is a link to discussion of housing that raises the challenges of housing for all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm4_RHkdZok May you consider housing to be a human right and be compelled to support rent stabilization and a renter's registry. Respectfully, Mary Gallagher, B.Sc. Writing Instructor 650-683-7102 Copyright 2022 Security Alert Notice The information contained in this e-mail is confidential information, presumed to be virus free, and intended only for use by the individual or entity named above. Virus protection is the responsibility of the recipient. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, dissemination or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete the material from your computer. Thank you. From:Aram James To:Wagner, April; Human Relations Commission; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Cecilia Taylor; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; city.council@menlopark.org; GRP-City Council; Council, City; Binder, Andrew; Human Relations Commission; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Supervisor Otto Lee; Joe Simitian Subject:NATIONAL EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff"s Recorded Racist Rant Exposed - YouTube Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:17:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > >  > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3MPK2-JUCU > > > Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Perron, Zachary; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; Tannock, Julie; Michael Gennaco; Foley, Michael; Figueroa, Eric; Afanasiev, Alex; Binder, Andrew; Enberg, Nicholas; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Shikada, Ed; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Jeff Rosen; Rebecca Eisenberg; Jay Boyarsky; Josh Becker; Joe Simitian; Greer Stone; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:NATIONAL EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff"s Recorded Racist Rant Exposed Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:15:16 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/k3MPK2-JUCU Sent from my iPhone From:Kirk Vartan To:info Subject:EXCITING NEWS & MANY THANKS: Governor Newsom Signed the California Employee Ownership Act Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:05:01 PM Attachments:Advocacy Alert 2021-2022 SB1407 signed.png Governor Newsom Signs SB 1407 Press Release.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. To all worker ownership friends: It is with great pleasure that I send along this announcement that Governor Newsom signed SB 1407, the CA Employee Ownership Act, into law today. I am also attaching WORC’s press release. Thanks for all your support. Kind regards, -Kirk Hey WORC Coalition Members & Supporters, I’m reaching out with very exciting news: Governor Newsom has signed Senate Bill 1407, the California Employee Ownership Act, into law! The Act establishes an Employee Ownership Hub within the Governor’s Office for Business and Economic Development (GO- Biz) to provide business owners and workers with resources on employee ownership transitions, as well as support for existing worker-owned businesses. I want to thank each of you who supported SB 1407 over the past months by tweeting, calling legislators, and sending in support letters. Your collective people power was absolutely essential in getting this legislation passed and signed, thank you so much! The WORC Coalition will be sharing more about how we plan to celebrate and build upon this big win. In the meantime, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram to stay up to date on our efforts! Bernadette King Fitzsimons Worker-Owned Recovery California (WORC) Coalition Coordinator SEIU-UHW West 560 Thomas L. Berkley Way Oakland, CA 94612 cell: 510.387.3128 bkingfitzsimons@seiu-uhw.org ================ A Slice of New York, a Worker Cooperative A New York Experience in the Bay Area 3443 Stevens Creek Blvd. (San Jose/Santa Clara) 1253 W El Camino Real (Sunnyvale) SJ: (408) 24-SLICE / SV: (650) 938-NYNY www.asony.com www.911memorial.org ================ A Slice of New York, a Worker Cooperative A New York Experience in the Bay Area 3443 Stevens Creek Blvd. (San Jose/Santa Clara) 1253 W El Camino Real (Sunnyvale) SJ: (408) 24-SLICE / SV: (650) 938-NYNY www.asony.com www.911memorial.org Press Release:CONTACT:Bernadette King Fitzsimons September 29, 2022 (510) 387-3128 Governor Newsom Signs Ground-Breaking Law Giving Workers a Chance to Become Owners Legislation builds upon California’s leadership in supporting small businesses & workers SACRAMENTO –Worker-Owned Recovery California (WORC),Project Equity, and Ownership America applaud Governor Newsom for signing Senate Bill 1407 (Becker D-Menlo Park), the California Employee Ownership Act, into law. The Act equips California's small business owners with options for succession and employee engagement and gives workers across the state a chance to become co-owners of the companies where they work. The bipartisan-supported measure establishes an Employee Ownership Hub within the Governor ’s Office for Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to provide business owners and workers with resources on employee ownership transitions, as well as support for existing worker-owned businesses. As California continues to recover from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State now has the invaluable tool of employee ownership in its recovery toolbox. Broad-based employee ownership, primarily in worker cooperatives and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), is an effective strategy to build a more inclusive and resilient economy. In one study, employee-owners earned 33% more, stayed in their jobs 50% longer, and had twice the household net worth of their peers in traditional businesses. “With its proven track record, employee ownership will now have a bigger role in California’s economy,” said Hilary Abell, a Co-founder of Project Equity and WORC. “This could not come at a better time for business owners and workers.” Approximately 359,000 businesses in California, employing 3.9 million people, have owners that are nearing retirement age.A majority of these owners have no formal succession plan, and most small business owners who try to sell their businesses will not find a buyer. These challenges are compounded by the continuing economic fallout of the pandemic, inflation, and the changing expectations of the workforce, as shown by the Great Resignation. “Employee ownership enables working people to build wealth while sustaining businesses for the long haul in their communities,” said Senator Josh Becker. “Data shows that employee-owned businesses outperform their peers in profitability, productivity and resilience. Unfortunately, how to make these transitions and seize these opportunities is not widely understood. The new hub within GO-Biz will address that.” With more than 100 worker-owned cooperatives and close to 800 companies with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), California is already home to thriving worker-owned businesses covering every region of the state. Employee-owned companies were four times less likely to lay off workers during the pandemic and have weathered the storm successfully.With institutional support for worker ownership provided by the California Employee Ownership Act, bill sponsors hope to see worker-owned success stories like these multiply across our state. “The California Employee Ownership Act is a momentous step toward expanding employee ownership in our state and creating a resilient economy that works for working people,” said Bernadette King Fitzsimons, WORC ’s coordinator. “Clearly, employee ownership is a true win-win.” From:Kirk Vartan To:info Subject:EXCITING NEWS & MANY THANKS: Governor Newsom Signed the California Employee Ownership Act Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:02:12 PM Attachments:Advocacy Alert 2021-2022 SB1407 signed.png Governor Newsom Signs SB 1407 Press Release.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. To all worker ownership friends: It is with great pleasure that I send along this announcement that Governor Newsom signed SB 1407, the CA Employee Ownership Act, into law today. I am also attaching WORC’s press release. Thanks for all your support. Kind regards, -Kirk Hey WORC Coalition Members & Supporters, I’m reaching out with very exciting news: Governor Newsom has signed Senate Bill 1407, the California Employee Ownership Act, into law! The Act establishes an Employee Ownership Hub within the Governor’s Office for Business and Economic Development (GO- Biz) to provide business owners and workers with resources on employee ownership transitions, as well as support for existing worker-owned businesses. I want to thank each of you who supported SB 1407 over the past months by tweeting, calling legislators, and sending in support letters. Your collective people power was absolutely essential in getting this legislation passed and signed, thank you so much! The WORC Coalition will be sharing more about how we plan to celebrate and build upon this big win. In the meantime, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram to stay up to date on our efforts! Bernadette King Fitzsimons Worker-Owned Recovery California (WORC) Coalition Coordinator SEIU-UHW West 560 Thomas L. Berkley Way Oakland, CA 94612 cell: 510.387.3128 bkingfitzsimons@seiu-uhw.org ================ A Slice of New York, a Worker Cooperative A New York Experience in the Bay Area 3443 Stevens Creek Blvd. (San Jose/Santa Clara) 1253 W El Camino Real (Sunnyvale) SJ: (408) 24-SLICE / SV: (650) 938-NYNY www.asony.com www.911memorial.org Press Release:CONTACT:Bernadette King Fitzsimons September 29, 2022 (510) 387-3128 Governor Newsom Signs Ground-Breaking Law Giving Workers a Chance to Become Owners Legislation builds upon California’s leadership in supporting small businesses & workers SACRAMENTO –Worker-Owned Recovery California (WORC),Project Equity, and Ownership America applaud Governor Newsom for signing Senate Bill 1407 (Becker D-Menlo Park), the California Employee Ownership Act, into law. The Act equips California's small business owners with options for succession and employee engagement and gives workers across the state a chance to become co-owners of the companies where they work. The bipartisan-supported measure establishes an Employee Ownership Hub within the Governor ’s Office for Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to provide business owners and workers with resources on employee ownership transitions, as well as support for existing worker-owned businesses. As California continues to recover from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State now has the invaluable tool of employee ownership in its recovery toolbox. Broad-based employee ownership, primarily in worker cooperatives and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), is an effective strategy to build a more inclusive and resilient economy. In one study, employee-owners earned 33% more, stayed in their jobs 50% longer, and had twice the household net worth of their peers in traditional businesses. “With its proven track record, employee ownership will now have a bigger role in California’s economy,” said Hilary Abell, a Co-founder of Project Equity and WORC. “This could not come at a better time for business owners and workers.” Approximately 359,000 businesses in California, employing 3.9 million people, have owners that are nearing retirement age.A majority of these owners have no formal succession plan, and most small business owners who try to sell their businesses will not find a buyer. These challenges are compounded by the continuing economic fallout of the pandemic, inflation, and the changing expectations of the workforce, as shown by the Great Resignation. “Employee ownership enables working people to build wealth while sustaining businesses for the long haul in their communities,” said Senator Josh Becker. “Data shows that employee-owned businesses outperform their peers in profitability, productivity and resilience. Unfortunately, how to make these transitions and seize these opportunities is not widely understood. The new hub within GO-Biz will address that.” With more than 100 worker-owned cooperatives and close to 800 companies with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), California is already home to thriving worker-owned businesses covering every region of the state. Employee-owned companies were four times less likely to lay off workers during the pandemic and have weathered the storm successfully.With institutional support for worker ownership provided by the California Employee Ownership Act, bill sponsors hope to see worker-owned success stories like these multiply across our state. “The California Employee Ownership Act is a momentous step toward expanding employee ownership in our state and creating a resilient economy that works for working people,” said Bernadette King Fitzsimons, WORC ’s coordinator. “Clearly, employee ownership is a true win-win.” From:Lawrence Garwin To:Council, City Subject:Re: Please Support S/CAP & Electric Water Heaters Proposals. Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 6:26:34 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.  Esteemed Mayor and Council Members, I have some specific suggestions I’d like to have included in the implementation of the two projects referenced: Concerning S/CAP: As we electrify our buildings, let’s implement ubiquitous daytime electric vehicle charging (preferably under/near solar panels) and bidirectional evening charging at home as a way to shed methane peaker plants from our grid and avoid most utility upgrades otherwise required to support building electrification and EV charging. Please have the utility factor this technological approach into electric infrastructure planning that may occur even before bidirectional chargers and compatible EVs are widely available, which is expected starting next year. As well, have the city install, incentivize, and perhaps mandate daytime EV charging stations to make use of the existing solar and wind energy on our grid that otherwise would be curtailed and wasted. And immediately incentivize home EV chargers to be bidirectional, and mandate it once the technology is mature. Note: Smart Meters are not necessary for any of the above, so please start on these projects right away. Concerning electric heat pump water heaters: Please add 120 Volt HPWHs that don‘t require a dedicated outlet to the approved-for- rebates list as soon as they are available, as they don’t require the additional expense of running a new electrical circuit. Thank you for your kind consideration of my requests. Lawrence Garwin Community Center Palo Alto On Sep 29, 2022, at 4:17 PM, Lawrence Garwin <lawrencegarwin@yahoo.com> wrote: Esteemed Mayor and Council Members, I understand that Monday’s meeting will include the review and potential approval of the very important S/CAP and Electric Water Heaters project proposals: Updated goals and key actions for the Palo Alto Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. A turnkey program to replace gas water heaters with cleaner, smarter, electric heat pump water heaters. City-selected contractors will install a heat pump water heater for a single flat price, sparing residents from contractor selection and permitting hassles. Residents can choose to pay half the cost of the installed water heater on their monthly utility bill over five years — or pay for it in full when it’s installed. To that end: I urge you to approve the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan now so we can begin implementing the key actions outlined in the plan as soon as possible.. For cleaner air and a better future for the globe, please approve the contract for the heat pump water heater turnkey installation program. Electrifying water heaters has a high climate impact and is a great place to start. New electric heat pump water heaters are smarter, safer, and typically have lower operating costs than the gas water heaters they replace. The new turnkey water heater replacement program will jumpstart contractor engagement in climate-friendly home appliances, which will help accelerate the switch away from fossil fuels during the next decade. Beginning in 2030, homeowners in California will only be able to purchase zero emission home appliances, so educating people and contractors on the switch to electric needs to start now. Most electric heat pump water heaters are low to moderately low wattage -- they do not cause high enough load demands to trigger grid upgrades. They do, however, help get residents more comfortable with non-gas appliances while also giving the state time to continue grid modernization efforts. Using lower wattage appliances and avoiding oversized EV chargers (40-80 amps) will enable Palo Alto residents to electrify their homes without expensive electric service upgrades or unnecessary upgrades to the electric grid. Residents who have switched out all their gas appliances describe their homes as more comfortable, safer, cleaner and convenient than they were before. Recent studies show that children in homes with gas stoves have a 42% increased risk of asthma symptoms within the past year than children in homes without gas stoves. Thank you very much for your support of and attention to these projects, as they will help us Palo Altans to do our part in reducing the worst effects of climate change and model a path for others to follow. Lawrence Garwin Community Center Palo Alto From:Lawrence Garwin To:Council, City Subject:Please Support S/CAP & Electric Water Heaters Proposals. Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:49:54 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Esteemed Mayor and Council Members, I understand that Monday’s meeting will include the review and potential approval of the very important S/CAP and Electric Water Heaters project proposals: 1. Updated goals and key actions for the Palo Alto Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. 