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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-05-06 City Council Emails701-32 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: 5/6/2024 Document dates: 4/29/2024 – 5/6/2024 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Jo Ann Mandinach To:Council, City; City Mgr Subject:Where"s the outreach (again): This time there"s nothing about the plans for the airport Date:Monday, May 6, 2024 8:50:03 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about Palo Alto Airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. The noise is now deafening from the airport every single night as far away as Middlefield Road. You've heard the complaints for years. With all the money PA TAXPAYERS spend on "COMMUNICATIONS" and see reflected on our utility bills, why does the city so consistently fail to reach out and touch us on issues we care about?? Instead you let the city manager's "Uplift" send us recipes and health tips. ABSURD. Jo Ann Mandinach PA, CA 94301 K From:Scott Kilner To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport Date:Monday, May 6, 2024 8:48:46 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from scott.kilner7@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about Palo Alto Airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. Sincerely, Scott F. Kilner 827 E Greenwich Pl, Palo Alto, CA 94303 From:Elke MacGregor To:Council, City Subject:800 San Antonio Date:Monday, May 6, 2024 7:59:01 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from bemacgregor@earthlink.net. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable city council members Please consider incorporating language into the 800 San Antonio apartment project that considers future bike and pedestrian access along the San Antonio corridor (24’ of public easement space for future expansion of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure along San Antonio Road). The bike improvements along Charleston-Arastradero have been such a great benefit to the public and it would be nice to see this bicycle friendly approach continued on other East-West corridors in South Palo Alto. These corridors provide excellent access to the Baylands as well as to the hillside for locals using bicycles as transportation. Elke MacGregor and family 55 Roosevelt Circle, Palo Alto From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan;boardmembers; David Balakian; bballpod; bearwithme1016@att.net; cramirez.electriclab133@gmail.com; CathyLewis; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; ScottWilkinson; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; IrvWeissman; Sally Thiessen; Joel Stiner; jerry ruopoli; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; kfsndesk;Kevin.Nower@bestbuy.com; Mark Standriff; Mayor; merazroofinginc@att.net; MY77FJ@gmail.com;maverickbruno@sbcglobal.net; margaret-sasaki@live.com; nick yovino; news@fresnobee.com; newsdesk;russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net; yicui@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: AI and Green Tech. China v. US Date:Monday, May 6, 2024 12:11:18 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: Sun, May 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM Subject: Fwd: AI and Green Tech. China v. USTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sunday, May 5, 2024 To all, including to Mary Barra and Elon Musk: These provide more "must know" information. I hope that every Mayor, CityCouncil person, member of a State legislature, member of Congress, the President, people at all levels of business will watch these, and watch them more than once. Of course, none of youhave to watch any of it, but I believe that if you do watch these, it will bend out those blinders and give you a much better understanding of the world we have. I think you will be glad youwatched these. Government decisions and business decisions can be affected by this information. Voting decisions can be informed by this information. One man at Harvard says that the Chinese are interested in locating production in LatinAmerica. The US government seem to focus on drugs and immigration from Latin America. 1) US or China: Who will Win the AI and Green Tech Race?" 9:51 US or China: Who Will Win The AI and Green Tech Race? (youtube.com) 2) New Economic World Order. Industrial Policies and De-risking" 45:56 New Economic World Order? Industrial Policies & De-Risking From China | WhenTitans Clash 3 - Part 2 (youtube.com) 3) Is a New US-China trade war Brewing over Batteries? 46:54 Is A New US-China Trade War Brewing – Over Batteries? | Insight | Full Episode (youtube.com) 4) China's Belt and Road Initiative: 10 years of Evolution and Beyond: 46:18 China's Belt And Road Initiative: 10 Years Of Evolution And Beyond | Insight | FullEpisode (youtube.com) 5) Repeating from an earlier email, "Does the trade war mean the end of "Made in China?" China vs The West: Does Trade War Spell End To Made-In-China Goods? | When Titans Clash 3 - Part 1/2 (youtube.com) L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Edith Lin To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:Restrooms at Eleanor Pardee Park Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 10:41:11 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from eeandylin@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include installation of at least four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one of the city's largestneighborhood parks, is not on the list. I am requesting the Finance Committee and City Council prioritize installation of a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto with hundreds ofvisitors, including children at the two playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstration garden, and community gardeners. Ivolunteer as a master gardener at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden. Our edible garden is open Monday, Friday and Saturday mornings to the public and the waterwise garden isopen to the public every day. During our first Saturday of the month classes, we often have twenty or more visitors participate. We are hoping to include more children in our classes,but without a restroom close by, schools or other organizations are reluctant to come. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again in the last decade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included in the current capitalimprovement plan was because some neighbors fear that the restroom would be "a magnet for unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 a resident dissenter wrote restrooms attract"drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these concerns materializing. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as a suitable site. It is ahigh usage park, and it needs a restroom. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Sincerely, Edith Lin 3934 Duncan Pl, Palo Alto, Ca 94306 From:Ginny LaRiviere To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport 20 Year Plan Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 7:26:09 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from glariviere53@hotmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about Palo Alto Airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. Ginny LaRiviere From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Cait James; Council, City; Diana Diamond; Ed Lauing; GRP-City Council; Greer Stone; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Marina Lopez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tim James; Zelkha, Mila Subject:ENCAMPMENTS CONTINUE AT BAY AREA UNIVERSITIES; GRADUATIONS NOT EXPECTED TO BE IMPACTED Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 7:20:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ENCAMPMENTS CONTINUE AT BAY AREA UNIVERSITIES; GRADUATIONS NOT EXPECTED TO BE IMPACTED https://abc7news.com/amp/pro-palestinian-encampments-continue-at-bay-area-universities-graduations-not-expected-to-be-impacted/14762042/ From:Lynn Hollyn To:PatBurt@cityofpaloalto.org; LydiaKou@cityofpaloalto.org; Lauing, Ed; JulieLythcottHaims@cityofpaloalto.org;GreerStone@cityofpaloalto.org; GregTanaka@cityofpaloalto.org Cc:Council, City; skypossepost@gmail.com Subject:plane noise and planes for future Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:47:41 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from lynn.hollyn@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about Palo Alto Airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. I live on Seale Avenue in Old Palo Alto and I am traumatized by all the noise from low flying planes. -- and I promise you, every time a plane goes by -- often in quick succession--- the birds stop chattering. We now know how intelligent plants and birds are; and like us, they are severely impacted by the noise from planes. You MUST listen to the people who elect you and restore the peace to Palo Alto. It is very important to note that disregarding this will lower our property values. The planes are as noisy as right under La Guardia Airport in the boroughs of New York. Deeply distressed, Lynn Hollyn lynn hollyn lynnhollyn.co 1.650.799.1129 From:Dana Tom To:Council, City Cc:ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks Subject:Please support installing a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:41:10 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from dana@danatom.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Please support installing a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park as soon as possible. It is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto that the community uses in a wide variety of ways.I coached AYSO soccer teams there for many years and I always felt bad when one of my players had to run off to the bushes when they had to pee. Everyone at the park deserves asanitary way to handle that basic human need. As a former elected school board member, I know that the decisions that go to you have pluses and minuses. In nearly every case, you have constituents who are advocates and constituentswho are opposed. I urge you to give the most weight to the benefits and the number of people you can positively impact. In this case, the community members that use the park would greatly benefit. That numberwill be far greater than those who might be concerned that they would be harmed by installing a restroom. Please compare the arguments for installing a restroom to the arguments opposed.I think the arguments for installing a restroom are much more compelling. Thank you for considering restrooms at Eleanor Pardee Park. Dana Tom From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Baker, Rob; Bryan Gobin; Cait James; Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; D Martell; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; Diana Diamond; Don Austin; DuJuan Green; EPA Today; Ed Lauing; Friends of Cubberley; GRP-City Clerk; GRP-City Council; Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Marina Lopez; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Palo Alto Free Press; Bains, Paul; Raymond Goins; Robert. Jonsen; Roberta Ahlquist; Rose Lynn; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Tim James; Tom DuBois; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Perron, Zachary; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Foley, Michael; yolanda Subject:NYC MAYOR SMEARED A GRANDMOTHER AS AN “OUTSIDE AGITATOR” TO JUSTIFY NYPD ASSAULT ONCOLUMBIA Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:17:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. NYC MAYOR SMEARED A GRANDMOTHERAS AN “OUTSIDE AGITATOR” TO JUSTIFYNYPD ASSAULT ON COLUMBIA https://theintercept.com/2024/05/03/nyc-eric-adams-columbia-outside-agitator-al-arian/ From:Aram James To:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Afanasiev, Alex; Wagner, April; Bill Newell; Binder, Andrew; Cait James;Council, City; Enberg, Nicholas; Jensen, Eric; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Lewis james; Reifschneider,James; Sean Allen; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Tim James; Barberini, Christopher; Lee, Craig;cromero@cityofepa.org; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Foley, Michael Subject:: Brentwood: Officer Whose Police Dog Scalped Shoplifting Suspect Cannot Claim Qualified Immunity In Resulting Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit, District Court Rules Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:11:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Brentwood: Officer Whose Police Dog Scalped Shoplifting Suspect Cannot Claim Qualified Immunity In Resulting Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit, District Court Rules https://share.newsbreak.com/6sg6iqda From:pennyellson12@gmail.com To:Council, City Subject:Comments on 800 San Antonio for Monday Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:00:13 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council, Please consider my comments on the 800 San Antonio project (Item 15 on the agenda that is before you Monday evening). On page 3 of Attachment B, the Draft Ordinance, under Section 6(a). Public Benefits, the ordinance currently reads, “The public benefits provided by the Project include deed-restricted BMR units in excess of the minimum required, retail commercial space on the ground floor, and space for future expansion of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure along San Antonio Road.” It should say this, “The public benefits provided by the Project include deed-restricted BMR units in excess of the minimum required, retail commercial space on the ground floor, and up to 24’ of public easement space for future expansion of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure along San Antonio Road.” This language would be consistent with the Supplemental Report Council received on Friday. Please add this language before you approve this document, so the purpose of the easement for bike/ped transit facilities, and the amount of space will be legally documented in the land use record so it cannot be lost. In Attachment C -- APPROVAL NO. 2024-____ RECORD OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO LAND USE APPROVAL FOR 800-808 San Antonio Road Planned Home Zoning Project (23PLN- 00010) The Table on page 3 mentions Comp Plan Policy T-1.19 “Provide facilities that encourage and support bicycling and walking.” In the column that is supposed to explain how the project adheres or does not adhere to Comp Plan, it says, “The building includes sufficient short and long term bicycle parking.” While it is true that the project provides bicycle parking, the project’s bicycle parking is not connected to bicycle infrastructure on the abutting San Antonio Road that could in any way be considered “sufficient” to “encourage and support bicycling”. Sharrows on a 4- to 5-lane arterial, posted 35MPH with auto traffic volumes that exceed 30k daily are contraindicated. How can provision of bicycle parking be considered sufficient facilities to encourage and support bicycling if the owner of the parked bike cannot leave the premises safely due to dangerously poor bike infrastructure on the arterial street? What use is bicycle parking if there is no existing route to safely leave the building to ride a bike? When and how will San Antonio Road get “sufficient” bicycle facilities? Without bike lanes, the proposed on-site bike parking will be just another storage room for unused stuff. Please direct staff NOW to ensure that the conditions of approval require the public benefit of a public easement of up to 24’ of special setback space for future expansion of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure along San Antonio Road. Without this, the project is neither functional nor “sufficient” for people who bike, and It will not be compliant to the Comprehensive Plan. This project, without on-street bike facilities, fails to conform with numerous Comprehensive Plan Transportation Elements goals, policies and programs. Key among them is GOAL T-1: Create a sustainable transportation system, complemented by a mix of land uses, that emphasizes walking, bicycling, use of public transportation and other methods to reduce GHG emissions and the use of single-occupancy motor vehicles. It fails to conform with Policy T-1.17: Require new office, commercial, and multi-family residential developments to provide improvements that improve bicycle and pedestrian connectivity as called for in the 2012 Palo Alto Bicycle & Pedestrian Transportation Plan. What the Attachment C Table does not say is that Policy T-1.19 is coupled with other policies like Policy T-1.17 and specific Programs, like Program T1.19.2 “Prioritize investments for enhanced pedestrian access and bicycle use to/from surrounding communities, including by incorporating improvements from related City plans, for example the 2012 BPTP…” Big Picture Things to Consider: 1). Given the unanticipated scale of development that has opened up for high density residential projects by the new Housing Element in targeted areas of Palo Alto, has the city considered studying aggregate impacts of this development on multi-modal LOS and perhaps implementing a Nexus Study to create a basis to collect Transportation Impact Fees to help fund needed bike/ped/transit infrastructure in these areas? 2). The type of action I have described above with regard to defining and preserving the public easement special setback will need to be incorporated in approvals for every San Antonio Road project in the pipeline or entering the pipeline in order to create useful, contiguous bike/ped/transit facilities for thousands of new residents all along the corridor. Please direct staff to consider the best way to get this important work done. It is very important to legally document the Special Setback’s purpose and size for use as a public easement for future bike/ped/transit facility use so community members and future decision- makers may refer to it to ensure that the special setback can be fully used for its intended purpose. The language must be clear—not open to interpretation-- and legally attached to the site’s land use record. Finally, please direct staff to incorporate similar language for the public easement 24’ special setback in the ordinances, and conditions of approval for all projects that are in or that enter the pipeline for the San Antonio corridor. Thank you for considering my comments. Penny Ellson (writing as an individual) Virus-free.www.avg.com From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Baker, Rob; Cait James; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Daniel Kottke; Don Austin; Ed Lauing; Friends of Cubberley; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; Lewis james; Lythcott-Haims, Julie; Marina Lopez; Zelkha, Mila; O"Neal, Molly; Rodriguez, Miguel; Salem Ajluni; Sean Allen; Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tim James; Vara Ramakrishnan; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; district1@bos.sccgov.org Subject:Hawaii is the first state to pass a Gaza ceasefire resolution. Here"s what happens next Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 3:59:56 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hawaii is the first state to pass a Gaza ceasefire resolution. Here's what happens next https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/03/hawaii-ceasefire-resolution-gaza- passes/73518690007/ From:Lisa Van Dusen To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:It"s vital that we have a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 2:38:56 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from lisacvandusen@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Finance Committee members, It is vital that we have a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park.Please ensure that Eleanor Pardee Park is high on your list - and on your list - to have a restroom installed. I include Penny Proctor's excellent email below as reference which I support entirely. I write now to add my own thoughts. I also want to share that Penny Proctor is an extraordinary, second generation community garden volunteer. We are fortunate to have her! As residents of Community Center, our family has benefited greatly from proximity to Eleanor Pardee Park for many years and in many ways. We are fortunate to have a plot at the community garden, we regularly walk both at the park and around the community garden,our two now-grown sons have played sports at the park and we have enjoyed picnics at both the park and the garden. We look forward to playing with our grandchildren at the park and around the garden as well. We go past the park and garden at all times of day throughout the year and witness the extensive use of the park in action. People of all ages and abilities - from the very youngest babies and toddlers to seniors - enjoy the park and garden. People come fromneighborhoods close by and further away to work in the garden, enjoy the park, play at the playground, participate in organized sports etc. As part of the recent Rinconada Park renovation, there is no longer atoddler-only playground at Rinconada Park which means there are more toddlers at Pardee Park now. As a highly utilized park and the second largest in our city, Pardee Park is filled with people who need ready access to a restroom while they are there. I have no idea how you could decide to give some parks a restroom and others not, particularly the second largest and a highly utilized park in our city. It is a basic human need and it is not feasible - even for the small subset that live within a block or two of the park/garden - to "run" home to use thefacilities. Picture the mom with a baby and a toddler who is being potty trained. Picture the senior who may not move at the fastest speed on foot. Picture the sports team that is hydrating (as they should) at the soccer game and the athlete's parents aren't even there to take them somewhere and the coaches are otherwise occupied. Likely youhave been in that situation yourself at one point or another. There should be no trace of racism or other discrimination in our decision-making about this. Such a restroom should be for everyone. All humans need restrooms. The City of Palo Alto has the resources to do this. We have a $1 Billion budget. We choose to allocate these resources in all sorts of ways that are less essential than a park restroom. We can do this! And I hope you do. Many thanks for your service including making decisions like this. With kind regards, Lisa Lisa Van Dusen Greenwood Avenue Palo Alto lisacvandusen@gmail.com ### A letter from Penny Proctor, Eleanor Pardee Park Community Garden Coordinator - included for background and data purposed. Dear Members of the City Council, Finance Committee, Parks and RecreationCommittee, and City Staff; Please add Eleanor Pardee Park to the list of parks in line to get a restroom in the next 5 years. We really need one! Eleanor is Palo Alto’s second largest neighborhood park, and is enjoyed by largenumbers of individuals and groups. The field has kids soccer and other games,and the large picnic area has many birthday parties and other groups. There aretwo busy children’s play areas. I have been a community gardener for 36 years. It is Palo Alto’s second largestcommunity garden, after Rinconada, which is near the library bathrooms. Wehave 94 plots, and 63% of the gardeners are over 60. Some have young children. Many of us come from across town to garden. One of our handicapped gardenersgave up her plot of 27 years, that she loved, because she could no longer manage with no bathroom. Another gardener, with a medical issue, built a tiny tent in herplot for privacy to use her camping toilet. Otherwise she could not garden. She lived in an apartment, and adored her garden. The Master Gardeners come from all over Palo Alto and surrounding cities tovolunteer for hours every week. Their free classes for the public are attended bypeople from a wide area. They would like to have school programs, but cannot,because a bathroom is required. As part of our community garden workdays maintaining the area outside thefences, near our gardens, we weed and pick up trash. There is frequently toiletpaper and human solid waste. Most unhealthy! I was a toddler when my mother, Helen Norman Proctor, designed the park. Shewanted to include a restroom then, but was told no. With lots of children and old people, many large picnic parties, and large numbersof people coming to the park from across town for hours, Eleanor Pardee Parkdesperately needs a bathroom! Thank you for all the work you do to keep Palo Alto a wonderful place to live. Sincerely,Penny Proctor From:Ruthellen Dickinson To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport Plans Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 2:23:00 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from ruthellenc@aol.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I live near the Palo Alto Airport, and I walk at the Palo Alto Baylands and Byxbee Park almost every day. I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about the airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. What are the Council's plans for engaging the public? Thank you. Ruthellen Dickinson 962 Van Auken Circle, Palo Alto 94303 650-493-8169 From:Zhou J. To:Council, City Subject:Concern about Palo Alto Airport"s 20-Year Plan Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 12:48:49 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from jz.belief@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, I am concerned that the Council has not reached out to residents with information about PaloAlto Airport's 20-Year Plan, or indicated that there will be a community engagement process that allows citizen input for a plan that will likely have impacts to the city and region. And I am writing this note to ask for getting engaged. -- Best Regards, Zhou From:Nick Briggs To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport"s 20-Year Plan Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 12:31:16 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from nicholas.h.briggs@gmail.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 -- Regarding the future development plans for the Palo Alto Airport (PAO), I am concerned that: (a) There does not appear to be any outreach by the city to the residents regarding the Palo Alto Airport's 20- Year Plan. (b) There does not appear to be a community engagement process that will allow resident and regional input for the Palo Alto Airport's 20-Year Plan. (c) A plan which results in expansion of flight activities at PAO and larger/noisier aircraft operating there is in conflict with the resident's and city's expressed desire to REDUCE the level of aviation noise from overflights of residential areas. Sincerely, Nicholas Briggs Palo Alto, CA From:Penny Proctor To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:Eleanor Pardee needs a restroom! Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 10:04:36 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from plumbago1927@gmail.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 Members of the City Council, Finance Committee, Parks and Recreation Committee, and City Staff; Please add Eleanor Pardee Park to the list of parks in line to get a restroom in the next 5 years. We really need one! Eleanor is Palo Alto’s second largest neighborhood park, and is enjoyed by large numbers of individuals and groups. The field has kids soccer and other games, and the large picnic area has many birthday parties and other groups. There are two busy children’s play areas. I have been a community gardener for 36 years. It is Palo Alto’s second largest community garden, after Rinconada, which is near the library bathrooms. We have 94 plots, and 63% of the gardeners are over 60. Some have young children. Many of us come from across town to garden. One of our handicapped gardeners gave up her plot of 27 years, that she loved, because she could no longer manage with no bathroom. Another gardener, with a medical issue, built a tiny tent in her plot for privacy to use her camping toilet. Otherwise she could not garden. She lived in an apartment, and adored her garden. The Master Gardeners come from all over Palo Alto and surrounding cities to volunteer for hours every week. Their free classes for the public are attended by people from a wide area. They would like to have school programs, but cannot, because a bathroom is required. As part of our community garden workdays maintaining the area outside the fences, near our gardens, we weed and pick up trash. There is frequently toilet paper and human solid waste. Most unhealthy! I was a toddler when my mother, Helen Norman Proctor, designed the park. She wanted to include a restroom then, but was told no. With lots of children and old people, many large picnic parties, and large numbers of people coming to the park from across town for hours, Eleanor Pardee Park desperately needs a bathroom! Thank you for all the work you do to keep Palo Alto a wonderful place to live. Sincerely, Penny Proctor From:Winter Dellenbach To:Council, City Subject:May 6 Council Item 5 - Independent Police Auditor/PAPD study session Date:Sunday, May 5, 2024 8:04:09 AM Attachments:2023 IPA UoF Recommend Reports.