HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-11-12 City Council EmailsFrom:Joe Hirsch
To:Council, City
Cc:Summa, Doria
Subject:Doria Summa"s Ballot Placement
Date:Tuesday, November 12, 2024 8:14:38 AM
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Dear Council Members,
I think that it would be essential to determine if the ballot placement may have,in fact, affected Doria's overall vote count by:
determining the percentage of votes for her in the in-person voting where voters may have not seen her placement on the MORE page (or may have seen it too late after already voting for four Council candidates) vs: the percentage of votes for her in all other forms of voting (mainly by mail-in ballots).
If the percentages are similar then maybe the unfortunate placement did not dramatically affect her final vote count. But if those two percentages are materially different, then maybe it did.
I think it's essential for all of us to know if this unfortunate incident changed the outcome of this election.
Please request this analysis to determine if, in fact, this unfortunate incident really did change the outcome of the election and, if for no other reason, provide a sound basis for assuring that placement such as happened in this election will not happen again.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Joe HirschGeorgia AvenuePalo Alto
2. Keith is a weapons maker, aerospace engineer, at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale.
3. Lockheed Martin sells massive amounts of fighter jets, and other weapon systems, toIsrael.
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4. Given Keith’s religious associations and his employment with Lockheed as a weaponsmaker do you believe it is realistic to think Keith will have the courage to call for a cease-fire resolution? Demand an end to all military aid to Israel? Henry, please let me know yourthoughts on the Keith Reckdahl issue.
100 American Communities Have Called for a Gaza Cease-Fire
https://search.app/iru9XrYo6fYqabgi7
Best regards,
Avram Finkelstein aka Aram James
From:Jo Ann Mandinach
To:Council, City
Cc:Jo Ann Mandinach
Subject:Voting Irriegulatiies / Acting Registrar Moreles Tonight
Date:Monday, November 11, 2024 12:28:10 PM
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Dear Mayor and City Council members,
This is a copy of my email to the Santa Clara Voters Registrar office and County Supervisor Simitian.
If Acting Registrar Matt Moreles does address council tonight, I sincerely hope you will demand real answers andsolutions to the error that may cost Ms Summa the election.
And thanks to those candidates gracious enough to send out warning emails when they learned that Ms Summaappeared ti ve missing from their in-person ballots.--------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello. Dear Registrar, Supervisor Simitian and Mayor Stone,
I refer you to Dave Price's opinion piece entitled "Error May Cost Candidate The Election" where your spokesmanSteve Goltiao responded only by email to the Daily Post's inquiries about the error.
Instead of responding to questions in person, he emailed that he wasn't aware of any complaints even though theDaily Post wrote 2 other articles about this snafu AND various Palo Alto city council candidates sent out emailswarning about the issue after getting complaints from voters that Doria Summa "was missing" from their ballots.
Now Mr. Goltiao can't claim he hasn't gotten any complaints since he now has got my complaint and I know he hasgotten others.
If his boss Acting Registrar of Voters Matt Moreles does address Palo Alto City Council tonight, I hope he has moreconcrete answers on how to make this fair to Summa in person.
The question remains: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO FIX THIS EGREGIOUS PROBLEM?
The vote in person ballot needs to be exactly the same as the absentee or vote by mail ballot which needs to bestated in the election code. Have Doria and some voters been denied equal protection of the law because the ballotshave not been presented uniformly? Yes, based on the clear difference.
I look forward to getting substantive responses to this very serious issue.
Most sincerely,Jo Ann Mandinach
Palo Alto, CA 94301
4. Given Keith’s religious associations and his employment with Lockheed as a weaponsmaker do you believe it is realistic to think Keith will have the courage to call for a cease-fire resolution? Demand an end to all military aid to Israel? Henry, please let me know yourthoughts on the Keith Reckdahl issue.