2. A turnkey program to replace gas water heaters with cleaner, smarter, electric heat pump water heaters. City-selected contractors will install a heat pump water heater for a single flat price, sparing residents from contractor selection and permitting hassles. Residents can choose to pay half the cost of the installed water heater on their monthly utility bill over five years — or pay for it in full when it’s installed. To that end: I urge you to approve the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan now so we can begin implementing the key actions outlined in the plan as soon as possible.. For cleaner air and a better future for the globe, please approve the contract for the heat pump water heater turnkey installation program. Electrifying water heaters has a high climate impact and is a great place to start. New electric heat pump water heaters are smarter, safer, and typically have lower operating costs than the gas water heaters they replace. The new turnkey water heater replacement program will jumpstart contractor engagement in climate-friendly home appliances, which will help accelerate the switch away from fossil fuels during the next decade. Beginning in 2030, homeowners in California will only be able to purchase zero emission home appliances, so educating people and contractors on the switch to electric needs to start now. Most electric heat pump water heaters are low to moderately low wattage -- they do not cause high enough load demands to trigger grid upgrades. They do, however, help get residents more comfortable with non-gas appliances while also giving the state time to continue grid modernization efforts. Using lower wattage appliances and avoiding oversized EV chargers (40-80 amps) will enable Palo Alto residents to electrify their homes without expensive electric service upgrades or unnecessary upgrades to the electric grid. Residents who have switched out all their gas appliances describe their homes as more comfortable, safer, cleaner and convenient than they were before. Recent studies show that children in homes with gas stoves have a 42% increased risk of asthma symptoms within the past year than children in homes without gas stoves. Thank you very much for your support of and attention to these projects, as they will help us Palo Altans to do our part in reducing the worst effects of climate change and model a path for others to follow. Lawrence Garwin Community Center Palo Alto From:Tran, Joanna To:Council, City Cc:Executive Leadership Team; Boatwright, Tabatha; Abendschein, Jonathan Subject:Council Consent Questions Item 4 and 7: 10/3/22 Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:35:37 PM Attachments:image001.png image003.png image004.png image006.png image007.png image008.png image009.png Dear Mayor and Councilmembers, On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please view the following links for the amended agenda and staff responses to questions from Councilmember Cormack and Councilmember Tanaka for Monday night’s Council Meeting: October 3 Amended Agenda Staff response to Items 4 and 7 Thank you, Joanna Joanna Tran Executive Assistant to the City Manager Office of the City Manager (650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From:Aram James To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Binder, Andrew; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Winter Dellenbach; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Joe Simitian; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Perron, Zachary; Enberg, Nicholas; Wagner, April; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; chuck jagoda; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; ladoris cordell; Raj; Pat Burt; Planning Commission Subject:This Is Why Tasers Must Be Removed Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:48:54 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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From:Allan Seid To:chopinion@gogglegroups.com Subject:Fwd: Vietnamese American nail tech has 5 percent chance of survival after allegedly racist attack, family says Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:12:34 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Subject: Vietnamese American nail tech has 5 percent chance of survival after allegedly racist attack, family says. Date:: Thur. Sept. 29, 2022 From: Allan Seid Keeping visile Asian Hate Crimes alongside the Major Media more frequent coverage on HATE CRIMES against other Minority and religious communities is one of my purposes for sharing violence perpetrated aganst Asian Americans of our country. Allan https://news.yahoo.com/vietnamese-american-nail-tech-5-194542625.html From:Aram James To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Greg Tanaka; Lydia Kou; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Planning Commission; Jethroe Moore; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; ParkRec Commission; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; ladoris cordell; chuck jagoda Subject:Re: Daly City Councilwoman Says Fellow Councilmember Assaulted Her at City Hall – NBC Bay Area ( Keep Palo Alto City Council meetings a Bully Free Zone) Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:32:21 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > > Wow!!! Check it out! aram > > https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/daly-city-councilwoman-assault/3015164/ > > > Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Shikada, Ed; Council, City; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com Subject:How Can We Improve the Police Chief Selection Process? Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:32:45 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/pyuqJ6EwHas Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Greg Tanaka; Lydia Kou; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Planning Commission; Jethroe Moore; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; ParkRec Commission; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; ladoris cordell; chuck jagoda Subject:Daly City Councilwoman Says Fellow Councilmember Assaulted Her at City Hall – NBC Bay Area ( Keep Palo Alto City Council meetings a Bull Free Zone) Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:17:14 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Wow!!! https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/daly-city-councilwoman-assault/3015164/ Sent from my iPhone From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; boardmembers; bballpod; bearwithme1016@att.net; beachrides; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; Council, City; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; dallen1212@gmail.com; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; Scott Wilkinson; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Sally Thiessen; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; merazroofinginc@att.net; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; sanchezphilip21@gmail.com; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Newsom signs bills to inc. urban housing 9-28-2022 Date:Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:12:23 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:50 PM Subject: Fwd: Newsom signs bills to inc. urban housing 9-28-2022 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:26 PM Subject: Newsom signs bills to inc. urban housing 9-28-2022 To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Wednesday, Sept 28, 2022 To all- Hope this opens for you. Chron, so they want you to subscribe. Look it up on Google if it won't: C/b a big deal. Stops cities from using zoning in these places to thwart housing there. This seems to target empty malls, retail, ofice complexes less used now, parking lots, etc. not being used now. With AMZN killing bricks and mortar retail, this makes sense. Newsom signs major bills to increase housing density in urban centers (sfchronicle.com) Maybe this will take the pressure off of neighborhoods set to be ruined by SB9 and 10. The more vids I see re SB9, it is clearly the real estate industry, the construction industry and the building unions that "convinced" the legislature and Newsom to sign SB9 and 10. Big $ involved for all of them if SB9 is fully implemented. You can be sure that they showed their heart-felt appreciation, in a tangible way, to the electeds who passed SB9, and will continue doing so. Note in a mail I sent recently they interviewed the former mayor of Costa Mesa, Ca. He said that in the Central Valley, thousands of new homes could be built, but are not due to CEQA requirements. So they want to ruin existing single family neighborhoods with SB9 and allow murderers and rapists to move in to prey on the undeserving home-owners. Newsom really is a greasy, bleeding heart liberal, and the worst kind of such. He will discover that we will fight to protect our homes, the lousy bastard. "This unprovoked and dastardly attack..." L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Jonathan To:Council, City Subject:Say NO to Palo Alto Fiber Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:45:19 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from jseder@gmail.com. Learn whythis is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The City of Palo Alto should stay out of the Internet service provider business. Palo Alto Fiber is a terrible idea and should be scuttled immediately. Government should have no control whatsoever of information flows. Extremely high quality service is currently provided by private sector companies at very reasonable prices: there is no problem for the City to solve. Broadband service is increasingly shifting to wireless; fiber to the home may soon be a costly white elephant. The City does not have special expertise. The City does not have any competitive advantages, for example in proprietary technology. Any "natural monopoly" that might have existed for broadband is rapidly disappearing. Palo Alto Fiber raises the risk of hidden cross-subsidization of other activities. City-operated Palo Alto Fiber raises the risk that the various permitting processes might be abused. It is not clear whether Palo Alto Fiber would make payments to the City or other entities in lieu of real property, personal property, and other taxes paid by competing private sector companies It is not clear whether Palo Alto Fiber would receive direct or indirect taxpayer subsidies. I am one of those who made a $50 deposit - but when I read that this was being touted as an endorsement, I requested (and received) a refund. I never intended to endorse this project. Palo Alto Fiber is a bad idea that should be abandoned now. Jonathan Seder 270 Fulton Street, Palo Alto Dear Aram, From February to May of 2022, I was part of a group of North American Jews living in solidarity alongside Palestinian villagers in the South Hebron Hills, an area between the city of Yatta and the south edge of the West Bank known as Masafer Yatta (the agricultural lands of Yatta, in Arabic). We accompanied Palestinian shepherds and schoolkids who regularly face attacks from Jewish From:Aram James To:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; chuck jagoda; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Raj; Planning Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Salem Ajluni; Jack Ajluni; Joe Simitian; Representative Eshoo Subject:Justice for Masafer Yatta in 5783 Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 8:45:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.  settlers, which we documented. And we formed relationships of deep trust and support with our Palestinian partners. Unfortunately, Masafer Yatta has been in the news recently. Just as our stay there came to an end, Israel’s High Court gave the IDF licence to clear out at least 8 Palestinian villages – a population of 1500 people, the largest mass expulsion of Palestinians since the 1967 war. Ostensibly this land seizure is for a military “firing zone”, though Jewish settlements inside this zone are somehow permitted. Within days of the court decision, Israeli Civil Administration (which is really a branch of the military) demolition crews moved into the southernmost villages in the firing zone, destroying Palestinian houses and sheep pens, confiscating vehicles, laying land mines, stopping up wells and tearing up roads, and arresting people as they tried to return home. Protests against the mass expulsion, in Masafer Yatta itself and in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, have been met with army and police violence. If I had not been living in this area, getting to know the people, I don’t think the real magnitude of this horror would be apparent to me merely from news articles. One reads about the dispossession of over a thousand people, and the mind numbs, distracted by other horrendous recent events elsewhere in the world. So instead of belabouring the Masafer Yatta devastation, I’d like to focus attention instead on a distinct but related case that has received much less media attention. Hafez Hureini lives in Tuwani, a town just north of the firing zone. I got to know him and his family well during my time over there. He is a gentle, soft-spoken man, who has committed his life to non-violent resistance to the occupation, and taught his children to do the same. On September 12, Hafez and his family were attacked while gardening on their own private land by a group of masked Jewish settlers armed with lead pipes and rifles. Hafez was beaten, and had both his hands broken; in self-defence, he struck one of the attackers with a shovel. Shortly thereafter, Hafez – not his attackers – was arrested, charged with attempted murder. The Israeli mainstream media have portrayed this as a case of a group of Palestinians ambushing and attempting to lynch a settler, though video evidence shows clearly that it was the other way round. In the aftermath, the IDF have been cracking down on Hafez’s town of Tuwani with nightly raids, including random use of stun grenades and tear gas, deployment of snipers, and heavy interrogation of residents to produce evidence of this non-existent Palestinian plot to lynch a settler. (Hafez Hureini, centre. Photo by Oren Ziv, 972mag.org) This is a perfect illustration of the tragic pattern: Israeli authorities crack down most brutally on the non-violent activists, the very people who could lead Israeli and Palestinian civil society towards genuine peace and reconciliation. It further illustrates that Israeli repression in the area is not limited to the firing zone: the mass expulsion decision has been accompanied by ramped-up settler violence and IDF crackdowns against the Palestinian population throughout the South Hebron Hills. The end-game appears to be the dispossession of the entire rural Palestinian population of the West Bank, concentrating them into a few open-air prisons nominally under the control of the Palestinian Authority, so that their agricultural land can be turned over to settlers. One of the stories in TaNa”CH (1 Kings 21) about Eliyahu ha-Navi (Elijah) concerns the prophet’s fierce denunciation of the evil King Achav (Ahab), for stealing the vineyard of Navot, through a manipulation of the legal system. What would Eliyahu say of the modern state of Israel’s much larger-scale theft of Palestinian land and violence towards the Palestinian people? As we prepare for Yom Kippur (Oct 4-5), we are encouraged to reflect on our behaviour this past year, and on how we hope to behave in the coming year, both individually and collectively. So I’ve been reflecting on the appalling behaviour of the state of Israel, carried out in the name of the Jewish people worldwide. I am resolved not to sit by, passively complicit in these acts of cruelty and devastation. I hope to do everything I can to stand in solidarity with my Palestinian chaverim, like Hafez Hureini and family. My work on the IJV steering committee is a primary expression of that solidarity. I hope you’ll join with me supporting IJV’s work in the coming year, resisting the nightmare of occupation, the apartheid conditions under which Palestinians are forced to live, and sometimes die. In this new year of 5783, may we be inscribed in the book of solidarity. G’mar chatimah tovah. Donate to IJV or become a member! Asher Kirchner IJV national steering committee and IJV- Edmonton member communications@ijvcanada.org PO Box 75372, Leslie Street PO Toronto, ON M4M 1B0 Canada Unsubscribe from this list View in your browser You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important From:matt@evolutionaryteams.com To:Hoyt, George Cc:Council, City; Lait, Jonathan Subject:RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:33:00 PM Attachments:image001.png image002.png image003.png image005.png image006.png image008.png image009.png image010.png image011.png image012.png image013.png image014.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important Thank you, George. I really appreciate all your help! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:25 PM To: matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Thank you for sharing Matt. I will also use this as opportunity to look at ways that we can improve our communication efforts in an effective way in regard to residential electrical service upgrades. George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:01 PM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Hi George, Yes, I received the notification on 8/9 for the issuance of the building permit. On 8/10, I called the utility department to schedule the disconnect, and they told me that they were still processing the paperwork and that it could take as long as a couple weeks. (I recall calling both utility and building departments on that day and they seemed to corroborate that story.) After that, I notified the contractor that I was waiting to hear from the utility department to schedule the disconnect. At that point I was in a holding pattern. Based on our conversation today, I think I now understand that I should have scheduled “Inspection #1” with the building department and then contacted the utility department a few days before the date of inspection #1 for the disconnect. Live and learn. Thanks for your help! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:07 PM To: matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Matt, It was my pleasure to assist you today. You are identified as the applicant on this permit and have full access to the record. We issued the permit to you identifying Torres Electrical as the contractor since you had identified them as the licensed professional doing this work. I have taken a deeper look into our permitting system and it indicates that all communication was emailed to you including the email notification that the permit was issued on August 9, 2022. See below. Perhaps our email communication is or has been blocked by your email provider or ended up in a Junk mail folder. You can access the full permit record by signing onto our Accela Citizen Access portal online. Please let me know if you have any further questions. You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:47 AM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi George, Thank you for your help with the permit and explaining the process. I am still unsure why I was not contacted in August. I believe I put myself down as the point of contact for the project. If I did something incorrectly, please let me know so that I can rectify that. I would like to be copied on all correspondence between the contractor and the city, if possible. Thanks again! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important From:Hoyt, George To:matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc:Council, City; Lait, Jonathan Subject:RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:25:21 PM Attachments:image001.png image002.png image003.png image005.png image006.png image008.png image009.png image010.png image011.png image012.png image013.png image014.png Thank you for sharing Matt. I will also use this as opportunity to look at ways that we can improve our communication efforts in an effective way in regard to residential electrical service upgrades. George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:01 PM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Hi George, Yes, I received the notification on 8/9 for the issuance of the building permit. On 8/10, I called the utility department to schedule the disconnect, and they told me that they were still processing the paperwork and that it could take as long as a couple weeks. (I recall calling both utility and building departments on that day and they seemed to corroborate that story.) After that, I notified the contractor that I was waiting to hear from the utility department to schedule the disconnect. At that point I was in a holding pattern. Based on our conversation today, I think I now understand that I should have scheduled “Inspection #1” with the building department and then contacted the utility department a few days before the date of inspection #1 for the disconnect. Live and learn. Thanks for your help! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:07 PM To: matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Matt, It was my pleasure to assist you today. You are identified as the applicant on this permit and have full access to the record. We issued the permit to you identifying Torres Electrical as the contractor since you had identified them as the licensed professional doing this work. I have taken a deeper look into our permitting system and it indicates that all communication was emailed to you including the email notification that the permit was issued on August 9, 2022. See below. Perhaps our email communication is or has been blocked by your email provider or ended up in a Junk mail folder. You can access the full permit record by signing onto our Accela Citizen Access portal online. Please let me know if you have any further questions. You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:47 AM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi George, Thank you for your help with the permit and explaining the process. I am still unsure why I was not contacted in August. I believe I put myself down as the point of contact for the project. If I did something incorrectly, please let me know so that I can rectify that. I would like to be copied on all correspondence between the contractor and the city, if possible. Thanks again! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From:Admin Mailbox To:Council, City Subject:Action Required! 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Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:01:25 PM Attachments:image012.png image013.png image014.png image015.png image016.png image017.png image019.png image020.png image022.png image023.png image024.png image025.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important Hi George, Yes, I received the notification on 8/9 for the issuance of the building permit. On 8/10, I called the utility department to schedule the disconnect, and they told me that they were still processing the paperwork and that it could take as long as a couple weeks. (I recall calling both utility and building departments on that day and they seemed to corroborate that story.) After that, I notified the contractor that I was waiting to hear from the utility department to schedule the disconnect. At that point I was in a holding pattern. Based on our conversation today, I think I now understand that I should have scheduled “Inspection #1” with the building department and then contacted the utility department a few days before the date of inspection #1 for the disconnect. Live and learn. Thanks for your help! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:07 PM To: matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Matt, It was my pleasure to assist you today. You are identified as the applicant on this permit and have full access to the record. We issued the permit to you identifying Torres Electrical as the contractor since you had identified them as the licensed professional doing this work. I have taken a deeper look into our permitting system and it indicates that all communication was emailed to you including the email notification that the permit was issued on August 9, 2022. See below. Perhaps our email communication is or has been blocked by your email provider or ended up in a Junk mail folder. You can access the full permit record by signing onto our Accela Citizen Access portal online. Please let me know if you have any further questions. George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:47 AM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi George, Thank you for your help with the permit and explaining the process. I am still unsure why I was not contacted in August. I believe I put myself down as the point of contact for the project. If I did something incorrectly, please let me know so that I can rectify that. I would like to be copied on all correspondence between the contractor and the city, if possible. Thanks again! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From:Silicon Valley Community Foundation To:Council, City Subject:Nearly sold out - SVCF Annual Meeting Oct. 11 Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 2:25:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. 650.450.5400 @ info@siliconvalleycf.org Silicon Valley Community Foundation's2022 Annual Meeting Connect, Reflect, Act: Building Power and Seeking Justice in Our Region Tuesday, October 11, 2022 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reception at 3:00 p.m. | Program begins at 4:00 p.m. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts 500 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Register Now Join us for SVCF’s signature event, where we bring together all sectors of our region to discuss pressing community issues. We have just a few spots still available to attend our Annual Meeting, which is being held in person. Thank you to everyone who has already registered. If you can't make it to the event, we are recording the program and we will share the recording later that week. 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Copyright © 2022 Silicon Valley Community Foundation View in browser | Unsubscribe From:Progressivism Madness To:Council, City Subject:Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:38:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of openingattachments and clicking on links. Can't see this message? View in a browser Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice On the Heterodox Academy website, Dr. Jonathan Haidt explains eloquently why universities must choose one telos: truth or social justice. Furthermore, he elaborates that Aristotle often evaluated a thing with respect to its “telos”–its purpose, end, or goal. The telos of a knife is to cut. The telos of a physician is health or healing. What is the telos of university? The most obvious answer is “truth”–-the word appears on so many university crests. But increasingly, many of America’s top universities are embracing social justice as their telos, or as a second and equal telos. But can any institution or profession have two teloses (or teloi)? What happens if they conflict? Haidt believes that the conflict between truth and social justice is likely to become unmanageable. Universities will have to choose, and be explicit about their choice, so that potential students and faculty recruits can make an informed choice. Universities that try to honor both will face increasing incoherence and internal conflict. To further illuminate his point, consider two quotations: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.– Karl Marx, 1845 He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…– John Stuart Mill, 1859 As Haidt puts it: Marx is the patron saint of what he calls “Social Justice U,” which is oriented around changing the world in part by overthrowing power structures and privilege. It sees political diversity as an obstacle to action. Mill is the patron saint of what he calls “Truth U,” which sees truth as a process in which flawed individuals challenge each other’s biased and incomplete reasoning. In this process, all become smarter. However, Truth U dies when it becomes intellectually uniform or politically orthodox. One Telos: Truth or Social Justice? Truth is paramount to sapience, and the antithesis to sapience is modern progressivism. Not only does progressivism deny commonly held truths across all cultures of the world, today’s progressivism has evolved to many degrees into a twentieth century version of Marxism lite—without the horrific calories of human sacrifice, failed regimes, and economic ruin. When progressivism madness is incubated in the right condition on campus, illiberalism will follow, and when illiberalism follows, so do social justice warriors and campus radicals. Put simply enough by Haidt, “no university can have Truth and Social Justice as dual teloses. Each university must pick one. The SAPIENT Being sometimes uses the phrase “so called” progressive, and the reason is because so many of the left’s and “current” liberal platforms, policies, and agendas are actually regressive in regards to developing sapience. They are the antithesis to reason, logic, and the scientific method. Please note this as well as the important distinction between progressive vs. progressivism as follows: Progressive: One favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters. Today, a conservative or Republican can be just as progressive as a liberal or a Democrat because they both advocate progress, change, improvement, or reform as well, but they have vastly different agendas and ideologies in this regard. Progressivism: A political philosophy in support of social reform based on the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. It would be safe to say conservatives and Republicans favor addressing political matters vs. social ones so most who favor and/or part of the progressivism movement will be liberals and Democrats. Furthermore, there’s also a misconception that professors are leading their student disciples towards a path of Marxist indoctrination. That’s partially true and a lessor of two influences. But if professors are not swaying student opinions in the classroom, and the lessor of two influencers, what is making them more sympathetic to socialism and less tolerant of conservative views about free markets and limited government? Unknown to many, the greater influence is from college administrators. It’s demonstrably true that professors are overwhelmingly liberal and have become more so in the past three decades. Some observers blame leftist professors for the socialist connection. This makes sense on the surface because the renewed sympathy for socialism seems most pronounced among recent college graduates. However, it’s far from conclusive that this kind of classroom and dormitory indoctrination is driving students to the far left. If it’s not—what is? A compelling answer will be provided in next week's article titled "How a University Moved From Diversity to Indoctrination.". Article content from Chapter 11 - Progressivism Madness: Marxism Lite for Campus Radicals? of "The S.A.P.I.E.N.T. Being." Become a SAPIENT Being member Sapient Conservative Textbook (SCT) Program 4533 Temescal Cyn. # 308 Corona CA, 92883 (951) 638-5562 Share on social SAPIENT BEING You've received this email because you are a subscriber of this site. If you feel you received it by mistake or wish to unsubscribe, please click here. You don't often get email from matt@evolutionaryteams.com. Learn why this is important From:Hoyt, George To:matt@evolutionaryteams.com Cc:Council, City; Lait, Jonathan Subject:RE: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:06:43 PM Attachments:image001.png image002.png image003.png image005.png image006.png image008.png image009.png image010.png image011.png image012.png image013.png image014.png Matt, It was my pleasure to assist you today. You are identified as the applicant on this permit and have full access to the record. We issued the permit to you identifying Torres Electrical as the contractor since you had identified them as the licensed professional doing this work. I have taken a deeper look into our permitting system and it indicates that all communication was emailed to you including the email notification that the permit was issued on August 9, 2022. See below. Perhaps our email communication is or has been blocked by your email provider or ended up in a Junk mail folder. You can access the full permit record by signing onto our Accela Citizen Access portal online. Please let me know if you have any further questions. George E. Hoyt, CBO Chief Building Official / ADA Coordinator Planning & Development Services (650) 329-2368 | George.Hoyt@cityofpaloalto.org https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-Development- Services From: matt@evolutionaryteams.com <matt@evolutionaryteams.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:47 AM To: Hoyt, George <George.Hoyt@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: 2698 Emerson -- Thank you! CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi George, Thank you for your help with the permit and explaining the process. I am still unsure why I was not contacted in August. I believe I put myself down as the point of contact for the project. If I did something incorrectly, please let me know so that I can rectify that. I would like to be copied on all correspondence between the contractor and the city, if possible. Thanks again! Matt Matt Schlegel Schlegel Consulting 650-924-8923 Author: Teamwork 9.0 Website: evolutionaryteams.com Blog: evolutionaryteams.com/blog/ Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mattschlegel/ Twitter: twitter.com/EvoTeamMatt Instagram: instagram.com/MattSchlegel6 Facebook: facebook.com/mattschlegel.77 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCLkUMHuG4HVa831s9yeoZ5Q Enneagram Quiz: www.EnneaSurvey.com From:Aram James To:Sean Allen; Binder, Andrew; Jethroe Moore; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Council, City; Enberg, Nicholas; chuck jagoda; Jeff Rosen; Joe Simitian; Rebecca Eisenberg; Jay Boyarsky; Greer Stone; Wagner, April; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Perron, Zachary; Josh Becker; ladoris cordell; Raj; Rebecca Eisenberg; Figueroa, Eric; Foley, Michael Subject:Edina Cop Harass Black Man For Walking Down The Street Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:09:22 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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Dear Council, As a Palo Alto resident, I greatly appreciate your ongoing openness when hearing from your constituents. Regrettably, I was not able to attend the public meeting last evening, but want to convey my enthusiasm for the S/CAP, it's necessity (now more than ever), and my hope that you will carry this effort forward. As a retired Wildlife Biologist and life-long Environmental advocate, I promise to continue fighting beside you. Sincerely, Jeralyn Moran -- Jeralyn Moran jeralyn.moran@gmail.com ....... the Time for Climate Action Is Now. From:Aram James To:Foley, Michael; Tannock, Julie; Enberg, Nicholas; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Rebecca Eisenberg; chuck jagoda; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Perron, Zachary; Wagner, April; Julie Lythcott-Haims; ladoris cordell; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Joe Simitian; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; Planning Commission; Reifschneider, James; Vara Ramakrishnan; Pat Burt; Greg Tanaka Subject:Cops lied to put him in handcuffs, but a camera caught the truth! Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:30:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/d7SrKRgkkdA Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Tom DuBois Cc:Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Alison Cormack; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Shikada, Ed; Council, City; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Joe Simitian; city.council@menlopark.org; citycouncil@mountainview.gov Subject:Why we need your vote on a Palo Alto Business Tax Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:03:49 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Good pitch,Tom. One question: are the taxes collected guaranteed to go to the areas you have identified? Or can the taxes end up going into the general fund and simply be spent on out of town already highly paid employees being given more big time raises? Thanks, aram P.S. While I’m very happy to see Eric Filseth and Alison Cormack go I will miss you. We have disagreed on multiple issues but, you, with rare exception, have been even handed and decent with all members of the community. That has made a huge difference in the way folks judge the council.. Best regards, aram Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2022, at 9:59 PM, Tom DuBois <tom@votedubois.com> wrote:  Dear aram, In my capacity as a private citizen, I am supporting Measure K, the Palo Alto business tax. This has been a multi-year discussion, to pass a business tax so that businesses pay their fair share. We are one of a few cities without a business tax even while we see great impacts on our quality of life by these companies. Small businesses are exempted from the tax. Large companies will pay the lions share and the funds will be used for homeless/low income housing, Police and Fire Safety, and Rail Safety. Businesses will pay 3.75 cents per square foot per month, starting in January 2023, and 7.5 cents per square foot, starting in January 2024 on anything over 10,000 square feet. I fought to have this be a larger tax. But even though I didn't get exactly what I thought was best for Palo Alto, it's important to support this tax. It's been ten years since the last attempt and we can't afford to have it fail and wait another ten years. So if you've been following this issue, and feel that the proposed tax is not enough, I urge you to still vote for it. Finally, it's critical to get the word out and that takes money. Please consider making a donation to the Measure K team so that residents that may NOT have been following the issue are informed. You can donate here, https://www.safeandhousedpaloalto.org/ by pressing the big red button. Thank you, Tom -=-=- Tom DuBois for City Council 2018 · Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States This email was sent to abjpd1@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. You can also keep up with Tom DuBois on Twitter. -=-=- Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders. From:Aram James To:Tom DuBois Cc:Alison Cormack; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Council, City; Pat Burt; Lydia Kou; Greer Stone Subject:Re: Why we need your vote on a Palo Alto Business Tax Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 11:16:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Good pitch,Tom. One question: are the taxes collected guaranteed to go to the areas you have identified? Or can the taxes end up going into the general fund and simply be spent on out of town already high paid employees being given more big time raises? Thanks, aram P.S. While I’m very happy to see Eric Filseth and Alison Cormack go I will miss you. We have disagreed on multiple issues but you with rare exception have been even handed and decent with all members of the community. Best regards, aram Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2022, at 9:59 PM, Tom DuBois <tom@votedubois.com> wrote:  Dear aram, In my capacity as a private citizen, I am supporting Measure K, the Palo Alto business tax. This has been a multi-year discussion, to pass a business tax so that businesses pay their fair share. We are one of a few cities without a business tax even while we see great impacts on our quality of life by these companies. Small businesses are exempted from the tax. Large companies will pay the lions share and the funds will be used for homeless/low income housing, Police and Fire Safety, and Rail Safety. Businesses will pay 3.75 cents per square foot per month, starting in January 2023, and 7.5 cents per square foot, starting in January 2024 on anything over 10,000 square feet. I fought to have this be a larger tax. But even though I didn't get exactly what I thought was best for Palo Alto, it's important to support this tax. It's been ten years since the last attempt and we can't afford to have it fail and wait another ten years. So if you've been following this issue, and feel that the proposed tax is not enough, I urge you to still vote for it. Finally, it's critical to get the word out and that takes money. Please consider making a donation to the Measure K team so that residents that may NOT have been following the issue are informed. You can donate here, https://www.safeandhousedpaloalto.org/ by pressing the big red button. Thank you, Tom -=-=- Tom DuBois for City Council 2018 · Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States This email was sent to abjpd1@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. You can also keep up with Tom DuBois on Twitter. -=-=- Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders. From:Aram James To:Winter Dellenbach; Julie Lythcott-Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Binder, Andrew; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Shikada, Ed; Tannock, Julie; Jeff Rosen; Enberg, Nicholas; Council, City; chuck jagoda; Jay Boyarsky; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Perron, Zachary; Wagner, April; ladoris cordell; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Cindy Chavez; Foley, Michael; Reifschneider, James; Michael Gennaco; Pat Burt; bob nunez; Vara Ramakrishnan; Greg Tanaka Subject:Cop Convicted For Killing Man 6 Seconds After Arriving At Scene - YouTube Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 8:43:48 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgTR12y_rg > > > Sent from my iPhone From:Kim Harvey To:Council, City Subject:S/CAP Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 6:46:36 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from kimharvey916@yahoo.com. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear Council Members, I have been a resident of Palo Alto for over 60 years. In the past I have been very proud of how our city took the lead in many things related to the environment. Now I would love to see our city moving FAST on climate change. Our goals set for 2030 are great but time is going by and it doesn’t seem that we are making enough progress so that we will be able to meet those goals. And as you know, there is a point of no return (2°C temperature rise) so time is of the essence. Please support the S/CAP goals and their recommended actions. Palo Alto can again be an example for other cities. Thank you, Kim Harvey From:Aram James To:Council, City; Winter Dellenbach Subject:In re Weller Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:39:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1841427.html Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone From:Virginia VanKuran To:Council, City Subject:In Support of S/CAP Ad Hoc Committees Recommendations Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:37:01 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council Members, My name is Virginia Van Kuran. I grew up in Los Altos and Palo Alto and raised my children here in Palo Alto. Actively pursuing solutions to climate change impacts is my top priority as a retired resident. I appreciate the work of the S/CAP Ad Hoc Committee, City Staff, S/CAP Ad Hoc Committee Working Group and the S/CAP Ad Hoc Committee working group teams. Thanks to the City Council members for their support of all this work. I am in strong support of all of the recommendations the S/CAP Ad Hoc Committee and urge the council to accept them and proceed to implement them. Regards, Virginia Tincher Van Kuran 879 Garland Drive From:Rhonda Stieber To:Council, City Subject:pickleball at Mitchell Park Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 3:10:56 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from rhonda.stieber@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I am one of the many people who play pickleball at Mitchell Park in the evenings. Unfortunately, the tennis courts currently have priority in the evenings. There are 2 tennis courts that take the same space as 7 pickleball courts. Typically the pickleball courts are full, with at least 28 people playing (4 people per court). Then 4 tennis players arrive, and the 28 (or more) people have leave, or crowd onto the 6 permanent pickleball courts. There are often 6 or more people waiting to play at each permanent pickleball court. Quite simply, there is a need for more pickleball courts in the evenings. I highly support making the 7 temporary pickleball courts permanent. There are many other places to play tennis, but no other pickleball courts available. Thank you. Rhonda Stieber -- Rhonda Stieber Tahoe Donner Ski Cabin Available for Rent https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/736229 From:Carol Kiparsky To:Council, City Subject:Vote YES on S/CAP Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:07:42 PM Attachments:Vote for scap.pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from ckiparsky@sbcglobal.net. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 9/19/2022 Good Evening Mayor and Council Members: First, on Sept 27 I hope to see ALL of you voting to implement the S/CAP. We have waited far too long. We are supposed to be implementing 2030 goals and it is already 2022!! It appears that he S/CAP implementation will focus for the first year on the heat pump hot water heater project. Why? It’s the low hanging fruit I am told. Very good. Electrification is a crucial step in reducing GHG emissions. But not good enough! Climate change is an emergency! We cannot wait another year, or even a few months, to get started on at least some of the higher hanging fruit. For example, transportation accounts for a huge percentage of GHG emissions. So why are we encouraging single occupancy vehicle trips by building parking lots near Cal Ave? Instead we need to be building a genuine, effective public transit system. Free to riders. (And let driving cost what it costs.) Yes, electric cars are far and away better for the climate than gas ones. But they are still single occupancy for the most part, and they carry serious environmental costs, many in places far from our fair city; for example, lithium mines destroying mountains in Bolivia, and cadmium mines in Congo where children labor underground. Instead of individual E-cars, let’s focus on E-buses or better yet E-shuttles. May I point out that both the heat pump project and many of the EV items emphasized in the S/CAP Key Actions place the burden of climate change on individual citizens, rather than the fossil fuel industry and other actual climate change perpetrators! However, many of the Key Actions actually do address this problem. Let’s start moving on these before it is too late, alongside the home electrification project. Thank you, Carol Kiparsky 800 Cowper St 94301 From:Art Liberman To:Council, City; City Mgr Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Blackshire, Geoffrey Subject:Comment on the Hazardous Materials Informational Report Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:00:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I am writing to comment on the “Informational Report on the City’s Existing Hazardous Materials Ordinance and How it Affects Residential Development” that was submitted as item 12 to the City Council for its meeting on September 27, 2022. The above-named report was prepared as a result of a review of sites selected for the Housing Element and the concern that some of these sites, and the individuals who might reside there if housing were to be built, might be within unacceptable proximity to a building with highly toxic hazardous materials (Tier 2 HMFs). The conclusion of the Informational Report states: “While staff believes the existing ordinance provides sufficient safeguards for the proposed housing inventory sites, staff may return in the future to enact ordinances to prevent Tier 2 HMFs from being constructed near housing inventory sites.” Hazardous Material regulations are important in ensuring the safety, health and welfare of the residents of Palo Alto. The hazardous materials ordinance referenced in the Informational Report, Ordinance No. 5381, adopted in 2016, provided a significant increase in the level protection afforded to residents of Palo Alto by establishing a minimum distance of 300’ between anyone (‘sensitive receptors’) and a facility that used or stored highly toxic hazardous materials (Tier 2 HMFs). It was passed following multiple Council meetings on the topic that took place over several years and research work by consultant Rod Jeung of AECOM. His report to then Planning Director Gitelman can be found here: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes- reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year- archive/2016/id6484_hazardousmaterials.pdf The ordinance prohibited the use in Palo Alto of quantities of hazardous materials above the threshold amounts listed by the California Accidental Release Program/ Title 19, and also prohibited the use of Biosafety Level 4 etiological agents. Because the Hazardous Material regulations are important, I agree with the author of the Informational Report that the City should consider updating and streamlining the Hazardous Materials sections of the Municipal Codes. But this is going to be complex effort, not only because of the need to verify the chemical lists in various California and Federal Code of Regulations and the California Fire Code, but also because the regulations and the ordinances must answer the City of Palo Alto’s numerous requirements and respond to the requirements of various City Departments: Emergency responders need to know where hazardous materials are located, what kinds of hazardous materials are stored there and in what amounts, and train for responding to accidental releases; Hazardous material inspectors need to review safety and training procedures of those using hazardous materials and verify the storage locations and the integrity of the storage systems; Building and Fire inspectors need to review structural details to ensure that the buildings are built and maintained in way so that the usage and storage of the hazardous materials in a particular location are done safely; Planners need to have records of the locations of hazardous materials, in particular Tier 2 HMFs, when they receive new development proposals or asked to approve potential housing element locations. There is one statement that I take issue with in the Informational Report. On page 4, the report states: “Title 19 is a list that is managed by the Federal Government.” This is not true. As the informative California Accidental Release FAQ (link follows) states “CalARP is the Federal Risk Management Plan Program with additional state requirements, including an additional list of regulated substances and thresholds.“ https://hazmat.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb471/files/CalARP%20- %20CalARP%20FAQ_2014-02.pdf Arthur Liberman Chimalus Drive From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:Don"t miss the premier literary event on the Peninsula! Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:56:00 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clickingon links. You are invited to join AbilityPath to hear a fun and fascinating panel of authors at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto for the 31st Annual Authors Luncheon Cocktail Edition! 