HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-11-17 City Council Agenda PacketCITY OF PALO ALTO
CITY COUNCIL
November 17, 2015
Special Meeting
Community Meeting Room
5:00 PM
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Special Orders of the Day
1. Interview of Applicants for the Parks and Recreation Commission
Adjournment
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CITY OF PALO ALTO OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
November 17, 2015
The Honorable City Council
Palo Alto, California
Interview of Applicants for the Parks and Recreation Commission
On Monday, November 2, 2015 City Council selected the following applicants to interview for
the Parks and Recreation Commission. Portions of the Palo Alto Municipal Code describing
requirements for serving on each body are included for reference.
Parks and Recreation Commission
2.25.010 Membership.
There is created a Parks and Recreation Commission composed of seven members who shall be
appointed by and shall serve at the pleasure of the City Council, but who shall not be Council
Members, officers or employees of the city of Palo Alto. Each member of the Commission shall
have a demonstrated interest in parks, open space and recreation matters. All members of the
Commission shall at all times be residents of Palo Alto.
(Ord. 4587 § 2 (part), 1999)
There are three open terms ending December 15, 2018 on the Parks and Recreation
Commission. The six applicants to be interviewed are as follows: 10 minute interviews.
Jim Cowie 5:00 p.m.
Anne Cribbs 5:10 p.m.
Judith Fields 5:20 p.m.
Cybele LoVuolo-Bhushan 5:30 p.m.
David Moss 5:40 p.m.
Victoria Thorp 5:50 p.m.
Copies of all applications are attached. Some applications may be redacted at the request of
the applicant. A full set of non-redacted applications will be emailed to Council Members
directly.
The City Council is scheduled to vote to appoint candidates for the Parks and Recreation
Commission on Monday, November 30, 2015.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment1.a: Attachment A: PARC Cowie, Jim (PDF)
Attachment1.b: Attachment B: PARC Cribbs, Anne (PDF)
Attachment1.c: Attachment C: PARC Fields Judith (PDF)
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Attachment1.d: Attachment D: PARC LoVuolo-Bhushan, Cybele (PDF)
Attachment1.e: Attachment E: PARC Moss, David (PDF)
Attachment1.f: Attachment F: PARC Thorp, Victoria (PDF)
Department Head: Beth Minor, City Clerk
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Personal Information
Name:
Address:
Cell Phone:
__ Home / __ Office Phone:
E-mail:
Are you a Palo Alto Resident? __ Yes __ No
Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who
are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? __ Yes __ No
Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? __ Yes __ No
California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest, Form 700.
Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to;
1) engage in business with the City,
2) provide products or services for City projects, or
3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? __ Yes __ No
Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? __ Yes __ No
How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Parks and Recreation Commission?
__ Community Group
__ Email from City Clerk
__ Palo Alto Weekly
__ Daily Post
__ City Website
__ Flyer
Other: ______________________________________________________________________________
List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional
registration:
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Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan:
Community Services and Facilities Element LINK
Natural Environment Element LINK
Baylands Master Plan LINK
Park Dedication Ordinance (Municipal Code) LINK
Bicycle -Pedestrian Transportation Plan LINK
Youth Master Plan LINK
room1n Park Fire Management Plan LINK
Cubberley Community Advisory Committee Report LINK
I am somewhat familiar with the Baylands Master Plan and the Youth Master Plan but
I would not claim to be experienced with any of these plans today.
Consent to Publish Personal Information on the Citv of Palo Alto Website
California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the
home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first
obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not
be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website.
The full code can be read here: LINK
Read the code, and check only ONE option below:
� I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and
Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code
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Name: Anne Warner Cribbs
Address: 2450 Aanes Wav. Palo Alto. CA 94303
Cell Phone: 415.264.2067 Q Home t 0 Office Phone:
E-mail: cribbsaw@pacbell.net
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alo Alto Weekly Q1yer
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documents is not required for selection.
Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan:
Community Services and Facilities Element LINK
Natural Environment Element LINK
Baylands Master Plan LINK
Park Dedication Ordinance (Municipal Code) LINK
Bicycle -Pedestrian Transportation Plan LINK
Youth Master Plan LINK
Foothill Park Fire Management Plan LINK
Cubberley Community Advisory Committee Report LINK
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California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, "No state or local agency shall post the
home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first
obtaining the written permission of that individual." The full code is attached. This consent form will not
be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City's website.