100 American Communities Have Called for a Gaza Cease-Fire
https://search.app/iru9XrYo6fYqabgi7
Best regards,
Avram Finkelstein aka Aram James
https://search.app/kBJG32JcCMTQvgqk8
4. Given Keith’s religious associations and his employment with Lockheed as a weapons
maker do you believe it is realistic to think Keith will have the courage to call for a cease-fire resolution? Demand an end to all military aid to Israel? Henry, please let me know your
thoughts on the Keith Reckdahl issue.
100 American Communities Have Called for a Gaza Cease-Fire
https://search.app/iru9XrYo6fYqabgi7
Best regards,
Avram Finkelstein aka Aram James
thoughts on the Keith Reckdahl issue.
100 American Communities Have Called for a Gaza Cease-Fire
https://search.app/iru9XrYo6fYqabgi7
Best regards,
Avram Finkelstein aka Aram James
From:Jeff Levinsky
To:Council, City
Subject:Parking Reductions - Item 8 for Tuesday, November 12
Date:Sunday, November 10, 2024 9:12:52 PM
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Dear City Councilmembers:
It’s great that staff has come back to give you more options for parking in areas
affected by AB 2097 rather than the draconian approach you were offered
earlier this year.
Please note that the staff report does not however discuss existing parking
problems in the neighborhoods close to the train stations nor how AB 2097
parking reductions will exacerbate this, especially given the elimination of
parking on El Camino and parts of Park. As the following photograph of Grant
from this weekend shows, some areas within ½ mile of the California Avenue
train station are already quite crowded at night and have no room for more
parked cars on the street:
New, dense construction without parking will likely force residents to use
parking many blocks away and walk to their homes in the dark. This is clearly a
personal safety problem that the City should consider.
It is also of tantamount importance that accessible parking be located right
where residents live and shop, and not in some future “in-lieu” parking
structure, for which there is no plan or location.
Here then are some simple actions to consider this Tuesday evening:
1. Preserve our existing requirements for accessible parking and EVCS
(electric vehicle charging spaces) and ensure that these be on-site. To
avoid all confusion, you could adopt AB 2097 ‘s own rules: have a
project’s total parking requirements first be determined as if AB 2097
exemptions didn’t exist, use those to determine the required accessible
parking and EVCS spaces, and only then exempt any remaining parking.
AB 2097 is unambiguous on this point, and the state’s own legislative
analyses concluded the law does not require cities to reduce accessible
and EVCS parking requirements by even one space, whereas page 5 of
staff’s proposed ordinance would totally eliminate them.
2. Save on cost and time by not directing staff to look for alternatives
to on-site accessible and EVCS parking. Moving such parking off-site is
worse than our existing rules, which AB 2097 allows us to retain.
3. Do not extend AB 2097 to existing buildings. Although the staff
report says AB 2097 only applies to “development projects (any activity
that requires a building permit),” the actual proposed ordinance is
ambiguous regarding existing structures. The ordinance could clarify this
(on its page 5) by clearly stating it does not eliminate parking
requirements for any square footage that existed as of the appropriate
date.
4. Discuss raising impact fees for new projects that are substantially
underparked due to exceptions such as AB 2097. Underparked projects
likely force residents to park farther away, and thus have to walk on
their own to get home, creating safety issues and thus the need for
more policing. We also know that underparked projects lead to costly
residential parking permit programs. Such projects even potentially
lower the city’s tax base by depressing neighboring property values.
Projects that cut construction costs by not providing parking essentially
put a financial burden onto our city government and our residents, and
higher impact fees are thus appropriate.
5. Given that TDMs are mentioned in the staff report as another way to
address underparked buildings, discuss how to ensure that our TDMs
actually do reduce traffic and parking needs to the target level. The
city could require that projects utilizing TDMs fund annual,
independently-conducted audits to measure reductions, perhaps
utilizing cellphone data and other modern techniques.
Thank you,
Jeff Levinsky
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Maps and Directions
More information on the sales
Donate your used books, DVDs, &c
ALL NET PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALOALTO LIBRARIES
Main Room
In our Main Room, prices are way below
what used book stores charge.
Hardcover books start at $3 and
softcover books start at only $2.
No numbered tickets this month!