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members - Your May 6th Council meeting includes your twice-annual study session with Independent Police Auditors Michael Gennaco andStephen Connelly, and PAPD Chief of Police, Andrew Binder. Please read the following before this study session. For your convenience, attached here is the IPA Report. At the end is Chief Binder’s Use of Force Report, and Response to IPA Recommendations Report. The IPA’s Report Introduction states, "Much of this report is devoted to a lengthydiscussion of an excessive force incident that eventually resulted in bothadministrative and criminal investigations and ultimate charges. It involved the circumstances of a particular arrest and use of force that had criminal, civil, and administrative facets.” That incident is the 2018 Gustavo Alvarez arrest and coverup by PAPD. When a video of the incident became public and a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed on his behalf, it rocked Palo Alto. Without his private video and lawsuit, we likely would have never known of this Forty-two pages of the 62-page report are devoted to the Alvarez case, by far the most extensive reporting on an incident of police misconduct in the 17-years our City has benefited from the IPA’s oversight. Finally, 6 years after his illegaldetention, we know what happened during his arrest and the aftermath. Had he not had a private video of the incident and filed a lawsuit, we likely never would have known what was happening in the PAPD at that time. I hope you take the time to read this reporting. Several excerpts from the IPA Report are below, focusing on binding arbitration and the IPA’s recommendation to look for other options than it to deal with officer discipline - and why. Binding arbitration is a systemic barrier to our City attaining the high quality policing our community resolved to achieve. As the IPA notes, doing this would require Council initiation. I urge you to consider doing so, as some other large andsmall California police departments have done. Winter Dellenbach Independent Police Auditor's Report RE Binding Arbitration, excerpts andfootnotes pgs. 37-42 H. The Major Reduction of the Discipline by the Arbitrator Reviewing Officer #1’s Misconduct Shows the Structural and Practical Defects of Such a System41 The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA), which consists of current and former law enforcement officials, civil rights and oversight advocates, legal scholars, and experts in the field, recently released its annual report. In that report, the RIPA Board found that using binding arbitration for peace officers’ disciplinaryappeals raises accountability concerns. One of the concerns identified by the RIPABoard is that arbitrators often reduce disciplinary penalties for officers found liable for misconduct. The RIPA Board also noted that having an arbitrator as the final say on discipline allows for third parties who are not generally from the community tomake final disciplinary decisions that overturn police supervisors’ decisions. Thereport noted that, according to researchers, the tendency for arbitrators to side with officers is likely, because police officers often have some level of influence over the selection of arbitrators.42 In Palo Alto, any employee who is subject to formal discipline can select either an appeal with the City Manager or binding arbitration: If the aggrieved employee elects final and binding arbitration in accordance withthis provision, the parties shall mutually select an arbitrator. In the event the partiescannot agree on an arbitrator, they shall mutually request a panel of five arbitrators from the California State Conciliation Service or from the American Arbitration Association if either party objects to the State Conciliation Service, and select an arbitrator by the alternate strike method. Thus, in Palo Alto, the attorneys retained to represent the police employee have significant say in who is selected to hear the arbitration and total veto power over any arbitrator who has upheld police disciplinary determinations in the past. As noted above [in the report], while in Agent DeStefano’s arbitration, PAPD’sdecision to terminate the officer was upheld, Officer 1’s discipline was reduced more than five-fold by the arbitrator. 41 Because the City’s binding arbitration post-disciplinary system had a significantimpact on the eventual resolution of the administrative charges, it is incumbent on IPA to provide an independent assessment of those proceedings. 42 See also, “Police Arbitration” Professor Stephen Rushin, Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 74:4:1023. (2021) (Study finds that arbitrators on appeal reduced oroverturned police officer discipline in 52% of these cases. In 46% of casesinvolving termination, arbitrators ordered police departments to rehire previously terminated officers. On average, arbitrators reduced the length of officer suspensions by approximately 49%); “Police Arbitration and the Public Interest”,Professor Stephen A. Plass, Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, Vol. 37 p 31 (2021)(The nuances of policing, require that publicly accountable individuals (as opposed to private arbitrators) have final authority for police discipline.) Given the significance of this episode in the Department's recent history, the outcome was especially notable and disappointing. But the questionable reasoningthat apparently formed the foundation for the decision underscores the limitations of binding arbitration as a valid form of appeal and raises many of the issues identified by the RIPA Advisory Board, legal scholars, and progressive policing professionals. While the great majority of jurisdictions in California have similar bindingarbitration agreements with their police associations, others have instead a Civil Service Commission or other City maintained body that hears the appeal. And others instead have non-binding arbitration whereby the arbitrator makes a recommendation which City leadership can then accept, modify, or reject. The unfortunate result of this arbitration proceeding provides an opportunity for the City43 to consider other options for post-disciplinary appeals.44 IPA RECOMMENDATION 10 In future discussions with the PPOA, the City should consider the viability of other options than binding arbitration for appealing officer discipline. ______________ 43 To be clear, while PAPD leadership may have input into how post-disciplinary appeals are handled, the recommendation is directed at City leadership since the labor agreement is between the City and the labor association. 44 To be sure, there are counterarguments to maintaining the status quo, one being the relative rarity of police matters that end up going to arbitration in Palo Alto and perhaps more significantly the impact that any change in the disciplinary process might have on hiring and retention, especially considering the ongoing crisis in keeping police agencies fully staffed. [IPA] Conclusion This incident, in which a veteran sergeant dishonored his oath to uphold the Constitution by engaging in excessive force on a handcuffed detainee, stands as alow point for the PAPD. Nor did the deplorable conduct end with the sergeant: theDepartment also was and remains properly disappointed in the failures of the other on-scene officers to report the the incident fully and accurately. That “coverup” caused the excessive force and other misconduct to go unknown to the Departmentfor over a year, and eventually compounded the harm to the agency's standing in thecommunity. But for Mr. Alvarez’ civil action and the existence of a private surveillance recording, it likely would have never been discovered. Considering that six years have passed before the last of the proceedings related to this incident reached its conclusion and given the change in leadership at the top ofthe organization, it is understandable that there is a sentiment among some in the City to move on and leave this matter behind. However, law enforcement organizations have an obligation to learn from past mistakes, and to recall them as part of an ongoing process of course correction and refinement. Theserecommendations are meant to contribute to that process, and to leave PAPD better positioned to detect and address problematic uses of force in the future. Chief Binder response to this IPA Recommendation: "The Department does not have a response to this recommendation, as it pertains to labor negotiations that are in the ultimate purview of the City Council.” From:Cybele LoVuolo-Bhushan To:Clerk, City; Council, City Subject:Rail crossing separation Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 10:50:37 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from cybele88lb@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Clerk and City Council, The Palo Alto Weekly, of May 3rd, 2024 wrote that both council members Kou and Tenaka favor a trench solution for grade separation of the Caltrain tracks. Additionally, the Weeklyarticle contains information about the taking of private property via Eminent Domain and this was clearly opposed by council member Lythcott-Haims. The proposed alternatives for Charleston and East Meadow are not just "tough to swallow" they are unacceptable and likely will lead to a lot of litigation and expense. And even if thecity wins the lawsuits, the community will remember that the leadership of our City Council made a terrible mistake that we have to live with for future generations. The obvious and best solution is a trench. It's your responsibility as the elected leaders of Palo Alto to choose the best solution. Simply put the trench is the best solution, not the abominationthat has been proposed. If possible, put it on the ballot in the upcoming elections and you will find what thecommunity really wants. Thank you for your attention.Sincerely, Cybele LoVuolo-Bhushan 3838 Mumford Place 415.429.9830 From:Aram James To:Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; Diana Diamond; Don Austin; EPA Today; EmilyMibach; Friends of Cubberley; Greer Stone; Jax Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; VanDer Zwaag, Minka; Bains, Paul; Roberta Ahlquist; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Supervisor Otto Lee; SupervisorSusan Ellenberg; Tom DuBois; Figueroa, Eric; jgreen@dailynewsgroup.com Cc:Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Wagner, April; Binder, Andrew; Bryan Gobin; Cait James; DuJuan Green; Ed Lauing; Enberg, Nicholas; GRP-City Council; Greg Tanaka; Jack Ajluni; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; KEVIN JENSEN; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Marina Lopez; Michael Zhang; Zelkha, Mila; Sean Allen; Tim James; Tannock, Julie; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; ladoris cordell; yolanda Subject:The US universities that allow protest encampments – and even negotiate Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:52:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The US universities that allow protest encampments – and even negotiate https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/universities-allow-student-campus- protest-encampments From:Sean Sean To:Council, City Subject:Partial taking of property for the Churchill grade separation Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 5:05:10 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from gargameliob@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi, I am reaching out to understand the proposed partial taking of property at 1525 Almastreet and compensation to property owners due to the current decision in grade separation at Churchill. For example: What areas of the property will be taken by the city, what propertywill be temporarily used by the city and return to property owners, what will the property and land look like after construction is complete, what improvements can property owners proposeto improve the land after construction and what compensation will be given to property owners? If you can share measurements/property maps that may help me understand theimpact. Lastly, should property owners impacted by the partial taking not agree with the city what options are available to them. Sean Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone From:Nancy Kawakita To:Shikada, Ed; Burt, Patrick; Veenker, Vicki; Lythcott-Haims, Julie; Lauing, Ed; Stone, Greer; ParkRec Commission;O"Kane, Kristen; Administrative Services; Council, City Subject:2025 proposed capital budget: Eleanor Pardee Park restroom amendment prioritization Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 4:05:22 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from nancykawakita@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To: City Council members and Finance Committee members and City staff, Regarding: FY2025 proposed Capital budget amendment to prioritize a Pardee Park restroom We are requesting the City Council Finance members (Pat Burt, Ed Lauing and Vicki Veenker) amend the proposed Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) budget to prioritize installing a Pardee Park restroom. Pardee Park is not currently listed in the proposed CIP. We request that the City Council prioritize Pardee Park with the 5 new restrooms (Ramos, Boulware, Cubberley, Magical Bridge, Rinconada), and 4 remodeled/replacement restrooms (Rinconada Ph2 and Foothills Preserve) planned in the 2024-2029 CIP budget. Eleanor Pardee Park along with 6 other Parks qualified in 2017 as a suitable site under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2. After 7 years of the policy only Ramos has a restroom plan. Pardee Park is the 2nd largest residential park in Palo Alto with over 400 visitors per year, children at the 2 playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstration garden, and community gardeners. We have 10 public letters of support, 1 household dissenting, sent to the Parks & Recreation Commission. We were told the reason Pardee was not included in the current capital plan was some neighbors' past "concerns" that the restroom would be "a magnet for unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 a resident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". 8 restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these "concerns" stopping new additions. We want to make a positive change at the May 7th Finance meeting and June City Council CIP budget meeting. We would like your ACTION to prioritize Pardee Park. Thank you for your service. We will attend the May 7th meeting. Nancy KawakitaCrescent Park resident for 25 years From:Pitzer Safety To:Tim James Cc:Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Anne.Egerton@jud.ca.gov; Aram James; Arthur.Gilbert@jud.ca.gov; Audrey.Collins@jud.ca.gov; Braden Cartwright; Brian.Currey@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Hoffstadt@jud.ca.gov; Cait James; Carl.Moor@jud.ca.gov; Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; Dan Okonkwo; Dennis.Perluss@jud.ca.gov; Don Austin; Douglas A. Murray; GRP-City Council; Gregory.Weingart@jud.ca.gov; HELEN.BENDIX@jud.ca.gov; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; John.Segal@jud.ca.gov; John.Wiley@jud.ca.gov; Josh Becker; Judith.Ashmann- Gerst@jud.ca.gov; Julie Lythcott-Haims; KEVIN JENSEN; Kenneth.Yegan@jud.ca.gov; Lamar.Baker@jud.ca.gov; Laurence.Rubin@jud.ca.gov; Lee.Edmon@jud.ca.gov; Leondra.kruger@jud.ca.gov; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Luis.Lavin@jud.ca.gov; Maria.Stratton@jud.ca.gov; Marina Lopez; Pacific GrovePD; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; Salem Ajluni; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Victor.Viramontes@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chaney@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chavez@jud.ca.gov; appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com; carol.corringan@jud.ca.gov; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; elizabeth.glater@gmail.com; elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; gerry.rosberg@columbia.edu; glater@berkeley.edu; goodwin.liu@jud.ca.gov; jeff.chemerinsky@gmail.com; joshua.groban@jud.ca.gov; kelli.evans@jud.ca.gov; ladoris cordell; martin.jenkins@jud.ca.gov; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; rarcos@da.lacounty.gov; rkhurana@hbs.edu Subject:Gore Vidal is gay. And so am I. Can you admit genocide?? No bc your a Nazi VIDEO: JFK & REAGAN: Ich bin EinPalestinian; God-Man-Nazis@ Yale Law Lock-Up Jesus after Bombing the Hospital! Free Jesus from Behind theWall! PM Bibi, Tear Down this Wall Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 3:35:05 PM Attachments:image218962.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from pitzer.safety@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. It’s so like the little Zionist sympathizers to pretend that they’re offended by anything thatthey can use to claim reverse discrimination. The Zionist is always the victim. They can commit murder Against a helpless child and claimed they are other victim of baby aggression. America is sick of your bullshit and your lies. Why don’t you admit the truth that Israel iscommitting a holocaust in the holy land that is textbook genocide, or are racially superior to the rest of us to acknowledge that The Zionist race can actually commit war crimes? On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com> wrote: Wow! That’s a lot of hatred packed into one email – starting with the homophobic epithets and moving on from there. From: appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com <appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:10 PMTo: 'Aram James' <abjpd1@gmail.com>; 'Cecilia Taylor' <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; 'CityCouncil' <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; 'Dan Okonkwo'<dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org>; 'Don Austin' <daustin@pausd.org>; 'GRP-City Council' <council@redwoodcity.org>; 'Jack Ajluni' <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; 'Jeff Moore'<moore2j@att.net>; 'KEVIN JENSEN' <KP14him@aol.com>; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; 'Salem Ajluni' <ajluni@hotmail.com>; 'Sean Allen'<sallen6444@yahoo.com>; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; HELEN.BENDIX@jud.ca.gov;Gregory.Weingart@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chaney@jud.ca.gov; Anne.Egerton@jud.ca.gov; Arthur.Gilbert@jud.ca.gov; Audrey.Collins@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Currey@jud.ca.gov;Brian.Hoffstadt@jud.ca.gov; Carl.Moor@jud.ca.gov; Dennis.Perluss@jud.ca.gov; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; jeff.chemerinsky@gmail.comCc: michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; 'Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association' <paloaltorenters@gmail.com>; 'Braden Cartwright' <bcartwright@padailypost.com>; 'CaitJames' <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; 'Josh Becker' <becker.josh@gmail.com>; 'Julie Lythcott-Haims' <julieforpaloalto@gmail.com>; 'Lewis james'<alphonse9947@gmail.com>; 'Liz Gardner' <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; 'Marina Lopez' <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; 'Supervisor Otto Lee' <supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org>;'Supervisor Susan Ellenberg' <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org>; Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com>; 'ladoris cordell' <judgecordell@icloud.com>;Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; carol.corringan@jud.ca.gov; kelli.evans@jud.ca.gov; goodwin.liu@jud.ca.gov; Leondra.kruger@jud.ca.gov; joshua.groban@jud.ca.gov;martin.jenkins@jud.ca.gov; John.Segal@jud.ca.gov; John.Wiley@jud.ca.gov; Judith.Ashmann-Gerst@jud.ca.gov; Kenneth.Yegan@jud.ca.gov; Lamar.Baker@jud.ca.gov;Laurence.Rubin@jud.ca.gov; Lee.Edmon@jud.ca.gov; Luis.Lavin@jud.ca.gov; Maria.Stratton@jud.ca.gov; Victor.Viramontes@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chavez@jud.ca.gov;'Pacific GrovePD' <pacificgrovepd@gmail.com>; 'Pitzer Safety' <pitzer.safety@gmail.com>; elizabeth.glater@gmail.com; elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu;rarcos@da.lacounty.gov; 'Douglas A. Murray' <DMurray@da.lacounty.gov>; glater@berkeley.edu; gerry.rosberg@columbia.edu; rkhurana@hbs.eduSubject: VIDEO: JFK & REAGAN: Ich bin Ein Palestinian; God-Man-Nazis@ Yale Law Lock-Up Jesus after Bombing the Hospital! Free Jesus from Behind the Wall! PM Bibi, TearDown this Wall Aram, I have put together a video for your featuring JFK and Reagan making the point the Only nations in the 20th Century that Build Walls around people in their country are Nazis, Russians, and Nazis again—Zionist Israeli Thugs! I can literally show you the connectionbetween Crypto-Nazi-Fag William Buckley Jr. (using Gore Vidal’s description) to Junkyard-Jew-Fag-Nazi Arthur Finkelstein to Bibi Netanyahu, the Soviet/Russiansinterfering with our elections, and Hitler’s Helping Hand (Bibi (the holocausting hostage killer & his patrons Ron Lauder) in electing fascists in countries throughout former-Warsaw-Pact & former Soviet Socialist Republics….Here’s the Ich bin Ein Berliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter We can’t forge the other Zionist overlord dirt bag - and Sheldon USC Adelson, and Milken Berkely/UCLA Law Lowell, and Un-Patriotic-whoremonger Robert ‘Columbia’ Kraft Thanks for the updates about Zionist stirring up trouble at campus protests then claimingthey are the victims and calling their private security service (known by the rest of us as the municipal police). These dirtbags were serfs in Russia/Eastern Europe, so anytime they havean opportunity to grab power, they try to become Tzars—and at any given moment the acting King of the Jews (Ron Lauder, Abe Foxman, Bibi) then proceed treat everyone else(especially Non-Zionist Jews) like serfs. Take Zionist-Nazi 2DCA Yale Law Grad Judge Helen Bendix (on copy) as an example---She’s been put on the court’s bias committeewhich is like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank. Zionist SCUM like Bendix have total contempt for the constitutional rights of common citizens because she the Fuhrer-Wicked-Witch of the Westside shrieking at the common plebes as she soars above us on her broomstick en route from Pacific Pogromming Palisades to Nazi-Reagan Courthouse. Icreated a page for her Nazi-Jurisprudence. Yale Law is factory for Nazis like Vivek Ramaswarmy EVERY ZIONIST ON THE BENCH SHOULD BE PURGED….BECAUSE THEYCANNOT COMPARTMENTALIZE THEIR INNER-NAZI TRIBAL HATRED FOR PALESTINIANS----Their Barbaric NAZI attitudes Pollute Every Interaction of Theirs withthe Civilized World. Bendix Husband Kronstadt is a Board Member on some Nazi anti-anti- Racist “educational foundation” focused on supporting Apartheid, Banning Black HistoryMonth, and Teaching All Children about Zionism being their Divine Right to be DA in LA (like Chermerinsky, the son of Berkeley Law Professor C. Fisk who was photographedgrabbing the bullhorn from the law student). I Again, enjoy the videos “I am Palestinian” from our former Presidents - …Ich bin Ein Berliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter It’s TIME CHRISTIANS STAND FORJESUS AND CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE AGAINST MARY, JOSEPHY AND JESUS AT THE HOSPITAL! Helen Bendix is a Jesus Hater because she does not recognize a HigherPower other than inner-Hitler! And fill free to share the infographic below! – Cheers – O.G. Goldstein on the Westside, Home of Heil Hitler Helen Bendix, 2DCA’s Presiding Nazi Racist Neanderthal who shouldbe SHOT DOWN while flying her broomstick and being a NAZI NUISANCE! From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:49 AMTo: Bryan Gobin <appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com>; Cecilia Taylor<cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; CityCouncil <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Dan Okonkwo<dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org>; Don Austin <daustin@pausd.org>; GRP-City Council<council@redwoodcity.org>; Jack Ajluni <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; Jeff Moore<moore2j@att.net>; KEVIN JENSEN <KP14him@aol.com>;Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com>; Sean Allen <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.govCc: <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com> <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association <paloaltorenters@gmail.com>; Braden Cartwright<bcartwright@padailypost.com>; Cait James <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>; Julie Lythcott-Haims <julieforpaloalto@gmail.com>; Lewisjames <alphonse9947@gmail.com>; Liz Gardner <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; Marina Lopez <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; Supervisor Otto Lee<supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org>; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org>; Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com>; ladoriscordell <judgecordell@icloud.com>Subject: UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation betweena law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her micropho UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her microphone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150667 From:Tim JamesTo:appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com; "Aram James"; "Cecilia Taylor"; Council, City; "Dan Okonkwo"; "Don Austin"; "GRP-City Council"; "Jack Ajluni"; "Jeff Moore"; "KEVIN JENSEN"; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; "Salem Ajluni"; "Sean Allen"; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; HELEN.BENDIX@jud.ca.gov; Gregory.Weingart@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chaney@jud.ca.gov;Anne.Egerton@jud.ca.gov; Arthur.Gilbert@jud.ca.gov; Audrey.Collins@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Currey@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Hoffstadt@jud.ca.gov; Carl.Moor@jud.ca.gov; Dennis.Perluss@jud.ca.gov; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; jeff.chemerinsky@gmail.comCc:michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; "Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association"; "Braden Cartwright"; "Cait James"; "Josh Becker"; "Julie Lythcott-Haims"; "Lewis james"; Gardener, Liz; "Marina Lopez"; "Supervisor Otto Lee"; "Supervisor Susan Ellenberg"; "ladoris cordell"; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; carol.corringan@jud.ca.gov; kelli.evans@jud.ca.gov; goodwin.liu@jud.ca.gov; Leondra.kruger@jud.ca.gov; joshua.groban@jud.ca.gov;martin.jenkins@jud.ca.gov; John.Segal@jud.ca.gov; John.Wiley@jud.ca.gov; Judith.Ashmann-Gerst@jud.ca.gov; Kenneth.Yegan@jud.ca.gov; Lamar.Baker@jud.ca.gov; Laurence.Rubin@jud.ca.gov; Lee.Edmon@jud.ca.gov; Luis.Lavin@jud.ca.gov; Maria.Stratton@jud.ca.gov; Victor.Viramontes@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chavez@jud.ca.gov; "Pacific GrovePD"; "Pitzer Safety"; elizabeth.glater@gmail.com; elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu;rarcos@da.lacounty.gov; "Douglas A. Murray"; glater@berkeley.edu; gerry.rosberg@columbia.edu; rkhurana@hbs.eduSubject:RE: VIDEO: JFK & REAGAN: Ich bin Ein Palestinian; God-Man-Nazis@ Yale Law Lock-Up Jesus after Bombing the Hospital! Free Jesus from Behind the Wall! PM Bibi, Tear Down this WallDate:Saturday, May 4, 2024 1:07:06 PMAttachments:image218962.