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Register Now LWVPaloAlto.org Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Email Email Copyright © 2022 League of Women Voters Palo Alto, All rights reserved. From Voter Recipient List Our mailing address is: League of Women Voters Palo Alto 3921 E Bayshore Rd Ste 209 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Questions? Contact us at communications@lwvpaloalto.org. Ask Your Questions From:Jeffrey Hook To:Council, City Subject:S/CAP opinion: Eliminate SORES in addition to converting water heaters to heat pump Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:34:55 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tribaljeff51@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Palo Alto Councilmembers, I applaud the City's commitment to reduce GHG emissions to 80% of 1990 levels by 2030. I understand the reasons for prioritizing heat pumps and support your focus on this program. Simultaneously, I strongly urge the council to consider the sustainability benefit of eliminating Small Off-Road Engines (SORES) from landscape maintenance in Palo Alto. While not a major contributor to CO2 emissions, they are a major source of air pollution and stress-producing noise; and they are used to maintain landscapes and hardscapes in ways that are increasingly incompatible with our mandate for climate change mitigation. SORES collectively pollute California more than all passenger cars, according to a study by Assemblymember Mark Berman. (https://a24.asmdc.org/press-releases/20210909-bill-phase- out-gas-powered-landscaping-equipment-passes-legislature) Enforce the gas blower ban. Publicize the 311 reporting app, and followup on all complaints Reduce lawn. Subsidize replacement with drought tolerant native plants. This will eliminate the need for gas powered mowers. Extend the gas blower ban to ALL city property, not just residential areas Embrace leaves. Advocate for leaves left under shrubs, and for only partial removal from hardscapes, the kind that can be done easily with a rake and/or broom. We pay too high a cost in terms of noise and pollution when we require every last leaf to be removed, weekly. Prohibit blowing onto streets and sidewalks, and prohibit blowing on streets. We have street sweepers for that task. Empower citizen volunteers to issue citations. Give them a few hours of training, a vest and a badge. I will happily participate. Every week I stop on my bike to talk to gardeners who are operating in violation of the law. There is too long a delay, even with 311 reporting, to provide fast enough feedback. An immediate citation, issued to both gardener and sent to homeowner, will be an effective means to change the culture. Quiet streets and sustainable landscapes will add significant symbolic and real momentum to the City's sustainability goals. Sincerely, Jeffrey Hook 381 Oxford Ave. Palo Alto From:Jeff Hoel To:UAC; Council, City Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external) Subject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS -- 09-14-22 UAC meeting -- Director"s Report item -- rash of electric outages Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:29:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments andclicking on links. Commissioners and Council Members, At the 09-14-22 meeting, there was an extended Utilities Director Report (Item VI) following new business (Item VII). Director Batchelor reported on a "rash" of four recent electric outages on 09-05-22, 09-05-22, 09-07-22, and 09-11-22. Agenda (with colleagues' memo on pages 79-86): https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda- and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2022/09-14-2022/09-14-2022-uac-agenda-and-packet.pdf Video: https://midpenmedia.org/utilities-advisory-commission-31-9142022/ Here (below the "######" line) is a transcript of the item, with my comments (paragraphs in red beginning with ###). But first, some high-level comments. 1. It would have been better to have presented this content as a real New Business item, rather than as a Utilities Director Report. Commissioners and the public could have studied the staff report in advance. The staff report could have included the correct spelling of names, and URLs to supporting documentation. 2. Each year, the 4Q Utilities Quarterly Update used to provide some information about the reliability of all the utilities, and, in particular the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) for electric. (SAIDI is the how many minutes per year the average customer is without power.) UAC should recommend, and Council should mandate, that CPAU report this information. a. It would be great to benchmark CPAU against other utilities that are doing a great job. For example, Fort Collins, CO, consistently gets a SAIDI under 20 minutes per year. https://fortcollins.clearpointstrategy.com/economic-health/electric-system-average-interruption-duration-index-saidi-in-minutes/ In FY 2019, CPAU had a SAIDI of 122 minutes per year. (See PDF page 386 here.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/administrative-services/city-budgets/fy-2022-city-budget/fy-2022-proposed-city-of-of-palo-alto- operating-budget-for-web_2.pdf And what we hope to achieve is 60 minutes per year. b. Why does Fort Collins do so well? Well, for one thing, their electric wiring is almost entirely underground. 3. UAC used to agendize each Utilities Quarterly Update when it came out, so commissioners had the opportunity and responsibility to look it over and comment. It would be great to resume this practice. Also, there used to be four Utilities Quarterly Updates per year. 4. I think lowering SAIDI is even more important than communicating with customers about outages, although both are important. Thanks. Jeff ------------------- Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 ------------------- PS: I started keeping track of outages to my house in 2020. Since then, I've had three outages: 11-02-20 15 minutes 03-27-21 122 minutes 09-06-22 40 minutes So, if we assume those were the only outages over a three-year period, my personal SAIDI was 59 minutes per year. Luckier than many. ################################################################################################################## 0:03:51: Chair Segal: Next, Agenda Review and Revisions. And we are going to move the Director's Report from Item VI to after new business. So, other than that, everything will go according to the agenda. ============================================================================================================= 3:13:51: Chair Segal: And now, you're on, Director Batchelor. 3:13:55: Director Batchelor: Yes. Sorry for being so late in the evening. And I know this topic is very important to all of you, as well as to myself. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about the recent outages that we have, some of the changes that we are putting in place, some of the longer term pieces that we will have, and -- um -- So, over this past year, we've had 19 unplanned outages. And 8 of them have been considered to be a size, due to a large impact. And the way that we looked at the impact portion of it is that it's 500 customers or more. So, I think that the way that we looked at this is -- 500 customers or more seemed to be a large outage portion of it. And some of the actions to improve is very important to us -- is in the improvement and the communications, and how we're going to move forward with this. 3:15:03: Our struggles have been a little bit on the after-hours and on the weekends. On how we get the communications out to the public. But with some new ideas, and some new plans, that I'll talk about here shortly, I think that we're going to be able to move forward with this. One of the challenges have been is that some of these outages have been early morning portions of it. And we don't update our website, or we don't get our Twitter out, until 9-10 o'clock in the morning. Or, maybe in this last one, we didn't even put didn't even put the close portion in. So, it is not a staffing challenge at this point. The thing is that -- Not to make excuses, but we have only 2 communications people. They rotate their on- call portions. But we've realized that that just isn't working. So we have move forward that we are doing some additional training next week with our operators, as well as having more people on call. With that, we'll be able to take over the reins of how we're going to put information up on the website. So, the first thing is is that once a operator gets the call that there's an outage of greater than 500 customers, ### How long does it take to figure out whether an outage is major (500 or more customers) or not? What if CPAU just reported all outages? the first thing that they will do, before they even come in to the UCC will be is that they will actually put it out on the website. That we're aware that there's an outage, crews are on their way in. If we have a customer count, we'll be able to put a customer count up right away. ETA is not going to be -- it'll probably be TBD at that period of time, because, again, we're not -- we haven't had a chance to roll out to the site. But as soon as the crews are on site, we can get some information back up. Then, at that point, we'll be able to fill in some more information at that point. It'll go out on Twitter, as well as -- 3:17:14: ### Slide 1 -- Director's Report -- Outage Update ### The presentation slides are not available online, as far as I know, so I transcribed them from the video. Twitter actually updates our website for us. ### Twitter recently received national attention for its security flaws. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/ Has someone reviewed whether its a good idea to rely on Twitter this way? ### Slide 2 -- UTILITY OUTAGES THIS YEAR • There have been 19 unplanned outages this calendar year, eight of which Utilities considers major due to the size of customers impacted. The Utilities Department is taking actions to improve communications and public notification moving forward, including through adoption of a new outage management and notification system (OMS), addressing existing communications gaps and staffing challenges. • In the interim until he new OMS is in place, Utilities is increasing its ability to notify the public of outages via Twitter @PAUtilities and for initial notification of an outage sign up for Node Alerts at local mdbe.com/palo-alto-police-department/ • Real time updates will continue to be available at cityofpaloalto.org/outageinfo. So the same message that goes out on Twitter will actually go out on the website. And then, the map -- the outage map -- actually populates automatically from the OMS. The outage management system that we have in place today. Next slide please. 3:17:33: ### Slide 3 -- RECENT UTILITY OUTAGES • Monday, September 5, 11:30 pm-8:54 am: heat wave • High temperatures during an intense heat wave caused a transformer and a cable to fail, affecting approximately 4,500 customers in and near the downtown area. This is the same circuit that was damaged by a squirrel on Wednesday, September 7. • Power was restored for a majority of customers around 2:40 am; 13 customers remained without power until Tuesday morning around 8:50am. So, starting off on September 5th, we had a long outage. Part of it was, it was extremely warm out there. And we actually had a transformer and cable that failed, that affected 4,500 customers near the downtown area. This is actually at Webster Wood Apartments. This is where the actual outage -- or the actual damage of the cable was. That circuit holds 4,500 customers It's an overhead and underground circuit. So, we were able to go out and look at the overhead. There was no issues with the overhead section of that. We were able to then turn customers up, restoring the majority of those customers by about 2:40 in the morning. And then, we had struggles trying to find the actual outage piece. So, Webster Woods has transformers that are actually inside of the apartment complex. There's 7 transformers in that complex. They're not on the outside. They're pad-mounted transformers. And so, they're not in the surrounding areas, on the sidewalk areas, or underground area. They're actually inside the apartment complex. And so, we worked until almost about 9:00 o'clock, at that period of time, before we were able to get customers back up at 8:50 in the morning. I guess that a very long outage should have -- It took us some period of time to be able to actually find that, and be able to fix that transformer and that cable. 3:19:18: ### Slide 4 -- RECENT UTILITY OUTAGES • Tuesday, September 6, 6:30 pm-7:30 pm: electrical grid emergency • CPAU shut off power in the evening for about 1,700 non-residential customers in response to an energy emergency alert implemented in response to a heat wave across California. Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) instructed Palo Alto to shed electrical load in response to communication from the state's grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Later it was discovered that these instructions to shed load were in error and caused by a miscommunication between NCPA and CAISO. • NCPA send out a press release apologizing for the error, which the City also shared in a blog and across our communication channels. Then, unfortunately, the following day, then we had another outage, for about a half an hour. ### Small point: I wasn't home during the outage, but when I returned home, the clock on my microwave was 40 minutes behind my watch. So IF the clock on my microwave had the same time as my watch before the outage, then the outage lasted 40 minutes. This is the one that you saw -- probably most everybody saw this in the paper portion of it. This is where there was a miscommunications with our Northern California Power Agency and the California Independent System Operator. And so, when the calls -- the Independent California Operator -- they're the ones that actually run the grid. They are the ones that are looking at the grid. They're looking to see how attacked it is for that day. Again, another warm day. Apparently there was a communications to the dispatcher at NCPA, who was instructed, then, at that point -- well, what they heard at that time was that Palo Alto needed to drop about 7.3 megs worth of service. That evening, we dropped 1,700 customers, and then, also, the business park. So that we were able to provide that. Shortly after that, within the hour's time, we received notice from NCPA that we were all clear. And that we need to go back and turn those customers back on. The process of turning a customer off and on, when you're looking at large amounts of power to be shut off, is that the operator -- CPAU's operator -- has control of the substations, and has control of the feeders that add up to whatever we're asked to drop from -- from the ISO. And so, it's just push a button, the breaker opens, it's done, the power's dropped. Push a button, breaker close, power comes back on. ### Continuation of the small point: Does this mean that everyone in Midtown who experienced an outage experienced it for the same duration? When CPAU calculates the contribution to SAIDI for this event, will they use 40 minutes, or about a half an hour? How accurately does CPAU measure the shut down and power up times? So, it's pretty automatic at that period -- at that period of time. It seemed odd to me that -- within that period of time that, you know, we were asked to drop 7 megs worth of power. And so, I started asking questions that night to NCPA, saying, so, what's really truly going on here? Because it seems like if you are really truly going to do this. 'Cause we were in the process of doing rotational outages on an hourly basis, so that customers weren't going to be off too long. Typically, when they ask for power like that, it's usually going to be for a little bit ** period of time. And the reason for that is that the solar power that is being generated is going down around that 6:00 period of time. So, as the generation on the transmission lines, that run through California -- Those generators -- that solar -- is coming offline. And that what causes the transmission lines and the generators to not come on. 'Cause there is no more generation at that period of time. So, that's how we get into these rolling blackouts. 3:22:22: The other interesting thing, as I asked that night, was -- There were 5 other -- 4 other -- so, counting ourselves, it was 5 -- cities that were asked to drop power. Santa Clara was asked to drop a large load. We are the second-largest in the NCPA. So, it goes by percentage of how much that you would use in a typical day. And it goes on. Alameda had to drop load. Healdsburg had to drop power. Ukiah and Lodi. But they all -- Everybody got the same message. Within an hour's time, everybody was turning customers back up. So, it was odd. So, it just so happened that there was a meeting with NCPA the next day, with all the entities that had to shut that down. And then, we questioned it hard with them about this. And they went back and listened to the tapes. There was a miscommunications between the ISO and the NCPA operator. The operator from NCPA understood to drop load NOW. The ISO operator said, nope, didn't ask for that. Should have never happened. The governor came out the next day and said that, you know, we didn't have to shut down any power. We knew it was going to be close, because we do get to see graphs during the day that we look at, to know how close is it going to get to -- to the max. If we're going to be in that band. We did communicate out that when we get into stage 1, and then stage 2, and then there's a stage 3. Once you get to stage 3, you pretty much know that you're probably going to end up having to shed some load under -- in that period of time. So, again, NCPA came out with an apology letter. ### URL? We put that back out, and communicated that piece. It was an unfortunate situation of that. 3:24:21: ### Slide 5 -- RECENT UTILITY OUTAGES • Wednesday, September 7, 7:30 am-9:30 am: animal damage • Power was disrupted for approximately 4,500 CPAU customers near downtown. A squirrel damaged an underground cable, causing fuses in a transformer to malfunction. Crew replaced the affected cable and resorted power for all impacted customers within a couple hours. And then, the next day, we had another power outage, and, unfortunately, that is the same circuit that we dropped on the first day -- of those 4,500 customers. So, unfortunately, they went down twice within two days. And, again, it's hard to believe. And I know that the community is probably thinking about this, is, as we talked about that, it was squirrel damage to an underground cable, ### Sort of. The squirrel caused a short between above-ground lines, and that fault caused a failure underground. How should this be recorded for purposes of long-term analysis? causing the fuses in the transformer to blow. And then, we had to replace a piece of cable. So, the story, really, back on this is that -- so, this an overhead-underground line -- of a feeder. The overhead goes to a certain point. The rest of the lines, then, are undergrounded. And at the corner pole, as where the underground rises to the top of this pole, the squirrel was up on the line and got entangled in between -- If you look at electric power lines, you have three lines that are on the very tip top. Those are 12,000 volt lines. There's on that sits on the very far end of a crossarm. And then there's two lines that are fairly close -- probably 18 to 24 inches -- on the one side. The squirrel somehow got entangled, caused the fault. And what ended