Please note that due to crowding duringthe first two hours of the Book Sale, nostrollers, rolling carts, etc. can bebrought into the Main Room. This is forthe safety of shoppers and volunteersalike. By 12:30 or so, the crowd thinsout and shoppers are welcome to bringthese items into the sale.
Children's Book Sale
The Children's Room is located in the
portable next to the soccer field nearGreendell School. It is entirely filledwith children's books and toys. You'llfind picture books, school age fictionand non-fiction, fiction for teens, awardwinners, non-English titles, CDs andDVDs, and books for parents andteachers, many for 50 cents or $1.Strollers are welcome in the Children'sRoom at any time.
Bargain Books in H-2
The Bargain Room is located in Rooms
H-2 and H-3 of the Cubberley main
campus, between our Main Room and
Middlefield Road. On Saturday,
paperbacks are $1, hardcovers are $2,
and children's books are 50 cents each.
The room also contains many records,
CDs, and DVDs at $1 each. On Sunday,
the room opens at 11 am and all prices
are half off. Or, save even more on
Sunday by buying green FOPAL reusable
bags from us for $3/ea (or bring your
own grocery-size reusable bag) and
stuffing them with any items in the
room for $5/bag. Fill four bags at
$5/bag and fill a fifth bag FREE! (We no
longer receive sufficient used paper
grocery bags along with donations for
this purpose.)
Library News
The Library want you to know that it's been 10 years since the new Mitchell Park Library
opened and they're celebrating on November 16.
And! The Library will be closed on Monday November 14 for Veterans Day, and again on
Thursday November 28 and Friday November 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
You could find out about these sorts of things in a slightly more timely manner by
subscribing to the Library's mailing list. Like us, they send one or two messages per
month, more usually one.
You can find out about other things they want you to know from the Palo Alto City Library
Blogs page. Or you can subscribe to them with an RSS reader.
-Frank McConnell
What's special for November '24?
Music continues to offer amazing books in every subsection, history, composition...our
Music loving donors were generous again this November bringing in books, CDs and vinyltoo. Speaking of vinyl, look for FOPAL's select Music vinyl sale box in the Main Room nextto the CDs. From the Classic Fiction section, you'll find a bounty of seasonal reads thatare priced to sell! At these low prices, you could buy several. From FOPAL back stock, lookfor a substantial donation in Modern Fiction. This section is well-stocked and now includesRomance books which can be found in light-reads.
Fopal volunteer Rita V. has been working hard to bring out all the seasonal Fall/Winter
Holidays books and DVDs we've been collecting these many months. You'll find a large
selection in the Main Room as well as the Bargain Room. If you are looking for great ideas
on how to liven up your holidays, look no further. You are sure to find something you'll be
excited to read, listen to or share with loved ones during this upcoming holiday season.
Look for the festive display as you enter the Main Room on the right. Look for full shelves
in the New Age section as a result of the nice donations that came through this past
month. Shout out to new section manager Annie L. as she's refreshed this section and it is
full of terrific New Age books for November. Nice job Annie L.!
-Janette Herceg
One great location: the Cubberley Community Center!
Numerous great events Saturday, November 9th!
MrSoftee and Oaxacan Kitchen Mobile will be parked on-site!
Imagination Lab School is hosting its annual Fall Market featuring artisans and
makers from across the Bay, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. by the Cubberley Community
Center Amphitheatre.
FOPAL, Friends of the Palo Alto Library, is holding our large book sale from 9.30 a.m.
- 4 p.m. in rooms H2, H3 / Bargain Room, and portable buildings including the Main
Sale Room, and Children's Room.
Make X, a Community Makerspace, will offer button- and t-shirt-making from 11
a.m. - 5 p.m. in room V2. ACME Learning Center, a high-quality afterschool program
for children in grades K-6 will host a table with face painting, popcorn machine, and
cotton candy. DanceMagic will participate with free dance performances!
Free play with Bucket Golf - a portable par 3 golf game that combines the excitement
of golf with the ease of backyard games for all levels. It's tee time!