The full code can be read here: LINK
Read the code, and check only ONE option below:
_..Gl. I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City's website the attached Board and
Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code
Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo
Alto City Clerk.
OR
_Q_ I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address
from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am
providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact
information instead.
Address:
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Name: Judith Fields
Address: 2581 Park Blvd, Y103, Palo Alto 94306
Cell Phone:
x__ Home / __ Office Phone: 650-322-1441
E-mail: judith2468@gmail.com
Are you a Palo Alto Resident? _X_ Yes __ No
Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo
Alto, who are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? __ Yes _X_No
Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? _XYes __ No California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed
disclosure of
their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest, Form 700.
Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to;
1) engage in business with the City, 2) provide products or services for City projects, or
3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? __ Yes X__ No Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? __ Yes X__ No
How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Parks and Recreation Commission? friend
List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or
professional registration: No education or training specific to parks and recreation
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Employment
Present or Last Employer: Occupation: VSO (Volunteers Serving Overseas); now retired.
Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations:
I volunteer for Theatre Works. Before I went overseas, I tutored high school youngsters in continuation school. At a different time I tutored twins form Ghana to help them with English. I am looking to get
involved with the community. I volunteered for six years in three Asian countries.
1. What is it about the Parks and Recreation Commission that is compatible with your experience and of specific interest to you, and why? I am a regular user of four parks. I
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2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Commission that is of particular interest to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Commission meeting you can view an archive here: LINK. I come to the commission with my own issue—a more equal allocation of resources to the different parks. I go to four parks
regularly—Peers Park, Hoover, Boulware and the park on Alma opposite the train station. All have working fountains except Boulware. It has been useless for over two years, full of sand. Two
have bathroom facilities. Only one does not have a watered.playing field, Boulware.
3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Parks and Recreation
Commission achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this?
I would want to set up some kind of monitoring to evaluate the state of the parks as they exist today, what’s needed, and set priorities. I realize that this overlaps with your study.
I would like to set up a liaison with the Police Department. There are many homeless
people at the Boulware Park entrance and around the neighborhood. They create hygiene problems—use of the park as a bathroom and their proximity to the small children’s play ground (about 12 to 14 feet). Sometimes trash.
Neighbors tell me that this park was known as the “Ghetto Park” because the area was
once predominately black. They wonder if this park suffers from benign neglect. They also believe that the police department “herds” the vans and campers to the park’s area because it is a mixed residential/commercial area. And not like the most affluent areas where the homeless are not tolerated. If this is true—the herding—then we need to make it a priority to provide bathrooms and fix the water fountain. For everybody.
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4. Parks and Recreation Commission Members work with the documents listed below. If you have experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience.
Experience with these documents is not required for selection. None. But I learn fast.
Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan:
Community Services and Facilities Element LINK Natural Environment Element LINK
Baylands Master Plan LINK
Park Dedication Ordinance (Municipal Code) LINK Bicycle - Pedestrian Transportation Plan LINK
Youth Master Plan LINK
Foothill Park Fire Management Plan LINK
Cubberley Community Advisory Committee Report LINK
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California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, “No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without
first obtaining the written permission of that individual.” The full code is attached. This consent
form will not be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City’s website.
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Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo Alto City Clerk. yes
OR
I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address
from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City’s website. I am providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact
information instead.
Address:
Cell Phone: __ Home / __ Office Phone: E-mail:
Signature: Judith Fields_________________________________________ 10/5/15
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Personal Information
Name: David Moss
Address:
Cell Phone €) Home I Office Phone:
E-mail:
Are you a Palo Alto Resident? ®Yes 0No
Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who
are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? 0Yes G)No
Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? @Yes No
California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of
their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest (Form 700).
Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in Palo Alto which you believe is likely to:
1) engage in business with the City;
2) provide products or services for City projects; or
3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? 0Yes @No
Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? 0 Yes @ No
How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Parks and Recreation Commission? §Community Group D Daily Post
Email from City Clerk D City Website
Palo Alto Weekly D Flyer
List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional
registration:
MBA from Santa Clara University. I've made a career here in Palo Alto and elsewhere in Silicon
Valley as a programmer, business analyst, data quality analyst, and IT project manager.