up happening, the fault actually went down the riser. And about 50 feet across the street is where we lost the cable, at that period of time. And we were able to move most of those customers back up and power. But it still had an effect. Outage was about 2 hours at that point. Not to downplay the 2 hours, but -- The importance is, again, that we were able to get the information out. Again, 4 hours. Not too bad. We were able to communicate it much better. I wouldn't say it's perfect. It's far from being perfect. But we were able to get out on Twitter. We were able to get it up on our website. And then, we were able to restore power within 2 hours in that area. Thank you. 3:26;40: ### Slide 5 -- RECENT UTILITY OUTAGES Last week there were four power outages impacting the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) customers from a variety of causes, including a vehicle collision, animal damage, heat wave, and electrical grid emergency. • Sunday, September 11, 5am-5pm: vehicle collision • A power outage was caused by a car striking an electrical pole near Highway 101 and Embarcadero. Initially, approximately 3,300 customers were impacted in that area. Crew quickly dispatched to the scene to perform emergency repairs. CHP and the City's traffic control services were on the site to ensure a safe working zone and traffic safety controls. • Power was restored for most customers around 7am. Approximately 50 customers near Edgewood Plaza remained without power until shortly before 5pm as crew continued repairs on the damaged equipment. So, the last one was, again, now, Sunday, on the 11th. Unfortunately, there was another 3,300 customers that were dropped because of a car pole accident, at Highway 101 and the Embarcadero. The interesting thing about this one is that that pole sets quite a ways away from the actual on-ramp, or the off-ramp portion. And it's interesting how far he actually travelled to knock that pole down. The fortunate thing was that there were no power lines dropped on the freeway. It is an aerial run that runs from one side of the 101 to the other side of the 101. It did take us all day. We were able to pretty much pick up most of those customers by 7 o'clock. And then, approximately 50 customers in the Edgewood Plaza remained without power. Unfortunately, again, until 5:00 o'clock. But crews were able to respond. We ended up having to take out a new pole, had to restring it, and put new cables up in the air. There was quite a lot of work that had to be done in that area. But, again, a long time for customers to be out. Even the 50. Two hours before were able to get the majority of the customers back up. So -- 3:28:10: ### Slide 6 Palo Alto Utilities follows California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) guidelines for inspection and equipment replacement. Specifically, all utilities in California must patrol (walk, fly, or drive by for a visual inspection) their systems once a year (in urban areas and high fire threat areas). In addition, City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) conducts detailed inspections every 3-5 years, depending on the type of equipment (overhead vs. underground). CPAU records specify conditions of inspected equipment, any problems found, and a schedule date for corrective action. Since July 1, 1998, utilities are required to submit an annual report summarizing completed and missing inspections, equipment conditions observed, and repairs made. CPAU also conducts intrusive inspection of power poles (including taking samples for analysis) every 10 years (if not previously inspected) or every 20 years. In addition, the City inspects its electrical lines and any tree-related conflicts on a regular basis. So, one of the things that -- I don't think we've really talked about ** too much, from a commission standpoint, that CPAU follows the California Public Commission's guidelines for inspection and equipment replacements. And we have to do patrols on a yearly basis. So, we do a visual for all the overhead/underground wires, cables, equipment, switches. Everything has to be done within a year's time. And then, Year 3, we actually do a detailed inspection, where we actually open up every transformer, every splice, every switch in the underground sections. The one thing that we don't do, and we can't really do, is that we don't inspect the underground cable. We would have to disconnect the actual cable, at that point. And we would have to run some tests on that. It's not something from a utilities standard practice throughout the nation. When you do these inspections, you inspect where the connection points go to, the transformers, switches, any kind of splices. So, what they do is, they actually have an infrared camera. They actually go and they open up. They shoot the infrared camera on each of the connection points, to take a look if there's any hot spots. If there's hot spots, then what they'll do is that they'll make a tag out for it, we'll make it a number one priority. And what we end up doing then is we take a shutdown, and we actually replace that cable, as well as that elbow or that connection point, however it's connected to, that is. And then, on the 5-year inspection portion of it is is that that's followed for overhead. We do a full detailed inspection of our overhead. So, a person goes up in the bucket, goes all the way to the top of the pole. We check our secondary as well as our main line. Again, infrareds, everything, all the connection points, to see if there's anything that's going on. We've, also, since '98, we've had annual reports that we do send. Even though that the CPUC does not govern us, we do send reports to them. About our inspections. We talk about what we've done on the one at 3 and at 5. And then, we talk about what we -- how many tags we've taken, what the repair time was, and what the status of each of those repair tags that we have. We do have a process where we put priorities on these tags. And, as I said, if there's something that's going on that could have failure, it's priority one. And our crews -- And that's why we do have contractors on board, to be able to help us make against maintenance work. Also, too, is that there's pole inspections. Every 10 years, we go out and we take samples. We actually drill the base of the pole, to take -- to see if there's any kind of bug infestation, or if there's any wood rot in the poles. And if we don't see anything in that sample, in that area, then when we go to the 20-year mark. Pole life expectancy is over a long period of time. But we do replace poles on a yearly basis. And then, also, too, is that we work with Public Works. I think we've talked about this, and you've seen it in the budgets, where we're spending about $1.5 million a year with Public Works to do tree trimming. Tree trimming is an enormous amount of work, that our Public Works. And Public Works actually has a contract with contractors that actually go out and look at this. And the way that they -- it gets inspected is that they -- as they're out there, looking at this one-year or three-year period. Also, Public Works actually has some inspectors, as well, that they'll go out and look at where these trees are starting to grow up into the power lines. And when they get into the 12,000 volt -- or the 60,000 volt -- they'll work out a tag. And then tree-trimming folks will actually go back out there. So, it's regulated quite a lot. We take pride in the maintenance aspects of it. 3:32:41: ### Slide 7 -- UPDATE ON NEW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM • Communication and Public Notification: The new Outage Management System (OMS) will substantially improve CPAU's ability to notify customers and mobilize resources in response to electric outages and emergencies. The OMS will allow customers and staff to stay more informed with outage and restoration information including an outage map, automated email and text alerts. Key personnel will get the information in a more timely and effective manner. • Reliability: A new OMS will allow CPAU to identify common problems in electrical system failures and prioritize maintenance or upgrade projects to improve reliability. • Timeline: Once the contract with Milsoft Solutions, Inc. is approved, it is estimated that it will take between six to nine months to implement the new OMS and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems depending on staff and vendor availability for data conversion conversion, interface development, system integration, and testing. You know, I think that it has been a rash of outages that we've had in this past week. And, you know, we're committed that we need to increase the communications -- increase in the public communications at the beginning of any major power outage, providing updates during that outage. And we need to do a better job on making available for the community when restoring power to take place when these power outages happen. Some of the things that I was talking about -- what we're doing now today -- is that we are actually putting more people on call, or some of the management folks, so that we all have more eyes on actually what goes on, so that we can be a little bit better in the areas of communications. You know, we -- Like I said, we put up Twitter. Twitter is tied to the City's webpage, as well as utilities page on the outage portion of it. I know that -- You know, you may think about this is that, OK, it's great that we put it up on Twitter and we put it up on our outage page. But if I've got no power, I can't really see it. So. But, there is a Nixle, which is the PD's way of communicating with customers. The bad thing about is is there's only about 12,500 customers that are signed up for Nixle. So, we're trying to figure out a way how to get that information back out to the customers, that we need them to be signing up on -- giving them their cell phone numbers, so we can text folks. Emails aren't really going to do it for us because, again, because of this power outage. It's silly to think that you're going to be able to go on your computer and look at this portion of it. But it is one way that we can look at this to get more information back out. Also, too, like I said, on the social media pieces, as, hopefully, most people have smart phones, and are able to get onto that. ### Small point: I don't have a smart phone. 3:35:05: So, one of the other things that we're looking at is that any small outage. So, we just talked about 500 or better. ### Better? So, any small outage -- 50 or -- to 500. And we have a lot of those. A lot of the majority of those 19 or smaller outage portions of it that we have. Where it might be a transformer, or it might be isolated to an area where you have 5, 10, 12, 13 customers on one transformer. So, the outage map always comes up. And one of the things that we are going to add to that is is -- to communicate out -- is that we're actually going to notify this backup on Twitter that there's a small outage. And we don't want to be specific, EXACTLY where that location is. Just from a safety perspective. ### Say more. In what way is it unsafe to notify people of a small outage that affects them? But we will give some cross streets on where that outage might be. We'll also try to get ETAs. And then, how many customers are affected, of those small outage portions of it. And, again, the other thing that we are going to do is that in the 500-and-larger customer portions of it, is that we're going to make sure that we're able to update information onto the website, onto the Twitter, the social pages every two hours. Or if there's any kind of change. So, if the change might be that one hour from now, we're able to pick up 1,200 customers, we'll make sure that that gets out. And then, maybe it's another half an hour, we pick up another 500 customers. So, any kind of updates that we have, or if maybe the timing has changed, because there's more work that has to be done, and the ETA's going to change, we'll put that up as well. If not, then every two hours. We're going to make sure that everybody's aware that there's -- this outage is still going on. There's X amount of customers that are out. And the crews are working on it. Two hours next from that point, there may not be any update. It's going to be the same information that's going to be out. But we believe, though, that the public has the right to know what's going on. And we need to do that. 3:37:21: So, it's very important that we do this. And maybe it's over-communication. And maybe folks might think it's a little bit more of a saturation of information. But we're taking it very serious, that this information has to get out to the public. So, the question then comes around is, you know, what should I do? How should I -- What should I do when there is an outage in my area? And, like I said, one of the biggest things is is that -- to go to nixle.com/paloaltopolicedepartment, ### That is, https://local.nixle.com/palo-alto-police-department/ and sign up for nixle. The other thing is to confirm power outages is to go to the outage information map. You know, the outage information map is working right now. It's based off of our GIS mapping portions of it. So, it actually helps in being able to tell where these outages are, and what -- kind of what the surrounding area is. I think, also, too, is that -- The other idea is that -- for subscribe to emergency alerts. So sccgov.org is another way that we have been pushing out some messaging on that. And the other thing is, any social media platforms. But, again, going through paloalto.org/connect ### That is, https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Manager/Connect-With-Us will get you to those social medias. You don't have to have an account on Twitter. You can pick that up off the utility page. And you'll be able to see actually what's going on. Let's see. Where I am at. 3:39:09: So, what are we doing in the future portion of it? So, on the 26th of this month, we are actually going to Council. We do have a vendor -- Oh. Thank you. 27th. Sorry. That's right. Council is on the 27th. ### Here's Council's 09-27-22 agenda. The OMS item is Item 5. It's on consent, so probably there will be no discussion by Council. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/city-council-agendas- minutes/2022/20220927/20220927pccsmlinked-amended-v2.pdf Staff didn't bring this to UAC first. I think it should have. So, we will be taking this item to -- on the 27th. About a new outage management system. This new outage management system is going to definitely improve our abilities to notify customers by a mobile **, as well as emails, texts. It also has a way to contact the customers back that are in that area. Right now, the thing is is that we have a large base of emails from all the customers, just from our utility billing system. ### All the customers? Is this the 21,925 customers who were invited to take the FTTP residential survey? But what we don't do is that -- our existing OMS doesn't have the ability to actually say, OK, if it's the 100 block of -- 1-to-300 block of Hamilton, let's email those customers, directly to them. We don't have any way of doing that. Our -- The OMS is not set that way. It's an older machine. It was installed back in 2011. But this new one will actually have that information. It'll be tied to SAP, as well as to our GIS system. ### Will it be tied to the smart meter stuff? Staff has said previously that once we have smart meters, keeping track of outages will be so much easier. It will be able, then, to zone in and hone in to whoever the customers are, and be able to send out -- This is something that we have to work out is -- We will need to notify all the customers, and find out which way they would like to be notified. Do they want to be notified by email? Do they want to be notified by text? Which way would they like to be -- Do they want a phone call back? The new OMS has that ability to do all those three things. The timeline to install that is somewhere between 6 and 9 months. It's a software, that we need to tie to SAP. And we know how those projects go. It will take us a little bit of time. As well as, there is hardware as well. It's -- As well as software. And then, once we get the approval, we're hoping that when we go on the 27th, we'll get approval for that portion of it, we'll be able to talk to the vendor, and start working out the details on how we're going to move forward with this new OMS system. It will definitely -- This new system will definitely be a plus for us. It will send a message. Once the operator finds out what's going on, there will be some ** messaging to get up on the website right away. So, as soon as the operator is aware of it -- Right now, he has to manually do this work, as we talked earlier. But this one would be able to look at it, and hopefully be able to push that information right onto the website. And then onto social media. And -- Let's see. Is there anything else, Dave, about that OMS? I'm sorry. So, I think that, you know, we are looking forward to that. That's going to be a key piece on how we're going to be able to manage these outages. 3:42:50: I think the thing is is that it is interesting that I heard from Mr. Hutchinson ### I think he means Hamilton Hitchings, who spoke at 2:45:32. On 09-22-22, I sent Council and UAC a TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS message which contains Mr. Hitchings' remarks, but it hasn't been posted in a Letters From Citizens document yet. earlier about is that, you know, with all the outages that we had, his question was -- or his statement was -- you know, we should focus on the electric side, because we do have resource constraints. And going into this fiber business, what is that going to do with our constraints? In my opinion, it doesn't have any downfall. If we decide that -- Council decides to move forward with the fiber project, it doesn't have any impact to the electric side. Because if you look at some of the modeling portions of it, it doesn't say that our linemen are actually going to be putting up fiber on the poles. It doesn't say our engineering is actually doing the engineering. As Dave mentioned earlier, 92 percent of the engineering's already done. From Magellan. So, there is no impact with these two large projects, from the most areas that we have resource constraints to. So, I'm confident that one is not going to slow down the other. 