Check out the CASP/CCC Nov 9th events webpage
-Janette Herceg
FOPAL Members Get the First Pick at Members' Early
Sale
A super big FUN FESTIVE FOPAL Members' Early Sale is scheduled for Saturday, December
14th. Twice a year, FOPAL holds a Members' Early Sale, at which members of the Friends
of the Palo Alto Library are admitted early to the Main Room sale. Members enjoy a less
crowded Main Room and get the first crack at FOPAL's wonderful collection of materials!
Saturday, December 14th - At our Members' Early Sale, Life and Sponsor Members (and
one spouse or guest) may enter at 9AM and can purchase up to 100 books per
membership from 9 AM to 10 AM. Other Members enter at 10AM and are able to purchase
25 books at a time. General admission for all including non-Members begins at 11AM. The
usual limit on purchasing 12 books at a time lasts until there is no longer a line waiting to
enter. Remember, you may renew your membership, or join FOPAL, on the sale day.
Renew, or join now at www.fopal.org/join.
-Janette Herceg
FOPAL Closings for November
In observance of Veterans Day FOPAL will close for donations Monday November 11th and
for Thanksgiving FOPAL will be closed for donations November 28th and 29th.
-Janette Herceg
Classic and Modern Fiction
We have received a nice selection of titles published by the New York Review of Books
(about 25 in all). You'll find them on the top shelf of the Classic Fiction section. And the
special on the New York Times' list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century continues,
with new titles from recent donations added every month.
-Melinda
Poetry
November days and a bright wood fire;
A hearth and a home and the Heart's Desire.
And if your heart's inclined that way,
Then try some St. Vincent Millay
Of which we have a goodly run,
As well as Davies and Dickinson.
And please the eye with vintage covers
And other pleasures for art lovers.
https://fopalbooks.com/poetry.html
-Mandy MacCalla
Puzzles
Moving fully into the holiday season, all the winter and holiday puzzles that have been
acquired this year are now filling half our puzzle section. These puzzles are festively
marked off and all are priced $2-6. Some are new and would make great gifts. Get in the
spirit and purchase a few!
-Vicky Evans
The West
This month we have a large selection of Images of America books on Tacoma, Washington
and its environs. All are priced at $2.00 each. As usual the West covers the U.S. from theMississippi to Hawaii. There are several sections. On the top shelves are large oversizebooks divided into Palo Alto/Stanford, San Francisco, California, and the West groups. Onthe intermediate shelves there are groups on Palo Alto/Monterey, San Francisco, California,the West. The West group has books on ranching, mining, cowboys, outlaws and women inthe West. Finally, on the bottom shelves are more oversize Palo Alto history books andother books on the West.
-Ed Walker
Health
The Health section is bursting this month with good reads. The Lost City of the Monkey
God unfolds like an adventure story: an expedition into the wilds of Honduras to search for
ancient artifacts, and what the members experienced afterwards. The Secret History of the
Sackler Dynasty is available...along with two other books on the opioid crisis: Dreamland,
and American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts.
If you scan the Health books, it's noticeable that almost every health consideration in this
election season is represented, and you can read more about those subjects. There are
cookbooks for almost any requirement: Low cholesterol, Keto, Paleo, Raw Food diet, and
Where Our Food Comes From. In the same vein, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food
Commentary by Alice Waters is available. As usual, there are plenty of volumes on exercise
(from Pilates to Tai Chi), sleep, pain, addictions, and some pamphlets on how to help
Parkinson's disease. Find the Red Health Cart for more.
-Suzanne Cholko
Children's Room
With the November and December holidays just around the corner, we are ready to help
with your gift list. You'll find many books for Thanksgiving, and also the first batch of books
for Hanukkah and Christmas. We have several holiday-themed games including a new Exit
the Game Advent Calendar: Mystery of the Ice Cave. Many of the books are like new, and
very reasonably priced. Shop early at the November sale for the best selection.
Our Activity section is filled with many, many items that would make great holiday gifts!