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from tjames@rsaplaw.com. Learn why this is importantCAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Wow! That’s a lot of hatred packed into one email – starting with the homophobic epithets and moving on from there. From: appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com <appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:10 PMTo: 'Aram James' <abjpd1@gmail.com>; 'Cecilia Taylor' <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; 'CityCouncil' <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; 'Dan Okonkwo' <dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org>; 'Don Austin' <daustin@pausd.org>; 'GRP-City Council' <council@redwoodcity.org>; 'Jack Ajluni' <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; 'Jeff Moore' <moore2j@att.net>; 'KEVIN JENSEN' <KP14him@aol.com>; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; 'Salem Ajluni' <ajluni@hotmail.com>; 'Sean Allen' <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; HELEN.BENDIX@jud.ca.gov; Gregory.Weingart@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chaney@jud.ca.gov;Anne.Egerton@jud.ca.gov; Arthur.Gilbert@jud.ca.gov; Audrey.Collins@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Currey@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Hoffstadt@jud.ca.gov; Carl.Moor@jud.ca.gov; Dennis.Perluss@jud.ca.gov; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; jeff.chemerinsky@gmail.comCc: michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; 'Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association' <paloaltorenters@gmail.com>; 'Braden Cartwright' <bcartwright@padailypost.com>; 'Cait James' <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; 'Josh Becker' <becker.josh@gmail.com>; 'Julie Lythcott-Haims' <julieforpaloalto@gmail.com>; 'Lewis james'<alphonse9947@gmail.com>; 'Liz Gardner' <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; 'Marina Lopez' <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; 'Supervisor Otto Lee' <supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org>; 'Supervisor Susan Ellenberg' <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org>; Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com>; 'ladoris cordell' <judgecordell@icloud.com>;Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; carol.corringan@jud.ca.gov; kelli.evans@jud.ca.gov; goodwin.liu@jud.ca.gov; Leondra.kruger@jud.ca.gov; joshua.groban@jud.ca.gov; martin.jenkins@jud.ca.gov; John.Segal@jud.ca.gov; John.Wiley@jud.ca.gov; Judith.Ashmann-Gerst@jud.ca.gov; Kenneth.Yegan@jud.ca.gov; Lamar.Baker@jud.ca.gov;Laurence.Rubin@jud.ca.gov; Lee.Edmon@jud.ca.gov; Luis.Lavin@jud.ca.gov; Maria.Stratton@jud.ca.gov; Victor.Viramontes@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chavez@jud.ca.gov; 'Pacific GrovePD' <pacificgrovepd@gmail.com>; 'Pitzer Safety' <pitzer.safety@gmail.com>; elizabeth.glater@gmail.com; elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu;rarcos@da.lacounty.gov; 'Douglas A. Murray' <DMurray@da.lacounty.gov>; glater@berkeley.edu; gerry.rosberg@columbia.edu; rkhurana@hbs.eduSubject: VIDEO: JFK & REAGAN: Ich bin Ein Palestinian; God-Man-Nazis@ Yale Law Lock-Up Jesus after Bombing the Hospital! Free Jesus from Behind the Wall! PM Bibi, Tear Down this Wall Aram, I have put together a video for your featuring JFK and Reagan making the point the Only nations in the 20th Century that Build Walls around people in their country are Nazis, Russians, and Nazis again—Zionist Israeli Thugs! I can literally show you the connection between Crypto-Nazi-Fag William Buckley Jr. (using Gore Vidal’s description) to Junkyard-Jew-Fag-Nazi Arthur Finkelstein to Bibi Netanyahu, the Soviet/Russians interfering with our elections, and Hitler’s Helping Hand (Bibi (the holocausting hostage killer & his patrons Ron Lauder) in electing fascists in countries throughout former-Warsaw-Pact & former Soviet Socialist Republics….Here’s the Ich bin EinBerliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter We can’t forge the other Zionist overlord dirt bag - and Sheldon USC Adelson, and Milken Berkely/UCLA Law Lowell, and Un-Patriotic-whoremonger Robert ‘Columbia’ Kraft Thanks for the updates about Zionist stirring up trouble at campus protests then claiming they are the victims and calling their private security service (known by the rest of us as the municipal police). These dirtbags were serfs in Russia/Eastern Europe, so anytime they have an opportunity to grab power, they try to become Tzars—and atany given moment the acting King of the Jews (Ron Lauder, Abe Foxman, Bibi) then proceed treat everyone else (especially Non-Zionist Jews) like serfs. Take Zionist-Nazi 2DCA Yale Law Grad Judge Helen Bendix (on copy) as an example---She’s been put on the court’s bias committee which is like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank. Zionist SCUM like Bendix have total contempt for the constitutional rights of common citizens because she the Fuhrer-Wicked-Witch of the Westside shrieking at the common plebes as she soars above us on her broomstick en route from Pacific Pogromming Palisades to Nazi-Reagan Courthouse. I created a page for her Nazi-Jurisprudence. Yale Law is factory for Nazis like Vivek Ramaswarmy EVERY ZIONIST ON THE BENCH SHOULD BE PURGED….BECAUSE THEY CANNOT COMPARTMENTALIZE THEIR INNER-NAZI TRIBAL HATRED FOR PALESTINIANS----Their Barbaric NAZI attitudes Pollute Every Interaction of Theirs with the Civilized World. Bendix Husband Kronstadt is a Board Member on some Nazi anti-anti-Racist “educationalfoundation” focused on supporting Apartheid, Banning Black History Month, and Teaching All Children about Zionism being their Divine Right to be DA in LA (like Chermerinsky, the son of Berkeley Law Professor C. Fisk who was photographed grabbing the bullhorn from the law student). I Again, enjoy the videos “I am Palestinian” from our former Presidents - …Ich bin Ein Berliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter It’s TIME CHRISTIANS STAND FOR JESUS AND CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE AGAINST MARY, JOSEPHY AND JESUS AT THE HOSPITAL! Helen Bendix is a Jesus Hater because she does not recognize a Higher Power other than inner-Hitler! And fill free to share the infographic below! – Cheers – O.G. Goldstein on the Westside, Home of Heil Hitler Helen Bendix, 2DCA’s Presiding Nazi Racist Neanderthal who should be SHOT DOWN while flying her broomstick and being a NAZI NUISANCE! From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:49 AMTo: Bryan Gobin <appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com>; Cecilia Taylor <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; CityCouncil <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Dan Okonkwo <dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org>; Don Austin <daustin@pausd.org>; GRP-City Council <council@redwoodcity.org>; Jack Ajluni <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; Jeff Moore <moore2j@att.net>;KEVIN JENSEN <KP14him@aol.com>; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com>; Sean Allen <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.govCc: <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com> <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association <paloaltorenters@gmail.com>; Braden Cartwright <bcartwright@padailypost.com>; Cait James <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>; Julie Lythcott-Haims <julieforpaloalto@gmail.com>; Lewis james <alphonse9947@gmail.com>; Liz Gardner <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; Marina Lopez <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; Supervisor Otto Lee <supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org>; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org>; Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com>; ladoris cordell <judgecordell@icloud.com>Subject: UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her micropho UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her microphone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150667 From:KRISTINA P SMITH To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Cc:sharon.winslow.erickson@gmail.com Subject:Restrooms at Eleanor Pardee Park ... Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:50:35 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from jubilada@sbcglobal.net. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include installation of atleast four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one ofthe city's largest neighborhood parks, is not on the list. We are requesting theFinance Committee and City Council prioritize installation of a restroom atEleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto withhundreds of visitors, including children at the two playgrounds, adult and youthsoccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstrationgarden, and community gardeners. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again inthe last decade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included inthe current capital improvement plan was because some neighbors fear that therestroom would be "a magnet for unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 aresident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavorycharacters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without theseconcerns. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as asuitable site. It is a high usage park, and it needs a restroom. I have had a plot at the Eleanor Community Gardens for the past 35 years. It sure would be nice not to have to interrupt my garden work to run home to use the bathroom. Also, friends from out of town were visiting last week to attend the Gamble Gardens Spring Tour. Eleanor Community Gardens were close to one of the houses, and the ladies wanted to see my garden plot. However, since we'd been touring houses for a while, a couple of them really had to go tothe bathroom. They were stunned to hear that there were no public restrooms in Eleanor Park, or near the community gardens. It's actually kind of disgraceful. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Sincerely, Kristina P. Smith 1144 Cedar StreetPalo Alto, CA 94301 From:Grace Pariante To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Rail Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:26:47 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from grace_pariante@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. City Rail Committee, I don't know if I will be able to attend the May 23 meeting (https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Events-Directory/City-Clerk/2024/52324-Rail- Committee-Special-Meeting). Better you look at this stuff in advance anyway. Background. My daughter is Gunn HS class of 2011. She experienced perhaps the worst suicide cluster in PA history, classmates jumping in front of trains, 5 of them in about a year. I was a volunteer for Track Watch, a group of parents who stood in the cold and rain watching the tracks each evening. What I saw during that time was several close encounters between the trains and CARS. It was very stressful. Thus I have watched this issue closely for 15 years. While we have improved the Charleston intersection, I still see cars sitting on the tracks waiting for the light to turn, or rushingthe gate as it comes down. We have delayed the railroad crossing issues for so long that there is new technology on the horizon for boring tunnels. I believe almost everyone is in favor of tunnels ifthey were cost effective. Elon Musk is on it. Whatever you think of the guy, his politics, his personality, he has managed to do several things no one thought possible. So please read up on the Boring Company. I would rather wait another 10 years to have the right solution than to spend billions of dollars on technology that willseem obsolete very soon. https://www.boringcompany.com/ https://youtu.be/nLol0YLSbpM?si=i99bZJp1F_UDkhBZ https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/8/23498861/elon-musk-boring-company- tunnels-finished https://www.worldsensing.com/article/theboringcompany/ Thank you for considering this alternative. -Grace Pariante From:appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.comTo:"Aram James"; "Cecilia Taylor"; Council, City; "Dan Okonkwo"; "Don Austin"; "GRP-City Council"; "Jack Ajluni"; "Jeff Moore"; "KEVIN JENSEN"; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; "Salem Ajluni"; "Sean Allen"; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov; HELEN.BENDIX@jud.ca.gov; Gregory.Weingart@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chaney@jud.ca.gov; Anne.Egerton@jud.ca.gov; Arthur.Gilbert@jud.ca.gov;Audrey.Collins@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Currey@jud.ca.gov; Brian.Hoffstadt@jud.ca.gov; Carl.Moor@jud.ca.gov; Dennis.Perluss@jud.ca.gov; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; jeff.chemerinsky@gmail.comCc:michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; "Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association"; "Braden Cartwright"; "Cait James"; "Josh Becker"; "Julie Lythcott-Haims"; "Lewis james"; Gardener, Liz; "Marina Lopez"; "Supervisor Otto Lee"; "Supervisor Susan Ellenberg"; "Tim James"; "ladoris cordell"; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; carol.corringan@jud.ca.gov; kelli.evans@jud.ca.gov; goodwin.liu@jud.ca.gov; Leondra.kruger@jud.ca.gov;joshua.groban@jud.ca.gov; martin.jenkins@jud.ca.gov; John.Segal@jud.ca.gov; John.Wiley@jud.ca.gov; Judith.Ashmann-Gerst@jud.ca.gov; Kenneth.Yegan@jud.ca.gov; Lamar.Baker@jud.ca.gov; Laurence.Rubin@jud.ca.gov; Lee.Edmon@jud.ca.gov; Luis.Lavin@jud.ca.gov; Maria.Stratton@jud.ca.gov; Victor.Viramontes@jud.ca.gov; Victoria.Chavez@jud.ca.gov; "Pacific GrovePD"; "Pitzer Safety"; elizabeth.glater@gmail.com;elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu; rarcos@da.lacounty.gov; "Douglas A. Murray"; glater@berkeley.edu; gerry.rosberg@columbia.edu; rkhurana@hbs.eduSubject:VIDEO: JFK & REAGAN: Ich bin Ein Palestinian; God-Man-Nazis@ Yale Law Lock-Up Jesus after Bombing the Hospital! Free Jesus from Behind the Wall! PM Bibi, Tear Down this WallDate:Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:10:19 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com. Learn why this is importantCAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Aram, I have put together a video for your featuring JFK and Reagan making the point the Only nations in the 20th Century that Build Walls around people in their country are Nazis, Russians, and Nazis again—Zionist Israeli Thugs! I can literally show you the connection between Crypto-Nazi-Fag William Buckley Jr. (using Gore Vidal’s description)to Junkyard-Jew-Fag-Nazi Arthur Finkelstein to Bibi Netanyahu, the Soviet/Russians interfering with our elections, and Hitler’s Helping Hand (Bibi (the holocausting hostage killer & his patrons Ron Lauder) in electing fascists in countries throughout former-Warsaw-Pact & former Soviet Socialist Republics….Here’s the Ich bin EinBerliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter We can’t forge the other Zionist overlord dirt bag - and Sheldon USC Adelson, and Milken Berkely/UCLA Law Lowell, and Un-Patriotic-whoremonger Robert ‘Columbia’ Kraft Thanks for the updates about Zionist stirring up trouble at campus protests then claiming they are the victims and calling their private security service (known by the rest of us as the municipal police). These dirtbags were serfs in Russia/Eastern Europe, so anytime they have an opportunity to grab power, they try to become Tzars—and at any given moment the acting King of the Jews (Ron Lauder, Abe Foxman, Bibi) then proceed treat everyone else (especially Non-Zionist Jews) like serfs. Take Zionist-Nazi 2DCA Yale Law Grad Judge Helen Bendix (on copy) as an example---She’s been put on the court’s bias committee which is like putting Dracula in charge of the BloodBank. Zionist SCUM like Bendix have total contempt for the constitutional rights of common citizens because she the Fuhrer-Wicked-Witch of the Westside shrieking at the common plebes as she soars above us on her broomstick en route from Pacific Pogromming Palisades to Nazi-Reagan Courthouse. I created a page for her Nazi-Jurisprudence. Yale Law is factory for Nazis like Vivek Ramaswarmy EVERY ZIONIST ON THE BENCH SHOULD BE PURGED….BECAUSE THEY CANNOT COMPARTMENTALIZE THEIR INNER-NAZI TRIBAL HATRED FOR PALESTINIANS----Their Barbaric NAZI attitudes Pollute Every Interaction of Theirs with the Civilized World. Bendix Husband Kronstadt is a Board Member on some Nazi anti-anti-Racist “educational foundation” focused on supporting Apartheid, Banning Black History Month, and Teaching All Children about Zionism being their Divine Right to be DA in LA (like Chermerinsky, the son of Berkeley Law Professor C. Fisk who was photographed grabbing the bullhorn from the law student). I Again, enjoy the videos “I am Palestinian” from our former Presidents - …Ich bin Ein Berliner/Palestinian Video – Instagram and Twitter It’s TIME CHRISTIANS STAND FOR JESUS AND CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE AGAINST MARY, JOSEPHY AND JESUS AT THE HOSPITAL! Helen Bendix is a Jesus Hater because she does not recognize a Higher Powerother than inner-Hitler! And fill free to share the infographic below! – Cheers – O.G. Goldstein on the Westside, Home of Heil Hitler Helen Bendix, 2DCA’s Presiding Nazi Racist Neanderthal who should be SHOT DOWN while flying her broomstick and being a NAZI NUISANCE! From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:49 AMTo: Bryan Gobin <appeal.bryan.gobin@gmail.com>; Cecilia Taylor <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; CityCouncil <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Dan Okonkwo <dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org>; Don Austin <daustin@pausd.org>; GRP-City Council <council@redwoodcity.org>; Jack Ajluni <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; Jeff Moore <moore2j@att.net>;KEVIN JENSEN <KP14him@aol.com>; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com>; Sean Allen <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu; frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.govCc: <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com> <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association <paloaltorenters@gmail.com>; Braden Cartwright <bcartwright@padailypost.com>; Cait James <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>; Julie Lythcott-Haims <julieforpaloalto@gmail.com>; Lewis james <alphonse9947@gmail.com>; Liz Gardner <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; Marina Lopez <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; Supervisor Otto Lee <supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org>; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org>; Tim James <TJames@rsaplaw.com>; ladoris cordell <judgecordell@icloud.com>Subject: UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her micropho UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her microphone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150667 From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 8:02:56 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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W h e r e d o t h e y p l u g t h e w a s h i n g m a c h i n e s i n o u t o n t h e r o a d , w h e r e d o t h e y d u m p t h e i r w a s t e w a t e r , w h e r e d o e s t h e R V P a r k d u m p s e w a g e , w h y i s t h e p r o b l e m w o r s e i n s t e a d o f b e t t e r w i t h a l l t h a t e f f o r t ? O h , F i r e w o r k s I t ’ s i m p o s s i b l e f o r m e t o b e l i e v e t h e E a s t P a l o A l t o P o l i c e w e r e u n a w a r e t h a t n o h o m e l e s s s h e l t e r i s o p e r a t i n g a b l o c k a w a y f r o m t h e m , a s t h e y p u s h e d t h e h o m e l e s s p r o b l e m i n t o t h a t P a l o A l t o , f o r s p o r t , w i n k w i n k . < w h o o w n s a l l t h e s e v e h i c l e s . p n g > < t h a t s t h e h o m e l e s s p e o p l e c a r s w h o c a m e f o r a h o t m e a l . p n g > < G A M E n t e r p r i s e s o w n s t h e p a r k i n g l o t a n d h a s a r o o f t o p a d d r e s s . p n g > < t h o s e d u m p s t e r s a r e n o t f u l l o f s h e l t e r t r a s h w h a t i s i n t h e m . p n g > < t h o s e a r e v e r y e x p e n s i v e r v s f o r h o m e l e s s p e o p l e d o t h e b a i n s t r a v e l . p n g > < g a m o r g a m e e n t e r p r i s e s d m v r e g i s t r a t i o n s e r v i c e s d o n t p a y a t t e n t i o n t o a l l t h e v e h i c l e s o r s o m u c h a c t i v i t y a c a t e r i n g t r u c k p a r k e d r i g h t t h e r e . p n g > < t h i s i s a f a k e n o n p r o f i t g h e t t o w i t h a l l l a t e m o d e l v e h i c l e s n o j a l o p i e s . p n g > < w e k n o w y o u b o l o t h i s n o t s h o w e r t r u c k s a n d n i c e r v s . p n g > < t h i s i s a j o k e t h e b u i l d i n g i s t o o s m a l l f o r a l l t h a t . p n g > < t h e b a c k e n t r a n c e s a y s i t s a c h u r c h i n t h e s a m e s m a l l s p a c e s a i n t s a m u e l s g e e . p n g > < n o r o o m f o r 7 3 b e d s a n d n o t r a s h f o r 7 3 p e o p l e o r m e a l s o r a n y o f i t . p n g > < m o b i l e f u e l t r u c k s f o r t h e r v s p a r k e d t h e r e i n t h e r v p a r k f o r p e o p l e w i t h n i c e r v s . p n g > < d o o r i n a l l e y s p o i n t i n g t o o p p o s i t e o f w h e r e t h e y p h o t o t h e y a d d e d t o g o o g l e m a p s s a y s t h e i r o f f i c e d o o r i s s e e l a t e r - 1 . p n g > < d o o r i n a l l e y s p o i n t i n g t o o p p o s i t e o f w h e r e t h e y p h o t o t h e y a d d e d t o g o o g l e m a p s s a y s t h e i r o f f i c e d o o r i s s e e l a t e r . p n g > < t h a t s a l o t o f t i m e a n d o v e r t i m e o n t h e p o l i c e b u d g e t w h e n S t a n f o r d h a s t o t a k e t h e m E M T L A . p n g > From:Kay Pinsker To:Council, City Subject:Against a restroom in Eleanor Pardee Park Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 4:22:04 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from rskpinsker@gmail.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. ________________________________ To Whom It May Concern: As longtime residents of Crescent Park in Palo Alto, we remain unequivocally against having restrooms in Eleanor Pardee Park, and we commend you for listening to our neighborhood concerns. Restrooms in parks can indeed create safety issues. Having raised three children here we are keenly aware of the problems that restrooms in other parks have invited. Just because someone is NOT aware of these problems, does not excuse the lack of foresight. The park is not so large that visitors would spend more than an hour or two there, and even if so, a quick trip home is the best answer. As crime increases throughout our cities, please continue to use your good judgment so that it doesn’t happen in Palo Alto. 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OVER 5K UC ALUMNI SIGN PLEDGE 'NO DONATIONS UNTIL DIVEST,' HOPING TO PREVENT DEATHS IN GAZA https://abc7news.com/amp/over-5-000-uc-alumni-sign-pledge-no-donations-until-divest-hoping-to-change-deaths-in-palestine/14757283/ From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan;boardmembers; David Balakian; cramirez.electriclab133@gmail.com; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Doug Vagim;dennisbalakian; dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; Scott Wilkinson; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu;Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Sally Thiessen; Joel Stiner; jerryruopoli; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; kfsndesk; MY77FJ@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com;maverickbruno@sbcglobal.net; Mark Standriff; Mayor; merazroofinginc@att.net; nick yovino;news@fresnobee.com; newsdesk; Kevin.Nower@bestbuy.com; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry;tsheehan; vallesR1969@att.net; yicui@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: The End to Made in China? Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:53:26 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: Fri, May 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Subject: Fwd: The End to Made in China?To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Friday, May 3, 2024 This is excellent. My highest recommendation. Every Mayor, City Council member,Governor, member of a legislature, President, member of Congress, businesses, should see this more than once.: About 46 minutes: This contains "must know" information. About asstrongly as I can put it. I think you will agree. China vs The West: Does Trade War Spell End To Made-In-China Goods? | When Titans Clash 3 - Part 1/2 (youtube.com) L William Harding Fresno, Ca; From:Aram James To:Bryan Gobin; Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; Dan Okonkwo; Don Austin; GRP-City Council; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore;KEVIN JENSEN; Patricia.Guerrero@jud.ca.gov; Salem Ajluni; Sean Allen; cfisk@law.berkeley.edu;frances.Rothschild@jud.ca.gov Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Braden Cartwright; Cait James; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Marina Lopez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Tim James; ladoris cordell Subject:UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a studentMalak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor CatherineFisk tried to grab her micro... 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UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation intobackyard confrontation between a law professorand a student Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her microphone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150667 From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angel, David; Baker, Rob; Bill Newell; Cecilia Taylor; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; Diana Diamond; Don Austin; EPA Today; Ed Lauing; Emily Mibach; GRP-City Council; Gennady Sheyner; Greer Stone; Human Relations Commission; Jeff Moore; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; KEVIN JENSEN; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lauing, Ed; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Palo Alto Free Press; Preminger, Steve; Raymond Goins; Rose Lynn; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Perron, Zachary; district1@bos.sccgov.org; editor@paweekly.com; editor@almanacnews.com Subject:How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours Date:Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:30:23 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Docs from Center For Security Policy Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 10:12:14 PM Attachments:Explanatory_Memoradum.pdf Refugee_Resettlement_Hijra.pdf Shariah_in_American_Courts1.pdf HLF Search 10.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. This strategy has been employed by multiple unfriendly nations. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>Subject: Docs from Center For Security Policy Date: February 7, 2017 at 1:01:17 AM PST To: Dennis Burns <dennis.burns@cityofpaloalto.org> Message-Id: <etPan.58998cdd.7c289968.4a57@mac.com> Greetings, If you only do one thing, read this sentence and the attached document called “Explanatory Memorandum”. That will tell you whether the rest of this is worth reading! Attached are 3 documents from the Center For Security Policy in DC I thought might be of interest after coming across names some familiar places in a attached phone bill (page 6) while reading documents from the US v Holy Land Foundation trial. One of the documents is a source document obtained after a not-so-toutine traffic stop in Virginia led to 80 boxes of material found in a hidden sub-basement. It was entered into evidence and passed evidentiary muster in the Federal Courts. In fact there were many exhibits on that case, I think I may scrape the whole list and drop them in a file. Case may have served secondary purpose of putting information out for those in the weeds. "The Explanatory Memorandum” A second “Refugee Resettlement Hijra” is interesting in that it addresses Federal activities with regard to resettlement policies. The Hijra document mentions a lack of information flowing to, or coordination with locals. "Sharia in American Courts" is interesting in that it highlights court cases where stated goals and intents found in The Explanatory Memorandum manifest. One can imagine a targeting of LEO interactions in the future to help make case law. Sadly I sense little awareness around me about these concerns as though the US thinks 9/11 was an isolated event rather than something part of a grander plan. I think a 90 day hold to put biometric scanning in place given FBI Director Comey’s statements to the fact that ISIS has a passport machine is in order. The previous administration was between a rock and a hard place, having sent funds and weapons to the ‘rebels’ in Syria before realizing the rebels were Al Queda. It presented a public relations problem and also a responsibility to take refugees we created. The Executive Order to do this was made in secret - all the events surrounding it a great yarn, too long for this. Also think it an intention move to get the issues to the Supreme Court and make case law for the future, using a group of countries the previous administration had already issued orders for. There is little substantive change over what has been done - challenge was inevitable, this seems to be getting that out of the way. If one were to guess at strategic thinking. The ISIS generated undetectable-as-fraudulent passports, combined with John McAfee (McAfee anti-virus) statements, after escaping through the jungle that rouge elements in the Belizean government are supplying passports and handlers to Hamas and tunneling them into the US at a rate of 11 or so a month is worthy of concern. McAfee obtained this information after the local government and LEO (or “gangs” as they are called by some) tried to force him to pay ‘protection money’, shot his dog, and stole about 200k worth or property from him. It was a show and use of force as a reminder of who was in charge in that country where he brought property to live out his retirement in ‘paradise’. Anti-virus/malware expert McAfee responded by purchasing 75 laptops, putting keyloggers on all of them, then re-shrink wrapping the computer boxes so they looked brand new, and giving them away to police, politicians and others. McAfee was able to log everything for six months before he got caught and setup for murder by the same people. They wrote fake blog posts by him to make him look like he was under the influence of bath salts so he would be ignored if he revealed what he learned. McAfee fully anticipated trouble at some point and in preparation a friend legally changed his name to John McAfee and obtained a passport with that name. They day the original McAfee fled, the new McAfee went ahead of the original and allowed himself to be arrested 100 miles over the Mexican border, where they did not have a photo in hand. Word went through channels into Belize that McAfee was apprehended. Belizean authorities stood down at checkpoints long enough for him to pass through to Guatemala. A traveling companion is related to a former Attorney General in Guatemala. McAfee was arrested in Guatemala, but deported to the US rather than extradited to Belize. Hmm. Sandy Hook happened right after this and most of the country missed this, after the original "McAfee is on bath salts, accused of murder, running through the jungle” headlines were replaced with Sandy Hook headlines right after he was debriefed. It’s weird cause some people say Sandy Hook had been decommissioned years before and cited public record to that effect, but thats probably tin foil hat conspiracy theorists who think certain agencies use psyops, heh. The US did not extradite McAfee back to Belize, despite and extradition treaty. A couple of days after he was back on US soil and debriefed the State Department issued a warning to US travelers and diplomatic staff to stay away from Belize City for, among other things, potential “retaliation”. Later that year McAfee’s house was burned to the ground in an accident a few days before a sale was supposed to go through. The other thing McAfee discovered was castor being grown in bulk in Nicaragua before processing into a weapon and shipped up through the tunnels by the ton alongside the heroin, funded by the same groups mentioned in these documents through the agency of cartels/government. No wonder they accused McAfee of murder, chased him through the jungle, and burned his house down! I am friends with close friends of Woz and have been told McAfee did not lose his marbles and was not using bath salts and could be trusted as a source. 