Employment
Present or Last Employer: Wells Fargo
occupation: Business Analyst and IT Project Manager
Describe your involvement in community activities, volunteer and civic organizations:
My wife and I have raised 3 kids here in Palo Alto. I have held several volunteer positions
through the years in the schools (Ohlone playground remodel, Gunn Foundation, Gunn Sports
Boosters, Gunn new pool committee) and in AYSO (soccer coach, league ball manager), as well
as East Palo Alto reading tutor, and Boy Scout troop trip coordinator. We went with the City
Council last year to Oaxaca to help represent the city at the 50th anniversary of Neighbors
Abroad.
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1. What is it about the Parks and Recreation Commission that is compatible with your experience
and of specific interest to you, and why?
I love biking throughout the city and utilizing Foothills and Arasterdero preserve and my local parks, and have always been interested in issues
that affect them. My work as a business analyst and IT project manager has given me years of experience as a productive member of teams, and
a leader of teams to develop and deliver complex IT solutions. My volunteer activities have almost always been as a member of a committee, and
I love the people interaction. As an analyst I am very good at breaking down issues into manageable activities, stating requirements, being a liaison between users, technical staff, and management, and also analyzing data. These skills are valuable in every committee and team. My
areas of particular interest include expansion of and threats to open space, urban park fair usage, biking and hiking access, ongoing relations
between city, PAUSD, athletic leagues, and Stanford. All these could use someone like me who can be analytical yet empathetic, a good listener,
a team player, a leader, patient, persistent, and polite.
2. Please describe an issue that recently came before the Commission that is of particular interest
to you and describe why you are interested in it. If you have never been to a Commission meeting
you can view an archive here: LINK.
I am Interested In any issue that represents an extension of or threat to our current open space and also the connectMty to those spaces from all parts of the city, In order to make them more accessible. I want more people out ot their houses and out of their cars and Into nature. Some recent Issues that most Interested me: the refuse digester plant's Impact on the Baylands, golf course changes and Impact on the Baylands, the trail around Stanford to give us more quasi open space, the walking/biking trail extension near Page Mill and Arastradero Rd, the bike bridge across 101 to give more people year-round access to the Baylands and Shoreline, the expansion of bike paths along east-west and north-south corridors, especially Charleston/Arastradero corridor, the huge suocess of the Magic Playground and Mitchell Park library In my nearby Mltchell Park, the wonderful usage of the present Cubberley fields and track, the under used open space behind Greendell School, the management of Mitchen park to deal with single corporate events versus the public use of the park on a busy atternoon. a new public pool, biker and hiker relations at Arastradero preserve, dog leash enforcement In open space, and more use of open space by school groups for nature and conservation studies.
3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Parks and Recreation Commission
achieve, and why? How would you suggest accomplishing this?
I am interested in all of the above issues as an extension of or threat to current open space and connectivity to them from all parts
of the city, in order to make them more accessible to more people and build community. I would accomplish this goal by
sponsoring more community events like the wildly successful music-in-the-park and the July 4th Chili Cookoff. But don't stop
there ... have more lectures, community hikes, community picnics, night hikes, star parties, music in Arastradero Preserve, movie nights in Foothills Park, more use of open space for camping nights, community weeding days, creek cleanups, and trash
cleanup events, to mention a few. We want events that would expand interest in our open spaces and encourage people to want
them. 4� Parks and Recreation Commission Members work with the documents listed below. If you have
experience with any of these documents, please describe that experience. Experience with these
documents is not required for selection.
Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan:
Community Services and Facilities Element LINK
Natural Environment Element .bl.t:
Baylands Master Plan LINK
Park Dedication Ordinance (Municipal Code) .!J.t:
Bicycle -Pedestrian Transportation Plan
Youth Master Plan .!.
Foothill Park Fire Management Plan
Cubberley Community Advisory Committee Report LINK I have read the bicycle-pedestrian transportation plan, and the Cubberley Community Center
Committee report because they both affect my daily activities. I have been on the community
rides and gone to the community events around the changes in arastradero/charleston rd
configuration. I went to the opening of the Page Mill/Arastradero Rd trail, a joint project with
Stanford. As for Cubberley, my nearest open space, I was very interested in keeping Cubberley
Community Center intact and the redwood trees and track intact, and the fields intact. I love how
it has turned out.