These include a Construct-A-Fort set, a Super Mario chess game whose playing pieces are
characters from the video game, a set of Imaginarium wooden blocks, a brand new
National Geographic science magic kit, a light-up dance mat, two Revell model plane kits,
and a very large dinosaur! As usual, our game and puzzle shelves are packed. The former
include a Harry Potter game and the latter, several Ravensburger puzzles! Our graphic
novels shelves are overflowing and feature a large number of books by Nathan Hale, as
well as lots of Dog Man.
On the Non-fiction shelves you'll find lots of lovely art books, and don't miss the 2025
calendars, beautifully illustrated, for just 50 cents each.
School-age Fiction has gifts, too. On the Classics shelves are a 70th Anniversary Edition ofA. A. Milne's The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh; a beautifully illustratedThe Cunning Little Vixen, by Maurice Sendak; and boxed gift sets of Anne of Green Gables,The Wizard of Oz, and the Narnia series. We have lots of early chapter books includingexcellent boxed sets of Junie B Jones, Amelia Bedelia, and Flat Stanley. In the Fantasysection are several gift-quality Harry Potter themed specialty books: The Character Vault(multiple copies) and A Journey Through the History of Magic. There are also loads ofbooks by popular author Rick Riordan. And as always, we offer shelves full of inexpensive,high-quality books by award-winning authors.
In the Asian Languages section, you'll find picture books in good condition in both
Traditional and Simplified Chinese. We recently received donations of books in other
languages, including Tagalog and Thai. Our shelves are packed with good deals.
Finally, check out the gorgeous giftable picture books on the shelves at the end of the
cashier's table. Caldecott and Newbery winners, classics, story collections, and recently
published books, each one sure to please a child on your list.
-Carolyn Davidson
November Book Review
The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill
When an ancient witch makes a simple, innocent mistake; a curious, wonderful thingawakens. Meet Xan, the Witch of the woods, taker of children, menace of the townspeople.She prowls the woods bordering the town, taking sacrificed children to places unknown inexchange for leaving the town alone. However, this legend is far from true. Yes, Xan is awitch, but she has quietly lived her life far from the affairs of the townspeople.Nonetheless, when she hears the cry of an infant alone in a secluded glen, she takes thechild to a new, safer home across the forest. For years she has made this trip, feeding thebabes starlight as sustenance. Except, when she accidentally feeds baby Luna moonlightinstead of starlight on her trip to safe havens far from the terrified town, Luna manifestsmagic. Xan, alongside Glerk and Fyrian the Perfectly Tiny Dragon, takes responsibility forthe young child and raises her as her own.
With warm and nostalgic tones, this book will teach children the importance of family, and
how love doesn't need to be contained to one small family; as it is infinite. Alongside
important lessons on family, it also teaches children how emotions aren't meant to be
locked and shoved away. Enjoy this novel with a warm cup of tea, and some napkins; let
the magic wrap around your heart. (Recommended for ages 12 - 14.)
-Emma Chen
Judaica
Browse the Judaica section for books on the Jewish religion and culture including editions
of the Torah and other basic texts, Kabbalah, Jewish history, the Holocaust, memoirs,
Israel, Jewish Women, the Jewish American Experience and other related subjects.
Special interest this month:
Israelis and Palestinians - From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind
2024
The Righteous - The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Not in God's Name by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Women of the Book - Jewish Artists Jewish Themes
This I Believe - Documents of American Jewish Life
One Foot in America - The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line
Most fiction with Jewish themes will be found in Modern Literature/Classics or CurrentFiction. Books entirely in Hebrew are shelved in the European Languages section.
Shelf photos at https://fopalbooks.com/judaica.html
-Charlotte Epstein, Judaica Section Manager
Recorded Music
Our monthly Tent Pop Up LP Music Sale will not be held in November but there are several
high value LPs for sale in the Main Room by the CD bins. Additionally there is a selection of
$1 records in the Bargain Room.
-George Chaltas
This weekend we will have one curated box of records in the main room with the CDs.Check fopalbooks.com for a partial list. VPI cleaned and play graded.