3:44:00: But one that -- The area that slows us down in looking at how we look at the system is going to be about the electrification. It has impacts even today. As Jonathan ### Jonathan Abendschein presented Item VII.4, which was about EV programs. was giving the presentation portion of -- from an EV standpoint, you know, we do have some areas that are constrained. And the thing is is that you start adding 50 amp breakers on 10 customers that are on that same transformer, and they're Level 2's, or maybe possibly even you get a Tesla in there, you know, we're taking time to redesign that. We need to look at the transformer. We need to see the size. We need to see what the secondary's going to be able to do. Preliminary reports -- I was hoping that we were going to be able to do a report out on our grid modernization in next month's meeting in the October, but it's actually going to get pushed to the November timeframe. And the reason for that is that -- for a couple reasons. One, there's some upcoming meetings with Council about S/CAP. There's also some ad hoc committee meetings that will have some impact on what we're going to look at. And we want to have the consultant do a little bit more analysis. I think it's a little shy -- than what we were really truly looking at. So, we're working with him -- with that firm -- to actually get us a little more analysis, so that when we come to you, we can have a strong conversation about what those impacts are going to be. And one thing is is that we have to do is that we have to rebuild some of the areas. And we also have to increase the amount of transformers that are sitting out there. Right now is is that, you know, the typical home is about 3 kV ### That is, 3 kVA. Load on that, average. But when you start adding on chargers and electrification portions of it, it does increase that usage portion of it. So, we don't think that transformers -- We think that we're going to have to add transformers into the secondary side, so that we'll be able to move forward, so that whatever decisions that we decide to make, that we can do that. And one of the ideas right now is is the heat pump water heaters. Heat pump water heaters doesn't have a whole lot of drain on the system at all. So, it's a plus. You know, our goal is to push 1,000 heat pump water heaters out throughout the City. And we're confident that those customers -- those 1,000 that we put out there -- are not going to have an overload on the transformers, or on the system that we have today. But the thing is is that I want to make sure that the community understands, you know, we're 100 percent behind this, and we cannot have 500 -- you know, these 4,400, 3,500 customers out at periods of time. The confidence that we've lost, from a utilities perspective, on just these outages in this last couple weeks is tremendous. Out there in the community. And so, I, as the leader of this group, need to take some strong direction on what we're doing. One of the things that we also talked about is is that, as we move forward into modernizing this grid, we really need to evaluate our protection and relay coordinations. I mean, the thing that is hard to understand sometimes is -- so, there was a bad piece of cable, and a transformer that went bad at Webster Woods. But it relays all the way back to the substation. That's why we lose all our customer portions of it. You know, we need to look at adding some automatic distribution devices on the lines, so that we can segregate some of these lines, and these long, LONG feeders that we have. There are a tremendous amount of customers on those feeder lines. So, when we have a fault, and it faults all the way back, it unfortunately takes out all those customers. There's devices out there that we could actually put in the overhead, separate the underground sections, so that if there was a fault, it wouldn't take out -- if it was underground, it'll stop it at the overhead. All the overhead will still be working. Or vice versa. So, those are things that we have to look at as we design the new system. And how we can protect -- We need to break it into smaller section -- portions of it, so it doesn't have such a huge impact to so many large customers. ### The customers aren't large. The number of customers is large. ### Chattanooga has become famous for deploying IntelliRupter switches on its electrical distribution system, and reducing its SAIDI from 112 minutes per year to 61.8 minutes per year. https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub58408.pdf The IntelliRupters are controlled by a countywide municipal FTTP network. 3:48:48: ### Slide 8 -- In Closing The City of Palo Alto Utilities Department takes great pride in providing power to the Palo Alto community, and appreciates your patience and support through the recent outages. We are committed to continuing to improve our systems and practices to provide the high quality and reliable utility services that Palo Alto is known for. And so, I'm committed to looking at that. I've talked to the operations and engineering folks. They're committed in that as well. And this is something that we're going to have to work with a consultant on, about how we're going to get these other type of automation portions that we can put onto the lines as we rebuild the system as a whole. So, basically, in closing, you know, I take great pride in providing the power to the community. And I appreciate their patience. I know that they've gone through a lot in those last outages that we've had. And you know, we are committed to continually improve our system, and the practice, and provide high-quality, reliable service that Palo Alto is known for. It's very important that we stay focused on that. And as we move forward, with the new projects that we are looking at, as well as making sure that what works today is actually working. 'Cause right now, it's not working very well. And I feel really bad personally, on a personal note, that we do have so many outages at this point that we -- you know, like I said, we have lost the trust from the community as itself. And that it's important to me that we build that trust back up. And it's not going to come easy. And so, we need to move forward, and take proactive approaches on how we are going to run this system. And what we need to do. 3:50:20: So, with that, I'll open it up to any of your questions that you may have. 3:50:28: Chair Segal: Any commissioner feedback? [pause] I don't think it's so much lack of interest as much as the hour. OK. Commissioner Forssell. 3:50:45: Commissioner Forssell: A couple things. Thank you for this report. I think we were all really wanting and craving this information. So, I appreciate you pulling it together for us. I have just a couple of small things that caught my attention as you were going over it. In terms -- You've emphasized the need for better communication. Along with making changes to the systems so that the outages will not be as big or as long. On the communications side, with this new outage management system, I just want to plant a couple of ideas. One would be trying to get all the cell numbers and emails in the household, and not just the accountholder. From your nods, maybe you're already on that. 3:51:30: Dave Yuan: Yes. The new system allows you to add as many phone numbers or emails ... 3:51:32: Commissioner Forssell: And to actively solicit getting those. And I would also consider making the default be over-communication. So people get email and phone and text and whatever else you've got, until they log in and back off, and they say, no, I don't want this much information. And -- Oh, so, you referred to a system through the Police Department. Did you say it was Next Tel? Or Nixle? 3:52:00: **: Nixle. 3:52:00: Commissioner Forssell: Nixle. OK. 3:52:01: Director Batchelor: [unamplified] Sorry if I said that. Nixle. Yes. 3:52:02: Commissioner Forssell: Nixle. Very good. And -- I think that was it for me. Thank you. 3:52:14: Chair Segal: Commissioner Metz. 3:52:15: Commissioner Metz: Director Batchelor -- Well, first of all, I think we appreciate the very specific and timely disc- -- and candid discussion of this. It's -- I know it's a big challenge. Has there -- You know, with all this happening, has there been a, you know, kind of Pareto analysis ### Pareto analysis: https://asq.org/quality-resources/pareto ### Google "site:cityofpaloalto.org pareto" 1 hit (in an scholarly paper, in a 03-23-11 Letters From Citizens document). to understand what the biggest causes of outages are? You know, as a first step toward remediation? 3:52:42: Director Batchelor: So, you know, I think the thing is is that we have. We've looked at all 19 of these. And analyzed these. You know, part of it is is some are just what I call natural causes. I mean, you know, tree, mylar balloon, car hitting a pole, -- Maybe not natural, but, I mean, caused. You know, where there's actually truly caused. But the more important piece is is that, you know, the transformer that went bad in the gardens we looked at was 17 years old. Should have never went. ### If a transformer overheats, that can shorten its life. In theory, a smart grid system could monitor transformers for overheating. Well, what we think ended up happening was, is that that cable was about 22 years old -- 23 years old. It should last longer than that, but it didn't. And so, we are looking at, right now, is that we actually did some analysis, and the other transformers in that area, and -- all that cables are about in the same age bracket. And so, we are working on a design to actually upgrade that. And I think that that's the part of it -- is is that, you know, we have not -- we've looked at the cause of these. And some of them are that there were some older transformers, that we probably should have changed, and done a better job on. There's no doubt about that. On some of those 19 -- or, these other, I guess, 11 outages that we've had. And then, also, too, is that we are working on looking at age of cable. Age of cable is important to us. There's a study that's going on from an internal engineering standpoint to look at how their distribution portion of it is. It's not so much the feeders. We're not too worried about the feeders. But we want to look at the distribution side. And then also the secondary side. Of when these cables were actually installed. Above or underground. 3:54:29: Commisisoner Metz: OK. So, it sounds like old equipment is a major -- 3:54:33: Director Batchelor: Some of it. Some of it, I'd say, is old equipment. Yes. Yes. 3:54:38: Commissioner Metz: OK. Well, thank you. I mean, it just seems like getting the system -- being really systematic about, you know, analyzing what's going on is really important. 'Cause then you'd have a good -- Say it's age of transformers. Then you'd have a good case, going up the hill in money. We just need to be proactive and replace those -- 3:54:57: Director Batchelor: Yeah. The bad thing -- [pause] -- I won't say that. I'll hold my comment. But, yes, you're right -- is, you know, to -- looking at transformers, and looking at equipment. 3:55:12: Chair Segal: Council Member Cormack. 3:55:13: Council Member Cormack: Thanks so much, Chair Segal. You know, Director Batchelor, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your honesty, and being forthcoming about what's happened. It's been rough. It's been a rough spate. I don't know how many times you guys lost power to your house. It was more than once at mine. And, you know, it's -- frankly, it's a little bit embarrassing, as a Council member, to not have a very good explanation. And, you know, I didn't -- You know. Anyway. Literally, I couldn't access anything, 'cause -- Anyway. Long story. So, that's been rough. And going through in detail, and just listening, to me, it's like listening to Dr. Perkins when she comes. I'm, like, it's just so complicated, and I'm learning more about it. But there are the two parts. There's what is physically happening. And then what we're telling people. And so, I appreciate, you know, greatly that you're taking both of those to heart. And, you know, I'm confident that, you know, that the UAC and Council members, you know. Ready to help in any way we can. Of course, we have, you know, talented, professional communications staff, both at the City and at the Utilities level. And, you know, I don't need to, you know, belabor the point about how important it is that, you know, electricity be reliable. Because it's -- You know, it's like -- even just the connectivity, you know, that relies on electricity, is so much more important to people. And I'll just say something that, you know, I've certainly noticed over the past couple of years. And I don't know if it's just a reflection of COVID. Or the increase. But people's patience is less than it used to be. And that's just how it is. And that's what people expect now. Because, you know, everyone needs to be on all the time, for everything they're doing. So, it's not just, you know, OK, people can't, you know, watch their TV show when they're home at night. People are doing meetings at 9:00 pm, you know, with -- in other countries, etc. So, this is an important topic. And, you know, I think it's worth the UAC and yourself thinking about how to -- how to work on this over time. I hesitate to say that you have LOST the confidence of the community. I think it's been a bit shaken. And hot weather doesn't help. No one feels better in the hot weather. Right? 3:57:34: Director Batchelor: Right. 3:57:34: Council Member Cormack: So that's been a bit of a double whammy. But, you know this is -- this is serious. And I appreciate you taking it seriously. And ready to help any way we can. 3:57:46: Director Batchelor: Thank you. 3:57:49: Chair Segal: Thank you, Council Member Cormack. OK. Yeah. Commissioner Forssell. 3:57:55: Commissioner Forssell: Thanks. I just remembered my other question. When there are rolling blackouts, how does the utility decide what customers to black out? Like, I made note of the fact that you chose business customers in this case. And I assume that was not an accident. Sort of, what's the thought process? What's the algorithm? 3:58:13: Director Batchelor: So, you know, it all depends on -- In this case, we were asked for 7 megs. So, you know, what we thought was, most likely, after a 5:00 o'clock period of time, the business park kind of shuts down a little bit. There's still 3.5 to 4 megs of power up there. So, we think that -- Most people are going home at that period of time. So, that's going to be one of the first priorities. We communicated with them ahead of time. Days in advance. Because we knew that these heat waves were going to happen. We told them that, look, this is going to happen, possibly, in the next week. And you're going to be the first priority. So, they were aware of -- This information was being given to them. And then, the other thing is is that, you know, it could come in that we have to give up 10 megs worth of the service. So, that means we've got to find 7 more megs. And one of the things that we do put in the priority portions of it, we do not try to shut down the downtown areas, California Ave, you know, University. We're not shutting down the hospital. That is a no. Stanford's not going to go off. The shopping center itself. And then, we also have to think about, OK, so, heat wave, what -- working with CSD, and -- to come up with cooling centers. So, where can people go. So, one of the things that we put up on the website portion of it is -- and over the weekend as well, for that whole week, is, it was rotating from some of the libraries, as well as some of the gathering parts. And so, once we move into that area, where we decide where that cooling area is going -- cooling center -- we're not going to leave -- we're not going to shut that area off as well. So, then, at that point, then, it's looking at -- So, one of the things -- we did some exercises on this -- and we've been practicing for probably the last month or more, about -- because we have brand new operators. So, they don't have a CLUE. You know, when you get into these rolling blackout portions of it, what you need to do. So, we've been rolling with the operational groups, as well as with our operators, to actually simulate where we can pick up power. And we've got it down to most -- I'd say, down to 1 meg areas. So -- But we're not going to shut off 7 one-meg areas. 