75 laptops was aspectacular exploit! Finally, also of interest, happened to read an interesting report from somebody whoinfiltrated the anarchist groups, probably the ones in Berkeley. One can imagine thosegroups have been infiltrated by the same mentioned in these documents and I imagineother local folks. I know they are on the edges, but info is info... I assume there are peoplemonitoring various information channels, this might be a useful resource. https://www.oathkeepers.org/navyjack-operation-hypo-action-report/ Hope the information is genuinely useful and not annoying. It takes a village… Best to you. Tracy From:Tracy Hern To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Tall Trees Oh Now The Shelter is Samaritan not WeHope Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 7:45:07 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracyhern8@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Tall Trees Oh Now The Shelter is Samaritan not WeHope Date: April 23, 2024 at 7:01:10 PM PDT To: RO DA <jrosen@dao.sccgov.org> Maybe the state police should receive these for initial review, first, rather than bodies which such clear conflicts of interest. This looks like a setup to get control of the PAPD. Motives too many to count. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Tall Trees Oh Now The Shelter is Samaritan not WeHope Date: April 23, 2024 at 6:55:34 PM PDT To: PAPD <paloalto@tipnow.org> Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Tall Trees Oh Now The Shelter is Samaritan not WeHope Date: April 23, 2024 at 6:53:03 PM PDT To: Santa Clara County Sheriff <SHF.SOTips@shf.sccgo v.org> This guy tipped my spidey senses in the early articles as he increased his own“SCOPE” because he had toto find something, and he found the police expanded their scope it’s an open joke,this one, so he argues that heshould be paid more money by creating more work for himself, never have I seen such a gross conflict interestas this besides Alvarez did the same thing to me, he had to because he walked right into a trap. The city council had a conflict of interest inexpanding an investigation that could prevent the public from discovering the City Council was writing SlushyContracts for Friends. "Councilman Greg Schmid also proposed commissioning a non- police auditor to examine general city procedures. The mystery is why should the police find the financial problems, he said. “Why didn’t our policies and procedures find that?” The council rejected his proposal on a 7-2 vote, with Schmid and Yeh voting yes City Attorney Gary Baum and the council’s Policy and Services Committee will negotiate a contract with Gennaco that broadens the scope of the audit so Gennaco can interview other city staff members, board members of Friends of the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre and others, Klein said. The police auditor team does not usually conduct independent investigations — it usually only reviews existing work, Baum said. The city will need to prepare a separate contract with the auditor for this assignment, he said. No cost estimates for the work have been prepared. He said he could only support the audit if the goal was, “Let’s go find out and see if there is a problem.” Morton said he was open to whatever conclusions the auditor reaches. “The answer might be there was no problem, everything is as it should be. That’s what the community will have to hear,” Morton said. No, they will never hear that from an auditor who needs to prove his value by finding something wrong, obviously the goal of this body, maybe a few of whom needed cover. So the auditor gained police “new scope" authority to be, basically a cop without a badge and do and write and say anything he wanted, in this case he turned the sleight of hand he just used to get a temporary addition to his annual contract, which soon became permanent, and he had to use tricks to do it, with the City Council going along. So now it is years later, the guy (from LA) contract is now double what it was before as people around himthink up new investigationsof things he plants in his reports or mentions in passing until he has a fatcontract that will renew every years, and far toomuch power for a guy who is so vain he sends his own photo in to the newspaper because they can’t ever getone when he provides, youknow, actually testimony that can be rebutted, a single person with a vetted interestin proving the need for theinvestigation itself, does so, but has to go beyond his Scope in the Children’s Theatre debacle to do it, andso far, he never has to be afraid of the police, it’s the city council that slathers butter on his bread, and patshim on the back for keeping the police from investigating slushy contracts. The other thing of note is that his name has changed from simply his name to OIR Group 100k a year for how much actual work? Who investigates the Police Auditors? One individual running around like that is as dangerous as Parole Jumping FentanylSwallowing Fleeing FelonGeorge Floyd. Careless and largelyunfounded leaves it founded. The end. That was careless language youjust used try to justify your necessity and position. Here is says, "Gennaco said errors by investigators included ignoring exculpatory evidence and loading the police report with conjectures and biases.” Just like he is doing. .And on his website, the firstthing he brings up is Protestors. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@g mail.com> Subject: Re: Tall Trees Oh Now The Shelter is Samaritan not WeHope Date: April 23, 2024 at 6:26:09 PM PDT To: PAPD <paloalto@tipn ow.org> They are doing it right out in theopen, here, thumbing their noses while the Supreme Courtcase is beingheard. I know manypeople who gocamping all the time and they aren’t allowed to be pigs andcreate trash and an eyesore like this, which goes beyond mere“camping”. This idea that people can just LITTER everywhere ontoof sleeping in a tent, is the second prong of this. I bet if I took a video camera and went in andstarted interviewing people around all their belongingsin their bags and shopping carts, the would only be able to keep astraight face for so long. It’s literal junk to help create the encampment vibe and has nothingto do with camping. That’s funny the beach chairs andumbrellas, isanybody ever sitting in those chairs? I’ve seen the photos where they come in and haul tons of trashout of there, then in miraculously reappears very quickly. Meanwhile where is the parade of people around town withshopping carts collecting the goods to begin with? Can you go clean one out where they will comeback and put surveillance on it to see where the trash comes fromand how organized the effort is to “trash” alocation? 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Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachmentsand clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include installation of at least four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one of the city's largest neighborhood parks, is not on the list. We are requesting the Finance Committee and City Council prioritize installation of a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto with hundreds of visitors, includingchildren at the two playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers inthe demonstration garden, and community gardeners. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again in the last decade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included in the current capital improvement plan was becausesome neighbors fear that the restroom would be "a magnet for unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 aresident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these concerns. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as a suitable site. It is a high usage park, and it needs arestroom. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Sincerely, Jacqueline Raine cc: city.council@cityofpaloalto.orgparkrec.commission@cityofpaloalto.orgcitymgr@cityofpaloalto.org parks@cityofpaloalto.orgadminsvcs@cityofpaloalto.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mgpadg" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomgpadg+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.To view this discussion on the web visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mgpadg/CAF_i3pzV%2BZKGrO10yiAPhf0P_D%3DwkOj2Ks84nyqexdxXG0_C-Q%40mail.gmail.com. From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Your Unfriendly Next Door Neighbors Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 5:00:28 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. This Public Information Campaign was coincidentally launched from the cliffside cabin - “the Nest,” where Ken Kesey wrote most of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." On May 3, 2024, at 4:07 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>wrote: I elected to report my observations to somebody outside of the city, county, and state, first. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com>Subject: Fwd: Stage leftget Date: May 2, 2024 at 1:06:24 PM PDT To: darrell.sheets@osp.oregon.gov Message-Id: <A8D141AA-8ECF-491B-A30E-033F2AED12B6@gmail.com> This guy was unhirable out of the Police Academy EPAPD Liu, look who has his back. The wife is diamonds and gold,the evangelist. The May story was extra horrible when I broke down the story of the two fourteen year old gang bangers who were on separate “ride-alongside” with EPAPD, and sorry that station was right where Bains Operated out of. This guy was unhirable out of the Police Academy “At the top of the list was a furniture mover! “ Bains family owned and operated the local moving company before hediscovered more lucrative means than loansharking and foreclosures. The Photograph is framed so that a casual eyes see micswhen it’s barrels. One guy is flashing his gold bracelet. Menlo is in the White Tee on purpose cause of the black tee no tie at a press event where they use ahem the wrong city as the back drop. “I wasn’t one of the smart kids.” Well, then presumably you aren’t a smart adult either, aligning yourself with the gangsters in your direct neighborhood. “We Rise Up” 2x I feel like that department has been infiltrated. Bains was a block away and they knew there was no shelter operatingthere, it’s impossible that they did not. Liu put the case together and rode the coattails of it up the Chain of Command with Bains support and he made a nicevideo about their collaborative efforts. <maxresdefault.jpg> Evans Lane is a project in existence in Santa Clara County. I thought of it, or ‘it’ was thought of - something like it, but I discovered in the county budget during the 2008 meltdown that the probation department was ditching the women’swork furlough buildings with 56 beds, central kitchen, exactly what they needed - all the elements food, clothing, and shelter and Copley and Manley ran with it and planned it so they could stay for a year and get their acts together,but it’s probably been butchered. But it provides cover for nothing being built at Bains Evans Lane cause nobody pays that much attention. This is a wicked dicey situation, huh? I never heard of one this dark or dangerous. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com>Subject: Date: May 2, 2024 at 10:27:00 AM PDT To: Chief Burns <dennis.r.burns@gmail.com> Message-Id: <30CEAE5E-31CD-4388-8E20-80917768F13F@gmail.com> Oh the May story is horrible. I better slow down, though huh, I’m creating too much work to keep up with. On May 2, 2024, at 10:19 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> wrote: Is that is wife with all the diamonds and the nails? Poverty is good... On May 2, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.co m> wrote: Oh I didn’t keep reading down to the next photo, well, well, well... On May 2, 2024, at 1:31 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@ gmail.com> wrote: Seems to me the background visual should be the EPAPD HQ or maybe the location where people brought their guns. Did anybody track each and every one of those? I drive sometimes and I think, people want to put a bullet in my head. This is a new experience for me. It was probably true before, but I never thought about it. Yeah but you….fuk….fu k….fuk….fuk …. From:Rice, Danille To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed Cc:Executive Leadership Team; Clerk, City Subject:City.Council Bundle: May 3 Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 5:00:12 PM Attachments:RE City Council Meeting 5.6.24 Agenda Item #11. LEGISLATIVE Adoption of an Ordinance Updating Chapter18.15 (Density Bonus) of Title 18 (Zoning) State Density Bonus Law and Revising Citys Inclusionary HousingOrdinance.msgFW Establishing Community Fridge.msgRE 800 San Antonio Road.msgRE transportation improvements for bicycles.msgimage001.png Dear Mayor and Council Members, On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please see attached staff responses to emails received in the City.Council inbox through May 3, 2024. Thank you,Danille Danille RiceAdministrative AssistantCity Manager’s Office|Human Resources(650) 329-2229 | danille.rice@cityofpaloalto.orgwww.cityofpaloalto.org From:Sharon Erickson To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:FY2025 proposed capital budget: Eleanor Pardee Park restroom? Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 4:40:58 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from sharon.winslow.erickson@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include installation of at least four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one of the city's largestneighborhood parks, is not on the list. We are requesting the Finance Committee and City Council prioritize installation of a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto with hundreds ofvisitors, including children at the two playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstration garden, and community gardeners. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again in the lastdecade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included in the current capital improvement plan was because some neighbors fear that the restroom would be "a magnetfor unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 a resident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these concerns. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as a suitable site. It is a high usage park, and it needs a restroom. I live on the other side of town, but volunteer several hours every week in this park. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Sincerely, Sharon Erickson 4075 Laguna Way Palo Alto From:Tracy Hern McGreevyTo:Council, CitySubject:Your Unfriendly Next Door NeighborsDate:Friday, May 3, 2024 4:08:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. I elected to report my observations to somebody outside of the city, county, and state, first. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com>Subject: Fwd: Stage leftgetDate: May 2, 2024 at 1:06:24 PM PDTTo: darrell.sheets@osp.oregon.govMessage-Id: <A8D141AA-8ECF-491B-A30E-033F2AED12B6@gmail.com> This guy was unhirable out of the Police Academy EPAPD Liu, look who has his back. The wife is diamonds and gold, the evangelist. The May story was extra horrible when I broke down the story of the two fourteen year old gang bangers who were on separate “ride-alongside” withEPAPD, and sorry that station was right where Bains Operated out of. This guy was unhirable out of the Police Academy “At the top of the list was a furniture mover! “ Bains family owned and operated the local moving company before he discoveredmore lucrative means than loansharking and foreclosures. The Photograph is framed so that a casual eyes see mics when it’s barrels. One guy is flashing his gold bracelet. Menlo is in the White Tee on purpose cause of the black tee no tie at a press event where they use ahem the wrong city as the backdrop. “I wasn’t one of the smart kids.” Well, then presumably you aren’t a smart adult either, aligning yourself with the gangsters in yourdirect neighborhood. “We Rise Up” 2x I feel like that department has been infiltrated. Bains was a block away and they knew there was no shelter operating there, it’simpossible that they did not. Liu put the case together and rode the coattails of it up the Chain of Command with Bains support and he made a nice video abouttheir collaborative efforts. Evans Lane is a project in existence in Santa Clara County. I thought of it, or ‘it’ was thought of - something like it, but I discoveredin the county budget during the 2008 meltdown that the probation department was ditching the women’s work furlough buildings with 56 beds, central kitchen, exactly what they needed - all the elements food, clothing, and shelter and Copley and Manley ranwith it and planned it so they could stay for a year and get their acts together, but it’s probably been butchered. But it provides cover for nothing being built at Bains Evans Lane cause nobody pays that much attention. This is a wicked dicey situation, huh? I never heard of one this dark or dangerous. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com>Subject: Date: May 2, 2024 at 10:27:00 AM PDTTo: Chief Burns <dennis.r.burns@gmail.com>Message-Id: <30CEAE5E-31CD-4388-8E20-80917768F13F@gmail.com> Oh the May story is horrible.I better slow down, though huh, I’m creating too much work to keep up with. On May 2, 2024, at 10:19 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> wrote: Is that is wife with all the diamonds and the nails? Poverty is good... On May 2, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> wrote: Oh I didn’t keep reading down to the next photo, well, well, well... On May 2, 2024, at 1:31 AM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> wrote: Seems to me the background visual should be the EPAPD HQ or maybe the location where people brought their guns. Did anybody track each and every one of those? I drive sometimes and I think, people want to put a bullet in my head. This is a new experience for me. It was probably true before, but I never thought about it. Yeah but you….fuk….fuk….fuk….fuk…. From:Tran, Joanna To:Council, City Cc:Executive Leadership Team Subject:Council Consent Questions: Items 7, 9, and 14 (5/6/24) Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 4:06:41 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage003.pngimage004.pngimage006.pngimage007.pngimage008.pngimage002.png Dear Mayor and Council Members, On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please view the following links for the amended agenda and staff responses to questions submitted by Council Member Tanaka: May 6 Amended Agenda Items 7, 9, and 14 Staff Responses 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:Romola Georgia To:Council, City Cc:ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:Eleanor Pardee Park Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 3:49:10 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from rgeorgia@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, I have volunteered for many years at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden atEleanor Pardee Park and had to tell visitors and students repeatedly that there were no facilities any closer than the Rinconada Library. This is embarrassing and unfortunate forall Palo Altans. The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include installation of at least four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one of the city's largestneighborhood parks, is not on the list. We are requesting the Finance Committee and City Council prioritize installation of a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto with hundreds ofvisitors, including children at the two playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstration garden, and community gardeners. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again in the lastdecade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included in the current capital improvement plan was because some neighbors fear that the restroom would be "a magnetfor unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 a resident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these concerns. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as a suitable site. It is a high usage park, and it needs a restroom. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Sincerely, Romola Georgia 850 Webster St., Apt. 421 Palo Alto, CA 94301 From:Walter Varda To:Council, City; ParkRec Commission; City Mgr; Parks; Administrative Services Subject:Eleanor Pardee Park Bathrooms Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 3:28:44 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from wklvarda@pacbell.net. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Councilmembers, Finance, and city staff, The FY2025 proposed capital and operating budgets include the installation of at least four new restrooms in city parks. However, Eleanor Pardee Park, one of the city's largestneighborhood parks, is not on the list. We are requesting the Finance Committee and City Council prioritize the installation of a restroom at Eleanor Pardee Park. Eleanor Pardee Park is the second largest residential park in Palo Alto with hundreds ofvisitors, including children at the two playgrounds, adult and youth soccer players, tai chi groups, dog walkers, volunteers in the demonstration garden, and community gardeners. A restroom was planned when the park was dedicated and proposed again in the lastdecade. We have been told that the reason Pardee was not included in the current capital improvement plan was because some neighbors fear that the restroom would be "a magnetfor unwelcome behavior." In February 2024 a resident dissenter wrote restrooms attract "drug dealers", "unsavory characters" and "young adults from outside our area". Other restrooms in Palo Alto Parks have been added without these concerns. Eleanor Pardee Park qualifies under Policy 2.E, Programs 2.E.2 as a suitable site. It is a high- usage park, and it needs a restroom. Please take action to prioritize funding for this restroom. Appreciatively, Kathryn Varda From:Ken Joye To:Council, City Subject:San Antonio Rd project (specific) and corridor (general) Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 2:51:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I have learned that at the 6 May 2024 City Council meeting, item #15 on the agenda pertains to a project on San Antonio Rd: PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL. 800 San Antonio Road [23PLN-00010]: Recommendation on Applicant’s Request for a Rezone from Service Commercial to Planned Community/Planned Home Zoning (PC/PHZ). One portion of that item has to do with a 24’ special setback. As many people have observed,San Antonio Rd is both a focus of much housing “desire” and a very motor-vehicle-centric roadway. If many units of housing are to be developed on San Antonio Rd in the near future tomeet our housing element targets, it will be quite important for that roadway to accommodate all types of users. When you discuss this particular project, I sincerely hope that you consider how the land usethere will work with other uses along that corridor. Please make sure that space along the length of the corridor is set aside for transit, pedestrians, bicycles and other non-automobileconveyances. If the municipal code does not provide for this already, please press staff to make changes so that it does. Making a change for one specific project without considering the general need would be sub-optimal. Requiring a special setback without specifying what may be done in that space would be similarly sub-optimal. Thank you very much for your close attention to this and related matters! Ken JoyeVentura neighborhood, Palo Alto From:Lara Anthony To:Council, City; Melissa Oliveira Subject:Letter to the Finance Committee re Safe Routes to School staff in proposed budget Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 2:20:25 PM Attachments:Letter to Finance Committee Re SRTS Educator.pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from lara.anthony@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Palo Alto City Council Finance Committee Members, In advance of the upcoming budget meetings, please find attached a letter in support of the proposed additional staff member for the Safe Routes to School program, which would befully funded by an external grant from the VTA and focused on critical bike safety education for our middle and high schoolers. Thank you, Lara Anthony and Melissa Oliveira PTA Council Safe Routes to School Chairs May 3,2024 Members of the Palo Alto City Council Finance Committee, We are the PTA Council Chairs for Safe Routes to School and we are writing to encourage the approval of the externally-funded proposed additional staffing for the Safe Routes to School program included on page 194 (Item 2 under City Manager Budget Adjustments)of the proposed FY 2025 Proposed Operating Budget. The PTA Transportation Safety Representatives from Palo Alto schools,together with other members of the City School Transportation Safety Committee,have long been advocating for additional bike safety education for middle and high schoolers.A tremendous 57%of our middle and high schoolers bike to school,but most of those students are too young to have taken driver’s education classes to formally learn the rules of the road and our Safe Routes to School educational programming currently only goes through 6th grade. We applaud City staff for identifying and applying for a VTA grant that,if received,would fully fund the cost of an additional staff member to focus on this critical education need.We encourage the Finance Committee and City Council to approve this additional position that will not impact the City’s budget but will have a monumental impact on our ability to deliver important bike safety education to youth in our community. Thank you for your attention and continued partnership. Sincerely, Lara Anthony and Melissa Oliveira PTA Council Safe Routes to School Chairs From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: CNN: Derek Chauvin, former officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed in prison, authorities say Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 1:49:29 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. You personally know how hard it is to pass a law. There has been an ongoing intentional assault on the police with situations like this, but also on cities, with many test runs so far. There are similar problems with other situations, but onehas to assess from all angles. It’s reasonably to assume that in any organization, from a City Council, to a Police Department a Hospital a School or Business a certain percentage willalways be a problem and once we can openly acknowledge that people will police their own. Then the media splashes it up to something completely different and suddenly, the streets are taken over. What I depict below is based my conversations with many felons and law enforcementofficers, both, the reality of the streets from in-the-moment. If you recall, this started with a Mr. Floyd passing fake money in a convince store, while having absconded from parole in Texas and he swallowed fentanyl immediately before hisinteraction or even during it, enough to kill him, but this was an authorized use of force if analyzed by law and training. Ask yourself what you would do in the situation? After these things, it cost many cities a lot of money to get the children to stop burning andlooting as the homeless population in tents emerged mobile ready. A good police auditor would have written this up differently, in more professional language, but I was just telling a story this day to my childhood doctor. Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>Subject: CNN: Derek Chauvin, former officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed in prison, authorities say Date: November 25, 2023 at 1:39:07 PM PST To: SaL <stephen_sallan@dfci.harvard.edu>Message-Id: <95DE3D48-4922-420B-AFBD-9F8AB11975D2@mac.com> There was something wrong here and if I had the footage again I could find it. Ifthe defense team missed it, it was not a rigorous defense and the door cracks openin seconds, but I spent enough time watching that footage that I could walk youright through pfft, what else was he supposed to do right then, shoot him, causethat was the only option left given what transpired from point a. The passing ofthe Buck to b. Responding officers held accountable for death of guy who inhales some fentanyl while he fights off multiple cops and won’t get in the car whilethere are felony warrants in Texes, so parole-jumping, for home invasion with a weapon held up against the belly of a pregnant woman and I would submit thatseasoned felon Floyd was trying to commit suicide by fentanyl or suicide by cop as anybody who as been to prison knows the rules and you don’t openly defy thebadge, not the way he did. Now if his people are going to blame that he did that on the fact that he was so high on fentanyl, that that’s what killed him the fentynly induced heart attack thatshowed in the coroners report. Then you look at the specifics of this cop, one of many who had to wrestle this HUGE guy relative to them, who is high on fentanyland feeling no pain, first at the car for way too long, send it out for a blind vote, obscure the particulars, at what point does force become allowable with a hugefleeing felon who is feeling no pain and clearly has a death wish? They coulda tazed him so he was flopping around like cooked spaghetti, but nah ah not a big boy like that, right? if they were not ready to shoot him because at acertain point of danger in your job, you get to pick your life over theirs and sorry Charlie you knew the rules when you played this game and we will handle all thewhiners out there who think they, too can openly in your face violate all manner of laws in the name of peaceful protest, otherwise known as: screw your ballot box, your legislative bodies, your legal processes, your rules,and your justices system, We The People with enough time on our idle hands to take over your streets for various reasons are going to announce what is right bysay, blocking a bride so the mother can’t reach her kid at preschool, or the doctor can’t get to the patient waiting for an emergency procedure of I miss a flight toAustralia. All the kids can say that the system didn’t work, a system now hundreds of years mature, that has worked but slowly by design. These menacing outraged (Surname redacted) people for whom the protests are acover for crime and moving people, money, and drugs around are a scourge on civil society even if each of us has nodded in approval at somebody righteousobtained by an end run. The unrighteous learn from it. You want the United States to take some stance on Gaza, you say, let me interfere with transportation in what was a World Class City and thumb ny nose at theCops, your arresting me cause I’m Jewish, but don’t ask for ID, I donut have it. Keep your hands off me you filthy pig, I want to keep my clothes nice for the rapeI’ve been invited to attend tonight after our peaceful protest here. Nah, go old fashioned. Organize, get it on a ballot of get somebody to sponsor the bill. Spend hundreds if not thousands if not tens of thousand of man hoursvetting and revetting and looking at every angle, then try to get a whole body of elected representatives to agree and pass it through the eye of the needle befgforeit becomes prevailing law that you kiddies don’t just get to walk all over because your feelings are hurt. It leads exactly where I am today, Chief Protester and his Network. Once they got him down, George Floyd (and did not kill him - my take aftersitting through the training is yup, lines are all already crossed lethal force is authorized. If we feel a slight chance the situation is manageable and, after crossing theclearly discernible Rubicon, we elect to risk our lives for a little longer, at no time is lethal force unauthorized during our benevolence. If at any time during our graciously trying to keep you alive - during your openlyfelonious crime spree right here in front of the impressionable young adults, which are also violations of your parole, none of their business right now, whenall every decision in the tree leads to “I was taught that given your injection of fentyul and recorded behaviors at the cruiser that you are a significant risk rightnow besides having crossed the rubicon here. On that much fentanyl in a guy your size you could emerge like Hulk Hogan all of the sudden for your lasthoorah during your attempted suicide-by-cop, obviously, oh seasoned one. And we are all on edge about that, while the kids/young adults record us, fine, but taunt us and tell us what to do, that he might die, ya, so I have now two or threescenes on my hands, any one of them potentially violent any second, hero community college student decides to Save George, George’s Cousin Swings Byin The Caddie with 4 of his Friends and their AKs for a quick pass through and maybe pick George up and alleviate him off the officers hands while the kidscheer them on including violent towards the bystanders just to have a party on the way out. Or while I am arguing with the young adults, George is listening to the wholething and he sees that I am distracted and yes he still wants to die, but the gravel is uncomfortable in his face, but he preferred it to the back seat in the cruiser, thefirst very gracious offering. So while the officers are distracted arguing with the crowd and that one who has not a single responsibility to keep him alive, lifts hisleg up just a smidgen too much, George reasons “now” and thows every ounce of that fentanyl infused hypothalamus-thyroid-pituitary axis into his massive prison-earned frame, and the story flips to George attacked a cop or a bystander with all that strength instead of simply getting in the car and going to the station and now,yes, they are shooting him while the children scream, unawares, 30 people with cameras, no foul play will pass through these waters, but leave us alone while wekeep you safe. What felon-with-a-warrant in Texas resists arrest, actively, exponentially stronger than each cop he was dealing with, all that time to bulk up in prison, is going toresist arrest with 4 cops and whine I do wanna go, please , and all this other gibberish for the kids who are listening and the family that gets, what 6M causeGeorge decides he’s not going back to prison this time? Yeah, he did die when this cop was holding him down after he already went semi- postal, was clearly high, and a crowd was forming. There was something else I found, I forget what it was, He had shitty lawyers, this should have been defended but the kids would haveburned down another City. Derek Chauvin, former officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbedin prison, authorities say Read in CNN: https://apple.news/AhOza_jurTra2yeCCn9fiqg Shared from Apple News From:pennyellson12@gmail.com To:Kamhi, Philip; Lait, Jonathan Cc:Council, City Subject:800 San Antonio--Action item 15 On City Council"s agenda for Monday. Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 12:58:00 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from pennyellson12@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Jonathan & Philip, I’m looking through Muni Code re: the San Antonio Road Special Setback. I see no reference to its specific required future use for bicycle/pedestrian/transit facilities on San Antonio Road. Would you please point me to Muni Code language that requires this specific use? I see the special setback for 800 San Antonio Road referenced in the Staff Report, but here again I see no reference to its specific required future use for bicycle/pedestrian/transit facilities. (I’ll admit I read this quickly as I am busy with other volunteer work for the city today. It’s possible I missed it.) Nor do I see such language in Attachment D to the Staff Report. Would you please point me to language that explains exactly how much of the Special Setback(s) is required to be used for bike/ped/transit purposes? (I do wish PABAC had opportunity to review the Special Setback language.) Please clarify. Attachment D mentions a “Minimum Front Yard” (which also refers to a 24’ Special Setback). On the next row, this table references a “Special Setback (Front)”. I’m not sure how to read this. Does this mean the applicant must provide a 24’ Minimum Front Yard plus a 24’ Special Setback for bike/ped/transit facilities, totaling 48’? Or is there just one Special Setback for both of these purposes, totaling 24’? If there is just one 24’ setback, what portion of that is required to be preserved for bike/ped/transit facilities? Would you please highlight these areas on the plans to help decision-makers ensure that street furniture, landscaping, etc. does not intrude on space intended for bike/ped/transit facilities? Question: Does City Council need to incorporate preservation of a specified amount of Special Setback space for bike/ped/transit facilities in their motion if that is not already specified? Philip, what should that amount of space be for San Antonio Road? Please carefully and clearly document required bike/ped/transit use of the Special Setback space for the future, so it will not be contested when the city needs it. This new residential community will need a continuous preserved setback along the San Antonio corridor for these transportation facilities to serve new residents of the planned new housing. Thank you in advance for considering my comments and answering these questions. Sincerely, Penny Ellson (writing as an individual) Virus-free.www.avg.com From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:Join us for 3rd Thursday"s 1st Anniversary! - We Are One Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 11:32:03 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Bringing Community Together Through the Joy of Live Music 3rd Thursday 1st Anniversary Poster 2024 Event Info This email was sent on behalf of Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce 355 Alma St Palo Alto, CA 94301.To unsubscribe clickhere. If you have questions or comments concerning this email or services in general, please contact us by email atinfo@paloaltochamber.com. From:slevy@ccsce.com To:Council, City Cc:Lait, Jonathan Subject:800 San Antonio rezone Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 10:52:23 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from slevy@ccsce.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Stone and council members, I write in support of the staff recommendations to move this project forward so these units can be built asap. I write as a long-time resident and also as an economist working with public agencies on housing related issues. As you know --this project is in an area designated by council for this type of housing and is close to a similar project already approved by council --it brings larger and for sale BMR units--exactly what the council has been hoping for --it arrives through the city's PHZ process supporting local control and is not a builder's remedy application and has full parking --it will add customers to local businesses, meet our equity goals and through its location,bike and TDM process allow some trips to made without driving I want to also note two interesting and I hope guidelines for council in future actions 1) The "retail/commercial" portion is relatively small as council has permitted elsewhere to support project feasibility AND that the "retail/commercial area can be a) food service, b) traditional retail, c) personal services and d) banking/finance I HOPE COUNCIL MAKES THESE MARKET REALITY CHANGES TO THE RPO AND SIMILARREQUIRMENTS TO ALLOW OUR LONG FACANT SPACES TO FILLED WITH NEW CUSTOMERS 2) This project confirms what council learned in the ECR focus area and by examining recent applications The zoning/development standards needed to bring forth feasible projects (hopefully not needing builder's remedy) are clear in terms of height, FAR, density, etc. EXTENDING THESE ZONING/DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS MORE BROADLY IS THE PATH TOMEETING OUR GOALS AND RETAINING TRUE LOCAL CONTROL Stephen Levy Palo Alto resident and Director Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy From:k jm To:Council, City; Kat Cc:Kou, Lydia Subject:Taking of private property Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 9:16:50 AM Attachments:Alma St. Take 5 feet of each front yard.docxItem 2 Staff Presentation.pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from kjm1445@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, During the April 29th City Counsel meeting, I raised safety concerns re the removal or reducing the landscaping strip between sidewalk and curb on Alma as part of the train issue. I spoke as to the danger of hitting a bicyclist or car when backing out of the driveway. During this Counsel meeting, in response to my concerns, a Counsel member was told by staff that only 5 feet of the 10 foot landscaping strip would be removed thus so there would be 'some' safety backing out of the driveways. I have just now spoken to Ripon Bhatia, Senior Engineer, City of Palo Alto who said the entire 10 feet planting strip will be removed AND further they are also taking an additional 5 feet of each front yard. (Houses in yellow below.) Respectfully, for several of these homes, what is currently titled "Tentative Partial Property Acquisition" is playing with words as such a taking, the 5 feet along Alma would result in a 'full' taking of the usability of quiet enjoyment of their homes. I offerthat this is not acceptable. I am in agreement with Lydia Kou that the taking of homes should not be acceptable. Regards,Kathleen Jason-Moreau 1445 Alma ---------------------------- On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 07:52:16 PM PDT, k jm <kjm1445@yahoo.com> wrote: Please advise if the animation is correct and that the 10 foot landscaping strip will be removed. Renderings, Plans, and Animations – Connecting Palo Alto - it's in the animation at 2:36 marker. I don't know how I will be able to leave my driveway if they take away the planting strip. Totally, unsafe. From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angel, David; Braden Cartwright; Bryan Gobin; Cait James; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Daniel Kottke; Diana Diamond; Don Austin; EPA Today; Ed Lauing; Emily Mibach; Friends of Cubberley; GRP-City Council; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Marina Lopez; Zelkha, Mila; Rose Lynn; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tim James; Vicki Veenker; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; district1@bos.sccgov.org; editor@paweekly.com; Foley, Michael Subject:Israel Divestment Resolution Approved by Student Body Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 8:39:37 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Israel Divestment Resolution Approved by Student Body https://share.newsbreak.com/6s1bcmfe From:halter.grain-0m@icloud.com To:Council, City Subject:Agenda #5 Excerpt from the Police Auditors Latest Dumpster Fire Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 4:19:37 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from halter.grain-0m@icloud.com. Learn why thisis important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The Auditor with No Oversight, six years behind in his work, writes, "excerpts of a private surveillance video which depicted aspects of the arrest, including an unreported use of force by Sergeant Benitez that aligned with Mr. Alvarez's allegations." The Police Auditor should know that it is very easy to manipulate video, and this evidence was never properly vetted by a court as evidence because the charges were dismissed before it got to court, everybody in a panic without thinking it all the way through. I was not aware until this moment that there was potential ginned up video shown to the public, I understood it all came of body cams with strict protocols for preserving the chain of custody of the evidences. "Several weeks later, the attorney provided to the media the excerpts from the home surveillance video that he had provided to PAPD. This generated significant localcoverage and ensuing civic concern.” And panic and a settlement, that’s how these things go. How is this Auditor allowed to operate when he knows better than this and should be pointing out the difficulties with the evidence rather than pulling another dumpster upin front of PAPD. I was concerned when I heard the audio “I’m bleeding” when I could not see his face before I realized that this was home video. The council should reject this as legitimate evidence absent vetting by a court and soshould the auditor have done and that’s another reason he needs to be audited himself because he’s grossly ignorant of evidentiary procedures and clearly biased against the PAPD. Mary From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 3:27:41 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Genesis - Man On The Corner (Official Audio) youtube.com On May 3, 2024, at 3:13 AM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: My educated guess and awareness of history, combined with the shelter problemand the millions that go with it, is this was achieved because he had control of the streets going back decades. On May 2, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy<tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: https://youtu.be/3P-gX8wNFb0 On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to thinkwere intractable as they did not avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stoppedlistening to us give helpful suggestions to run around and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM,tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Friday, May 3, 2024 3:13:55 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. My educated guess and awareness of history, combined with the shelter problem and themillions that go with it, is this was achieved because he had control of the streets going back decades. On May 2, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>wrote: https://youtu.be/3P-gX8wNFb0 On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractableas they did not avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to runaround and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 8:08:55 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. No court for parents whose kids didn’t make it to school existed in the last generation. On May 2, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>wrote: https://youtu.be/3P-gX8wNFb0 On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractableas they did not avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to runaround and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 8:05:58 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://youtu.be/3P-gX8wNFb0 On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractable as they did not avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stoppedlistening to us give helpful suggestions to run around and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Palo Alto Forward To:Council, City Subject:800 San Antonio - 5/6 - Agenda Item #15 Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 6:34:15 PM Attachments:800 San Antonio Support Ltr (05.02.24).pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from palo.alto.fwd@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council, Please find our attached letter of support for 800 San Antonio Road, Agenda Item #15 for the May 6th hearing. Thank you,-- Amie AshtonExecutive Director, Palo Alto Forward 650-793-1585 May 2,2024 SUBJECT:Agenda Item #15 -800 San Antonio Road Dear Mayor Stone and Honorable Council Members, We write in strong support of the proposed 75-unit housing development at 800 San Antonio requested through the Planned Home Zoning (PHZ)process. In addition to helping meet our Regional Housing Needs Allocation numbers with 75 new units proposed,construction of the 15 below-market rate (BMR)units –with zero public funding or subsidies –is a win for our city.The project proposes several large-sized units,with the distribution of the BMR units proportionally by the building’s range of unit sizes.This is especially helpful to families looking for larger-sized BMR units within our city. We know that the San Antonio area will be changing substantially in the upcoming years, especially with the master planning effort being contemplated by the city.This project will contribute to the overall vision of a more mixed-use area along San Antonio.We note that care has been taken with landscaping in the front setback to support potential future bike access.We also commend the applicant for the provision of bicycle parking both in front of the building for visitors and within a bicycle parking room in the garage to facilitate multi-modal trips. The project proposes dense housing in our jobs-rich area less than one mile from Caltrain, which directly helps our environment (with lowered vehicle miles traveled),economy (more residents to shop locally consistent with recommendation #10 from the City's Economic Development Strategy and a larger property tax base),schools (potential new students to stem enrollment declines),and equity goals (housing at various income levels makes for a stronger community where people thrive). We urge you to approve this project.Demonstrate our city’s commitment to housing to our residents,especially those who identified “more housing”as the #1 priority for the city in this year’s annual survey. Sincerely, Amie Ashton,Executive Director And on Behalf of the Board of Palo Alto Forward Homes for Everyone?YES! From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:05:19 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. caRona Hu, also. On May 2, 2024, at 4:35 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: Well, except before she crawled out from hiding in her office to became a “teensuicide expert”, Dr. Rona Hu, the Director of the Psychiatic ward and the Pied Piper of Palo Alto was not certified by Santa Clara County to write 5150 holds fordecades, so that’s a problem. For now, they have to take them to Valley Medical. Chief Dwyer was heavily involved in crafting that curriculum Stanford refused to put themselves, or their medical residents, through. You need an actuarial to look at the impossibility of the suicide statistic, thenwatch her ‘bloom’ and badly deteriorate afterwards such that in a recent chat she had on the Stanford Youtube Channel, she tearfully recites a poem she write, thatwas, in fact, crafty plagiarize, one line at a time from different black women. I’ve found so many inconsistencies watching her my brain hurts. If you saw her video project, I thought it was wraped and unhealthy, she thought it made her a star in the psychiatric community, till soon after she was moved offleadership of their inpatient unit after 20 years into an administrative position. The worst ones have already been stripped off of YouTube because it’s been almost a year so the police had some time to work on it, but it is time to say it,now. Those were not suicides. Statistically impossible, the corners computer system was not yet set up to catch it that way as it’s first, and of course Palo Alto is a target for every obvious reason. Hunker down and take care of yourselves in these trying times. The Paris Terrorists announced the planned to attack the police, globally, suicidesand horrible car crashes could do it just as well and for longer than a large event, the big one they were also planning. God Bless These United States. On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy<tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractable as they did not avail themselves of the services that were available tothem and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to run around and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.comwrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:49:06 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Burns for President On May 2, 2024, at 4:40 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com>wrote: A girl from Boston, another City on a Hill. On May 2, 2024, at 4:35 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: Well, except before she crawled out from hiding in her office tobecame a “teen suicide expert”, Dr. Rona Hu, the Director of the Psychiatic ward and the Pied Piper of Palo Alto was not certified bySanta Clara County to write 5150 holds for decades, so that’s a problem. For now, they have to take them to Valley Medical. Chief Dwyer was heavily involved in crafting that curriculumStanford refused to put themselves, or their medical residents, through. You need an actuarial to look at the impossibility of the suicidestatistic, then watch her ‘bloom’ and badly deteriorate afterwards such that in a recent chat she had on the Stanford Youtube Channel,she tearfully recites a poem she write, that was, in fact, crafty plagiarize, one line at a time from different black women. I’ve found so many inconsistencies watching her my brain hurts. If you saw her video project, I thought it was wraped and unhealthy,she thought it made her a star in the psychiatric community, till soon after she was moved off leadership of their inpatient unit after 20years into an administrative position. The worst ones have already been stripped off of YouTube because it’s been almost a year so the police had some time to work on it, butit is time to say it, now. Those were not suicides. Statistically impossible, the corners computer system was not yet setup to catch it that way as it’s first, and of course Palo Alto is a target for every obvious reason. Hunker down and take care of yourselves in these trying times. The Paris Terrorists announced the planned to attack the police,globally, suicides and horrible car crashes could do it just as well and for longer than a large event, the big one they were also planning. God Bless These United States. On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy<tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractable as they did not avail themselves of theservices that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to run aroundand get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:40:29 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. A girl from Boston,another City on a Hill. On May 2, 2024, at 4:35 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: Well, except before she crawled out from hiding in her office to became a “teen suicide expert”, Dr. Rona Hu, the Director of the Psychiatic ward and the PiedPiper of Palo Alto was not certified by Santa Clara County to write 5150 holds for decades, so that’s a problem. For now, they have to take them to Valley Medical. Chief Dwyer was heavily involved in crafting that curriculum Stanford refused toput themselves, or their medical residents, through. You need an actuarial to look at the impossibility of the suicide statistic, then watch her ‘bloom’ and badly deteriorate afterwards such that in a recent chat shehad on the Stanford Youtube Channel, she tearfully recites a poem she write, that was, in fact, crafty plagiarize, one line at a time from different black women. I’ve found so many inconsistencies watching her my brain hurts. If you saw her video project, I thought it was wraped and unhealthy, she thoughtit made her a star in the psychiatric community, till soon after she was moved off leadership of their inpatient unit after 20 years into an administrative position. The worst ones have already been stripped off of YouTube because it’s beenalmost a year so the police had some time to work on it, but it is time to say it, now. Those were not suicides. Statistically impossible, the corners computer system was not yet set up to catch itthat way as it’s first, and of course Palo Alto is a target for every obvious reason. Hunker down and take care of yourselves in these trying times. The Paris Terrorists announced the planned to attack the police, globally, suicides and horrible car crashes could do it just as well and for longer than a large event,the big one they were also planning. God Bless These United States. On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractableas they did not avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to runaround and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:tracymcgreevy@mac.com To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:35:32 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Well, except before she crawled out from hiding in her office to became a “teen suicideexpert”, Dr. Rona Hu, the Director of the Psychiatic ward and the Pied Piper of Palo Alto was not certified by Santa Clara County to write 5150 holds for decades, so that’s a problem. Fornow, they have to take them to Valley Medical. Chief