-Henry Yu
https://fopalbooks.com/records.html
-Edwin El-Kareh
SF/Comics
This month there's a shelf of SF digest magazines from the 50s, 60s, and
70s. Mostly Fantasy and Science Fiction but some Galaxy, Analog, andeven a few Astounding Science Fiction. More recently-published books
than usual, including Ann Leckie's 2024 Hugo runner-up Translation
State, T. Kingfisher's Nettle and Bone, and Paolo Bacigalupi's Navola. The
Terry Pratchett shelf is replenished after selling out last month.
In Comics, a new batch of manga and the graphic version of Yuval Noah
Harari's Sapiens stand out.
Shelf pictures at fopalbooks.com.
-Rich
History
A lot of American History this month, also a collection of historical atlases of various
regions. Check out the regional history shelf as well.
-Lin McAllister
Sociology/Anthropology
For the upcoming sale, the Sociology/Anthropology section offers 384 books. What is
special about this sale is that more than 70 percent of these books are from the latestdonations. In particular, a sub-section on theory and methods features many books onvarious aspects of anthropological research, social policy, and demography in addition tobooks on Marxism and other sociological theories. As usual, sub-sections such as "Race"and "U.S.: Self-Reflection" offer a wide variety of books from past years and recentlypublished.
-Natalia Koulinka
Donations
We accept donations on Monday through Saturday from 3-5 pm in the Main Room. But we
close to donations in the week before the sale so that we can prepare the Main Room for
the sale, and also this month for Veterans Day. Which means that we are closed for
donations from Sunday November 3 through Monday November 11. Please hold your
donations until Tuesday November 12.
We will also be closed Thursday November 28 and Friday November 29 for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Please read our donation guidelines before you bring materials to us.
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We're always eager to hear your suggestions for ways to improve our book sale. Please
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From:Tran, Joanna
To:Council, City
Cc:Executive Leadership Team
Subject:Council Consent Questions: 11/12/24
Date:Thursday, November 7, 2024 6:33:49 PM
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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:
November 12 Amended Agenda
Staff responses to Item 6
Best,
Joanna
Joanna Tran
Executive Assistant to the City Manager
Office of the City Manager
(650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org
www.cityofpaloalto.org
3. HCD insisted that there be no public discussion of lowering their 2019 jobs growth
number until 2031. Yet in 2023, HCD would not allow approval of local zoning plans
unless Palo Alto rezoned vast numbers of office spaces into housing units. This in
essence lowered job opportunities in the city substantially but did not produce a
discussion of lowering the outdated 2019 jobs forecasts.
4. Code 65584.01 states clearly that public discussion is an essential part of decision-
making at every step of the process. Yet the closed session on Nov 4 did not allow
public comment over the discussion of the application of only selective GovernmentCodes.
RECOMMENDATION
You must have the City Manager and City Attorney address the issue of updating
California Code compliance in public session (with representatives of HCD and DOF
present) as they deal the application of the whole range of California Codes. It may
raise legal issues if the City responds in closed session to a threat from oneapplication of the CA Codes without addressing the whole range of Codes that apply
to our City.
Greg Schmid
Palo Alto CA
Invitation to an Online Film SalonSunday November 17, 2024
Silencing Student Voices
Israel’s war on Palestine, following the October 7 attack by Hamas, has driven an
ongoing student protest movement on the nation’s university campuses. These
protests have adopted similar calls for divestment from the war industries supplying
the advanced weapons systems the US government is sending to Israel. Common
protest tactics include encampments, banner drops, leafleting, and self-education.
As the US continues its unqualified support for Israel, how do we assess the
successes of these movements? How have universities framed these protests?
What has prompted Higher Ed's extreme responses involving the deployment of
urban police forces? How have definitions of constitutionally guaranteed free speech
been redrawn by Higher Ed? What has been the impact of the “Palestine
exception”? What if any are the limits of non-violent protest, and according to whose
interests?