'Cause that's almost, you know, a large portion of the town side. So, then we look at, OK, where is, mostly, some of this at? So, where can we pick up the most megs, with the less impacts they're going to have to the community? And so, we chose -- the next part was, that there was 3.5 megs in Midtown. So, that's why we decided to go to Midtown. Now, the idea was is that we were going to leave the -- if we going to -- if this would have continued to roll into another hour's worth of outages, we were going to leave the business park out. And then, we would have had to go and look for maybe a multitude of another couple of different locations for doing this rolling blackout. So, it all depends on what we were asked for, first of all. So, if we would have been asked for the 3.5, it would have never had any impact to the [residential] customers. We would have just shut off the business park, sat it there, and waited for that to come back and see what they wanted from us. So, it all -- Again, it's tough to answer your question, because I don't know how -- you know, what the ask is. But that's how we look at it -- is is that we look at how we can break smaller sections out, that has the least amount of impact. And then, like I said -- And then, unfortunately, I have to do rolling blackouts. The bad thing about it is, is that we cannot -- So, if we were going to go to Midtown, we don't have a mechanism to actually contact those customers ahead of time. That's the problem right now, today. So, I can't tell you if I'm going to shut off your power in an hour. Now, what I can do, though, is, I can send out this massive email to everybody, and said that Midtown's going to be out in the next **. So, one of the things that we are looking at right now is is that we're able to -- we found out that we were able to pull some information off all these -- where we've got these identifiers from the priority list. And now we've got the addresses. So, now, what we're going to hope to do is go to SAP, and go into our billing system, and pull out emails. And if we have cell phones, I don't know if we're going to be able to text it today. But we'll at least be able to give them an email that says, hey, in the next hour, you're going to be in the next block. So. And the thing is is that we can -- we're going to try make sure that we can contact that. Because we do have this hour window that we can make contact with customers. ### From Director Batchelor's description, I infer that the City doesn't keep a history of who has been blacked out in previous rolling blackouts, for the purpose of treating customers equally. ### Years ago, I think some business customers got lower rates in exchange for being willing to have service shut off when mandated by ISO. Is this no longer the case? ### Some smart meters have the capability to shut off power remotely. Is this an opportunity? ### Some municipalities have a way to remotely turn off certain electric appliances (such as air conditioners) for residential customers who agree to it, in exchange for lower rates. Is this a possibility? 4:03:12: Commissioner Forssell: That's helpful. Thank you. 4:03:18: Chair Segal: I don't see any other commissioner hands up. Thank you, Director Batchelor. I'm really looking forward to the November presentation. I hope it's equally, you know, forthright, and exhausting. Thank you. Not exhausting, but exhaustive. [laughs] END From:FEC United To:Council, City Subject:FEC United Education Newsletter Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 8:06:59 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links.   FEC United Education Pillar Newsletter September 27, 2022   NEA in the News The nation's largest teachers union (NEA) is in danger of potentially losing its charter. GOP lawmakers introduce bill to strip teachers union of congressional charter | Fox News It is the only union that has a congressional charter, and it has been in violation of that charter for decades. The NEA and Its Federal Charter By: Charles W. Baird — PSRF The unions continued advocacy against parents and for woke agendas has created a push in congress to pull the charter. 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From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:Join Us: Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, October 1-2, 2022 - Free Admission! Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 8:00:20 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clickingon links. Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, October 1-2, 2022 - Free Admission! - https://greatglasspumpkinpatch.com/ https://greatglasspumpkinpatch.com/ This email was sent on behalf of Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce 355 Alma St Palo Alto, CA 94301.To unsubscribe click here. If you have questions or comments concerning this email or services in general, please contact us by email at info@paloaltochamber.com. From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion CHOpinion Subject:Fwd: Is The U.S. Losing Its Chinatowns? Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2022 6:56:36 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steve <slee2828@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 7:08 PM Subject: Is The U.S. Losing Its Chinatowns? To: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> https://youtu.be/oh5WVFK2lhE Sent from my iPhone From:Anna Stine-Uchino To:Council, City Subject:Turnkey Heat Pump Water Heater Program Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 11:49:07 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Councilmembers, My name is Anna Stine-Uchino and I am a senior at Gunn High School. I am also a part of the Palo Alto Student Climate Coalition. As a youth in Palo Alto, I have always been inspired by the range in which Palo Alto has taken to mitigate climate change. Our city is a role-model for many sustainability efforts in the state; thus, I believe, it is all the more important that we attempt to set a higher standard of what a municipal government can do for environmental progress. One cause that can be improved, I believe, is specifically focusing on reducing household carbon footprints, thereby progressing toward city-wide carbon neutrality. The Turnkey Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Program, as you may be familiar with, is a crucial step towards this progress. Implementing these water heaters in residential areas have numerous benefits: they are cost-effective and efficient. For one, they have moderately low wattage and do not cause a high enough load to demand for an electrical system upgrade--a common concern brought up. In addition, these efficient appliances can reduce necessity for a costly electrical panel upgrade. Although there are many steps yet to be analyzed, working towards reducing carbon emissions one step at a time is essential for carbon-emission reduction. If Palo Alto successfully attains this goal, this opens the opportunity to many other cities and locations to implement these types of programs. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Anna Stine-Uchino From:Arnout Boelens To:Council, City Subject:Reducing VMT and promoting active transportation Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 9:33:12 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from a.m.p.boelens@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members, It is very nice to see that the city wants to promote walking, cycling and transit use as part of S/CAP. However, to reduce vehicle miles traveled, it is not enough to just promote active transportation and transit. The cost of driving also needs to be increased (Cycling for sustainable cities, Ralph Buehler and John Pucher). This can be a monetary cost, time cost, a convenience cost, or combination of all of the above. A couple of policies the city could consider: Please stop sponsoring drivers by providing free parking. Free parking induces a demand for car travel. Set free parking maximums instead of minimum parking requirements. If there is a shortage of free street parking, let drivers pay market rate prices, so there are a couple of free spots available per city block. This can result in a 30% reduction of traffic, because it eliminates cruising to find free parking (The high cost of free parking, Donald Shoup). Please, abandon the use of Level Of Service (and start prioritizing road safety for all road users). Optimizing traffic flow might alleviate congestion for a little while, but eventually induced demand brings back congestion with more vehicle miles traveled, because the road has more capacity after being optimized for traffic flow. Adopt a traffic circulation plan and install barriers that can be crossed by pedestrians and bicyclists, but not by drivers (e.g. Churchill ped/bike underpass). This way walking and riding become more convenient and quicker than driving. This has, for example, been done on the Stanford Campus. All car trips on campus involve a detour over Campus Drive, while pedestrians and bicyclists can take shortcuts and have much more direct routes. This is one of the reasons that the bicycle mode share on Stanford Campus is extremely high. Reduce the number of car lanes on arterials and give transit a dedicated right of way, so it does not get stuck in traffic (e.g. bus lanes on El Camino). Implement city wide traffic calming on local residential streets, so drivers do not use residential streets as a shortcut. Thank you for considering our comments. Nicole, Arnout, Ava, & Filip Zoeller Boelens From:Aram James To:Enberg, Nicholas; Tannock, Julie; Binder, Andrew; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; ladoris cordell; Rebecca Eisenberg; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Figueroa, Eric; Foley, Michael; Michael Gennaco; Planning Commission; Council, City; chuck jagoda; Jay Boyarsky; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Perron, Zachary; Julie Lythcott-Haims Subject:Cop Brutally Slams High Schooler Onto Lunch Cart - YouTube Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 8:16:43 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > >  > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLpgBPSt6s > > > Sent from my iPhone From:Gregory Bell To:Burt, Patrick; Council, City Subject:Pat, the irony is so thick I can taste it Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 7:09:53 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from gxbell@me.com. Learn whythis is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Pat, With tremendous planning, organizing and implementing, yesterday was the first green and electrification home tour; it was well attended, a success. The idea of course is to reduce the burning of natural gas and therefore pollution and therefore reduce climate change. The irony is later the very same day there was a quite large, 20 to 30 minute, fireworks show north of downtown Palo Alto probably at Stanford. Fireworks pollute, we all know this is true. I having a hard time wrapping my head around these two green and dirty opposing events on the very same day. Let’s make decisions that are aligned. What can we do about having a laser light show rather than a polluting fireworks show??? Thanks for all you do Pat. —— I type less and talk more by phone. Greg M. Bell —— From:Kat Snyder To:Council, City Subject:Public Comment: OMS updates, item 5 on consent calendar Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 6:19:34 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from katsnyderux@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello Council, I'm very glad that we are updating our OMS and, in the interest of having the notifications be as accessible as possible, I have a few questions: Will this service be available in multiple languages? Can we give extra outreach to people with medical necessity, like PG&E does through their Medical Baseline Program? To what extent does this notification service overlap with the purpose of AlertsSCC? Do we have any gaps in services in comparison with the rest of the county, due to being the only city with our own utilities? Lastly, on climate-related outages: Many outages will occur due to excessive heat or wildfires. Would it be appropriate, at the time of a climate-related outage, to pass along information about how to prevent, identify, and treat heat-related illness during said outage? Take care, ~Kat Snyder Palo Alto Resident From:Aram James To:Sean Allen; Binder, Andrew; Tannock, Julie; Jethroe Moore; Figueroa, Eric; Foley, Michael; Michael Gennaco; Shikada, Ed; Afanasiev, Alex; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Enberg, Nicholas; Tony Dixon; Cecilia Taylor; city.council@menlopark.org; chuck jagoda; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Perron, Zachary; Julie Lythcott- Haims; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Greer Stone; ladoris cordell; Cindy Chavez; Raj; Pat Burt; Vara Ramakrishnan; ParkRec Commission; Greg Tanaka; Braden Cartwright Subject:47 Alameda County Sheriff deputies get "unsatisfactory" on psych evaluations; relieved of duties Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 4:22:13 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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EMAIL: INFO@PARTYFIXX.CO FOR MORE INFO This Email Was Sent To: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO BE REMOVED/UNSUBSCRIBE Unsubscribe Here From:julianneasla@sonic.net To:Council, City Subject:S/CAP agenda item 10 09-27-2022 Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 3:33:51 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from julianneasla@sonic.net. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To the City of Palo Alto City Council I have read the outline of the S/CAP proposals and I am in support of the actions required and goals. It is important that the CPA reach it’s sustainability goals, including its goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 (the “80 x 30” goal). I therefore urge the council to support the following key actions as noted in the agenda: • Accept Council S/CAP Goals and Key Actions which will initiate CEQA review • Review Energy Reach Code and Green Building Ordinance proposed changes in preparation for the October 17 City Council consideration and action • Support the recommendation to launch an Advanced Heat Pump Water Heater Pilot Program and related necessary budget actions. Thank you for your consideration Julianne Frizzell Julianne Adams Frizzell / ASLA 650-325-0905 julianneasla@sonic.net 1175 Channing Ave. Virus-free.www.avg.com From:Don Jackson To:Council, City Cc:UAC; Shikada, Ed; Batchelor, Dean Subject:Public comment regarding Council Consent Calendar Item 5, Approval of Outage Management System (OMS) Contract Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 2:49:58 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable Councilmembers, Regarding Item 5 on the Consent Calendar for the CC 2022-09-27 Agenda: CPAU’s existing outage management system (OMS) is woefully inadequate, and while the proposed new system appears to be a slight improvement, it doesn’t support important capabilities that utility customers need. I request that Council direct CPAU Staff to develop a more compehensive OMS offering, either in addition to this current incremental-improvement proposal, or instead of it. Today’s outage system updates a web page (that possibly must be manually changed), and usually an announcement is made via socal-media (i.e. Twitter), again, this action must be taken manually. A recent outage was posted with the incorrect time information because the CPAU staffer was on vacation in another time zone). More often than not, I first see notice of CPAU outages via tweets from @PaloAltoPolice. Existing notifications typically indicate the outage covers an entire zone/region of the City, a far broader area than is actually without power. CPAU’s OMS should provide: Automated notifications of outages Notifications directly to customers, via email, SMS, etc. (seems like the proposed system can do this!) The OMS should integrate with CPAU network/connection data, so that notifications can be targeted only to impacted customers, for example, if a distribution line that feeds 10 transformers each serving 10 customers fails, the OMS should proactively notify (only) those 100 customers. The OMS should additionally support a web-services “API” that enables customers' computers to obtain/receive outage notifications and status over the Internet, without human intervention. While serving as Commissioner on the UAC (6/2019-5/2021), I gave the aforementioned feedback to Utilities Staff on more than one occasion, and it is disappointing that apparently little/no progress has been made since that time. Respectfully, Don Jackson References: https://www.milsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-Brochure-Customer- Outage-Alerts_V1.pdf https://www.milsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-Brochure_OMS_V1.pdf https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas- minutes/city-council-agendas-minutes/2022/20220927/20220927pccsmlinked- updated.pdf From:Aram James To:Josh Becker Cc:Joe Simitian; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Planning Commission; friendsofcubberley94303@gmail.com; wilpfpeninsulapaloalto@gmail.com; Vara Ramakrishnan; vicki@vickiforcouncil.com; Dennis Upton; Supervisor Otto Lee; Rebecca Eisenberg; alisa mallari tu Subject:Editorial: Water board needs new faces. Elect Cantrell, Eisenberg Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 2:48:29 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > > Aram’s letter to Josh Becker: >> >> Hi Josh, ( State Senator Josh Becker) >> It is critical that you vote for my friend and brilliant attorney and environmentalist Rebecca Eisenberg for the Santa Clara County Water District seat # 7. See the extraordinary San Jose Mercury News endorsement for Rebecca below. Josh please don’t let me down on this one our water policy is too critical to leave in the hands of Rebecca’s opponent. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Aram James >> >> 415-370-5056 >>> >>>  >>>> >>>>  >>>>> >>>>> Please everyone give Rebecca Eisenberg a BIG SHOUT OUT for securing the very very important San Jose Mercury News endorsement for the district # 7 seat >>>>> on the Santa Clara County Water Board. >>>>> >>>>> The endorsement ( see below) by the San Jose Mercury News was extraordinary and details the stark differences between Rebecca and her outmatched opponent. >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> >>>>> Aram James >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/24/editorial-water-board-needs-new-faces-elect-cantrell-eisenberg- 2 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone View this email in your browser From:True the Vote To:Council, City Subject:The Right Way to Report Midterm Election Problems Date:Monday, September 26, 2022 2:38:36 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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