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Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code
Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo
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from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City's website. I am
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Name:
Address:
Cell Phone:
__ Home / __ Office Phone:
E-mail:
Are you a Palo Alto Resident? __ Yes __ No
Do you have any relatives or members of your household who are employed by the City of Palo Alto, who
are currently serving on the City Council, or who are Commissioners or Board Members? __ Yes __ No
Are you available and committed to complete the term applied for? __ Yes __ No
California state law requires appointed board and commission members to file a detailed disclosure of
their financial interests, Fair Political Practices Commission, Conflict of Interest, Form 700.
Do you have an investment in, or do you serve as an officer or director of, a company doing business in
Palo Alto which you believe is likely to;
1) engage in business with the City,
2) provide products or services for City projects, or
3) be affected by decisions of the board or commission you are applying for? __ Yes __ No
Excluding your principal residence, do you own real property in Palo Alto? __ Yes __ No
How did you Learn about the vacancy on the Parks and Recreation Commission?
__ Community Group
__ Email from City Clerk
__ Palo Alto Weekly
__ Daily Post
__ City Website
__ Flyer
Other: ______________________________________________________________________________
List relevant education, training, experience, certificates of training, licenses, or professional
registration:
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Victoria Thorp
555 Hale Street Palo Alto CA 94301
415-378-8687
victoriathorp@gmail.com
BA, English, Tufts University, M.Ed, UCLA, Secondary teaching credential, English, UCLA
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1. What is it about the Parks and Recreation Commission that is compatible with your experience
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As an active person and the parent of two girls, I am lucky to have taken advantage of many of Palo
Alto's wonderful Parks and Recreation opportunities, from classes at the Jr. Museum, to summer
camps, swimming at Rinconado Pool and hiking in Foothills Park. I love being able to enjoy these
opportunities and appreciate being part of a community where parks, recreation and open space are
valued and supported. I am applying for the Parks and Recreation Commission because I would like
to contribute to preserving the City's parks and recreation assets and ensuring that they are
positioned to serve the community for many years to come.
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3. If appointed, what specific goals would you like to see the Parks and Recreation Commission
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I know that the Parks and Recreation Department is in the midst of a big planning and prioritization
process that will help clarify goals and shape the future of where resources are spent in Palo Alto. So
my first step if I were to become a Commissioner would be to better understand existing plans and
proposals before setting out any of my own goals. However, as Palo Alto resident, my observation is
that Rinconada Park and Pool are in dire need for remodeling and rebuilding. I would love to see an
upgraded pool and locker room in this area, coupled with upgraded park facilities. I think Burgess
Park in Menlo Park offers an interesting model of what can be done, although that site is larger and
was rebuilt with private donations so it may not be a relevant comparison point. In addition, I would
like to see new and up to date play ground equipment to incorporate more variety of structures and
ways to engage children in play. Finally, I think the Parks and Recreation Commission should focus
on access to parks and ensuring that open space and nature are part of the City's plan for
development in the years ahead.
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documents is not required for selection.
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Community Services and Facilities Element LINK
Natural Environment Element LINK
Baylands Master Plan LINK
Park Dedication Ordinance (Municipal Code) LINK
Bicycle - Pedestrian Transportation Plan LINK
Youth Master Plan LINK
Foothill Park Fire Management Plan LINK
Cubberley Community Advisory Committee Report LINK
Consent to Publish Personal Information on the City of Palo Alto Website
California Government Code Section 6254.21 states, in part, “No state or local agency shall post the
home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first
obtaining the written permission of that individual.” The full code is attached. This consent form will not
be redacted and will be attached to the Application and posted to the City’s website.
The full code can be read here: LINK
Read the code, and check only ONE option below:
I give permission for the City of Palo Alto to post to the City’s website the attached Board and
Commission Application intact. I have read and understand my rights under Government Code
Section 6254.21. I may revoke this permission at any time by providing written notice to the Palo
Alto City Clerk.
OR
I request that the City of Palo Alto redact my home address, phone numbers, and email address
from the attached Board and Commission Application prior to posting to the City’s website. I am
providing the following alternate information and request that they use the following contact
information instead.
Address:
Cell Phone:
__ Home / __ Office Phone:
E-mail:
Signature: ________________________________________________________ Date: _____________
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