Watch the selected videos at your convenience. | Join the Q&A discussion with:
Ilan Cohen: Jewish American student activist, Columbia University
Rama Ali Kased: Assoc. Professor, Race and Resistance Studies, College of
Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University
Maryam Alwan: Palestinian American student activist, Columbia University
Natasha Lennard (Moderator): Author and journalist; Assoc. Director, Creative
Publishing and Critical Journalism program, New School for Social Research
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film:
:Tinyurl.com/VFHL-November2024
Watch the Trailer: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-TrailerNovember2024
How this will work:
1 - Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: :Tinyurl.com/VFHL-
November2024
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and
a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your
email and you must have this to participate
3 - Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and
questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday November 17, 2024 at 3 pm ET/
12 noon PT.
Please share this announcement with your friends, family, and community. Download the event
flyer and post it to your social media.
Download the event flyer here. (Download the jpg version here)
Download information about the Panelists and moderator here. (Download the jpg version here)
Don't forget to watch recordings of previous Online Film Salon recordings in their entirety here,
including for the July 21, 2024 Online Film Salon In Conversation: Humanity in Gaza,
Revisted. An article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs on the April Salon on
Repairing Gaza’s Disintegrated Mental Health System can be found here. Read about
Looking Beyond the Headlines, our May Salon here.
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From:City Mgr
To:Council, City
Cc:Executive Leadership Team
Subject:City Council Bundle - November 1
Date:Tuesday, November 5, 2024 5:53:04 PM
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Dear Mayor and Council Members,
On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please see the attached staff responses to emails received in
the City.Council inbox through November 1st.
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:MICHAEL KUEHN
To:Council, City
Subject:Please continue to keep the Palo Alto Link program in our Palo Alto community
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 2:37:06 PM
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Dear Sir(s)/Madam(s),
I have been made aware about the potential vote on the PAL program in the council meeting tonight, and I want to
express my urge to you to continue and vote YES on this program. I know several families in my circle of friends as
well as work groups who use this service and are deeply blessed and provided for through this service.
If our community can’t care for and support the most weak and vulnerable amongst us, we are failing in care and
commitment to one another as a community.
Therefore, please consider your support of continuing this program in Palo Alto.
Kindly,
Michael Kuehn
From:Jo Ann Mandinach
To:lydiakou@gmail.com; Council, City; citymgr@cirtyofpaloalto.org
Cc:price@dailypost.com; Jo Ann Mandinach
Subject:Item #8: Hiring consultants to address school assemblies???
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 2:36:51 PM
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Dear City Council and City Manager,
Please tell me you're kidding that you're considering spending $500,000 of OUR money to run school assemblies onbike safe consultants, especially since I just opened my latest outrageous utility bill.
Is there really no one in our city payroll capable of running a school assembly? -- - Not one teacher, principal,counselor, police officer, fireman, Communications staffer, transportation expert...?? Or maybe a librarian who canfind a bike safety video for someone to run during assemblies and then say, "Any questions, kids?"
Maybe you need to hire another $500,000 consultant to do an audit to see if there's anyone on staff, sitting on citycouncil any of our committees, commissions, boards etc. since we certainly hear enough virtue signalling aboutbikes and sustainability
Do we need to hire consultants for everything?? What does our staff DO to earn their huge salaries and lifetimebenefits?
How about parents serving on the Safe School routes committees?? It was parents who taught most of us how tobike.
Or maybe recruit a few Caltrans officials since they are so eager to destroy El Camino businesses by replacing theirparking with bike lanes with NO outreach from our city's huge communications staff?
Jo Ann MandinachA disgusted taxpayerPA, CA 94301
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From:Fernan Aceved
To:Council, City
Subject:About renewal Palo Alto Link
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 1:55:07 PM
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Hello, I am sending this email with the target to ask you for renewal of the service of Palo Alto Link, people like me
and other ones need it to go to work, or to go to the hospital, I am a cancer patient, I can’t afford the $27 that Uber
or Lyft charged me before going to Stanford Hospital from Palo Alto Caltrain Station, the city of Palo Alto is the
wealthiest city in the United States and the working and medium class need this service, you cancel the service and
for me will be dramatic because I need to go often to the hospital, that will end my life, I will contact congressman
or anyone that can help to keep this service operational, if you got an income statement there are ways to reduce
expenses in other areas to keep the service for the people, hope you might help us and think for the people that need
the service, thank you for your time.