Dwyer was heavily involved in crafting that curriculum Stanford refused to put themselves, or their medical residents, through. You need an actuarial to look at the impossibility of the suicide statistic, then watch her‘bloom’ and badly deteriorate afterwards such that in a recent chat she had on the Stanford Youtube Channel, she tearfully recites a poem she write, that was, in fact, crafty plagiarize,one line at a time from different black women. I’ve found so many inconsistencies watching her my brain hurts. If you saw her video project, I thought it was wraped and unhealthy, she thought it made her a star in the psychiatric community, till soon after she was moved off leadership of theirinpatient unit after 20 years into an administrative position. The worst ones have already been stripped off of YouTube because it’s been almost a year so the police had some time to work on it, but it is time to say it, now. Those were not suicides. Statistically impossible, the corners computer system was not yet set up to catch it that way asit’s first, and of course Palo Alto is a target for every obvious reason. Hunker down and take care of yourselves in these trying times. The Paris Terrorists announced the planned to attack the police, globally, suicides and horrible car crashes could do it just as well and for longer than a large event, the big one they were alsoplanning. God Bless These United States. On May 2, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Tracy Hern McGreevy <tracymcgreevy@mac.com> wrote: It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractable as they didnot avail themselves of the services that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to run around and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:Tracy Hern McGreevy To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #3 The Ghost of Your Homeless Services & A Dash of EMTLA Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:19:28 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. It’s a horrible cruelty to the people we began to think were intractable as they did not availthemselves of the services that were available to them and they stopped listening to us give helpful suggestions to run around and get nowhere. It’s one of the most vicious cruelties I have ever seen. On May 2, 2024, at 3:53 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: In an email chain published April 1, “Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote, “ …At minimum, routine, regular, rigorous audits should occur so our money intended for housing doesn’t go down a rabbit hole” I agree and suggest that you start with the 73 bed shelter that Project WeHope cannot possibly be operating out of the postage stamp of a property with no evidence of the types of activity that would come with running a 73 bed shelter where they claim to provide three meals a day. Satellite imagery shows no dumpsters sufficient to the task they claim to be engaged in, it is simply impossible. That is commercial property, not residential and there are so many businesses and churches and health care clinics running out of that same place that something is very wrong. Their 990s do not reflect the type of expenses one would expect with that type of endeavor with that high risk a population, including insurance expenses, and their are no vents on the building that indicate any type of of co the building to support the commercial kitchens that would be necessary to provide the million meals they claim to have provided. Ariel shots of the RV Park they ran show high end motor homes parked all day and a capacity for half of what they claimed to provide, it goes on and on. Where do they plug the washing machines in out on the road, where do they dump their waste water, where does the RV Park dump sewage, why is the problem worse instead of better with all that effort? Oh, Fireworks It’s impossible for me to believe the East Palo Alto Police were unaware that no homeless shelter is operating a block away from them, as they pushed the homeless problem into that Palo Alto, for sport, wink wink. <who owns all these vehicles.png><thats the homeless people cars who came for a hot meal.png><GAM Enterprises owns the parking lot and has a rooftop address .png><those dumpsters are not full of shelter trash what is in them.png><those are very expensive rvs for homeless people do the bains travel.png><gam or game enterprises dmv registration services dont pay attention to all the vehicles or so much activity a catering truck parked right there.png><this is a fake non profit ghetto with all late model vehicles no jalopies.png><we know you bolo this not shower trucks and nice rvs.png><this is a joke the building is too small for all that.png><the back entrance says its a church in the same small space saint samuels gee.png><no room for 73 beds and no trash for 73 people or meals or any of it.png><mobile fuel trucks for the rvs parked there in the rv park for people with nice rvs.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later -1.png><door in alleys pointing to opposite of where they photo they added to google maps says their office door is see later .png> <thats a lot of time and overtime on the police budget when Stanford has to take them EMTLA.png> From:tracymcgreevy@mac.com To:Council, City Subject:Re: Agenda Item #5 Concerns About Your Contract Dependent Police Auditor Ginning Things Up for More $$$ Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 2:36:22 PM Attachments:The City of Palo Alto ContractorSets The Tone copy.pdf Friends Say Probe is Flawed DEADLINK.pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from tracymcgreevy@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I missed a document in my prior email. On May 2, 2024, at 2:29 PM, tracymcgreevy@mac.com wrote: Greetings Palo Alto City Council, I am writing to alert you that you have a problem with your Police Auditor andthe way he conducts his business, which may well have lead the the most recent smear of the PAPD First, he blames them for him taking his time. He rubs his “power" right in theirfaces, again. They took a year to get me something (but I took SIX YEARS to get you this report) so they are bad and I am good, is somehow implied. He uses sleights of hand like that all over the place. I wish I could read his report before sending this, but I could not yet find it. I reasonably believe he's so used to using his ‘immunity’ to police to gain controlover the PAPD, it took six years for this to happen, just as somebody may have been catching on to what he pulled off to get himself into the permanent positionhe is in during the Children’s Theatre Debacle with the Friends of the Children’s Theater. The Friends who have not filed Federal Taxes (Form 990) in years and years, asthe City of Palo Alto website links right to their “donate” button, selectively, one non-profit over another, from the City Website. I am sorry to be the bearer of such bad new, except I am reasonably sure it did nothappen on your watch. I am making a claim that this auditor should be investigated quickly due to the manner in which he conducts his business, constantly ginning up more work forhimself. Oh that’s it, my guess would be he is so busy with all the other contracts he now has, perhaps he didn’t do much really and he had to come up with something to justify his contract, so he reached back for something really splashy. Enough is enough. These people literally risk their lives for you more so every day as guys like thishelp create an environment where they have to let crime fester or face political repercussions that have no place in their work. You pass the law, they uphold it. Without them, you have no teeth, at all, ever. Don’t bite the hand that keeps you safe, and in, so far, one of the nicest cities inthe country, in large part due to them. Don’t let him do it again. Mary On Apr 23, 2024, at 8:25 PM, Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: halter.grain-0m@icloud.comSubject: Date: April 23, 2024 at 8:19:27 PM PDTTo: Stephen Manley <SManley@scscourt.org> Are you still on the Board? You have time for all that? I can’t find any federal taxes filed in quite a while, nor can I personally think of a reason they would be exempt,but I’m not an accountant. Also repeating, there is a Saint Samuel. He was a Coptic. <we the non profit are putting on a fundraiser.png><registered as non profit in californiaaccepting donations on their website.png> <wait the theatre is operated BY THIS CITY OF PALOALTO FFS how many ways to a conflict cant there be.png><no federal taxes for a long time maybe some exemption but I don't know what.png> They are taking in big money, too, lots of room for slushafter I bet Palo Alto more than generously funds enough to get the job done. Did PAPD review the City’s contract with itself toprovide these services, lol, this is a riot. Under no condition should the City have hired an auditor for this dumpster fire of a situation, from this angle. If they City operates the theatre, then they wereinvestigating City employees and the Friends is a whole different situation. Unless the City took it over afterwards. Nope, the City of Palo Alto took over operations of theChildren’s Theatre in 1933 and then paid a police auditor to increase his “scope” when they should have openlydeclared the conflict of interest. These articles make it appear as though the city has a contract with the theatre, not that the city is operating thetheatre. Oh this was dirty. Ken Hardesty was on the Board of Harmon’s Sobratothing and it was very fun to watch that implosion once he knew. TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS a ticket to a school play, lol. The Friends Fundraiser,one of several the do a year, plus the website and the city ought to keep track of all the dollars that flows through their website. I understand they started chargingthe kids entry fees, too, or was that just discussed. 200*25 is 5k in the box office for 15 nights they are running. A potential of 75k in slush just from this one event. People in Palo Alto need tax write offs. Say your income is just over $1,000,000 and the MHSH requires you to pay 1%in tax on that. $10,000. So you donate $1000 to the theatre, bring your income in under $1,000,000, andsave $9000 in taxes, things like that, plus other people really care about kids like they do about homeless people and out of the generosity of their hearts, they give. A theatre running this long has all the sets and all the costumes by no, or most ofit, they have to supplement a little, but not in a huge full blown way year after year. Oh the smoking gun. After the {DA} declined to Prosecute, the City of Palo Alto moved in and fired the Children’s Theatre Director. She then responded to their allegations, the City’s allegations onletter dated June 4, 2008 and presented at a hearing on June 5, 2008, a hearing about the City of Palo Alto’s handling of an employeematter, which probably put them on several hot-seats because of the way they were so publicly handling the matter, the City, whoprobably cannot discuss an employee in the newspaper the way the police can openly discuss a suspect. So the City of Palo Alto had a problem on their hands when, on On June 10, 2008 they called for an expanded audit after the DAdeclined to prosecute when PAPD seems to have a differing opinion and the City elected to audit the PAPD rather than the DA when theyknew there was theft. To get out of it’s own problem, the City turned on the Police who protect them. By July 10, 2008, the same day as the call for the expanded audit theyslushily gave the auditor more money annd expanded imporpoer powers when they were not authorized to deputize the auditor, to getthem out of it, it turned into a confidential settlement with their employee where presumably the City admitted wrong doing by July 10, 2008, they day the City Council flipped blame onto the PAPD, who neverinvestigated the Friends or the Box office. But the Police Auditor presumably did once he took it on as his SCOPE. What did his investigation of the cash handling with theFriends of the Theatre and the Box Office turn up, Ferris. The City of Palo Alto Settled on their own bad behavior on July 21, 2008, their destruction of her reputation was at issue. This indicates they promised her the apology, so they needed the Police to be wrong, not them. A year passes, and festivitiies where held in the City CouncilChambers when their Deputized Expanded Scope and Cash Laden Police Auditor declared the police were, gasp, wrong. Then the City Publicly Apologized to Itself at a City Council Meetingand Openly Declared Itself Innocent of All Charges, because the Independent Police Auditor with Police Powers and No Oversight,issued a report "cataloguing errors committed by the Palo Alto Police Department over the 11-month course of the investigation.Gennaco said errors byinvestigators included ignoring exculpatory evidence and loading the police report with conjectures and biases.” Did anybody catalouge the errors in their termination process of therogue employee that led to a confidential settlement and a coverup? The City of Palo Alto also wrote a letter to itself and it’s employees apologizing for victimizing themselves "Council members also apologized to former theater Director PatBriggs and other targets of the investigation at its June 1 meeting.” Which I bet was written into the confidential settlement agreementbefore the auditor finished his work, but they held her off till he was done for the Splash and Trash PAPD. Is this legal, “With the Auditor’s report as evidence, the Palo Alto City Councilhereby repudiates the police investigation report. We direct staff to correct all public records related to the investigation to reflect theindependent police auditor’s finding that the conclusions of the police investigation report were without merit.” It was an emotional public apology, perhaps from people involved intheatre themselves?. I call a hit on PAPD that is ongoing with this loose canon in theirhouse after he committed crimes against them, because it is documented there was theft. Period. That it wasn’t prosecutedmakes it that much trickier. Now the City Council is going to decide what the PAPD can and cannot investigate. Articles indicate they had cash handling problems with this employeepreceding the burglary, so they knew the screwed up the firing process and pushed the Dumpster over to Public Safety and squirtsome lighter fluid on it for good measure Oh There was “no reportable action” from a closed session of the Palo Alto City Council that reportedly related to three issues left over fromthe police investigation into the Children’s Theatre. The third issue is a request from a group of donors to the Children’sTheatre Legal Defense Fund to be reimbursed for their $45,000 donations, according to Mac Clayton, a retired attorney. Clayton wasone of the founders of the donor group along with Suzie Stewart and Beth Broderson. Clayton said he was acting only as a member of thegroup in making the request in a July 2 letter to the council. How did they have that kind of cash sitting around when it was allsupposed to go to the children and who did they throw it at? PAPD was not investigating that organization, why would they needan anticiaptory legal defense fund or have any defenses to expend relating to a civil service matter? MAY 16 SFGATEPALO ALTO THEATRE PROBE ENDS NOCHARGES*****MAY 19 EAST BAY TIMES PALO ALTORECOMMENDS FIRING CHILDREN’S THEATREDIRECTOR*****JUNE 10, 2008 PALO ALTO ONLINE AFTER THE CITY PUBLICLY DEFAMED BIGGSPOLICE AUDITORTO PROBE THEATRE INVESTIGATIONJUNE 30, 2008 SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWSCITY FIRES CHILDREN’S THEATREDIRECTOR {25 days after she testified in a closed hearing and as settlement negotiations where underway by 10 days later, finished in21 days}JULY 1 2008 PALO ALTO ONLINE WAITS THREE WEEKS TO REPORT AFTER SHE IS FIREDPAT BIGGSDETAILED RESPONSE TO CITY ALLEGATIONS (not police allegations)The June 5th Hearing With an Attorney JULY 6 EAST BAY TIMESPALO ALTO TO DISCUSS SCOPE OFCHILDREN’S THEATRE AUDITS later they declined to audit themselvesJULY 10, 2008 PALO ALTO ONLINE A MERE 10 DAYS AFTER THE FIRED HER AFTER THEY HAD TOSETTLEMENT NEARFOR THEATER'S PAT BRIGGS On and on it goes, till this little tidbit. PALO ALTO ONLINE DATE UNKNOWN THEY REMOVED THE LINKPOLICE PROBE FACTUALLY FLAWED, “FRIENDSSAY”I’ve attached a pdf of the July 10 announcement they achieved an audit that has a link to this now dead article. It goes on from here, I will have to come back to it cause I gotta dothe Opening Brief and this is way more fun…. This was a HIT very clearly from the rear view mirror with the cityhiding that they were negotiating with her lawyer before they fired her. The Settlement talks were way too fast. Who is who on that Friends group that pulled these strings in thebackground? Later they came back asking for “legal fees” though they weren’t formally investigated beyond a serch of property on Cityof Palo Alto premises related to the City of Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. From:pennyellson12@gmail.com To:Council, City; Lait, Jonathan Cc:Architectural Review Board; Planning Commission; pabacpaloalto@googlegroups.com Subject:FW: 800 San Antonio Road Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 2:11:26 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage002.png Some people who received this message don't often get email from pennyellson12@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant Hi Jonathan, Thank you for your reply. We can all work together to ensure that the San Antonio Road special setback is preserved for its intended use for bicycle, pedestrian, transit facilities. Let’s make sure renderings and plans going forward do not fill the special 24-foot San Antonio Road setback with street furniture and plantings that will have to be removed later in order to put the special setback to its intended use. Drawings should clearly lay out which parts of the space are reserved for bikes, pedestrians and transit facilities. This transportation special setback should be in addition to space applicants wish to use for other important amenities. A lively, new residential street needs space for all of these things, so that the people who live there will feel like part of our community and so they will be safely, conveniently and comfortably connected via transit and foot-powered transportation. I look forward to seeing how staff makes the special setback work toward the City of Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element’s many Goals, Policies and Programs that require the city to “Create a sustainable transportation system, complemented by a mix of land uses and other methods to reduce GHG emissions and the use of single-occupancy motor vehicles.” (Goal T-1) I ask, going forward, the city’s valued advisory committees (ARB, PTC, PABAC) to also watch carefully to make sure the special setback is preserved for future bicycle, pedestrian and transit facilities. Since all of these projects will require significant transportation work, and we all recognize the significant alternative transportation deficits of San Antonio Road’s existing profile, I hope that, as these high density housing projects fill the pipeline, they also will come to PABAC for review. Same for large projects that are likely to have significant traffic impacts in any other part of the city. It takes a village to build a great village. Best, Penny Ellson (speaking as an individual) From: Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 9:41 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from pennyellson12@gmail.com. Learn why this is important To: Ellson, Penny <pennyellson12@gmail.com> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org>; Kallas, Emily <Emily.Kallas@cityofpaloalto.org>; Frick, Coleman <Coleman.Frick@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Krishnan, Vishnu <Vishnu.Krishnan@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Kamhi, Philip <Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: RE: 800 San Antonio Road Hi Penny, thanks for your email. I reviewed the report and discussed with staff. While possible future use of a portion of the 24 foot special setback has been clearly discussed with the applicant, PTC and reflected on the project plans, the draft record of land use action did not have a condition memorializing this understanding. A City Council at-places memo will be published today adding such a condition as part of the staff recommendation and we’ll mention this in our staff presentation on Monday. Relatedly, staff is working to prepare a request for proposals for the San Antonio Road area plan that I hope to have released in June/July. This will be the comprehensive planning project that you and others have been anticipating. There will be ample opportunity for community engagement and I am happy to arrange a specific meeting with you and our consultants when selected to make sure you have a chance to share your local knowledge and perspective. Thank you again for the email below allowing us to correct the record of land use action in advance of the council meeting. Take care, Jonathan JONATHAN LAIT Director Planning and Development Department (650) 329-2679 | jonathan.lait@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: pennyellson12@gmail.com <pennyellson12@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 9:52 PM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: 800 San Antonio Road CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council and City Manager Shikada, I am looking at the plans for 800 San Antonio. My recollection is Mr. Lait had said a special setback would be incorporated in projects on San Antonio Road to provide room for future bike/ped facilities. I see a reference to the setback in the plans, but I also see a walking space, trees and plantings shown in areas where one might put bike facilities. Exactly how will this setback be used for bikes/peds/transit facilities? San Antonio Road currently provides sharrows which are completely unsafe facilities on a multi-lane arterial posted 35MPH. These buildings have bike parking, but no way to safely ride a bike into town to school or to anywhere else—even for very skilled and fearless bicyclists. I would appreciate the favor of a reply. With the number of large housing and hotel projects in the pipeline and already approved for this area, I am worried that too little has been done to plan for transportation and other needs, and soon it may be too late. Good planning is not reactive and piecemeal. The recent report by college students was very nice, but it was a learning exercise for a nice group of kids who had very shallow knowledge of the area. It was not a substitute for a comprehensive professional planning process. What is the PLAN for bike and pedestrian and transit facilities on San Antonio Road? What is the community services facility plan for Cubberley? As a south Palo Alto resident, I am concerned about transformative changes that are being made rapidly to this part of town with little meaningful planning or engagement of citizens. Thank you for considering my comments. Sincerely, Penny Ellson Virus-free.www.avg.com From:Charlie Weidanz To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce News & Updates - May 2, 2024 Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:15:12 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Palo Alto Chamber Logo NEWS & UPDATES - May 2, 2024 May Mixer & Business Networking Event La Scuola: A Spring Treasure Hunt - This Week! Mother's Day Brunch @ Crowne Plaza Palo Alto Avenidas 2024 Lifetimes of Achievement Garden Party JobTrain's 40th Anniversary Breakfast of Champions Save The Date - Sibling Cities 2nd Anniversary Celebration Graduate Hotel Events Job Opportunities by SlingShot Connections Palo Alto Chamber Mixer ad Chamber Mixer & Business Networking Event We are delighted to invite you to the May Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Mixer at Hotel Citrine! There will be food, drinks, engaging discussion, and plenty of networking opportunities with local business professionals! Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:30 PM – 7 PM Hotel Citrine 750 San Antonio Rd Palo Alto, CA 94303 Food & Beverages provided by Wild Onion Bistro & Bar. We look forward to seeing you there! 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If you have questions or comments concerning this email or services in general, please contact us by email atinfo@paloaltochamber.com. From:matt@evolutionaryteams.com To:palo-alto@fridaysforfutureusa.org Subject:FFF Follow Up – Apr 26 (Week #120) Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:35:09 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking onlinks. We celebrated amazing events over the past week: the rally in King Plaza, the city council “flood,” and the tabling event at the Paly Quad,among others. We are fortunate to live in a community committed to making positive changes for all Earthlings, humans included. LeeAnn and Robin reported on all the exciting developments in renewable energy, batteries, and lowering emissions in carbon-intensiveindustries like cement and steel because of the Inflation Reduction Act – the US’s biggest climate policy initiative to date. They hope it willlead to the re-election of Biden. Meanwhile, potential young Biden voters have reached their limit and are taking a stand around the nation to demand that the US stopsupporting the killing of kids. There are two key ingredients to mass uprisings: 1) social injustice, and 2) an existential threat. Young peoplefeel these both acutely now and are rising up. Do you blame them? It was on 5/4, 54 years ago this Saturday, that four students died at KentState when they stood up to the then injustice and existential threat, US involvement in the Viet Nam War. This song is a poignant reminder ofthat tragedy: Ohio. How many more young people must die before we change direction? Thanks to Casey, Elders for Sound Democracy has published its first newsletter. Congrats Casey! See it here. I notice there’s an action topromote youth vote. Remember the youth uprisings in the summer of 2020 right before the last presidential election when the then incumbentlost? I hope Biden takes note. Plan on celebrating Mother Earth on Mother’s Day weekend, Saturday 5/11. Join our canvass to inform our Palo Alto neighbors about thecity’s heat pump water heater program. (Why are people still using fossil gas water heaters?) Sign up here. Your mother would be proud ofyou! This Friday, Kadir will begin recording the next Green Mic video. Come, learn a line, and say your piece. We will postpone the climate slowmarch until later in the month. I leave you with an Angela Davis quote: You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Keep Up the Fight and See You Friday! Peninsula Peace and Justice calendar: https://peaceandjustice.org/events-calendar/ Climate Community Center: https://climatecommunitycenter.org/ Heat Pump Water Heater Program Update Update coming soon. 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Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Editorial: UCLA is complicit in violence inflicted upon protesters, failed to protect students https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/editorial-ucla-is-complicit-in-violence-inflicted-upon-protesters-failed-to-protect-students From:Kimberly Bomar To:Council, City Subject:Uzma Minhas for HRC Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 8:28:00 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from kbomar@mac.