Sent from my iPhone
From:Fernan Aceved
To:Council, City
Subject:About renewal Palo Alto Link
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 1:55:07 PM
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Hello, I am sending this email with the target to ask you for renewal of the service of Palo Alto Link, people like me
and other ones need it to go to work, or to go to the hospital, I am a cancer patient, I can’t afford the $27 that Uber
or Lyft charged me before going to Stanford Hospital from Palo Alto Caltrain Station, the city of Palo Alto is the
wealthiest city in the United States and the working and medium class need this service, you cancel the service and
for me will be dramatic because I need to go often to the hospital, that will end my life, I will contact congressman
or anyone that can help to keep this service operational, if you got an income statement there are ways to reduce
expenses in other areas to keep the service for the people, hope you might help us and think for the people that need
the service, thank you for your time.
Sent from my iPhone
Christine Prior
Deputy City Clerk
Office of the City Clerk
P: 650.329.2159 | E:Christine.Prior@cityofpaloalto.org
www.cityofpaloalto.org
Christine Prior
Deputy City Clerk
Office of the City Clerk
P: 650.329.2159 | E:Christine.Prior@cityofpaloalto.org
www.cityofpaloalto.org
From:karen wang
To:Council, City
Subject:Please preserve Palo Alto Link!
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 1:13:28 PM
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As a Palo Alto native who has been a Palo Alto resident from 1972-1995, then returning d from 2008 to the present,
please do whatever it takes to provide PA Link services. I am now a county-employed pediatrician who cares for
many special needs children (who become special needs adults!) as well as the child of elderly disabled Palo Alto
residents. PA Link is a crucial service that helps so many residents to live with some level of normalcy and
independence they would not otherwise have.
Sincerely,
Karen S. Wang, MD
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From:Ann Balin
To:Council, City
Subject:Item No. 8 bicycle safety contract
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 12:50:39 PM
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Dear Mayor Stone, Vice Mayor Lauing & Council Members,
I fully support the city working with PAUSD to require children and teenagers learn bike safety and the rules of the
road.
I do feel strongly that the amount being considered for the Santa Cruz organization Ecology Action at $485,243 is
exorbitant. Please research other educational programs that can impart the skills needed for young people regarding
pedestrian and bike safety.
Paris has under Mayor Anne Hidalgo rejected scooters with a majority vote by Parisians as friction and clutter
wreaked dissonance in that beautiful city. There were accidents and sadly deaths that motivated the leader and
constituents to not renew the scooter contract.
I want to reinforce the city’s and PAUSD’s need for establishing the education program. Young people often think
they are immortal. We do not live in a bucolic suburb but an urbanized city with major commuter traffic.
Respectfully,
Ann Lafargue Balin
Please continue to work to find ways to address the challenges without
taking away what is such a valuable resource for our marginalized
community members. Please do not marginalize them and their families
more than they already have been.
Please do not take up this vote without more public awareness and
discussion.
Thank You,
Callie Turk
Word of Amendment #2 Being Voted On Tonight
AA1.
Approval of Amendment No. 2 to Contract Number C23184827 with Nomad
LLC (Via) in the Amount of $1,200,000 for a total not to exceed $3,801,500 to
Continue the City of Palo Alto On‐Demand Transit Service through June 202
a Cost Sharing Agreement with Stanford Research Park to Partially Fund the
to $600,000; and Adopt an Ordinance Amending the FY 2025 Municipal Fee
to Increase Fares; CEQA status – not a project. New Item Added
From:Olinda Mar
To:Council, City
Subject:We need Palo Alto link!
Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 12:17:15 PM
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We need Palo Alto link! Our family rely on this resource!
Olinda Mar
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