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Council members, I'm writing you in support of appointing Uzma Minhas to the Human Relations Commission. I believe Uzma will bring broad representation of our community to the attention of the Commission, especially those whose concerns may be overlooked or not known by the general public. Uzma makes it her business to advocate for the underserved as well as those whose voices are already being heard. I believe she can bring broad perspectives and facilitate communication on difficult topics among the Human Relations Commission. Although not a Palo Alto resident, as a Stanford resident and close neighbor, I am part of the broader community that shares space, schools, and community concerns. In difficult times like these, it is important for local leaders to be inclusive, open to listening to others and willing to be open to difficult conversations. I believe Uzma will do this. Kim Bomar From:WholeFridges To:Lucas Chin Cc:Council, City Subject:Re: Establishing Community Fridge Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 6:08:06 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from wholefridges@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi there ~ I hope you're all having a wonderful week! I wanted to chase this email and bump it back up to the top of your inbox. I would love the opportunity to tell you more about this initiative andto connect 'live' + answer any questions you might have about hosting a community fridge. If this doesn't sound like the right opportunity for you at this time, please also feel free to let meknow. I really appreciate your consideration. All the best, Lucas Chin On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 1:35 AM Lucas Chin <lucasluckyc@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Members of the Palo Alto City Council, I hope your year has been fantastic so far. My name is Lucas Chin, and I’m currently a high school junior from San Carlos. Throughout high school, I’ve become increasingly passionate about supporting members of our community who experience food insecurity, as I know from volunteering with organizations like Second Harvest that the pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have significantly impacted many of the community's access to wholesome foods. In addition to engaging with our neighbors through organizations like Second Harvest, I’ve been exploring the possibility of setting up community fridges in several Peninsula/Bay Area towns where there is both a need and close proximity to well-resourced neighborhoods. I believe this will help us tackle food insecurity (and food waste!) while also enabling members of the community to support one another in meaningful, essential ways. I have access to fridges to set up in different neighborhoods, but I am hoping you may be able to refer me to specific locations in Palo Alto or non-profits/organizations to get in touch with, as I know you, too, care deeply about our local communities. I’d be happy to connect in person or via Zoom/Google Meet to discuss further. Thank you so much — I look forward to hearing from you! All the best, Lucas Chin (wholefridges@gmail.com and lucasluckyc@gmail.com) From:Aram James To:Vicki Veenker Cc:Council, City; D Martell; Daniel Kottke; Don Austin; Ed Lauing; Greg Tanaka; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Gardener, Liz Subject:At Indiana University, Protests Only Add to a Year Full of Conflicts Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024 3:08:06 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. At Indiana University, Protests Only Add to a Year Full of Conflicts https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/indiana-university-protest-encampment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare From:woodhamjohnsson@icloud.com To:Council, City Cc:Human Relations Commission Subject:Uzma Minhas for HRC Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:37:10 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from woodhamjohnsson@icloud.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 clickingon links.________________________________ Council members, I'm writing to ask that you appoint Uzma Minhas to the Human Relations Commission. I listened to the interviewsfor all the candidates yesterday. You have solid options. You have in Uzma however, someone volunteering to lendinsight into segments of our community who have been sorely absent. That the crisis overseas have given rise tosomeone willing to be vulnerable and committed enough to help strengthen the fabric of our community is a gift. Inherently, human relations happens in a framework where community members trust they can share, be heard, andrespected for their contributions. The inclusion of a perspective that has never, or rarely, been heard can beunsettling initially. It is imperative though, that our city leadership facilitate pushing through discomfort to build atruly inclusive community. This Is where the value of a Human Relations Commission lies. Even as a community-active 18-year Black resident of Palo Alto, I am particularly sensitized to the insecurityaround belonging and perceptions of normal in our city. I have raised/am raising 3 children in a community that is~2% Black. It can be lonely and exhausting to live here, with latent fear for the social-emotional wellbeing of mychildren. For me, it has been imperative to build an extended community beyond Palo Alto that reflects me, and ourfamily’s perspectives and culture, without having to educate or highlight implicit biases of thinking. For this, I valuethe role of the Human Relations Commission. We all have our “bubbles” of community, so it is easy for City Council to remain erroneously over-confident aboutwhat Council members know about people. Doing so however, undermines the potential power of the HRC to bringinformation back to City Council that truly represents the spectrum of our community. We all need to feel as thoughour perspective is being considered, that there are active attempts to understand that which we are less familiarwith. We will be better as a Palo Alto community around inclusion and belonging by doing so. Uzma brings authenticity to an identity she shares with an invisible many in Palo Alto. As is clear from theinterview, we can learn a lot from her about belonging, identity, and by profession, the constructs aroundcommunication, free expression and related policies. I know that she will be a tremendous asset to the HRC, andapplaud that Uzma had enough fortitude to open her self up in this moment for this appointment. I urge you toappoint Uzma to the HRC. Respectfully,Sara Woodham From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod;bearwithme1016@att.net; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers;cramirez.electriclab133@gmail.com; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian;dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; Scott Wilkinson; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu;Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Sally Thiessen; Joel Stiner; jerryruopoli; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; kfsndesk; Kevin.Nower@bestbuy.com; MY77FJ@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; maverickbruno@sbcglobal.net; Mark Standriff; Mayor; merazroofinginc@att.net; nick yovino;news@fresnobee.com; newsdesk; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; tsheehan;vallesR1969@att.net; yicui@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: China"s Driverless Push Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:11:36 PM 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, May 1, 2024 at 5:03 PM Subject: Fwd: China's Driverless PushTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Monday, April 29, 2024 To all, Including to Mary Barra and Elon Musk- Significance of China approving the use of Tesla's FSD there: Tesla's Full Self-Driving approval in China is a 'trophy-case win,' Wedbush's Dan Ives says (youtube.com) Today, Monday, April 29, 2024, TSLA went from closing $168.29 last Friday to c. at$194.05 today. So TSLA vaulted $25.76 today, or 15% today, Monday, April 29, 2024. Better still, it closed at $142.05 a week ago, on Monday, April 22, thereby jumping 37% in a week. PS, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024,, with all the Fed comments, TSLA closed at $179.99.Still, well off of $142.05. Tesla's driverless system approved for use in China, Big news, but look here at the competition TSLA will have re self driving in China. Don't miss this. It's short: Tesla's Driverless Push in China Set to Meet Domestic Competition (youtube.com) Musk surprise visit to China. Big progress there for TSLA: Elon Musk makes surprise visit to China: Here's what to know (youtube.com) Elon Musk meets with China's Premier Li Qiang to discuss Tesla, full-self drivingand restrictions (youtube.com) One of my other favs, Nvidia, got a segment on "60 Minutes" Sunday night, April 28,2024. See the link to it below. It went from $232 per share 13 months ago, to $879.57 on Monday, April 29, 2024. Pretty amazing, and profitable. PS. on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, NVDA closed at $830.41, not so bad. China's Economy: Has the Crisis Started?: This is over an hour and I have not watchedit yet: You'll get more in depth analysis here. This may be great- I just don't know: China’s Economy: Has THE Crisis Started? (youtube.co China's looming Economic Crisis. CNBC 33 minutes. I watched this on Roku andone learns a lot in 33 minutes with this. Strongly recommended. This does not address TSLA or NVDA directly, but they both do business there so it has to impact them. Governments at all levels in the US should be familiar with this. Companies too. Made in summer, 2023 I believe. China’s Looming Crises | CNBC Marathon (youtube.com) "60 Minues" on NVDA: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the $2 trillion company powering today's AI | 60 Minutes(youtube.com) L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Aram James To:Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Braden Cartwright; Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; Dave Price; Ed Lauing;Emily Mibach; Greg Tanaka; Joe Simitian; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Lait, Jonathan; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong;Shikada, Ed Subject:Records Center] Public Records Request :: W005799-041724 Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2024 6:52:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Consulting fees for housing element --- Please respond above this line --- 04/29/2024 RE: PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST of April 17, 2024, Reference # W005799-041724 Dear Aram, I am writing in response to your requests for documents under the California Public Records Act (Govt. Code § 7920.000 et seq.) received by the City on 4/17/2024. Your request mentioned: Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I'm requesting the following in relation to the Revised 2023-31 Housing Element: • A number of consultants that we are currently paying • their firms • when they were first hired • their hourly, the monthly, yearly rate • the total amount of money that has been paid to consultants. Response: The City has contracted with 2 firms for work on drafting the City’s Housing Element. The main firm is Rincon Consultants and the second is Lexington Planning for on-call support for Planning staff. The City has paid Rincon $674,154 and Lexington $62,125 for a total of $736,279 for consultant work on the Housing Element. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss this further, please contact me. Sincerely, Veronica Dao Planning & Development Services To monitor the progress or update this request please log into the [NAMEOFSYSTEM] From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Cait James; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; EPA Today; Ed Lauing; Friends of Cubberley; GRP-City Council; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; KEVIN JENSEN; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lotus Fong; Zelkha, Mila; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tom DuBois; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; dennis burns; district1@bos.sccgov.org; jgreen@dailynewsgroup.com Subject:Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2024 2:49:00 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4634350-barnard-president-loses-vote-of-no-confidence-palestine-protest-response/amp/ From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Baker, Rob; Binder, Andrew; Bryan Gobin; Cindy Chavez; Council,City; D Martell; Daniel Kottke; Ed Lauing; Greer Stone; Jack Ajluni; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Moore; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; KarenHolman; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Zelkha, Mila; Raymond Goins; Reifschneider, James; Robert. Jonsen; Salem Ajluni; Sean Allen;Supervisor Otto Lee; Vicki Veenker; Lee, Craig; cromero@cityofepa.org; dennis burns; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Tannock, Julie;kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Foley, Michael Subject:Open Student Letter to Tulane Admin in Support of Palestine Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1:59:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachmentsand clicking on links. Open Student Letter to Tulane Admin in Support of Palestine https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddJBwPO2SWBI9OekIxtk8QZnzUW5uUI7aaYWGyVx44y4XLxA/viewform From:Aram James To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Stump, Molly Subject:File complaint with Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:06:38 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From:Mark Shull To:Council, City; PAO Planning Subject:PAO Plan -- Begin Closure Process and Convert to Nature Preserve Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 2:02:28 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from shull.mark@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I would like to submit comments on the Palo Alto Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (Long Range Plan), specifically the City should add an Alternative 6: Close Palo Alto Airport and Convert it to a Nature Preserve. I also support the comments submitted by Concerned Residents of Palo Alto (CRoP). Private aviation is incompatible with the sensitive natural location of the airport, and creates serious health issues for those living near the airport in East Palo Alto, starting with the continued use of leaded fuel (which in spite of industry PR about alternatives) remains the primary fuel for small airplanes. FAA regulations do not allow Palo Alto to mandate that leaded fuel not be used, and pilots will simply not give it up, even if their planes can use high octane unleaded. The EPA is clear -- there is no safe level for lead. And, Palo Alto subjecting East Palo Alto to constant lead exhaust is inexcusable. The airport is also extremely noisy, particularly close in, with one touch and go after another. (And like leaded fuel, the FAA does not allow Palo Alto to regulate usage types, levels or hours.) It has been well documented, including by the WHO, that airplane noise has been shown to cause meaningful cardiovascular damage, particularly among vulnerable populations, not to mention interfere with learning and sleep. I should also note that the industry's future magic bullets like electric propulsion will have little effect on noise, as most of the noise is from the airframe and propeller. And, this is a user cohort that still uses "grandfathered" lead engines; it will take another decade to have a viable electric plane and many decades before meaningful adoption. I have also heard PAO proponents argue the airport is needed for the Stanford helicopter. That is categorically not true. It is a helicopter. Lastly,PAO is not in a sustainable location. Sea levels are rising, and it is unreasonable for Palo Alto to ask citizens to pay to build protective sea walls around the Palo Alto airport to maintain its viability into the future. That undoubtedly will be the next big capital request, if the runway expansion project goes forward. The city should NOT expand PAO. The Palo Alto Airport Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan should include Alternative 6, Begin the long process to close the airport and reclaim the bayfront land a nature preserve. Mark Shull Palo Alto Resident From:Rebecca Ward To:PAO Planning; Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 1:22:38 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from rebeca.ward@verizon.net. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Palo Alto Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (Long Range Plan). First, I support the comments submitted by Concerned Residents of Palo Alto (CRoP). Additionally, to make the Long Range Plan comprehensive, the City should add an Alternative 6: Close Palo Alto Airport, Convert to a Park Alternative 6: Close Airport, Convert to a Park. Expanding the existing park would be far more beneficial to the environment and surrounding communities of East Palo Alto and Palo Alto than the airport is. I am confident the residents of East Palo Alto and Palo Alto would overwhelmingly supportthis alternative and it should be considered in the Long Range Plan. As you are likely aware, Santa Monica is in the process of closing its municipal airport to protect their residents from further damage caused by excessive noise andpollution. Santa Monica is turning the airport land into a “Great Park”. https://www.santamonica.gov/press/2023/12/20/santa-monica-takes-key-step- forward-in-the-future-of-its-airport Additionally, Reid Hillview Airport is slated to close in 2031. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ask federal regulators to hasten the closure due to a study on lead contamination in the surrounding area. East Palo Alto and Palo Alto are severely and negatively impacted by airport noise and pollution. As the comments submitted by CRoP noted, “A noise monitor at Eleanor Pardee park recorded 328 airplane noise events over 24 hours on May 19, 2023, which was a typical day. 20% or 66 flights, the purple dots, were PAO overflights, and some of them were louder than SFO airport”. The City should focus its efforts on reducing the environmental impacts of PAO NOT making them worse. Expanding the airport in the middle of a nature preserve is antithetical to the cities stated goals of Climate Change & Natural Environment - Protection & Adaptation and Community Health,Safety, Wellness and Belonging. The city should NOT expand PAO. The Palo Alto Airport Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan should include Alternative 6, Close Airport and Expand Park. Sincerely, Rebecca Ward Old Palo Alto From:Mark Shull To:Council, City; Stone, Greer; Lauing, Ed; Burt, Patrick Subject:Rail Plan Light at N. California vs Tunnel and Green Safe Route School Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 1:04:21 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from shull.mark@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi, I was on the east coast last night, so was unable to deliver my statement on the Rail Plan at Churchill. My two points are: Seale tunnel is situated well vis-a-vis connecting to bike paths in three directions. Light at N. California seems incompatible with bike and ped safety exiting tunnel at same location and Green Safe Route to school on N. California. My statement: To me, Seale seems marginally better than Kellogg for several reasons. It would provide a good way to get to the High School or Town and Country from Old Palo Alto, but it would also provide good access to California Avenue, and from there to the Stanford Research Park or Foothills, as well as to Stanford University itself. Also, Seale is a straight path to the Leland Manor area, on the other side of Middlefield, as well as to bike paths on Newel and Louis Roads. I do however have concerns about placing a traffic light at N. California and Alma, which I heard from the last meeting is to provide a “protected” left turn onto Alma for cars in Old Palo Alto. First, this would be right next to the exit to the existing pedestrian and bike tunnel there, which already has an awkward dogleg exit and entry onto and off of the street. Moreover, the tunnel and California are heavily used by Green Elementary Students and it is the primary safe route to that school. And, to make it even less safe, a light at California would be a natural shortcut for commuters on Oregon Expressway to get onto Alma. There is already a lot of high speed cut through traffic in Old Palo Alto, and several recent accidents. Given this, and the fact that California Avenue is heavily used as a safe route to Green Middle School, I think this part of the plan needs further study related to collateral impacts and safety. Thank you, Mark From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:My LTE to Palo Alto Online Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:50:21 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ For what it's worth: "Monday night, the city council discussed, at length, grade crossing separation options. It was the discussion I wish they'd had ten years ago as the only really good solution, a shifted viaduct, has been introduced too late. The deadline at which the city will lose funding if they don't have a plan is fast approaching. It looks like we are going to be stuck with a plan that will require property acquisition. We all know how well that's going to go over. Grade separation is the most important issue facing the council in my lifetime. The depth, breadth and sophistication of understanding, plus mastery of this exceptionally complex situation, demonstrated by the council was awe inspiring. In the likes of which I have never seen before, every single counselor understood the importance of the issue and had brought the full force of their intellects to bare. These people are smart cookies. But it wasn't enough. Why? My take away from last night's meeting was: We are asking too much of these people. They are volunteering their time, which must be a minimum of twenty hours a week - most of them holding down full time jobs. If we can't pay them real salaries, as opposed to stipends, at the very least the city should hire someone full time who is dedicated to supporting the council. We aren't going to get a twenty-first century city, with twentieth century mechanisms. The demands of that job is too great for the arrangement that is in place now." From:Eva Dobrov To:Council, City Subject:Purposed rail crossing at Meadow and Charleston Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:46:07 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from eva.dobrov@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. ________________________________ Good afternoon, I have been keeping up with the rail conversation at a high level and just read the latest article about last night’s council meeting. I am very disturbed to read about Palo Alto using eminent domain for the underpass option on Charleston. This should be a non-starter. Those poor homeowners. The amount of money the city would be required to compensate homeowners (plus defending any lawsuits that arise) could quickly consume all of the grant monies being received. I’m not even sure how you calculate removing part of their property; if they are not satisfied with the monetary offer would the city be forced to pay for them to move? I could almost consider this as viable, but in addtion we will forever need to live with the horrible design of the roundabout to address making a turn on Alma. I’ve never seen an example of this being done in any other town. Maybe I missed the example in the staff attachment document? I’m a resident of the Ventura neighborhood two blocks off of Meadow. The thought of never being able to take a left turn on Alma again without doing some weird illegal u-turn already frustrates me. I go that direction several times a week now. So it’s cutting off an access point to downtown. In addition, currently there are two lanes each direction to cross Alma which helps relieve traffic congestion; this is now reduced to one lane. The traffic now is so bad I can’t make a left from Second St onto Meadow during peak hours. And then we have to live with looking the train straight on (which brings back lots of tragic memories), and hearing it more clearly than I do now from Ventura Court (2 blocks down). I know and appreciate all of the work that has gone into trying to mitigate cost, design, and resident input. Nothing in Palo Alto is easy or quick and I know no plan will satisfy everyone. But this just seems like a bad design we’ll be living with forever as traffic continues to increase over time. Sincerely, Eva Dobrov Ventura Ct From:Victoria A Reich To:PAO Planning Cc:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 11:30:56 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from vreich@stanford.edu. 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 clickingon links.________________________________ Hello, I’m writing to register my objection to PAO expansion, including extending the runway and building additionalhangars and storage. In addition to the probable additional noise (which is already awful!) it’s nuts to expand anairport in the middle of a nature reserve. Don’t do it. Jeez, talk about negative environmental impacts!! Thank youVicky Reich From:Office of Supervisor Susan EllenbergTo:Council, CitySubject:D4 April NewsletterDate:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 11:01:31 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org. Learn whythis is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Greetings D4 residents & friends - Greetings D4 residents & friends - There’s something truly specialabout a solar eclipse and EarthDay occurring in the samemonth. The two events act ascosmic & corporeal remindersof the simultaneousmagnificence and fragility ofour planet. Every individual,level of government,corporation and nation bearsan obligation to protect thelegacy we hope to leave tofuture generations, and I hopeto play my role, as well. But ifyou’ll pardon my lightening ofthe situation . . . don’t letthese major events eclipse all that has gone on over the past month in Santa Clara County. Black Maternal Health Week The Board of Supervisorsreaffirmed its commitment tosupport Black families and,particularly, black moms &infants. At our April 15th Boardof Supervisors meeting, wedeclared April 11-April 17Black Maternal Health Week.In the US, Black infants die atalmost three times the rate ofnon-Black babies. This isn’t justa number, but real peopledying and losing infants nearlyevery day. For more on BlackMaternal Health Week events,including a short filmscreening and a multi-countyconference, check out my current Medium post here. Board of Supervisors Meeting– April 15 You may have heard thatRegional Medical Center on the East Side of San Jose has requested permission from the state (as they are required to do) to close their Trauma, StEMI (heart attack) and comprehensive stroke services by August 12, 2024. At the April 15th Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board received a report on the likely impact of these closures. As part of the report, the Board heard from members of the EMS Agency, the County’s Deputy Public Health Officer Dr Sarah Rudman, Santa Clara Valley Health CEO Paul Lorenz, County health system physicians, and County Executive James Williams. The TL;DR is that these closures will have disastrous effects on East Side patients who live closest to Regional and now must be transported greater distances in emergent circumstances where literally every second counts and on the County’s public health system, already stretched, thin, which will have to accommodate a great number of additional patients presenting with life threatening conditions. It is hard to imagine that lives WON’T be lost as a result of Regional’s cost saving measures. Following the meeting, during which dozens of members of the public spoke about their fears of likely results of the closure, County administration sent a letter to the State, making plain the extremely detrimental impact on both the public and our hospital system if they are to grant Regional’s request. I will share more information as it becomes available. The Board of Supervisors reviewed a diversity study conducted by MGT consulting to compare county utilization rates of diverse business enterprises relative to their availably in the market. The study analyzed five years of data and was broken down into four categories: Goods & Related Services, Professional Services, Non-professional services, and Public Works & Construction. The findings unfortunately confirmed what many small, diverse business owners already suspected to be true: the County is not maximizing opportunities to contract with available vendors who represent non-white- male owned businesses. We must develop a clear, actionable plan to re-form not only internal processes but how we engage with community to ensure that small, local businesses are aware of existing opportunities. I requested a report back with options on specific measures that can be implemented within our contracting process. At a high level, we need to build out our County-wide procurement systems so we can continue improving the way we collect information and measure improvements. My request also focused on one of the study’s recommendations regarding development of a targeted small/local/diverse business enterprise program, which could ultimately recommend specific contract policies such as bid preferences and subcontractor requirements, which have shown to be effective in other areas. The Board heard a report back on the Reid HillviewAirport status that contained information and options regarding unleaded fuel advocacy, transportation, and planning/community engagement for future uses of the airport site. The airport that has been a constant source of stress and pollution and a limitation on the potential vitality of the East San Jose neighborhood in which it sits. The board unanimously approved to accept the report and continue to plan for how the location may be used in the future. State level Advocacy Updates “Taxpayer Deception Act” Press Conference This month I traveled to Sacramento along with leaders from other Counties, small and large cities, school districts and special districts to join Sacramento Mayor Daryl Steinberg in opposing the proposed California Business Roundtable Ballot Measure that would cripple the essential services provided by counties and other local municipalities. From public health and safety to emergency response and environmental protection, and from road infrastructure and municipal services to addressing homelessness and mental illness, these services are foundational to the well-being of our communities. Yet, if this measure passes, it would severely restrict local governments’ ability to support these vital services. It aims to rewrite our state constitution, limiting the purview of our representatives in the legislature and restricting their ability to adjust tax revenue. It's a blatant power grab by those who seek to prioritize their own interests over the well- being of our communities. The “Taxpayer Deception Act” serves the interests of a privileged few at the expense of the many. It's a threat to our communities, our democracy, and our future. Should this measure make it to the November 2024 ballot, it must be defeated. CSAC Legislative Conference Following the press conference, I joined my colleagues across the state for two and a half days of advocacy and conversation around Prop 1 implementation, Prop 47 reform, fire insurance, homelessness prevention and more. I had opportunities to hear from Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas, Senate Speaker Pro Tem Mike McGuire, and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, among others. I and two other CSAC officers also had the rare opportunity to talk with the Governor for nearly an hour about issues directly impacting urban, suburban and rural counties and how we might better partner with the Newsom administration around a number of signature initiatives, including CARE Court, conservatorship eligibility reform, preventing and ending homelessness and more. We shared with the Governor our commitment to accountability and agreed with him regarding the necessity of demonstrating how funds are spent and what outcomes result as a condition of receiving further funds. Legislative Issue Briefing. On April 5, I hosted my second Legislative Issue Briefing of the year for local elected officials with a focus on collaborative efforts to address mental health and substance use disorder services. Much like our first meeting on housing, we had a full house with representatives from Santa Clara County, the State of California, and the cities of Campbell, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Gilroy. This model is quickly proving to be an extremely productive space where our community leaders can vocalize and flesh out ideas in a collaborative manner. Blog/Podcast Continuing the discussionsfrom Black Infant HealthWeek, this month’s blog postand podcast episode offer alittle more personal insightinto the work we are doing atthe county to provide Blackfamilies with resources thatfor too long were insufficientto meet their needs. Thepodcast features an interviewwith Perinatal Equity InitiativeProgram Coordinator KamilahDavis for a conversation about the Perinatal Equity Initiativeand what it means to seeimprovements in maternalhealth. My blog post shareswhy this work is important tome personally and what thecounty has been doing tosupport this vital, justice- driven work. Read Blog on Medium Watch Podcast on YouTube or Spotify Until next time, I wish you andyour family a wonderful May.Please reach out anytime if I ormy team may be of use to you. For regular updates on County efforts to end and prevent homelessness, visit the county’s Measure A page and the Community Plan to End Homelessness. Video Warmly, Susan Ellenberg Board President Santa Clara County Supervisor, District 4 Sourcewise Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Strong County Boards and Commissions Mental Health Services Health Services Older Adult Services Housing Assistance LGBTQ+ Resources Food and Financial Support 70 West Hedding East Wing, 10th Floor San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 299-5040 Email Supervisor Ellenberg District 4 Website Unsubscribe from future messages. From:chandana rattehalli To:PAO Planning Cc:Council, City Subject:No, to PAO expansion Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 7:03:00 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from chandana45@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, I am a long term resident of East Palo Alto, residing in university square neighborhood. I came know about initiative to expand Palo Alto airport. This expansion will mean more and bigger airplanes, and therefore more noise and emissions impacts on residents. This significantly deteriorates quality of air and impacts EPA residents health. I would in fact urge complete shutdown of airport. Thank you, Chandana Rattehalli From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Angel, David; Wagner, April; Binder, Andrew; Bryan Gobin; Cait James; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Don Austin; Ed Lauing; Emily Mibach; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Joe Simitian; Josh Becker; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Reifschneider, James; Robert. Jonsen; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Tim James; Tom DuBois; Barberini, Christopher; dennis burns; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Foley, Michael Subject:My Appearance on CNN, Speaking Directly to President Biden, Hoping to End the Slaughter and to Save His Re-Election Bid Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:07:10 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. My Appearance on CNN, Speaking Directly to President Biden, Hoping to End the Slaughterand to Save His Re-Election Bid https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/my-appearance-on-cnn-speaking-directly?utm_medium=email&triggerShare=true From:Federico Andrade-Garcia To:PAO Planning Cc:Council, City Subject:NO to PAO expansion! Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 11:39:42 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from federico@liquilan.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 clickingon links.________________________________ Good day, councilmembers of Palo Alto and PAO authorities, My name is Federico Andrade, a resident of East Palo Alto, a citynext to the PAO airport. PAO causes a lot of noise from those small airplanes, adds thepotential for accidents (As it has already happened in the past) to thebenefit and comfort of only a small amount of people that happen to useor have those airplanes for their leisure trips to Lake Tahoe orsomewhere nearby, or just for fun flying around and waste gasoline. It is really the convenience or the fun of few people enough tobother thousands of people in both Palo Alto and East Palo Alto? Howabout the environmental impact of the noise to the animals that live inthe marshlands? To me, "protecting the marshlands" and having an noisyand polluting airport next to that, is just a sign of the hypocrisy ofPalo Alto. Those airplanes are not really critical service to anybody, thatcan justify having an airport surrounded by residential neighborhoodsand natural areas. Why not considering merging with, and expanding theSan Carlos Airport? It's in a more isolated area, can serve those samecustomers that will only need to drive an extra 8 or so miles, and thearea of PAO can be used for parks, soccer, baseball, tennis, basketball,etc or something that actually can benefit the whole community. Please, close that airport, and use common sense. Regards, -Federico. From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:Accessing Paly from Embarcadero - NO! Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 8:45:46 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Approaching Paly from the east on a bike at Embarcadero, there are three de facto expressway "on ramp/off ramps" to negotiate - one on the north side and two on the south. Also, Paly students are going to be forced to ride on the sidewalks on Embarcadero, which, because it is on a diagonal relative to the rest of the street grid have wide right turns, which cars take at high speeds because they can, that are dangerous for cyclists. If you want an Embarcadero approach for cyclists, I think you need a massive overhaul of the traffic engineering on Embarcadero. Deborah Goldeen, 2130 Birch St., 94306 From:Laura Granka To:Council, City; Transportation Subject:City Council April 29 public comment Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 8:29:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello! Apologies that due to scheduling I could not attend the city council session this evening. Below is my public comment regarding the topics discussed: Regarding the Rail committee recommendations: Seale bike / ped crossing: I agree that Seale is preferable over Kellogg. However — eliminating bike/ped crossing at Churchill means there is no safe route to bike/walk toschool for elementary students in Southgate zoned for Walter Hays. These students would need to be rezoned. I want to make sure that Council understands thisimplication. This challenge would not exist if council went with the crossing backup option ofclosure + mitigation (creating a bike/ ped crossing under Churchill). Optimize Bike/ ped crossings: Seale is a great crossing to access Peers Park andconnect Evergreen park; Churchill is an ideal crossing to connect Southgate, access (1) the high school, (2) the bike/ped path along the rail line, (3) Stanford, (4) town &country. To elaborate on the bike path -- this bike/ped path along the rail corridor is one ofthe few dedicated bike/ped only routes in the city, significantly safer (no vehicular collisions) than shared streets and bike lanes, and is heavily used by elderly,children, families, and students. Eliminating bike/ped crossing at Churchill (a consequence of the partial underpass) would significantly reduce utility andaccess to this safe route. I want to make sure the Council is at least made aware of this implication. Reducing property impacts: With the Churchill partial underpass alternative we should explore having NB Alma be one lane from Coleridge/ Lowell to theEmbarcadero bridge to limit Alma St property impacts, and maintain safety on Alma street by retaining a landscaping strip. The Alma to Emerson block is denser than allother blocks in Old Palo Alto, so pedestrians are likely. Regarding bike / ped Routes: I was struck by how many collisions occur at intersections along the Bryant St bike boulevard.Of course there is a higher volume of cyclists, but routinely experiencing Bryant St, perhaps these collisions at intersections could be alleviated by removing parking near (~20ft) theintersections. As one anecdote / example: I live on Churchill and every morning drive east on Churchill towards Embarcadero. It is impossible to see cyclists coming along Bryant street, who havethe right of way and aren't required to stop while turning left on Churchill. Many of these are high school students in a rush, and I've seen many near-misses with other vehicles. Therealways seem to be large landscaping and construction trucks parked near intersections (everyone seems to be renovating a home!), that also make visibility a challenge. There are many successful examples of daylighting laws; perhaps something similar could beexplored on the bike boulevard. Thank you again for all that you do! Best regards, Laura Granka128 Churchill Ave From:k jm To:Council, City Subject:Re: proposed taking away 10 feet of planter strip on Alma Street Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 7:52:26 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from kjm1445@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Please advise if the animation is correct and that the 10 foot landscaping strip will be removed. https://connectingpaloalto.com/renderings-plans-and-animations/ - it's in the animation at 2:36 marker. I don't know how I will be able to leave my driveway if they take away the planting strip. Totally, unsafe! On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 05:45:04 PM PDT, k jm <kjm1445@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello, IF the 10 feet of planter strip (area between curb and sidewalk) is removed, backing out onto Alma will be very unsafe for those who live on Alma. Dozens of families when including the multi-family housing. Currently, we slowly pull out of our driveway, resting on the sidewalk and the 10 feet of extended driveway (the planting strip) untilit is safe to back onto Alma. IF the 10 feet is taken, we will face the danger of backing directly onto Alma. Please consider -Regards, K Jason-Moreau From:Aram James To:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Wagner, April; Binder, Andrew; Council, City; EPA Today; Emily Mibach;Jensen, Eric; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Lythcott-Haims, Julie; Paul George @ PPJC; Reifschneider, James; Robert.Jonsen; Sean Allen; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Perron, Zachary; editor@paweekly.com; Figueroa, Eric;jgreen@dailynewsgroup.com; Tannock, Julie; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; ladoris cordell; Foley, Michael Cc:Angel, David; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Bill Armaline; Bryan Gobin; Cecilia Taylor; Cindy Chavez; Clerk, City; D Martell; Dave Price; Don Austin; Donna Wallach; DuJuan Green; Ed Lauing; GRP-City Council; Jack Ajluni; Jean Gage; Josh Becker; KEVIN JENSEN; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Gardener, Liz; Michael Zhang; Zelkha, Mila; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Palo Alto Free Press; Bains, Paul; Penni Wilson; Raymond Goins; Roberta Ahlquist; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Shikada, Ed; Supervisor Otto Lee; Susan Hayase; Tanaka, Greg; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; chuck jagoda; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; district1@bos.sccgov.org; walter wilson; yolanda Subject:Re: NYT Profile of Don Tamaki + Video of Lisa Holder"s Remarks at United Nations Forum + EJS Board MemberDon Tamaki in NY Times Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 7:44:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM Equal Justice Society <team@equaljusticesociety.com>wrote: EJS Banner UN video screenshot of Lisa Holder Video: EJS President Lisa Holder's Remarks at United Nations Forum in Geneva Equal Justice Society President Lisa Holder delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent held April 16-19, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland. Lisa is a former member of the California Reparations Task Force and one of the leaders of the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth (ARRT). Dr. Cheryl Grills, a former member of the task force and a leader of ARRT, also attended. Dr. Grills is an EJS Champion of Justice 2023 award recipient. Watch the video of LIsa's remarks here. Read Dr. Grills's comment entered into the record. The Permanent Forum operates as an advisory body to the UN Human Rights Council, in line with the program of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent and in coordination with existing UN mechanisms promoting action to combat racism against people of African descent. Screenshot of NYT article Photo of Don Tamaki EJS Board Member Don Tamaki Profiled in NY Times EJS Board Member Don Tamaki, Senior Counsel at Minami Tamaki LLP, was profiled by The New York Times recently in an article about his work with the California Reparations Task Force and his continued leadership in the reparations movement with Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth. "When California set up a reparations task force in 2020 to study the generational effects of slavery and other racist policies in the state and propose specific policy ideas for restitution, it was the first such statewide effort in the nation. "The nine-member team included lawmakers, scholars, community leaders and lawyers. Eight of the nine members were Black. The ninth was Donald K. Tamaki, a Japanese American lawyer with valuable experience to share. "In the 1980s, Tamaki worked pro bono on the legal team that reopened the landmark 1944 Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States. The court’s decision in that case had been used to justify the federal government’s forced relocation and internment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent during World War II." Read the profile on nytimes.com. Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emailsfrom Equal Justice Society, please click here. From:Aram James To:Raymond Goins Cc:Angel, David; Bryan Gobin; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; District1@bos.sccgov.org; Don Austin; DuJuan Green; Enberg, Nicholas; GRP-City Council; Human Relations Commission; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; dennis burns; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; ladoris cordell; Foley, Michael; Perron, Zachary Subject:Re: Watch "Michael Moore Was Almost SHOT By The IDF" on YouTube Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 7:33:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Glad you liked the article.aram On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 6:47 PM Raymond Goins <goinsrayl@gmail.com> wrote:This was a good interview. Thank you for sharing Aram Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: https://youtu.be/hHeLBPC9FaI?si=YpZOgfSdMHteH8c6 From:Raymond Goins To:Aram James Cc:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Angel, David; Bryan Gobin; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; Don Austin; DuJuan Green; Enberg, Nicholas; GRP-City Council; Human Relations Commission; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; Perron, Zachary; dennis burns; District1@bos.sccgov.org; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; ladoris cordell; Foley, Michael Subject:Re: Watch "Michael Moore Was Almost SHOT By The IDF" on YouTube Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 6:48:07 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. This was a good interview. Thank you for sharing AramSent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:https://youtu.be/hHeLBPC9FaI?si=YpZOgfSdMHteH8c6 From:k jm To:Council, City Subject:proposed taking away 10 feet of planter strip on Alma Street Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 5:45:14 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from kjm1445@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, IF the 10 feet of planter strip (area between curb and sidewalk) is removed, backing out onto Alma will be very unsafe for those who live on Alma. Dozens of families when including the multi-family housing. Currently, we slowly pull out of our driveway, resting on the sidewalk and the 10 feet of extended driveway (the planting strip) until it is safe to back onto Alma. IF the 10 feet is taken, we will face the danger of backing directly onto Alma. Pleaseconsider - Regards, K Jason-Moreau From:k jm To:Council, City; Kat Subject:City counsel meeting re train - Churchill Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 5:23:46 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from kjm1445@yahoo.com. Learn why this isimportant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Comment - I would like to speak re - if you take away the city owned landscaping - 10 feet - all homes will be backing out onto the busy Alma Street - NOT SAFE From:Aram James To:Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Angel, David; Bryan Gobin; Cindy Chavez; Council, City; D Martell; Dan Okonkwo; Daniel Kottke; Don Austin; DuJuan Green; Enberg, Nicholas; GRP-City Council; Human Relations Commission; Jack Ajluni; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Lewis james; Raymond Goins; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sean Allen; Supervisor Otto Lee; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; Perron, Zachary; dennis burns; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; ladoris cordell; Foley, Michael Subject:Watch "Michael Moore Was Almost SHOT By The IDF" on YouTube Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 5:16:34 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://youtu.be/hHeLBPC9FaI?si=YpZOgfSdMHteH8c6 From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:Limitting Public Comment Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 4:11:33 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ City of Berkeley limits the number of people who can comment during public comment to TEN people, chosen at random. Ceding time so that one person can speak for five minutes is not an option during their public comment. For their upcoming meeting, public comment is dead last, after forty eight other agenda items. Hahahahaha!!!! From:Peggy E. Kraft To:Council, City Subject:Charleston Road Grade Separation Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 1:33:14 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from pkraft@stanford.edu. 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 City Council, I am opposed to putting a roundabout on Charleston Road when deciding on the grade separation plan. The roundabout would harm the neighborhood because it would: -Take homes away from Palo Alto residents -Add a large amount of traffic onto a residential street that has schools and parks. -Disrupt a Palo Alto residential neighborhood for drivers that do not necessarily live in Palo Alto. There are alternate routes for them to use that will not impact their driving time. There is an alternative for the traffic that normally turns West at Charleston Road off of Alma. These drivers can easily take the San Antonio Road overpass to El Camino Real. Once there turn north to Charleston/Arastradero roads and then go either East or West from there. This route would take about the same amount of time or less for them to use. San Antonio Road can easily handle this added traffic and it would allow the Charleston Road neighborhood to be left as a residential street without the roundabout. Grade separation can occur worth out the roundabout. Please consider not putting a roundabout on Charleston Road. Thank you, Peggy Kraft Mumford Place Palo Alto, CA From:William Chrisman To:Star-Lack, Sylvia; Arce, Ozzy; Council, City Subject:Re: transportation improvements for bicycles Date:Monday, April 29, 2024 12:57:47 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from towillchris@gmail.com. Learn why this isimportant Hi Sylvia and Ozzy, Thank you for sharing the August 2015 environmental addendum document re the Charleston-Arastradero- Corridor-Plan, including thoughts on traffic impacts. Section 4.18, pg. 20, Mandatory Findings of Significance, concluded that the Corridor Plan would result in no significant impacts to traffic. But many of us residents of Greenacres II, see the Corridor Plan has had negative impacts along students' bike routes to schools (Juana Briones, Ellen Fletcher, and H. Gunn schools, as well as Bowman School). During school-day drop-off and pick-up times, the dramatic volume of traffic here in Greenacres II neighborhood sets up worrisome conditions, especially for the hundreds of hundreds of students ridingbicycles. We feel it is self-evident that Arastradero's spillover car traffic does significantly negatively impact traffic safety in this neighborhood. Notably the streets where the City maps Safe Routes for bicycles south of El Camino in either direction along Maybell Avenue, Amaranta Avenue, Donald Drive, Willmar Drive, andGeorgia Avenue. We see Arastradero's spillover traffic as a contributing hazard for the students bicycling to and from school. We feel worried for bicycle safety in this neighborhood, as well as throughout Palo Alto, and we encourage you to handle the situation appropriately. Do you think that speed bumps for cars along Georgia Avenue would possibly help with bicycle safety? Can you put in traffic speed bumps on Georgia Avenue in either direction near theintersection of the bicycle-pedestrian pathway (to Gunn High School)? An intersection that is critical because the path is heavily utilized to access the high school campus. Thank you, William Chrisman On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM William Chrisman <towillchris@gmail.com> wrote: Sylvia, thanks for your reply. I see the 2015 transportation document you've highlighted hasn't accountedfor heavy traffic spillover from Arastradero Road. -William On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 8:42 PM Star-Lack, Sylvia <Sylvia.Star-Lack@cityofpaloalto.org>wrote: Hi Mr. Chrisman, Apologies for the tardiness of my reply. Thanks for reaching out and stating your support forsafer streets for students. I was able to find pdf page 20 at this link which is for thetransportation section of the environmental document that was done in 2015 for the corridorproject. As intersection delay was the metric that cities were required to use at that time perthe California Environmental Quality Act, the report gives the outcomes of the analysis ofintersection delay along the corridor. Thanks! You don't often get email from towillchris@gmail.com. Learn why this is important -Sylvia Sylvia Star-Lack (she/her)| Transportation Planning Manager Office of Transportation | City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 T: 650.329.2546 |E: Sylvia.star-lack@cityofpaloalto.org Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you! Use Palo Alto 311 to report items you’d like the City to fix!! Download the app or click hereto make a service request. From: William Chrisman <towillchris@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:13 AMTo: ozzi.arce@cityofpaloalto.org; Planning Commission<Planning.Commission@cityofpaloalto.org>; wstratton@pausd.ord; Safe Routes<SafeRoutes@CityofPaloAlto.org>Cc: gsheyner@paweekly.comSubject: Re: transportation improvements for bicycles Hi Ozzi Arce, and city Planning&Transportation Commission, H. Gunn High School Principal, and the PA Weekly: I hope you can help; may I please get a copy of any car count study the city did looking at the Arastradero Road spillover traffic, particularly at the school-day commute hours when the students bicycle here. While Arastradero Road spillover traffic is in some sense a general topic, the perspective I'll share is narrowed to safety for the hundreds and hundreds of students who bicycle at Gunn High School, Fletcher Middle School, or Juana Briones Elementary School on the road corridor, El Camino Way-Maybell Avenue- Donald Drive-Georgia Avenue. (Coincident with the Gunn High School Walk andRoll to School Suggested Routes: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/1/transportation/safe-routes-to- schools/gunn-high-w-r-map_072022.pdf) The full length of Maybell Avenue from El Camino Way to Donald Drive, we see worrisome traffic near-miss accidents involving students on their bicycles and cars. As example where the school-day commuters have the Maybell Avenue stop sign atAmaranda Avenue. For the schools' drop-off and pick-up times, the Walk and Roll toSchool corridor here has urgent need of proactive safety improvements, in my opinion. I'll point out another intersection where it feels like too much traffic congestion onschool-days is now normalized, especially for the Gunn High School students as school gets out. Hundreds and hundreds of students on their bicycles depart the campus along the high school's back entrance, the city-owned bicycle-pedestrian path that T-intersects Georgia Avenue. The grade of the bicycle-pedestrian path from the campus to Georgia Avenue is slightly downslope, and bicycles can ride fast here. Heading along the path the bicycles are difficult to see for the drivers in the cars approaching the T-intersection from either direction at Georgia Avenue. Oftentimes, I've witnessed car-bicycle-involved minor collisions, as well as bicycle-bicycle-involved collisions as thebicycles swoop out into the street, directly in the way of the cars! Traffic mishaps here rarely get reported. Parents and teen drivers here keep the same drop-off and pick-up schedule as the high school students on their bicycles. The close proximity of the car, bicycle, e-bikes, skate or walk traffic, can feel uncomfortably hectic and it appears inherently dangerous. The intersection has urgent need of proactive safety improvements, in my opinion. In the neighborhood here, many residents including me have before now said we feel uncomfortable about what we sense is hazardous road traffic that stems partially from the Arastradero Road spillover, by talking with PAUSD as well as the PlanningCommission and city traffic engineers. You will by now have clocked that studentson bicycles and safer streets have my support. As to the City's bicycle routes to school initiative, I'm for bicycle safety. Thank you, You don't often get email from towillchris@gmail.com. Learn why this is important William Chrisman On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 3:11 PM Arce, Ozzy <Ozzy.Arce@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote: Hi William- Happy to point you to the links: Survey: https://us.openforms.com/Form/bcf22ced-de35-49eb-9048-0880a20d7de3Interactive map: https://maps.kittelson.com/ActivePaloAlto The last ay to submit a comment is December 31, 2023. Thank you. Ozzy Arce (he/él) | Senior Transportation Planner Office of Transportation | City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 From: William Chrisman <towillchris@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 8:46 AMTo: Arce, Ozzy <Ozzy.Arce@CityofPaloAlto.org>Subject: transportation improvements for bicycles CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Becautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Ozzy, Where's the interactive map for community feedback re bicycle safety in Palo Alto? Thank you, William (Palo Alto resident)